AIT Question Bank

1. Explain DNS and its message format.

2. Explain ICMP. Give advantages of ICMP over other protocols.
3. Explain in detail the functioning of PPP.
4. Differentiate b/w TCP/IP and OSI models.
5. What do you mean by Port No, Client Server model?
6. Differentiate b/w SLIP and Compressed SLIP.
7. Give advantages of IPV6 over IPV4.
8. Features of IPV4 and IPV6.
9. What do you mean by Tunnelling?
10. What are the various types of messages in BGP?
11. Explain the working of OSPF.
12. Explain query messages and error messages of ICMP.
13. Differentiate b/w connection oriented and Connectionless Services.
14. Which is reliable protocols and why? Explain.
15. Why UDP is called as non-reliable protocol? Explain.
16. What do you mean by Routing? Types of routing.
17. Differentiate between interior and exterior protocols.
18. Explain BGP
19. Explain RIP
20. How can we establish connection in TCP?
21. Explain 3-way handshaking for connection establishment in TCP
22. How do we terminate connection in TCP?
23. What do you mean by 3-way handshaking for connection termination in TCP?
24. Explain half-close in TCP
25. Hierarchy of DNS
26. How do we reset, deny, abort and terminate an idle connection in TCP
27. Explain VLSM
28. Give advantages of VLSM over subnetting.
29. Explain subnetting. Why do we require it
30. Explain the term networking
31. Explain UDP and UDP checksum
32. Explain ARP and RARP
33. Explain proxy ARP
34. Explain proxy server
35. Differentiate between physical and logical address
36. Explain various flags of TCP header.
37. Explain the commands
a. Tracert
 b. Netstat
c. Ifconfig
38. Explain rlogin
39. Explain TCP/IP model and OSI model in detail.
40. Explain SMTP
41. Explain User agent and Message Transfer Agent
42. When a computer is switched on in a LAN how and why it executes ARP
43. Why does a computer require BGP if it is connected in 2 autonomous systems
44. Explain the term Autonomous System
45. Explain all the timers of TCP
46. Explain telnet, FTP
47. Explain special case IP addresses
48. Explain private IP addresses.
49. What are the various protocols that work in the network layer
50. What are the various protocols that work in the transport layer
51. Define encapsulation