interfaces and electronic signaling specifications? 14.

Which agency developed standards for physical connection

 A) ISO
27. In a _______ connection, more than two devices can share a single
link.
Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
1. There are ______________ Internet service providers.  B) ITU-T  A) multipoint
 A) regional  C) ANSI  B) point-to-point
 B) local  D) EIA  C) primary
15. A _______ is a data communication system within a building, plant,
 C) national and international or campus, or between nearby buildings.  D) secondary
 D) all of the above  A) LAN
28. _______ refers to the structure or format of the data, meaning the order
in which they are presented.
2. ______ refers to the physical or logical arrangement of a network.
 B) MAN 
 A) Topology

A) Semantics


C) WAN  B) Syntax
B) Mode of operation
 D) none of the above 
 C) Data flow 16. _______ refers to two characteristics: when data should be sent and
C) Timing

 D) None of the above

how fast it can be sent.  D) All of the above
3. A ______ is a data communication system spanning states,  A) Semantics
29. An unauthorized user is a network _______ issue.
countries, or the whole world.
 B) Timing
 A) Security
 A) MAN
 C) Syntax
 B) Reliability
 B) WAN
 D) none of the above
 C) Performance
 C) LAN 17. This was the first network.  D) All the above
 D) none of the above  A) CSNET
30. ________ is an idea or concept that is a precursor to an Internet
standard.
4. A _______ connection provides a dedicated link between two
devices.  B) NSFNET  A) RCF
 A) primary  C) ARPANET  B) ID
 B) multipoint  D) ANSNET  C) RFC
18. Devices may be arranged in a _____ topology.
 C) point-to-point
 A) mesh
 D) none of the above
 D) secondary
 B) ring
31. In _______ transmission, the channel capacity is shared by both
communicating devices at all times.
5. Which topology requires a multipoint connection?
 A) Bus  C) bus  A) simplex

 B) Star  D) all of the above  B) half-duplex


19. _______ is the protocol suite for the current Internet.  C) full-duplex
C) Mesh
 A) UNIX 
 D) Ring
 B) NCP
D) half-simplex
6. A ________ is a set of rules that governs data communication.
 A) protocol  C) TCP/IP Read more: http://www.pinoybix.org/2013/01/introduction-to-datacom-

 B) forum  D) ACM
and-networking_3.html#ixzz4mVHIKtrG
1. All of the above
20. ________ is a collection of many separate networks.
 C) standard
 A) A WAN
2.
3.
Topology
WAN
 D) none of the above
 B) An internet
4.
5.
Point-to-point
Bus
7. In a ______ connection, two and only two devices are connected by
a dedicated link.  C) A LAN
6.
7.
Protocol
Point-to-point
 A) multipoint  D) None of the above 8. Message
 B) point-to-point 21. In a ________ connection, three or more devices share a link. 9. Semantics


10. Reliability
 C) (a) and (b) A) point-to-point 11. Simplex

 D) none of the above  B) multipoint

12.
13.
All of the above
Forums
8. The information to be communicated in a data communications  C) (a) and (b) 14. EIA
system is the _______.

15. LAN

D) none of the above 16. Timing
A) Medium 22. Which organization has authority over interstate and international 17. ARPANET
 B) Protocol commerce in the communications field? 18. All of the above

 C) Message  A) FCC 19.

20.
TCP/IP
An internet
 D) Transmission  B) IEEE 21. Multipoint
9. ________ defines how a particular pattern to be interpreted, and  C) ITU-T
22.
23.
FCC
IMP's
what action is to be taken based on that interpretation.
 24. Simplex

D) ISOC
A) Syntax 23. In the original ARPANET, _______ were directly connected together. 25. Star


26. Medium
B) Semantics  A) routers 27. Multipoint
 C) Timing  B) host computers
28.
29.
Syntax
Security
 D) None of the above  C) networks 30. RFC
10. Frequency of failure and network recovery time after a failure are 31. Full-duplex
measures of the _______of a network.  D) IMPs


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A) Performance ______________ transmission. to-datacom-and-networking.html#ixzz4mVKCoEKU
 B) Security  A) simplex
 C) Reliability  B) half-duplex
 D) Feasibility  C) full-duplex
11. A television broadcast is an example of _______ transmission.


D) automatic
A) half-duplex 25. Which topology requires a central controller or hub?
 B) simplex  A) Mesh
 C) full-duplex  B) Bus
 D) automatic  C) Star
12. Data flow between two devices can occur in a _______ way.


