UNIT I

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What do you mean by error control?

Define flow control
Define layer
What is the difference between the port address, logical address and physical
address?
5. What will be the maximum number of frame send but unacknowledged for a
sliding window size n-1( n is the sequence number)?
6. What is the use of two dimensional parity in error detection?
7. What are the issues in datalink layer?
8. What do you mean by framing?
9. Give the purpose of layering.
10.Define store and forward strategy
11.Define computer networks
12.What is multiplexing? What are the different methods of multiplexing?
13.What are the two typesof interfaces? Define
14.List out the responsibilities of network layer
15.What are the functionalities of physical layer?
16.Define socket
17.What is round trip time?
18.Define bandwidth and latency
19.What is bit stuffing and byte stuffing?
20.Define piggybanking
UNIT II
21.What do you understand by CSMA protocol?
22.List the functions of bridges
23.How does a router differ from a bridge?
24.How is the minimum size of an Ethernet frame determined?
25.Differentiate between ARP and RARP
26.What is ICMP? State its uses.
27.Define the term Ethernet .mention its types.
28.Differentiate fast Ethernet and gigabit Ethernet
29.What is DHCP?
30.List the main two limitations of bridges
31.What is the need for ARP?
32.What is subnetting?
33.Define internetworking.
34.How CIDR reduces the number of entries in the routing table?
35.What is the difference between switch and bridge?
36.Define source routing
37.What is the access method used by wireless LAN?

38.Write down any two differences between circuit switching and packet
switching.
39.Define datagram
40.Define gateway
41.What is virtual circuit? What are its types?
42.Define hop-by-hop flow control
Unit III
43.Define router.
44.What is meant by interdomain routing?
45.Differentiate between forwarding table and routing table.
46.What is count to infinity problem?
47.Define convergence
48.What is split horizon?
49.Define RIP.
50.What is LSP? What is contains?
51.Define BGP.
52.What are the salient features of IPV6?
53.What are metrics used by routing protocol?
54.List out the features of OSPF.
55.Define area.
56.What is autonomous system? Mention its types.
57.What is local traffic and transit traffic?
58.What is hop limit?
59.Define reliable flooding.
60.What is hop-by hop flow control?
61.What is source specific multicast?
62.Define flood and prune protocol.
63.What is reverser path broadcast?
UNIT IV
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Define slow start.

When can an application make use of UDP?
Which protocol is faster either UDP or TCP ?Why?
Define the datagram.
What is connection oriented protocol?
Give the format for UDP datagram and give the meaning of each field.
Define leaky bucket algorithm.
Differentiate between delay and jitter.
Differentiate flow control and congestion control.
List some of the Quality of service parameters of transport layer
List out the various features of sliding window protocol.

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Differentiate between connection less operation and connection

oriented operation.
76. Why is UDP pseudo header included in UDP checksum calculation?
77. What is the effect of an invalid checksum at the receiving UDP?
78. What is QOS?
79. Differentiate UDP and TCP.
80. What are the duties of transport layer?
81. What is the difference between network layer delivery and transport
layer delivery?
82. What is MSL?
83. What is 3 way handshaking?
84. Define silly window syndrome.

UNIT V
85. What is DNS? Specify its role.
86. What is SNMP? How it is used?
87. Differentiate application programs and application protocols
88. Define SMTP.
89. What are the groups of HTTP header?
90. Why name services are sometime called as middleware?
91. State the difference between SMTP and MIME.
92. Give the format of HTTP request.
93. How does MIME enhance SMTP?
94. What is IMAP?
95. What is the purpose of HTML?
96. What is POP3?