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1. Introduction to c) Mobile a) Always a

Computer Networks network computer only

1. A network is a d) Hospital b) Only a

group of network printer
__________ Answer: b
c) Any device
connected with
4. What are that can
each other.
networked data transmit data
a) isolated units called?
d) None of the
systems
a) Bits above
b) Answer: c
b) Frames
unrelated
8. Which of these is
devices c) Packets
NOT typically
c) similar d) Blocks considered a node?
things or Answer: c
a) Modem
people
5. Devices in a
b) Server
d) none of network are
the above connected through: c) Monitor
Answer: c
a) Only d) Printer
2. What does a cables Answer: c
computer network
allow? b) Only air 9. What is the role of a
hotspot in
a) Isolated c) Wired or
networking?
operations wireless
media a) Cool down devices
b) Data and
resource d) None of b) Provide network
sharing the above access
Answer: c
c) Only c) Manage routers
printing 6. Which device in a
d) None of the above
network can
d) None of Answer: b
receive, create, or
these send data? 10. Which feature of
Answer: b networks allows
a) Switch
3. Which of the resource sharing?
following is NOT a b) Node
a) Data encryption
type of network in c) Modem
everyday life? b) Connectivity
d) Bridge
a) Social c) Isolation
Answer: b
network d) Random access
7. A node in
b) Light Answer: b
networking is:
network

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2. Evolution of Networking b) 1974 d) 1990

Answer: c
11. ARPANET was a c) 1982
project by: 20. The first
d) 1990
commercial version
a) Microsoft Answer: c
of ARPANET was:
b) Apple 16. HTML and URL were
a) NSFNET
developed at:
c) U.S. Department of
b) Internet
Defence a) NASA
c) Telenet
d) NASA b) CERN
Answer: c d) WiNet
c) ISRO
Answer: c
12. ARPANET became
d) Google
functional by 21. Which of the
Answer: b
connecting: following is a
17. The first version of Personal Area
a) MIT and Stanford
Wi-Fi was Network (PAN)?
b) UCLA and SRI introduced in:
a) Internet
c) IBM and Apple a) 1995
b) A smartphone
d) None of these b) 1997 connected to a laptop
Answer: b via Bluetooth
c) 1999
13. Who developed the c) A university-wide
d) 2001 network
first network email
Answer: b
system?
d) Cable TV network
18. NSFNET aimed to: Answer: b
a) Tim Berners-Lee
a) Build private 22. What is the
b) Roy Tomlinson
networks approximate range
c) Steve Jobs of PAN?
b) Expand public
d) Bill Gates network access a) 1 km
Answer: b
c) Sell computers b) 100 m
14. The symbol '@' in
d) None of the above c) 10 m
email represents:
Answer: b
a) and d) 1000 km
19. TCP/IP was Answer: c
b) at introduced as a
standard protocol 23. A wired PAN can be
c) hash formed by:
in:
d) dot a) Wi-Fi
a) 1969
Answer: b
b) 1971 b) USB connection
15. The term ‘Internet’ between devices
was coined in: c) 1983
c) LAN
a) 1969

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d) Satellite d) Hardware used in c) 30–40 km

Answer: b networks
d) 1000 km
Answer: c
24. Which network Answer: c
covers a school or 28. What is the data
32. What is the full
college campus? transfer rate of
form of WAN?
Gigabit Ethernet?
a) PAN
a) Wide Analog
a) 10 Mbps
b) LAN Network
b) 100 Mbps
c) MAN b) Wide Area Network
c) 1000 Mbps
d) WAN c) Wireless Access
Answer: b d) 10,000 Mbps Network
Answer: c
25. Which of the d) Wired Area Node
following is a 29. MAN is typically Answer: b
feature of LAN? used to connect:
33. Which network type
a) Covers entire country a) A laptop to a printer connects computers
across continents?
b) Slow speed b) Networks across a
city a) LAN
c) Short range and high
speed c) Devices within 10 b) MAN
meters
d) Uses satellite c) WAN
Answer: c d) Networks within a
d) PAN
building
26. What is the Answer: c
Answer: b
maximum typical
34. Which of these is
distance a LAN can 30. Which of these is an
the best example of
cover? example of MAN?
a WAN?
a) 10 m a) A social media
a) LAN in a building
platform
b) 1 km
b) Internet
b) Cable TV network in
c) 10 km
a city c) Bluetooth devices
d) 100 km
c) Personal hotspot d) Wi-Fi router
Answer: b
Answer: b
d) VPN
27. What does
Answer: b 35. WANs are typically
"Ethernet" define in
built by connecting:
a LAN? 31. What is the
maximum a) PANs
a) Wireless access rules
approximate
distance a MAN can b) LANs and MANs
b) Transmission speed
cover? c) USBs
c) Rules for connection
through cables a) 10 km d) Repeaters
b) 100 m Answer: b

