Quiz CN

1 CHAPTER 15
1 Which of the following statements about wired and wireless LANs is correct?
A) Both operate in the lower two layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
B) Wired LANs operate in the lower two layers and wireless LANs operate in the lower
three layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
C) Wired LANs operate in the lower three layers and wireless LANs operate in the lower
two layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
D) Both operate in the lower three layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
2 IEEE has defined the specifications for a wireless LAN, called _______, which covers the
physical and data-link layers.
A) IEEE 802.3
B) IEEE 802.5
C) IEEE 802.11
D) IEEE 802.2
3 The CSMA/CD algorithm does not work in wireless LAN because

A) wireless host does not have enough power to work in a duplex mode.
B) of the hidden station problem.
C) signal fading could prevent a station at one end from hearing a collision at the other
end.
D) all of the choices are correct.
4 In IEEE 802.11, a ___ is made of stationary or mobile wireless stations and an optional
central base station, known as the access point (AP).
A) ESS
B) BSS
C) CSS
D) None of the choices are correct
5 In IEEE 802.11, a BSS without an AP is called _________.

A) an ad hoc architecture
B) an infrastructure network
C) either an ad hoc architecture or an infrastructure network
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2 CHAPTER 15
6 In IEEE 802.11, a BSS with an AP is sometimes referred to as ____________.

A) an ad hoc architecture
B) an infrastructure network
C) either an ad hoc architecture or an infrastructure network
7 In IEEE 802.11, communication between two stations in two different BSSs usually
occurs via two ________.
A) BSSs
B) ESSs
C) APs
8 In IEEE 802.11, a station with ________ mobility is either stationary (not moving) or
moving only inside a BSS.
A) no-transition
B) BSS-transition
C) ESS-transition
9 In IEEE 802.11, a station with ________mobility can move from one BSS to another, but
the movement is confined inside one ESS.
A) no-transition
B) BSS-transition
C) ESS-transition
10 In IEEE 802.11, a station with ________ mobility can move from one ESS to another.
A) no-transition
B) BSS-transition
C) ESS-transition

3 CHAPTER 15
11 In IEEE 802.11, distributed coordination function (DCF) uses _______ as the access
method.
A) CSMA/CA
B) CSMA/CD
C) ALOHA
12 In IEEE 802.11, when a frame is going from one station in a BSS to another station in
the same BSS, the address flag is _____.
A) 00
B) 01
C) 10
D) 11
13 In IEEE 802.11, when a frame is coming from an AP and going to a station, the address
flag is _______.
A) 00
B) 01
C) 10
D) 11
14 In IEEE 802.11, when a frame is going from a station to an AP, the address flag is _____.
A) 00
B) 01
C) 10
D) 11
15 In IEEE 802.11, when a frame is going from one AP to another AP in a wireless

distribution system, the address flag is _____.
A) 00
B) 01
C) 10
D) 11

4 CHAPTER 15
16 In IEEE 802.11, the access method used in the PCF sublayer is ______.
A) contention
B) controlled
C) polling
17 In IEEE 802.11, the ______ is a time period used for collision avoidance.
A) NAV
B) BSS
C) ESS
18 In IEEE 802.11, the addressing mechanism can include up to ______addresses.

A) four
B) five
C) six
19 The original IEEE 802.11 uses _________.

A) FHSS
B) DSSS
C) OFDM
D) either FHSS or DSSS
20 The IEEE 802.11a uses _________.

A) FHSS
B) DSSS
C) OFDM
21 The IEEE 802.11b uses _________.

A) FHSS
B) DSSS
C) OFDM

5 CHAPTER 15
22 The IEEE 802.11g uses _________.

A) FHSS
B) DSSS
C) OFDM
23 The IEEE 802.11 FHSS uses ______ modulation.

A) ASK
B) FSK
C) PSK
24 The IEEE 802.11 or IEEE 802.11b DSSS uses ______ modulation.

A) ASK
B) FSK
C) PSK
25 The IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, or IEEE 802.11n OFDM uses ______ modulation.
A) ASK
B) FSK
C) PSK
26 Bluetooth is a _______ technology that connects devices (called gadgets) in a small

area.
A) wired LAN
B) wireless LAN
C) VLAN
27 In Bluetooth, multiple ________ form a network called a _________.

A) scatternet; piconets
B) piconets: scatternet
C) piconets: bluenet
D) bluenet; scatternet

6 CHAPTER 15
28 A Bluetooth network consists of _____ primary device(s) and up to ____ secondary

devices.
A) one; five
B) five; three
C) two; six
D) one; seven
29 In Bluetooth, the current data rate is ____Mbps.

