Computer Networking Final Exam
Practice Questions and Answers
an IPv6 address is ___________ bits long - Answer-128
an IPv6 address consists of ___________ bytes (octets) - Answer-16
the ____________ in IPv6 is designed to provide special handling for a particular flow of
data. - Answer-flow label
when two computers using IPv6 want to communicate but the packet must pass through
an IPv4 region, which transition strategy should be used? - Answer-tunneling
when the majority of the internet has moved to the IPv6 but some still use IPv4, which
transition strategy should be used? - Answer-header translation
when the majority of the internet has moved to the IPv6 but some still use IPv4, which
transition strategy should be used? - Answer-either tunneling or header translation
the interface identifier in IPv6 is ____________ bits long - Answer-64
the main header of an IPv6 protocol is ____________ bytes - Answer-60
one of the main duties of the transport layer is to provide ________________
communication - Answer-process-to-process
a client program normally uses ____________ port number. A server program normally
uses ____________ port number. - Answer-an ephemeral; a well-known
UDP is an acronym for __________ - Answer-User Datagram Protocol
A socket address is a combination of __________. - Answer-None of the choices are
correct
_________________ means accepting items from more than one source.
________________ means delivering items to more than one source. - Answer-
multiplexing ; demultiplexing
__________ means the producer delivers the items when they are produced.
____________ means the consumer takes the items when it is ready to do so. -
Answer-pushing ; pulling
in the transport layer, to define the processors, we need two identifiers called
_______________ - Answer-port addresses
, the ports ranging from 0 to 1,023 are called the _____________ ports. the ports ranging
from 1,024 to 49,151 are called ___________ ports. the ports ranging from 49,152 to
65,535 are called the _________________ ports - Answer-private or dynamic ; well
known; registered
UDP and TCP are two protocols at the ______________ layer - Answer-transport
a port number is ___________ bits long - Answer-16
communication at the transport layer is ___________________ - Answer-end-to-end
UDP and TCP are two protocols at the ________ layer - Answer-transport
which of the following does UDP provide? - Answer-none of the choices are correct
the source port number on the UDP user datagram header defines ____________ -
Answer-the process running on the sending computer
UDP packets are called _________________ - Answer-user datagrams
UDP packets have a fixed-size header of ______ bytes - Answer-40
TCP is a _______ protocol - Answer-message-oriented
TCP is a ____________ transport protocol - Answer-reliable
communication in the TCP is ___________ - Answer-full-duplex
the inclusion of the checksum in the TCP segment is __________________ - Answer-
mandatory
in TCP, if the ACK value is 200, then byte _____________ has been received
successfully. - Answer-199
in a client-server paradigm, a ______ program provides services to a (another)
_________ program - Answer-server ; client
in a client-server paradigm _____________ - Answer-the server must be running all the
times but the client needs to be running only when it is needed
an iterative server handles _____________ - Answer-one client at a time
the datagramsocket class is used to create sockets _______________- - Answer-in
both the UDP client and the UDP server
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