ICT 390 Quiz 1 Question and answers correctly solved 2025/2026

ICT 390 Quiz 1 Question and answers
correctly solved 2025/2026
List four components of a computer network - correct answer ✔links, computer, switches/routers,
network interface



The world wide web is a computer network. True or false. Explain your answer. - correct answer
✔False, the world wide web is a distributed system



Give one advantage and one disadvantage of circuit switching. Give one example of circuit switching. -
correct answer ✔advantage: data can only be used once

disadvantage: unused resources go to waste

example: all bytes follow same path



A trailer contains source and destination address information. True or false? If tour answer is false,
explain why. - correct answer ✔False, it contains error control information. helps to detect errors



Briefly explain what you understand about the term internetwork? Give one example. - correct answer
✔An internetwork is made up of different networks (net1, net2, net3). The term "Internet" comes from
the term Internetwork because it is a series of networks.



Define the following acronyms: NAP, RFC, IETF, ITU. - correct answer ✔NAP: Network Access Point

RFC: Request for Comment

IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force

ITU: International Telecommunication Union