Internet and Web Flashcards
How are resources transferred around the world wide web?
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) and HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
What is the nature of the internet
Internet is an internetwork of Wide Area Networks
- with gateways between them
- based upon common use of TCP/IP protocols
- supporting standard application services (DNS, e-mail, web)
Who regulates the internet?
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN
- Internet Society (ISOC)
How are the TCP/IP Networks Structured?
https://i.imgur.com/yCx3NtZ.png
What is TCP/IP?
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
For the TCP/IP networks diagram, what is the transport layer responsible for?
Host to host data transfer. Can be in (un)reliable form.
For the TCP/IP networks diagram, what is the linked layer responsible for?
delivers frames, handles errors, drives physical transfers
For the TCP/IP networks diagram, what is the Application layer responsible for?
interfaces directly with user applications or users.
What does HTTP and HTTPS stand for?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secured.
What does TCP stand for?
Transmission Control Protocol
What does IP stand for?
Internet Protocol
What does UDP stand for?
User Datagram Protocol
The World Wide Web is a?
distributed hypermedia application
The Internet is?
the largest global internetwork of wide area computer networks that use TCP/IP protocols.
