Networking Fundamentals
Test your knowledge of networking concepts including types of networking, communication flows, network devices, and network services
Questions
Which one of the following types of networking saves enormous amounts of application development time and complexity?
- Remote bridge
- SNETG box
- Indirect networking
- Direct networking
- Shared networking
Which of the following types of networking involves two or more disjointed networks, each of which are interconnected with two or more systems?
- Peer to peer computing
- Subnet working box
- Direct networking
- Private networking
- Shared networking
Which of the following types of networking attempts to make the WAN look like a single large subnetwork which is transport protocol independent?
- Extended subnetworking
- Shared networking
- Direct networking
- Subnetworking box
- Relay flow
In which of the following flows does the transfer of information involve exactly two programs, accomplished either in an unstaged manner or in a staged manner?
- Collaborative computing
- Transfer flow
- Relay flow
- Lattice flow
- Communication support
Which of the following subsystems of GSM uses an intelligent network?
- Client server computing
- Wireless session protocol
- Networking and switching subsystem
- Base station subsystem
- Mobile station
Which of the following types of networking involves just a single network interconnecting two systems within each application program?
- Subnetworking box
- Simple networking
- Direct networking
- Shared networking
- Lattice flow
Which of the following types of flow is an ISO defined term for combinations of staged and unstaged closed 2-way flows between a pair of programs?
- Dialog flow
- Lattice flow
- Relay flow
- Communication support
- Remote bridge
Which of the following networking techniques is a collection of networking programs that exchange information between immediately logical adjacent physical computing devices?
- Peer to peer computing
- Shared networking
- Direct networking
- Subnetworking
- Communication support
Which of the following operates at the physical layer, taking data bits from several devices and interleaving this data into a single physical link?
- Communication support
- Subnetworking box
- Multiplexer
- Demultiplexer
- Gateway
Which of the following types of flow constitutes the classical nested programming structure?
- Lattice flow
- Tree flow
- Relay flow
- Communication support
- Sify my storage
Which of the following communication techniques is a combination of a remote bridge and a router, performing the function of both and often will route the protocols?
- Client server computing
- Communication support
- Remote bridge
- Gateway
- Brouter
Which of the following operates at the physical layer, simply extending the physical characteristic of the network by regenerating signals?
- Virtual machine technology
- Repeater
- Remote bridge
- Gateway
- Demultiplexer
Which of the following communication techniques interconnects different networks and determines the optimal path for a packet of data to traverse?
- Collaborative computing
- Communication support
- Remote bridge
- Gateway
- Router
Which of the following allows the sharing of leased facilities and can accommodate data, voice and video traffic?
- Bandwidth manager
- Technical account manager
- Technical account manager business review
- Global coordinator
- Collaborative computing
Which of the following supports is used selectively or as enhancement to normal application processing?
- Distributed service support
- Communication support
- Standard application support
- Lattice flow
- Distributive computing