30/06/2023 DATA COMMUNICATION &CN

Data communication and Computer network

1. Which protocol layer uses the protocol www, http, ftp, email etc
a) Transport layer
b) Application layer
c) Internet layer
d) Hardware layer
Answer: B
2. Which of the following is the fastest media of data transfer?
a) Fiber optic
b) Co-axial cable
c) Untwisted wire
d) Telephone lines
Answer: .A

3. The OSI model consists of ___ layers.

a) Five
b) Seven
c) Eight
d) Nine
Answer: B
4. The physical layer is concerned with ___________
a) bit-by-bit delivery
b) process to process delivery
c) application to application delivery
d) port to port delivery
Answer: A
5. The portion of physical layer that interfaces with the media access control sublayer is
called ___________
a) physical signalling sub layer
b) physical data sub layer
c) physical address sub layer
d) physical transport sub layer
Answer: A
6. The physical layer translates logical communication requests from the ______ into
hardware specific operations.
a) data link layer
b) network layer
c) trasnport layer
d) application layer
Answer: A
30/06/2023 DATA COMMUNICATION &CN

7. What IP address class allocates 8 bits for the host identification part?
a) Class A
b) Class B
c) Class C
d) Class D
Answer: C
8. Higher the rate an analog signal is sampled
a) smaller the difference between sampled amplitudes
b) larger the difference between sampled amplitudes
c) greater the noise level
d) more bits required to represent the sample
Answer: A
9. What is used to identify whether a data word has an odd or even number of 1's?
a) Parity bit
b) Zero bit
c) Cary bit
d) Sign bit
Answer: A
10. ..........is a device that forwards packets between networks by processing the routing
information included in the packet.
a) Bridge
b) Firewall
c) Router
d) Hub
Answer: A
11. If the Hamming distance between a data word and the corresponding code word is three,
there are _____ bits in error.
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) none of the above
Answer: a

12. What is a characteristic of UTP cabling?

a) cancellation
b) immunity to electrical hazards
c) cladding
d) woven copper braid or metallic foil
Answer: a
30/06/2023 DATA COMMUNICATION &CN

13. Two computers connected by an Ethernet hub are

a) WAN Topology
b) LAN Topology
c) MAN Topology
d) WAN Topology
Answer: B
14. A half-duplex communication channel permits information to travel…
a) both ways at once
b) both ways, but not at once
c) one direction only
d) at timed intervals
Answer: B
15. Which of the following address belongs to class A?
a) 121.12.12.248
b) 130.12.12.248
c) 128.12.12.248
d) 129.12.12.248
Answer: A
16 .Which data communication method is used to send data over a serial communication link?
a) Simplex
b) half duplex
c) full duplex
d) all of these
Answer: c
17. The network layer protocol of the internet is
a) hypertext transfer protocol
b) internet protocol
c) Ethernet
d) none of these answers
Answer: B
18. Which of these is not a guided media?
a) Fiber optical cable
b) Wireless LAN
c) Copper wire
d) Coaxial cable
Answer: B
19. Which transmission media has the highest transmission speed in a network?
a) electrical cable
b) twisted pair cable
c) coaxial cable
d) optical fiber
Answer: D
30/06/2023 DATA COMMUNICATION &CN

20. Each IP address can identify the .......... or .......... of IP packets.

a) source, length
b) source, destination
c) length, size
d) Size, destination
Answer: B
21. A 3000km long trunk operates at 1.536 mbps and is used to transmit 64 byte frames and
uses sliding window protocol. The propagation speed is 0.006msec/km. If only 6 bits are
resereved for sequence number field, then the effecency of the system is
a) 0.587
b) 0.875
c) 0.578
d) 0.5
Answer: A
22. The data link layer takes the packets from .......... and encapsulates them into frames for
transmission.
a) network layer
b) physical layer
c) transport layer
d) application layer
Answer: A
23. Which of the following tasks is not done by data link layer?
a) framing
b) error control
c) flow control
d) channel coding
Answer: D
24. Automatic repeat request error management mechanism is provided by ..........
a) logical link control sublayer
b) media access control sublayer
c) network interface control sublayer
d) application access control sublayer
Answer: A
25. The network with network layer connection less service is called .......... network?
a) Datagram
b) Virtual circuit
c) Both a and b
d) None of the above
Answer: B
26. Which one of the following is a static routing algorithm?
a) Shortest path routing
b) Link state routing
c) Distance vector routing
d) None of the above
Answer: A
30/06/2023 DATA COMMUNICATION &CN

27. Which one of the following is a dynamic routing algorithm?

a) RIP
b) Shortest path routing
c) Link state routing
d) None of the above
Answer: C

28. The TCP and UDP are the common protocols and technologies in .......... layer?
a) Network
b) Transport
c) Session
d) None of the above
Answer: B
29. What is the standard form of IGRP?
a) Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
b) Internal Gateway Routing Protocol
c) Interior Gateway Routing Particle
d) None of the above
Answer: A
30. Multiplexing is used in _______
a) Packet switching
b) Circuit switching
c) Data switching
d) Packet & Circuit switching
Answer: B
31. If link transmits 4000frames per second, and each slot has 8 bits, the transmission rate of
circuit on this TDM is ..........
a) 32kbps
b) 500bps
c) 500kbps
d) 32bps
Answer: A
32. Which of the following architecture uses the CSMA/CD access method?
a) ARC net
b) Ethernet
c) Router
d) STP server
Answer: B
30/06/2023 DATA COMMUNICATION &CN

33. Higher the rate an analog signal is sampled

a) smaller the difference between sampled amplitudes
b) larger the difference between sampled amplitudes
c) greater the noise level
d) more bits required to represent the sample
Answer: A
34. What is the main difference between synchronous and asynchronous transmission?
a) band width required is different.
b) pulse height is different.
c) clocking is derived from the data in synchronous transmission.
d) clocking is mixed with data in asynchronous transmission.
Answer: C
35. In a synchronous modem, the digital-to- analog converter sends a signal to the……
a) transmission line
b) modulator
c) terminal
d) equalizer
Answer: D
36. Binary codes are sometimes transformed in modems into.
a) Hexadecimal
b) Huffman Codes
c) Gray Code
d) Complementary codes
Answer: C
37. What IP address class allocates 16 bits for the host identification part?
a) Class A
b) Class B
c) Class C
d) Class D
Answer: B
38. The transmission signal coding method for T, the carrier is called…..
a) NRZ
b) Bipolar
c) Manchester
d) Binary
Answer: B
39. Which of the following is correct IPv4 address?
a) 124.201.3.1.52
b) 01.200.128.123
c) 300.142.210.64
d) 128.64.0.0
Answer: D