Networking Interview Questions PDF
Networking Interview Questions PDF
2.What is simplex?
Ans: It is the mode of communication between two devices in which flow of data is
unidirectional. i.e. one can transmit and other can receive.
E.g. keyboard and monitor.
3.What is half-duplex?
Ans: It is the mode of communication between two devices in which flow of data is bi-
directional but not at the same time. ie each station can transmit and receive but not at the same
time.
E.g walkie-talkies are half-duplex system.
5.What is a network?
Ans: It is a set of devices connected by communication links. A node can be a computer or any
other device capable of sending and/or receiving data generated by other nodes on the network.
9.What is a topology?
Ans: Topology of a network is defined as the geometric representation of the relationship of all
the links and linking devices (node) to one another.Four basic topologies are star, bus, ring and
mesh.
Star Here each device has a dedicated point to point link only to a central controller called hub.
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Bus -It is multipoint. One long cable acts as a backbone to link all the devices in the network.
Ring -Here each device has a dedicated point to point connection only with the two devices on
either side of it.
Mesh -Here every device has a dedicated point to point link to every other device.
11.Define internet?
Ans: It is a network of networks.
12.What is a protocol?
Ans: It is a set of rules that governs data communication. A protocol defines what is
communicated, how it is communicated, and when it is communicated. The key elements of
protocol are syntax, semantics and timing.
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Presentation-It was designed to handle the syntax and semantics of the information exchanged
between the two systems. It was designed for data translation, encryption, decryption, and
compression.
16.What is switching?
Ans: Switching in data communication is of three types
Circuit switching
Packet switching
Message switching
19.Define bandwidth?
Ans: The range of frequencies that a medium can pass is called bandwidth. It is the difference
between the highest and lowest frequencies that the medium can satisfactorily pass.
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24.What is sampling?
Ans: It is the process of obtaining amplitude of a signal at regular intervals.
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32.What is FDM?
Ans: In frequency division multiplexing each signal modulates a different carrier frequency. The
modulated carrier combines to form a new signal that is then sent across the link.
Here multiplexers modulate and combine the signal while demultiplexers decompose and
demodulate.
Guard bands keep the modulating signal from overlapping and interfering with one another.
32.What is TDM ?
Ans: In TDM digital signals from n devices are interleaved with one another, forming a frame of
data.
Framing bits allow the TDM multiplexer to synchronize properly.
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overwhelmed.i.e. flow control refers to a set of procedures used to restrict the amount of data
that the sender can send before waiting for acknowledgement.
51.What is HDLC?
Ans: It is a bit oriented data link protocol designed to support both half duplex and full duplex
communication over point to point and multi point links.HDLC is characterized by their station
type,configuration and their response modes.
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59.What is IP address?
Ans: The internet address (IP address) is 32bits that uniquely and universally defines a host or
router on the internet.
The portion of the IP address that identifies the network is called netid. The portion of the IP
address that identifies the host or router on the network is called hostid.
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distance is significantly greater than that of other guided media.Higher bandwidth-It can support
higher bandwidth.
65.What are the factors for evaluating the suitability of the media ?
Ans: The factors are cost,throughput,attenuation,Electromagneric interference(EMI),securtty.
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73.What is FDDI?
Ans: It is high performance fiber optic token ring LAN running at 100Mbps over distance up
1000 stations.FDDI access is limited by time.A FDDI cabling consist of two fiber rings.
i)one transmitting clockwise
ii)one transmitting counterclockwise
74.What is Firewalls?
Ans: It is an electronic downbridge which is used to enhance the security of a network. Its
configuration has two components.
i)Two routers
ii)Application gateway
the packets traveling through the LAN are inspected here and packets meeting certain criteria are
forwarded and others are dropped.
75.What is Repeaters ?
Ans: A receiver receives a signal before it becomes too weak or corrupted,regenerates the
original bit pattern,and puts the refreshed copy back onto the link.It operates on phycal layer of
OSI model.
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76.What is Bridges?
Ans: They divide large network into smaller components.They can relay frames between two
originally separated LANs.They provide security through partitioning traffic.They operate on
phycal and data link layer of OSI model.
77.What is Routers ?
Ans: Router relay packets among multiple interconnected networks.They receive packet from
one connected network and pass it to another network.They have access to network layer
addresses and certain software that enables them to determine which path is best for transmission
among several paths.They operate on phycal,data link and network layer of OSI model.
78.What is Gateway ?
Ans: It is a protocol converter.A gateway can accept a packet formatted for one protocol and
convert it to a packet formatted for another protocol.It operates on all the seven layers of OSI
model.
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89.Define TCP ?
Ans: It is connection oriented protocol.It consist byte streams oeiginating on one machine to be
delivered without error on any other machine in the network.while transmitting it fragments the
stream to discrete messages and passes to interner layer.At the destination it reassembles the
messages into output stream.
90.Define UDP ?
Ans: It is unreliable connectionless protocol.It is used for one-shot,client-server type,requesr-
reply queries and applications in which prompt delivery is required than accuracy.
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91.Define IP ?
Ans: Internetwork protocol (IP) is the transmission mechanism used by TCP/IP protocol.It is an
unreliable and connectionless datagram protocol.It provides no error checking and tracking.
93.What are the information that a computer attached to a TCP/IP internet must possesses
?
Ans: Each computer attached to TCP/IP must possesses the following information
Its IP addesss
Its subnet mask
The IP addesss of the router.
The Ip address of the name server.
95.What is TELNET ?
Ans: TELNET is a client server application that allows a user to log on to a remote
machine,giving the user access to the remote system. TELNET is an abbreviation of terminal
Network.
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efficiency allows its use in a hypertext environment where there are rapid jumps from one
document to another.
100.What is URL ?
Ans: It is a standard for specifying any kind of information on the World Wide Web.
102.What is HTML ?
Ans: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a language for creating static web pages
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