Internet Entities and Organizations Quiz

What is the primary purpose of making these slides freely available to all?

What is the requested condition if one uses these slides in a class?

What application layer protocol is mentioned in the outline of Chapter 2?

Which protocol is not part of the outline of Chapter 2?

What is the purpose of socket programming mentioned in the outline of Chapter 2?

What is the recommended notation if these slides are posted on a website?

What is the main purpose of DNS DDoS attacks?

What is the potential danger of bombarding TLD servers with DDoS attacks?

In a pure P2P architecture, what is true about the communication between end systems?

What is a key characteristic of electronic mail (email) protocols like SMTP, POP3, and IMAP?

Which protocol is used for e-mail communication?

Which protocol is used for remote terminal access?

What does SSL provide for TCP and UDP?

Which protocol provides encrypted TCP connection, data integrity, and end-point authentication at the application layer?

What type of request includes input in the URL?

Which status code indicates that the requested document was not found on the server?

What port does HTTP typically use?

Which protocol is used for sending and displaying web objects?

Which method uploads a file in the entity body to the specified path in the URL field?

Which status code indicates that the server understood the request message but the request was not fulfilled or processing could not be carried out due to a client error?

What is the primary function of cookies in web applications?

Which application layer protocol is responsible for hypertext transfer?

Which architecture involves an always-on server and client devices that communicate with the server?

Which application layer protocol allows for interoperability and is defined in RFCs?

What is the purpose of a client process in a network application?

What type of communication architecture involves arbitrary end systems directly communicating and does not have an always-on server?

What is the purpose of a server process in a network application?

Which transport service requirement is essential for applications like file transfer and web transactions?

Which Internet transport protocol provides reliable transport between sending and receiving processes along with flow control and congestion control?

Which application layer protocol is commonly used for transferring files over the Internet?

What type of transport service does Internet telephony and interactive games require?

What is the purpose of the UDP protocol despite its limitations compared to TCP?

What type of architecture does a web browser fetching a web page from a web server represent?

What does the identifier for a process in a network application include?

What does the EU law require regarding placing a cookie on a user's computer?

What is the primary goal of web caches (proxy servers)?

What is a major feature of HTTP/2 that addresses the issue of loading multiple objects simultaneously?

Which protocol is commonly used for transferring email messages between mail servers?

What is the function of a user agent in the context of electronic mail?

Which phase of an email transfer involves handshaking and greeting between the sending and receiving servers?

What type of connection does SMTP use to transfer email messages from client to server?

What is the role of the outgoing mail server in the context of electronic mail?

What does HTTP/2 use to support loading multiple objects at the same time over a single connection?

What is the main purpose of web caching?

In the context of electronic mail, which protocol is commonly used by mail servers to send email messages?

What is the function of a user agent in electronic mail systems?

What is the main purpose of the Domain Name System (DNS)?

Which type of organization is responsible for maintaining servers for the .com top-level domain (TLD)?

What is the main function of a TLD (top-level domain) server?

Which entity is responsible for maintaining the authoritative DNS servers for an organization's named hosts?

What role does the local DNS name server play in the DNS hierarchy?

What is the purpose of caching in the DNS system?

Which type of record in the DNS system stores the IP address associated with a hostname?

When a new startup registers its name at a DNS registrar, which type of record is inserted into the TLD server?

What is the purpose of a recursive query in DNS?

What is the primary responsibility of root name servers in the DNS system?

What does TTL (Time to Live) represent in the context of DNS caching?

What is the role of the authoritative DNS server?

What does the SMTP 250 response code indicate?

What is the purpose of the 'QUIT' command in SMTP?

Which protocol is used for retrieval of emails from the server?

What is the main difference between POP3 and IMAP?

What is the purpose of MIME in email?

What is the purpose of the 'DATA' command in SMTP?

What does the SMTP 354 response code indicate?

Which protocol allows users to organize messages in folders and keeps user state across sessions?

What does MIME stand for in email communication?

'SMTP' is an abbreviation for:

What is the purpose of the 'HELO' command in SMTP?

Which protocol is used for addressing and mapping between IP address and name?