Question: How do you use the Internet?
Think about your typical day. When are you using the Internet? For what purposes? What role does it have in your life?
Answer: In my everyday life I mostly use the internet to play videogames, browse videos, do homework and send messages to people on social media.
Question: Describe two different paths that a message could take from Person A to Person D.
Answer: The message could go from person A to person B to person D, or person A to person E to person C to person D.
Question: Describe how the Internet Protocol (IP) allows devices to easily connect and communicate on the Internet.
Answer: An internet protocol allows devices to easily connect to the internet by deciding if quality or speed should be prioritized.
Question: What are the benefits of building redundancy into a network? What are the potential issues with building redundancy?
Answer: The benefits of building a redundancy into a network is that if the original code doesn't work for some reason the redundancy will do what needs to be done so that the code runs successfully. A potential issue could be that the code will be longer and more confusing.
Question: Terminology Matching
Answer: Rules for addressing and sending data across the internet by assigning unique numbers to each connected device - Internet Protocol (IP)
Takes inventory of all packets in the datastream to ensure they are successfully sent and received. - Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Chunk of data and its metadata, used to route and reassemble information on the Internet. - Packet
The way in which information travels on the Internet, not as a single piece but in chunks. - Datastream
Sends all packets without checking whether they were received or ordered properly - User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Question: Choose the two statements that best describe the relationship between HTTP and the World Wide Web
Answer: The World Wide Web is a collection of pages and files that is shared between computers using HTTP
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HTTP and the World Wide Web both rely on other layers of protocols for sending information on the Internet
Question: End of Unit Survey
Answer: I understood all of the concepts we learned this unit and I feel like I can be myself in this class.