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Worksheetscomputer networks semester quiz
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 26mins
Which is not a application layer protocol?
POP3
HTTP
TCP
FTP
In asymmetric key cryptography, for confidentiality the private key is kept by:
sender
receiver
sender and receiver
all the connected devices to the network
Which one of the following algorithm is used in asymmetric-key cryptography?
RSA algorithm
diffie-hellman algorithm
electronic code book algorithm
none of the mentioned
What is data encryption standard (DES)?
block cipher
stream cipher
bit cipher
none of the mentioned
Cryptanalysis is used:
to find some insecurity in a cryptographic scheme
to increase the speed
to encrypt the data
none of the mentioned
Which one of the following is a cryptographic protocol used to secure HTTP connection?
stream control transmission protocol (SCTP)
transport layer security (TSL)
explicit congestion notification (ECN)
resource reservation protocol
Which one of the following is not a function of network layer?
routing
inter-networking
congestion control
none of the mentioned
ICMP is primarily used for:
error and diagnostic functions
addressing
forwarding
none of the mentioned
Frames from one LAN can be transmitted to another LAN via the device
Router
Bridge
Repeater
Modem
Which of the following condition is true if two frames are placed over a medium at the same time?
Contention
Collision
Synchronous
congestion
What is the default subnet mask for a class C network?
127.0.0.1
255.0.0.0
255.255.0.0
255.255.255.0
The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
allows gateways to send error a control messages to other gateways or hosts
provides communication between the Internet Protocol Software on one machine and the Internet Protocol Software on another
reports error conditions to the original source, the source must relate errors to individual application programs and take action to correct the problem
All of the above
The term 'duplex' refers to the ability of the data receiving stations to echo back a confirming message to the sender. In half duplex data transmission, both the sender and the receiver
cannot talk at once
can receive and send data simultaneously
can send or receive data one at a time
can do one way data transmission only
Which of the following technique is used for fragment?
a technique used in best-effort delivery systems to avoid endlessly looping packets
a technique used by protocols in which a lower level protocol accepts a message from a higher level protocol and places it in the data portion of the low level frame
one of the pieces that results when an IP gateway divides an IP datagram into smaller pieces for transmission across a network that cannot handle the original datagram size
All of the above
When you ping the loopback address, a packet is sent where?
On the network
Down through the layers of the IP architecture and then up the layers again
Across the wire
through the loopback dongle
Which one is loopback address in IPv4 ?
100.100.100.100
1.0.0.0
255.255.255.255
127.0.0.1
Which of the following TCP/IP protocol is used for transferring electronic mail messages from one machine to another?
FTP
SNMP
SMTP
RPC
What part of 192.168.10.51 is the Network ID, assuming a default subnet mask?
192
192.168.10
0.0.0.51
51
A noiseless 3 KHz Channel transmits bits with binary level signals. What is the maximum data rate?
3 Kbps
6 Kbps
12 Kbps
24 Kbps
In CRC there is no error if the remainder at the receiver is _____.
equal to the remainder at the sender
zero
nonzero
the quotient at the sender
How many bits internet address is assigned to each host on a TCP/IP internet which is using IPv6 standard?
32
48
64
128
FDDI is a
ring network
star network
mesh network
bus based network
You are working with a network that has the network ID 192.168.10.0. What subnet should you use that supports up to 25 hosts and a maximum number of subnets?
255.255.255.192
255.255.255.224
255.255.255.240
255.255.255.248
An endpoint of an inter-process communication flow across a computer network is called:
socket
pipe
IP
MAC
Transport layer protocols deals with:
application to application communication
process to process communication
node to node communication
none of the mentioned
Which multiplexing technique transmits digital signals ?
FDM
TDM
WDM
All of the above
If there are n signal sources of same data rate than TDM link has _______ equal slots.
n
n/2
n*2
n^2
The protocol data unit(PDU) for the application layer in the Internet stack is
Segment
Datagram
Message
Frame
In the IPv4 addressing format, the number of networks allowed under Class C addresses is
2^14
2^7
2^21
2^24
An Internet Service Provider(ISP) has the following chunk of CIDR-based IP addresses available with it:245.248.128.0/20. The ISP wants to give half of this chunk of addreses to Organization A, and a quarter to Organization B, while retaining the remaining with itself. Which of the following is a valid allocation of addresses to A and B?
