TCP IP Fundamentals Questions

Demonstrate a solid understanding of the Transmission Control Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol and how they behave under different network conditions. Topics include connection establishment and teardown, sequence and acknowledgement semantics, flow control windows, congestion control mechanisms such as slow start and congestion avoidance, retransmission and selective acknowledgement strategies, segmentation and maximum segment size, and interactions with maximum transmission unit and path maximum transmission unit discovery. Candidates should explain how protocol choices and parameter tuning affect application latency, throughput, and reliability.