3) Which topology requires a central controller or hub?
Star
4) Which topology requires a multipoint connection?
Mesh
5) Which transmission mode involves communication between
Computer and a keyboard?
Simplex
6) In which topology a break in cable stops all transmission.
Bus
7) Communication between a computer and a keyboard involves ______________
transmission.
Digital
8) A _______ connection provides a dedicated link between two devices.
Mesh
9) In the original ARPANET, _______ were directly connected together.
Interface Message Processor (IMP)
10) A ________ is a set of rules that governs data communication.
Protocol
11) In a ________ connection, three or more devices share a link.
Bus 12)_______ is the protocol suite for the current Internet.
TCP/IP
13) The process-to-process delivery of the entire message is the responsibility of the _______ layer.
Transport Layer
14) The _______ layer is the layer closest to the transmission medium.
Physical
15) Mail services are available to network users through the _______ layer.
Application
16) As the data packet moves from the upper to the lower layers, headers are ______
Added
17) Why was the OSI model developed?
To facilitate communication between different systems without requiring changes to the logic of underlying hardware and software.
18) The physical layer is concerned with the movement of _______ over the physical medium.
Bit Stream or Raw data
19) When a host on network A sends a message to a host on network B, which address does the router look at?
IP Address
20) To deliver a message to the correct application program running on a host, the _______ address must be consulted.
Socket Address
21) The Internetworking Protocol (IP) is a ________ protocol.
Unreliable and Connection less
22) Ethernet uses a ______ physical address that is imprinted on the network interface card (NIC).
6 byte (48 bits)
23) A port address in TCP/IP is ______ bits long.
16 bits
24)_______ data are continuous and take continuous values.
Analog 25) The Nyquist theorem specifies the minimum sampling rate to be_______.
2 times maximum frequency contained in the signal.
26) In QAM, both ________ of a carrier frequency are varied
Amplitude and Phase
27)_______ cable consists of an inner copper core and a second conducting outer sheath.
Coaxial
28) In fiber optics, the signal is _______ waves.
Light
29) What is the major factor that makes coaxial cable less susceptible to noise than twisted-pair cable?
Outer Metallic Conductor (Shield)
30) In an optical fiber, the inner core is _______ the cladding.
Surrounded By
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.
Reflection
32) A parabolic dish antenna is a(n) _______ antenna.
Unidirectional Antenna
33) Radio waves are omnidirectional . T/F
True
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
Circuit Switching
35) The _______ address in the header of a packet in a datagram network normally remains the same during the entire journey of the packet.
Destination Address
36) In Datagram switching there are no setup or teardown phases. T/F
True
37) Which error detection method uses one's complement arithmetic?
Checksum 38) In cyclic redundancy checking, what is the CRC?
Remainder
39) The divisor in a cyclic code is normally called the _________.
a) Degree b) redundancy c) generator d) none of the above
Generator
40) In ________ framing, we need a delimiter (flag) to define the boundary of two frames.
Bit Oriented Protocol (Page 309)
41) ______ Control refers to methods of error detection and correction
Error
42) The Simplest Protocol and the Stop-and-Wait Protocol are for ______ channels
Noiseless
43) The ____ Protocol has neither flow nor error control.
Simplest
44) In the _____ Protocol, the sender sends one frame, stops until it receives confirmation from the receiver, and then sends the next frame
Stop-and-Wait
45) Both Go-Back-N and Selective-Repeat Protocols use a _________.
Window
46) The maximum throughput for pure ALOHA is ________ per cent
18.4 %
47) In pure ALOHA each station sends a frame whenever it has a frame to send. T/F
True
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)
CSMA/CA
49) The _______ layer of Ethernet consists of the LLC sublayer and the MAC sublayer
Data Link Layer
50) The minimum frame length for 10-Mbps Ethernet is _______bytes.
53) In Ethernet addressing, if the least significant bit of the first byte is 1, the address is?
Multicast
54) In the Ethernet frame, the _______ field contains error detection information.
a) CRC b)preamble c)address d) none of the above
CRC
56) IEEE has defined the specifications for a wireless LAN, called _______, which covers the physical and data link layers
802.11
57) In IEEE 802.11, the MAC layer frame has ______ fields.
58) What is ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
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 _____________
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
73) Which layer in protocol has 53 byte cell as end product.
74) What is socket address.
Combination of Port Address and IP 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__________
Highlevel Datalink Layer
82) The HDLC _______ field defines the beginning and the end of the frame.
Flag
83) Address field of a frame in HDLC protocol contains the address of the _______ station.
Secondary
84) What is present in all HDLC control fields.
P/F (Poll or Final)
85) The shortest frame in HDLC protocol is usually ________frame.
S frame (Supervisory Frame)
86) What is traffic descriptor?
Qualitative values that represent the data flow.
87) What is definition of bursty data?
When the user send Variable data rate through T1/T3, it called Bursty Data.
88) Name the policies that can prevent congestion?