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36. A university with 40. Which network type 44. Which card
multiple campuses is least likely to be connects a
across different wireless? computer to a
states should use: wired Ethernet
a) PAN
network?
a) PAN
b) LAN
a) Sound card
b) LAN
c) WAN
b) Graphic card
c) MAN
d) MAN
c) Network Interface
d) WAN Answer: d
Card (NIC)
Answer: d
41. What does the term
d) TV card
37. Which of the "modem" stand
Answer: c
following is true for for?
LAN? 45. What does a NIC
a) Modular Editor
card provide?
a) Uses satellite
b) Modern Emulator
transmission a) Storage
c) Modulator
b) Slow speed b) Graphics
Demodulator
c) High-speed local c) Network access
d) Modular
communication
Demultiplexer d) Power backup
d) Only wireless Answer: c Answer: c
Answer: c
42. What is the main 46. What is a unique
38. What does a PAN function of a identifier assigned
typically consist of? modem? to every NIC?

a) Servers and Connect monitors a) IP Address

mainframes
Convert analog to b) Domain Name
b) Global satellites digital signals and vice
c) MAC Address
versa
c) Personal devices like
d) DNS ID
phones and laptops Store files
Answer: c
d) ISP routers Boost internet speed
47. The RJ-45
Answer: c Answer: b
connector is used
39. Bluetooth is used 43. At the sender's end, with:
in: the modem acts as
a) USB cables
a:
a) LAN
b) HDMI cables
a) Demodulator
b) MAN
c) Ethernet cables
b) Filter
c) WAN
d) Coaxial cables
c) Modulator
d) PAN Answer: c
Answer: d d) Hub
Answer: c

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48. How many pins d) Stores it permanently d) Repeater

does an RJ-45 Answer: b Answer: c
connector have?
52. What is a major 56. A router can
a) 4 limitation of a hub? analyze and:

b) 6 a) Can't send signals a) Compress data

c) 8 b) Can’t connect to the b) Print data

internet
d) 12 c) Decide how to
Answer: c c) Data collision package and forward
data
49. What is the primary d) Works only wirelessly
function of a Answer: c d) Translate languages
repeater? Answer: c
53. How does a switch
a) Send data to all differ from a hub? 57. A wireless router
devices commonly provides:
a) It cannot forward
b) Repeat user packets a) Only cable access
commands
b) It encrypts data b) Only firewall access
c) Regenerate weak
c) It forwards data to a c) Wi-Fi and wired
signals
specific destination access
d) Change IP addresses
d) It stores data d) Printing services
Answer: c
permanently Answer: c
50. When is a repeater Answer: c
58. What is the
most needed in a
54. What does a switch function of a
network?
do when it detects gateway in
a) When data is secure corrupted data? networking?

b) When signals weaken a) Repairs it a) Controls screen

beyond a certain display
b) Drops it and requests
distance
retransmission b) Connects NIC cards
c) When IPs need
c) Forwards anyway c) Acts as entry and exit
changing
point of a network
d) Deletes all data
d) When routers crash
Answer: b d) Filters power supply
Answer: b
Answer: c
55. Which device
51. What does a hub do
connects different 59. Gateways are
with incoming data?
types of networks? usually combined
a) Sends it to a specific with:
a) Hub
device
a) Modems
b) Switch
b) Broadcasts to all
b) ISPs
ports c) Router
c) Firewalls
c) Encrypts it

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d) Switches d) Central node failure d) Data continues via

