Telecommunications Protocols, Second Edition
The Big Picture of Telecommunications Networking - Today and Tomorrow
TABLE OF CONTENTS Telecommunications Protocols, Second Edition
Appendix B: Chapter Test Answers
Chapter 1
- Elisha Gray and Thomas Edison
- William Shockley, Walter Bratlain, and John Bardeen
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- United States Department of State
- c. A standard created by a committee
- b. False
- Seven bits
- Four bits
- >0111
- Provides error detection/correction and controls node-to-node communications
- Layer 3 device
- b. False
- b. False
- c. Uses a layer 2 protocol, with no routers
- d. Spans the globe, providing interconnection between many different networks
- b. Packet switching
- a. Circuit switching
Chapter 2
- b. False
- b. End office
- Pacific Telesis, US West, Southwestern Bell, Ameritech, Bellsouth Telecommunications, Bell Atlantic, and NYNEX
- a. Connect to other end offices within the same LATA
- b. False
- b. False
- c. North Carolina
- Frequency
- ISDN
- b. False
- b. Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
- a. The Telecommunications Act of 1996
Chapter 3
- a. Ring
- b. TCP/IP
- An application or program running on the desktop, used to communicate with an application stored on a server
- Ring topology
- Bus topology
- Ring topology
- a. True
- Cluster controller
- An enterprisewide network (private, not public) that provides easy Web-based access to company documents
- No one; the Internet comprises many private and publicly owned networks
- Newsgroups
- No
- a. ITU
- c. Media gateway
- a. Signaling gateway
Chapter 4
- Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
- Request for Comments (RFC)
- Autonomous systems
- A socket identifies an endpoint communications process
- Internet Advisory Board (IAB)
- It is used to qualify data units for fragmentation and to identify the last fragment in a series of fragmented data units
- Only the IP header, including the...
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