Networking Notes Topology Long Answer Type Questions
Networking Notes Topology Long Answer Type Questions
1. Jave Script
2. ASP
3. VB Script
4. JSP
(g) Intelligent Hub India is a knowledge community aimed to uplift the standard of skills and
knowledge in the society. It is planning to setup its training centres in multiple towns and villages
pan India with its head offices in the nearest cities. They have created a model of their network
with a city, a town and 3 villages as given.
As a network consultant, you have to suggest the best network related solution for their
issues/problems raised
in (i) to (iv) keeping in mind the distance between various locations and given
parameters.
Note:
• In Villages, there are community centres, in which one room has been given as
training center to this organiza¬tion to install computers.
• The organization has got financial support from the government and top IT companies.
1. Suggest the most appropriate location of the SERVER in the YHUB (out of the 4 locations),
to get the best and effective connectivity. Justify your answer.
2. Suggest the best wired medium and draw the cable layout (location to location) to efficiently
connect vari¬ous locations within the YHUB.
3. Which hardware device will you suggest to connect all the computers within each location of
YHUB?
4. Which server/protocol will be most helpful to conduct live interaction of Experts from
Head office and people at YHUB locations?
Answer:
1.(a)
OR
(b) FTP or Telnet or TCP
FTP OR Telnet OR TCP
(c) Speed
OR
(Any other correct advantage can be considered)
(d) Makes web more interactive through online social media. Supports
easy online information exchange.
Interoperability on the internet.
Video sharing possible in the websites.
(e)
(f)
(g)(i) YTOWN
Justification
Question 2:
Indian School, in Mumbai is starting up the network between its different wings. There are four
Buildings named as SENIOR, JUNIOR, ADMIN and HOSTEL as shown below:
The distance between various buildings is as follows:
Answer:
1.
2. Server can be placed in the ADMIN building as it has the maxium number of
computer.
3. Repeater can be placed between ADMIN
and SENIOR building as the distance is more than 110 m.
4. Radiowaves can be used in hilly regions as they can travel through obstacles.
Question 3:
Vidya Senior Secondary Public School in Nainital is setting up the network between its different
wings. There are 4 wings named as SENIOR(S), JUNIOR(J), ADMIN(A) and HOSTEL(H).
Distance between various wings are given below:
Answer:
1.
2. Server should be in Wing S as it has the maxi-mum number of computers. 1
3. All Wings need hub/switch as it has more than one
computer.
4. Since the distance is more, wireless transmission would be better. Radiowaves are
reliable and can travel through obstacles.
Question 5:
1. Which out ot three type of networks LAN. MAN and WAN, is to be used when an institute
connects computers of two adjacent computer laboratories ?
2. What is the difference between HTTP and FTP?
3. What is the major difference between Message Switching and Packet Switching in
networking?
4. What is the basic difference between DNS and URL?
5. Give two applications of web 2.0.
6. Categories the following under client side and Server-Side script category?
JSP
ASP
VBScript
Jave Script
Answer:
1. web hosting
2. web browsing
3. web Indexing
4. web searching
1. JSP
2. Java Script
Server Side Scripts
3. ASP
4. VB Script
Question 6:
Trine Tech Corporation (TTC) is a professional consultancy company. The company is planning to
set up their new offices in India with its hub at Hyderabad. As a network adviser, you have to
understand their requirement and suggest them the best available solutions. Their queries are
mentioned as (i) to (iv) below.
Physical Locations of the blocked of TTC
1. What will be the most appropriate block, where TTC should plan to install their server?
2. Draw a block to cable layout to connect all the buildings in the most appropriate manner for
efficient communication.
3. What will be the best possible connectivity out of the following, you will suggest to connect
the new setup of offices in Bangalore with its London based office:
Satellite Link
Infrared
Ethernet Cable
4. Which of the following device will be suggested by you to connect each computer in each of
the buildings:
Switch
Modem
Gateway
Answer:
2.
3. Satellite link
4. Switch
Question 7:
G.R.K International Inc. is planning to connect its Bengaluru Office Setup with its Head Office in
Delhi. The Bengaluru Office G.R.K. international Inc. is spread across and area of approx. 1
square kilometer, consisting of 3 blocks – Human Resources, Academics and Administration.