A) 2
B) 5
C) 11
30 The access method in Bluetooth is ________.

A) FDMA
B) TDD-TDMA
C) CDMA
31 In Bluetooth, the _____ link is used when data integrity is more important than avoiding
latency.
A) SCO
B) ACL
C) ACO
D) SCL
32 Bluetooth uses ______ in the physical layer to avoid interference from other devices or
other networks.
A) DSSS
B) FHSS
C) FDMA

IT210 CHAPTER 17
1 A VLAN is a local area network configured by_____________.

A) software
B) physical wiring
C) software or physical wiring
2 A repeater is a connecting device that operates in the _______ layer(s).

A) physical
B) physical and data-link
C) data-link and network
D) physical, data-link, and network
3 A link-layer switch is a connecting device that operates in the _______ layer(s).

A) physical
4 A router is a connecting device that operates in the _______ layer(s).

A) physical
5 A _________ has no filtering capability.

A) repeater
B) link-layer switch
C) router
6 A three-layer switch is a __________.

A) repeater
B) link-layer switch
C) router

IT210 CHAPTER 17
7 A router filters packets based on the __________ destination addresses.

A) data-link
B) network-layer
C) transport-layer
8 A link-layer switch filters packets based on the __________ destination addresses.

A) data-link
B) network-layer
C) transport-layer
9 Looping problems in a set of swtiches can be eliminated using ___________ algorithm.

A) routing
B) spanning-tree
C) forwarding
10 Membership in a VLAN can be based on ________.

A) interface numbers
B) MAC addresses
C) IP addresses
D) All of the choices are correct

IT 210 CHAPTER 18
1 Packetizing at the network layer involves ___________________________.

A) encapsulating the payload at the source
B) adds a header that contains the source and destination information
C) decapsulating the payload at the destination
2 Routers in the path are not allowed to ___________________________.

A) fragment the packet they receive
B) decapsulate the packet
C) change source or destination address
3 The network layer in the Internet provides _________________.

A) comprehensive error and flow control
B) limited error control, but no flow control
C) comprehensive error control but limited flow control
4 In a virtual-circuit approach, the forwarding decision is based on the value of the

_____________ field in the packet header.
A) source address
B) destination address
C) label
5 In a datagram approach, the forwarding decision is based on the value of the

_____________ field in the packet header.
A) source address
B) destination address
C) label
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IT 210 CHAPTER 18
6 The performance of a network can be measured in terms of ________.

A) delay
B) throughput
C) packet loss
7 Transmission delay (time) is the ratio of______________________.

A) transmission rate to packet length
B) transmission rate to distance
C) packet length to transmission rate
D) processing time to transmission rate
8 Propagation delay (time) is the ratio of______________________.

A) transmission rate to propagation speed
B) propagation speed to distance
C) packet length to propagation speed
D) distance to propagation speed
9 When the load in the network reaches the network capacity, the packet delay
___________ and the network throughput
reaches ______________.
A) increases sharply; its minimum
B) increases sharply; its maximum
C) decreases sharply; its minimum
D) decreases sharply; its maximum
10 In open-loop congestion control, policies are applied ____________________.

A) to prevent congestion before it happens
B) to alleviate congestion after it happens
C) to either prevent congestion before it happens or alleviate congestion after it happens

IT 210 CHAPTER 18
11 The __________________ technique is one of the open-loop congestion policies.

A) backpressure
B) choke packet
C) implicit signaling
12 The__________________ technique is one of the close-loop congestion policies.

A) acknowledgment policy
B) choke packet
C) discarding policy
13 An IPv4 address is normally represented in base ____ in dotted-decimal notation.

A) 16
B) 256
C) 10
14 In classful addressing, the IPv4 address space is divided into _______ classes.
A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
15 The number of addresses assigned to an organization in classless addressing _______.

A) can be any number
B) must be a multiple of 256
C) must be a power of 2
16 The first address assigned to an organization in classless addressing _______.

A) must be evenly divisible by the number of addresses in the organization
B) must be divisible by 128
C) must belong to one of the A, B, or C classes

IT 210 CHAPTER 18
17 In subnetting, the number of addresses in each subnet must _______.

A) be a power of 2
B) be a multiple of 128
C) be divisible by 128
18 What is the default prefix length for class A in CIDR notation?

A) 9
B) 8
C) 16
19 What is the default prefix length for class B in CIDR notation?

A) 9
B) 8
C) 16
20 What is the default prefix length for class C in CIDR notation?

