Advanced Computer Networks
Comprehensive quiz covering OSI model, TCP/IP, routing protocols, ATM, SONET, and ISDN networking technologies
Questions
Which of the following networks is used for communication between a computer and different information technological devices nearby?
- MAN
- PAN
- LAN
- WAN
- Enterprise networks
Which layer of OSI is concerned with syntax and semantics of the information transfer between two systems?
- Presentation layer
- Session layer
- Application layer
- Transport layer
- Data link layer
Which of the following addresses in network communication is also called universal addressing, which is required by each host to get identified uniquely?
- Physical address
- Logical address
- Port address
- Indirect addressing
- Register addressing
Which of the following services of application layer of OSI provides distributed database sources and access for global information about various objects and services?
- Network virtual terminal service
- File transfer access and management service
- Mail service
- Directory service
- Data security service
Which of the following SONET devices receives an OC-N signal from which it can demultiplex and terminate any number of DSn and/or OC-M signals?
- SONET/SDH terminal multiplexer
- SONET/SDH add/drop multiplexer
- Digital cross connect systems
- DWDM
- Asynchronous systems
Which of the following layers of TCP/IP is designed to allow peer entities on the source and destination hosts to carry on a conversation just as in the OSI transport layer?
- Host-to-Host layer
- Internet layer
- Transport layer
- Application layer
- Session layer
Which of the following routes are manually entered into the routing table?
- Dynamic routes
- Static routes
- Intra domain routing
- Routing information protocol
- Broader gateway routing protocol
Which of the following parameters in an ATM network gives the maximum amount of traffic that can be submitted by a source to an ATM network and is expressed as ATM cells per second?
- Sustained cell rate
- Maximum burst size
- Peak cell rate
- Burstiness
- Correlation of inter arrival times
Which of the following fields in routing information protocol message format defines the address of the destination network?
- Command
- Version
- Family
- Network address
- Distance
Which of the following channels of ISDN network ensures the transmission of user data at lower rates than 64 kbps?
- D channel
- B channel
- H channel
- Basic rate interface
- Primary rate interface
______________ is a device for connecting one or more TE2(non- ISDN) devices to an ISDN network.
- Terminal equipment
- Network terminal
- Basic rate interface
- Modem
- Bridges
Which of the following fields in ATM cells is used to control the traffic flow at the user network interface in order to improve short term overload condition?
- Virtual path identifier
- Cell loss priority
- Generic flow control
- Payload type indicator
- Header error control
Which of the following message types is sent for the detection of an error condition?
- Open message
- Update message
- Notification message
- Keep-alive message
- Error message
The ATM cell header is composed of
- 8 elements
- 6 elements
- 4 elements
- 3 elements
- 2 elements
Which of the following fields in IPv4 protocol header is 13 bits and specifies the offset of the data field of this packet from the starting point of the data field of the fragmented source packet?
- Identification
- Flags
- Fragmentation offset
- Protocols
- Checksum