Unit – I

Define Computer Networking

Explain the Components of data communication

Explain in detail about distributed processing

Explain different type of connection in computer network

What is network topology? Name them.

Given the two advantages of Star topology.

What is disadvantage of Ring Topology?

Describe the features of the Bus Topology.

Discuss about different transmission technology.

What are the categories of network?

Define Open System.

What do you understand by protocol?

Discuss the merits and demerits of OSI model.

Discuss demerits of TCP/IP Model.

What is cable modem?

Write a note on applications of computer networks.

What is DTE-DCE interface?

What is Modem?

Explain in detail about the transmission mode.

Explain about the digital transmission.

Short Answer Question

Describe various goals of computer network.

What is line configuration?

Explain in detail about various topologies.

Discuss two principles and concepts of the following in the application of computer network

Explain the difference between LAN and WAN

Explain the function of following Layers in OSI reference model.

(i) DATA Link Layer

(ii) Application Layer
Explain the function of following layer in OSI reference model:

(i) Session Layer

(ii) Transport Layer
(iii) Presentation Layer

Compare TCP/IP reference model with OSI reference model.

Describe TCP/IP Protocol suite.

Long Answer Questions

Define Computer Networking. What are its advantages? Also discuss various types of Computer
Networks briefly.

How many layers are in OSI reference Model? Explain the work of each layer in brief.

Explain the Standard organization for data communication.

What is Network Topology? Discuss various topologies with relative Advantages and
Disadvantages

Briefly Describe the 7 Layer reference model of OSI.

Explain TCP/IP model.

Or

How do the layers of the TCP/IP protocol correlate to the OSI model layers?

Compare TCP reference model with OSI reference model.

Difference Between OSI & TCP/IP reference model in Tabular Form:

 UNIT - II

Transmission Media

What do you understand by Transmission Media?

What are various categories of guided media?

What is unguided media?

What is fiber optic cable?

What are advantages of fiber optics?

Write a short note on lightwave transmission.

Differentiate between the radio transmission and microwave transmission.

Explain wireless transmission.

Compare wireless transmission and microwave transmission.

Write short note on broad band coaxial cable.

Differentiate between base band coaxial cable and broad band coaxial cable.

What is transmission impairments?

What is attenuation?

What is the remedy to reduce attenuation?

What is distortion?

Explain throughput?

Explain Propagation Time.

What is Propagation Speed?

Explain Wavelength?

Explain Shannon’s Theorem.

Explain Noisy channel: Shannon Capacity.

Explain Noiseless Channel : Nyquist Bit Rate.

List of properties of fiber optics.

Suppose a signal travels through a transmission medium and its power is reduced to one half.
This mean Pout = ½ Pin . Calculate attenuation.

Explain Signal-to-Noise Ratio.

Consider a noiseless channel with a bandwidth of 3000Hz transmitting a signal with two
signal levels. Calculate the maximum Nyquist Bit Rate.
Consider an extremely noisy channel in which the value of signal-to-noise ratio is atmost
zero. In other words, the noise is so strong that the signal is faint. Calculate the Shannon
capacity.

Short Answer Question

What is twisted pair cable?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of twisted pair cable?

Explain about coaxial cable.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of coaxial cable?

What are the types of coaxial cable.

Explain Fiber-optic cable.

Differentiate between twisted pair wires and coaxial cable.

List five transmission media and rank them in order of data rate capability.

Write a short note on Highwave transmission.

What is a communication Satellite?

Long Answer Question

What do you understand by the transmission media?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of a single mode optical fiber over multimode
optical fiber? Also differentiate Between single mode and multimode optic fiber.

What is noise? Explain different types of noise

Discuss and Compare Nyquist theorem and Shannon’s Theorem for finding maximum data rate of
any channel.
 UNIT – III

Telephony, Data-link Control Protocol , Point-To-Point Control & ISDN

What is Multiplexing?
Which method is used for error correction? Explain.
Write a short note on Go-back-N protocol.
Explain selective repeat method.
How Go back N and selective repeat flow control protocol are different?
Explain the simplex stop protocol.
Explain error detection protocol.
What is error control?
Explain flow control.
What are the line disciplines for the data link control protocol?
What is link access procedure?
Explain the concept of PPP layers?
Define ISDN.
Define historical outline and broadcast ISDN.
What is Switching? Explain its type.
What is LCP?
What is authentication protocol?
What NCP?
What is point-to-point control?
Explain permanent virtual circuit and its drawbacks.
In N-bit sliding window protocol, Why (N-1) bit window is used in receiver?
(Short Answer Questions)
What do you understand by the term ‘ Data Link Layer’?
Discuss the design issues of Data link layer.
What are basic properties of and wait protocols? Explain its advantage and disadvantage.
What is sliding window protocol?
Explain any one, flow control protocol at data link layer along with algorithm.
Differentiate Virtual circuits Vs. Circuit switching.
How does a switched virtual circuit differs from a permanent virtual circuit?

