COMP2106 F16

28Nov16

Quiz 2

Marks:10

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What is the name of the language used for the definition of Management
Information used with SNMP?
a.
SMIv2
d.
RFC 1213
b.
XML
e.
BGP
c.
MIB-2
2. Look at the following definition of sysDescr in the System group of MIB-2 as
below:
sysDescr OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (0..255))
ACCESS read-only
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION ...................................
What does Syntax indicate?
a.
Parameter
d.
b.
String
e.

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Data Type
Definition
Lifecycle

c.
Array
3. Types of Management information maintained in MIB can be manifold. The
distinction of different catgories of Management Information is important.
Identify one among the following which is not contained in MIBs.
a.
State info
d.
Physical Config
Info
b.
Historical Info
e.
Logical Config
Info
c.
Manager Agent
Corealation
Info
4. In Network Management, What is an Alarm?
a.
The performance of an Agent has
deteriorated.
b.
Agent is unable to communicate
with Manager.
c.
Some unexpected event has
occurred on the Agent, which
requires Manager attention.
d.
Manager sends a lot of messages to
Agent.
5. What type of Manager-Agent communication is suitable for the condition
when a critical card has failed on the Agent, assuming that the
communication between the Manager and Agent still works?

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9.

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a.
Priority based
d.
Event based
b.
Polling based
e.
SysLog based
c.
Timer based
Management Communication is usually divided into four layers. Identify the
one among the following which is not a valid management communication
layer.
a.
Management
d.
Transport
Services
b.
Management
e.
Applications
Operations
c.
Remote
Operations
Events need to be reliable i.e. Management application must be confident
that all event occurrences are reported through event messages and that no
events are missed. Identify one among the following which is not a valid
technique to make events reliable.
a.
Add sequence numbers to the event
information and provide the
capability to replay or retrieve
events upon request
b.
Use asynchronous mode of
sending events
c.
Require events to be acknowledged.
d.
Use a strong encrypting mechanism
of reporting events
Event based Management monitoring of networks often preferred over
periodic polling based Management. Identify an advantage of Event based
Management among the following..
a.
Speed of
d.
Preferred by
communication
many Vendors
b.
Scalability
e.
Standards based
c.
Suitable for low
bandwidth
networks
There are many advantages of Event based communication for ManagementAgent communications. Identify one among the following which is not an
advantage of Event based communications.
a.
Number of
d.
Less
required
wastefulness
communication
exchanges
b.
Timeliness
e.
Management
application scale
c.
effective usage
of bandwidth
Threshold -crossing alerts (TCAs) indicate to management system that some
montired MIB object or management variable has crossed a certain preconfigured value - a threshhold. It enables network management to be more

pro-active rather than just reactive. What type of communication between

Management and Agent is suitable for TCAs ?
a.
Priority based
d.
Event based
b.
Periodic based
e.
Random based
c.
Polling based