Computer Networks

1. When collection of various computers seems a single coherent system to its

client, then it is called
A. computer network
B. distributed system
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

2. Two devices are in network if

A. a process in one device is able to exchange information with a process in another device
B. a process is running on both devices
C. pids of the processes running of different devices are same
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

3. Which one of the following computer network is built on the top of another
network?
A. prior network
B. chief network
C. prime network
D. overlay network
Answer:D

4. In computer network nodes are

A. the computer that originates the data
B. the computer that routes the data
C. the computer that terminates the data
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

5. 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:A

6. Bluetooth is an example of
A. personal area network
B. local area network
C. virtual private network
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

7. A is a device that forwards packets between networks by processing the

routing information included in the packet.
A. bridge
B. firewall
C. router
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:C

8. A list of protocols used by a system, one protocol per layer, is called

A. protocol architecture
B. protocol stack
C. protocol suit
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

9. Network congestion occurs

A. in case of traffic overloading
B. when a system terminates
C. when connection between two nodes terminates
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

10. Which one of the following extends a private network across public networks?
 A. local area network
B. virtual private network
C. enterprise private network
D. storage area network
Answer:B

11. OSI stands for

A. open system interconnection
B. operating system interface
C. optical service implementation
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

12. The OSI model has layers.

A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
Answer:D

13. TCP/IP model does not have layer but OSI model have this layer.
A. session layer
B. presentation layer
C. application layer
D. both (a) and (b)
Answer:D

14. Which layer links the network support layers and user support layers
A. session layer
B. data link layer
C. transport layer
D. network layer
Answer:C

15. Which address is used in an internet employing the TCP/IP protocols?

 A. physical address and logical address
B. port address
C. specific address
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

16. TCP/IP model was developed the OSI model.

A. prior to
B. after
C. simultaneous to
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

17. Which layer is responsible for process to process delivery?

A. network layer
B. transport layer
C. session layer
D. data link layer
Answer:B

18. Which address identifies a process on a host?

A. physical address
B. logical address
C. port address
D. specific address
Answer:C

19. Which layer provides the services to user?

A. application layer
B. session layer
C. presentation layer
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

20. Transmission data rate is decided by

 A. network layer
B. physical layer
C. data link layer
D. transport layer
Answer:B

21. Which transmission media has the highest transmission speed in a network?
A. coaxial cable
B. twisted pair cable
C. optical fiber
D. electrical cable
Answer:C

22. Bits can be send over guided and unguided media as analog signal by
A. digital modulation
B. amplitude modulation
C. frequency modulation
D. phase modulation
Answer:A

23. The portion of physical layer that interfaces with the media access control
sublayer is called
A. physical signalling sublayer
B. physical data sublayer
C. physical address sublayer
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

24. physical layer provides

A. mechanical specifications of electrical connectors and cables
B. electrical specification of transmission line signal level
C. specification for ir over optical fiber
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

25. In asynchronous serial communication the physical layer provides

 A. start and stop signalling
B. flow control
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

26. The physical layer is responsible for

A. line coding
B. channel coding
C. modulation
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

27. The physical layer translates logical communication requests from the
into hardware specific operations.
A. data link layer
B. network layer
C. trasnport layer
D. application layer
Answer:A

28. A single channel is shared by multiple signals by

A. analog modulation
B. digital modulation
C. multiplexing
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

29. Wireless transmission can be done via

A. radio waves
B. microwaves
C. infrared
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D
30. The data link layer takes the packets from and encapsulates them into
frames for transmission.
A. network layer
B. physical layer
C. transport layer
D. application layer
Answer:A

31. Which one of the following task is not done by data link layer?
A. framing
B. error control
C. flow control
D. channel coding
Answer:D

32. Which sublayer of the data link layer performs data link functions that depend
upon the type of medium?
A. logical link control sublayer
B. media access control sublayer
C. network interface control sublayer
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

33. Header of a frame generally contains

A. synchronization bytes
B. addresses
C. frame identifier
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

34. Automatic repeat request error management mechanism is provided by

A. logical link control sublayer
B. media access control sublayer
C. network interface control sublayer
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

