Knowledge checks

The links below will take you to knowledge checks where you'll be presented with a set of questions relating to material covered in the Chapter per section.

You may be interested in other supplemental material (online lectures, powerpoint slides, review questions, Wireshark labs) for our book, available here.

This page replaces the earlier knowledge check pages and includes a number of new questions. We're actively adding new questions here in the summer of 2021. If you've got any comments or suggestions - let us know at kurose@cs.umass.edu


Chapter 1: Introduction
  1. What is the Internet?
  2. The Network Edge
  3. The Network Core
  4. Performance: Delay, Loss and Throughput in Computer Networks
  5. Protocol layers and Their Service Models
  6. Networks under attack
  7. History of Computer Networking; Chapter 1 Summary
  8. The Internet Today
Chapter 2: Application Layer
  1. Principles of Network Applications
  2. The Web and HTTP
  3. Email
  4. The Domain Name Service: DNS
  5. Peer-to-Peer File Distribution
  6. Video Streaming and Content Distribution Networks
  7. Socket Programming: Creating Network Applications
Chapter 3: Transport Layer
  1. Introduction and Transport-layer Services
  2. Multiplexing and Demultiplexing
  3. Connectionless Transport: UDP
  4. Principles of Reliable Data Transfer
  5. Connection-oriented Transport: TCP
  6. Principles of Congestion Control
  7. TCP Congestion Control
  8. Evolution of Transport Layer Functionality
  9. Summary
Chapter 4: Network Layer: Data Plane
  1. Network Layer Overview
  2. Whats Inside a Router?
  3. The Internet Protocol
  4. Generalized Forwarding
  5. Middleboxes and Summary
Chapter 5: Network Layer: Control Plane
  1. Introduction to the Network-layer control plane
  2. Routing Algorithms
  3. Intra-AS Routing in the Internet: OSPF
  4. Routing Among the ISPs: BGP
  5. The SDN Control Plane
  6. ICMP: The Internet Control Message Protocol
  7. Network Management and SNMP, NETCONF/YANG
Chapter 6: Link Layer
  1. Introduction to the Link Layer
  2. Error-Detection and -Correction Techniques
  3. Multiple Access Links and Protocols
  4. Switched Local Area Networks
  5. Link Virtualization: A Network as a Link Layer
  6. Data Center Networking
  7. Retrospective: A Day in the Life of a Web Page Request
Chapter 7: Wireless and Mobile Networks
  1. Introduction
  2. Wireless Links and Network Characteristics
  3. WiFi: 802.11 Wireless LANs
  4. Cellular Networks: 4G and 5G
  5. Mobility Management: Principles
  6. Mobility Management in Practice
  7. Wireless and Mobility: Impact on Higher-Layer Protocols
Chapter 8: Network Security

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