FINALTERM EXAMINATION

Fall 2018
CS601 - Data Communication

Ref No: 8944220

Time: 120 min
Marks: 80
Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

A simple communication model consist of five components i.e. Source, transmitter, Receiver and
destination. __________ is missing component.
► Transceiver system
► Information system
► TCP system
Selected answer Transmission Medium

Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

When a message is sent from source to destination between two users it is being encrypted. This
encrypted message is called ___________
► Protocol
Selected answer Message
► Plaintext
► Cipher text

Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Noise in a coaxial cable is reduced by ___________________.

Selected answer twisting the cable
► the inner conductor
► None of the choices are correct
► the outer conductor

Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Removing header and trailer at received side in TCP/IP model is known as ____________

Selected answer Encapsulation

► Cancelation
► Flooding
► De-encapsulation

Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

ISO stands for _______________
► Inter connected organization for system
► Intra connected organization for system
► Inter connected organization for standardization
Selected answer International organization for standardization

Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In case of ASK, a bit is represented by varying the_______ of a carrier signal.

► Phase
► Time
► Frequency
Selected answer Amplitude

Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Using ___________ encoding scheme in digital transmission, we represent 0 by zero voltage

level and represent 1 by any positive voltage level.
Selected answer Polar
► AMI
► Bipolar
► Unipolar

Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

_________ is not an efficient approach for data networks.

► Packet switching
► Virtual-Circuit switching
Selected answer Datagram switching
► Circuit switching

Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In ____________________, a special byte is added to the data section of the frame when there is
a character with the same pattern as the flag.
► Bit stuffing
Selected answer Error detection
► Error correction
► Character stuffing
Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

At the data-link layer, _____________ means creating a balance between the frames sent by a
node and the frames that can be handled by the next node.
► Error control
► Framing
Selected answer Modulation
► Flow control

Question No: 11 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The PPP protocol uses ___________________, which is responsible for establishing,

maintaining, configuring, and terminating links.
Selected answer Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP)
► Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
► Network Control Protocols (NCPs)
► Link Control Protocol (LCP)

Question No: 12 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

HDLC is a bit-oriented protocol for point-to-point and multipoint communication; which

implements ____________ protocol for flow control mechanism.
► Simple
Selected answer Go-Back-N
► Selective-Repeat
► Stop-and-Wait

Question No: 13 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Reservation, Polling and Token passing are part of ________________.

► Random Access protocol

Selected answer Channelization protocol
► Mutual access protocol
► Controlled Access protocol

Question No: 14 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Burst error normally occurs when the duration of noise signal is _________________ than the
bit duration.

► Shorter
Selected answer Equal to or longer
► Equal to or shorter
► Longer

Question No: 15 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

To detect errors, the receiver checks the relationships between the two sets of bits:
_________________.
Selected answer Transmitted bits and received bits
► Transmitted bits and transmitted redundant bits
► None of the given
► Received data bits and received redundant bits

Question No: 16 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The Hamming distance between two pair of words (101101, 001011) is ________.
►1

►3

Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

For FEC using XOR operation, we divide a packet into N chunks, and need to send ________
chunks to the receiver side.
Selected answer N
► 2N
► (N+1)/2
► N+1

Question No: 18 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Communication at the data-link layer is __________________.

► End to end
► Process to process
► Application to application
Selected answer Node to node

Question No: 19 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The data-link layer of the source host needs only to encapsulate data, but each intermediate node
_________________ data.
Selected answer Also needs to encapsulate
► Only needs to decapsulate
► Needs either to encapsulate or decapsulate
► Needs to both encapsulate and decapsulate

Question No: 20 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

IP addresses are the identifiers at the _________ layer.

► Physical
► Data-link
► Transport
Selected answer Network

Question No: 21 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Following are the examples of connecting devices EXCEPT ____________ .

Selected answer Link Layer Switches

► Hub
► Routers
► Wire

Question No: 22 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Hub is a device that operates on _________ .

► Data link Layer

► Network Layer
► None of the Given
Selected answer Physical Layer

Question No: 23 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Switch operates on __________________ Addressing Scheme.

