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4A0-100 · Question #91
Why does UDP have less overhead than TCP?
The correct answer is D. UDP has less overhead because there is no requirement for acknowledgment or retransmission. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
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Question
Why does UDP have less overhead than TCP?
Options
- AUDP has less overhead because it is only used for transmission of small amounts of data.
- BUDP has less overhead then TCP because there is no checksum field in UDP.
- CUDP overhead is the same as TCP because it uses the same fields in the header.
- DUDP has less overhead because there is no requirement for acknowledgment or retransmission.
How the community answered
(44 responses)- A16% (7)
- B9% (4)
- C5% (2)
- D70% (31)
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#UDP overhead#TCP vs UDP#acknowledgment#retransmission
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