BCA 4TH SEMESTER EXAMINATION 2020

(Honours)
Paper – BCAHC402 Full Marks: 40

The figures in the right hand margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
Illustrate the answers wherever necessary.

COMPUTER NETWORKS

1. Answer any five questions: 1x5=5

a. What is a computer network?
b. What is LAN?
c. What is Hub?
d. What are the transmission modes?
e. What is TCP/IP?
f. What is the full form of OSI?
g. What is the data unit of data link layer?
h. What is HDLC?
i. What is Polling ?

2. Answer any five questions: 2x5=10

a. What are the types of networks based on coverage area?
b. What is network topology?
c. What are the layers in OSI model?
d. In which layer Routing is done?
e. In which layer flow control is done?
f. What are the guided transmission media?
g. What are the layers in TCP/IP model?
h. What is checksum?

3. Answer any three questions: 5x3=15

a. What are LAN, MAN and WAN? Discuss.
b. Describe Mesh topology.
c. Describe different transmission modes.
d. Describe co-axial cable.
e. Describe token ring in detail.
f. Describe TCP/IP model in detail.

4. Answer any one question: 10x1=10

a. Discuss different topologies in computer networks.
b. Discuss HDLC protocol in detail.
c. Discuss different layers of OSI model in brief.

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UG 4th - Semester Examination- 2021

Award: Bachelor of Computer Application (Honours)
Discipline: Computer Application
Course Type: Core
Course Code: BCAH402
Course Name: Computer Networks
Full Marks: 80 Time: 4 Hours

The figures in the right hand margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Illustrate the answers wherever necessary.

1. Answer any ten questions. 10 X 1=10

a) What is bit rate?

b) What is peer-to peer?
c) What is baud rate?
d) What is Packet?
e) What is Protocol?
f) What is the function of a hub?
g) What is use of firewall?
h) Write down the name of protocol for reliable communication?
i) What is socket?
j) What is the difference between http and https?
k) Write down a example of MAC address.
l) Multiplexing is used in _______
i) Packet switching
ii) Circuit switching

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 iii) Data switching
iv) Packet & Circuit switching
m) Communication between a computer and a keyboard involves ________
Transmission.
i) Automatic
ii) Half-duplex
iii) Full-duplex
iv) Simplex
n) A _______ is the physical path over which a message travels.
i) Path
ii) Medium
iii) Protocol
iv) Route
o) Three or more devices share a link in ________ connection.
i) Unipoint
ii) Multipoint
iii) Point to point
iv) Simplex
p) What does OSI stands for?

2. Answer any ten questions. 10 X 2 = 20

a) What is WAN? Give one example.

b) Write two goals of using layered protocols in OSI model.
c) Write difference between serial and parallel transmission.
d) What is the function of MODEM?
e) What is point-to-point network?
f) Difference between synchronous and Asynchronous transmission.
g) What is multipath fading?
h) What do you mean by routing?
i) What do you mean by HDLC subset?
j) What is differential PSK?
k) Write advantages of Fibre cable over Co-axial cable.
l) Write two applications of Infrared.
m) Write the advantages of layered protocol.

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 n) Compare between Connection oriented and Connection less services.
o) A TV channel is alternating its programme along with advertisement-
Is it TDM of FDM?—justify.
p) What is broad casted network?

3. Answer any six questions. 6 X 5 = 30

a) What will happen if you hit “https://knu.ac.in” from your browser? Explain each
step.

b) There is an internet access only in one mobile. You have to share this internet
among your 4-5 friends. Write the process how to share your internet among
them. Which topology will be used? What will be the communication medium?

c) Explain Binary exponential back off algorithm.

d) Explain X.25 Channel options.

e) Discuss different advantages of packet switching over circuit switching.

f) What is geostationary satellite? Explain uplink and downlink frequency.

g) Discuss different types of carrier sense protocols.

h) What is the difference Radio Waves, Microwaves propagation? Explain in details.

i) Data link layer is associated with hop to hop delivery, so which type of address is
used for delivering data? Also discuss the physical devices used to delivering data
at MAC layer.

j) Explain Star topology with advantages and disadvantages.

4. Answer any two questions. 2 X 10 = 20

a) What is TCP/IP and TCP? How TCP/IP is differing from OSI? Explain each layer
of OSI with protocol and PDU associated. 2+2+6

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b) What is IP address? Write down the classes of IP? Why private address is used
and also mentions the ranges of private IP? Is IP address is sufficient to deliver the
message at receiver side correctly? If not write down the solution. 1+2+2+5

c) Which layers in OSI deals with security for data transmission? Explain in details.
What are the possibilities for security breach in network? Explain with example.
4+6

d) Design the network (LAN) for your university. University campus is spared in 2
km and having 20 different departments. Consider all laboratory based
departments have laboratory facility and other departments having Internet
facilities. Explain with diagram and connecting device/wire used. Also mention
the protocol which is used to transfer the data in LAN.

e) Sketch the NRZ-L, NRZ-I, Manchester, Differential Manchester and NRZ-S

encoding for the bit string 0011010011. 2X5

f) Write short notes: 2.5 X 4

i) Topologies of network
ii) Design issues of Data link layer
iii) Unguided media
iv) IP packet format.

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