BITS PILANI-HYDERABAD CAMPUS

2nd -Semester
ECE 394: Communication Networks
Comprehensive Examination
PartA (Closed Book)
Time-: 25 - 75min(max)
Max Mark-: 55
ID. NO.

A
07-05-2014

Name:

Instruction:- Q.No 1-40 each carry one mark, Q.No 41- 45 carry three marks. Read the questions
carefully, write the most appropriate answer(A,B,C,D in capital for Q 1-40 and correct answer for Q 4145) in the space provided. and clearly in the box provided with ink. Use backside of main answer sheet
for rough. Overwriting or ambiguity will not be considered for recheck.

1. IP addres space is managed by ______.

A. IEEE
B. ITU
C. IETF
2. The IPv6 is developed in in ______.
A. 1960
B. 1970

D. IANA

C. 1982

3. The size of IPv6 header is ______

A. 40 bytes
B. 16 bytes

D. 1998

C. 54 bytes

D. 32byte

4. The size of IPv6 address is ____ times than that of IPv4 address.
A. 2 times
B. 3 times
C. 4 times

D. 5 times

5. Which frequency range is used for Wi-Fi?

A. 800-900 MHz
B. 1800-1900 MHz

D. 2.4-5 GHz

6.

C. 1.5 2.8 GHz

What percentage of world wide electricity is used for lighting______?

A. 25
B. 19
C. 29
D. 31

7. For which purpose Giga Shower cannot be used?

A. Sending email
B. Watching TV
C. Listening to radio
D. It can be used for A, B and C
8. Which of the following is not correct for non-ionised radiation?
A. nergy per photon is less than 12 eV
B. Wavelength is less than 100 nanometers
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C. Frequency is greater than 3* 10 Hz
D. All are correct statement

Instructors Use

Recheck request:

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9. In USA the FCC has set an SAR limit of ____ averaged over a volume of one gram of tissue, for
the head.
A. 5 W/kg
B. 3.6 W/kg
C. 1.6 W/kg
D. 0.6 W/kg
10. Which of the following is not a correct recommendation to minimize the possible health
hazards?
A. Use speaker phone as much as possible.
B. Avoid making calls when traveling fast
C. Make calls when you have strong signal
D. All of these are correct recommendations.
11. Bluetooth handsets emit ____ % of EM radiation that of normal cellphone.
A. 1
B. 11
C. 29
D. 35
12. The standard defined by WiMAX forum for wireless mobile transmission is _____.
A. IEEE 802.16c
B. IEEE 802.16d C. IEEE 802.16e
D. IEEE 802.16f
13. ______ is the first country to introduce mobile number portability.
A. USA
B. UK
C. Singapore
D. Australia
14. AMPS use ______ for communication.
A. AM
B. FDMA
C. TDMA
D. CDMA
15. Which frequency band is used for spread spectrum?
A. 2400 2483.3 MHz
B. 1800-1900 MHz
C. 890-915 MHz D. 700-813.3 MHz

16. E-mail is a service handled by the _______ layer.

A. Session
B. Presentation
C. Application

D. Data link

17. The _______ measures the absolute strength of signals.

A.decibel B. dBm C. Shannon capacity
D. signal-to-noise ratio
18. In _______, if a device has no data to send, its time slot remains empty.
A. Synchronous TDM
B. Asynchronous TDM
C. FDM
19. The Token Ring AC field contains _______ information.
A. priority
B. frame type
C. reservation

D. WDM

D. all of the above

20. Time to live equal to 25 indicates

A. The packet can live maximum for 25nsec

C. The packet can move maximum of 25 hops.

B.The packet can live maximum for 25msec

D. None of the A, B, C

21. For a given bit rate, the minimum bandwidth for ASK is ______ the minimum bandwidth for FSK.
A. Equivalent to
B. Less than
C. Greater than
D. Twice
22. A repeater recognizes ___________ layer addresses.
A. data link
B. network
C. transport

D. none of the above

23. To connect 20 devices in a mesh topology and star topology _________ and ________ no of
links needed.
A. 20,20
B. 20,19
C. 190,21
D. 190,20

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24. _______ cable carries signals of higher frequency ranges than _______ cable.

A. Twisted-pair; coaxial
C. Coaxial; twisted-pair

B. Twisted-pair; fiber-optic
D. none of the above

25. In an asynchronous TDM ,for 13 signal sources each frame contains 7 slots. What will be the number of
address header bits added to indicate specific source in each slot?
A. 13
B. 12
C. 14
D. 4
26. A T-1 frame has _______ slot(s) of _______ bit(s) each plus _______ bit(s) for synchronization.
A. 24; 8; 1
B. 8; 24; 1
C. 24; 1; 8
D. 8; 1; 24
27. For data unit of 16 what is the minimum number of redundancy bits needed to correct one single
bit error?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
28. What is the maximum effect of a 2ms burst of noise on data transmitted at 96Kbps?
A.2bits
B. 96bits
C.192bits
D. 96Kbps
29. In a TSI the incoming data are stored in ________ and sent out in an order based on the content
of _________.

A. RAM, ROM
C. RAM, Control unit

B. ROM, Control unit

D. Control unit, RAM

30. The IP address of a terminal is 172.172.172.172 .This terminal belongs to which class of network and how
many hosts it can support?

A. Class A and 232.

C. Class A and 216.

B. Class B and 216.

D. Class C and 232.

31. The stop-and-wait flow control method is the same as the sliding window method with a window size of
_______.
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. none of the above
32. FHSS, DSSS, and OFDM are _______ layer specifications.
A.Data link
B.Network
C.Physical

D.Transport

33. If we need to split a 10BASE5 LAN because the traffic is heavy, we need a ____________.
A. repeater
B. bridge
C. router
D. gateway
34. In _______ resolution the client could directly contact more than one server.
A.An iterative
B.A cache
C.A recursive
D.All the above
35. ______ is used to compress images .
A. MP3
B. MPEG
C. JPEG
D. Any one can be used
36. When data and acknowledgement are sent on the same frame, this is called ______.

A. Piggybacking
C. Bit stuffing

B. Data transparency
D. A good idea

37. The number of bits in a single SONET frame is _______ .

A. 720
B. 6264
C. 6480
D. 810
38. SDH was developed by __________.
A. OSI
B. CCITT
C. ANSI
39. The duration of a STS-3 frame is ______.
A. 125 sec
B. 8000 sec

D. none of the above

C. 375 sec

D. none of these

40. In the _______ random-access method there is no collision.

A.CSMA/CD
B.CSMA/CA
C.ALOHA
D.Token-passing

41. An analog television signal is a low pass signal with a bandwidth of 4 MHz. What bit rate is
required if we quantize the signal and required SNR of 41 dB?
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42. A signal has four times the power as a noise signal. Find the SNR in decibels.
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43. If Slotted ALOHA protocol is used to share a 56 kbps satellite channel with a frame length of
1000 bits, the maximum throughput is . frames/second
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44. During busy hour, 600 calls were offered to a group of trunks and six calls were lost.The average
call duration was 3 minutes. Find the following:
I.
The traffic offered = ______
II.

The traffic carried = ______

III.

Grade of service = ______

45. The following waveform belongs to a part of Manchester encoded binary data stream. Draw the clock and
extract the information stream.