Forouzan: MCQ in Network Layer: Internet Protocol

Topic Outline

• Internetworking
  • Need for Network Layer
  • Internet as a Datagram Network
  • Internet as a Connectionless Network
• IPv4
  • Datagram
  • Fragmentation
  • Checksum
• IPv6
  • Advantages
  • Packet Format
  • Extension Headers
• TRANSITION FROM IPv4 TO IPv6
  • Dual Stack
  • Tunneling
  • Header Translation

Practice Exam Test Questions

Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

1. In IPv6, the _______ field in the base header restricts the lifetime of a datagram.

A) version

B) next-header

C) hop limit

D) neighbor-advertisement

2. In IPv4 header, an HLEN value of decimal 10 means _______.

A) there are 10 bytes of options

B) there are 40 bytes of options

C) there are 10 bytes in the header

D) there are 40 bytes in the header

3. In IPv4, an HLEN value of decimal 10 means _______.

A) there are 10 bytes of options

B) there are 40 bytes of options

C) there are 40 bytes in the header

D) none of the above

4. In IPv6, the _______ field in the base header and the sender IP address combine to indicate a unique path identifier for a specific flow of data.

A) flow label

B) next header

C) hop limit

D) destination IP address

5. In IPv4, what is the value of the total length field in bytes if the header is 28 bytes and the data field is 400 bytes?

A) 428

B) 407

C) 107

D) 427

6. The term ________ means that IP provides no error checking or tracking. IP assumes the unreliability of the underlying layers and does its best to get a transmission through to its destination, but with no guarantees.

A) reliable delivery

B) connection-oriented delivery

C) best-effort delivery

D) none of the above

7. The ________ protocol is the transmission mechanism used by the TCP/IP suite.

A) ARP

B) IP

C) RARP

D) none of the above

8. In IPv4, what is the length of the data field given an HLEN value of 12 and total length value of 40,000?

A) 39,988

B) 40,012

C) 40,048

D) 39,952

9. In IPv4, what is needed to determine the number of the last byte of a fragment?

A) Identification number

B) Offset number

C) Total length

D) (b) and (c)

10. The IPv4 header size _______.

A) is 20 to 60 bytes long

B) is 20 bytes long

C) is 60 bytes long

D) none of the above

11. In IPv6, when a datagram needs to be discarded in a congested network, the decision is based on the _______ field in the base header.

A) hop limit

B) priority

C) next header

D) none of the above

12. In IPv4, which field or bit value unambiguously identifies the datagram as a fragment?

A) Do not fragment bit ? 0

B) More Fragment bit ? 0

C) Fragment offset = 1000

D) none of the above

13. Which of the following is a necessary part of the IPv6 datagram?

A) Base header

B) Extension header

C) Data packet from the upper layer

D) (a) and (c)

14. In IPv4, when a datagram is encapsulated in a frame, the total size of the datagram must be less than the _______.

A) MUT

B) MAT

C) MTU

D) none of the above

15. In IPv6, options are inserted between the _________ and the ___________ data.

A) base header; extension header

B) base header; upper-layer data

C) base header; frame header

D) none of the above

16. An IPv4 datagram is fragmented into three smaller datagrams. Which of the following is true?

A) The do not fragment bit is set to 1 for all three datagrams.

B) The more fragment bit is set to 0 for all three datagrams.

C) The identification field is the same for all three datagrams.

D) The offset field is the same for all three datagrams.

17. In IPv4, if the fragment offset has a value of 100, it means that _______.

A) the datagram has not been fragmented

B) the datagram is 100 bytes in size

C) the first byte of the datagram is byte 100

D) the first byte of the datagram is byte 800

18. IP is _________ datagram protocol.

A) an unreliable

B) a connectionless

C) both a and b

D) none of the above

19. IPv6 allows _________ security provisions than IPv4.

A) more

B) less

C) the same level

D) none of the above

20. The IPv4 header field formerly known as the service type field is now called the _______ field.

A) IETF

B) checksum

C) differentiated services

D) none of the above

21. A best-effort delivery service such as IPv4 includes _______.

A) error checking

B) error correction

C) datagram acknowledgment

D) none of the above

22. The IPv4 header size _______.

A) is 20 to 60 bytes long

B) is 20 bytes long

C) is 60 bytes long

D) none of the above

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