ITEC350

Study Guide for Midterm Exam

 

 

Please study based on the powerpoint slides which we used in class. All the powerpoint slides are posted in D2L.

 

*     Classification of Interconnected processor by scale

o   PAN

o   LAN

o   MAN

o   WAN

 

*     Difference between Connectionless and Connection oriented

 

*     OSI 7 layer

o   You should memorize the OSI 7 layer protocol stack.

o   You need to understand what each layer does.

 

*     TCP/IP

o   Protocol stack (4 layers: Network Interface, Internet, Transport, Application)

 

*     Segmentation & Reassembly

 

*     Multiplexing

o   What is Frequency Division Multiplexing?

o   What is Time Division Multiplexing?

 

*     Difference between a packet and a frame

 

*     What do the following acronyms stand for?

o   HTTP

o   TCP

o   UDP

o   IP

o   OSI

o   DNS

o   RTP

o   ICMP

o   ARP

 

*     Encapsulation

 

*     What are Domain Name, IP address, MAC address?

 

*     IP addresses

o   Special IP addresses

o   Class A, Class B, Class C

o   Conversion between the dotted decimal representation and the binary representation of IP addresses

o   Subnetting

§  please review your homework 1

§  Why subnets?

 

*     VLSM (Variable Length Subnet Masking)

 

*     Nonroutable addresses

 

*     What is promiscuous mode?

 

*     DNS

o   What is DNS?  (You should state that DNS translates Domain name to IP address.)

o   How DNS works? (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/intro-dns.html)

o   .arpa

o   Why do we need .arpa?

o   What is reverse lookup?

o   How the reverse lookup works? (http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/intro-dns.html#reverse)

 

 

*     What is difference between a Router and a Gateway?