Quiz 6

Since the purpose of these quizzes is to help you learn what you don't know and this one is not being graded or taken in class, it has more questions.

1. The service we used to create blogs is called ___.
2. We spoke of three categories of satellites -- the advantage of a geostationary satellite is ___.
3. Which takes longer to orbit the Earth -- a middle-Earth orbit satellite or a low-Earth orbit satellite?
3. Which longer latency times -- a middle-Earth orbit satellite or a low-Earth orbit satellite?
5. The Internet is a collection of interconnected ___s.
6. Were there computer networks before the Internet?
7. What was the reasoning behind naming the Internet, the Internet?
8. Packets are forwarded from one network to the next as they cross the Internet. The computers that forward the packets are called ___.
9. Did you read the article by and podcast interview of McKay Coppins?
10. Ours is a class about the Internet – what does Earth observation have to do with the Internet?
11. The forwarding decision involves:
A. the from address.
B. the to address.
C. both the from and to addresses.
D. This is a trick question – neither is involved.
12. What happens when a router breaks or is overloaded?