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TRUE/FALSE
ANS: F
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: T
ANS: F
9. Packets may not arrive at the destination in the same order they were sent.
ANS: T
10. Packets are often blocked by channels that are too full or are disconnected.
ANS: F
ANS: F
12. In digital communications, errors within frames are detected and corrected at the data-link layer
of a protocol stack.
ANS: T
13. Protocols are the various pieces of hardware used to transmit and receive digital data.
ANS: F
ANS: F
15. The network layer sets up the path through the network.
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: T
20. X.25 gives reliable service even over relatively poor cables.
ANS: T
21. Frame relay uses more error detection and correction than does X.25.
ANS: F
22. Frame relay requires better quality cables than does X.25.
ANS: T
ANS: T
24. Variable-length frames allow faster data rates than do fixed-length frames.
ANS: F
ANS: T
26. ATM is faster than frame relay.
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: T
ANS: T
30. Most WANs are set up to work as extensions of the LANs they interconnect.
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: F
33. Bridges must examine the address field of each packet they see.
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: T
37. TCP/IP contains additional levels beyond the seven described by ISO OSI.
ANS: F
ANS: F
40. A problem with IP is that packets can get stuck traveling the network in an endless loop.
ANS: F
ANS: T
ANS: T
43. One task of TCP is to reorder received packets into their correct sequence.
ANS: T
ANS: F
45. The Internet is a large network of other networks running the TCP/IP protocols.
ANS: T
46. The current 32-bit address scheme used on the Internet is highly efficient.
ANS: F
47. A domain-name server stores the address of every computer attached to the Internet.
ANS: F
ANS: T
MULTIPLE CHOICE
8. Frame Relay:
a. is faster than X.25 c. allows for variable length packets
b. does less error checking than X.25 d. all of the above
ANS: D
10. A bridge:
a. separates a network into "collision domains"
b. looks at the address of each packet
c. operate at the data-link level
d. all of the above
ANS: D
14. IP is a:
a. connection-oriented protocol c. connectionless protocol
b. virtual circuit d. non-robust protocol
ANS: C
27. A DNS:
a. has become obsolete on the Internet
b. translates words to numbers
c. stores all domain addresses
d. describes the Internet address-naming procedure
ANS: B
ANS: Metropolitan
ANS: Wide
ANS: leased
ANS: switched
ANS: forward
ANS: protocol
ANS: physical
ANS: data-link
ANS: network
ANS: CCITT
ANS: frame
ANS: packet
13. The physical route of a ____________________ circuit changes each time it is used.
ANS: virtual
ANS: bit-error
ANS: less
ANS: 53
17. Small frame size and a high-speed channel allow ____________________-time communications.
ANS: real
ANS: Repeaters
19. ____________________ look at the address inside a packet to decide whether or not to
retransmit it.
ANS: Bridges
20. ____________________ decide the best network path on which to forward a packet.
ANS: Routers
ANS:
ARPANET
DARPANET
22. Between ISO OSI and TCP/IP, ____________________ was used first.
ANS: TCP/IP
23. A ____________________ protocol does not track packets after they are sent.
ANS: connectionless
24. HTTP allows the use of ____________________ that jump to other pages on the web.
ANS: hyperlinks
ANS: fiber-optic
26. A ____________________ translates words in an Internet address to numbers.
ANS: DNS
27. Intranets usually connect to the Internet through a ____________________ for security.
ANS: firewall
ANS: IP
29. "____________________" is another term for real-time transmission over the Internet.
ANS: Streaming
ANS: ISP
SHORT ANSWER
ANS:
Network number, Subnet number, Host number
ANS:
A logical channel is a way of keeping track of which two nodes on the network have messages
for each other. The actual physical path can change while packets are being sent. Virtual means it
behaves like direct circuit between 'A' and 'B', but it is not a direct circuit.
3. Why is it faster to send packets of a fixed size compared to packets of variable size?
ANS:
The processing required to store and forward packets of different lengths is greater than that
required for packets of a fixed length. More processing implies more time per packet, which
implies fewer packets per second through the network.
4. Why are the tasks involved in digital communications divided into layers in a protocol stack?
Why not just have one layer that does it all?
ANS:
Divide and conquer: it reduces complexity to a manageable job. One big layer could not be
adapted to newer media etc as easily as a system of independent layers. Think of subroutines in a
computer program.
5. What is a "hop"?
ANS:
Every time a packet is forwarded on to the next store-and-forward node in the network, it is
considered to be one "hop".
ANS:
Each packet contains a number representing the maximum number of allowed hops. At each hop,
this number is reduced by one. When it gets to zero, the packet is deleted from the network.
ANS:
If they didn't, then the number of "lost" packets traveling around the network would continuously
increase. At some point, there would be no bandwidth left to carry real traffic.