You as a network expert have to suggest answers to the four queries (i) to (iv) raised by them.
Notes : Keep the distance between blocks and number of computers in each block in mind,
while providing them the solutions.
1. Suggest the most suitable block in the Bengaluru Office Setup, to host the server. Give a
suitable reason with your suggestion.
2. Suggest the cable layout among the various blocks within the Bengaluru Office Setup for
connecting the Blocks.
3. Suggest a suitable networking device to be installed in each of the blocks essentially
required for connecting computers inside the blocks with fast and efficient connectivity.
4. Suggest the most suitable media to provide secure, fast and reliable data
connectivity between Delhi Head Office and the Bengaluru Office Setup.
Answer:
Question 8:
Rovenza Communications International (RCI) is an online corporate training provider company
for IT related courses. The company is setting up their new compus in Kolkata. You as a network
expert have to study the physical locations of various blocks and the number of computers to be
installed. In the planning phase, provide the best possible answers for the queries (i) to (iv) raised
by them.
1. Suggest the most appropriate block, where RCI should plan to install the server.
2. Suggest the most appropriate block to block cable layout to connect all three blocks for
efficient communication.
3. Which type of network out of the following is formed by connecting the computers of these
three blocks?
LAN
MAN
WAN
4. Which wireless channel out of the following should be opted by RCI to connect to students
from all over the world?
Infrared
Microwave
Satellite
5. Write two advantages of using open source software over proprietary software.
6. Which of the following crime(s) does not come under cybercrime?
Copying some important data from a computer without taking permission from the
owner of-the data.
Stealing keyboard and mouse from a shop.
Getting into unknown person’s social networking account and start
messaging on his behalf.
Answer:
Question 9:
Answer:
1. Star Topology
2. Bus Topology
1. VOIP
2. SMTP
Answer:
Answer:
A computer enthusiast, who uses his computer programming skill to intentionally access a
computer without authorization is known as hacker. A hacker accesses the computer without the
intention of destroying data or maliciously harming the computer.
(iv) The following is a 32 bit binary number usually represented as 4 decimal values, each
representing 8 bits, in the range 0 to 255 (known as octets) separated by decimal points.
140.179.220.200
What is it? What is its importance?
Answer:
It is an IP Address. It is used to identify the computers on a network.
(v) Daniel has to share the data among various computes of his two offices branches
situated in the same city. Name the network (out of LAN, WAN, PAN and MAN) which is being
formed in this process.
Answer:
MAN
(vi) Rehaana Medicos Center has set up its new center in Dubai. It has four buildings as shown
in the diagram given below:
As a network expert, provide the best possible answer for the following queries:
Answer:
1. Layout 1
2. The most suitable place / building to house the server of this organization would be building
Research Lab, as this building contains the maximum number of computers.
3. Since the cabling distance between Accounts to Store is quite large, so a repeater would
ideally be needed along their path to avoid loss of signals during the course of data flow in
this route.
4. Firewall.
Question 10:
1. Suggest the most appropriate building, where EPG should plan to install the server.
2. Suggest the most appropriate building to building cable layout to connect all three buildings
for efficient communication.
3. Which type of network out of the following is formed by connecting the computers of these
three buildings?
LAN
MAN
WAN
4. Which wireless channel out of the following should be opted by EPG to connect to students
of all over the world?
Infrared
Microwave
Satellite
Answer:
Question 11:
To provide telemedicine faculty in a hilly state, a computer network is to be setup to connect
hospitals in 6 small villages (VI, V2, …, V6) to the base hospital (H) in the state capital. This is
shown in the following diagram.
No village is more than 20 km away from the state capital.
Imagine yourself as a computer consultant for this project and answer the following questions
with justification:
1. Out of the following what kind of link should be provided to setup this network:
Microwave link, Radio Link, Wired Link ?
2. What kind of network will be formed; LAN, MAN, or WAN ?
3. Many times doctors at village hospital will have to consult senior doctors at the base
hospital. For this purpose, how should they contact them: using email, sms, telephone, or
video conference ?
(b) Out of SMTP and POP3 which protocol is used to receive emails ?
(c) What are cookies in the context of computer networks?
