You can find the answers to the following questions in Appendix A, "Answers to Chapter Review Questions."
| 1: | Which two TCP/IP protocols transmit e-mails across a network? List the acronyms and what they stand for. |
| 2: | Fred and Barney each use a PC. They connect to the Internet using different ISPs. Describe the process by which Fred's e-mail to Barney traverses the Internet, in regard to which e-mail servers are used and how. |
| 3: | In a typical network, which e-mail protocol does a client use to retrieve messages from a server? |
| 4: | Describe the two parts of a typical e-mail address and tell what each part defines. |
| 5: | Under which layer of the TCP/IP networking model do the e-mail protocols described in this chapter fall? |
| 6: | What does the acronym FTP stand for, and what is its main purpose? |
| 7: | What are the names of the FTP operations to move a file to a server and move a file to a client? |
| 8: | Explain the usage of FTP servers for transferring a file from user1, which is connected to ISP1, to user2, which is connected to ISP2. In particular, point out to which servers each client moves the file. |
| 9: | Considering the two main FTP commands to move files to and from an FTP server, which commands both move the file and delete the original file from the location it was copied? (For instance, if user1 moves file1.doc to an FTP server, does that delete file1.doc from user1's computer?) |
| 10: | What term refers to the process of making sure a user is who he claims to be, before allowing him to use a server? |
| 11: | What does the acronym HTTP stand for, and what is its main purpose? |
| 12: | From what other standard did HTTP derive the first two letters in its name? |
| 13: | What HTTP operation does a browser use to request a particular file from a web server? |
| 14: | What does the acronym URL stand for, and how is it used? |
