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