PRACTICE SET- Computer Network

1. Compare Connection oriented and connectionless service

2. What are the major components of an optical communication system?

3. What are the various types of transmission modes and explain in details?

4. Discuss Features of LAN, MAN, WAN.

5. Distinguish between point-to-point links and multi point links. Give relevant diagrams.

6. Discuss various types of networks topologies in computer network.

7. Explain in detail about a) Data Link Layer and Network Layer b) Physical Layer

8. Explain the operation of the bit-oriented protocol HDLC with the required frames 12M

9. Explain the various error detection and correction Mechanisms used in computer

network

10. Discuss about sliding window protocol a) GO BACK NARQ b) Selective repeat

ARQ.

11. Explain about the Elementary data link protocols?

12. Explain the function of TCP/IP protocol.

13. Show the different approaches in Packet Switching. Explain them in detail.

14. For n devices in a network, what is the number of cable links required for a mesh and

ring topology? Assume 6 devices connected in mesh topology. How many cables are

needed? How many ports are needed for each device?

15. Compare the different sliding window protocols.

16. Explain HDLC protocol in detail

17. Explain Point to Point protocol in detail.

18. Explain different types of switching techniques.

19. Explain the various transmission media in detail.

20. What are different services provided by data link layer?

21. Explain the various error detection and correction Mechanisms used in computer

network

22. a) Explain the encryption and decryption methods.

b) Discuss Application layer in details

23. Explain the operation of the bit-oriented protocol HDLC with the required frames

24. Differentiate between byte and bit stiffing?

25. Explain control field of HDLC

26. A system uses stop and wait ARQ protocol. If each packet 1000 bits of data how long

does it take to send 1 million bits of data if the distance between the source and the

destination is 5000 KM and the propagation speed is 2*10 8 m/sec. Assume that no data

or control frame is lost or damaged and neglect other delays?

27. What is ISO-OSI model of computer network? Compare it with TCP/IP reference

model. Why TCP/IP reference model is more popular than OSI model? which layer is

used for following?

I. To route packets

II. To convert packets to frame

III. To detect and correct errors

IV. To run services like FTP, Telnet etc.

28. In the Stop-and-Wait Protocol, assume that the sender has only one slot in which to
keep the frame to send or the copy of the sent frame. What happens if the network
layer delivers a packet to the data-link layer at this moment?
29. Define piggybacking and its benefit.
30. A 300-m optical fiber has a data rate of 900 Mbps. The length of the data frame is
2000 bits. Assume a propagation speed of 2 * 108 m/s.
a. What is the bit length of the link?
b. What is the propagation delay a of a bit?
c. What inference can you draw from this value of a?
31. List out and discuss the disadvantages of stop and wait protocol.
32. Define the relationship between transmission and propagation delay, if the efficiency is

at least 50% in stop and wait protocol.

33. Find out the window size and minimum sequence number in sliding window protocol,

if transmission delay(Tt) =1ms and propagation delay(Tp) = 24.5ms

34. A pure ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps.

What is the throughput if the system (all stations together) produces

a. 1000 frames per second?

b. 500 frames per second?

c. 250 frames per second?

35. A slotted ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps.

What is the throughput if the system (all stations together) produces

a. 1000 frames per second?

b. 500 frames per second?

c. 250 frames per second?

POST MTE questions

36. Discuss about the IP ranges of Class A,B,C and D.

37. Illustrate the difference between IPv4 and IPv6.

38. Differentiate TCP and UDP in context of the header format.

39. Explain the following terms: (i) FTP (ii) SMTP (iii) DNS (iv)ARP.

40. Explain distance vector routing (DVR) with working example in detail.

41. Divide the network with IP address 200.1.2.0 into 5 subnets.

42. List the flag used in TCP header.

43. Why TCP services are called Stream delivery services?

44. Compare connectionless service & connection oriented service.

45. Differentiate between TCP and UDP.

46. Suppose a TCP connection is transferring a file of 5000 bytes. The first byte is

numbered 10001.What are the sequence numbers for each segment if data are sent in

three segments, each carrying 1000 bytes.

47. i) Examine the Three Way Handshake protocol to establish the transport level

connection.

(ii) Analyze the various duties of Transport Layer.

48. Find out window size and minimum sequence number in sliding window protocol, if

Transmission delay (Tt)= 1 ms, Propagation delay (Tp)= 24.5 ms. (ms= milliseconds).

49. A channel has a bit rate of 20 kbps. The stop and wait protocol with frame size 4500

bits is used. The delay for error detection and sending ACK by the receiver is 0.25

seconds because of a fault. Find the maximum efficiency of the channel if the

destination is 30000km away and the speed of the propagation of the signal is 2.8X108

m/s. Find the decrease in efficiency due to the fault.

50. The following is the dump of a TCP header in hexa decimal format: 05320017

00000001 00000000 500207FF 00000000 (i) What is the sequence number? (ii) What

is the destination port number? (iii) What is the acknowledgment number? (iv) What is

the window size?

51. What do you understand by Quality of service, parameters? List various Quality of

service parameters.

52. What is the purpose of the Domain Name System? Discuss the three main divisions of

the domain name space.

53. If a binary signal is sent over a 3KHZ channel. Whose signal to noise ratio is 20db.

What is the maximum achievable data rate?

54. What is IP addressing? How it is classified? How is subnet addressing is performed?

55. What is unicast routing? Discuss unicast routing protocols.

56. Enumerate how the transport layer unsure that the complete message arrives at the

destination and in the proper order.

57. Elaborate about TELNET and its working procedure.

58. What is congestion? Briefly describe the techniques that prevent congestion.

59. With an example explain 5 different phases of Link State Routing Algorithm.

60. With a neat sketch explain the steps of Data Encryption Standard to encrypt plain text

to cipher text.

61. Distinguish between Leaky Bucket algorithm and Token Bucket algorithm.

62. Distinguish between symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

63. Define UDP and discuss the different fields of the format of a used datagram.

64. What is World Wide Web? Explain details about HTTP.

65. Write short notes on (a) SNMP (b) Network Security

66. Write short notes on Electronic Mail.

67. What are the fundamental cryptographic principles?

68. Explain following application layer protocols:

69.  FTP
70.  SMTP
71.  DNS
72. Explain following application layer protocols:
73.  FTP
74.  SMTP
75.  DNS