This quiz covers the protocols that keep modern tech talking, from the web and email to file transfer, wireless links and digital music gear.
It starts with household names like HTTP and Wi-Fi, then moves into the standards and acronyms keen tech fans will recognise from networking, hardware and messaging.
Getting things ready...
1. What does HTTP chiefly transfer?
2. Which protocol usually delivers email to your inbox?
3. FTP was designed mainly for transferring what?
4. Which protocol secures web traffic with encryption?
5. Bluetooth devices commonly use which wireless protocol family?
6. Wi-Fi is based on which IEEE standard?
7. Which protocol translates domain names into IP addresses?
8. Which protocol automatically assigns IP addresses on many home networks?
9. MIDI is used mainly to send what between instruments?
10. Which protocol keeps computer clocks in sync?
11. Telnet is most closely associated with what weakness?
12. Which USB protocol mode lets phones act like keyboards or drives?
13. In email, which protocol is mainly used to send outgoing messages?
14. Which protocol underpins secure remote login on Unix-like systems?
15. Which protocol first established most secure web connections before TLS?