A) 24
B) 8
C) 16
21 DHCP is a (an) ___________ layer protocol.

A) application
B) transport
C) network
D) data-link
22 In DHCP, the client uses ________ port and the server uses _________port.
A) an ephemeral; a well-known
B) a well-known; a well-known
C) a well-known; an ephemeral

IT 210 CHAPTER 18
23 DHCP uses the services of _______.

A) UDP
B) TCP
C) IP
24 _________ allows a site to use a set of private addresses for internal communication
and a set of global Internet addresses for
communication with the rest of the world.
A) DHCP
B) NAT
C) IMCP
25 The idea of address aggregation was designed to alleviate the increase in routing table
entries when using ________
addressing.
A) classful
B) classless
C) classful or classless
26 The use of hierarchy in routing tables can ________ the size of the routing tables.
A) reduce
B) increase
C) neither reduce nor increase

IT 210 CHAPTER 19
1 IP is a _________ protocol.
A) connection-oriented unreliable
B) connection-oriented reliable
C) connectionless unreliable
D) connectionless reliable
2 An HLEN value of decimal 10 means _______.

A) there are 10 bytes of options
B) there are 10 bytes in the header
C) there are 40 bytes of options
D) there are 40 bytes in the header
3 If the fragment offset has a value of 100, it means that _______.

A) the datagram has not been fragmented
B) the datagram is 100 bytes in size
C) the first byte of the datagram is byte 800
4 What is needed to determine the number of the last byte of a fragment?

A) offset number
B) total length
C) both offset number and the total length
5 The IP header size is _______ bytes long.

A) 20 to 60
B) 20
C) 60

IT 210 CHAPTER 19
6 Packets in the IP layer are called _________.

A) segments
B) datagrams
C) frames
7 The total length field defines the total length of the datagram _________.
A) including the header
B) excluding the header
C) excluding the option length
8 When a datagram is encapsulated in a frame, the total size of the datagram

must be less than the _______.
A) MUT
B) MAT
C) MTU
9 ICMP is a (an) _________ layer protocol.

A) application-layer protocol that helps TCP/IP at the network layer
B) transport-layer protocol that helps TCP/IP at the network layer
C) network-layer protocol
D) data-link layer protocol that helps TCP/IP at the network layer
10 Which of the following is true about ICMP messages?

A) An ICMP error message may be generated for an ICMP error message
B) An ICMP error message may be generated for a fragmented datagram
C) An ICMP error message may be generated for a multicast datagram

IT 210 CHAPTER 19
11 When a host moves to a new network, its original address is referred to as

__________.
A) home
B) care-of
C) foreign
12 Which of the following addresses are permanent in mobile IP?

A) home
B) care-of
C) foreign
13 To communicate with a remote host, a computer needs to go through

__________ phase(s).
A) one
B) two
C) three
14 In mobile IP communication, the first phase is called __________.

A) agent discovery
B) registration
C) data transfer
15 In mobile IP communication, the second phase is called __________.

A) agent discovery
B) registration
C) data transfer

IT 210 CHAPTER 19
16 In mobile IP communication, the third phase is called __________.

A) agent discovery
B) registration
C) data transfer
17 In mobile IP communication, inefficiency in triangle routing is ________ the one

in double crossing.
A) more severe than
B) less severe than
C) in the same level as

IT210 CHAPTER 20
1 Routing inside an autonomous system is referred to as ________ routing.

A) interdomain
B) intradomain
C) out-of-domain
2 Routing between autonomous systems is referred to as ______ routing.

A) interdomain routing
B) intradomain routing
C) out-of-domain
3 In _______ routing, the least cost route between any two nodes is the route with the
minimum distance.
A) path vector
B) distance vector
C) link state
4 In ________, each node maintains a vector (table) of minimum distances to every

node.
A) path vector
B) distance vector
C) link state
5 In distance vector routing, each node periodically shares its routing table with
_________ and whenever there is a change.
A) every other node
B) its immediate neighbors
C) one neighbor
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IT210 CHAPTER 20
6 The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is an intradomain routing based on _________

routing.
A) distance vector
B) link state
C) path vector
7 The metric used by _______ is the hop count.

A) OSPF
B) RIP
C) BGP
8 In RIP, the ________ timer controls the advertising of regular update messages.
A) garbage collection
B) expiration
C) periodic
9 In RIP, the ________ timer is used to purge invalid routes from the table.
B) expiration
C) periodic
10 In RIP, the ________ timer controls the validity of the route.

B) expiration
C) periodic

IT210 CHAPTER 20
11 RIP uses the services of _______.

