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What Was The Precursor To The Present

The document contains 31 questions about networking concepts and technologies including: the precursor to the Internet (ARPANET), responsibilities of core Internet protocols like IP and TCP, relationship between IP addresses and port numbers, differences between protocols like TCP and UDP, purpose of technologies like MPLS, HTTP, URLs, DNS, IP addressing, FTP, Telnet, VoIP, email, instant messaging, EDI, cookies, intranets/extranets, VPNs, differences between IPv4 and IPv6, features of Internet2, and differences between VoIP and VoWLAN.

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What Was The Precursor To The Present

The document contains 31 questions about networking concepts and technologies including: the precursor to the Internet (ARPANET), responsibilities of core Internet protocols like IP and TCP, relationship between IP addresses and port numbers, differences between protocols like TCP and UDP, purpose of technologies like MPLS, HTTP, URLs, DNS, IP addressing, FTP, Telnet, VoIP, email, instant messaging, EDI, cookies, intranets/extranets, VPNs, differences between IPv4 and IPv6, features of Internet2, and differences between VoIP and VoWLAN.

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1. What was the precursor to the present-day Internet?

2. List the main responsibilities of the Internet Protocol.


3. List the main responsibilities of the Transmission Control Protocol.
4. Explain the relationship of the port number to an IP address.
5. Is UDP the same thing as TCP? Explain.
6. What is the purpose of MPLS?
7. What is the relationship between IP and ICMP?
8. Is DHCP the same thing as NAT? Explain.
9. What is the relationship between the Internet and the World Wide Web?
10. What is HTTP used for?
11. How is a Web markup language different from a programming language?
12. What is the purpose of the Uniform Resource Locator?
13. List the four basic parts of the URL.
14. How does the Domain Name System translate a URL into a 32-bit binary address?
15. What are the different classes of IP addresses?
16. What is the File Transfer Protocol used for? .
17. What is the main function of Telnet?
18. Is VoIP more reliable within a business or over the Internet? Explain.
19. What other options are available for transmitting voice via Internet technology besides Voice
over IP?
20. List the basic features of a common electronic mail system.
21. What are the duties of SMTP, POP3, and IMAP when referring to e-mail systems?
22. What is a listserv used for?
23. What tools are necessary to support streaming audio or video?
24. How does instant messaging differ from e-mail?
25. What are the two competing protocols used to support instant messaging?
26. What is the relationship between electronic data interchange and e-commerce?
27. What is a cookie? Who makes cookies, and where are they stored?
28. How do intranets and extranets compare with and differ from the Internet?
29. How can a business use a virtual private network and tunneling to support an off-site
connection?

30. How will IPv6 differ from the current version (4) of IP?
31. What are the main features of Internet2?
32. What is the difference between VoIP and VoWLAN?

During the 1960s, a branch of the govt titled the Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA) created the countrys first wide area packet
-switched networks, The ARPANET.

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