Deck 27: The Internet

Question 1

The fastest-growing area on the Internet is:

A) research
B) education
C) recreation
D) e-commerce
E) personal communication

Answer 1

e-commerce

Question 2

The IP address is part of the URL and is used to route information through the network all the way to the gateway host of the sub-network.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

URL stands for Universal Resource ________.

Answer 3

Locator

Question 4

The merit access exchange (MAE) is a point where ISPs interconnect to exchange traffic at the ________ backbone level.

Question 5

ISPs that want to connect into MAE-East and MAE-West simply make their need known to MCI/Worldcom (MFS) and it is done at no cost.

Question 6

When you surf the Internet, you:

A) access the MAE sites directly
B) first hit your ISP, then travel with hundreds of other people's traffic to the MAE sites
C) first hit your ISP, then travel with hundreds of other people's traffic to a NAP
D) none of the above

Question 7

Each ISP's network may vary in all of the following aspects except:

A) the rules it has to follow for traffic to flow through the network unhindered
B) traffic speed
C) the protocol used to carry the information
D) the types of circuits used to interconnect to the customer
E) all of the above

Question 8

A domain name server is the server used to resolve naming derivations between the ________ and the domain name.

Question 9

The IP addressing structure is a(n) ________-class architecture.

Question 10

Only large organizations and countries are given Class C addresses.

Question 11

The acronym for the organization responsible for assigning, monitoring, and policing domain names and other Internet-related protocol issues is:

A) ISP
B) INTERNIC
C) MCI/Worldcom
D) IANA

Question 12

The government regulates Internet standards, but each of the Internet organizations must also adhere to the agreed-upon rules for assigning domain names and Internet numbers in order to avoid the consequences of an unruly Internet.

Question 13

The Internet domain name .biz was established to alleviate demand on:

A) .int
B) .pro
C) .net
D) .com
E) .coop

Question 14

In what order does a message reach its Internet destination?

A) zone, subdomain, domain
B) domain, subdomain, zone
C) subdomain, zone, domain
D) any of the above will work

Question 15

________ is the protocol used to carry traffic through the conglomeration of networks and is most responsible for our ability to access Web servers, send e-mail, and transfer files anywhere in the world.

Question 16

A(n) ________ point is where two Internet providers exchange information and the more points a provider has, the more efficiently the traffic will flow through the network.

Question 17

The greater the latency, the more quickly traffic will reach the destination address and ultimately the faster will be the return of the requested information.

Question 18

Small ISPs almost always depend on larger ISPs to carry traffic.

Question 19

The benefit to a smaller ISP of using a larger ISP to carry traffic is the:

A) resiliency of a larger network
B) additional peering relationships
C) network coverage
D) all of the above

Question 20

The type of equipment network needed depends on all of the following factors except:

A) size of the pipe
B) number of hosts it will serve
C) type of backbone established
D) distance between hosts

Question 21

The acronym used for the newest aggregation devices used by CLEC, ICPs, and cable companies is ________.

Question 22

The SMS is similar to the RAS server in that its main function is to aggregate subscriber connections before handing them off to the network.

Question 23

The Ethernet switch helps to reduce the chance of ________ between devices.

Question 24

Routers are layer ________ switching devices that take in packetized information and distribute it through the network by using their IP addresses.

Question 25

Which of the following is a type of router in the network and is the reason the Internet is so versatile and resilient?

A) core routers
B) access routers
C) both of the above
D) neither of these routers

Question 26

________ name servers are essential pieces of the backbone network and without them, traffic would come to a standstill.

Question 27

The best way to differentiate layer 1 protection and layer 2 switching is to view layer 2 switching as alternative virtual circuits and layer 1 as alternative ________ circuits.

Question 28

All of the following factors impact the time required to reroute traffic using layer 3 routing except the:

A) type of protocol being used
B) number of redundant circuits
C) path of the redundant circuits
D) number of new hops the traffic has to travel through on the new route
E) load on the router
F) none of the above (all are involved)

Question 29

A(n) ________ server is a computing device with software that allows it to receive and forward mail requests.

Question 30

One important function of the ________ unit is to save the server's processing power.

Question 31

In http://www.abasdflij.com/lins, the name of the web server is ________.

Question 32

________ is a program that prowls the Internet for publicly accessible resources.

Question 33

The acronym used for audio on the Web is ________.