Computer Networking and Distributed Systems
Test your knowledge of computer networking concepts including IP addressing, OSI model, DNS, network protocols, and distributed systems principles.
Questions
What is the range of WPAN?
- 1-2 km
- Worldwide
- 0.15-1.5 km
- 10-30 m
- 5-50 km
The IP address 10.100.0.1 belongs to class
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
__________ means the message received is identical to the one sent and no messages are delivered twice.
- Authentication
- Throughput
- Security
- Validity
- Integrity
The situation in which multiple users in a distributed system send concurrent request to its resources is called
- redundancy
- transparency
- scalability
- concurrency
- security
__________ software requires a domain name to be returned given an IP address.
- Reverse resolution
- Host information
- Well-known services
- Host name resolution
- Mail host location
Which layer transfers data packets between computers in a specific network?
- Physical
- Data link
- Network
- Transport
- Application
Which protocol is used to send mail between computers?
- Telnet
- HTTP
- FTP
- SMTP
- Socket
In the internet address space, ______ class is reserved for internet multicast communication.
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
FTP is a part of ___ layer.
- session
- transport
- network
- application
- data link
_____ selects one of the server stub procedures according to the procedure identifier in the request message.
- Communication module
- Service procedure
- Dispatcher
- Client stub procedure
- Client program
Resources are identified using
- HTTP
- URL
- HTML
- Server
- Client
What is the generic domain for US military organisation?
- int
- edu
- com
- mil
- gov
What is the global system of interconnected computer networks called?
- Internet
- Intranet
- Operating system
- Software
- Server
How many layers are there in ISO OSI reference model?
- 7
- 5
- 4
- 6
- 3
The set of rules and formats to be used for communication between processes is called
- adaptive routing
- protocol stack
- packet
- broadcast
- protocol