Computer Networks test questions [A1-G1]

(1) We have two hosts A and B that are using sliding window protocol for flow control, and to
transfer data from A to B full duplex link is used. The send window size and receive window
size is 5 packets each. Data packets that are sent only from A to B are all 1000byte long and
the transmission time for such a packet is 50µs. Acknowledgement packets that are sent only
from B to A are very small and it requires negligible transmission time. In this communication
the maximum achievable throughput, if the propagation delay over the link is 200µs, is
(A) 9.12 x 106 bps
(B) 10.09 x 106 bps
(C) 12.33 x 106 bps
(D) 11.11 x 106 bps
(2) The different activities pertaining to email are:
a. Send an email from a mail client to mail server.
b. Download an email from mailbox server to a mail client.
c. Checking email in a web browser.
In each activity given above, the application level protocol used, is
(A) a: SMTP, b: POP, c: HTTP
(B) a: SMTP, b: HTTP, c: POP
(C) a: POP, b: SMTP, c: HTTP
(D) a: SMTP, b: IMAP, c: POP
(3) Which one of the following statement does not hold true about Internet protocol (IP)?
(A) IP packets from the same source to the same destination can take different routes in the network
(B) If the packet is unable to reach its destinations within a given number of hops, IP ensures that a
packet is discarded
(C) A computer can have multiple IP address
(D) All of the above
(4) Let computer A and computer B that have the IP addresses 10.105.1.113 and 10.105.1.91
respectively use the same net mask N. For A and B to belong to same network, the value of N
should not be
(A) 255.255.255.224
(B) 255.255.255.0
(C) 255.255.255.128
(D) 255.255.255.192
For questions 5 and 6 refer to the data given below:
Let A, B and C be the three IP networks and Ha, Hb and Hc be the hosts of network A, network B
and network c respectively. Message containing 180byte of application data is send by host Ha to
host Hc through an intermediate network B. The TCP layer prefixes a 20byte header to the
message. In each network, the maximum packet size including 20byte IP header is A: 1000byte, B:
100byte, C: 1000byte. The network A is connected to network B through a 1Mbps link and network B
is connected to network C through a 512kbps link, where bps stands for bits per second.
(5) Consider the packets are correctly delivered. In the best case, how many bytes including
headers are delivered to the IP layer at the destination, for one application message?
Consider only data packets.
(A) 200
(B) 220
(C) 240
(D) 260
(6) Neglecting errors, acknowledgements and other overheads, the rate at which application
data is transferred to host Hc, is
(A) 150.8kbps
(B) 245.6kbps
(C) 400.9kbps
(D) 354.5kbps
(7) For real time multimedia, file transfer, DNS and email, the transport layer protocols used
are respectively
(A) TCP, UDP, TCP and UDP
(B) UDP, UDP, TCP and TCP
(C) UDP, TCP, UDP and TCP
(D) TCP, TCP, UDP and UDP
(8) Match the following:

(A) P – 1, Q – 4, R – 2, S - 3
(B) P – 4, Q – 3, R – 2, S - 1
(C) P – 2, Q – 1, R – 4, S - 3
(D) P – 4, Q – 3, R – 1, S - 2
(9) A device that can look at all protocol headers up to the transport layer is called l ayer-4
firewall. Which one of the following statement is true layer-4 firewall?
(A) It cannot block all ICMP traffic
(B) It cannot block entire HTTP traffic during 9:00pm and 5:00am
(C) It cannot block TCP traffic from a specific user on a multi-user system during 9:00pm and
5:00am
(D) It cannot stop incoming traffic from a specific IP address but allow outgoing traffic to the same
address
(10) The source and destination are connected through two intermediate routers. During the
data transmission from source to destination how many times each packet has to visit the
network layer and the data link layer?
(A) Network layer – 6 times and data link layer – 4 times
(B) Network layer – 4 times and data link layer – 2 times
(C) Network layer – 4 times and data link layer – 6 times
(D) Network layer – 2 times and data link layer – 3 times
Computer Networks test questions [A1-G2]
(11) For the application layer in the Internet stack, the protocol data unit (PDU) is
(A) Datagram
(B) Message
(C) Frame
(D) Segment
(12) In the Ipv4 addressing format, how many networks are allowed under class C addresses?
(A) 221
(B) 216
(C) 224
(D) 27
(13) The transport layer protocols that is used to support electronic mail is
(A) TCP
(B) SMTP
(C) UDP
(D) IP
(14) We have an Ipv4 datagram with following specifications:
M bit = 0,
The value is the of HLEN = 10,
The value of total length = 400,
The fragment offset value = 300,
What is the position of the datagram, the sequence numbers of the first and last bytes of the
payload respectively?
