Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

Session 2019 -20

B. Tech 7TH Semester
QUESTION BANK ON DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
UNIT- 4
Part A (2 Marks)
1. What do you mean logical address?

2. Differentiate between IP address and MAC address.

3. What are the different classes of IPV4? Enlist their range.

4. Differentiate between unicast, multicast and broadcast communication.

5. Briefly explain the function of session layer.

6. Why we need port addressing?

7. Which protocol you will use for downloading media file from a server and why?
8. Why we are moving towards IPV6?
9. What is 10 Base-T? Explain each term.
10. Show the different phases used in TCP connection.

Part B (5/10 Marks)

11. Define routing & explain distance vector routing and link state routing.
12. Mention the limitations of distance vector routing.
13. Draw the packet format for IPV4 with neat diagram.
14. How does the protocol independent Multicast protocol scale well in environment where a
relatively small proportion of routers want to receive traffic for certain group?
15. (i) Recall the Distance Vector Routing Algorithm.
(ii) List the limitations of Distance Vector Routing Algorithm.
16. Illustrate the concept of link state Advertisement (LSA) in OSPF.
17. Outline shortest path algorithm. Explain the same with suitable diagrams and examples.
18. Discuss in detail the operation of OSPF protocol by considering a suitable network.
19. Describe the working principle of TCP congestion control.
20. Define UDP. Discuss the operations of UDP and explain UDP checksum with one
example.
21. What is the maximum number of IP addresses that can be assigned to hosts on a local
subnet that uses the 255.255.255.224 subnet mask?
22. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) has the following chunk of CIDR-based IP
addresses available with it: 245.248.128.0/20. The ISP wants to give half of this chunk
of addresses to Organization A, and a quarter to Organization B, while retaining the
remaining with itself. What is the valid allocation of addresses to A and B?
23. You need to subnet a network that has 5 subnets, each with at least 16 hosts. Which
classful subnet mask would you use?
24. Design and configure a local area network of 10 computers for an organization and also a local
area network of 15 computers for a different organization. Also enable routing between these two
organizations and add at least a redundant path in case of a fault or link breakage.
25. Suppose a TCP connection is transferring a file of 5000 bytes. The first byte is numbered
10,001. What are the sequence numbers for each segment if data are sent in five segments,
each carrying 1000 bytes?