1. Which protocol stack has 7 layers?

a. ISORM
b. DECnet
c. SNA
d. All of the above
2. Which of these is cut-through routing?
a. Receiving a packet in its entirety and then forwarding it
b. Routing the packet as soon as the destination is decoded
c. Cutting into the send queue when the highest priority packet comes in
d. Skipping an intermediate router to lower the hop count

3. NVRAM has the following useful property:

a. Its cheap
b. It loses its content when powered-down and thus you do not have to blank it on
power-up
c. It retains its contents when powered-down
d. It is very cheap
4. ISO is an acronym for
a. International Standards Organization
b. International Organization for standardization
c. International Standards, Official
d. It is not an acronym

5. The maximum hop count in RIP is

a. 7
b. 15
c. 16
d. 99

6. A Class B has the following mask: 255.255.255.192. How many useable subnets are
there?
a. 1
b. 1,022
c. 1,024
d. 192

7. A subnet mask of 255.255.255.248 has this many useable hosts ids per subnet?
a. 3
b. 7
c. 6
d. 248

8. If a collision is seen on an Ethernet, then this happens.

a. All stations start jamming.
b. Those stations that are transmitting start jamming.

c. those stations that are transmitting start jamming and then back off for
retransmission
d. all stations start jamming and then backoff for retransmission
9. the reason that the basic OC rate is what it is, is because
i. its a useful multiple od DS0
ii. IBM said so
iii. its a multiple of DS0 that needs no shifting to multiplex DS0 circuits
iv. it was a compromise between the telcos and the computer people
10. Any class A address must have its first address part be less than
i. 127

ii. 128
iii. 199
iv. 255
11. what can we say about IP address 265.255.255.255
i. it is Class A
ii. it is Class B
iii. it is Class C
iv. it is illegal
12. why will a datagram not stay in the internet indefinitely?
i. the hop-count will kill it
ii. routers will remember that they have seen it before and eat it
iii. Delivery is guaranteed by the IP protocol
iv. it is broadcast to all receivers
13. In routing, convergence refers to
i. the time taken to propagate routing changes throughout the entire
network
ii. the intermixing of fibre and copper at the physical layer
iii. the time to transmit a message is becoming constant
iv. all routers are pointing to the default router
14. how many management functional areas has the OSI defined?
i. 1

ii. 2
iii. 5
iv. 15
15. which of these terms does NOT apply to snmp?
i. agent
ii. manager
iii. managed object
iv. client
16. 1.3.6.1.2.1 refers to
i. an IP address
ii. nothing special
iii. the symbolic special iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib
iv. a host address

17. the difference between a gauge and a counter is

i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

the are the same

the former goes to the latter to
the former goes to the latter to
the former does not wrap around, the latter does

18. suppose an application was sending a byte from App A to App B through all of the ISO OSI
layers. If we assume that each layers adds on average 30 bytes of protocol information to the
message, what is the closest ETR/NTR% of the transmission?
i. 0.5%
ii. 1%
iii. 2%
iv. 5%
19. stub routing
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

hides part of the net from others

avoid the overhead of dynamic routing
is administered manually
all of the above

20. when TCP opens a connection, it uses this:

i. one-way handshake
ii. two-way handshake
iii. three-way handshake
iv. negotiates a handshake
21. A sliding window of n means that
i. n bytes can be transmitted before an ack
ii. n segments can be transmitted before an ack

iii. an n-way handshake is required

iv. the total message size to be transmitted in n bytes
22. IP datagrams are
i. more efficient than TCP
ii. like sending a first class letter
iii. less efficient than TCP
iv. a and b
23. which of the following does NOT use UDP
i. tftp
ii. snmp
iii. nfs
iv. arp
24. which of the following is NOT a routing metric?
i. bandwidth
ii. delay
iii. load
iv. cycles per second
25. if you had an IP address of 192.5.5.192 255.255.255.224 than the range of hosts are
i. 192-224
ii. 192-223
iii. 193-223
iv. 193-224
26. which of the following X.500 protocols lives on in the Internet ?
a. LDAP
b. DSP
c. DAP

d. UDP
27. Which of the following does not belong?
a. DNS-X.500

b. Smtp-X.400
c. snmp-CMIP/CMIS
d. TCP-SCTP
28. When the URG it is set in a TCP segment header, the receiver
a. Flushes its buffer
b. Flushes its buffers and terminates the connection

c. Immediately suspends the steam operation and sends the URG message to the
application
d. Flushes its buffers and sends the URG message to the application
29. What networking technology was developed in Canada?
a. Bluetooth

b. X 25
c. Beaver-net
d. Frame relay
30. When an application wants to send an X.500 Directory Service, it connects to a
a User Agent
b. DUA
c DSA
d Oracle
31. What is the maximum data payload that IPv4 can carry?
a. 4K

b. 65,535
c. 65,515
d. 2^32
32. The IPv4 header size
a. Depends on the MTU

b. Is 20 bytes long
c. Is 60 bytes long
d. Is 20-60 bytes long