Exam 27: The Internet

A(n) ________ point is where two Internet providers exchange information and the more points a provider has, the more efficiently the traffic will flow through the network.

The acronym used for the newest aggregation devices used by CLEC, ICPs, and cable companies is ________.

One important function of the ________ unit is to save the server's processing power.

The Ethernet switch helps to reduce the chance of ________ between devices.

In http://www.abasdflij.com/lins, the name of the web server is ________.

________ is a program that prowls the Internet for publicly accessible resources.

Each ISP's network may vary in all of the following aspects except:

Routers are layer ________ switching devices that take in packetized information and distribute it through the network by using their IP addresses.

All of the following factors impact the time required to reroute traffic using layer 3 routing except the:

The IP address is part of the URL and is used to route information through the network all the way to the gateway host of the sub-network.

The government regulates Internet standards, but each of the Internet organizations must also adhere to the agreed-upon rules for assigning domain names and Internet numbers in order to avoid the consequences of an unruly Internet.

The benefit to a smaller ISP of using a larger ISP to carry traffic is the:

Only large organizations and countries are given Class C addresses.

ISPs that want to connect into MAE-East and MAE-West simply make their need known to MCI/Worldcom (MFS) and it is done at no cost.

The acronym used for audio on the Web is ________.

The greater the latency, the more quickly traffic will reach the destination address and ultimately the faster will be the return of the requested information.

Small ISPs almost always depend on larger ISPs to carry traffic.

The merit access exchange (MAE) is a point where ISPs interconnect to exchange traffic at the ________ backbone level.

The fastest-growing area on the Internet is:

________ is the protocol used to carry traffic through the conglomeration of networks and is most responsible for our ability to access Web servers, send e-mail, and transfer files anywhere in the world.