(d) Rajeshwari is trying for on-line subscription to a magazine. For this she has filled in a form on
the magazine’s web site. When the clicks submit button she gets a message that she has left e-
mail field empty and she must fill it. For such checking which type of script is generally executed
client side script or server-side script ?
(e) Mention any one difference between free-ware and free software.
Answer:
(a)
1. Radio Link
2. MAN
3. e-mail
(b) POP3
(c) Cookies are files that store user information that is used to identify the user when he logs into
the system.
(d) Server-side script
(e) Freeware is a software that has the user to get unlimited usage for. Free software may be
free for a certain period only.
Question 12:
Workalot Consultants are setting up a secured network for their office campus at Gurgaon for their
day-to-day office and web-based activities. They are planning to have connectivity between three
buildings and the head office situated in Mumbai. Answer the questions (i) to (iv) after going
through the building positions in the campus and other details, which are given below :
1. Suggest the most suitable place (i.e., building) to house the server of this
organization. Also give a reason to justify your suggested location.
2. Suggest a cable layout of connections between the buildings inside the campus.
3. Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification:
Repeater.
Switch.
4. The organization is planning to provide a high speed link with its head office situated in
Mumbai using a wired connection. Which of the following cables will be most suitable for this
job ?
Optical Fiber
Co-axial Cable
Ethernet Cable
Answer:
1. The most suitable place to install server is building “RED” because this building
have maximum computer which reduce communication delay.
2. (a) Since the cabling distance between buildings GREEN, BLUE and RED are quite large, so
a repeater each, would ideally be need along their path to avoid loss of signals during the
course of data flow in there routes.
(b) In the layout a switch each, would be needed in all the buildings, to interconnect the group of
cables from the different computers in each building.
Question 13:
Granuda Consultants are setting up a secured network for their office campus at Faridabad for
their day to day office and web based activities. They are planning to have connectivity between 3
building and the head office situated in Kolkata. Answer the questions (i) to (iv) after going through
the building positions in the campus and other details, which are given below:
1. Suggest the most suitable place (i.e., block) to house the server of this
organization. Also give a reason to justify your suggested location.
2. Suggest a cable layout of connections between the buildings inside the campus.
3. Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification:
Repeater
Switch
4. The organization is planning to provide a high speed link with its head office situated in the
KOLKATA using a wired connection. Which of the following cable will be most suitable for
this job?
Optical Fibre
Co-axial Cable
Ethernet Cable
Answer:
1. The most suitable place to install server is building “JAMUNA” because this
building have maximum computer which reduce the communication delay.
2. Cable layout. (Bus topology).
3. (a) Since the cabling distance between buildings GANGA and JAMUNA are quite large, so a
repeater each, would ideally be needed along their path to avoid loss of signals during the
course of data flow in these routes.
(b) In the layout a switch each would be needed in all the building, to
interco¬nnect the group of cables from the different computers in each building.
4. Optical fiber
Question 14:
India Skills Hub is a skill development community which has an aim to promote the standard of
skills in the society. It is planning to set up its training centres in multiple towns and villages Pan
India with its head offices in the nearest cities. They have created a model of their network with
a city ABC Nagar, a town (UVW town) and 3 villages.
As a network consultant, you have to suggest the best network related solutions for their issues/
problems raised in (i) to (iv), keeping in mind the distances between various locations and other
given parameters.
Note:
– In Villagers, there are community centers, in which one room has been given as training
entrer to this organization to install computers.
– The organization has got financial support from the government and top Multinational
Organizations.
1. Suggest the most appropriate location of the SERVER in the Cluster (out of the 4 locations),
to get the best and effective connectivity. Justify your answer.
2. Suggest the best wired medium and draw the cable layout (location to location) to efficiently
connect various locations within the Cluster.
3. Which hardware device will you suggest to connect all the computers within each location of
4. Which service/protocol will be most helpful to conduct live interactions of Expersts from Head
Office and peole at all locations of Cluster?
Answer:
1. Best location for the server is UVW-TOWN, because it is approximately equidistant
from the village P, Q and R.
2. For connectivity between UVW-TOWN to head office is optic Fiber and to connect the
villages, P, Q and R with server at UVW- TOWN is co-axial cable.
3. The villages R Q and R can be connected with server at UVW-TOWN by a Hub and the
head office is connected by a Bus topology.
