Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Is there any difference between Data communication and telecommunication are network?
In analog transmission, the base signal is called the________.
Session layer is responsible for _________.
Which one of the following is not a Channelization Protocol?
The most common type of connector used by coaxial cable is ________.
________ transmission technology (based on Ethernet) provides a data rate of 1 billion bits per second.
Error detection and correction are the services provided by ________ layer.
RZ stands for ___________.
________ is normally used where speed is priority in data transfer.
In _________, a signal is directed straight from antenna to antenna.
Radio is an example of _______ signal conversion.
Digital signals are refered to be ___________.
Which of the following consist of just one redundant bit per data unit?
________ encoding is almost obsolete today
Low pass channel has ________ bandwidth between two stations.
What is the Bandwidth of a periodic signal if it is decomposed into 4 sine waves with frequencies 200, 400, 600 and 800?
The inversion of the level at 1 bit is called as ________.
A ________ modem is used to connect two DTEs directly.
A fiber -optic cable transmit signals in the form of ________.
Digitizing an Analog Signal is called ___________.
VCI address is ________ address in virtual circuit approach.
There are _________ types of serial transmission.
Baud rate is greater than or equal to the bit rate.
A broadcast signal is received by the orbiting satellites which rebroadcasts ________.
The Internet is ___________.
________ mode of serial transmission guarantees fixed rate of data.
Asynchronous transmission is ___________.
Human voice is example of ___________ signal.
Congestion Control is a feature of layer(s).
In selective-reject ARQ, only the specific damaged or lost frame is ________.
In ________ each band is reserved for a specific ststion, and it belongs to the station all the time.
BSC supports ___________ transmission using ___________ flow control.
What is the period of a Sine wave having frequency of 10 Hz?
Analog signals are refers to be ___________
What is the Bandwidth of a periodic signal if it is decomposed into 4 sine waves with frequencies 300, 600, 900 and 1200?
What is the period of a Sine wave having frequency of 2 Hz?
DLC in Data Link Layer stands for ________.
In even parity check code, the value of syndrome is ________ if the number of 1s is even.
In Block coding we divide our message into blocks of k bits called as ________.
In CRC there is no error if the remainder at the receiver is _______.
________ is responsible for governing node to node communication.
At the CRC checker, ___________ means that the data unit is damaged.
If the window size is 63 in go-back N ARQ then what is the range of sequence number?
In ________, each station sends a frame whenever it has a frame to send.
Sampling means measuring ____________ of signal at equal intervals
The flag in PPP is a byte that needs to be ________ whenever it appears in the data section of the frame.
Quantization is a method of assigning ________ values in a specific range to sampled instances.
In ___________ a dedicated communication path is established between two stations through the nodes of the network
Encoding digital data into digital signals is called ___________.
In an analog hierarchy to carry voice channels, a group can carry ________ voice channels.
Like Data link layer, ___________ is also responsible for Flow control.
PSK is susceptible to the noise degradation.
Line Configuration refers to the way two or more devices attach to a ___________.
In frequency shift keying, ________ remain(s) constant.
At the CRC generator, ___________ added to the data unit before the divisional process.
Which error detection method uses one's complement arithmetic.
In line discipline after the data transmission, the sending system finishes with an ________ frame.
________ relatively measures the strength of two signals.
YMODEM has ________ Byte of data unit.
In Synchronous TDM, Time slots are not same in number as input devices.
Data Link layer provides services to the ________ layer.
Switch is a network device which operates on the ________ layer of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
In OSI model headers are added at layer _________.
STP is more expensive than UTP and is less susceptible to noise.
We can have ________ different groups with a 4 bit block.
Mr. Asif while sitting in Lahore is talking with his friend in Dubai through Skype is an example of ________.
At the Application layer, object/information is in the form of ________.
Which of the following sublyer resolves the contention for the shared media.
TROPOSHERE is the layer of atmosphere above the troposhere but below space
Analog refers to something that is continuous in ___________.
________ is/are un-reliable protocol(s).
What is the frequency of a sine wave if it completes one cycle in 2 seconds?
S-frames in High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) are only used to transfer ________ information.
What is the frequency of a sine wave if it completes one cycle in 5 seconds?
Following characteristics fully describe ___________, Amplitude Period/Frequency Phase
________ category of coaxial cable is used for Cable TV.
In statistical time division multiplexing, number of slots in frame are less than ________.
________ is an Authentication Protocol, which uses two-step process to authenticate user information.
________ is the process of converting digital data to digital signals.
The type of ALOHA which improves the efficiency of Pure ALOHA is ________.
________ is not a function of Data Link Control.
The __________ generates the data and passes it along with any control information to a __________.
If a digital signal has "L" number of levels. ________ is the number of bits required to represent each level.
In CSMA/CA, ________ is the amount of time divided into slots.
WDM stands for _________.
To make sure that source does not overwhelm destination by sending data faster than it can be handled and processed is called?
In ASK correct formula for calculating the bandwidth ia as ________.
________ category of coaxial cable is used for thin Ethernet.
In TCP/IP protocol suite, the process of adding header at each layer on sending side is known as ________.
