Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology

Department of IT
DCN - ETIT-310
Quiz 1 Max. Marks:30

1. There are ______________ Internet service providers.

A) regional B) local C) national and international D) all of the above

2. ______ refers to the physical or logical arrangement of a network.

A) Topology B) Mode of operation C) Data flow D) None of the above

3. A ______ is a data communication system spanning states, countries, or the whole world.
A) MAN B) WAN C) LAN D) none of the above

4. A ________ is a set of rules that governs data communication.

A) protocol B) forum C) standard D) none of the above

5. Frequency of failure and network recovery time after a failure are measures of the
_______of a network.
A) Performance B) Security C) Reliability D) Feasibility

6. A television broadcast is an example of _______ transmission.

A) half-duplex B) simplex C) full-duplex D) automatic

7. Data flow between two devices can occur in a _______ way.

A) simplex B) half-duplex C) full-duplex D) all of the above

8. ______ are special-interest groups that quickly test, evaluate, and standardize new
technologies.
A) Standards organizations B) Regulatory agencies C) Forums D) All of the
above

9. Which agency developed standards for physical connection interfaces and electronic signaling
specifications?
A) ISO B) ITU-T C) ANSI D) EIA

10. This was the first network.

A) CSNET B) NSFNET C) ARPANET D) ANSNET

11. Communication between a computer and a keyboard involves ______________transmission.

 A) simplex B) half-duplex C) full-duplex D)  automatic

12. Baseband transmission of a digital signal is possible only if we have a ____ channel.
A)   bandpass B)   low-pass C)   high rate D)   low rate

13. ________ is a type of transmission impairment in which the signal loses strength due to the
resistance of the transmission medium.
A)   Distortion B)   Attenuation C)   Noise D)   Decibel

14. If the bandwidth of a signal is 5 KHz and the lowest frequency is 52 KHz, what is the highest
frequency?
A)   5 KHz B)   47 KHz C)   57 KHz D)   10 KHz

15. _______ data are continuous and take continuous values.

A)   digital B)   analog C)   (a) or (b) D)   none of the above

16. Frequency and period are ______.

A)   proportional to each other B)   inverse of each other C)   the same D)   none of
the above

17. The _________ product defines the number of bits that can fill the link.
A)   delay-amplitude B)   frequency-amplitude C)   bandwidth-period D)  
bandwidth-delay

18. Before data can be transmitted, they must be transformed to ________.

A)   periodic signals B)   electromagnetic signals C)   aperiodic signals D)  
low-frequency sine waves

19. For a ______ channel, we need to use the Shannon capacity to find the maximum bit rate.
A)   noiseless B)   noisy C)   low-pass D)   bandpass

20. If the available channel is a ____ channel, we cannot send a digital signal directly to the
channel.
A)   low-pass B)   low rate C)   bandpass D)   high rate

21. For a ______ channel, the Nyquist bit rate formula defines the theoretical maximum bit rate.
A)   low-pass B)   bandpass C)   noisy D)   noiseless

22. The ________ layer is responsible for the process-to-process delivery of the entire message.
A)   transport B)   physical C)   network D)   data link
23. The ______ layer is responsible for moving frames from one hop (node) to the next.
A)   transport B)   data link C)   physical D)   none of the above

24. The _______ layer coordinates the functions required to transmit a bit stream over a
physical medium.
A)   data link B)   transport C)   network D)   physical
25. The ______ layer is responsible for the source-to-destination delivery of a packet across
multiple network links.
A)   network B)   physical C)   data link D)   transport
26. Mail services are available to network users through the _______ layer.
A)   Transport B)   Physical C)   Data link D)   Application

27. The_____ address identifies a process on a host.

A)   specific B)   port C)   IP D)   physical

28. ________ cable consists of an inner copper core and a second conducting outer sheath.
A)   Twisted-pair B)   Shielded twisted-pair C)   Coaxial D)   Fiber-optic

29. __________ consists of a central conductor and a shield.

A)   Twisted-pair B)   Coaxial C)   Fiber-optic D)   none of the above

30. _________ are used for cellular phone, satellite, and wireless LAN communications.
A)   Radio waves B)   Infrared waves C)   Microwaves D)   none of the above

31. The inner core of an optical fiber is _______ in composition.

A)   copper B)   glass or plastic C)   bimetallic D)   liquid

32. What is the major factor that makes coaxial cable less susceptible to noise than
twisted-pair cable?
A)   insulating material B)   inner conductor C)   diameter of cable D)   outer conductor

33._______ cable is used for voice and data communications.