(Long Answer Questions)

What is multiplexing? Explain its three main techniques in detail.

Explain error detection protocol.

Explain in detail error correction protocols.

How Go back N and selective repeat flow control protocol are different?

What are the transmission states in point-to-point control? Define the frame format of PPP.

Define the term ISDN and draw its architecture.

What is switching? Explain the various switching techniques.

Explain CRC method. For what types of errors is it suitable?

Unit – IV
What is repeater?

Explain the function and application of a repeater in the context of network communication.

What is bridge?

What is source routing bridges?

What is router?

Explain groups in which routing algorithm is devided.

Explain Shortest Path Routing.

Explain Multicast Routing.

Explain Broadcast Routing.

What is congestion?

List various congestion policies that affect congestion in data link layer and transport layer ( in brief).

What short note on Connectionless Internetworking.

Differentiate between Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket algorithm.

What is an IP address?
Explain the concept of Internet Protocol and explain its header.

Explain IPv6 Packet format.

Give IPv6 address with diagram.

List some major function of IP.

What are the services provided by IP?

For the address 24.46.8.95, identify the type of network and find the network address.

For the address 132.7.21.84, find the type of network and the network address.

Describe briefly the Transparent bridge

(Short Answer Question)

Write a note on Network Layer.

What is Gateway?

What is flooding?

Bring out the salient features of Flow Based Routing and its advantages over flood routing.

Write short note on Congestion Prevention Policies.

Explain quality of service in detail.

Explain IPv6. Give its advantages.

Discuss any two control protocol used by Internet in network layer.

List typical control message defined by ICMP.

( Long Answer Question )

What are the design issues of a network layers?

Describe Shortest Path Algorithm for Routing.

Define congestion. Write down the steps useful in controlling congestion.

Explain congestion. Write the techniques for achieving good quality of service.

Differentiate between Token bucket and Leaky bucket algorithm.

What is ALOHA? Also explain its types.

 UNIT – V

What is position of transport layer in an OSI reference Model?

Explain two-way handshake protocol.

Explain three-way handshake protocol.

What are various styles for releasing a connection?

What is connection oriented communication?

What is connectionless communication?

Discuss connection oriented protocol of transport layer in internet.

Explain the responsibilities of session layer?

Explain the responsibilities of presentation layer?

Explain electronic mail.

Give the difference between connectionless and connection oriented communication.

( Short Answer Question )

Explain the function transport layer.

What service Transport layer provides to session layer?

What do you mean by crash recovery in transport layer?

Explain the connection management at transport layer of OSI reference model.

How Transport layer Establish a connection?

Explain the UDP. Also explain its fields in frame format.

Describe TCP service Model.

Compare and contrast between UDP & TCP.

What are the services provided by presentation layer to application layer?

What is network security? Explain How is its maintained/secured?

(Long Answer Questions)

How transport layer releases a connection.

Describe the concept of addressing in transport layer.

What is connection oriented and connectionless communication? Also write down its advantages
and disadvantages

Describe the internet transport protocols. Also explain them briefly.

What is TCP protocol? Describe the format of TCP header.

Explain Internet Security.

What is E-mail?

What do you understand by E-mail and explain its architecture, services and message format ?
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SECTION- A

Q1 A PROTOCOL IS REALLY:

(a) A Sets of demands

(b) A set of rules
(c) A translation book of diplomats
(d) A call with very high authorization

Q2 Which of the following is used for modulation and demodulation?

(a) Modem
(b) Protocols
(c) Gateway
(d) Multiplexer
(e) None of the above.

Q3 Error detection at the data link level is achieved by :

(a) Bit stuffing

(b) Hamming codes
(c) Cyclic redundancy codes
(d) Equalization

Q4 At which layer does a Gateway operate at ?

(a) Data link layer

(b) Application Layer
(c) Network Layer
(d) None of the above

Q5 Which of the following uses the greatest number of layers in the OSI model?

(a) Gateway
 (b) Repeater
(c) Bridge
(d) Router.

