TCP VS UDP

Question 1

What does TCP stand for?

Answer 1

Transmission Control Protocol

Question 2

What does UDP stand for?

Answer 2

User Datagram Protocol

Question 3

What is faster TCP or UDP? Why?

Answer 3

UDP. Because it does not need to establish a connection and it has less overhead.

Question 4

How does TCP work?

Answer 4

Transmission Control Protocol works by establishing a connection first. It initiates by first sending a SYN packet, it will continue to send SYN until it receives a SYN-ACK. Once received the client will send another ACK before sending the data packet.