Question bank

Computer Networks(4th sem-)

Short Answer Type Questions:

1) What are the three criteria necessary for an effective and efficient network?
2) What are the different uses of computer network?
3) Why are protocols needed?
4) What are the advantages of a broadcast connection over point-to-point connection?
5) What are some of the factors that determine whether a communication system is a
LAN, MAN, or WAN?
6) Give an advantage and disadvantage of each type of network topology?
7) Which OSI layers are the network support layers?
8) Which OSI layers are the user support layers?
9) What is the difference between a service point address, logical address and a
Physical address?
10) List the steps that takes an analog signal to PCM digital code.
11) What are the function of a DTE and DCE? Give an example of each.
12) What is the function of a modulator and a demodulator?
13) What is an intelligent modem?
14) How does a cable modem achieve such a high data rate?
15) How do guided media differ from unguided media?
16) Why is coaxial cable superior to twisted-pair cable?
17) Discuss the modes for propagating light along optical channels?
18) What is the purpose of cladding in an optical fiber? Discuss its density relative to
The core.
19) What are the methods used to propagate radio waves?
20) What is the purpose of the guard band?
21) How is one TDM signal separated into its original components? Consider both
Implementations of TDM.
22) How does a single-bit error differ from a burst error?
23) What is the difference between even parity and odd parity?
24) What are the conditions for the polynomial used by the CRC generator?
25) Discuss the use of buffer at the receiver in flow control?
26) Which sliding window protocol are more popular? Why?
27) When are frames discarded in the ARQ method?
28) How do the HDLC frame type differ from one another?
29) In HDLC, what is bit stuffing and why is it needed?
30) Explain why there are no physical address, flag, or CRC fields in a PDU.
31) What is a collision?
32) What type of transmission media are used in LANs?
33) How does a collision domain related to the data rate in Ethernet networks?
34) Why are two buses needed in DQDB?
35) Why are two queues needed at each station in DQDB?
36) What is the function of a router?
37) What are the main elements of distance vector routing?
 38) What algorithm does link state routing use to calculate the routing table?
39) Describe the format of an ATM cell.
40) Discuss the issues involved when ATM is used in LANs.
41) What are the advantages of using UDP over TCP?
42) What are the data packets at each TCP/IP protocol suite layer called?
43) What is a hostid and what is a netid?
44) What is the purpose of subnetting?
45) What is the relationship between plaintext and cipher text?
46) How is triple DES differ from the original DES?
47) What are the two main parts of an email?
48) What is a user agent?
49) What is a URL and what are its components?
50) What is a homepage?

Long answer type questions:

1) What is network topology? Explain each in detail.

2) Explain the different categories of network in detail.
3) Explain network layer architecture in detail.
4) Explain the function of each layer of OSI model.
5) List various data communication techniques. Explain each in detail
6) Discuss the use of data modem in networking.
7) What are two types of TDM implementation and hoe do they differ
From each other?
8) Discuss the multiplexing hierarchies in detail.
9) Explain the major classes of transmission media?
10) Why coaxial cable superior to twisted pair cable?
11) Explain the different method used for error detection.
12) How does GO-Back-N ARQ differ from selective repeat ARQ?
13) Discuss the size of the GO-back-N ARQ sliding window at both the
Sender site and the receiver site.
15) Name the types of HDLC frames, and give a brief description of each.
16) Explain why there are no physical address, flag, or CRC fields in PDU?
17) What are the advantages of FDDI over a basic Token Ring?
18) What types of transmission media are used in LANs?
19) Name the ATM layers and explain their functions.
20) How is an ATM virtual-connection identified?
21) What are the advantages of using UDP over TCP?
22) What is the connection between TCP/IP protocol suite and ARPA?
 23) What are the physical and data link layer protocols of the TCP/IP
Protocol suite?
24) What are the data packets at each TCP/IP protocol suite layer called?
25) Name the protocol at the network layer of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
26) Datagram fragmentation and reassembly are handled by IP and are invisible to TCP.
Does this mean that TCP does not have to worry about data arriving in the wrong order?
27) Describe the addressing system used by SMTP?
28) How is HTTP related to WWW?
29) What is a proxy server and how is it related to HTTP?
30) How is HTTP similar to SMTP?
31) What does HTML stands for and what is its function?
32) Name the common three components of a browser.