Section- B

Q6(a) What do you mean by network topology? Explain the advantages and disadvantages of
bus,star and ring topology.

(b) What do you mean by Hub, Repeaters and Bridges?

Q7 (a) Discuss the major functions performed by the presentation layer and application layer of ISO-
OSI model.

(b) Write the concept of ALOHA.

Q8 (a) What is computer networking? What are its advantages?

(b) What is computer networking ? What are its advantages?

Section- C

Q9 (a) Explain the different methods for error correction and detection.

(b) State the advantages and disadvantages of TCP/IP.

Q10 Explain the following in detail :

(a) ISDN (b) FDM (c) Routers.

Q11 (a) What are the major components of an optical communication system?

(b) Write about a short note on quality of service of transport layer.

Q12 (a) Explain Packet switching in detail.

(b) What are the criteria used to evaluate transmission media? Explain throughput and

Wavelength.

Q13 (a) What is Local Area Network (LAN)? What is difference between LAN and WAN?

(b) Write short note on session layer.

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SECTION- A

Q1 Repeater operates in which layer of OSI model :

(a) Application layer

(b) Presentation layer

(c) Physical layer

(d) Transport layer

Q2 A networking device that forwards data packets along networks and acts as a central point of
network is called

(f) Repeater
(g) Router
(h) Bridge
(i) Hub

Q3 Multiplexing technique that shifts each signal to a different carrier frequency.

(e) FDM
(f) TDM
(g) Either a or b
(h) Both a and b

Q4 A Local telephone network is an example of a ___________ Network.

(e) Packet switched

(f) Circuit switched
 (g) Both of the mentioned
(h) None of the mentioned

Q5 Which of the following task is not done by data link layer?

(e) Framing
(f) Error control
(g) Flow control
(h) Channel coding

Section- B

Q6 Different Between circuit switching and packet switching.

Q7 During the communication, how various layer of OSI model exchange information to establish a
connection? Describe with help of a suitable diagram.

Q8 (a) What is Multiplexing? Why multiplexing is required? What are the differences between
upward multiplexing and downward multiplexing?

(b) Discuss in detail about the role of DNS?

Section- C

Q9 (a) Write short notes in internetworking issues.

(b) Explain why routing is very important in networking.

Q10 (a) List and explain the components and topologies of the network design.

(b ) Differentiate LAN,MAN, and WAN network topologies.

Q11 (a) Compare OSI reference model with the TCP/IP model.

(b) Describe the services provided by PPP protocol. Also list some services which PPP does not
provide?

Q12 (a) Discuss the user Datagram protocol (UDP) in brief.

(b) Explain how connections are established at the transport layer.

Q13 (a) Mention any three special cases of IP addresses and their roles in networking.

(b) Explain about the key role of WWW and URL in internet with suitable tracing.
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SECTION- A

Q1 Explain how ’Quality of Service’ is provided through integrated services.

Q2 What is the difference between Circuit Switching and Packet Switching?

Q3 Explain in brief about the steps involved in the ‘Routing process’ of a packet network.

Q4 What do you understand by Gateway?

Q5 Explain Ethernet protocol.

Section- B

Q6 Explain error Detection and Error Correction Code.

Q7 Explain any one of the following:

(a) NCP (b) PPP layer

Q8 What is the difference between TCP and OSI model?

Section- C

Q9 Explain the Connection Management of Transmission Control Protocol.

Q10 Explain the function of Session, Presentation and Application Layer.

Q11 Explain the design issues of network layer.

Q12 Explain any two Congestion Control Algorithm with Example.

Q13 Explain any one of the protocols used for flow control in Noisy Channel fibre distributed data
interface operation.
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SECTION- A

Q1 Which is the best topology for a local area network in a building? Justify your answer.

Q2 The power of a signal is 100mW and the power of the noise is 10uW; What are the values of SNR
and SNRdB?

Q3 How Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) works?

Q4 Differentiate Bridges and Repeaters.

Q5 What are the services of Transport layer?

Section- B

Q6 Explain any one of the following

(a) Transmission modes

(b) LAN and MAN

Q7 How flow control and error control is done at data link layer?

Q8 Explain the functions of session layer.

Section- C

Q9 Explain the Link State routing algorithm with example.

Q10 Discuss the different unguided media with the uses.

Q11 How packet switching works in a network? Explain in detail.

Q12 Discuss different protocols at application layer.

Q13 What is the essence of Modems ? How DTE-DCE interface works.