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B.Tech III Year I Semester (R15) Supplementary Examinations October 2020

This document contains an exam for a Computer Networks course, with 10 short answer questions (Part A) and 5 long answer questions (Part B) across 5 units. The questions cover topics like network classification, OSI and TCP/IP layers, error correction, switches, routing, IPv4 vs IPv6, UDP, performance issues, client/server models, and applications of the internet. Students are asked to define terms, compare protocols, explain concepts and algorithms, and discuss how different layers, protocols, and applications work. The exam tests a range of foundational knowledge about computer networks.

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B.Tech III Year I Semester (R15) Supplementary Examinations October 2020

This document contains an exam for a Computer Networks course, with 10 short answer questions (Part A) and 5 long answer questions (Part B) across 5 units. The questions cover topics like network classification, OSI and TCP/IP layers, error correction, switches, routing, IPv4 vs IPv6, UDP, performance issues, client/server models, and applications of the internet. Students are asked to define terms, compare protocols, explain concepts and algorithms, and discuss how different layers, protocols, and applications work. The exam tests a range of foundational knowledge about computer networks.

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Code: 15A05502 R15

B.Tech III Year I Semester (R15) Supplementary Examinations October 2020


COMPUTER NETWORKS
(Common to CSE & IT)
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
PART – A
(Compulsory Question)
*****
1 Answer the following: (10 X 02 = 20 Marks)
(a) How do you classify the networks based on distance?
(b) Map OSI layers to TCP/IP layers.
(c) What is forward error correction?
(d) What are the advantages and disadvantages of switches as connecting devices?
(e) What are the design issues of Network layer?
(f) What are the differences between Virtual Circuit and Datagram?
(g) Why Transport layer is called source to destination layer.
(h) How Bandwidth and Delay measure the performance of a network.
(i) Briefly explain how e-commerce application works.
(j) Give the syntax of any five tags of HTML.

PART – B
(Answer all five units, 5 X 10 = 50 Marks)
UNIT – I
2 (a) Compare Guided and Unguided media.
(b) What are the differences between circuit switching and packet switching?
(c) What are the functions of a physical and data link layers?
OR
3 (a) What are the parameters of a signal?
(b) How different transmission impairments affect the signals.
(c) What are the different standard making organizations related to a computer network.
UNIT – II
4 (a) Write algorithm for computing the CRC checksum.
(b) Explain how reservations can be used to control channel access.
(c) Given the data bits 1000111, compute the hamming bits assuming even parity.
OR
5 (a) What is the difference between physical LAN and Virtual LAN? Explain how they work.
(b) Give the format of different frames used by HDLC.
UNIT – III
6 (a) What is the format of control packets exchanged by Linkstate routing protocol? What are the steps
followed by Linkstate routing protocol?
(b) What is the format of header of IPV6
OR
7 (a) What are the advantages of IPv6 over IPv4? Considering the enormous growth of IoT devices, is
IPv6 sufficient for future Internet connectivity.
(b) What are the control messages exchanged by ICMP.
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UNIT – IV
8 (a) What is the format of header of UDP? Explain the fields.
(b) How the handshaking methods are used for connection establishment and connection release.
OR
9 (a) What are the performance issues in a computer network? What are the solutions?
(b) How do you measure the performance of a computer network?
UNIT – V
10 (a) How do you classify client and server based on hardware and software? Give the typical
configuration of a client and server computer systems.
(b) What is the need for world wide web? Why world wide web uses distributed databases?
OR
11 (a) Discuss the applications for which an educational institution can use Internet.
(b) Explain how games can be played over Internet.

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