Chapter 5 Review Questions

1. You are asked to upgrade a bus topology LAN at a friends house to a star topology
LAN. Your friend wants to connect three computers and a printer and use the Ethernet access method. His computers do not contain wireless NICs. At minimum, which of the following devices must you add to his current networking hardware? C a hub

2. Which of the following topologies is susceptible to signal bounce? B bus

3. What type of topology is required for use with a 100Base-TX network? A star

4. Your schools network has outgrown its designated telco rooms, so you decide to house a
few routers in an old janitors closet temporarily. However, since the closet has no power outlets, you will have to supply the routers power over the network. If youre lucky, your LAN already uses which of the following Ethernet standards that will allow you to do that? B 1000base-t

5. What is the minimum cabling standard required for 10GBase-T Ethernet? C cat6

6. Which of the following is a potential problem with daisy-chaining hubs on a 10Base-T

network? A exceeding the maximum network length

7. Why is packet switching more efficient than circuit switching?B

8. You are part of a team of engineers who work for an ISP that connects large data
centers, telephone companies, and their customers throughout California and Oregon. Management has decided that the company can make large profits by promising the utmost QoS to certain high-profile customers. Which of the following switching methods will best guarantee the promised QoS? D

9. What happens in CSMA/CD when a node detects that its data has suffered a collision?
D

10. Why are Ethernet_II frames preferred over Ethernet_802.3 frames on contemporary LANs?
A

11. What is the purpose of padding in an Ethernet frame? D

12. You are designing a 100Base-T network to connect groups of workstations in two different
offices in your building. The offices are approximately 250 meters apart. If you only use repeating devices to connect the workstation groups, how many hubs will you need? B

13. On a 10Base-T network, which of the following best describes how the wires of a UTP
cable are used to transmit and receive information? A

14. What technique is used to achieve 1-Gbps throughput over a Cat 5 cable?A

15. Which of the following Ethernet standards is specially encoded for transmission over
WANs using SONET technology? D

16. Which two of the following might cause excessive data collisions on an Ethernet
network? B

17. In which of the following examples do the workstations necessarily share a collision
domain? A

18. What are the minimum and maximum sizes for an Ethernet frame? C

19. Which of the following network technologies does not use circuit switching? B 20. Which of the following is the type of 10-Gigabit Ethernet that can carry signals the
farthest, nearly 25 miles? B