MEENAKSHI SUNDARAJAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI-24.

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICAITON ENGINEERING

Multiple Choice Question Bank

1.Combination of two or more networks are called

A. Internetwork
B. WAN
C. MAN
D. LAN

Ans: A

2.Propagation time is equals to

A. Distance/Propagation speed
B. Propagation speed/Bandwidth
C. Message size/ Bandwidth
D. Bandwidth/Queuing time

Ans:A

3. Size and format of physical addresses vary depending on the

A. Receiver
B. Message
C. Sender
D. Network

Ans:D

4. Control frame that is sent by destination station is called

A. clear to send
B. Request to sent
C. Distributed Interframe Space
D. Short Interframe Space

Ans:A

5. In Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA), if station senses medium before

trying to use it then chance of collision can be

A. Increased
B. Reduced
C. Highlighted
 D. Both B & C

Ans:B

6. Transmission media are directly controlled by the

A. physical layer
B. data link layer
C. network layer
D. session layer

Ans: A

7. IEEE 802.11 have three categories of

A. frames
B. fields
C. signals
D. sequences

Ans:A

8. A BSS without an AP is called an

A. adhoc network
B. infrastructure network
C. connectionless network
D. channelization network

Ans:A

9. DCF stands for

A. Direct Control Function

B. Distributed Control Function
C. Direct Cooperate Function
D. Distributed Coordination Function

Ans:D

10. Management frames, control frames and data frames are used by

A. Wireless LANs
B. Wireless MANs
C. Wireless WANs
D. None
Ans:A

11. In Bluetooth LAN, devices are called

A. Nodes
B. Gadgets
C. Piconet
D. Entity

Ans:B

12. If piconet has only one secondary station, TDMA operation is very

A. Complicated
B. Complexed
C. Simple
D. Small

Ans:C

13. Point Coordination Function (PCF) is implemented in an

A. infrastructure network
B. adhoc network
C. distributed network
D. cellular network

Ans:A

14. Effective bandwidth is bandwidth that network needs to allocate for the

A. Flow of Data
B. Flow of Cost
C. Flow of Traffic
D. Flow of Amount

Ans:C

15. Four different attributes to control traffic have been devised in

A. Data Relay
B. Source Relay
C. Frame Relay
D. IP Relay

Ans:C
16. In Quality Service, Jitter is variation in delay for packets belonging to the

A. Same Flow
B. Parallel Flow
C. Protocol Flow
D. Both B & C

Ans:A

17. Congestion control can be in two examples, one in TCP and other in

A. Frame Relay
B. Data Relay
C. Source Relay
D. IP Relay

Ans:A

18. In Congestion Control, a bit can be set in a packet moving in direction of the

A. Implicit Signaling
B. Backward Signaling
C. Forwarded Signaling
D. Explicit Signaling

Ans:C

19. In QoS techniques, packets wait in a buffer (queue) until node is ready to
process them in

A. Out-of-Order Ones
B. Fist-in First out
C. Last-in First-Out
D. First-in-Last-out

Ans:B

20. In Congestion Control, warning message goes directly to the

A. Data Station
B. Destination Station
C. Network Station
D. Source Station

Ans:D
21. Scheduling is done on

A. Weighted Fair Queuing

B. Randomly
C. FIFO
D. Both A & C

Ans:D

22. Network layer at source is responsible for creating a packet from data
coming from another

A. Station
B. Link
C. Node
D. Protocol

Ans:D

23. In IPv4 layer, datagram is of

A. Fixed length
B. Variable length
C. Global length
D. 0 length

Ans:B

24. In IPv4, only thing encapsulated in a frame is

A. Unit
B. Data Frame
C. Datagram
D. Addresses

Ans:C

25. IPv6 is designed to allow extension of the

A. Protocol
B. DataSet
C. Headers
D. Routes

Ans:A

26. In IPv6, flow label is assigned to a packet by the

 A. Co-host
B. Source-host
C. Host
D. Medium link

Ans:B

27. Packet is fragmented in network layer, if packet is

A. Too Small
B. Too Large
C. Too busy
D. Null

Ans:B

28. In IPv6, format and length of IP address were changed along with the

A. Frame format
B. Packet alignment
C. Frame bits
D. Packet Format

Ans:D

29. In IPv6, header checksum is eliminated because checksum is provided by

A. Lower Layer
B. Session layer
C. Upper Layer
D. All of the above

Ans:C

30. Internet is also known as

A. Datagram Network
B. Datagram Link
C. Datagram Nodes
D. Datagram Internet

Ans:A

31. In north America, Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) is one of

leading cellular

A. Company
B. Generated company
 C. System
D. Station

Ans:C

32. To prevent interference of adjacent cell signals, size of cell is

A. Increased
B. Expanded
C. Optimized
D. Constant

Ans:C

33. Satellite Networks can divide planet into

A. Nodes
B. Slots
C. Cells
D. Chunks

Ans:C

34. Roaming is feature of

A. Cellular Telephony
B. Cellular End-Caller
C. Cellular Frames
D. Cellular Signals

Ans:A

35. GSM stands for

A. Global System for Mobile

B. Global Station for Mobile
C. Global Signal for Mobile
D. Global Station for Mobility

Ans:A

36. In 1900-MHz band, a mobile station needs more

A. Instructions
B. Power
C. Signals
D. Frames
Ans:B

37. In cellular telephony, bands and Channels of Interim Standard 95 (IS-95)

uses two bands for

A. Duplex communication
B. Traditional ISM communication
C. Digitized communivation
D. Scrambled communication

Ans:A

38. Information can be represented as a sequence of

A. byte patterns
B. characters
C. bit patterns
D. images

Ans:C

39. Both station can transmit and receive data simultaneously in

A. simplex mode
B. Half duplex mode
C. Full duplex mode
D. None of Above

Ans:C

40. Term that is used for physical path by which a message travels from sender
to receiver is

A. Jitter
B. Protocol
C. Transmission Medium
D. Information

Ans:C

41. Protocols are, set of rules to govern

A. Communication
B. Standards
C. Metropolitan communication
D. None of Above

Ans:A
42. Effectiveness of a data communications system depends on four
fundamental characteristics

A. delivery, accuracy
B. timeliness and jitter
C. jitter and delivery
D. both a and b

Ans:D

43. An internet is a

A. Collection of WANS
B. Network of networks
C. collection of LANS
D. Collection of identical LANS and WANS

Ans:B

44. Two computers connected by an Ethernet hub are of

A. LAN topology
B. MAN topology
C. WAN topology
D. None of the above

Ans:A

45. Tele is a word in

A. French
B. Egyptian
C. German
D. Greek

Ans:D

46. Frame Relay is very cheap than other

A. LANs
B. WANs
C. MANs
D. Multipoint Networks

Ans:B
47. At data link layer, Frame Relay uses

A. Complex Protocol
B. Multiple Protocols
C. Simple Protocol
D. Frame Protocol

Ans:C

48. Some organizations were using X.25 (a virtual-circuit switching network)

performed switching at the

A. Network Layer
B. Linear Layer
C. SONET Layer
D. UPSR Layer

Ans:A

49. Ethernet is a

A. Unicasting protocol
B. Multicasting protocol
C. broadcasting protocol
D. Both B & C

Ans:D

50. There are three types of switching: circuit switching, packet switching and

A. Message Switching
B. Cross Switching
C. Frame Switching
D. None of the Above

Ans:A