Week 3 Application Layer

Question 1

What does the session layer take care of?

Answer 1

Handles delivery of data from the transport layer to the application layer

Question 2

What does the presentation take care of?

Answer 2

makes sure unencapsulated app layer data is able to be understood by the application in question

(and encryption, compression)

Question 3

What’s a networking stack?

Answer 3

The part of the OS used by the application to communicate the need to establish a TCP connection