(A) First fragment, 2400 and 2759
(B) Middle fragment, 300 and 689
(C) Last fragment, 2400 and 2789
(D) Last fragment, 2400 and 2759
(15) Consider a broadcast LAN whose length is 2km, bandwidth is 107 bps and it uses
CSMA/CD. If the traveling speed of the signal along the wire is 2 x 108 m/s then the minimum
packet size that could be used on this network is
(A) 50bytes
(B) 100bytes
(C) 200bytes
(D) None of the above
(16) The data is to be transmitted at the rate of 500Mbps in an Ethernet LAN with frame size of
10,000bits. Assuming the signal speed in the cable is 2,00,000km/s the maximum length of
the cable for transmitting data is
(A) 1km
(B) 2km
(C) 5km
(D) 10km
(17) The pair of IP addresses that could belong to a network whose subnet mask is
255.255.31.0 is
(A) 10.35.28.2 and 10.35.29.4
(B) 172.57.88.62 and 172.56.87.233
(C) 128.8.129.43 and 128.8.161.55
(D) 191.203.31.87 and 191.243.31.88
(18) Ethernet = 10Mbps, Jamming signal = 48bit, Round trip propagation delay = 46.4μs,
minimum frame size =?
(A) 512
(B) 440
(C) 100
(D) 350
(19) The table given below is the routing table of a router:

The interface where the router forward packets addressed to destinations 1 28.75.43.16 and
192.12.17.10 respectively is
(A) Eth0 and Eth2
(B) Eth0 and Eth3
(C) Eth1 and Eth3
(D) Eth1 and Eth2
(20) A message that consists of 9 packets is to be send by station A to station B, using
sliding window (window size 3) and go-back-n error control strategy. All packets are ready
and immediately available for transmission. The number of packets A will transmit for
sending the message to B, if every 5th packet that is transmitted by A gets lost (but no acts
from B ever
gets lost), is
(A) 20
(B) 9
(C) 15
(D) 12
Computer Networks test questions [A1-G3]
(21) On an Ethernet only two stations, station A and station B are present and each station
has a steady queue of frames to send. In an attempt to transmit a frame both A and B collide
and A wins the first backoff race. At the end of this successful transmission by A, both A and
B attempt to transmit and collide. What is the probability that A wins the second
backoff race is
(A) 0.625
(B) 0.5
(C) 1.0
(D) 0.75
(22) Consider a packet switching network where packets are routed from source to
destination along a simple path having two intermediate nodes. What will be the optimum
packet size if the message size is 24 byte and each packet contains a header of 3 byte?
(A) 8
(B) 7
(C) 9
(D) 5
(23) Let A and B be the two computers that are configured as follows:
IP address of A = 203.197.2.53
Netmask of A = 255.255.128.0
IP address of B = 203.197.75.201
Netmask of B = 255.255.192.0
The statement that holds true is
(A) B assumes A on the same network but A assumes B on different network
(B) A assumes B on the same network but B assumes A on different network
(C) Both A and B assumes they are on the same network
(D) Both A and B assumes they are on the different network
(24) To protect the message 11001001 from errors while transmitting, the CRC polynomial x³ +
1 is used. What message should be transmitted?
(A) 11001001011
(B) 11001010
(C) 11001001000
(D) 110010010011
(25) To transmit messages to station B, station A uses 32 byte packets and a sliding window
protocol. The round trip delay between A and B is 80ms and the bottleneck bandwidth on the
path between A and B is 128 kbps. The optimal size of the window, A should have is
(A) 440
(B) 100
(C) 320
(D) 40
(26) The address of a class B host is to be split into subnets with a 6-bit subnet number. The
maximum number of subnets and the maximum number of hosts in each subnet is
(A) 62 subnets and 440 hosts
(B) 62 subnets and 262142 hosts
(C) 62 subnets and 267812 hosts
(D) 62 subnets and 1022 hosts
(27) We have a slotted LAN with n number of stations. P is the probability each station
attempts to transmit in each time slot. The probability that only one station transmits in a
given time slot is
(A) 1 - (1-p) n-1
(B) (1-p) n-1
(C) np (1-p) n-1
(D) p (1-p) n-1
(28) Consider a class B network on the Internet that has a subnet mask of 255.255.248.0. The
maximum number of hosts per subnet is
(A) 2047
(B) 2046
(C) 1023
(D) 1024
(29) The token bucket, which is filled at a rate of 2Mbps, regulates a computer on a 10Mbps
network. It is initially filled to capacity with 16Mbits. The maximum duration for which the
computer can transmit at the full 10Mbps is
(A) 5s
(B) 4s
(C) 3s
(D) 2s
For questions 30 and 31 refer to the data given below:
Consider a 106 bps duplex link between two hosts. Frames of 1000 bits are to be transmitted into
this link to maximally pack them in transit (within the link). The propagation time
is 25 ms.
(30) Assuming no time gap between transmission of two frames, the minimum number of bits
required to represent the sequence numbers distinctly is
(A) 5
(B) 4
(C) 3
(D) 2
Computer Networks test questions [A2-G2]
For questions 30 and 31 refer to the data given below:
Consider a 106 bps duplex link between two hosts. Frames of 1000 bits are to be transmitted into
this link to maximally pack them in transit (within the link). The propagation time
is 25 ms.
