Paper 1 · ICT
Which of the following is used by news servers to distribute documents to readers?
ANetwork News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) ✓ Correct
BHypertext Transfer Protocol
CFile Transfer Protocol
DNone of the above
Correct answer: (A) Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) — News servers use the Network News Transfer Protocol, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★News servers use the Network News Transfer Protocol, so that is the answer.
★NNTP is made for handling news articles on the internet.
★News servers use it to distribute those documents to readers.
★So the protocol used by news servers is NNTP.
★HTTP and FTP serve web pages and files, not news distribution.
★So the answer is Network News Transfer Protocol.
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