► Logical
 ► IP
Selected answer Port
► Physical

Question No: 24 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The term FTTC stands for __________ .

► Front Technology Terminal Connection

► Free Technology Transmission Connection
► Fiber Terminal Transmission Commission
Selected answer Fiber to the Curb

Question No: 25 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Silence Data represented in CDMA by_________________.

► -1
► +1
►2
Selected answer 0

Question No: 26 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In ____________________the available bandwidth is divided into frequency bands.

Selected answer TDMA

► CDMA
► CSMA
► FDMA

Question No: 27 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

We divide time into slots of Tfr (frame transmission time) and force the station to send only at
the __________of the slot.
Selected answer End
► Middle
► Anywhere
► Beginning NOT SURE

Question No: 28 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The IEEE committee created ____________Ethernet and called it Standard 802.3ae.

Selected answer Standard
► Fast
► Gigabit
► 10 Gigabit

Question No: 29 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The original Ethernet technology with the data rate of 10 Mbps is called ________ Ethernet.

Selected answer Fast

► Gigabit
► 10 Gigabit
► Standard

Question No: 30 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The original Ethernet technology with the data rate of 100 Mbps is called ________ Ethernet.
Selected answer Standard

► Gigabit
► 10 Gigabit
► Fast

Question No: 31 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

CSMA/CD is not used in ________ Ethernet.

Selected answer Standard

► Fast

► Gigabit
► 10 Gigabit
Question No: 32 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Unipolar encoding scheme is not supported over the medium having ______________.
► The capability of handling DC component

Selected answer Low speed

► High speed

► No capability of handling DC component

Question No: 33 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

POP stands for ___________

► Presentation of points
Selected answer Points of points
► Points of packets
► Points of Presence

Question No: 34 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In context of control signaling network, what does STP stand for ______
► Signaling transmission point
► Signal transportation procedure
► Signal transfer point

Question No: 35 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

DSLAM stands for ____________

At the telephone company site, the situation is different. Instead of an ADSL modem, a
device called a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) is installed that
functions similarly. In addition, it packetizes the data to be sent to the Internet (ISP
► Dual subscriber line access multiplexer
Selected answer Dynamic subscriber line access multiplexer
► Digital small line access multiplexer
 ► Digital subscriber line access multiplexer

Question No: 36 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

______________ medium is used in wireless LANs for transportation of data.

► Copper pair cable
► Optical fiber cable
► Coaxial cable
Selected answer Air
Theoretically, the wireless network can transmit data at the same speed as fiber
optical cable. Practically, fiber optical cable can achieve higher maximum speed.

Question No: 37 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

A property of a signal where it is being received by receiver after reflection from different
intermediate objects (Building, iron polls, walls) is called ____________
Selected answer Attenuation
► Interference
► Error
► Multipath Propagation

Question No: 38 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In IEEE 802.11, communication between two stations in two different BSSs usually occurs via
two _______.
► BSSs
Selected answer ESSs
► None of the given
► APs

Question No: 39 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In IEEE 802.11, a station with ________mobility can move from one BSS to another, but the
movement is confined inside one ESS.
► None of the choices are correct
► No-transition
► ESS-transition
Selected answer BSS-transition
Question No: 40 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is one of the auxiliary protocols, which maps
_________ address to ____________ address.

► A logical-link, an IP

Selected answer A MAC, an IP

► A physical, a MAC

► An IP, a logical-link

The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is acommunication protocol used for

discovering the link layer address, such as a MAC address, associated witha given
internet layer address, typically an IPv4 address.

Question No: 41 ( Marks: 3 )

Coaxial cable designs are categorized by their Radio government (RG) ratings; you are required
to match the following RG ratings with their respective uses.

Category Use
RG-11 Used for TV
RG-59 Thin Ethernet
RG-58 Thick Ethernet

Answer

Category Use
RG-11 Thick Ethernet
RG-59 Used for TV
RG-58 Thin Ethernet

he three most commonly used coaxial cable types for video applications are RG59/U,
RG6/U and RG11/U. RG59/U is available with either solid copper or copper-clad-steel
centre conductor. It's suitable for basic analog TV antenna feeds in residential
applications and for basic CCTV systems over short cable runs.

