Questions likely to be asked in your CN Viva

1. Names of Text books and reference books for CN( Don’t say Technova/Techmacs)
2. Number of modules and their names
3. What is the full form of ISO’s OSI model
4. Why it is called Open System Interconnection
5. OSI Layers and their functions (IMP)
6. Protocols, PDUs and devices used in all 7 layers (IMP)
7. Applications of Computer Network
8. Topology (difference) Very IMP
9. Error control methods/techniques
10. Aloha protocol(Pure & Slotted)
11. What is Vulnerable time (pure & Slotted) IMP
12. DLL sublayers( LLC & MAC) IMP
13. CSMA, CSMA/CD (IMP)
14. Stop and wait/Go Back N ARQ/ Selective Repeat ARQ window size and how it
works(Very IMP)
15. Network layer protocols: IP, ARP, RARP, ICMP, IGMP (very IMP)
16. Addresses- (MAC, IP, Port) 48 bits, 32 or 128 bits & 16 bits IMP
17. MAC addr (hexadecimal value), IP addr ( decimal notation) IMP
18. Port addr( Well-known ports/Registered ports/Dynamic Ports with range) IMP
19. Socket address : IP address + Port number( e.g. 192.168.1.2 : 40000) IMP
20. Classful IP addressing (Range) vs Classless IP addressing (CIDR) IMP
21. Routing Algorithm (DVR,LSR)
22. Traffic shaping algorithms(Leaky And Token Bucket algo)
23. Congestion vs flow control (very IMP)
24. IPv4 Header format ( remember all fields) , Minimum and maximum header length
IMP
25. What is Subnetting , supernetting? Why it is required? (IMP)
26. Practice numericals of subnetting and supernetting
27. NAT- Network address translation (working) IMP
28. PAT- Port Address Translation
29. NMAP/Wireshark/Cisco Packet Tracer/NS2 (Very IMP)
30. Networking commands ( Very IMP)
31. Berkeley Socket primitives (IMP)
32. Transport service primitives (IMP)
33. TCP Connection establishment and termination (IMP)
34. DNS (Generic domain, country domain) (Very IMP)
35. Iterative and recursive name resolution (very IMP)
36. Application layer protocols : HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, FTP, DHCP (Very IMP)
37. OSI vs TCP/IP model (very IMP)
38. Transmission Media (very IMP)