ISSC640 Week 1 Homework Assignment

Instructions:  Please answer the following End of Chapter Exercises from Chapters 1-4 of your text.

Chapter 1 – Introduction and Overview

1.3 According to the text, is it possible to develop Internet applications without understanding the architecture of the Internet and the technologies? Support your answer.

1.11 List the layers in the TCP/IP model, and give a brief explanation of each.

Chapter – 2 Internet Trends

2.9 What Internet technology is the telephone system using?

2.10 Why is the switch from wired Internet access to wireless Internet access significant?

Chapter 3 – Internet Applications and Network Programming

3.1 What are the two basic communication paradigms used in the Internet?

3.11 Can data flow from a client to a server? Explain.

Chapter 4 – Traditional Internet Applications

4.1 What details does an application protocol specify?

4.20 What are the two main email access protocols?

Use a trace table to track variables and the output from the following algorithm