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CS6250 – Exam 1 – [Institution Name] – 2026 – Exam Review and Practice Questions

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This document contains study material and practice questions for Exam 1 of the CS6250 course. It covers key topics and concepts discussed in the first part of the course, providing students with summaries, problem-solving examples, and exam-style questions to reinforce understanding and support effective preparation. The content is structured to help students identify important areas likely to appear on the exam.

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How did Licklider and his team in the early 1960s experiment with a precursor to the internet?


Connecting two computers over a dial-up telephone line


What is the Domain Name System (DNS) designed to do primarily?


Translate domain names into IP addresses


What is the architectural design of the Internet protocol stack based on?


Layers


T/F: Both the data link and transports layer protocols may provide error correction


True


What allows for communication between the applications layer and the transport layer


Sockets


Which of the following protocols belong to the application layer? [ethernet/DNS/UDP/IP]


DNS


Which two protocols belong to the transport layer? [IP/TCP/UDP/HTTP]


TCP, UDP


When an application sends a packet of information across the network, this packet travels down the IP stack and
undergoes what process


Encapsulation


According to the end-to-end principle, where should most of the Internet's functionality/intelligence be
implemented?


At the edges of the network


What is the difference between hubs, bridges, and routers?


They operate on different layers of the IP stack


T/F: the UDP and TCP protocols have a large overlap of functionality


false

, T/F: the transport layer protocols offer a logical connection between processes, only if the hosts reside in the same
network


false


T/F: a sender host receives a message from the application layer it encapsulates it with the transport layer header
before passing it down to the network layer


true


T/F: an application running on a host can bind to multiple sockets simultaneously


true


T/F: a host cannot maintain a TCP socket and a UDP socket simultaneously


false


T/F: the identifier of a UDP socket is a tuple of destination IP address and port


true


T/F: the identifier of a TCP socket is a tuple of source IP address and port


false


T/F: UDP is considered more lightweight than TCP


true


T/F: when two hosts use UDP to send and receive messages, they need to signal the end of sending data to each other
when they are done


false


T/F: one of the functionalities that UDP offers is to increase or decrease the pace with which the sender sends data to
the receiver


false


T/F: UDP offers basic error checking


true


T/F: assume hosts A, B, and C. Host A has a UDP socket with port 123. Hosts B and C each send their own UDP
segment to Host A. Hosts B and C cannot use the same destination port 123 for sending their UDP segment


false

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