10 questions
Explanation: SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is used for sending and relaying e-mail. POP3 and IMAP are for receiving, and HTTP serves web pages.
Explanation: DNS resolves human-readable domain names into IP addresses. Assigning addresses automatically is the job of DHCP, encryption is done by TLS or HTTPS, and spam filtering is a mail server function.
Explanation: The .ac.in domain is reserved for academic institutions and is administered by ERNET India. The .res.in domain is for research institutions, .gov.in for government bodies and .org.in for organisations.
Explanation: Only statement 1 is correct. BCC addresses are hidden from everyone, including other BCC recipients, and they never appear in the message header, so Reply All cannot reach them.
Explanation: IPv6 uses 128 bits while IPv4 uses 32 bits. The figure 48 belongs to a MAC address and 64 is only the network half of an IPv6 address, so both are traps.
Explanation: BCC hides each recipient address from the others, which protects the vendor contact details and prevents mass Reply All chains. Using To or CC exposes every address, and pasting the list in the body exposes them directly.
Explanation: IMAP keeps mail on the server and synchronises it across devices. POP3 downloads mail to one device and usually removes it from the server, SMTP only sends, and FTP transfers files.
Explanation: Download time in seconds is file size in MB multiplied by 8 and divided by the speed in Mbps: 600 x 8 = 4800 Mb, and 4800 divided by 40 = 120 seconds, that is 2 minutes. Shortcut: 40 Mbps is 5 MB per second, so 600 divided by 5 = 120. The answer 15 seconds comes from forgetting to multiply by 8.
Explanation: Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN. Vint Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, Ray Tomlinson sent the first network e-mail, and Charles Babbage is called the father of the computer.
Explanation: HTTPS uses port 443 while HTTP uses port 80, which is the closest trap. Port 21 is the FTP control port and port 25 is SMTP.
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