MIS 301 Midterm: MIS 301 Study Guide for Exam Two

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 301
• Professor: Khoo

Document Summary

Redundant and fault tolerant (can continue operating in the event of a failure: know the characteristics of circuit switching and packet switching. Circuit switching: dedicated point to point connection; public switched telephone network; callers pay whether or not they are using the circuit. Packet switching: breaks transmission into messages (packets); complex and made at each router: understand different parts of a url. http: hypertext transfer protocol- set of rules for communication (grammar/vocab) Allows web browsers and servers to communicate www: host name- the computer you are looking for on a network/specific server nytimes. com: domain name- name of network trying to connect to. /tech: path- the specific path or location/name of file you are looking for. Html: hypertext markup language (the language sites are written in) Domain: name of network trying to connect to. Identifying address to every computer connected to the internet: understand how dns works.