COMUTER NETWORKS

1. What is a computer network?

a) A device used to display information on a computer screen
b) A collection of interconnected computers and devices that can
communicate and share resources
c) A type of software used to create documents and presentations
d) The physical casing that protects a computer’s internal components
2. What is internet?
a) A network of interconnected local area networks
b) A collection of unrelated computers
c) Interconnection of wide area networks
d) A single network
3. Which of the following is an example of Bluetooth?
a) wide area network
b) virtual private network
c) local area network
d) personal area network
4. What is the full form of OSI?
a) optical service implementation
b) open service Internet
c) open system interconnection
d) operating system interface
5. Which of the following devices forwards packets between networks by processing
the routing information included in the packet?
a) firewall
b) bridge
c) hub
d) router
6. What is the term for an endpoint of an inter-process communication flow across a
computer network?
a) port
b) machine
c) socket
d) pipe
7. How do two devices become part of a network?
a) PIDs of the processes running of different devices are same
b) a process in one device is able to exchange information with a process in
another device
c) a process is active and another is inactive
d) a process is running on both devices
8. Which topology requires a multipoint connection?
a) Ring
b) Bus
c) Star
d) Mesh
9. Which of the following maintains the Domain Name System?
a) a single server
b) a single computer
c) distributed database system
d) none of the mentioned
10. Which of the following networks extends a private network across public
networks?
a) virtual private network
b) local area network
c) storage area network
d) enterprise private network
11. What is the term for the data communication system within a building or
campus?
a) MAN
b) LAN
c) PAN
d) WAN
12. What was the name of the first network?
a) ASAPNET
b) ARPANET
c) CNNET
d) NSFNET
13. Which network topology requires a central controller or hub?
a) Ring
b) Bus
c) Star
d) Mesh
14. A _______ is the physical path over which a message travels.
a) Path
b) Medium
c) Protocol
d) Route
15. Three or more devices share a link in ________ connection.
a) Unipoint
b) Multipoint
c) Point to point
d) Simplex
16. The idea of Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET) came into
existence on ___ year
a)1960 c)1970
b)1961 d)1971
17. who develops network messaging or E-mail.
A) Alan Turing b)Dennis Ritchie
c) Roy Tomlinson d) Charles Babbage
18. The term Internet was coined ___
a)1965 c)1974
b)1961 d)1971
19. First version of Wi-fi ____802.11)
a)802.11 c)800.11
b)800.12 d)802.21

PAN ( Personal Area Network)

LAN (Local Area Network)
MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)
WAN (Wide Area Network)
20. Modem stands for__________
Ans: MOdulator DEModulator
21. Ethernet card, also known as
Ans: Network Interface Card
22. Abbrivation of RJ 45
Ans: Registered Jack-45
23._____ Network connects computers and other LANs and MANs?
Ans: Wide Area Network (WAN)
24. “Gateway” suggests, it is a____
Ans: key access point
25. Each communicating device is connected with every other device in the network
Ans: Mesh Topology
26. Each node is connected to two other devices, one each on either side
Ans: Ring Topology
27. Each communicating device connects to a transmission medium know as_____
Ans: Bus Topology
28. Each communicating device is connected to a central node
Ans: Star Topology
29. one or more basic topologies like star, ring and bus is known as____
Ans: Tree or Hybrid Topology

30. MAC stands for _____

Ans: Media Access Control
31. OUI = Organisational Unique Identifier
32. IP address = Internet Protocol address
33. Initial IP Address called version 4 (IPV4 in short), is a 32 bit numeric address
34. An IPv6 address is represented by eight groups of hexadecimal (base-16)
numbers separated by colons
35. WWW = World Wide Web
36. HTML – HyperText Markup Language
37. URI – Uniform Resource Identifier.
38. URL- Uniform Resource Locator

39.
40. HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol