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433-522 Internet Technologies: Practice Exam

This document contains a practice exam for the 433-522 Internet Technologies course. It consists of 20 multiple choice questions covering various topics related to wireless and mobile computing, data transmission protocols, routing algorithms, IP addressing, encryption techniques, audio/video compression, network protocols like UDP, DNS, IMAP, and SNMP.

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433-522 Internet Technologies: Practice Exam

This document contains a practice exam for the 433-522 Internet Technologies course. It consists of 20 multiple choice questions covering various topics related to wireless and mobile computing, data transmission protocols, routing algorithms, IP addressing, encryption techniques, audio/video compression, network protocols like UDP, DNS, IMAP, and SNMP.

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433.

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433-522 Internet Technologies

Practice Exam

Question 1:
Give two examples to explain why wireless computing does not necessarily mean mobile computing
and mobile computing does not necessarily mean wireless computing.

Question 2:
Briefly explain one of the main reasons why coaxial cables can be preferred to a twisted pair.

Question 3:
Why do we need two keys and the public-key algorithms when we can simply use symmetric-key
algorithms with one key?

Question 4:
What is a Message Digest? Briefly explain.

Question 5:
What is bit stuffing? Explain briefly in the context of the Data Link Layer.

Question 6:
Compare Go-Back-N and Selective Repeat elementary Data Link protocols, what is the main trade-off
between the two?

Question 7:
Briefly explain the relative strengths and weaknesses of contention and contention free protocols in
the MAC sublayer.

Question 8:
Briefly explain how the basic Bit-Map collision-free protocol works.

Question 9:
Increasing the bandwidth given a frame size is accepted as a perfect strategy to improve the Ethernet
performance. State why this statement may not be true.

Question 10:
What is a routing algorithm in the context of the Network Layer?

Question 11:
What do adaptive routing algorithms take into account in comparison to non-adaptive ones?
433.522 Practice exam
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Question 12:
A Class A network uses a subnet mask of 255.254.0.0. How many subnets are available in the Class A
network if it uses this mask? Note that a Class A network has a 24 bit host field.

Question 13:
What does a transposition cipher do?

Question 14:
What is perceptual coding in the context of Audio Compression? Name one example technique.

Question 15:
What is UDP? Briefly explain.

Question 16:
What is a Remote Procedure Call? Give one reason why it cannot be implemented under all
circumstances using UDP.

Question 17:
What is DNS and why do we need it?

Question 18:
What is IMAP and why do we need it while we can use POP3?

Question 19:
What is the difference between a plugin and a helper application in the context of the WWW?

Q20 is not covered in this semester.


Question 20:
List 3 protocol operations provided by SNMP Version 1, and briefly explain the purpose of each of
these protocol operations.

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