You are working as a senior network technician. A trainee asks you which of the following protocol
that operates at the network layer and provides addressing capabilities. What will your answer be?
A.
IPX
B.
SSL
C.
IP
D.
DNS
Explanation:
The Internet Protocol (IP) is a data-oriented protocol used for communicating data across a
packet-switched internetwork. IP is a network layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite and is
encapsulated in a data link layer protocol (e.g., Ethernet). As a lower layer protocol, IP provides
the service of communicable unique global addressing amongst computers.