MCQ in Computer Network and Networking Part 2 | ECE Board Exam

(Last Updated On: January 7, 2023)

This is the Multiple Choice Questions Part 2 of the Series on Computer Network and Networking as one of the Communication Engineering (EST) and Electronics Engineering topics. In Preparation for the ECE Board Exam make sure to expose yourself and familiarize yourself with each and every question compiled here taken from various sources including but not limited to past Board Exam Questions in Communication Engineering and Electronics Engineering field, Communications Books, Electronics Books, Journals and other Communications and Electronics References.

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Choose the letter of the best answer in each question.

51. Which one of the following is a transport layer protocol used in the internet?

A. tcp

B. udp

C. both (a) and (b)

D. none of the mentioned

52. User datagram protocol is called connectionless because

A. all udp packets are treated independently by transport layer

B. it sends data as a stream of related packets

C. both (a) and (b)

D. none of the mentioned

53. Transmission control protocol is

A. connection-oriented protocol

B. uses a three-way handshake to establish a connection

C. receive data from application as a single stream

D. all of the mentioned

54. An endpoint of an inter-process communication flow across a computer network is called

A. socket

B. pipe

C. port

D. none of the mentioned

55. Socket-style API for windows is called

A. wsock

B. winsock

C. wins

D. none of the mentioned

56. Which one of the following is a version of UDP with congestion control?

A. datagram congestion control protocol

B. stream control transmission protocol

C. structured stream transport

D. none of the mentioned

57. A _____ is a TCP name for a transport service access point.

A. port

B. pipe

C. node

D. none of the mentioned

58. Transport layer protocols deals with

A. application to application communication

B. process to process communication

C. node to node communication

D. none of the mentioned

59. The ____ translates internet domain and host names to IP address.

A. domain name system

B. routing information protocol

C. network time protocol

D. internet relay chat

60. Teredo is an automatic tunneling technique. In each client the obfuscated IPv4 address is represented by bits

A. 96 to 127

B. 0 to 63

C. 80 to 95

D. 64 to 79

61. Which one of the following allows a user at one site to establish a connection to another site and then pass keystrokes from local host to remote host?

