Question

The User Data Protocol (UDP) does not divide a message into multiple packets, and does not combine messages for delivery-- each message that an application sends is transported across the Internet and delivered to the receiver.

A. True
B. False

Answer 1

The claim about UDP not dividing messages into packets nor combining them is false; UDP sends messages as datagrams, which can be fragmented and reassembled at the destination, but it does not combine messages by default.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement that the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) does not divide a message into multiple packets and does not combine messages for delivery is False. By design, UDP is a connectionless protocol in the Transport layer of the Internet Protocol Suite, which allows it to send short messages called datagrams. However, these datagrams can be fragmented into smaller packets by the underlying network layers if they exceed the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size of the network. At the receiver's end, these fragments may be reassembled into the original datagram. Conversely, UDP does not inherently provide a mechanism to combine separate messages into a single datagram; this would have to be implemented at a higher layer if desired.