D) Ring
A) simplex 26. The _______ is the physical path over which a message travels.
 B) half-duplex  A) Protocol
 C) full-duplex  B) Signal
 D) all of the above  C) Medium
13. _______ are special-interest groups that quickly test, evaluate, and
standardize new technologies.  D) All the above

 A) Standards organizations
 B) Regulatory agencies
 C) Forums
 D) All of the above
 13. A _________ sine wave is not useful in data communications; we 26. A periodic signal completes one cycle in 0.001 s. What is the frequency?

amplitude is ________ V.
need to send a _______ signal.
 A) 1 Hz

 A) 2
 A) single-frequency; composite
 B) 100 Hz

 B) 1
 B) composite; single-frequency This is the correct  C) 1 KHz
answer.
 C) -2  C) single-frequency; double-frequency
 D) 1 MHz
27. The _____ of a composite signal is the difference between the highest and the lowest
 D) between -2 and 2  D) none of the above
frequencies contained in that signal.
2. _________ can impair a signal. 14. The _________ product defines the number of bits that can fill the  A) period
 A) Noise link.
 B) bandwidth
 B) Attenuation  A) delay-amplitude
 C) frequency
 C) Distortion  B) frequency-amplitude
 D) amplitude
 D) All of the above  C) bandwidth-period 28. ________ is a type of transmission impairment in which an outside source such as
crosstalk corrupts a signal.
3. ________is the rate of change with respect to time.  D) bandwidth-delay

 A) Time 15. _______ signals can have only a limited number of values. A) Noise

 B) Frequency  A) Digital
 B) Distortion

 

C) Attenuation
C) Amplitude B) Analog
 

D) Decibel
D) Voltage C) (a) or (b) 29. _______ describes the position of the waveform relative to time 0.
4. A signal is measured at two different points. The power is P1 at the
first point and P2 at the second point. The dB is 0. This means
 D) None of the above  A) Amplitude
16. Before data can be transmitted, they must be transformed to
________. ________.  B) Phase
 A) P2 equals P1  A) periodic signals  C) Frequency
 B) P2 is zero  B) electromagnetic signals  D) Voltage
 C) P2 is much larger than P1  C) aperiodic signals
30. Given two sine waves A and B, if the frequency of A is twice that of B, then the
period of B is ________ that of A.
 D) P2 is much smaller than P1  D) low-frequency sine waves  A) one-half


5. Baseband transmission of a digital signal is possible only if we have 17. Data can be ________.
a ____ channel. B) twice

 A) bandpass
 A) digital  C) the same as

 B) low-pass
 B) analog  D) indeterminate from

  C) (a) or (b)
31. As frequency increases, the period ________.
C) high rate
  A) increases
 D) low rate
D) none of the above
18. ________ is a type of transmission impairment in which the signal  B) decreases
6. ________ is a type of transmission impairment in which the signal

loses strength due to the different propagation speeds of each frequency
loses strength due to the resistance of the transmission medium. that makes up the signal. C) doubles

 A) Distortion  A) Noise  D) remains the same

 B) Attenuation  B) Distortion
32. If the available channel is a ____ channel, we cannot send a digital signal directly to
the channel.

 C) Noise  C) Attenuation  A) low-pass

 D) Decibel  D) Decibel  B) low rate

7. A sine wave in the ______ domain can be represented by one single
spike in the _____ domain.
19. Signals can be ________.  C) bandpass

 A) time; phase
 A) digital  D) high rate

 B) frequency; time
 B) analog
33. For a ______ channel, the Nyquist bit rate formula defines the theoretical maximum
bit rate.

 C) time; frequency
 C) either (a) or (b)  A) low-pass

 D) phase; time
 D) neither (a) nor (b)  B) bandpass


20. A sine wave is ________.
8. If the bandwidth of a signal is 5 KHz and the lowest frequency is 52

C) noisy


KHz, what is the highest frequency? A) periodic and discrete
 
D) noiseless
A) 5 KHz B) aperiodic and discrete 34. In a frequency-domain plot, the horizontal axis measures the ________.

 B) 47 KHz  C) periodic and continuous  A) phase

 C) 57 KHz  D) aperiodic and continuous  B) frequency

 D) 10 KHz
21. _______ data have discrete states and take discrete values.
 C) slope
9. In a time-domain plot, the horizontal axis is a measure of ________.  A) Analog
 D) peak amplitude
 A) phase  B) Digital
Answer Key:
 B) signal amplitude  C) (a) or (b) 1. -2
 C) frequency  D) None of the above
2. All of the above
3. Frequency
 D) time
22. For a ______ channel, we need to use the Shannon capacity to find
the maximum bit rate.
4. P2 equals P1
10. _______ data are continuous and take continuous values. 5. Low-pass

 A) digital
 A) noiseless 6. Attenuation
7. Time; frequency
 B) analog
 B) noisy 8. 57 KHz

 C) (a) or (b)
 C) low-pass
9. Time
10. Analog

 D) none of the above

 D) bandpass 11. inverse of each other
23. What is the bandwidth of a signal that ranges from 1 MHz to 4 MHz? 12. distance a signal or bit has traveled
11. Frequency and period are ______.

