What is the service on a computer that allows incoming network connections?
 

A. PPTP
B. Server service
C. Workstation service
D. Spooler service

I'm very new to networking and reading my Configuring Windows 8.1 book and taking self paced practice questions. I cannot find the answer to this for the life of me in the book or online anywhere

To answer this question ... (y-o-u-r-s-e-l-f!!) ... ask yourself the following question:
The term "service" (or, "daemon") generically refers to any process that is "just sitting around, waiting to perform work for somebody." But, some services ... (by design) ... already know who "somebody" might conceivably be, while others ... (again, by design) ... must be prepared to answer-the-phone for anybody.

Think about it . . . . Consider each of the four services in turn . . . "Who, where," might legitimately require them to do what they can do?

Well, alrighty then...

Ok so there is only 1 term listed within book as the options for answers and it didn't make sense, hence my question to the community. I realize it may be a figure it out for yourself mindset for you but I've literally only been self reading this trying to understand the material for a matter of days.

...My journey continues

How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know
Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd Edition

My response to you wasn't a "blow-off." :tisk:

The point of your self-appointed exercise must be: "to figure it out for yourself."

Find a description of each of these four services, and ask yourself repeatedly this question: "does the job-description of this particular service indicate that it accepts and responds to requests from 'the outside world any computer other than itself?'"

Again, my response (and other responses like it) is not a blow-off, and there's not one single person here who does not instantly recognize and appreciate how difficult-to-grok this stuff actually is. However, "when you are swimming in the sea of computers, you risk drowning in details," and what saves you is: "getting the big picture." Translating the question into a process for interpreting it.

Incidentally, there's a certain amount of ambiguity in this question: there are "service-provider" services, and there are sometimes "service-client" services. (For instance, anytime you're connected to a wireless network that's secured by a real-world password protocol, you've got a little service running on your machine which re-negotiates the cipher session-key every hour or so. Since it runs independently, it qualifies as a "service," but it doesn't accept outside connections.)

The same bright-line rules apply to Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone, and ... everything else. "Terminology: different. Basic ideas: the same."

B. Server Service :)