A) TCP
B) UDP
C) IP
12 The _________ routing uses the Dijkstra algorithm to build a routing table.
A) distance vector
B) link state
C) path vector
13 The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol is an intradomain routing protocol
based on _______ routing.
A) distance vector
B) link state
C) path vector
14 The _______ protocol allows the administrator to assign a cost, called the metric, to
each route.
A) OSPF
B) RIP
C) BGP

IT210 CHAPTER 20
15 In OSPF, a ________ link connects two routers without any other host or router in
between.
A) point-to-point
B) transient
C) stub
16 In OSPF, a _______ link is a network with several routers attached to it.

A) point-to-point
B) transient
C) stub
17 In OSPF, a ________ link is a network connected to only one router.

A) point-to-point
B) transient
C) stub
18 In OSPF, a ________ defines the links of a network.

A) network link
B) router link
C) summary link to network
19 ___________ is an interdomain routing protocol using path vector routing.

A) BGP
B) RIP
C) OSPF

CHAPTER 23 1
1 One of the main duties of the transport layer is to provide ____________ communication.
A) node-to-node
B) host-to-host
C) process-to-process
2 A client program normally uses ____________ port number. A server program normally
uses __________ port number.
A) a well-known; an ephemeral
B) an ephemeral; a well-known
C) a private; a well-known
3 A socket address is a combination of __________.

A) a MAC address and a logical address
B) a MAC address and a port number
C) a user-specific address and a logical address
4 ______________ means accepting items from more than one source. ______________
means delivering items to more than one source.
A) Demultiplexing; Multiplexing
B) Multiplexing; Demultiplexing
C) Encapsulation; Decapsulation
D) Pulling; Pushing
5 ________ means the producer delivers the items when they are produced. _______
means the consumer takes the items when it is ready to do so.
A) Pushing; Pulling
B) Pulling; Pushing
C) Forwarding; Accepting

CHAPTER 23 2
6 In the stop-and-wait protocol, the maximum send window size is ______ and the
maximum receive window size is _______, where m is the number of bits in
the sequence.
A) 1; 1
B) 2m; 1
C) 1; 2m
D) 2m ; 2m
7 In the Go-Back-N protocol, the maximum send window size is ______ and the maximum
receive window size is _______, where m is related to the number of
bits in the sequence number.
A) 1; 1
B) 1; 2m
C) 2m − 1; 1
D) 2m − 1; 2m – 1
8 In the selective-repeat protocol, the maximum send window size is ______ and the
maximum receive window size is _______, where m is the number of bits
in the sequence.
A) 1; 1
B) 1; 2m − 1
C) 2m − 1; 1
D) 2m − 1; 2m – 1
9 UDP is a ________________transport protocol.

A) connectionless, reliable
B) connection-oriented, unreliable
C) connectionless, unreliable
10 UDP is an acronym for _______.

A) User Delivery Protocol
B) User Datagram Procedure
C) User Datagram Protocol

CHAPTER 23 3
11 At the transport layer, to define the processes, we need two identifiers called
____________.
A) logical addresses
B) physical addresses
C) port addresses
12 The ports ranging from 0 to 1,023 are called the ___________ ports. The ports ranging
from 1,024 to 49,151 are called ___________ ports. The ports
ranging from 49,152 to 65,535 are called the ___________ ports.
A) well-known; registered; dynamic or private
B) registered; dynamic or private; well-known

C) private or dynamic; well-known; registered
D) private or dynamic; registered; well-known
13 UDP and TCP are two protocols at the ___________ layer.

A) data-link
B) network
C) transport
D) application
14 A port number is _______ bits long.

A) 8
B) 16
C) 32
D) 64
15 Communication at the transport layer is _________.

A) node-to-node
B) end-to-end
C) node-to-host
D) host-to-node

CHAPTER 23 4
16 In Go-Back-N, the values of Sf = 3 and Sn = 7, after receiving a packet with ackNo = 6,

the value of Sf is _______________.
A) 6
B) 7
C) 5

the value of Sn is _______________.
A) 6
B) 7
C) 5

the window ________.
A) slides two slots
B) slides one slot
C) slides three slots

D) does not slide
19 In Selective Repeat, the values of Sf = 3 and Sn = 7, after receiving a packet with ackNo
= 5, the window ________.
A) slides two slots
B) slides one slot
C) slides three slots
D) does not slide
20 In Selective Repeat, when a timeout occurs, the timer is ________.

A) stopped
B) started
C) reset (stopped and started)

1 CHAPTER 24
1 UDP and TCP are two protocols at the ___________ layer.

A) data-link
B) network
C) transport
D) application
2 A port number is _______ bits long.

