Chapter 7

Question 1

The primary responsibilities of transport layer protocols are:

Answer 1

• Tracking the individual communication between applications on the source and destination hosts
• Segmenting data for manageability and reassembling segmented data into streams of application data at the destination
• Identifying the proper application for each communication stream

Question 2

The transport layer _____ data between applications on devices in the network

Answer 2

Moves

Question 3

True / False? The transport layer is the only layer that detects errors and corrects them.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The process of splitting data up into smaller peices is called?

Answer 4

Fragmentation

Question 5

The process of allowing multiple applications to use the same media is called?

Answer 5

Multiplexing

Question 6

The data flowing between a source and a destination application is called?

Answer 6

The Conversation

Question 7

What are the two protocols the Transport layer uses?

Answer 7

TCP and UDP.

Question 8

DNS uses what for local lookups?

Answer 8

UDP.

Question 9

DNS uses what for zone transfer?

Answer 9

TCP.