13. single-frequency; composite
 A) proportional to each other
A) 1 KHz 14. Bandwidth-delay

 B) inverse of each other

 B) 3 MHz
15. Digital
16. Electromagnetic signals

 C) the same
 C) 4 MHz 17. Analog or Digital


18. Distortion
 D) none of the above
D) none of the above
24. _____ signals can have an infinite number of values in a range.
19. Either analog or digital
20. Periodic and continuous
12. When propagation speed is multiplied by propagation time, we get
the ________.  A) Analog 21. Digital
22. Noisy
 A) wavelength of the signal  B) Digital 23. 3 MHz
 B) throughput  C) (a) or (b)
24. Analog
25. Digital
 C) distance a signal or bit has traveled  D) None of the above 26. 1 KHz
27. Bandwidth
 D) distortion factor
1. If the maximum amplitude of a sine wave is 2 V, the minimum
25. A(n)_________ signal is a composite analog signal with an infinite 28. Noise
bandwidth. 29. Phase
30. Twice
 A) digital 31. Decreases
 B) analog
32. Bandpass
33. Noiseless
 C) either (a) or (b) 34. Frequency

 D) neither (a) nor (b)

  A) session
26. When a host on network A sends a message to a host on network B,
which address does the router look at?

1. The ______ layer adds a header to the packet coming from the
 B) transport  A) logical
upper layer that includes the logical addresses of the sender and  C) data link  B) physical
receiver.
 D) network 
 A) data link
C) port


14. ICMPv6 includes _______. D) none of the above
B) network
 C) physical
 A) IGMP
27. As the data packet moves from the upper to the lower layers, headers
are _______.

 D) none of the above

 B) ARP  A) Rearranged
2. Which of the following is an application layer service?  C) RARP  B) Removed
 A) File transfer and access  D) a and b  C) Added
 B) Mail service
15. The ____ address uniquely defines a host on the Internet.

 C) Remote log-in
 A) IP
D) Modified
28. The physical layer is concerned with the movement of _______ over
 the physical medium.

B) port
D) All the above
3. When data are transmitted from device A to device B, the header  C) specific  A) dialogs
from A's layer 4 is read by B's _______ layer.
 D) physical  B) protocols
 A) Transport 16. The _______ layer coordinates the functions required to transmit a bit  C) bits
 B) Application
stream over a physical medium.

 C) Physical
 A) data link
D) programs
29. To deliver a message to the correct application program running on a

  B) transport host, the _______ address must be consulted.

D) None of the above
4. __________ provides full transport layer services to applications.  C) network  A) physical

 A) UDP  D) physical  B) port

 B) TCP
17. The ______ layer is responsible for the source-to-destination delivery
of a packet across multiple network links.
 C) IP

 C) ARP  A) network
 D) none of the above
30. Ethernet uses a ______ physical address that is imprinted on the
 D) none of the above  B) physical network interface card (NIC).
5. The process-to-process delivery of the entire message is the
responsibility of the _______ layer.  C) data link  A) 32-bit

 A) Transport  D) transport  B) 6-byte

 B) Application
18. Mail services are available to network users through the _______
layer.
 C) 64-bit

 C) Physical  A) Transport
 D) none of the above
31. The _______ layer is the layer closest to the transmission medium.
 D) Network  B) Physical  A) Network
6. The ______ layer is responsible for moving frames from one hop
(node) to the next.  C) Data link  B) Transport
 A) transport  D) Application  C) Physical
 B) data link
19. The ____ created a model called the Open Systems Interconnection,
which allows diverse systems to communicate.  D) Data link
 C) physical  A) IEEE
32. The OSI model consists of _______ layers.

 D) none of the above  B) ISO

 A) eight
7. The _______ layer is responsible for delivering data units from one
 C) OSI
 B) seven
station to the next without errors.
 A) physical  D) none of the above
 C) five

 B) data link
20. The _______ layer changes bits into electromagnetic signals.  D) three

 C) transport
 A) Physical
33. The ________ address, also known as the link address, is the address
of a node as defined by its LAN or WAN.