A) 8
B) 16
C) 32
D) 64
3 Which of the following does UDP provide?

A) Flow control
B) Connection-oriented delivery
C) Error control
4 The source port number on the UDP user datagram header defines _______.
A) the sending computer
B) the receiving computer
C) the process running on the sending computer
5 To use the services of UDP, we need ________ socket addresses.

A) four
B) two
C) three
6 UDP packets are called __________.

A) user datagrams
B) segments
C) frames
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2 CHAPTER 24
7 UDP packets have a fixed-size header of _______ bytes.

A) 16
B) 8
C) 40
D) 32
8 TCP is a __________protocol.
A) byte-oriented
B) message-oriented
C) block-oriented
9 TCP groups a number of bytes together into a packet called a ___________.

A) user datagram
B) segment
C) datagram
10 TCP is a(n) ___________ protocol.

A) connection-oriented
B) connectionless
C) both connection-oriented and connectionless
11 TCP is a(n) _______ transport protocol.

A) unreliable
B) best-effort delivery
C) reliable
12 TCP uses _________________ to check the safe and sound arrival of data.
A) an acknowledgment mechanism
B) out-of-band signaling
C) the services of another protocol

3 CHAPTER 24
13 The bytes of data being transferred in each connection are numbered by TCP. The
numbering starts with a __________________.
A) 0
B) 1
C) randomly generated number
14 In TCP, the sequence number for each segment is the number of the _______ byte
(virtual byte) carried in that segment.
A) first
B) last
C) middle
15 Communication in TCP is ___________.

A) simplex
B) half-duplex
C) full-duplex
16 In TCP, the value of the acknowledgment field in a sent segment defines the sequence
number related to the ______byte a party expects to receive next.
A) first
B) last
C) next
17 The inclusion of the checksum in the TCP segment is ________.

A) optional
B) mandatory
C) depends on the type of data

4 CHAPTER 24
18 In TCP, a SYN segment consumes _____ sequence number(s).

A) no
B) one
C) two
19 In TCP, a SYN + ACK segment consumes _____ sequence numbers.

A) no
B) three
C) two
D) one
20 In TCP, an ACK segment, if carrying no data, consumes ______ sequence number(s).

A) no
B) one
C) two
21 The connection establishment procedure in TCP is susceptible to a serious security

problem called the _________ attack.
A) ACK flooding
B) FIN flooding
C) SYN flooding
22 The SYN flooding attack belongs to a group of security attacks known as a _____
attack.
A) denial of service
B) replay
C) man-in-the middle

5 CHAPTER 24
23 In TCP, a FIN segment consumes ____ sequence numbers if it does not carry data.
A) two
B) three
C) no
D) one
24 In TCP, a FIN + ACK segment consumes _____ sequence number(s) if it does not carry
data.
A) two
B) three
C) one
D) no
25 In TCP, one end can stop sending data while still receiving data. This is called a ______
termination.
A) half-close
B) half-open
C) full-close
26 TCP sliding windows are __________ oriented.

A) packet
B) segment
C) byte
27 In TCP, the size of the send window is the ________ of rwnd and cwnd.
A) maximum
B) sum of
C) minimum
28 In TCP, the window should not be _________.

A) opened
B) closed
C) shrunk
D) slide

6 CHAPTER 24
29 In TCP, the receiver can temporarily shut down the window; the sender, however, can
always send a segment of _____ byte(s) after the window is shut
down.
A) ten
B) zero
C) one
30 A serious problem can arise in the sliding window operation when either the sending
application program creates data slowly or the receiving application
program consumes data slowly, or both. This problem is called the ______.
A) silly window syndrome
B) unexpected syndrome
C) window bug
31 Nagle's algorithm can solve the silly window syndrome created by the _________.
A) sender
B) receiver
C) both sender and receiver
32 Clark's solution can solve the silly window syndrome created by the _________.
A) sender
B) receiver
33 Delayed acknowledgment can solve the silly window syndrome created by the
_________.
A) sender
B) receiver

7 CHAPTER 24
34 In TCP, an ACK segments that carry no data consumes _______ sequence number(s).
A) no
B) one
C) two
35 In modern implementations of TCP, a retransmission occurs if the retransmission timer

expires or ________ duplicate ACK segments have arrived.
A) one
B) two
C) three
36 In TCP, ________ retransmission timer is set for an ACK segment.

A) one
B) a previous
C) no
37 In TCP, there can be ______ RTT measurement(s) in progress at any time.

