Practice questions
Q.1 Create a baseline from different positions of your network regarding various common protocols used in communication.
Q.2 Explain the various characteristics that TCP error recovery features have.
Q.3 Which protocols other than DNS and HTTP can be troublesome for you, and what approach will you follow in order to troubleshoot them?
Q.4 What do you understood by the term "bottleneck issues", and can they be ignored. If yes/no, why?
Q.5 Create a trace file for your own host and at least capture 10,000 packets. Then, analyze how many types of errors you are able to see for the HTTP protocols, and how many of them can you replicate.
Q.6 Using the baseline that you created earlier, try to match an unusual traffic pattern and observe what anomalies you can figure out by the comparison process.
Q.7 For the DNS protocol, replicate an error code other than 3 and capture traffic for the same.
Q.8 Prepare a checklist for the latency types we discussed and mention as many scenarios...