Exam 15: Networks

In a proprietary system, a commercial vendor opens their technology to other companies.

A(n) _______________ system, in contrast to an open system, uses private technologies controlled by a commercial vendor.

_______________ is an alternative to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that achieves higher packet transmission at the cost of reliability.

Which of the following is a generic term used for any device on a network?

What is a repeater?

Traceroute is a TCP/IP utility program that shows the route a packet takes to reach a particular destination node.

Give an example of a hostname.

The layered approach to networking provides more opportunity for the use of new protocols, in that their impact on other aspects of network processing is minimized.

Although the TLDs approved in 2011 do not change how the Internet domain name system works, they had a significant impact on the way people find information and how businesses create their online presence.

A(n) _______________ is a numeric designation that corresponds to a particular high-level network protocol.

Which of the following indicates the general type of an organization or a country of origin?

_______________ is a suite of protocols and programs that support low-level network communication.

An IPv4 address is stored in 32 bits, and an IPv6 address is stored in 128 bits.

Which of the following is a device for converting an analog signal to a digital signal and back again?

What are the basic roles of the client and server in a client/server model?

Contemporary operation of networking technology is possible only through the usage of open-use technology and layering approaches such as the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model.

Which of the following describes a set of high-speed networks on the Internet, sponsored by companies such as AT&T and Verizon?

An organization might develop a(n) _______________ that specifies what types of network communication are permitted or denied.

A computer network is a collection of connected computing devices that may communicate and share resources.

TCP/IP is a seven-layer breakdown of network interaction used to facilitate communication standards.