4. Between head office and UVWTOWN
we recommend for Bus topology, so HTTP protocol and other terminal can be connected by
UDP or FTP protocols.
Question 15:
Mudra publishing is a group of companies engaged in publishing IT related books located in the
hilly area of Shimla. The companies are located in four different, blocks whose layout is shown in
the following figure. Answer the questions (i) to (iv) with the relevant justifi-cations.
Mudra publishing
1. Block A to Block C is 50 m
2. Block A to Block D is 100 m
3. Block B to Block C is 40 m
4. Block B to Block D is 70 m
5. Block C to Block D is 125 m Number of
Computers
6. Block A is 25
7. Block B is 50
8. Block C is 20
9. Block D is 120
Answer:
3. Switch is a device used to segment network into different sub-networks so switch will exist in
all the blocks. Since distance between BLOCK-D and BLOCK-C is large so repeater will be
install between BLOCK-D and BLOCK-C.
4. The most economic way to connect it with a reasonable high speed would be the use
radiowave transmission, as they are easy to install, can travel long distance and penetrate
buildings easily, so they are used for communication, both indoors and outdoors.
Radiowaves also have the advantage of being omni-directional. They can travel in all the
directions from the source, so that the transmitter and receiver do not have to be carefully
aligned physically.
TOPIC-2
Network Security and Web Service
Very Short Answer Type Questions(1 Mark each)
Question 1:
Define firewall.
Answer:
A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network is called firewall, it
can be implemented in both hardware and software or combination of both.
Question 2:
Write any two examples of Server side Scripts.
Answer:
1. ASP
2. PHP
Question 3:
What is the difference between E-mail & chat?
Answer:
Question 4:
Write names of any two popular open source software, which are used as operating systems.
Answer:
1. Kernels
2. Unix
3. Linux
Question 5:
What is the difference between video conferencing and chat.
Answer:
In conference, we can include more than one person and it allows text video and audio while chat
is one-to-one communication.
Question 6:
Expand the following abbreviations :
1. HTTP
2. VOIP
Answer:
Question 7:
What is the difference between HTTP and FTP?
Answer:
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol deals with Transfer of Text and Multimedia content over internet
while FTP (File Transfer Protocol) deals with transfer of files over the internet.
Question 8:
What out of the following, will you use to have an audio-visual chat with an expert sitting in a far-
away place to fix-up a technical issue ?
1. VoIP
2. email
3. FTP
Answer:
(i) VoIP 1
Question 9:
Name one server side scripting language and one client side scripting language.
Answer:
Client Side:
1. JAVASCRIPT
2. VBSCRIPT Server
Side
3. ASP
4. JSP
Question 10:
Which out of the following comes under cyber crime ?
Answer:
(i) Operating someone’s internet banking account, without his knowledge.
Question 11:
Name two proprietary software along with their application.
Answer:
Question 12:
Out of the following, identify client side script (s) and server side script (s).
1. ASP
2. Javascript
3. VBScript
4. JSP
Answer:
Server side scripting
1. ASP
2. JSP
Client side scripting
3. Javascript
4. VBscript Vi
Question 13:
Compare open source software and proprietary software.
Answer:
One need an authorized license paid in order to use this proprietary software while open source
software can be used by anybody and are usually free. One can use this software for
their personal use. After giving any notation or code in this type one cannot change the code or
modify it.
Question 14:
Differentiate between XML and HTML.
Answer:
Question 15:
What is WEB 2.0 ?
Answer:
Web2.0 refers to the new generation of web based services and communities characterised by
participation, collaboration and sharing of information among users online.
Question 16:
Which of the following is/are not a client side script:
1. VB Script
2. Java Script
3. ASP
4. PHP ?
Answer:
(iii) ASP and
(iv) PHP are not client side scripts.
Question 17:
If someone has hacked your website, to whom you lodge the complaint ?
Answer:
The complaint has to be lodged with the police under IT Act.
Question 18:
What do you mean by IP address? How is it useful in computer security ?
Answer:
An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical identification and logical address that is assigned
to devices connected in a computer network.
An IP address is used to uniquely identify devices on the internet and so one can quickly know
the location of the system in the network. 1
Question 19:
What do you mean by spam mails ? How can you protect your mailbox from spams ?