A) two
B) only one
C) several
38 We need to multiply the header length field by _______ to find the total number of bytes
in the TCP header.
A) 2
B) 4
C) 6

8 CHAPTER 24
39 In TCP, urgent data requires the urgent pointer field as well as the URG bit (to be set) in
the _______ field.
A) control
B) offset
C) sequence number
40 In TCP, if the ACK value is 200, then byte _______ has been received successfully.
A) 199
B) 200
C) 201
41 __________ control refers to the mechanisms and techniques to keep the load below
the capacity.
A) Flow
B) Error
C) Congestion
42 In TCP's ________ algorithm the size of the congestion window increases exponentially
until it reaches a threshold.
A) congestion avoidance
B) congestion detection
C) slow start
43 In TCP's __________ algorithm the size of the congestion window increases additively
until congestion is detected.
C) slow start

9 CHAPTER 24
44 ________ treats the two signs of congestion detections, timeout and three duplicate
ACKs, in the same way.
A) Taho TCP
B) Reno TCP
C) New Reno TCP
45 In ______ TCP, when the connection is established, TCP starts the slow start algorithms
and sets the ssthresh variable to a pre-agreed value (normally 64 or
128 kilobytes) and the cwnd variable to 1 MSS.
A) Taho
B) Reno
C) new Reno
46 The ___________ added a new state to the congestion control FSM, called the fast
recovery state.
A) Taho TCP
B) Reno TCP
C) new Reno TCP
47 The ___________ treated the two signals of congestion, timeout and arrival of three
duplicate ACKs, differently.
A) Taho TCP
B) Reno TCP
C) new Reno TCP
48 The __________ state in Reno TCP is a state somehow between the slow start and the
congestion avoidance states.
C) slow recovery

10 CHAPTER 24
49 In the Reno TCP, when TCP enters the fast recovery, if duplicate ACKs continue to
come, TCP ____________________________________.
A) stays in this state, but the cwnd grows additively
B) stays in this state, but the cwnd grows exponentially
C) moves to slow start state
D) moves to the congestion avoidance state but deflate the size of the cwnd to ssthresh
value
50 In the Reno TCP, when TCP enters the fast recovery, if a timeout occurs, TCP
____________________________________.

D) moves to the congestion avoidance state but deflate the size of the cwnd to ssthresh
value
51 In the Reno TCP, when TCP enters the fast recovery, if a new (non duplicate) ACK
arrives, TCP ____________________________________.
D) moves to the congestion avoidance state but deflates the size of the cwnd to ssthresh
value
52 A later version of TCP, called ______ TCP, made an extra optimization on the _______
TCP.
A) new Reno; Reno
B) new Taho; Taho
C) new Reno; Taho
D) new Taho; Reno

11 CHAPTER 24
53 In the slow start algorithm, the size of the congestion window grows ______________
until ___________________.
A) exponentially; it reaches a threshold
B) exponentially; congestion is detected
C) additively; it reaches a threshold
D) additively; congestion is detected
54 In the congestion avoidance algorithm, the size of the congestion window grows
______________.
A) exponentially; it reaches a threshold
B) exponentially; congestion is detected
C) additively; it reaches a threshold
D) additively; congestion is detected
55 The congestion window size, after it passes the initial slow start state, follows a saw
tooth pattern called _________________________________.
A) exponential increase, additive decrease
B) additive increase, exponential decrease
C) multiplicative increase, additive decrease
D) additive increase, multiplicative decrease
56 Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a new _____________protocol.

A) reliable, character-oriented
B) reliable, message-oriented
C) unreliable, message-oriented
57 SCTP allows __________ service in each association.

A) only single-stream
B) multistream
C) only double-stream

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58 In SCTP, a data chunk is numbered using ________.

A) a TSN
B) an SI
C) an SSN
59 To distinguish between different streams, SCTP uses ___________.

A) a TSN
B) an SI
C) an SSN
60 The control information in SCTP is carried in the ________.

A) header control field
B) control chunks
C) data chunks

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1 HTTP uses the services of _________.

A) UDP
B) IP
C) TCP
D) DNS
2 In HTTP, the first line in a request message is called a _______ line; the first line in the
response message is called the ________ line.
A) request; response
B) status; response
C) status; status
3 In a ___________ connection, one TCP connection is made for each request/response.

A) persistent
B) nonpersistent
C) persistent or a nonpersistent
4 In a ___________connection, the server leaves the connection open for more requests
after sending a response.
A) persistent
B) nonpersistent
C) persistent or nonpersistent
5 In HTTP, _______ server is a computer that keeps copies of responses to recent

requests.
A) a regular
B) a proxy
C) an auxiliary
D) a remote

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6 An HTTP request message always contains _______.

