Transport’s Role
The primary function of the Transport layer
What is establish, manage, and terminate sessions between end nodes
What PDU stands for.
What is Protocol Data Units?
How the Transport layer interacts with other layers.
What is an intermediary between them for packets?
What TCP stands for.
What is Transmission Control Protocol?
The four types of hardware that transport uses.
What is Router, Modem, Firewall, and Fiber Optic Cables.
The OSI layer number that transport is.
What is 4?
What PDUs are comprised of.
What is protocol-specific control information and user data?
How the Transport and Link layer interact.
What is works with the Link layer to provide recovery from transmission errors?
What UDP stands for.
What is User Datagram Protocol?
What the Fiber Optic Cables are.
What is high speed data transport cables.
Transport's second role.
What is controls the flow of data between the layers?
Transport's TCP PDU.
What is a Segment?
How the layer interacts with the application layer.
What is provides the application layer with session and datagram communication services?
What UDP does.
Connection less, Unreliable transport protocol; each segment handled independently.
The difference between a Router and Gateway.
What is a Gateway is both a router and a Modem.
Transports role in the TCP/IP layers.
What is prepares application data for transport over the network and processes network data for use by applications
Transport's OSI PDU.
What is the a datagram?
How the layer interacts with the internet layer. (May be a trick question)
What is provides the internet layer with session and datagram communication services?
OSI stands for
What is Open Systems Interconnection
What the fire wall does.
What is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication.
Port numbers for FTP, HTTP, and TFTP applications
What are well-known ports
Used by the destination host to reassemble segments into the original order
What is Sequence number
Source: 49152, Destination: 53
What are source and destination ports for a host connecting to a DNS server
Source port, destination port, length and checksum
What are the header fields of UDP
The standards organization responsible for assigning various addressing standards
IANA