Chapter 5. Fundamentals of TCP/IP Transport and Applications
This chapter covers the following exam topics:
1.3 Use the OSI and TCP/IP models and their associated protocols to explain how data flows in a network
1.3.b TCP
1.3.c UDP
The DCICN exam focuses mostly on how IP network can send data between servers, and between clients and servers, using Ethernet and IP. This chapter explains the basics of a few topics that receive less attention on the exams: the TCP/IP transport layer and the TCP/IP application layer. The functions of these higher layers play a big role in real TCP/IP networks, so it helps to have some basic understanding before moving into the rest of the book, where you go deeper into LANs and IP routing.
This chapter begins by ...
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