Mid Term (Chapter 2) Flashcards
Client-Server Architecture
One of the two paradigms where the host is ‘always ON’
P2P (Peer to Peer)
One of the two paradigms which the role of host and server are not fixed
What is a Socket
Programming construct whereby running processes on one machine communicate with other processes in another
What parameters are in a Socket
(IP address, Port number, Transport protocol)
What is Reliable
TCP delivers in sequence, no duplicates and no errors
UDP?
User Datagram Protocol
TCP?
Transmission Control Protocol
Application Layer
The layer which programmers can only control
What is the World Wide Web
a Structure that is built on top of the Internet
What are the two transport layer protocols avaible in applications
TCP and UDP
Web Pages
Its objects such as JPEG,PNG or GIF images all addressable by a single URL that points to the base HTML file
What is HTML
Hyper-text Markup Language(programming language)
Persistent Connections
Phone call is always open and closes when prompted to
Non-Persistent Connections
Start a phone call and the server hangs up upon completing the client request
Is Email asynchronous or synchronous
It is asynchronous