TRUE / FALSE 1. LANs do not normally operate in isolation ANS: TRUE 2.

Connecting devices can operate in different layers of the Internet model. ANS: TRUE 3. Passive hub is just a point where the signals coming from different stations collide. ANS: TRUE 4. A repeater is a device that operates only in the data link layer. ANS: FALSE 5. A passive hub connects segments of a LAN. ANS: FALSE 6. The portion of the network separated by repeaters are called passive hub. ANS: FALSE 7. Repeater forwards every frame; it has no filtering capability. ANS: TRUE 8. A Passive hub is a regenerator, not an amplifier. ANS: FALSE 9. Active hub is actually a multiport repeater. ANS: TRUE 10. Bridges operates in both the physical and the data link layer. ANS: TRUE
11. A bridge can use the spanning tree algorithm to delete a loop less topology.

ANS: FALSE 12. Backbone LAN allows several LANs to be connected. ANS: TRUE 13. Backbone is usually a bus or a star. ANS: TRUE 14. VLANs can reduce network traffic ANS: TRUE 15. VLANs provide an extra measure of security ANS: TRUE

16. A Frame relay is a virtual circuit wide area access ANS: FALSE 17. Frame Relay was designed in response to demands for a new type of WAN in the late 1980s and 1990s. ANS: TRUE 18. Some organizations were using a virtual circuit switching network called X.25 that performed switching at the network layer. ANS: TRUE 19. X.25 has a low 64kbps data rate. ANS: TRUE
20. If an organization has n branches spread over an area, it needs n(n-1)/2 T-1 or

T-3 lines. ANS: TRUE

21. Frame Relay operates at a higher speed 1.544 Mbps and recently 44.378 Mbps.

ANS: TRUE 22. A Frame relay does not allows bursty data. ANS: FALSE 23. Frame Relay is less expensive than other traditional WANs. ANS: TRUE 24. A virtual circuit in frame relay is unidentified by a number called a data link connection identifier ANS: FALSE
25. VCIs is frame relay are called DLCIs.

ANS: TRUE
26. A source and destination may choose to have a permanent virtual component.

ANS: FALSE 27. PVC connections have two drawbacks. ANS: TRUE 28. SVC requires establishing and terminating phases. ANS: TRUE 29. Frame relay operates only at the physical and data link layers. ANS: TRUE

30. The address field defines the DDLVI as well as some bits used to control congestion. ANS: FALSE Multiple Choices 1. A ____ has a table used in filtering decisions. a. Active hub b. Passive hub c. Bridge d. Repeater ANS: C 2. A bridge has ____ capability a. Repeater b. Regenerator c. Filtering d. Amplifier ANS: C 3. Which does not belong to the group for right to left transmission a. Regenerated signal b. Repeater c. Corrupted signal d. Amplifier ANS: D 4. VLAN stands for a. Virtual location area network b. Virtual local area network c. video location area network d. video local area network ANS: B 5. LAN stands for a. Location area network b. Local area network c. Location area networking d. Local area networking ANS: B 6. What kind of backbone network that use one of the protocols that support a topology such as 10base5 or 10base2 a. Bus topology b. Star topology c. Hub topology d. Multiple topology

ANS: A 7. What kind of backbone network that is sometimes called a collapsed or switched backbone. a. Star topology b. Bus topology c. Hub topology d. Multiple topology ANS: A 8. A point to point link acts as a ___ in a remote backbone connected by remote bridges. a. WAN b. MAN c. LAN d. Wireless ANS: C 9. Which does not belong to the group a. Port number b. Mac addresses c. IP addresses d. VLAN ANS: D 10. TDM stands for a. Time Divide multiplexing b. Time division multiplexing c. Technique divide multiplexing d. Technique division multiplexing ANS: B 11. What year did the IEEE 802.1 subcommittee passed a standard called 802.1Q a. 1996 b. 1997 c. 1998 d. 1999 ANS: A 12. Which doest not belong to the group a. Cost and time reduction b. Creating virtual work groups c. Security d. Speed ANS: D

13. VLANs are ____ and time efficient a. Cheap b. Slower c. Cost d. Fast ANS: C 14. Which does not belong to the group a. Ip multicast addresses b. Ip addresses c. Mac addresses d. Ip routing ANS: D 15. Vlan is configured by ____ a. Hardware b. Physical wiring c. Software d. Program ANS: C 16. PVC stands for a. Permanent virtual connection b. Permanent virtual circuit c. Performance virtual connection d. Performance virtual circuit ANS: B 17. DLCI stands for a. Data link connection integer b. Data link connection identifier c. Data link circuit integer d. Data link circuit identifier ANS: B 18. Which does not belong to the group a. DLCI b. C/R c. EA d. SA ANS: D 19. It is a Bit is provided to allow upper layers to identify a frame. a. DLCI b. EA c. C/R

d. FECN ANS: C 20. It is a bit indicates whether the current byte is the final byte of the address. a. FECN b. DE c. EA d. C/R ANS: C 21. Which does not belong to the group a. EA b. DE c. BECN d. FECM ANS: D 22. SVC stands for a. Switched virtual connection b. Switched virtual circuit c. Switched virtual component d. Switched virtual combination ANS: B 23. BECN stands for a. Backward explicit connection notification b. Backward explicit congestion notification c. Backward expansion congestion notification d. Backward explicit configuration notification ANS: B 24. It is a bit indicates the priority level of the frame. a. BECN b. EA c. DE d. C/R ANS: C 25. A bit can be set by any switch to indicate the traffic is congested. a. C/R b. DE c. FECN d. BECN ANS: C 26. Which does not belong to the group

a. Two byte address b. Three byte address c. Four byte address d. Five byte address ANS: D 27. Which does not belong to the group a. ATM b. PPP c. X.25 d. IP ANS: D 28. Frame relay networks offer an option called ____ that sends voice through the network. a. LMI b. PCM c. VOFR d. PPP ANS: C 29. It is a protocol added recently to the frame relay protocol to provide more management features. a. PCM b. VOFR c. LMI d. PPP ANS: C 30. What is one of the nice features of frame relay a. Congestion control b. Connection control c. Quality of security d. Quality of system ANS: A Matching Type A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. Port number Mac address Ip address Combination Manually Repeater Bridge Transparent bridge I. Cell network

J. K. L. M. N. O.

Transmission path Virtual Circuits PVC ATM Layer AAL UUI

1. VLAN vendors use switch for membership characteristic 2. It uses the cell as the basic unit of data exchange, all data are loaded into the identical cells. 3. It is use as the 48 bit Mac address as a membership characteristic 4. It is the physical connection between an endpoint and a switch or between two switches. 5. A 32 bit IP address as a membership characteristic 6. It provides a connection or a set of connections between two switches. 7. The administrator can choose one or more characteristics when installing the software. 8. Established between two endpoints by the network provider. 9. Administrator types the port numbers, the ip address, or other characteristics, using the VLAN software. 10. Provides routing, traffic management, switching and multiplexing services. 11. A connecting device that operates in the physical layer of the Internet model 12. Designed to enable two ATM concepts. 13. A connecting device that operates in the physical and data link layers of the Internet model 14. It can be used by end to end user 15. It can forward and filter frames and automatically build its forwarding table. ANS: 1. A 2. I 3. B 4. J 5. C 6. K 7. D 8. L 9. E 10. M 11. F 12. N 13. G 14. O 15. H