CSC 240: Networking II

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Assignment 2

This assignment is based on chapter 11.

1. Three reasons that network administrators choose to separate traffic by subnetting are:
2. The simplest type of IP addressing is called:
3. What does a subnet mask indicate?
4. What is the name of the process when the bits of an IP address and subnet mask are combined?
5. Identify the two types of IP addresses that cannot be assigned to a network interface on a node.
6. IP addresses have two fields, host field and network field. Which field gives up bits when subnetting?
7. A class C subnet mask by default is:
8. A class C subnet mask with three borrowed bits is:
9. Which class networks can be subnetted?
10. A class B subnet mask with six borrowed bits is:
11. What is CIDR notation?
12. In many cases, a default gateway is a network interface on a:
13. What is Network Address Translation?
14. Identify the IEEE standard for encoding binary files, images, video, and non-ASCII character sets within email.
15. What are two mail retrieval protocols?
16. Which utility displays TCP/IP statistics and details about TCP/IP components and connections on a host?
17. Identify the utility that allows you to find the host name of a device by specifying its IP address.
18. What utility allows you to query the DNS registration database?
19. What is toll bypass?
20. What is a softphone?

Know the following terms:

• Classful Addressing
• Convergence
• DIG
• Extranet
• MIME
• NAT
• SMTP
• Supernet
• VOIP

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