Computer Network (CS610)

1. ________ is a measure of the rate at which data can be sent through the network.

   1. Throughput
   2. Propagation delay
   3. Access delay
   4. Switching delay

2. We need packets rather than bits because ________.

   1. To compress the data
   2. Packets move faster
   3. Sender and receiver need to coordinate to detect transmission errors.
   4. Packets can only move between two terminals

3. An interior switch is one with wich ________.

   1. Computers are attached.
   2. No computer is attached.
   3. Computers are attached internally.
   4. None of the above.

4. Fragmentation when using ICMP for path MTU should be avoided.

   1. true
   2. false

5. Header contains all information needed to deliver datagram to the destination computer. But which one of the following is not included:

   1. Destination address
   2. Source address
   3. Rectifier
   4. Other delivery information

6. Hardware that calculates a CRC uses two simple components ________.

   1. Shift register and XOR unit
   2. ANd unit and XOR unit
   3. Shift register and shift XOR unit
   4. Shift register & AND unit

7. The length of time required to send a variable length packet is ________.

   1. 5 seconds
   2. Variable
   3. Constant
   4. Fix

8. ________ places the boundary between the second and third octets

   1. Class A
   2. Class B
   3. Class C
   4. Class D

9. The switch that has computers attached with it is called ________ switch.

   1. Exterior
   2. Interior
   3. Packet
   4. Front

10. LAN interface uses ________ to copy frame data directly from main memory.

    1. DMA
    2. FDDI
    3. Hard disk
    4. Flash

11. Which of the following cannot be used to extend a LAN?

    1. Repeaters
    2. Switches
    3. Routers
    4. Fiber Modems

12. Which multiplexing technique transmits analog signals?

    1. FDM
    2. TDM
    3. WDM
    4. Both (a) and (c)

13. If a small set of bits changes near a specific location due to lighting or electric motor starting nearby, this type of errors are called ________.

    1. Burst error
    2. Vertical error
    3. Parity Error
    4. Single bit error

14. ________ protocol uses three way handshake to begin a connection.

    1. UDP
    2. TCP
    3. IP
    4. none of the given

15. SMDS is ________.

    1. Connectionless service
    2. Connection oriented service
    3. Used for delivering blocks of data
    4. None of the given

16. In ________ topology, if the switch goes down all the computers will be disconnected.

    1. Bus
    2. Ring
    3. Mesh
    4. Star

17. The mechanism extending the optical fiber across several kilometers is very successful because delays on optical fiber are very _______ and bandwidth is very _______.

    1. Low, High
    2. High, Low
    3. High, High
    4. Low, Low

18. As a result of ARPA research, the first network was established which was named as ________.

    1. ARPANET
    2. PACKET NETWORK
    3. ARPNET
    4. INTERNETWORKING

19. SMDS is ________.

    1. Connectionless service
    2. Connection oriented service
    3. Used for delivering blocks of data
    4. None of the given

20. If a sender with a 1 Gigabit NIC and receiver with 100 Megabit NIC wants to communicate with each other at which speed they can communicate?

    1. 11 Megabit
    2. 100 Megabit
    3. 1 Gigabit
    4. 1.1 Gigabit

21. The information about ________ is kept in routing tables.

    1. Entries
    2. Destinations
    3. Source
    4. Packets

22. The bridges communicate with each other on the network and use ________ algorithm to decide which bridge will not forward frames if a cycle occurs.

    1. Djikstra
    2. Shortest path first
    3. Vector distance
    4. Distributed Spanning Tree

23. The third field of the header consists of ___________ bit Ethernet frame type.

    1. 48
    2. 32
    3. 16
    4. 8

24. The physical addressing in a WAN is similar as in LAN in the way __________.

    1. The data is transmitted in packets equivalent to frames.
    2. Each packet has a format with header.
    3. The packet header includes destination and source addresses.
    4. All of the above

25. The sharing of a ________ among the workers in an office is a goal of resource sharing.

    1. Mouse
    2. Printer
    3. Keyboard
    4. Motherboard

26. The number of connections needed for 8 computers in direct point to point communication is equal to ________.

    1. 28
    2. 8
    3. 7
    4. 26

27. The topology each computer is connected to a central hub is called

    1. Ring topology
    2. Star topology
    3. Tree topology
    4. Mesh topology

28. The recent executed instruction ________ in temporal aspect of the locality of reference.

    1. won't be executed soon
    2. is temporarily not referenced
    3. will be wxwcuted soon again
    4. will be showing the final results

29. ________ is a tool that sends a message to a remote computer and reports whether the computer responds.

