Cisco Networking Academy - CCNA Semester 2 - Exam notes
 

Chapter 9:

Outline of Chapter 9: TCP/IP

Understand the Basics of Layer 4
      List three components of the TCP/IP protocol stack.
                    Applications     (to support: file transfer, e-mail, remote login, ...)
                    Transport         (reliable & unreliable)
                    Network            (connectionless datagram (packet) delivery)
      Describe the importance of the TCP/IP stack.
      Compare and contrast the TCP/IP protocol stack with the OSI model.
                    Applications     (OSI 5-7)
                    Transport          (OSI 4)
                    Network            (OSI 3)
      List five application layer protocols.
                    Which are used by the router and which by non-routers ?
      Compare and contrast TCP and UDP.
                    Which is connection-oriented ?  Connectionless ?
                    Which is reliable ?   Unreliable ?
                    Which does sliding windows  ?
      Describe the fields in a TCP segment.
      Explain the concept of port numbers.
                    What are the various port ranges ?
                     Can an application layer protocal have both a TCP and UDP port # ?
      For both TCP and UDP, list three important protocols and their associated port numbers.
      Diagram the TCP three-way handshake/open connection.
                     Used for establishing initial connection between machines
      Describe the TCP simple acknowledgment.
      Describe the TCP sliding window.
      Describe TCP sequence and acknowledgment numbers.
      Describe a UDP segment format.
                     Why is the UDP Segment format so much smaller then the TCP Segment ?
 Understand Some Important Layer 3 Concepts
      Describe four network layer protocols from the TCP/IP stack.
                      IP                 (connectionLESS best-effort delivery)
                      ICMP           (Control & messaging)
                      ARP             (Determines "Data Link Layer" address (MAC) for a known IP)
                      RARP          (Determines "Network" address (IP) for a known MAC address)
      Diagram the IP Datagram.
      Explain the protocol field of the IP datagram.
                      Remember this is different than the TCP & UDP port # ?
      List at least three Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages.
                      Destination Unreachable
                      Time to Live Exceeded
                      Parameter Problem
                      Source Quench
                      Redirect
                      Echo
                      Echo Reply
                      Timestamp
                      Timestamp Reply
                      Information Request
                      Information Reply
                     Address Request
                     Address Reply
      Describe briefly how ICMP testing works.
      Describe briefly how ICMP ping works.
      Describe briefly how ARP works.
      Describe briefly how RARP works.
 Discuss the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
      Relate the Internet TCP/IP protocols to the OSI model.
      Describe mapping and addressing protocols.
                       DNS, WINS, HOSTS, POP3, SMTP
      Describe the SNMP protocol.
      Describe some of the file transfer protocols.
                      FTP, TFTP, HTTP
      Describe some of the troubleshooting protocols.
                      TELNET, PING, TRACEROUTE
                      NBSTAT, NETSTAT, IPCONFIG/WINCONFIG
                      What do the above commands/Utilities do ???

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