What are the two main functions of the 10Mbps Ethernet MAC layer?

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The MAC layer accepts the transmitted frames from the LLC layer and is responsible for two main tasks: a) data encapsulation which means the formatting or assembly of the received frames from LLC as well as frame transmission and frame error detection; b) initialization of the data transmission and data recovery if data transmission fails.

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The do-while loop must be terminated with a semicolon. 2. The do-while loop is ideal in situations where you always want the loop to iterate at least once. 3. When you pass the name of a file to the PrintWriter constructor and the file already exists, it will be erased and a new empty file with the same name will be created. 4. When you open a file with the PrintWriter class, the class can potentially throw an IOException.

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You may use a pointer to a structure as a

a. function parameter b. structure member c. function return type d. All of these e. None of these

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A file ____ is used by Windows to determine the file type.

A. name B. extension C. format D. version

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What is view integration?

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