FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY

THE INTERNET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Emilee is watching an online video. The video is being sent to her laptop by a server over the Internet which splits the video into packets and sends them in the order they appear in the video. Which of the following is true about how the packets will arrive at her computer?
A
The packets will always be received in the order that they were sent
B
Either every packet will reach her computer or none of them will.
C
Packets that arrive out of order will be sent back to the server.
D
The packets may arrive out of order
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The possibility of packet data arriving out of order is true. When sending information from one computer to another through a server, the information being sent is called data and they are broken down into smaller chunks called packets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following Internet protocols is MOST important in reassembling packets and requesting missing packets to form complete messages? Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

Detailed explanation-3: -As a request-response protocol, HTTP gives users a way to interact with web resources such as HTML files by transmitting hypertext messages between clients and servers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a transport protocol that is used on top of IP to ensure reliable transmission of packets.

Detailed explanation-5: -Internet Protocol (IP) is the method or protocol by which data is sent from one computer to another on the internet. Each computer–known as a host–on the internet has at least one IP address that uniquely identifies it from all other computers on the internet.

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