A)   Twisted-pair B)   Coaxial C)   Fiber-optic D)   none of the above

34. In Go-Back-N ARQ, if 5 is the number of bits for the sequence number, then the maximum size
of the receive window must be _____.
A)   1 B)   15 C)   16 D)   31

35. In Go-Back-N ARQ, if frames 4, 5, and 6 are received successfully, the receiver may send an ACK
_______ to the sender.
A)   6 B)   7 C)   5 D)   any of the above
36. The Stop-And-Wait ARQ, Go-Back-N ARQ, and the Selective Repeat ARQ are for ______ channels.
A)   noiseless B)   noisy C)   either (a) or (b) D)   neither (a) nor (b)

37. In PPP, the ________ is responsible for establishing, maintaining, configuring, and terminating
links.
A)   PAP B)   CHAP C)   LCP D)   NCP

38. HDLC is an acronym for _______.

A)   Half-duplex digital link combination B)   Host double-level circuit C)   High-duplex
line communication D)   High-level data link control

39. In Selective Repeat ARQ, if 5 is the number of bits for the sequence number, then the
maximum size of the receive window must be _____.
A)   1 B)   15 C)   16 D)   31

40. In Go-Back-N ARQ, if 5 is the number of bits for the sequence number, then the maximum size
of the send window must be _____.
A)   1 B)   15 C)   16 D)   31

41. In Stop-and-Wait ARQ, the acknowledgment number always announces in ______ arithmetic
the sequence number of the next frame expected.
A)   modulo-m B)   modulo-2 C)   modulo-4 D)   none of the above

42. In Selective Repeat ARQ, if 5 is the number of bits for the sequence number, then the
maximum size of the send window must be _____.
A)   1 B)   15 C)   16 D)   31

43. _______ control refers to a set of procedures used to restrict the amount of data that the
sender can send before waiting for acknowledgment.
A)   Flow B)   Error C)   Transmission D)   none of the above

44. In the Go-Back-N Protocol, if the size of the sequence number field is 8, the sequence numbers
are in ________ arithmetic,
A)   modulo-256 B)   modulo- 8 C)   modulo-2 D)   none of the above

45. Checksums use _________ arithmetic.

A)   one's complement arithmetic B)   two's complement arithmetic
C)   either (a) or (b) D)   none of the above

46. In modulo-11 arithmetic, we use only the integers in the range ______, inclusive.
A)   1 to 10 B)   0 to 10 C)   1 to 11 D)   none of the above

47. In cyclic redundancy checking, the divisor is _______ the CRC.

 A)   one bit less than B)   one bit more than C)   The same size as D)   none of
the above

48. The ________ between two words is the number of differences between corresponding bits.
A)   Hamming rule B)   Hamming code C)   Hamming distance D)   none of the
above

49. If the Hamming distance between a dataword and the corresponding codeword is three, there
are _____ bits in error.
A)   5 B)   4 C)   3 D)   none of the above
50. A simple parity-check code can detect __________ errors.
A)   an odd-number of B)   an even-number of C)   two D)   no errors

51. The Hamming distance between equal codewords is _________.

A)   0 B)   1 C)   n D)   none of the above

52. In a linear block code, the _______ of any two valid codewords creates another valid
codeword.
A)   ANDing B)   XORing C)   ORing D)   none of the above

53. In _______, the stations share the bandwidth of the channel in time.
A)   FDMA B)   CDMA C)   TDMA D)   none of the above

54. In ______, the chance of collision can be reduced if a station senses the medium before
trying to use it.
A)   CSMA B)   MA C)   CDMA D)   FDMA

55. In the _______ method, the stations in a network are organized in a logical ring.
A)   polling B)   token passing C)   reservation D)   none of the above

56. In _________, the station configuration is unbalanced. We have one primary station and
multiple secondary stations.
A)   ARM B)   NBM C)   NRM D)   ABM

57. The vulnerable time for CSMA is the ________propagation time.

A)   three times B)   two times C)   the same as D)   none of the above

58. The maximum throughput for pure ALOHA is ________ per cent.

A)   36.8 B)   18.4 C)   12.2 D)   none of the above

59. In pure ALOHA, the vulnerable time is ______ the frame transmission time.
A)   two times B)   three times C)   the same as D)   none of the above
60. The maximum throughput for slotted ALOHA is ________ per cent.
A)   36.8 B)   18.4 C)   12.2 D)   none of the above

61. ______ is based on coding theory and uses sequences of numbers called chips.
A)   TDMA B)   CDMA C)   FDMA D)   none of the above