IT-307, COMPUTER NETWORKS

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Q.1 What is the difference between Connection-Oriented & Connectionless Service ?
Q. 2 Why is the Transport Layer not present inside the Network ?
Q.3 What is the difference between a Physical Address, a Network address, a Domain name ?
Q.4 Can a connection- oriented , reliable message transfer service be provided

across a

connectionless packet Network ?Explain ?

Q.5 Does ehernet provide connection-oriented/connectionless service ?
Q.6 Difference in network layer of connection oriented Packet Switching network & connectionlessPacket switching network ?
Q.7 Identify session layer & Presentation layer functions in HTTP Protocol ?

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Q.8

Explain the Difference among unicast, multicast, & Broadcast Messages ?

Q.9 Explain the concept of state-and-forward & give an example of this concept
in a noncomputer N/W context ?
Q.10 Why do you think the concept of addressing is implementation in computer network
Q.11 Explain the Routing? What function do you think routing has on a bus network ?
Q.12 Explain the difference between client/server & Peer-to-Peer Networks ?
Q.13 Contrast Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Isochronous communication ?
Q.14 What is the difference b/w a connection-oriented service & a connectionless service ?

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Q.15 What is Switching & how does it differ from Multiplexing ?
Q.16 Do you think attenuation is higher in solid conductor cables or standard conductor cables? Why ?
Q.17 Describe & contrast the various UTP Category types ?
Q.18 What is Crosstalk & What impact can it have on data transmissions ?
Q.19 Describe the Difference b/w copper-based media & fibre-optic cable?
Q.20 Why does Fibre-optic cable have greater capacity than copper-based media ?
Q.21 Explain the purpose of Framing ?

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Q.22 What is Parity & how can Parity be used for error control ?
Q.23 Explain the various fields of an IEEE 802.3 frame ?
Q.24 Difference b/w 1-persistent & Non-Persistent CSMA ?
Q.25 What is the purpose of a BNC Terminator ?
Q.26 Explain Purpose & Operation of a NIC ?
Q.27 Explain how Bridges can be used to filter traffic ?
Q.28 What is average no. of hops needed to transmit data b/w any two nodes on each network ?

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Q.29 What Possible problems will arise if the information is not updated in a timely manner ?
Q.30 Are the individual LANs are considered subnetworks? Why or why not ?
Q.31 Explain difference b/w Routing & Switching ?
Q.32 Why do you think the designers of UDP made the checksum field optional ?
Q.33 Which TCP/IP Transport Protocol do you think lends itself more to LANs ? why ?
Q.34 Subnet the Class C, network address 198.69.25.0 into eight subnets ?
Q.35 Ethernet/802.3 is based on 1-persistent CSMA/CD. Explain what this mean ?

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Q.36 What is the purpose of Preamble & Start Frame Delimiter fields of Ethernet/ 802.3 Frames ?
Q.37 Discuss advantages & disadvantages of upgrading a 10-Mbps Ethernet LAN to Fast Ethernet ?
Q.38 Explain the difference b/w network diameter & collision domain relative to 10-BASE-T ?
Q.39 Why the concept of collision domain not applicable to switched Ethernet LAN ?
Q.40 In what way does switched token ring improve token ring LAN performance ?
Q.41 Compare Token rings & Token buss Priority schemes ?
Q.42 In what way does FDDIs counter rotating rings promote network reliability ?

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Q.43 Explain the concept of autowrapping relative to an FDDI network ?
Q.44 Describe how FDDI is able to maintain a 100 Mbps data rate at 125 MHz ?
Q.45 Compare & contrast the MAC Sublayers of token ring & FDDI networks ?
Q.46 Describe operation of an FDDI network ?
Q.47 What purpose does all the various ISDN interfaces provide & why are these
so many of them ?
Q.48 Describe the difference among ISDN B<D & H channels ?
Q.49 Difference between CoS & QoS ?

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Q.50 How is VRC related to LRC ?
Q.51 What is the relationship b/w size of CRC remainder and the divisor ?
Q52 What are the conditions for the polynomial used by the CRC generator ?
Q.53 What is the mechanism of poll/select ?
Q.54 What are two types of sliding window ARQ error control? How they differ form each other ?
Q.55 When frames are discarded in the three ARQ methods ?
Q.56 What is the mechanism of ENQ/ACK ?