Topic #6: Protocols

Question 1

Two Companies that Set the Industry Standard

Answer 1

Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

Internet Engineering Task Force

Question 2

The Protocol Stack

Answer 2

HyperText Transfer Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol
Internet Protocol
Ethernet

Question 3

This is a common protocol that governs the way that a web server and a web client interact and defines the content and formatting of the requests and responses exchanged between the client and server.

Answer 3

HTTP

Question 4

This protocol that manages the individual conversations between web servers and web clients and divides the HTTP messages into segments

Answer 4

TCP

Question 5

Responsible for taking the formatted segments from TCP, encapsulating them into packets, assigning the appropriate addresses, and selecting the best path to the destination host.

Answer 5

IP

Question 6

Two Primary Functions of Network Access Protocols

Answer 6

Data-link management protocols take the packets from IP and transmitted over the media

Physical media standards and protocols govern how the signals are sent over the media and how they are interpreted by the receiving clients.

Question 7

Protocols allows Technology independence

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Protocols provide what?

Answer 8

• format and structure of the message
• process by which networking devices share information about pathways to other networks
• how and when error system messages are passed
• setting up and termination of data transfers