Exam 10: The Internet

A(n) ____________________ is a precise identification of a particular application on a particular device.

The ____________________ portion of the URL specifies a particular server at a particular site that contains the requested item.

The Window field of the TCP header cannot be set to zero.

The IP datagram fields Identification, Flags, and Fragment Offset are used to fragment a datagram into smaller parts.

________________________________________ is the software that allows the user to save e-mail messages in a server mailbox and download them when desired from the server.

____ is a no-frills transport protocol that does not establish connections, does not attempt to keep data packets in sequence, and does not watch for datagrams that have existed for too long.

Current estimates suggest that there are more than 40 million hosts (computer sites that store and deliver Web pages) connected to the Internet.

The ____________________ can perform the digitization, compression, and encapsulation required, and it controls the setup of VoIP calls between the calling device and the called device.

The primary function of ___________________________________ is to turn an unreliable network into a reliable network that is free from lost and duplicate packets.

Like its counterpart IP, TCP is a fairly streamlined protocol.

There is a newer, very high-speed network that will cover the United States, interconnecting universities and research centers at transmission rates up to a gigabit per second (1000 Mbps). The new high-speed network is called ____.

The National Science Foundation funded the creation of a new high-speed, cross-country network backbone called the ____.

____ is the electronic selling and buying of merchandise using the Web.

IP multicasting suffers from a lack of security.

Every device that has a connection to the Internet is assigned an IP address.

How does a TCP make a network more reliable?

The term that has come to represent a business's commercial dealings over the Internet is ____________________.

HTML pages are simple, static text documents that browsers read, interpret, and display on the screen.

____ takes an IP address in an IP datagram and translates it into the appropriate medium access control layer address for delivery on a local area network.

____ involves the continuous download of a compressed audio or video file, which can then be heard or viewed on the user's workstation.