EAST POINT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Question Bank-1

Subject: Data Communication Sem/Sec: 4 A & B

1. What is Data Communication. Explain the fundamentals characteristics of Data Communication

system.
2. State the five basic data communication components, briefly explain their characteristics.
3. What is transmission impairment ? Briefly explain three causes of transmission impairment.
4. What is line coding? Mention the different characteristics of line coding.
5. Explain the three step procedure of Pulse Code Modulation(PCM) for analog to digital
conversion.
6. Describe briefly about different transmission modes.
7. Define Constellation diagram.
8. Briefly explain about Shannon capacity and nyquist bit rate for communication channels.
9. Explain the following terms: (i) Bit Rate (ii) periodic signal (iii) signal rate (iv) latency
10. Discuss the different topologies in computer networks.
11. Differentiate between LAN and WAN.
12. Explain how encapsulation and decapsulation is supported in TCP/IP protocol suite.
13. What is digital to analog conversion. Explain the data rate, signal rate, data element, signal
element and bandwidth.
14. Explain FSK, ASK with suitable diagrams.
15. An analog signal has bit rate of 8000 bps and a baud rate of 1000 baud. How many data elements
are carried by each signal element? How many signal elements do we need?
16. Consider the same noiseless channel transmitting a signal with four signal levels( for each level,
we send 2 bits). The maximum bit rate can be calculated as ?
17. A network with bandwidth of 10Mbps can pass only an average of 12000 frames per minute with
each frame carrying an average of 10,000 bits. What is the throughput of this network?