Multiple choice

You are troubleshooting a problem with SNMP. At what layer of the OSI model does SNMP operate?

  1. Transport

  2. Application

  3. Network

  4. Physical
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B Correct answer
Explanation

An application that communicates with other computers is implementing OSI application layer concepts. The application layer refers to communications services to applications. For example, a word processor that lacks communications capabilities would not implement code for communications, and word processor programmers would not be concerned about OSI Layer 7. However, if an option for transferring a file were added, the word processor would need to implement OSI Layer 7 (or the equivalent layer in another protocol specification).

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