Figure 1 Commonly Encountered Sections
.text	Machine code instructions.
.data	Initialized data.
.rdata	Read only data. OLE GUIDs are stored here, among other things.
.rsrc	Resources. Produced by the resource compiler, and placed into RES files. Linker copies it to the executable.
.reloc	Base relocations. Produced by the linker. Not found in OBJs.
.edata	The exported function table. Created by the linker and placed in an EXP file. Linker copies it to the executable.
.idata	Imported function table in an executable file.
.idata$XXX	Portions of an imported function table. The librarian creates these sections in an import library. The linker combines them into the final .idata section in the executable.
.CRT	Tables of initialization and shutdown pointers in the executable that are used by the Microsoft C++ runtime library.
.CRT$XXX	Initialization and shutdown pointers in OBJs, prior to the linker combining them in the executable.
.bss	Uninitialized data.
.drectve	OBJ file section containing linker directives. Not copied to executable.
.debug$XXX	COFF symbol table information in an OBJ file.

Figure 3   An Imports Table

 1121 public symbols
 
      EA14 _ActivateKeyboardLayout@8
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  Archive member name at EA14: USER32.dll/
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 SECTION HEADER #2
    .text name
 RAW DATA #2
 00000000  FF 25 00 00 00 00                                 .%....
 
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 SECTION HEADER #4
 .idata$5 name
 RAW DATA #4
 00000000  00 00 00 00                                       ....
 
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 SECTION HEADER #5
 .idata$4 name
 RAW DATA #5
 00000000  00 00 00 00                                       ....
 
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 SECTION HEADER #6
 .idata$6 name
 RAW DATA #6
 00000000  00 00 41 63 74 69 76 61 | 74 65 4B 65 79 62 6F 61   ..Activa|teKeyboa
 00000010  72 64 4C 61 79 6F 75 74 | 00 00                     rdLayout|..
 
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 COFF SYMBOL TABLE
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 003 00000000 SECT2  notype ()    External     | _ActivateKeyboardLayout@8