Very short answer type questions:

1) What is internet?
2) Name the path over which a message travels.
3) Which topology requires a central controller or hub?
4) Which topology requires a multipoint connection?
5) Which transmission mode involves communication between
Computer and a keyboard?
6) In which topology a break in cable stops all transmission.
7) Communication between a computer and a keyboard involves ______________ transmission.
8) A _______ connection provides a dedicated link between two devices.
9) In the original ARPANET, _______ were directly connected together.
10) A ________ is a set of rules that governs data communication.
11) In a ________ connection, three or more devices share a link.
12)_______ is the protocol suite for the current Internet.
13) The process-to-process delivery of the entire message is the responsibility of the _______ layer.
14) The _______ layer is the layer closest to the transmission medium.
15) Mail services are available to network users through the _______ layer.
16) As the data packet moves from the upper to the lower layers, headers are ______
17) Why was the OSI model developed?
18) The physical layer is concerned with the movement of _______ over the physical medium.
19) When a host on network A sends a message to a host on network B, which address does the
router look at?
20) To deliver a message to the correct application program running on a host, the _______ address
must be consulted.
21) The Internetworking Protocol (IP) is a ________ protocol.
22) Ethernet uses a ______ physical address that is imprinted on the network interface card (NIC).
23) A port address in TCP/IP is ______ bits long.
24)_______ data are continuous and take continuous values.
25) The Nyquist theorem specifies the minimum sampling rate to be_______.
26) In QAM, both ________ of a carrier frequency are varied
27)_______ cable consists of an inner copper core and a second conducting outer sheath.
28) In fiber optics, the signal is _______ waves.
29) What is the major factor that makes coaxial cable less susceptible to noise than twisted-pair
cable?
30) In an optical fiber, the inner core is _______ the cladding.
31) When a beam of light travels through media of two different densities, if the angle of incidence is
greater than the critical angle, _______ occurs.
32) A parabolic dish antenna is a(n) _______ antenna.
33) Radio waves are omnidirectional . T/F
34) In _______, the resources need to be reserved during the setup phase; the resources remain
dedicated for the entire duration of data transfer phase until the teardown phase
 35) The _______ address in the header of a packet in a datagram network normally remains the same
during the entire journey of the packet.
36) In Datagram switching there are no setup or teardown phases. T/F
37) Which error detection method uses one's complement arithmetic?
38) In cyclic redundancy checking, what is the CRC?
39) The divisor in a cyclic code is normally called the _________.
a) Degree b) redundancy c) generator d) none of the above
40) In ________ framing, we need a delimiter (flag) to define the boundary of two frames.
41) ______ Control refers to methods of error detection and correction
42) The Simplest Protocol and the Stop-and-Wait Protocol are for ______ channels
43) The ____ Protocol has neither flow nor error control.
44) In the _____ Protocol, the sender sends one frame, stops until it receives confirmation from the
receiver, and then sends the next frame
45) Both Go-Back-N and Selective-Repeat Protocols use a _________.
46) The maximum throughput for pure ALOHA is ________ per cent
47) In pure ALOHA each station sends a frame whenever it has a frame to send. T/F
48) To avoid collisions on wireless networks, ________was invented
a) CSMA/CA b)CSMA/CD c)either (a) or (b) d) both (a) and (b)
49) The _______ layer of Ethernet consists of the LLC sublayer and the MAC sublayer
50) The minimum frame length for 10-Mbps Ethernet is _______bytes.
51) 10Base5 uses thick coaxial cable. T/F
52) Fast Ethernet has a data rate of ________Mbps
53) In Ethernet addressing, if the least significant bit of the first byte is 1, the address is?
54) In the Ethernet frame, the _______ field contains error detection information.
55) CRC b)preamble c)address d) none of the above
56) IEEE has defined the specifications for a wireless LAN, called _______, which covers the physical
and data link layers
57) In IEEE 802.11, the MAC layer frame has ______ fields.
58) What is ICMP
59) What is source route
60) What is a DNS resource record?
61) What is virtual channel
62) What is traffic shaping
63) What is Gateway-to-Gateway protocol
64) What is BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
65) What are the types of Transmission media
66) What are the possible ways of data exchange
67) What is MAC address
68) What is Bandwidth
69) Name some routing protocols?
70) Name all the ATM Layers.
71) Which layer in ATM protocol reformats the data received from other networks.
72) In data communication ATM is acronym for _____________
73) Which layer in protocol has 53 byte cell as end product.
74) What is socket address.
75 ) Name the timer used by TCP
76) UDP and TCP are __________ layered protocols
77) UDP needs the ________________ address to deliver the user Datagram to the correct
application program
78) The sourcre port address on UDP user datagram header defines_________
79) The ______field is used to order packets of the message.
80) The _________field is used for error detection.
81) HDLC is an acronym for__________
82) The HDLC _______ field defines the beginning and the end of the frame.
83) Address field of a frame in HDLC protocol contains the address of the _______ station.
84) What is present in all HDLC control fields.
 85) The shortest frame in HDLC protocol is usually ________frame.
86) What is traffic descriptor?
87) What is definition of bursty data?
88) Name the policies that can prevent congestion?
89)Name the techniques to improve quality of sevice?
90)_________traffic features sudden data rate changes in very short period of time.
91)___________Traffic shaping method gives a host credit for its idle time.
92)___________closed loop mechanism to alleviate.
93) What is user agent ?
94) The purpose of MTA is________
95)_______field in MIME header describes the method to import the data.
96) HTTP has similarities to both _____& _______.
97) A request message always contains __________.
98) Before a message is encrypted it is called__________.
99) After a message is encrypted it is called__________.
100) A cipher is________________.