Answer:
Spam mails, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical
messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail.
We can protect our mailbox from spams by creating appropriate filters.
Question 20:
When do you prefer XML over HTML and why ?
Answer:
The first benefit of XML is that because you are writing your own markup language, you are not
restricted to a limited set of tags defined by proprietary vendors.
Rather than waiting for standards bodies to adopt tag set enhancements (a process which can
take quite some time), or for browser companies to adopt each other’s standards with XML, you
can create your own set of tags at your own place.
Question 21:
How does firewall protect our network ?
Answer:
A firewall is a part of a computer system or network, that is designed to block unauthorized access
while permitting authorized communi-cations. It is a device or set of devices configured to permit,
deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all (in and out) computer traffic between different security domains
based upon a set of rules and, other criteria. 1
Question 22:
Compare freeware and shareware.
Answer:
Freeware, the name derived from the words “free” and “software”. It is a computer software that is
available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is generally proprietary software
available at zero price, and is not free software. The author usually restricts one or more rights to
copy, distribute, and make derivative works of the software.
Shareware is usually offered as a trial version with certain features only available after the license
is purchased, or as a full version, but for a trial period. Once the trial period has passed, the
program may stop running until a license is purchased. Shareware is often offered without
support, updates, or help menus, which only become available with the purchase of a license.
The words “free trial” or “trial version” are indicative of shareware.
Question 23:
How trojan horses are different from worms? Mention any one difference.
Answer:
A trojan horse is a term used to describe malware that appears to the user, to perform a desirable
function but, in fact, facilitates unauthorized access, to the user’s computer system.
A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself
to the other nodes (computers on the network) and it may do so without any user intervention.
Question 24:
Give the full form of :
1. FOSS
2. HTTP
Answer:
Question 25:
What is the difference between trojan horse and virus in terms of computers ?
Answer:
A trojan, sometimes referred to as a trojan horse, is non-self-replicating malware that appears to
perform a desirable function for the user but instead facilitates unauthorized access to the user’s
computer system. The term is derived from the trojan horse story in greek mythology.
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infact a computer. A true virus
can only spread from one computer to another.
The chief difference between a trojan horse and a virus is that a trojan horse does not replicate
itself. A virus does. 1
Question 26:
Which term we use for a software/hardware device, which is used to block, unauthorized access
while permitting authorized communi¬cations. This term is also used for a device or set of devices
configured to permit, deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all (in and out) computer traffic between
different security domains based upon a set of rules and other criteria.
Answer:
Firewall.
Question 27:
Write the full forms of the following:
1. GNU
2. XML
Answer:
Question 28:
Expand the following terminologies:
1. GSM
2. WLL (IMP)
Answer:
Question 29:
Name some cyber offences under the IT Act.
Answer:
Answer:
1. Patents
2. Copyrights
3. Trademark
Question 31:
When a user browses a website, the web server sends a text file to the web browser. What is the
name of this?
Answer:
Cookies.
Question 1:
Define the following:
1. Firewall
2. VoIE
Answer:
Question 2:
Give the full form of the following terms.
1. XML
2. FLOSS
3. HTTP
4. FTP
Answer:
Question 3:
Differentiate between WORM and VIRUS in Computer terminology.
Answer:
VIRUS directly effects the system by corrupting the useful data. A computer virus attaches itself to
a program or file enabling it to spread from one computer to another. A WORM is similar to a virus
by design is considered to be subclass of a virus. Worm spread from computer to computer, but
unlike a virus, it has the capability to travel without any human action. 2
Question 4:
Expand the following
1. GSM
2. GPRS.
Answer:
Question 5:
Expand the following abbreviations :
1. HTTP
2. VOIP
Answer:
Question 6:
Give the full form of :
1. FOSS
2. HTTP
Answer:
Question 7:
Write the full forms of the following :
1. GNU
2. XML
Answer:
Question 8:
Expand the following terminologies :
1. GSM
2. WLL
Answer:
Question 9:
Give the full forms of the following terms :
1. CDMA
2. TDMA
3. FDMA
Answer:
1. FTP
2. TCP
3. SMTP
4. VOIP
Answer: