You are employed as a senior administrator at ABC.com.
You are responsible for running training exercises for trainee administrators. You are currently
covering the layers of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model.
You are explaining the presentation layer.
Which of the following best describes the presentation layer of the OSI model?
A.
The presentation layer deals with the transmission and reception of the unstructured raw bit
stream over a physical medium.
B.
The presentation layer translate s data from a format used by the application layer into a
common format at the sending station, then translate the common format to a format known to the
application layer at the receiving station.
C.
The presentation layer deals with error-free transfer of data frames from one node to another
over the physical layer.
D.
The presentation layer makes sure that messages are conveyed error-free, sequentially, and
with no losses or duplications.