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What is the purpose of DNS?

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It returns the IP address given the name of a website.

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What is the purpose of a router?

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It forwards a message from one machine to another.

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Why was IP v4 replaced by IP v6?

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We were running out of IP v4 addresses.

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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP):

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Provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet

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Internet Protocol: Options: Breaks messages into packets and addresses them, A DNS attack in which numerous pings are made to the same IP, causing it to crash, Protocol used by the World Wide Web. It describes how messages are formatted and interchanged, and how web servers respond to commands., Provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet

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Breaks messages into packets and addresses them

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Which type of attack is this:
Redirecting a site's IP to a similar, fake site to collect user input information?

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DNS hijacking/spoofing

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Given the following network diagram, what is the minimum number of connections that must be broken or removed before computer E can no longer communicate with computer B?

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2

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Which of the following statements about packets is true? Options: Packets must be sent in order so they can be reassembled at the end host., Packet switching results in a sustained, single connection between two hosts., All packets must pass through a centralized router to be verified., None of these statements are true.

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None of these statements are true.

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What was the main problem that IPv6 was created to solve? The world transitioned into using IPv6, a newer version of the IP protocol that uses 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit addresses used by IPv4.

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32-bit addresses could not ensure that every internet-connected device can receive a unique IP address.

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Which of the following protocols is primarily used to establish a secure connection between browsers and servers so that no data is lost? Options: HTTP, SMTP, SSL/TLS, TCP/IP

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SSL/TLS