    1. Ping
    2. Flag
    3. Fragment offset
    4. TCP

30. Point-to-point topology is

    1. Size Based
    2. Mobility Based
    3. Connectivity Based
    4. Medium Based

31. Which multiplexing technique shifts each signal to a different carrier frequency?

    1. TDM
    2. FDM
    3. Both a and b
    4. None of the above

32. Twice NAT fails if an application uses the IP addresses instead of Domain Name.

    1. true
    2. false

33. In Direct point to point communication adding the Nth computer requires ________ new connections.

    1. (N^2 - N)/2
    2. N^2
    3. N(N - 1)
    4. N - 1

34. Which layer of the OSI Model directly communicates and controls the transmission medium:

    1. Transmission
    2. Physical
    3. Application
    4. Network

35. Frames include additional information to detect/correct errors are insert by ________.

    1. Sender
    2. Receiver
    3. Network Devices
    4. Sender and Receiver

36. In CSMA, if simultaneous transmission occurs, the ________ interfere with each other and this phenomenon is called collision.

    1. Computers
    2. Network
    3. Frames
    4. Cable wires

37. The Fast Ethernet hardware operates at a rate of ________.

    1. 10 Mbps
    2. 1000 Mbps
    3. 1000 bps
    4. 100 Mbps

38. Hashing is the transformation of a string of characters into a usually shorter fixed-length value or a key that represents the original string.

    1. true
    2. false

39. How many methods exist for computing routing table?

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2

40. ________ are more frequently being designed to allow specification of the quality of service required by users.

    1. Switch
    2. VPI
    3. VCI
    4. Networks

41. Dotted decimal notation is a syntactic form the IP software uses to express ________ binary values when interacting with humans.

    1. 8-bit
    2. 16-bit
    3. 32-bit
    4. 64-bit

42. ATM offers high speed and ________ delay.

    1. High
    2. Low
    3. Moderate
    4. All of the above

43. ________ encapsulates IP datagram as data area in hardware frame.

    1. Network Interface Layer
    2. Datalink Layer
    3. Network Layer
    4. None of the given

44. In 3-way handshake TCP requires to generate a random ________ sequence number.

    1. 30 bit
    2. 32 bit
    3. 34 bit
    4. none of the given

45. The Ethernet standard specifies that frames are sent using the ________ scheme.

    1. Differential Manchester
    2. Not Return to Zero (NRZ)
    3. Return to Zero (RZ)
    4. Manchester Encodind

46. ________ sends ICMP echo messages with increasing TTL.

    1. Ping
    2. Trace route
    3. Tracert
    4. none of the given

47. Frame relay is ________.

    1. Connection oriented service
    2. Connectionless service
    3. It is typically ranges from 5Mbps to 1000Mbps
    4. None of the given

48. When an application _________ data, it makes a copy of the data available to all other computers on the network.

    1. Broadcasting
    2. Multicasting
    3. Unicasting
    4. None of the given

49. NAT device stores state information in translation table.

    1. true
    2. false

50. ________ is less complex and easy to understand.

    1. TCP
    2. UDP
    3. IP
    4. None of the given

51. Which of the following is not a guided medium?

    1. Twisted-pair cable
    2. Fiber-optic cable
    3. Atmosphere
    4. Coaxial cable

52. Which of the following statement is true regarding ATM?

    1. It is a single technology for voice, video and data.
    2. It has low jitter and high capacity.
    3. It uses fixed size, small cells, 48 octet’s data.
    4. All of the above

53. Which of the following remains same in the header of the packet in a datagram during the entire journey of the packet?

    1. Source Address
    2. Destination Address
    3. Next Node Address
    4. Checksum

54. ________ cannot be extended arbitrarily far or to handle arbitrarily many computers.

    1. WAN
    2. LAN
    3. MAN
    4. LED

55. Which of the following is not a benefit of Source Independence?

    1. It allows fast and efficient routing.
    2. Packet switch need not hove complete information about all destinations.
    3. network functions even if topology changes.
    4. None of the given

56. The maximum cable length of a LAN is ________.

    1. Fixed
    2. Unlimited
    3. Fixed and Unlimited in different conditions
    4. None of these

57. If simultaneous transmission occurs, the frames interfere with each other and this phenomenon is called ________.

    1. collision
    2. delayed transmission
    3. packet loss
    4. coordination

58. In a ping command result, time denotes the ________.

    1. TLT
    2. BRT
    3. TTL
    4. RTT

59. Due to revolutionalization of IP-V6 the speed has increased from ________.

    1. 56kbps to 512kbps
    2. 512kbps to 1gbps
    3. 56kbps to 1gbps
    4. none of the given

60. Which of the following is called virtual channel?

    1. Connection in VCI
    2. Connection in ATM
    3. Connection in virtual circuit
    4. None of the above

61. According to a bridge performance, if both the source and destination are on the same segment.

    1. It forwards the frame to the other segment
    2. It does not forward the frame to the other segment
    3. It does not forward the frame to the same segment
    4. It forwards the frame to every other segment

62. Which of the following technologies can extend the diameter of LAN medium?

    1. Fiber optic
    2. Repeaters
    3. Diameter of LAN medium is not extendable
    4. Both Fiber Optic and Repeaters

63. The ________ of errors is easier than the ________ of errors.

    1. correction, detection
    2. detection, correction
    3. correction, creation
    4. detection, manipulation

64. Bluetooth uses shared medium and ________ instead of coaxial cable.

    1. Radio waves
    2. Low frequency waves
    3. Micro waves
    4. Infrared waves

65. ________ Source is responsible for fragmentation.

