Week 1 - Python
Week 2 - Network Overview
Week 3 - HTTP
Week 4 - Servers and APIs
Week 5 - DNS and SMTP
200

This transport-layer protocol provides an unreliable, connectionless service to the invoking application.

What is UDP?

200

The ___ is the process which initiates contact with the ___ process, which is waiting to be contacted.

What is the client and the server?

200

This protocol is used to create persistent connections at the transport layer

What is TCP?

200

These are like the "post offices" of the Internet

What is a mail server?

200

These protocols are used to retrieve mail from a server

What are POP3, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP?

400

The status code 418

What is "I'm a teapot"?

400

The time of data on the wire

What is Propagation Delay?

400

An interface for processes to send and receive messages

What is a socket?

400

A lightweight human-readable text format for storing and transmitting structured data.

What is json?

400

There are 13 versions of these in the world, but 1000s of copies.

Root servers

600

The network that physically connects an end system to the edge router.

What is an Access Network?

600

This is when network is data transmitted over a series of communication links with dedicated end-to-end connection.

what is a circuit switching network?
600

Header that is sent from the server to the user to store a unique ID used to remember past actions.

What is a set-cookie?

600

These are types of HTTP requests used in API calls

what are get and post (among others)?

600

A resource record for an alias

CNAME

800

Another name for end systems?

What are hosts?

800

Usually hosted on a proxy server

What is a web cache?

800

200 OK
301 Moved Permanently
400 Bad Request
404 Not found

Are all examples of what?

HTTP Response Codes

800

This was the location of the secret message in MidsQuest

The secret logbook

800

The format that SMTP messages must be in

What is 7-bit ASCII?

1000

The constructer function used my python. Does not need public or private methods.

What is _init_?

1000

Data transfer rate in bits/sec. Limited by the bottleneck/lowest rate.

What is throughput?

1000

This is a non-typical conditional GET request, effectively the opposite of "if-modified-since"

What is "if-unmodified-since"?

1000

This linux utility is used to interact with APIs from the terminal and has three primary option.

What is curl -X -H -d

1000

relay1.west-coast.enterprise.come is an example of this.

What is a canonical host name?