University of Information Technology

Networking Fundamentals (CST-22403)

2023-2024 Academic Year, Semester IV
Second Year (Section B)
Tutorial 1
Date: 28.12.2023

I. Choose the correct answer. (5 marks)

1. An ______is a private collection of LANs and WANs internal to an
organization to be accessible only to the organizations members.
(a) intranet (c) internet
(b) extranet (d) none of these
2. ______means data is accurate and has not been modified by an
unauthorized user.
(a) Security (c) Availability
(b) Integrity (d) Confidentiality
3. ________ is the process of converting information into another
acceptable form for transmission.
(a) Decoding (c) Encoding
(b) Encryption (d) Decryption

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 4. _____is about protecting data against unintentional and only
intended recipients can read the data.
(a) Confidentiality (c) Availability
(b) Integrity (d) Security
5. In a _____network, it is possible to have a device be a client and a
server, computers on the network are equal, where computers are
able to communicate with one another and share data.
(a) Client-Server (c) Centralized
(b) peer-to-peer (d) Decentralized

II.(a) Describe three components of message timing in a computer

network. (5 marks)
(b) Describe the four basic characteristics of a reliable network that the
underlying architectures need to address to meet user expectations.
(10 marks)