Reg.

No ______________ Quiz-1 S1
[1] Communication channel is shared by all the machines on the network in:
A. broadcast network
B. unicast network
C. multicast network
D. none of the mentioned
ANSWER:

[2] The physical layer concerns with:

E. bit-by-bit delivery
F. process to process delivery
G. application to application delivery
H. none of the mentioned
ANSWER:

[3] Three or more devices share a link in ________ connection:

I. Unipoint
J. Multipoint
K. Point to point
L. None of the mentioned
ANSWER:

[4] Determine the maximum length of the cable (in km) for transmitting data at a rate of 500 Mbps in
an Ethernet LAN with frames of size 10,000 bits. Assume the signal speed in the cable to be 2,
00,000 km/s.
A 1
B 2
C 2.5
D 5

ANSWER:
[5] Consider a selective repeat sliding window protocol that uses a frame size of 1 KB to send data on
a 1.5 Mbps link with a one-way latency of 50 msec. To achieve a link utilization of 60%, the
minimum number of bits required to represent the sequence number field is ________.
A 3
B 4
C 5
D 6

ANSWER:
[6] Which one of the following statements is FALSE?
A Packet switching leads to better utilization of bandwidth resources than circuit switching.
B Packet switching results in less variation in delay than circuit switching.
C Packet switching requires more per packet processing than circuit switching
D Packet switching can lead to reordering unlike in circuit switching
ANSWER:
[7] Which method sends the frames immediately once the station finds the line idle? Whereas if the
line is not idle, it continuously senses the line until it finds it idle.
A) p-persistent
B) nonpersistent
C) 1-persistent
D) None of the above
Answer

[8] Which technique reduces the chance of collision if a particular station senses the medium before
trying to use the medium?
A) CSMA
B) MA
C) CDMA
D) FDMA
Answer

[9] WHEN 2 OR MORE BITS IN A DATA UNIT HAS BEEN CHANGED DURING THE TRANSMISSION, THE
ERROR IS CALLED
A) RANDOM ERROR
B) BURST ERROR
C) INVERTED ERROR
D) NONE OF THE MENTIONED
ANSWER:
[10]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. 15
B. 16
C. 31
D. 1
ANSWER:
[1] Reg. No ______________ Quiz-1 S2
[1] Header of a frame generally contains:
A. synchronization bytes
B. addresses
C. frame identifier
D. all of the mentioned
ANSWER:

[2] The network layer concerns with:

A. bits
B. frames
C. packets
D. none of the mentioned
ANSWER:

[3] Which one of the following is not a function of network layer?

A. routing
B. inter-networking
C. congestion control
D. none of the mentioned
ANSWER:

[4] The checksum of 0000 and 0000 is __________.

A. 0000
B. 1111
C. 0111
D. 1110
ANSWER:

[5] Propagation delay depends on

A. Packet length
B. Transmission rate
C. Distance between the routers
D. None of the mentioned
ANSWER:

[6] Which of the following statements is TRUE about CSMA/CD

A. IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN runs CSMA/CD protocol
B. Ethernet is not based on CSMA/CD protocol
C. CSMA/CD is not suitable for a high propagation delay network like satellite network
D. There is no contention in a CSMA/CD network
ANSWER:

[7] In a packet switching network, if the message size is 48 bytes and each packet contains a
header of 3 bytes. If 24 packets are required to transmit the message, the packet size is
________.
A. 2 bytes
B. 1 bytes
C. 4 bytes
D. 5 bytes
ANSWER:
[8] The message 11001001 is to be transmitted using the CRC polynomial x^3 + 1 to protect it
from errors. The message that should be transmitted is:

A 11001001000

B 11001001011

C 11001010

D 110010010011

ANSWER:

[9] The Stop-And-Wait ARQ, Go-Back-N ARQ, and the Selective Repeat ARQ are for ______
channels.

A. noisy

B. noiseless

C. broadcast

D. multicast

ANSWER:

[10]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. 15

B. 16

C. 31

D. 1

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