A) a header line and a body
B) a request line and a header line
C) a request line, a header line, and a body
D) a request line, a header line, a blank line, and a body
7 Which of the following is present in both an HTTP request line and a status line?
A) Version number
B) URL
C) Status code
D) Method
8 FTP uses the services of ________.

A) UDP
B) IP
C) TCP
9 In FTP, _________ well-known port(s) is (are) used.

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
10 During an FTP session the control connection is opened _______.

A) once
B) twice
C) many times
11 During an FTP session the data connection may be opened _______.

A) only once
B) only two times
C) as many times as needed

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12 In FTP, a file can be organized into records, pages, or a stream of bytes. These are
types of an attribute called _______.
A) file types
B) data structures
C) transmission modes
13 In FTP, there are three types of _______: stream, block, and compressed.
A) file types
B) data types
C) transmission modes
14 An FTP, ASCII, EBCDIC, and image define an attribute called _______.

A) file type
B) data structure
C) transmission mode
15 In FTP, when we _______, it is copied from the client to the server.

A) retrieve a file
B) store a file
C) open a file
16 In the common scenario, the electronic mail system needs _________________________.

A) two UAs, two MTAs, and one MAA
B) two UAs, two MTAs, and two MAAs
C) two UAs, two pairs of MTAs, and a pair of MAAs
D) two UAs, two pairs of MTAs, and two pairs of MAAs

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17 ________ provides service to the user to make the process of sending or receiving a
message easier.
A) An MTA
B) An MAA
C) A UA
18 An e-mail message contains the ________ and the __________.

A) header; envelop
B) header; body
C) envelop; body
19 In the Internet, an e-mail address consists of two parts: a _______ and a _______.
A) local part; domain name
B) global part; domain name
C) label; domain name
D) local part; label
20 _________ is a supplementary protocol that allows non-ASCII data to be sent through e-

mail.
A) SMPT
B) MPEG
C) MIME
D) POP
21 The formal protocol that defines the MTA client and server in the Internet is called
___________.
A) SMTP
B) SNMP
C) TELNET
D) SSH

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22 SMTP is a __________protocol.
A) pull
B) push
C) push and pull
23 The message access protocol is a ________ protocol.

A) pull
B) push
C) push and pull
24 In the _______ encoding scheme, each 24 bits become four 6-bit chunks, and
eventually are sent as 32 bits.
A) 8bit
B) binary
C) base64
D) quoted-printable
25 In the _______ encoding scheme, a non-ASCII character is sent as 3 characters.

A) 8bit
B) base64
C) quoted-printable
D) binary
26 TELNET is an abbreviation for ____________.

A) terminal network
B) telephone network
C) telecommunication network
27 When a user logs into a local time-sharing system, it is called ________ login.
A) local
B) remote
C) local or remote

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28 When a user wants to access an application program or utility located on a remote

machine, he or she performs ___________ login.
A) local
B) remote
C) local or remote
29 Network Virtual Terminal (NVT) uses two sets of characters, one for _____and one for
__________.
A) sending; receiving
B) request; reply
C) data; control
30 For data, NVT uses US ASCII characters with the highest order bit set to ______.
A) 1
B) 0
C) 1 or 0
31 For control, NVT uses US ASCII characters with the highest order bit set to ______.
A) 1
B) 0
C) 1 or 0
32 The _______ translates local characters into NVT characters.

A) terminal driver
B) TELNET client
C) TELNET server
D) pseudoterminal driver

CHAPTER 26
33 The _______ translates NVT characters into a form acceptable by the remote operating
system.
A) terminal driver
B) TELNET client
C) TELNET server
D) pseudoterminal driver
34 The _________ component in the SSH provides confidentiality, integrity, authentication,

and compression.
A) SSH Application
B) SSH-AUTH
C) SSH-CONN
D) SSH-TRAN
35 Port forwarding is ____________________________.

A) a protocol used to forward messages from one port to another port
B) a procedure for changing an ephemeral port to a well-known port
C) a service, provided by SSH, that creates a secure channel for applications that do not
have security services
36 In a (an) _______ name space, a name is a sequence of characters without structure.

A) linear
B) flat
C) hierarchical
D) organized
37 In a (an) _________name space, each name is made of several parts.

A) linear
B) flat
C) hierarchical
D) organized

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38 In the DNS, the names are defined in ___________ structure.

