Exam 10: The Internet

The ____ is a large, distributed database of Internet addresses and domain names.

During the late 1960s, ARPA created one of the country's first wide area packet-switched networks, the ____________________.

In 1983, the Department of Defense broke the ARPANET into two similar networks: the original ARPANET and ____.

Briefly explain some of the more common HTTP methods.

The ____ is an Internet protocol for sending and receiving e-mail and is used to perform the transfer.

The IPv4 ____ field enables the network to discard a datagram that has been traveling the Internet for too long.

IP is the protocol used by most networks and network applications to create an error-free, end-to-end network connection.

When an intranet is extended outside the corporate walls to include suppliers, customers, or other external agents, it becomes a(n) ____________________.

The practice of making telephone calls over the Internet has had a number of different names, including packet voice, voice over packet, voice over the Internet, Internet telephony, and ____.

All Uniform Resource Locators consist of six parts.

How does the Internet Protocol work?

The basic idea behind ____________________ is to take the host ID portion of an IP address and further divide it into a subnet ID and a host ID.

A(n) ____________________ is a TCP/IP network inside a company that allows employees to access the company's information resources through an Internet-like interface.

____ is a protocol that converts telephone numbers to fully qualified domain name addresses.

_________________________ allows a user to see if people are currently logged in on the network and, if they are, to send them short messages in real time.

Home and small business local area networks often use NAT to conserve IP addresses.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is a transport layer protocol.

____ is a set of codes inserted into a document that is intended for display on a Web browser.

The protocol that resides at the ____ layer in the TCP/IP protocol suite is called Internet Protocol (IP).

A(n) ____ uniquely identifies files, Web pages, images, or any other types of electronic documents that reside on the Internet.