COMPUTER NETWORKING

TRANSPORT LAYER

INTRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Transport layer encapsulates data from different applications before passing it to ____
A
Physical layer
B
Data link layer
C
Network layer
D
MAC sub layer
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Application layer message is encapsulated at the Transport layer. If the protocol used at the Transport Layer is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), the data packet is known as “TCP Segment". If the protocol used at the Transport layer is UDP (User Datagram Protocol), the data packet is known as “UDP Datagram".

Detailed explanation-2: -Encapsulation is the process of adding additional information when data is traveling in OSI or TCP/IP model. The additional information has been added on sender’s side, starting from Application layer to Physical layer.

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