35. 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:B

36. CRC stands for

A. cyclic redundancy check
B. code repeat check
C. code redundancy check
D. cyclic repeat check
Answer:A

37. Which one of the following is a data link protocol?

A. ethernet
B. point to point protocol
C. hdlc
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

38. Which one of the following is the multiple access protocol for channel access
control?
A. csma/cd
B. csma/ca
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

39. The technique of temporarily delaying outgoing outgoing acknowledgements so

that they can be hooked onto the next outgoing data frame is called
A. piggybacking
B. cyclic redundancy check
 C. fletcher’s checksum
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

40. The network layer concerns with

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

41. 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:D

42. The 4 byte IP address consists of

A. network address
B. host address
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

43. In virtual circuit network each packet contains

A. full source and destination address
B. a short vc number
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

44. Which one of the following routing algorithm can be used for network layer
design?
A. shortest path algorithm
B. distance vector routing
 C. link state routing
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

45. Multidestination routing

A. is same as broadcast routing
B. contains the list of all destinations
C. data is not sent by packets
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

46. A subset of a network that includes all the routers but contains no loops is
called
A. spanning tree
B. spider structure
C. spider tree
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

47. Which one of the following algorithm is not used for congestion control?
A. traffic aware routing
B. admission control
C. load shedding
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:D

48. The network layer protocol of internet is

A. ethernet
B. internet protocol
C. hypertext transfer protocol
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

49. ICMP is primarily used for

A. error and diagnostic functions
B. addressing
 C. forwarding
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

50. Transport layer aggregates data from different applications into a single
stream before passing it to
A. network layer
B. data link layer
C. application layer
D. physical layer
Answer:A

51. Which one of the following is a transport layer protocol used in internet?
A. tcp
B. udp
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

52. User datagram protocol is called connectionless because

A. all udp packets are treated independently by transport layer
B. it sends data as a stream of related packets
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

53. Transmission control protocol is

A. connection oriented protocol
B. uses a three way handshake to establish a connection
C. recievs data from application as a single stream
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

54. An endpoint of an inter-process communication flow across a computer

network is called
A. socket
 B. pipe
C. port
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

55. Socket-style API for windows is called

A. wsock
B. winsock
C. wins
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

56. Which one of the following is a version of UDP with congestion control?
A. datagram congestion control protocol
B. stream control transmission protocol
C. structured stream transport
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

57. A is a TCP name for a transport service access point.

A. port
B. pipe
C. node
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

58. Transport layer protocols deals with

A. application to application communication
B. process to process communication
C. node to node communication
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

59. The translates internet domain and host names to IP address.

A. domain name system
 B. routing information protocol
C. network time protocol
D. internet relay chat
Answer:A

60. Teredo is an automatic tunneling technique. In each client the obfuscated IPv4
address is represented by bits
A. 96 to 127
B. 0 to 63
C. 80 to 95
D. 64 to 79
Answer:A

61. Which one of the following allows a user at one site to establish a connection to
another site and then pass keystrokes from local host to remote host?
A. http
B. ftp
C. telnet
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

62. Application layer protocol defines

A. types of messages exchanged
B. message format, syntax and semantics
C. rules for when and how processes send and respond to messages
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

63. Which one of the following protocol delivers/stores mail to reciever server?
A. simple mail transfer protocol
B. post office protocol
C. internet mail access protocol
D. hypertext transfer protocol
Answer:A

64. The ASCII encoding of binary data is called

 A. base 64 encoding
B. base 32 encoding
C. base 16 encoding
D. base 8 encoding
Answer:A

65. Which one of the following is an internet standard protocol for managing
devices on IP network?
A. dynamic host configuration protocol
B. simple newtwork management protocol
C. internet message access protocol
D. media gateway protocol
Answer:B

66. Which one of the following is not an application layer protocol?

A. media gateway protocol
B. dynamic host configuration protocol
C. resource reservation protocol
D. session initiation protocol
Answer:C

67. Which protocol is a signalling communication protocol used for controlling

multimedia communication sessions?
A. session initiation protocol
B. session modelling protocol
C. session maintenance protocol
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

68. Which one of the following is not correct?

A. application layer protocols are used by both source and destination devices during a
communication session
B. application layer protocols implemented on the source and destination host must match
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