    1. IPV4
    2. IPV6

66. A ________ is a special-purpose computer dedicated to the task of interconnecting networks.

    1. Router
    2. Bridge
    3. Switch
    4. None of the given

67. Two computers with a connection through an ATM network will likely have same VPI/VCI values for each end of the connection.

    1. true
    2. false

68. Thick Ethernet also requires ________ to avoid signal reflectance.

    1. Terminators
    2. Drop cable
    3. Transceivers
    4. AUI cable

69. NIC connection in a physical network is known as __________.

    1. LAN wiring scheme
    2. WAN wiring scheme
    3. Color wiring scheme
    4. None of above

70. ATM header is about ________ of the cell.

    1. 100 %
    2. 10 %
    3. 20 %
    4. 50 %

71. Which type of network consists of wired computers in a university classroom?

    1. WAN
    2. LAN
    3. MAN
    4. PAN

72. Even parity can be used to check for ________ bit/bits of errors.

    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 0

73. Which of the following is a benefit of source independence?

    1. It allows fast and efficient routing.
    2. Packet switch do not need to have complete information about all destinations
    3. Network functions even if topology changes
    4. All of the above

74. VBR stands for __________.

    1. Virtual Bit Rate
    2. Virtual Byte Rate
    3. Variable Byte Redundancy
    4. Variable Bit Rate

75. What will be the bandwidth rate for older, low-speed network, and analog telephones?

    1. 16 MHz
    2. 20 MHz
    3. 24 MHz
    4. 30 MHz

76. The frame format of any LAN technology must consists of ________ and ________.

    1. Payload and CRC
    2. Payload and Frame type
    3. Frame header and pay load
    4. Frame header and CRC

77. The ________ field of Ethernet frame has the purpose of receiver synchronization.

    1. Preamble
    2. Frame Type
    3. Data
    4. CRC

78. The first automated tool required to see whether the given computer is online or not was

    1. Probing program
    2. PING program
    3. status program
    4. None of the above

79. The protocol address of the next hop must be _____________ to an equivalent hardware address before a packet can be sent.

    1. Encrypted
    2. Decrypted
    3. Translated
    4. Non of these

80. EGPs stand for ________.

    1. Exterior Gateway Protocols
    2. External Gateway Protocols
    3. Extra Gateway Protocols
    4. None of the given

81. Physical Addressing is a WAN is similar to LAN as each packet has format with ________.

    1. Header
    2. Title
    3. Frame
    4. Address

82. Each computer in LAN is identified by a physical address, usually imprinted on the ________.

    1. Router
    2. Switch
    3. Network Interface Card
    4. Modem

83. According to size, there are ________ classifications of networks.

    1. 2
    2. 3
    3. 4
    4. 5

84. ________ and ________ are the two types of frame type.

    1. Internal and external
    2. Single and dual
    3. Implicit and explicit
    4. Multicast and broadcast

85. Missing ________ in a frame format indicates receiving computer missed beginning of the message.

    1. soh
    2. eoh
    3. eot
    4. sot

86. The network occupies larger areas like cities & countries is called

    1. LAN
    2. WAN
    3. MAN
    4. All of the above

87. To span long distances or many computers, networks must replace shared medium with _________.

    1. segment transformation
    2. fiber optices
    3. packet switches
    4. None of the above

88. In FDDI, in case of a station failure, remaining stations loop back and ________.

    1. Re-route data through spare ring
    2. Data frames are discarded
    3. Re-transmit data through the same ring
    4. Collision will occur

89. IPV6 128 bits address includes network prefix and ________

    1. Host Suffix
    2. Host prefix
    3. Source Prefix
    4. none of the given

90. ________ is inflexible.

    1. Routing
    2. Searching
    3. Processing
    4. Static routing

91. ________ is standard wireless LAN that uses radio signals at 2.4HHz.

    1. IEEE 803.16
    2. IEEE 802.3
    3. IEEE 802.15
    4. IEEE 802.11

92. In ________ all computers are attached to a central hub.

    1. Star Topology
    2. Bus Topology
    3. Hub Topology
    4. Ring Topology

93. ________ is the most popular wiring scheme because of lowest cost.

    1. 5 Base T
    2. 10 Base T
    3. 100 Base T
    4. 1000 Base T

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