A client process P needs to make a TCP connection to a server process S. Consider the following situation: the server process S executes a socket( ), a bind( ) and a listen( ) system call in that order, following which it is preempted. Subsequently, the client process P executes a socket( ) system call followed by connect( ) system call to connect to the server process S. The server process has not executed any accept( ) system call. Which one of the following events could take place?

A computer on a 10 Mbps network is regulated by a token bucket. The token bucket is filled at a rate of 2 Mbps. It is initially filled to capacity with 16 Megabits. What is the maximum duration for which the computer can transmit at the full 10 Mbps?

The total number of keys required for a set of n individuals to be able to communicate with each other using secret key and public key crypto-systems, respectively are:

In the $$IEEE$$ floating point representation the hexadecimal value $$0\, \times \,00000000$$ corresponds to