 D) network
 B) Transport  A) IP
8. The session, presentation, and application layers are the ____  C) Data link  B) port
support layers.
 D) None of the above 

C) specific
A) user 21. IPv6 has _______ -bit addresses.
 B) network  A) 128
 D) physical
34. Layer 2 lies between the physical layer and the _______ layer.
 C) both (a) and (b)  B) 32  A) Data link
 D) neither (a) nor (b)  C) 64  B) Transport
9. The physical, data link, and network layers are the ______ support
layers.  D) variable  C) Network
22. The_____ address identifies a process on a host.
 A) network
 A) specific
 D) None of the above

35. Why was the OSI model developed?
B) user
 B) port 
 C) both (a) and (b)

A) The rate of data transfer was increasing exponentially


C) IP  B) Standards were needed to allow any two systems to
D) neither (a) nor (b)
10. The ________ layer is responsible for the process-to-process  D) physical communicate
delivery of the entire message. 23. The_________ layer is responsible for the delivery of a message from
one process to another.
 C) Manufacturers disliked the TCP/IP protocol suite.
 A) transport
 A) transport
 D) None of the above
 B) physical
 B) network
36. In the OSI model, as a data packet moves from the lower to the upper
layers, headers are _______.
 C) network
 C) physical  A) removed
 D) data link
 D) none of the above  B) added
11. The _______ layer lies between the network layer and the
application layer. 24. The _________ layer enables the users to access the network.  C) rearranged
 A) Data link  A) application  D) modified
 B) Transport  B) physical 37. In the OSI model, when data is transmitted from device A to device
B, the header from A's layer 5 is read by B's _______ layer.
 C) Physical  C) data link
 A) session
 D) None of the above  D) transport
 B) physical
12. The Internetworking Protocol (IP) is a ________ protocol.


C) transport
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25. The TCP/IP _______ layer is equivalent to the combined session, 38. The seven-layer _____ model provides guidelines for the
 C) both a and b presentation, and application layers of the OSI model. development of universally compatible networking protocols.

 D) none of the above  A) data link  A) ISO

13. The _______ layer links the network support layers and the user  B) network  B) OSI
support layers.
 C) physical  C) IEEE
 D) application  D) none of the above
 1. Network
2. All of the above
3. Transport
4. TCP
39. The Internet model consists of _______ layers. 5. Transport


6. Data link
A) Eight 7. Data link
 B) Seven 8. User
9. Network
 C) Five 10. Transport
 D) Three
11. Transport
12. None of the above
40. In the OSI model, what is the main function of the transport layer? 13. Transport
 A) process-to-process message delivery 14. IGMP and ARP
15. IP
 B) node-to-node delivery 16. Physical
 C) synchronization
17. Network
18. Application
 D) updating and maintenance of routing tables 19. ISO
20. Physical
41. _______ is a process-to-process protocol that adds only port
addresses, checksum error control, and length information to the data 21. 128
from the upper layer. 22. Port
23. Transport
 A) IP 24. Application
 B) TCP
25. Application
26. Logical
 C) UDP 27. Added
28. Bits
 D) none of the above 29. Port
42. The ______ layer establishes, maintains, and synchronizes the 30. 6-byte
interactions between communicating devices. 31. Physical
 A) session
32. Seven
33. Physical
 B) physical 34. Network


35. Standards were needed to allow any two systems to communicate
C) transport 36. Removed
 D) network
37. Session
38. OSI
43. A port address in TCP/IP is ______ bits long.
39. Five
 A) 16 40. Process-to-process message delivery


41. UDP
B) 32 42. Session
 C) 48 43. 16
44. Presentation
 D) none of the above 45. Five-layer; before
44. In the OSI model, encryption and decryption are functions of the 46. Physical
________ layer. 47. OSI
 A) application
48. Presentation

 B) presentation
 C) session
 D) transport
45. TCP/IP is a ______ hierarchical protocol suite developed ____ the
OSI model.
 A) five-layer; before
 B) six-layer; before
 C) seven-layer; before
 D) five-layer; after
46. The ________ address, also known as the link address, is the
address of a node as defined by its LAN or WAN.
 A) logical
 B) port
 C) physical
 D) none of the above
47. The _______ model shows how the network functions of a
computer ought to be organized.
 A) ANSI
 B) CCITT
 C) ISO
 D) OSI
48. The _______ layer ensures interoperability between
communicating devices through transformation of data into a mutually
agreed upon format.
 A) network
 B) presentation
 C) transport
 D) data link