Context: When the board has no embedded components it is more correctly called a printed wiring board (PWB) or etched wiring board. However, the term printed wiring board has fallen into disuse. A PCB populated with electronic components is called a printed circuit assembly (PCA), printed circuit board assembly or PCB assembly (PCBA). The IPC preferred term for assembled boards is circuit card assembly (CCA), and for assembled backplanes it is backplane assemblies. The term PCB is used informally both for bare and assembled boards.

Question: What's the more appropriate, but mostly unused, name for a printed circuit board when it doesn't have embedded components?
Answer: printed wiring board

Question: What's the abbreviation for a printed wiring board?
Answer: PWB

Question: What would we call a printed circuit board with embedded electronics, abbreviated PCA?
Answer: printed circuit assembly

Question: What organization likes the term "circuit card assembly" for boards that have already been assembled?
Answer: IPC

Question: What abbreviation would the IPC use for an assembled circuit board?
Answer: CCA

Question: When the board has embedded components it is called what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: A painted wiring board can also be called what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The term painted wiring board has fallen into what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The IPC preferred term for assembled bags is what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The IPC preferred term for assembled backplates is what?
Answer: Unanswerable