69. When displaying a web page, the application layer uses the
A. http protocol
B. ftp protocol
C. smtp protocol
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

70. The entire hostname has a maximum of

A. 255 characters
B. 127 characters
C. 63 characters
D. 31 characters
Answer:A

71. A DNS client is called

A. dns updater
B. dns resolver
C. dns handler
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

72. Servers handle requests for other domains

A. directly
B. by contacting remote dns server
C. it is not possible
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

73. DNS database contains

A. name server records
B. hostname-to-address records
C. hostname aliases
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

74. If a server has no clue about where to find the address for a hostname then
A. server asks to the root server
B. server asks to its adjcent server
C. request is not processed
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

75. Which one of the following allows client to update their DNS entry as their IP
address change?
A. dynamic dns
B. mail transfer agent
C. authoritative name server
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

76. Wildcard domain names start with label

A. @
B. *
C. &
D. #
Answer:B

77. The right to use a domain name is delegated by domain name registers which
are accredited by
A. internet architecture board
B. internet society
C. internet research task force
D. internet corporation for assigned names and numbers
Answer:D

78. The domain name system is maintained by

A. distributed database system
B. a single server
C. a single computer
 D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

79. Which one of the following is not true?

A. multiple hostnames may correspond to a single ip address
B. a single hostname may correspond to many ip addresses
C. a single hostname may correspond to a single ip address
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

80. Telnet protocol is used to establish a connection to

A. tcp port number 21
B. tcp port number 22
C. tcp port number 23
D. tcp port number 24
Answer:C

81. Which one of the following is not true?

A. telnet defines a network virtual terminal (nvt) standard
B. client programs interact with nvt
C. server translates nvt operations
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:D

82. All telnet operations are sent as

A. 4 bytes
B. 8 bytes
C. 16 bytes
D. 32 bytes
Answer:B

83. AbsoluteTelnet is a telnet client for

A. windows
B. linux
C. mac
 D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

84. The decimal code of interpret as command (IAC) character is

A. 252
B. 253
C. 254
D. 255
Answer:D

85. In character mode operation of telnet implementation

A. each character typed is sent by the client to the server
B. each character typed is discarded by the server
C. both (a) an (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

86. Which one of the following is not correct?

A. telnet is a general purpose client-server program
B. telnet lets user access an application on a remote computer
C. telnet can also be used for file transfer
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

87. Which operating mode of telnet is full duplex?

A. default mode
B. server mode
C. line mode
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:C

88. If we want that a character be interpreted by the client instead of server

A. escape character has to be used
B. control functions has to be disabled
C. it is not possible
 D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

89. Dynamic web page

A. is same every time whenever it displays
B. generates on demand by a program or a request from browser
C. both (a) and (b)
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:B

90. What is a web browser?

A. a program that can display a web page
B. a program used to view html documents
C. it enables user to access the resources of internet
D. all of the mentioned
Answer:D

91. Common gateway interface is used to

A. generate executable files from web content by web server
B. generate web pages
C. stream videos
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

92. URL stands for

A. unique reference label
B. uniform reference label
C. uniform resource locator
D. unique resource locator
Answer:C

93. A web cookie is a small piece of data

A. sent from a website and stored in user’s web browser while a user is browsing a website
B. sent from user and stored in the server while a user is browsing a website
C. sent from root server to all servers
 D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

94. Which one of the following is not used to generate dynamic web pages?
A. php
B. asp.net
C. jsp
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:D

95. An alternative of javascript on windows platform is

A. vbscript
B. asp.net
C. jsp
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

96. What is document object model (DOM)?

A. convention for representing and interacting with objects in html documents
B. application programming interface
C. hierarchy of objects in asp.net
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

97. AJAX stands for

A. asynchronous javascript and xml
B. advanced jsp and xml
C. asynchronous jsp and xml
D. advanced javascript and xml
Answer:A

98. Multiple object can be sent over a TCP connection between client and server in
A. persistent http
B. nonpersistent http
C. both (a) and (b)
 D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

99. HTTP is protocol.

A. application layer
B. transport layer
C. network layer
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A

100. In the network HTTP resources are located by

A. uniform resource identifier
B. unique resource locator
C. unique resource identifier
D. none of the mentioned
Answer:A