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nwc203

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 21mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following networks use store-and-forward switching operation?

a)

Computer networks

b)

Telegraph networks

c)

Telephone networks

d)

Wireless Networks

2.

There are similarities between message switching and packet switching. Which of following that applies to packet switching but not to message switching?

a)

Variable length of information block

b)

Supporting multiple applications

c)

Store-and-forward

d)

All of the above

3.

Which of the following networks can be connection-oriented?

a)

Telegraph networks

b)

Computer networks

c)

Telephone networks

d)

All of the above

4.

A protocol is a set of precise and unambiguous rules that governs

a)

How two or more communicating entities in a layer are to interact

b)

Messages that can be sent and received

c)

Actions that are to be taken when a certain event occurs

d)

All of the above

5.

DNS is a domain-name-service that responds to queries of domain name to IP address or IP address to domain name. DNS uses services provided by

a)

TCP

b)

UDP

c)

HTTP

d)

None of the above

6.

A network used to join the individual networks at different sites into one extended network is called

a)

PAN

b)

LAN

c)

SAN

d)

VPN

7.

Upon receipt of a bad segment, UDP?

a)

It does flow control

b)

It does not do flow and error control

c)

It does error control

d)

Retransmission

8.

Which of following protocol is HTTP built upon?

a)

IP

b)

TCP

c)

UDP

d)

SMTP

9.

Which of following requirements are necessary for packet networks to support multiple and diverse applications?

a)

Transfer arbitrary message size

b)

Low delay for interactive applications

c)

Packets have maximum length

d)

All of the above

10.

What was the concern of the telephone system that motivated the ARPANET design?

a)

Scalability

b)

Vulnerability

c)

Efficiency

d)

None of the above

11.

Which of the following is an application layer protocol?

a)

HTTP

b)

UDP

c)

DNS

d)

TCP

12.

Which of the following are features of ARPANET design?

a)

Connectionless packet transmission

b)

Routing tables at the packet switches

c)

Destinations identified by unique addresses

d)

All of the above

13.

Bluetooth is an example of

a)

Local Area Network

b)

Wide Area Network

c)

Metropolitan Area Network

d)

Personal Area Network

14.

In the layer hierarchy as the data packet moves from the upper to the lower layers, headers are

a)

Removed

b)

Modified

c)

Added

d)

Rearranged

15.

The ________ is the physical path over which a message travels

a)

Protocol

b)

Route

c)

Medium

d)

Path

16.

Three or more devices share a link in ________ connection

a)

Unipoint

b)

Multipoint

c)

Point to Point

d)

None of the above

17.

Which of the following is true for Transport Control Protocol

a)

Connection oriented

b)

Process to Process

c)

Transport layer protocol

d)

Connectionless

18.

Which OSI layer is responsible for providing end-to-end communication with reliable service?

a)

Transport layer

b)

Network layer

c)

Session layer

d)

Data link layer

19.

Which OSI layer is responsible for dividing the transmitted bit stream into frames?

a)

Network layer

b)

Transport layer

c)

Application layer

d)

Data link layer

20.

Which OSI layer is responsible for determining which route through the network to use?

a)

Network layer

b)

Data link layer

c)

Transport layer

d)

None of the above

21.

Which feature does the data link layer and transport layer have in common?

a)

Medium access control

b)

All of the above

c)

Congestion control

d)

Flow control

22.

Which protocol glues the network of networks together as the Internet?

a)

TCP

b)

UDP

c)

IP

d)

None of the above

23.

In a LAN, which address is used to transfer frames to appropriate destination?

a)

IP address

b)

Physical address

c)

Domain name

d)

None of the above

24.

Suppose an application layer entity wants to send an L-byte message to its peer process, using an existing TCP connection. The TCP segment consists of the message plus 20 bytes of header. The segment is encapsulated into an IP packet that has an additional 20 bytes of header. The IP packet in turn goes inside an Ethernet frame that has 18 bytes of header and trailer. What is the bandwidth utilization in terms of the percentage of the transmitted bits in the physical layer corresponds to message information if L = 500 bytes?

a)

100%

b)

70%

c)

90%

d)

80%

25.

Of the following services, which service(s) does the IP layer provides?

a)

Error control

b)

Flow control

c)

Connection-based data transfer

d)

None of the above

26.

Which of the following is true about the ways in which the OSI reference model and TCP/IP reference model differ

a)

They differ in the number of layers

b)

TCP/IP model does not have presentation layer, but OSI model has

c)

TCP/IP model does not have session layer, but OSI model has

d)

All of the above

27.

Which of following statements is true about how the data link layer and transport layer differ?

a)

Data link layer is concerned with framing and the transport layer is not

b)

Data link layer is concerned with flow control and the transport layer is not

c)

Data link layer is concerned with multiplexing and the transport layer is not

d)

All of the above

28.

This layer is an addition to OSI model

a)

Application layer

b)

Presentation layer

c)

Session layer

d)

Presentation layer and Session layer

29.

The functionalities of presentation layer includes

a)

Data compression

b)

Data encryption

c)

Data decryption

d)

All of the above

30.

Which of the following applications would you select TCP protocol for?

a)

File transfer

b)

Domain name service

c)

Web browsing

d)

None of the above

31.

In BSD socket API, which type of socket is used to create a TCP socket?

a)

SOCK_STREAM

b)

SOCK_RAW

c)

SOCK_DGRAM

d)

None of the above

32.

In BSD socket API, which type of socket is used to create a UDP socket?

a)

SOCK_STREAM

b)

SOCK_DGRAM

c)

SOCK_RAW

d)

None of the above

33.

In BSD socket API, which system call is used to assign a network address to the socket?

a)

listen()

b)

None of the above

c)

connect()

d)

bind()

34.

In BSD socket API, if a client knows the server name but not server's network address, what system call should the client use to get server's network address?

a)

Connect()

b)

gethostbyname()

c)

None of the above

d)

gettimeofday()

35.

In a transmission system, which of the following statement is true for a receiver

a)

Receives energy from medium

b)

Converts information into signal suitable for transmission

c)

Converts received signal suitable for delivery to user

d)

All of the above

36.

In digital transmission, long distance digital communications require the use of a generator to recover original data sequence and re-transmits on next segment

a)

t

b)

f

37.

In twisted pair, a category 5 UTP cable can support a data rate of up to 16MHz

a)

t

b)

f

38.

Which of the following statement is true for optical fiber

a)

Plentiful bandwidth for new services

b)

Dominates long distance transmission

c)

Distance less of a cost factor in communications

d)

All of the above

39.

Which of the following are advantages of optical fiber

a)

Noise immunity

b)

No corrosion

c)

Extremely low bandwidth

d)

Wavelength dependency

40.

Given a 7-bit information frame (0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1), what is the even parity bit?

a)

0

b)

1

c)

None of the above

41.

Which of following statements are true for single-bit parity error detection?

a)

It can detect all single bit errors in an information frame

b)

It can detect all double bit errors in an information frame

c)

It can detect all tripe bit errors in an information frame

d)

None of the above