245.248.136.0/21 and 245.248.128.0/22
245.248.128.0/21 and 245.248.128.0/22
245.248.132.0/22 and 245.248.132.0/21
245.248.136.0/22 and 245.248.132.0/21
Consider a source computer (S) transmitting a file of size 106 bits to a destination computer (D) over a network of two routers (R1 and R2) and three links (L1, L2 and L3). L1 connects S to R1;L2 connects R1 to R2; and L3 connects R2 to D. Let each link be of length 100km. Assume signals travel over each link at a speed of 10^8 meters per second. Assume that the link bandwidth on each link is 1Mbps. Let the file be broken down into 1000 packets each of size 1000 bits. Find the total sum of transmission and propagation delays in transmitting the file from S to D?
1005ms
1010ms
3000ms
3003ms
Consider an instance of TCP’s Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease(AIMD) algorithm where the window size at the start of the slow start phase is 2 MSS and the threshold at the start of the first transmission is 8 MSS. Assume that a time out occurs during the fifth transmission. Find the congestion window size at the end of the tenth transmission.
8 MSS
14 MSS
7 MSS
12 MSS
One of the header fields in an IP datagram is the Time to Live (TTL) field. Which of the following statements best explains the need for this field?
It can be used to priortize packets
It can be used to reduce delays
It can be used to optimize throughput
It can be used to prevent packet looping
In the slow start phase of the TCP congestion control algorithm, the size of the congestion window
does not increase
increases linearly
increases quadratically
increases exponentially
If a class B network on the Internet has a subnet mask of 255.255.248.0, what is the maximum number of hosts per subnet?
1022
1023
2046
2047
The address resolution protocol (ARP) is used for:
Finding the IP address from the DNS
Finding the IP address of the default gateway
Finding the IP address that corresponds to a MAC address
Finding the MAC address that corresponds to an IP address
The maximum window size for data transmission using the selective reject(Selective repeat) protocol with n-bit frame sequence numbers is:
2^n
2^(n-1)
2^n – 1
2^(n-2)
Which of the following is not true about Subnetting?
It can be applied only for single network.
It is used to improve security.
Here, bits are borrowed from network ID portion.
Here, bits are borrowed from host ID portion.
A router receives an IP packet containing a data of 300 byte and it is forwarded to a network with maximum transmission unit of 80 bytes. Assume that IP header is 10 Byte long. Find the total fragment , more fragment and offset values
4, 1110,(0,10,20,30)
1,1110,(0,8.75,17.5,26.25,35)
5,1111,(0,8,17,26,35)
none
A channel has a bit rate of 4 Kbps and one way propagation delay of 20 msec. The channel uses
stop and wait protocol. The transmission time of the acknowledgement frame is negligible. To
get a channel efficiency of at least 50%, the minimum frame size should be-
80 bytes
80 bits
160 bytes
160 bits
Station A uses 32 byte packets to transmit messages to Station B using a sliding window protocol. The round trip delay between A and B is 80 milliseconds and the bottleneck bandwidth on the path between A and B is 128 kbps. What is the optimal window size that A should use?
20
40
160
320
The address of a class B host is to be split into subnets with a 6-bit subnet number. What is the maximum number of subnets and the maximum number of hosts in each subnet?
62 subnets and 262142 hosts.
64 subnets and 262142 hosts.
62 subnets and 1022 hosts.
64 subnets and 1024 hosts.
The message 11001001 is to be transmitted using the CRC polynomial x^3 + 1 to protect it from errors. The message that should be transmitted is:
11001001000
11001001011
11001010
110010010011
If link transmits 4000 frames per second, and each slot has 8 bits, the transmission rate of circuit this TDM is
32kbps
500bps
500kbps
32bps
The entire hostname (in DNS) has a maximum of ___________ characters
255
512
127
99
Which one of the following is not true?
multiple hostnames may correspond to a single IP address
a single hostname may correspond to many IP addresses
a single hostname may correspond to a single IP address
none of the mentioned
In open-loop control, policies are applied to __________
Remove after congestion occurs
Remove after sometime
Prevent before congestion occurs
Prevent before sending packets
In Go-Back-N window, when the timer of the packet times out, several packets have to be resent even some may have arrived safe. Whereas in Selective Repeat window, the sender resends ___________
Packet which are not lost
Only those packets which are lost or corrupted
Packet from starting
All the packets
The technique in which a congested node stops receiving data from the immediate upstream node or nodes is called as _______
Admission policy
Backpressure
Forward signaling
Backward signaling
Let the size of congestion window of a TCP connection be 32 KB when a timeout occurs. The round trip time of the connection is 100 msec and the maximum segment size used is 2 KB. The time taken (in msec) by the TCP connection to get back to 32 KB congestion window is _________.
1100 to 1300
800 to 1000
1400 to 1600
1500 to 1700
