MCQ in Computer Network and Networking Part 8 | ECE Board Exam

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This is the Multiple Choice Questions Part 8 of the Series on Computer Network and Networking as one of the Communication Engineering (EST) and Electronics Engineering topic. In Preparation for the ECE Board Exam make sure to expose yourself and familiarize 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.

351. Sniffers can be prevented by using _______________

A. wired environment

B. wifi

C. ethernet lan

D. switched network

352. Firewalls are often configured to block ___________

A. udp traffic

B. tcp traffic

C. sensitive traffic

D. best-effort traffic

353. UTP is commonly used in __________

A. dsl

B. fttp

C. http

D. none of the mentioned

354. Terrestrial radio channels are broadly classified into _____ groups.

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 1

355. A local telephone network is an example of a _______ network.

A. packet switched

B. circuit switched

C. bit switched

D. line switched

356. Most packet switches use this principle ____________

A. stop and wait

B. store and forward

C. store and wait

D. stop and forward

357. What are the Methods to move data through a network of links and switches?

A. packet switching and line switching

B. circuit switching and line switching

C. line switching and bit switching

D. packet switching and circuit switching

358. In _________ systems, resources are allocated on demand.

A. packet switching

B. circuit switching

C. line switching

D. frequency switching

359. Which of the following is not an application layer service?

A. network virtual terminal

B. file transfer, access, and management

C. mail service

D. error control

360. Which is not a application layer protocol?

A. http

B. smtp

C. ftp

D. tcp

361. The packet of information at the application layer is called __________

A. packet

B. message

C. segment

D. frame

362. Which one of the following is an architecture paradigm?

A. peer to peer

B. client-server

C. http

D. both peer-to-peer & client-server

363. Application layer offers _______ service.

A. end to end

B. process to process

C. both end to end and process to process

D. none of the mentioned

364. E-mail is _________

A. loss-tolerant application

B. bandwidth-sensitive application

C. elastic application

D. none of the mentioned

365. Pick the odd one out.

A. file transfer

B. file download

C. e-mail

D. interactive games

366. Which of the following is an application layer service?

A. network virtual terminal

B. file transfer, access, and management

C. mail service

D. all of the mentioned

367. Which is a time-sensitive service?

A. file transfer

B. file download

C. e-mail

D. internet telephony

368. Transport services available to applications in one or another form _________

A. reliable data transfer

B. timing

C. security

D. all of the mentioned

369. Electronic mail uses which Application layer protocol?

A. smtp

B. http

C. ftp

D. sip

370. 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

371. 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

372. When displaying a web page, the application layer uses the _____________

A. http protocol

B. ftp protocol

C. smtp protocol

D. tcp protocol

373. The default connection type used by HTTP is _________

A. persistent

B. non-persistent

C. can be either persistent or non-persistent depending on connection request

D. none of the mentioned

374. The HTTP request message is sent in _________ part of three-way handshake.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

375. The first line of HTTP request message is called _____________

A. request line

B. header line

C. status line

D. entity line

376. The __________ method when used in the method field, leaves entity body empty.

A. post

B. send

C. get

D. put

377. Which of the following is not correct?

A. web cache doesn’t have its own disk space

B. web cache can act both like server and client

C. web cache might reduce the response time

D. web cache contains copies of recently requested objects

378. HTTP is ________ protocol.

A. application layer

B. transport layer

C. network layer

D. data link layer

379. In the network HTTP resources are located by

A. uniform resource identifier

B. unique resource locator

C. unique resource identifier

D. union resource locator

380. FTP server listens for connection on port number ____________

A. 20

B. 21

C. 22

D. 23

381. The File Transfer Protocol is built on ______________

A. data centric architecture

B. service-oriented architecture

C. client server architecture

D. connection-oriented architecture

382. In File Transfer Protocol, data transfer cannot be done in ___________

A. stream mode

B. block mode

C. compressed mode

D. message mode

383. Expansion of FTP is __________

A. fine transfer protocol

B. file transfer protocol

C. first transfer protocol

D. fast transfer protocol

384. FTP is built on _____ architecture.

A. client-server

B. p2p

C. data centric

D. service oriented

385. FTP uses _________ parallel TCP connections to transfer a file.

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

386. Identify the incorrect statement regarding FTP.

A. ftp stands for file transfer protocol

B. ftp uses two parallel tcp connections

C. ftp sends its control information in-band

D. ftp sends exactly one file over the data connection

387. FTP server _____________

A. maintains state information

B. is stateless

C. has single tcp connection for a file transfer

D. has udp connection for file transfer

388. Find the FTP reply whose message is wrongly matched.

A. 331 – username ok, password required

B. 425 – can’t open data connection

C. 452 – error writing file

D. 452 – can’t open data connection

389. The password is sent to the server using ________ command

A. passwd

B. pass

C. password

D. pword

390. When the mail server sends mail to other mail servers it becomes ____________

A. smtp server

B. smtp client

C. peer

D. master

391. If you have to send multimedia data over SMTP it has to be encoded into _______

A. binary

B. signal

C. ascii

D. hash

392. The underlying Transport layer protocol used by SMTP is ________

A. tcp

B. udp

C. either tcp or udp

D. imap

393. Choose the statement which is wrong in case of SMTP?

A. it requires message to be in 7bit ascii format

B. it is a pull protocol

C. it transfers files from one mail server to another mail server

D. smtp is responsible for the transmission of the mail through the internet

394. Internet mail places each object in _________

A. separate messages for each object

B. one message

C. varies with number of objects

D. multiple messages for each object

395. Typically the TCP port used by SMTP is _________

A. 25

B. 35

C. 50

D. 15

396. A session may include ________

A. zero or more smtp transactions

B. exactly one smtp transactions

C. always more than one smtp transactions

D. number of smtp transactions can’t be determined

397. Which of the following is an example of user agents for e-mail?

A. microsoft outlook

B. facebook

C. google

D. tumblr

398. User agent does not support this ___________

A. composing messages

B. reading messages

C. replying messages

D. routing messages

399. SMTP connections secured by SSL are known as _____________

A. smtps

B. ssmtp

C. snmp

D. starttls

400. SMTP uses which of the following TCP port?

A. 22

B. 23

C. 21

D. 25

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