A. http

B. ftp

C. telnet

D. none of the mentioned

62. Application layer protocol defines

A. types of messages exchanged

B. message format, syntax and semantics

C. rules for when and how processes send and respond to messages

D. all of the mentioned

63. Which one of the following protocols delivers/stores mail to receiver server?

A. simple mail transfer protocol

B. post office protocol

C. internet mail access protocol

D. hypertext transfer protocol

64. The ASCII encoding of binary data is called

A. base 64 encoding

B. base 32 encoding

C. base 16 encoding

D. base 8 encoding

65. Which one of the following is an internet standard protocol for managing devices on IP network?

A. dynamic host configuration protocol

B. simple network management protocol

C. internet message access protocol

D. media gateway protocol

66. Which one of the following is not an application layer protocol?

A. media gateway protocol

B. dynamic host configuration protocol

C. resource reservation protocol

D. session initiation protocol

67. Which protocol is a signalling communication protocol used for controlling multimedia communication sessions?

A. session initiation protocol

B. session modelling protocol

C. session maintenance protocol

D. none of the mentioned

68. Which one of the following is not correct?

A. application layer protocols are used by both source and destination devices during a communication session

B. application layer protocols implemented on the source and destination host must match

C. both (a) and (b)

D. none of the mentioned

69. When displaying a web page, the application layer uses the

A. http protocol

B. ftp protocol

C. smtp protocol

D. none of the mentioned

70. The entire hostname has a maximum of

A. 255 characters

B. 127 characters

C. 63 characters

D. 31 characters

71. A DNS client is called

A. dns updater

B. dns resolver

C. dns handler

D. none of the mentioned

72. Servers handle requests for other domains

A. directly

B. by contacting remote dns server

C. it is not possible

D. none of the mentioned

73. DNS database contains

A. name server records

B. hostname-to-address records

C. hostname aliases

D. all of the mentioned

74. If a server has no clue about where to find the address for a hostname, then

A. server asks to the root server

B. server asks to its adjacent server

C. request is not processed

D. none of the mentioned

75. Which one of the following allows client to update their DNS entry as their IP address change?

A. dynamic dns

B. mail transfer agent

C. authoritative name server

D. none of the mentioned

76. Wildcard domain names start with label

A. @

B. *

C. &

D. #

77. The right to use a domain name is delegated by domain name registers which are accredited by

A. internet architecture board

B. internet society

C. internet research task force

D. internet corporation for assigned names and numbers

78. The domain name system is maintained by

A. distributed database system

B. a single server

C. a single computer

D. none of the mentioned

79. Which one of the following is not true?

A. multiple hostnames may correspond to a single ip address

B. a single hostname may correspond to many ip addresses

C. a single hostname may correspond to a single ip address

D. none of the mentioned

80. Telnet protocol is used to establish a connection to

A. tcp port number 21

B. tcp port number 22

C. tcp port number 23

D. tcp port number 24

81. Which one of the following is not true?

A. telnet defines a network virtual terminal (nvt) standard

B. client programs interact with nvt

C. server translates nvt operations

D. none of the mentioned

82. All telnet operations are sent as

A. 4 bytes

B. 8 bytes

C. 16 bytes

D. 32 bytes

83. Absolute Telnet is a telnet client for

A. windows

B. linux

C. mac

D. none of the mentioned

84. The decimal code of interpret as command (IAC) character is

A. 252

B. 253

C. 254

D. 255

85. In character mode operation of telnet implementation

A. each character typed is sent by the client to the server

B. each character typed is discarded by the server

C. both (a) an (b)

D. none of the mentioned

86. Which one of the following is not correct?

A. telnet is a general-purpose client-server program

B. telnet lets user access an application on a remote computer

C. telnet can also be used for file transfer

D. none of the mentioned

87. Which operating mode of telnet is full duplex?

A. default mode

B. server mode

C. line mode

D. none of the mentioned

88. If we want that a character be interpreted by the client instead of server

A. escape character has to be used

B. control functions has to be disabled

C. it is not possible

D. none of the mentioned

89. Dynamic web page

A. is same every time whenever it displays

B. generates on demand by a program or a request from browser

C. both (a) and (b)

D. none of the mentioned

90. What is a web browser?

A. a program that can display a web page

B. a program used to view html documents

C. it enables user to access the resources of internet

D. all of the mentioned

91. Common gateway interface is used to

A. generate executable files from web content by web server

B. generate web pages

C. stream videos

D. none of the mentioned

92. URL stands for

A. unique reference label

B. uniform reference label

C. uniform resource locator

D. unique resource locator

93. A web cookie is a small piece of data

A. sent from a website and stored in user’s web browser while a user is browsing a website

B. sent from user and stored in the server while a user is browsing a website

C. sent from root server to all servers

D. none of the mentioned

94. Which one of the following is not used to generate dynamic web pages?

A. php

B. asp.net

C. jsp

D. none of the mentioned

95. An alternative of JavaScript on windows platform is

A. vbscript

B. asp.net

C. jsp

D. none of the mentioned

96. What is document object model (DOM)?

A. convention for representing and interacting with objects in html documents

B. application programming interface

C. hierarchy of objects in asp.net

D. none of the mentioned

97. AJAX stands for

A. asynchronous javascript and xml

B. advanced jsp and xml

C. asynchronous jsp and xml

D. advanced javascript and xml

98. Multiple object can be sent over a TCP connection between client and server in

A. persistent http

B. nonpersistent http

C. both (a) and (b)

D. none of the mentioned

99. HTTP is ________ protocol.

A. application layer

B. transport layer

C. network layer

D. none of the mentioned

100. In the network HTTP resources are located by

A. uniform resource identifier

B. unique resource locator

C. unique resource identifier

D. none of the mentioned

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