Question No: 42 ( Marks: 3 )

 Give Advantages of using VLAN on layer 3 switches.

•Cost and Time Reduction

•Creating virtual Workgroups

•Security

Answer
Benefits of a layer 3 switch
1. Support routing between virtual LANs.
2. Improve fault isolation.
3. Simplify security management.
4. Reduce broadcast traffic volumes.
5. Ease the configuration process for VLANs, as a separate router isn't required between
each VLAN.
6. Separate routing tables, and as a result, segregate traffic better.

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Question No: 43 ( Marks: 3 )

In a communication system, a codeword is generated by adding two redundant bits to each 8-bit
dataword. Find the following:

a) Number of valid codewords

b) Number of invalid codewords

Answer
Q10-4. In a codeword, we add two redundant bits to each 8-bit data word. Find the number of
a.valid: 2^8 vaild codes b.invalid: 2^10 – 2^8 invalid code

Number of valid codewords

6
Number of invalid codewords
5

Question No: 44 ( Marks: 3 )

The Data Link Control (DLC) layer is one of the sub-layers of Data-link layer. List the names of
services provided by the DLC layer.

Answer

•Data-Link layer provides services to Network

Layer and receives services from Physical layer
Framing
Flow Control
Error Control
Congestion Control

Question No: 45 ( Marks: 3 )

Normally a telephone network is divided into several levels of switching offices, mention their
names.

Answer

The telephone network has several levels of

switching offices:
 End offices
Tandem offices
Regional offices
1. Packet switching
2.circuit switching

Question No: 46 ( Marks: 5 )

An analog signal carries 6 bits in each signal element. If 1500 signal elements are sent per
second, find the Baud Rate and Bit Rate ?

An analog signal carries 4 bits per signal element. If 1000 signal elements are sent per second,
find the bit rate.
Solution In this case, r = 4, S = 1000, and N is unknown. We can find the value of
Answer
Baud rate is the number of signal elements per second. In the analog transmission
of digital data, the baud rate is less than or equal to the bit rate. Note Page 6 5.6 An
analog signal carries 4 bits per signal element.

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Question No: 47 ( Marks: 5 )

Name and describe any two controlled-access methods.

Answer
The three popular controlled-access methods are as follows.
 Reservation: In the reservation method, a station needs to make a reservation before
sending data. ...
 Polling: Polling works with topologies in which one device is designated as a primary
station and the other devices are secondary stations. ...
 Token Passing:

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Question No: 48 ( Marks: 5 )

Show how the address 47:20:1B:2E:08:EE is sent out online by filling the spaces in figure given
blow.
Hexadecimal ____ ____ ___ ___ ___ ___

Binary ________ ________ ______ _______ _______ ________

Transmitted ___ ________ ________ _______ ________ ________ _________

Answer

Hexadecimal ___20_ ___1B_ _47__ __2E_ __EE_ ___08

Binary ________ ________ ______ _______ _______ ________

Transmitted ___ ________ ________ _______ ________ ________ _________

Question No: 49 ( Marks: 5 )

A communication system is encoding 2-bit datawords into 3-bit codewords for error detection
using even-parity encoding.

a) If dataword is ‘01’, what will be the codeword for transmission?

b) If communication system suffers a 3-bit burst error and all the bits are damaged; what
will be the codeword received at the other end?

c) With the effect of burst error; will this codeword be accepted or rejected by the
receiver? Mention the reason.

Answer

If dataword is ‘01’, what will be the codeword for transmission?

The code word will be 02.
If communication system suffers a 3-bit burst error and all the bits are damaged; what will be the
codeword received at the other end?
The codeword recieved at the end is 0

Question No: 50 ( Marks: 5 )

Consider a scenario where five computers are connected to each other in a wired LAN through switch.
How can this wired LAN be converted to a wireless LAN architecture?
Answer

Accordimg to given scenario if five computers are connected to each other in a wired LAN
through switch .Wired LAN can be connected through a router and all computers are connected
trough it because LAN is a local area network.