Guide to Operating Systems - Module 9 Quiz

What do TCP and UDP use to identify the source and destination Application layer protocols that a segment or datagram should be processed by?

port number

About how much data is typically transferred in each packet or frame?

1500 bytes

Network client software allows a computer to share its resources by responding to resource requests generated by network servers.

False

The Internetwork layer is where the HTTP protocol operates.

False

When configuring a computer's IPv4 address, you must enter a default gateway for the computer to communicate on the local network.

False

In the TCP/IP layered architecture, which of the following is a protocol that operates at the Internetwork layer?

ICMP

A colleague has asked you where the media access control address of his computer is located? What do you tell him?

NIC

Using a spreadsheet application, you open a file that is located on one of your Windows servers. Which OSI model layer is responsible for determining whether the request to open the file should be handled by the local file system or the network?

Presentation

Which OSI model layer is involved with user logon and logoff?

Session

Which of the following is a reason that data is transferred in chunks rather than as one long transfer of data?

The pause between chunks allows the computer to perform other processing tasks.

A frame is a packet with the source and destination MAC addresses added to it.

True

When examining protocols of the TCP/IP model, what unit of information does the SMTP protocol work with?

data

What part of a frame does a switch use to determine where to forward the frame?

destination MAC address

What command-line tool can you use in Fedora Linux to display and change network interface settings?

ethtool

In a wireless network using an access point, how does the sending device know that the frame was received?

it receives an acknowledgment

A Web browser is an example of which type of network component?

network client

In the layers of the network communication process, in which layer would you find TCP/IP?

network protocol

When a protocol of the TCP/IP suite adds a header to a UDP datagram, what unit of information has been created?

packet

Which of the following is NOT a task performed by a NIC and its driver?

receives frames from the network protocol

In which element of a DNS server would you find a CNAME?

resource records