CSCI 4417/5417: Final Quiz Feedback and Questions, Exams of Computer Science

Download CSCI 4417/5417: Final Quiz Feedback and Questions and more Exams Computer Science in PDF only on Docsity! CSCI 4417/5417: Final Quiz Due at start of Final Exam December 9, 2004 Overview This quiz is optional, and your grade on it will replace your lowest quiz grade. Overall, the main goal of this assignment is to get your suggestions on how to improve the course. There are also a set of quiz questions on email, to help you practice for the final. There are 30 questions for a total of 38 points. You should submit your solutions to this quiz at the start of the final exam. Even though many of these questions are open-ended, you should take this seriously: mediocre and vague feedback will receive only partial credit. 1 Email 1. (1 point) What is an MTA? 2. (1 point) What type of authentication is done by POP3? 3. (1 point) What type of authentication is done by SMTP? 4. (1 point) If all the Exchange servers in the world implemented Microsoft’s solution for handling SPAM, would that solve the SPAM problem? Why or why not? 5. (1 point) Explain how DNS is used in authentication of email. 6. (1 point) How does HELO differ from EHLO? 7. (1 point) Name two MUA’s, one on Linux, one on Windows: Linux: Windows: 1 8. (1 point) Name two MTA’s, one primarily for Linux, one primarily for Windows: Linux: Windows: 9. (2 points) Explain how products/offerings like imail, hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail fit into an email architecture. 2 Feedback Take a look at http://einstein.etsu.edu/jenkinss/4417/spring-2003-eval.pdf for my thoughts on how the Spring 2003 version of this course went, and then give your feedback on the following aspects. 2.1 Assignments Assignments 1. Lab design 2. Operating System Installation 3. Virtual PC and DHCP and DNS design 4. DHCP and DNS and File services design 5. File services, with web and FTP design 6. Web and FTP 7. Users, Groups 8. Software management 9. Security 1. (1 point) Which assignment was the most interesting to you? 2. (1 point) Which assignment was the most difficult? 3. (1 point) How could the Samba assignment be changed to make it more doable? 4. (1 point) One goal of the assignments this semester was to have students do a design before actually trying things out on the system. Comment on how well that worked (or didn’t). Page 2