Week 4 Theory Worksheet

The Internet and World Wide Web (Chapter 2)

Important Note: The Theory Worksheets are the basis for the Theory Quizzes. Theory
Worksheet questions will reference material from both the assigned chapter readings and
the online lecture. In addition, Theory Worksheets may require you to reference external
online resources.

Refer to Chapter 2 and the accompanying online lecture to answer the following questions.

1. What is another word for a collection of networks that links millions of

businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals?
[Chapter 2]
Internet

2. What agency of the U.S. Department of Defense helped establish the network that
is now referred to as the Internet? What was the initial cost? [Chapter 2]

A.R.P.A.NET part of D.ARPA + Department of ….. at the cost of 1 million $$$

Advanced Research Projects Agency

3. According to the online lecture, what important historical event coincided with the
creation of the Internet? What year was this? [Online Lecture] Applo
11Armstrong walking on the moon accouple of weeks after the first two nodes
where connected in 1969

4. According to the online lecture what institutions composed the first four nodes on
the Internet? [Online Lecture]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
#1 UCLA #2 SRI Sandford Research Institute #3UCSB University of California Santa Barbra
#4 UTAH The University of First 2 connected in September these 4 by December 1969

5. Give an example of a valid IP Address. According to the online lecture

approximately how many total IP Address does IPv4 support? How many bits
does this represent? [Online Lecture]
A quartet of numbers up to 255 separated by . each set of # is = to 8 bits for a total of 32.
Able to make up a little of 4 billion web addresses. Or 4294967296

6. What is the biggest problem with IPv4? What is the solution? [Chapter 2]

There are more people then addresses and there are running out, IP exhaustgion the solution is
ipv6 which uses 128 bit.
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 7. Identify five top-level domains (ie. .com, etc.). [Chapter 2] top level domain is
the last part of the address .com .net .uk .edu .mil

8. According to the online lecture what Prompt Command can be used to trace the IP
addresses along a path to a particular Website (ie. shows all the IP address from
source to destination)? What is the IP address of the msjc.edu website? [Online
Lecture] TRACERT msjc.edu 207.233.7.9

9. According to the online lecture what person is responsible for the World Wide
Web we all use today? Approximately what year was this? What technologies,
standards and protocols is he responsible for? Be specific. [Online Lecture]
Tim Berners-Lee gave us http or Hyper text transfer protocol. He creates first browser first web
server invents url and html calls it WORLD WIDE WEB 1989 submitted to CERN idea built in
1990.

10. What protocol is fundamental as an Internet standard for uploading and

downloading files? [Chapter 2]
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard Internet protocol for transmitting files between
computers on the Internet over TCP/IP connections

Congratulations on completing the Week 4 Theory Worksheet. You do not need to submit answers
to the Theory Worksheets. However, you must complete Theory Quiz which is based on the
questions and concepts covered in the Theory Worksheet. A substantial portion of the Final Exam
will be based on Theory Worksheets – so keep a copy of your worksheet answers.

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