Applications that need a fire-and-forget mechanism without the need for acknowledgments usually employ the ________ protocol.
- FTP
- ICMP
- TCP
- UDP
The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is used for applications that require a "fire-and-forget" mechanism, where speed is more important than reliability and acknowledgments. UDP doesn't provide acknowledgment or error-checking like TCP.
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