(31) The size of the sender window is 21 where 1 is the number of bits identified in the earlier
part and acknowledgements are always piggy backed. The sliding window protocol is used
with this sender window. After sending 21 frames, the minimum time the sender will have to
wait before starting transmission of the next frame is (Identify the closest
choice ignoring the frame processing time
(A) 14ms
(B) 16ms
(C) 18ms
(D) 20ms
(32) The transmission speed and the propagation speed in a token ring network is 107 bps
and 200m/µs respectively. The 1-bit delay in this network is equivalent to
(A) 5m of cable
(B) 20 m of cable
(C) 100 m of cable
(D) 500 m of cable
(33) The size of the congestion window in the slow start phase of the TCP congestion
algorithm
(A) Decreases exponentially
(B) Increases exponentially
(C) Increases linearly
(D) Does not increase
(34) For CRC checking generator polynomial G (x) is used. In order to detect odd number of
bits in error, G (x) should satisfy the condition
(A) (1 + x) is a factor of G (x)
(B) G (x) has an odd number of terms
(C) G (x) contains more than two terms
(D) It is not necessary to satisfy any condition
(35) Consider a network of LAN’s, which is connected by bridges. Intermediate bridges are
used to transfer the packets from one LAN to another. Between two LAN’s as more than one
path may exists packets may have to be routed through multiple bridges. Which one of the
following reason is correct in order to use spanning tree algorithm for bridge routing?
(A) For fault tolerance
(B) For shortest path routing between LAN’s
(C) To minimize collisions
(D) To avoid loops in the routing paths
(36) A 9600 baud serial communication link uses asynchronous mode of transmission with
one start bit, eight data bits, two stop bits and one parity bit. The number of 8-bit characters
that can be transmitted per second over this link is
(A) 800
(B) 500
(C) 1000
(D) 440
(37) In serial transmission why every byte of data is padded with a 0 in the beginning and one
or two 1’s at the end of byte?
(A) Because receiver recovers lost 0’s and 1’s from these padded bits
(B) Because padded bits are useful in parity computation
(C) To synchronize the receiver for byte reception
(D) None of the above
(38) Match the following:

(A) a – 3, b – 2, c - 1
(B) a – 1, b – 3, c - 2
(C) a – 2, b – 3, c - 1
(D) a – 1, b – 2, c - 3
(39) The functionality that must be implemented by a transport protocol over and above the
network protocol is
(A) End to end connectivity
(B) Recovery from packet losses
(C) Detection of duplicate packets
(D) Packet delivery in the correct order
(40) With respect to a transparent bridge and routers the statement that does not hold true is
(A) A bridge builds up its routing table by inspecting incoming packets
(B) A router can connect between LAN and WAN
(C) Bridge uses IP address and routers uses MAC address
(D) Both bridge and router selectively forward data packets
Computer Networks test questions [A2-G1]
(41) If an organization that has class-B network, wishes to form subnets for 64 departments,
what would be the subnet mask?
(A) 255.255.64.0
(B) 255.255.0.0
(C) 255.255.1.28.0
(D) 255.255.255.0
(42) In an IP datagram one of the header fields is time to live (TTL) field because
(A) It can be used to prevent packet looping
(B) It can be used to optimize throughput
(C) It can be used to reduce delays
(D) It can be used to prioritize packets
(43) In ___________ packets of the same session may be routed through different paths
(A) UDP but not TCP
(B) TCP and UDP
(C) TCP but not UDP
(D) Neither TCP nor UDP
(44) The system calls that results in the sending of SYN packets is
(A) Listen
(B) Socket
(C) Connect
(D) Bind
(45) Why does the Internet protocol use time to live (TTL) field in the IP datagram header?
(A) Limit the time for which a packet gets queued in intermediate routers
(B) Prevent packets from looping indefinitely
(C) Ensure packets reach destination within that time
(D) Discard packets that reach later than that time
(46) What is the use of address resolution protocol (ARP)?
(A) To find the MAC address corresponding to an IP address.
(B) To find an IP address corresponding to the MAC address
(C) To find the IP address from the DNS
(D) To find the IP address of the default gateway
(47) If Manchester encoding is used in the Ethernet then the bit rate is
(A) Same as the baud rate
(B) Half of the baud rate
(C) Twice the baud rate
(D) None of the above
(48) The application layer can pass data on to the TCP layer below. The maximum size of this
data is
(A) 1500 byte
(B) 216 byte size of TCP header
(C) 216 byte
(D) Any size
(49) UDP is used as a transport protocol by
(A) SMTP
(B) HTTP
(C) DNS
(D) Telnet
(50) The data is to be transmitted using the selective reject protocol with n bit frame
sequence number. What is the maximum window size for this transmission?
(A) 2n-1
(B) 2n-2
(C) 2n
(D) 2n -1