Q. A subnet has been assigned a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192. What is the maximum number of hosts that can belong to this subnet?

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Q. A host is connected to a Department network which is part of a University network. The University network, in turn, is part of the Internet. The largest network in which the Ethernet address of the host is unique is:

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Q. In TCP, a unique sequence number is assigned to each

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Q. Which of the following objects can be used in expressions and scriplets in JSP (Java Server Pages) without explicitly declaring them?

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Q. In the TCP/IP protocol suite, which one of the following is NOT part of the IP header?

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Q. Suppose that the maximum transmit window size for a TCP connection is 12000 bytes. Each packet consists of 2000 bytes. At some point of time, the connection is in slow-start phase with a current transmit window of 4000 bytes. Subsequently, the transmitter receives two acknowledgements. Assume that no packets are lost and there are no time-outs. What is the maximum possible value of the current transmit window?

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Q. Traceroute reports a possible route that is taken by packets moving from some host A to some other host B. Which of the following options represents the technique used by traceroute to identify these hosts

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Q. Count to infinity is a problem associated with

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Q. In a communication network, a packet of length L bits takes link L1 with a probability of p1or link L2 with a probability of p2. Link L1 and L2 have bit error probability of b1 and b2 respectively. The probability that the packet will be received without error via either L1 or L2 is

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Q. A company has a class C network address of 204.204.204.0. It wishes to have three subnets, one with 100 hosts and two with 50 hosts each. Which one of the following options represents a feasible set of subnet address/subnet mask pairs?

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Q. Assume that "host1.mydomain.dom" has an IP address of 145.128.16.8. Which of the following options would be most appropriate as a subsequence of steps in performing the reverse lookup of 145.128.16.8? In the following options "NS" is an abbreviation of "nameserver".

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Q. An IP datagram of size 1000 bytes arrives at a router. The router has to forward this packet on a link whose MTU (maximum transmission unit) is 100 bytes. Assume that the size of the IP header is 20 bytes. The number of fragments that the IP datagram will be divided into for transmission is :

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Q. Which of the following statements is TRUE ?

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Q. Two popular routing algorithms are Distance Vector(DV) and Link State (LS) routing. Which of the following are true?
(S1) Count to infinity is a problem only with DV and not LS routing
(S2) In LS, the shortest path algorithm is run only at one node
(S3) In DV, the shortest path algorithm is run only at one node
(S4) DV requires lesser number of network messages than LS

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Q. Host X has IP address 192.168.1.97 and is connected through two routers R1 and R2 to an­other host Y with IP address 192.168.1.80. Router R1 has IP addresses 192.168.1.135 and 192.168.1.110. R2 has IP addresses 192.168.1.67 and 192.168.1.155. The netmask used in the network is 255.255.255.224.

Given the information above, how many distinct subnets are guaranteed to already exist in the network?

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Q. The transport layer protocols used for real time multimedia, file transfer, DNS and email, respectively are:

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Q. Which of the following transport layer protocols is used to support electronic mail?

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Q. Consider an instance of TCP’s Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) algorithm where the window size at the start of the slow start phase is 2 MSS and the threshold at the start of the first transmission is 8 MSS. Assume that a timeout occurs during the fifth transmission. Find the congestion window size at the end of the tenth transmission.

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Q. A layer-4 firewall (a device that can look at all protocol headers up to the transport layer) CANNOT

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Q. While opening a TCP connection, the initial sequence number is to be derived using a time-of-day(ToD) clock that keeps running even when the host is down. The low order 32 bits of the counter of the ToD clock is to be used for the initial sequence numbers. The clock counter increments once per millisecond. The maximum packet lifetime is given to be 64s. Which one of the choices given below is closest to the minimum permissible rate at which sequence numbers used for packets of a connection can increase?

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