Answer: c Answer: b alternate paths
Answer: b
60. A router can also 64. Which topology
perform the role of forms a closed 68. Which topology
a: loop? uses a central
device like a hub or
a) Gateway a) Star
switch?
b) Monitor b) Bus
a) Mesh
c) Repeater c) Ring
b) Ring
d) Graphic card d) Tree
c) Star
Answer: a Answer: c
d) Bus
Networking Topologies 65. In ring topology,
Answer: c
data flows in:
61. What does topology
69. What is the major
refer to in a) Random direction
drawback of star
networking?
b) Both directions topology?
a) Speed of the network
c) One direction a) Difficult to set up
b) Shape of devices (clockwise or
b) Expensive devices
counterclockwise)
c) Physical layout of a
c) Failure of central
network d) Only through central
device causes total
device
d) Type of data used failure
Answer: c
Answer: c
d) Too many wires
66. Which of the
62. Which topology Answer: c
following has a
connects each
single central cable 70. Star topology is
device to every
as a backbone? considered:
other device?
a) Ring a) Inefficient
a) Bus
b) Star b) Costly
b) Ring
c) Mesh c) Efficient and fast
c) Mesh
d) Bus d) Temporary
d) Star
Answer: d Answer: c
Answer: c
67. What happens in a 71. Which topology is a
63. A major
bus topology when combination of two
disadvantage of
the backbone fails? or more basic
mesh topology is:
topologies?
a) One node is affected
a) Unreliable
a) Ring
connection b) Entire network fails
b) Tree/Hybrid
b) High cabling cost c) Signal speed
increases c) Star
c) No data security

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d) Bus d) It affects only the 80. Which topology is

Answer: b hub cheapest to
Answer: c implement?
72. Tree topology is
most often used in: 76. In ring topology, a) Mesh
each node is
a) PAN b) Star
connected to:
b) MAN c) Ring
a) Only one other node
c) WAN d) Bus
b) Central device
Answer: d
d) Bluetooth networks
c) Two other nodes
Answer: c
d) Every other node
73. What does a central Identifying Nodes – MAC &
Answer: c
node in a star IP Address
topology act as? 77. Which topology
81. What does MAC
offers highest
a) Client stand for in
reliability?
networking?
b) Server
a) Bus
a) Memory Access Code
c) Networking device
b) Ring
like hub/switch b) Media Access Control
c) Mesh
d) Cable c) Machine Address
Answer: c d) Tree Code
Answer: c
74. In hybrid topology, d) Modular Access Card
each branch can 78. The least secure Answer: b
follow: topology is:
82. A MAC address is:
a) The same topology a) Star
a) Assigned by the user
only
b) Mesh
b) Temporary
b) Either star or ring
c) Ring
only c) Hardcoded and
d) Hybrid permanent
c) Any basic topology
Answer: c
(star, ring, bus) d) Same for all devices
79. A topology that Answer: c
d) Only tree topology
uses broadcasting
Answer: c 83. Where is the MAC
or unicasting is:
address stored?
75. If a node fails in
a) Mesh
mesh topology: a) Motherboard BIOS
b) Bus
a) Entire network fails b) Operating system
c) Star
b) No communication c) Network Interface
happens d) Tree Card (NIC)
Answer: c
c) Other nodes remain d) Modem
unaffected Answer: c

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84. What is the length b) Uniquely identifying c) Single binary number

of a MAC address? a node in a network
d) Eight octal values
a) 32 bits c) Identifying switches Answer: b

b) 48 bits d) Encrypting messages 93. Which of the

Answer: b following is a valid
c) 64 bits
IPv4 address?
89. An IP address can
d) 128 bits
be: a) 192.168.0.1
Answer: b
a) Only permanent b) 320.90.67.11
85. A MAC address is
represented using: b) Static and dynamic c) 99.999.11.3

a) Decimal numbers c) Only MAC-based d) ab.cd.ef.gh

Answer: a
b) Binary codes d) None of these
Answer: b 94. Why was IPv6
c) Hexadecimal format
introduced?
90. What does IPv4
d) Octal numbers
stand for? a) IPv4 was too slow
Answer: c
a) Internal Protocol b) IPv4 lacked
86. The first 24 bits of a
Version 4 encryption
MAC address
represent: b) Internet Process c) IPv4 had limited
Value 4 address space
a) Device serial number
c) Internet Protocol d) IPv4 was not
b) User ID
Version 4 compatible with
c) Organisational switches
d) Input Port Validator 4
Unique Identifier (OUI) Answer: c
Answer: c
d) Port number 95. What is the length
91. What is the length
Answer: c of an IPv6 address?
of an IPv4 address?
87. The later 24 bits of a) 32 bits
a) 8 bits
a MAC address
b) 64 bits
represent: b) 16 bits
c) 96 bits
a) Protocol c) 32 bits
d) 128 bits
b) NIC serial number d) 64 bits
Answer: d
Answer: c
c) Username
96. Which of the
92. An IPv4 address is
d) IP class following is a valid
represented as:
Answer: b IPv6 address?
a) Four hexadecimal
88. What is an IP a) 123.45.67.89
values
address used for?
b)
b) Four decimal
a) Identifying NIC card 192:ab00::1234:5678:a
numbers separated by
bcd
dots