A) a linear list
B) an inverted-tree
C) a three-dimensional
39 The root of the DNS tree is _______.

A) a string of 127 characters
B) a string of 63 characters
C) a string of 15 characters
D) an empty string
40 In the domain name space, a full domain name is a sequence of labels separated by
________.
A) colons
B) semicolons
C) dots
D) commas
41 In the domain name space, if a label is terminated by a null string, it is called a

__________.
A) PQDN
B) CQDN
C) SQDN
42 In the domain name space, if a label is not terminated by a null string, it is called a
__________.
A) FQDN
B) PQDN
C) SQDN

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43 In the domain name space, a _________ is a subtree of the domain name space.
A) label
B) name
C) domain
44 In the domain name space, what a server is responsible for or has authority over is
called a _________.
A) domain
B) label
C) zone
45 A _______ server is a computer whose zone system consists of the whole tree.
A) domain
B) zone
C) root
D) primary
46 A ________ server is a computer that stores a file about the zone for which it has an
authority.
A) primary
B) secondary
C) zone
D) root
47 A ________ server is a computer that transfers the complete information about a zone
from another server.
A) primary
B) secondary
C) zone
D) root

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48 In the Internet, the country domain section uses ___________ country abbreviations.
A) two-character
B) three-character
C) four-character
49 In __________ resolution, the resolver expects the server to supply the final answer.
A) iterative
B) recursive
C) straight
50 In __________ resolution, the server returns the IP address of the server that it thinks can
resolve the query.
A) iterative
B) recursive
C) straight
51 DNS can use the services of ________.

A) UDP
B) TCP
C) either UDP or TCP

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3 The CSMA/CD algorithm does not work in wireless LAN because

5 In IEEE 802.11, a BSS without an AP is called _________.

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6 In IEEE 802.11, a BSS with an AP is sometimes referred to as ____________.

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15 In IEEE 802.11, when a frame is going from one AP to another AP in a wireless

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18 In IEEE 802.11, the addressing mechanism can include up to ______addresses.

D) None of the choices are correct

19 The original IEEE 802.11 uses _________.

20 The IEEE 802.11a uses _________.

21 The IEEE 802.11b uses _________.

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22 The IEEE 802.11g uses _________.

23 The IEEE 802.11 FHSS uses ______ modulation.

24 The IEEE 802.11 or IEEE 802.11b DSSS uses ______ modulation.

26 Bluetooth is a _______ technology that connects devices (called gadgets) in a small

27 In Bluetooth, multiple ________ form a network called a _________.

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28 A Bluetooth network consists of _____ primary device(s) and up to ____ secondary

29 In Bluetooth, the current data rate is ____Mbps.

30 The access method in Bluetooth is ________.

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1 A VLAN is a local area network configured by_____________.

2 A repeater is a connecting device that operates in the _______ layer(s).

3 A link-layer switch is a connecting device that operates in the _______ layer(s).

4 A router is a connecting device that operates in the _______ layer(s).

5 A _________ has no filtering capability.

6 A three-layer switch is a __________.

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7 A router filters packets based on the __________ destination addresses.

8 A link-layer switch filters packets based on the __________ destination addresses.

9 Looping problems in a set of swtiches can be eliminated using ___________ algorithm.

10 Membership in a VLAN can be based on ________.

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1 Packetizing at the network layer involves ___________________________.

2 Routers in the path are not allowed to ___________________________.

3 The network layer in the Internet provides _________________.

4 In a virtual-circuit approach, the forwarding decision is based on the value of the

5 In a datagram approach, the forwarding decision is based on the value of the

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6 The performance of a network can be measured in terms of ________.

7 Transmission delay (time) is the ratio of______________________.

8 Propagation delay (time) is the ratio of______________________.

10 In open-loop congestion control, policies are applied ____________________.

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11 The __________________ technique is one of the open-loop congestion policies.

12 The__________________ technique is one of the close-loop congestion policies.

13 An IPv4 address is normally represented in base ____ in dotted-decimal notation.

15 The number of addresses assigned to an organization in classless addressing _______.

16 The first address assigned to an organization in classless addressing _______.

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17 In subnetting, the number of addresses in each subnet must _______.

18 What is the default prefix length for class A in CIDR notation?

19 What is the default prefix length for class B in CIDR notation?

20 What is the default prefix length for class C in CIDR notation?

21 DHCP is a (an) ___________ layer protocol.

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23 DHCP uses the services of _______.

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2 An HLEN value of decimal 10 means _______.

27 In Bluetooth, multiple form a network called a _.

28 A Bluetooth network consists of _ primary device(s) and up to secondary