1. Q1-What is computer network?

2. Q2-What is communication model?
3. Q3- Give the classification of a network in terms of cost, feasibility, topology, distance
etc?
4. Q4- Give other name for MAN?
5. Q5- Give various components of a system required for forming a LAN, MAN or WAN?
6. Q7- How many layers are there in OSI reference model? What is the usage of having
this layered architecture?
7. Q 8- Differentiate between OSI and TCP/IP model?
8. Q9- Simplex provides …………………. Type of communication?
9. Q10- What are the various types of connections?
10. Q 11- Define topology?
11. Q12- Name various types of topologies?
12. Q13- Give the usage of straight cable and cross cable?
13. Q15- Give two types of colour coding for straight and cross cable?
14. Q16- List various types of transmission media’s used in communication?
15. Q20- What is switching?
16. Q21- List various types of switching?
17. Q22- ATM model uses asynchronous transmission why?
18. Q23- List various layers of ATM model?
19. Q25- Circuit switching uses ………………………. type of division techniques?
20. Q26- Differentiate between IPV4 and IPV6?
21. Q27- Give various types of classes used for IP addressing?
22. Q29- Differentiate between HUB and Switch?
23. Q32- Name the technique used for overcoming the problem of small size of frames in
 communication channel?
24. Q33- A repeater takes a weak signal and ……………….. to it?
25. Q34- Define throughput in case of frame transmission?
26. Q35- Differentiate between unicast and multipoint routing?
27. Q39- Differentiate between flow control and error control?
28. Q40- The address which is not changeable in case of a network or active devices
communication is……………………….?
29. Q 43- Differentiate between 1 persistent, P- persistent and non persistent?
30. Q 44- Define contention periods?
31. Q 45- What is polling?
32. Q 46- List the various parts of a frame?
33. Q 48- Which IEEE standard is marked for wireless LAN?
34. Q 55- Differentiate between ATM adaptation layer and ATM layer in terms of its
working?
35. Q 60- What does 10 base T and 10base F means?
36. Q 61- Define transreceiver?
37. Q 68- ARQ stands for……………………………….?
38. Q 76- For implementing selective repeat in case of frames or packets we need to carry
out packet/frame ………………………………………………..?
39. Q 80-Give the frame format for HDLC?
40. Q 81- What is the function of LLC?
41. Q 82- Which connector is needed for bus topology?
42. Q 83- Differentiate between control field and data field in case of a packet or frame?
43. Q 84- What is the significance of PPP?
44. Q 85- What is checksum?
45. Q 86- Define transmission efficiency?
46. Q 87- What does VCI stands for?