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PCS 267 TCP/IP
Practice Midterm Test
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 2
02/12/2008

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True or False: IP addresses are used to identify individual IP hosts on a TCP/IP internetwork.
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TRUE
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_____ is a method that allows an IP host to use a simpified subnetting design.
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ARP
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_____ is used to obtain an IP address for an associated data link address.
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RARP
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_____ enables a larger packet (for example, a token ring, 4,096-byte packet) to be automatically fragmented by a router into smaller packets to cross a link that supports a smaller MTU, such as an Ethernet link.
Definition
IP Fragmentation
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_____ occurs when network traffic starts to exceed handling capacities.
Definition
Network Congestion
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_____ permits a gateway (router) on a non-optimal route between sender and receiver to redirect traffic to a more optimal path.
Definition
ICMP Redirect
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True or False: ICMP's job is to provide a variety of information about IP routing behavior, reachability, routes between specific pairs of hosts, delivery errors, and so forth.
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TRUE
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True or False: ICMP's reports errors only about processing of non-ICMP IP datagrams.
Definition
TRUE
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True or False: The ICMP Echo Request guarantees packet delivery.
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FALSE
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The TRACEROUTE utility uses _____ to identify a path from the sender to the target host.
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Route Tracing
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_____ provide the simplest kind of transport services because they simply package messages, taken as is from the TCP/IP Application layer, into datagrams.
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Connectionless Protocols
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True or False: Although connectionless protocols don't track transmission behavior or completeness of delivery (that's what best-effort delivery means), they can optionally include a checksum for each datagram.
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TRUE
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True or False: Datagrams are not sequenced but they are acknowledged.
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FALSE
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The _____ field defines the application or process that sends the packet using the UDP header.
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Source Port Number
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TCP hosts create a virtual connection with each other using a(n) _____ process.
Definition
Handshake
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Once the TCP connection is established, a(n) _____ process can maintain the connection when there is no data sent across the wire.
Definition
Keep-Alive
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True or False: The TCP connection termination process requires six packets.
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FALSE
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_____ is the overloading of the network or a receiver.
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Congestion
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True or False: TCP is robust and reliable but it carries a lot of baggage.
Definition
TRUE
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True or False: Historically, UDP is a more important transport than TCP.
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FALSE
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True or False: For applications, such as RIP, that rely on regular updates of routing tables and track timeout values as part of ordinary behavior, the extra reliabilty of TCP is absolutely necessary.
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FALSE
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True or False: TCP was designed in an era when 300-bps communication was considered fast, and noisy lines or intermittent communications problems made a long-haul, reliable transmission of data inherently risky without access to a robust, reliable transport service.
Definition
TRUE
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_____ offers a method for transferring files over a connection-oriented transport, or TCP.
Definition
FTP
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The _____ is the process of moving the data across the data connection only.
Definition
Data Transfer Process
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True or False: Telnet hosts exchange information about options that they support as they establish a connection with another host.
Definition
TRUE
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The FTP _____ offers the visual front end to the user.
Definition
UI
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HTTP has been in use on the Web since _____.
Definition
1990
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True or False: HTTP uses a request/response model, in which HTTP clients send a request to the server and expect a reply packet that contains a status code.
Definition
TRUE
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A(n) _____ is a combination of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and a Uniform Resource Name (URN).
Definition
Uniform Resource Indicator (URI)
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HTTP _____ are commands that the HTTP client issues to the HTTP server.
Definition
Methods
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The _____ command looks up domain names, indicates where they are registered, and identifies primary and secondary DNS servers for the DNS databse in which the entry resides.
Definition
whois
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_____ was originally designed as a debugging tool to solicit random inout simply and easily without having to generate significant input.
Definition
QOD
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_____ is the necessary name-to-numbers correlation similar to the coupling between hostnames and IP addresses.
Definition
Address Translation
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A(n) _____ is defined as the end-point in the conversation, which can be a client interface in executable or Web script form, or a programmed automaton called a bot (short for robot).
Definition
Principal
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True or False: The structure of the DNS database mirrors the structure of the domain namespace itself.
Definition
TRUE
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A(n) _____ record stores domain name-to-IP address translation data.
Definition
Address Record
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The _____ is distinguished from other name servers for a domain by its ability to always read its data from a zone file on disk when the DNS service starts up.
Definition
Primary Master
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_____ store recently accessed DNS record from other domains to avoid incurring the performance overhead involved in making a remote query each time a resource outside the local domain is accessed.
Definition
Caching Servers
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True or False: A TCP/IP server is usually some application or service that encounters a domain name for which it needs an IP address.
Definition
FALSE
Term
When one DNS server receives a recursive request, that DNS server issues what are called _____ , to the name servers in its hierarchy, or to servers provided as pointers in reply to earlier iterative requests, until an answer is received.
Definition
Iterative Queries
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True or False: The reason some recursive name queries involve a root server is because the root servers keep all names in the entire DNS namespace close at hand.
Definition
FALSE
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True or False: Supplying one or more DNS server addresses is yet another service that DHCP performs automatically for its clients as part of the DHCP server "options".
Definition
TRUE
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Most DNS servers can store the results of previous name queries using a form of local data storage called _____.
Definition
Caching
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The files that map host names to addresses are usually named _____.
Definition
domain.dns
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True or False: The first entry in any DNS file must be an SOA record.
Definition
TRUE
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The records in the _____ file are provided to support reverse DNS lookups.
Definition
db.addr
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True or False: DNS response packets include the original question as well as the reply.
Definition
TRUE
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The two-byte _____ field is used to associate DNS queries with their responses.
Definition
ID Number
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The _____ field is used in DNS responses to indicate if any errors occured.
Definition
R code
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True or False: Active Directory automates what a DNS administrator would have to do manually otherwise.
Definition
TRUE
Term
The _____ utility is a command-line utility that uses ICMP Echo packets to test router and link latency, as well as packet loss.
Definition
Path Ping
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_____ enables a source to learn the currently supported MTU across an entire path, without requiring fragmentation.
Definition
PMTU
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ICMP packets contain only three required fields after the header: Type, Code, and _____.
Definition
Checksum
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The _____ field identifies types of ICMP messages that can be sent on the network.
Definition
Type
Term
True or False: The Code field provides error detection for the ICMP header only.
Definition
False
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ICMP Type _____ is used for Echo Reply packets.
Definition
0 (zero)
Term
True or False:  Garrick is a douche
Definition
TRUE
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