The document is a list of viva questions for the Computer Networks Lab at Acharya Institute of Graduate Studies. It covers a wide range of topics including data communication, network topologies, protocols, transmission media, and various networking concepts. The questions aim to assess students' understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of computer networks.
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CN LAB VIVA QUESTIONS
The document is a list of viva questions for the Computer Networks Lab at Acharya Institute of Graduate Studies. It covers a wide range of topics including data communication, network topologies, protocols, transmission media, and various networking concepts. The questions aim to assess students' understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of computer networks.
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ACHARYA INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES
(NAAC Re-Accredited ‘A+’ and Affiliated to Bengaluru City University)
Soladevanahalli, Bengaluru-560107
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
COMPUTER NETWORKS LAB VIVA QUESTION
1. What is Data Communication?
2. What are the Characteristics of Data communication? 3. What are the Components of Data communication? 4. What are the three different types of transmission modes? 5. Define computer networks. 6. What are the components of Computer Networks. 7. What are the applications or uses of Computer Network. 8. What are the Goals/Importance of Networking. 9. Define network topology. 10. What are the different types of Network Topologies. 11. What are the different types of networks(PAN,LAN,WAN,MAN). 12. What is Internet? 13. What is Network model? 14. Define Protocols. 15. What are the Key Elements of a protocol(Syntax,Semantics,Timing). 16. What are the Applications of Layered Architecure 17. Explain OSI reference model in detail (very very important). 18. Explain TCP/IP model in detail with diagram(very very important). 19. Explain Transmission media in detail(Guided, Unguided media). 20. Explain Guided media in detail(Twisted pair,Coaxial cable,Fiber Optics). 21. Explain Unguided media in dctail(Radio waves,microwaves,infrared rays). 22. Define Transmission Impairment. What are the causes of Transmission Impairment(Attenuation,Distortion,Noise).. 23. What are the different parameters to evaluate Performance(Bandwidth,Throughput,Latency). 24. What is Link layer Addressing? 25. Define Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast Addressing. 26. Define Error 27. Explain the two different types of errors 28. Define Redundancy. 29. What are the sub layers of Data link layer? 30. Explain HDLC in detail. 31. Explain HDLC frame structure . What are the types of HDLC Frames 32. Explain PPP in detail with PPP frame structure. 33. Explain ALOHA,CSMA,CSMA/CD,CSMA/CA.(very imp) 34. Explain Reservation,Polling,Token passing (very imp) 35. Explain FDMA,TDMA,CDMA (very imp) 36. Define switching. 37. Define Packet Switching 38. What are the two approaches of Packet Switching 39. Define Datagram. 40. What are the characteristics that measure the performance of a network. 41. Explain IP packet structure in detail. 42. Define IPV4 and IPV6 addresses. 43. Explain ICMPV4 in detail. 44. What is MobileIP? 45. What are the various Routing Metrics? 46. What are Routing Algorithms? What are the goals of Routing Algorithms? 47. What is Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Routing? 48. Different types of Unicast Routing Algorithm 49. What is UDP? 50. Define TCP. Explain TCP packet format in detail. 51. Explain how TCP works 52. What is WWW? 53. Explain DNS. 54. What is HTTP? 55. What is HTTPS? 56. What is FTP,Telnet,SMTP,IMAP?