Radio wave transmission utilizes ___________ different types of propagation.
________ is used in the Stop-and-Wait protocol to overcome the issue of duplication.
________ is an Authentication Protocol, which is used by the PPP to authenticate passwords.
Normally the value of Kmax in pure ALOHA is ________.
Which one is not the function of data link layer?
In ________, each station is allocated a time slot during which it can send data.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a sine wave?
________ works with topologies in which one drvice is designated as a primary station and the other devices are secondary stations.
CDMA stands for ________.
Signals travel through fiber optic cable are in the form of ________.
Which of the following is most affected by noise?
The original Ethernet technology with the data rate of 10 Mbps is called ________?
Which one of the following is a Random-Access protocol?
________ is sometimes called the bit rate.
A sine wave is defined by ___________ characteristics.
By using ___________ system, change in the file contents during file transmission can be avoided.
The level of signal is always positive in NRZ encoding.
What was the main draw back in ALOHA Random-Access method?
What is the period of a Sine wave having frequency of 5 Hz?
The transmission medium that carries the message is referred to as the ___________.
CHAP is an Authentication Protocol, which uses ________ process to authenticate user information.
Latency is made of ________ components.
If users must take turns using the link, then it is called Spatial Sharing.
Traditionally MANs have been implemented using one of the 2 technologies, Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
________ contains a repeater.
Guard bands are used in ________ multiplexing technique, to avoid overlapping of frequency bands assigned to each user.
Which one of the following is a correct-access method?
Which layer is concerned with the syntax and semantics of info exchange between two systems?
In circuit switched networks we have low efficiency but minimal ________.
POST stand for ________?
Possession of TOKEN gives the station the right to ________.
In order to find the location of two errors in an eight bit stream, we have to see ________ different combinations.
Data is transmitted using light through a ___________ cable.
A portion of the path that carries TX between a given pair of devices is known as ___________.
To calculate the data rate for noisy channel ________ formula is used.
In Pulse Code Modulation (PCM), the sampling is dependent on ________.
Each computer on the Internet has a unique numeric address called a(n) ___________.
In the ________ method, the stations in a network are orgamized in a logical ring.
The term _______means that only one bit of a given data unit is changed from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.
Two or more computers connected so that they can communicate with each other and share information is called a ___________.
The logical connection between the peer layers is ________ connection.
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) is the combination of ________ and ________.
dB is negative if a signal is ___________.
________ are used to exchange session management and control information between connected devices.
There are __________types of guided media.
Like 10 Base 5, 10 Base 2 is a ________ topology LAN.
Collisions in CSMA/CA are avoided through ________.
A sine wave is ___________.
If we need to correct a single error in an 8-bit data unit, we need to consider ________ possible error locations.
________ is the rate of change with respect to time.
Time domain plot show changes in signal phase with respect to time.
In Block coding scheme, number of code words is always ________ data words.
Flow control is needed to prevent ________.
If the Hamming distance between sent and received code word is ________, then it shows that received data is corrupted.
In ________, both peak amplitude and frequency remains constant as the phase changes.
To control and manage the transfer of data, a protocol called Point to Point Protocol (PPP) is used at the ________ layer.
Which error detection method consists of a parity bit for each unit as well as an entire data unit of parity bits?
The extra bits added with the original data for error detection/correction are called ________.
In Pure ALOHA, the vulnerable time is ________ the frame transmission time.
The ________ protocol uses both flow and error control.
AM signal requires ___________ the BW of original signal
Time division multiplexing is used in ________ systems.
In ASK, Noise usually affects the ________.
GO-BACK-N protocol is one of the ________ layer protocols, which is used to control the flow of data during the transmission.
Checksum is an error-detection technique that can be applied to a message of ________ length.
The message 1110 sent by a source is received by a destination as 1011. This is ________ type of error.
In ASK, both ______ and ________ remain constant.
No matter whether the link is dedicated or broadcast, data link control (DLC) layer provides services between ________.
There are three types of Hubs that exist. Which of the following options correctly describes these three?
The ________ is the number of signal elements sent per unit time.
________ is correct formula to determine the total number of ports needed for one system connected in a mesh network.
In the encoding where positive to negative transition is one and vice versa is zero.
Error correction is more ________ than the error detection.
Which of the following statement is correct?
Which level of the TCP/IP reference model routes data/information across a network channel?
Terminal, microprocessor, computer, printer or any other device that generates or consumes digital data is known as ___________
________ of a signal is the collection of all the component frequencies it contains.
________ signal can take infinite levels of intensity over time.
Transmission Control Protocol is a(n) ________ layer protocol.
The inversion of the level represents a 1 bit in ______ encoding
Analog To Analog Conversion Methods include ___________.
WDM stands for ________.
Central Hub in a Tree is an ___________.
Time domain shows changes in ___________.
In which controlled-access method all data exchanges must be made through primary device even when the ultimate destination is a secondary device?
Asynchronous TDM is efficient only when the size of the time slot is kept relatively ___________.
There are ________ basic categories of multiplexing.
If duration of noise is decreased during a transmission over noisy channel, fixed data rate of the channel will cause ________ number of bits being impacted by the noise.
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