E-commerce Infrastructure Lecture 4 Quiz

The Internet is an interconnected network of thousands of networks and millions of computers.

The Internet provides approximately 3.3 billion people around the world with services such as e-mail, apps, shopping, research, music, videos, and news.

The lecture discusses the impact of mobile applications on e-commerce.

The current structure of the Internet is not explained in the lecture.

The Internet is defined as a network that uses IP addressing and supports TCP/IP.

Packet switching involves sending packets along the same communication path to ensure they arrive at their destination.

TCP/IP establishes connections among sending and receiving computers and handles assembly of packets at the point of reception.

The Network Interface Layer is responsible for addressing, packaging, and routing messages on the Internet.

IPv4 uses 128-bit addresses to handle up to 1 quadrillion addresses.

The Domain Name System (DNS) allows numeric IP addresses to be expressed in natural language.

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the address used by an email client to identify the location of content on the web.

Client/Server computing is a model of computing in which client computers are not connected in a network together.