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Application Layer Flashcards

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Network Application is

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Any application running on one host providing communication to the application running on the other host. Helps to manage and monitor network traffic, analyze data

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Describe client-server architecture

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In client-server architecture, one remote process acts as a client and requests some resources from another application process acting as server

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Describe Peer-to-peer architecture

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Both remote processes are executed on the same level and exchange data using shared resources

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In client-server architecture, server is

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Always on host, one or many permanent IP addresses, data centers for scaling

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In client-server architecture, client

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May Communicate with the server, maybe intermittently connected, have dynamic IP addresses, do not communicate directly with each other

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A system can acts as client and server simultaneously? True or False? Why?
If same host? If different host?

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True. One process acts as a server, another as a client.

Communicate with each other via interprocess communication. If host different - exchange messages

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What are sockets? How are sockets identified? What is the size of identifier?

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Process sends and receives messages via the socket. Port numbers to identify the socket. 32-bit

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Which of the following is not the TCP services? (Multiple answers):
Reliability, flow control, congestion control, timing, minimum throughput, security, connection-orientedness

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Timing, minimum throughput, securoty

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Which of the following is not the UDP services? (Multiple answers):
Reliability, flow control, congestion control, timing, throughput guarantee, security, connection setup

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ALL

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10
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Web page URL contains

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Host name, path name

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Two features that make HTTP is simple, but powerful because of:

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use of TCP, statelessness

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How does the TCP used in HTTP?

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  1. client initiates TCP connection (creates socket) to server, port 80
  2. server accepts TCP connection from client
  3. HTTP messages (application-layer protocol messages) exchanged between browser (HTTP client) and Web server (HTTP server)
  4. TCP connection closed
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What does stateless means in HTTP

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No information about the client’s previous requests

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What are the two types of HTTP connections? Describe each of them

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Non-persistent HTTP: one object sent over TCP connection

Persistent HTTP: multiple objects sent over a TCP connection

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What is RTT? How many RTTs does Non-persistent HTTP have? For what steps are RTTs calculated? What is the non-persistent HTTP response time?

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RTT (definition): time for a small packet to travel from client to server and back. One to initiate connection, one RTT for HTTP request and first few bytes of HTTP response. 2RTT + file transmission time

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Compare Non-persistent and persistent HTTP in terms of RTTs?

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Non-persistent HTTP takes 2 RTTs for a single object, while Persistent needs only one RTT for all referenced objects

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What are 2 types of HTTP messages?

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Request, Response

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What is the content of request message? What each part of the message have?

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Single request line and multiple header lines. Request line has method, URL and HTTP Version fields.
Header lines have host, user agent, condition fields

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What kind of HTTP methods exist?

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GET, POST, HEAD

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How does a browser know if browsers wants to use persistent connection?

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Include Connection: keep-alive in header

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21
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Entity body method is used with what method

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POST method to fill out the form and send it to the server

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What are the differences between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1

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HTTP 1.1 has PUT and DELETE, to upload and delete file to/in path specified in URL field

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23
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Which method in HTTP is used for debugging?

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HEAD

24
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What are the sections of HTTP response message?

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Status, header, data

25
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Status line has what kind of fields?

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Protocol version field, Status code and status message.

26
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What do the following status codes mean: 
200
301
400
404
505
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200 - OK
301 - Moved Permanently
400 - Bad Request
404 - Not found
505 - HTTP version not supported
27
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What is the cookie?

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User-server interaction, small bit of information that travels from browser to the web server.

28
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What is the cookie used for?

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Personal tracking, authentication, personalization, user session state, recommendation, shopping carts

29
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Describe each component of cookie and what it is responsible for

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  1. Header line in the HTTP response message
  2. Header line in the next HTTP request message
  3. Cookie file kept on user’s host, managed by the user browser
  4. Back-end database on the server
30
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Which feature of HTTP simplifies the implementation of cookies?

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Statelessness

31
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What does a site do when a client initially visits their website?

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When initial HTTP requests arrive at site, site creates a unique ID and entry in the backend for the ID.

32
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How to keep state of a cookie?

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Protocol endpoints: maintain state at sender/receiver at multiple transactions
cookies: http messages carry state

33
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Is an email system synchronous or asynchronous?

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Asynchronous

34
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Three major components of email are? Describe each of them

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User agents, mail servers, simple mail transfer protocol(SMTP)

35
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Who is the user agent in emails?

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Just a default user, who reads and sends messages

36
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What is the mail server in emails? What does the mail server have?

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The component that forms the core of email infrastructure. Has mailbox containing messages, mail queue for outgoing mail messages, SMTP protocol between mail servers to send email messages.

37
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Mail servers use TCP? True or False?

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True

38
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What is the port that SMTP use?

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25

39
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How are the emails transferred? Is it persistent or not-persistent?

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Three phases: handshaking(establishing connection), transfer of messages, closure. Persistent

40
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What is the main similarity of SMTP and HTTP

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Use command/response interaction

41
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Is there any restriction of email messages? How is this restriction solved?

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7-bit ASCII. Solved via MIME.

42
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What is the purpose of DNS?

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To identify servers. Maps between IP address and the name.

43
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What is the DNS? How is it implemented?

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Implemented in the hierarchy of many name-servers? Application-Layer protocol, core Internet protocol. DNS can only employ other by application layer protocol like HTTP, SMTP to translate user supplied host names to IP addresses

44
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List the DNS services?

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  1. Hostname to IP address translation
  2. Host Aliasing(host can have one or more alias names)
  3. Mail Server Aliasing
  4. Load distribution(many IP addresses can correspond to one name)
45
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Why one should not centralize the DNS?

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  1. Single point of failure
  2. Traffic Volume
  3. Distant Centralized Database
  4. Maintenance
    Doesn’t scale
46
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What does root name server do?

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Contact authoritative name server if does not know the mapping, get the mapping, return mapping to local name server

47
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What are the types of DNS?

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Root name server, authoritative name server, local(default) name server

48
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What is the top level domain server do?

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responsible for com, org, net etc.

49
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What is the authoritative domain server?

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organization’s own DNS server for providing the authoritative host name to IP mappings for organization’s named hosts

50
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List each name resolution method and describe each of them? Which is better? Why?

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iterated and recursive. iteratively and recursively :).

51
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Why is the caching needed in DNS?

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To store the mappings

52
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What are the types in DNS records? What are the domains of A, NS, MX and CNAME?

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Identifiers responsible for identifying the domain and the parameters required
IP Address, Name server, mail service and canonical name

53
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Peer to Peer Architecture is?

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No always on server, arbitrary end systems directly communicate, peers can change IP addresses

54
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What is the formula for distribution time in client servers?

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N file copies
F file
u_s upload speed of server
d_min minimum client download rate

D_cs >= max(NF/u_s, F/d_min)

55
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What is the formula for distribution time in P2P?

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N file copies
F file
u_s upload speed of server
d_min minimum client download rate

u_max(maximum upload rate) is u_s + sum(u_i)
D_p2p >= max(F/u_s, F/d_min, NF/u_max)

56
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extra assignment problem 1

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extra assignment problem 1

57
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extra assignment problem 2

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extra assignment problem 2

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