Exam 4: Internet History and Architecture

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When using message switching instead of packet switching,a dedicated path must be established between the parties for all messages that are sent.

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Commercial use of the Internet was discouraged until approximately 1988.

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A computer connected to the Internet is called a host.

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The Domain Name System (DNS)is comprised of four elements.Which of the following is NOT one of these elements?

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The problems of using IP numbers for addressing hosts in the Internet are resolved using

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A paradigm for electronic communications where messages are split into blocks of data with limited size,which are then transmitted one-by-one across the network is called

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A paradigm for electronic communications where a dedicated path is opened and maintained during the exchange is called

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The first "killer application" for the ARPANET was

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The key features of the DNS database are

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The first two important applications developed for the ARPANET where

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The development of a internationally distributed collection of multimedia files addressed using universal resource locators led to the

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The National Science Foundation was responsible for many of the policy decisions that led to the modern Internet.

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In the Internet,individual hosts and/or local area networks are connected to an Internet services provider through a point-of-presence.

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Hosts connected to the Internet are identified by a unique 24-bit number that identifies a network and specific host within that network.

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When using circuit switching,a dedicated path of transmission facilities is established between the communicating parties.

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The Internet grew out of a Department of Education project.

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Packet switching is like message switching except that the unit of data sent at one time is limited in size,thus requiring larger messages to be broken into pieces.

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ARPANet was the first message-switching network .

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