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c) 127.0.0.1 c) IP address is b) A collection of web

encrypted pages and web
d) ab:cd:ef:gh
resources
Answer: b d) IP address is
permanent c) Another name for the
97. Unlike MAC
Answer: b Internet
addresses, IP
addresses can: Internet, WWW, IoT, and d) A hardware device
DNS Answer: b
a) Never change
101.The Internet is best 105.Who invented the
b) Be stored in
described as: World Wide Web?
hardware
a) A local network a) Bill Gates
c) Change based on
network b) A social media b) Vinton Cerf
platform
d) Identify c) Tim Berners-Lee
manufacturers c) A global network of
d) Steve Jobs
Answer: c interconnected devices
Answer: c
98. A MAC address d) A LAN with wireless
106.What year was the
helps identify: access
World Wide Web invented?
Answer: c
a) Network location
a) 1983
102.Which of the following
b) Physical device on a
devices can be part of the b) 1990
network
Internet?
c) 2001
c) Web server
a) Computers only
d) 1995
d) Service provider
b) Smartphones only Answer: b
Answer: b
c) Printers and routers 107.HTML is used for:
99. What does OUI help
only
identify in a MAC a) Writing software
address? d) All smart computing
devices b) Writing operating
a) Country systems
Answer: d
b) User c) Designing web pages
103.What does WWW stand
c) Manufacturer for? d) Creating IP addresses
a) World Wide Wire Answer: c
d) Server type
Answer: c 108.What does URI or URL
b) Wireless Web
Window represent?
100.The term "dynamic
IP" means: a) User Relationship ID
c) World Wide Web
a) IP address is fixed b) Uniform Resource
d) Wide Web Wave
Answer: c Identifier/Locator
b) IP address changes
over time c) Universal Routing
104.The World Wide Web is:
Input
a) A network protocol

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d) Unlimited Resource d) A video conferencing d) Routes data across

Identifier app devices
Answer: b Answer: c Answer: c

109.Which of the following 113.Which of the following 117.Which of these is an

is a valid URL? is NOT an IoT device? example of a domain name?

a) www.google a) Smart AC a) 164.100.60.233

b) b) Wi-Fi enabled lights b) NIC CARD

http://example.com/pa
c) Wired landline phone c) ncert.nic.in
ge.html
d) Smart security d) 255.255.0.0
c) IP:192.168.1.1
camera Answer: c
d) 123.url.web Answer: c
118.The top-level DNS
Answer: b
114.What allows web servers are called:
110.The protocol used to browsers to use domain
a) Master servers
access web pages is: names instead of IP
addresses? b) MAC servers
a) FTP
a) MAC filter c) Root servers
b) IPX
b) URL manager d) Host servers
c) HTTP
Answer: c
c) DNS server
d) MAC
119.How many root DNS
Answer: c d) Gateway
servers exist globally?
Answer: c
111.HTTPS is:
a) 5
115.What does DNS stand
a) Slower than HTTP
for? b) 13
b) A secure version of
a) Data Network System c) 25
HTTP
b) Domain Name d) 100
c) Used for printing
System Answer: b
d) A type of switch
c) Digital Node Security 120.DNS root servers are
Answer: b
managed by:
d) Dynamic Network
112.What is the Internet of
Service a) Google
Things (IoT)?
Answer: b
b) ICANN
a) Collection of web
116.What does a DNS server
pages c) Internet Assigned
do?
Numbers Authority
b) A wired-only network
a) Blocks access to web (IANA)
c) Network of smart pages
d) ISRO
physical devices
b) Encrypts web traffic Answer: c
communicating
c) Translates domain
names to IP addresses

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