Yarmouk University

Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology

Computer Engineering Department
CPE-562: Computer Networks
First Midterm Exam: A
Date: 13/11/11

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INSTRUCTIONS (please read carefully)

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TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE NOW

Time allowed 60 minutes
Provide your answers on this page. Answers elsewhere will not be looked at.
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Provide only one answer to each question. Giving more than one answer for the same
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How many layers does the host processes?

Assume the Internet architecture model.
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c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
_____________ is a hidden devious part of
some otherwise useful software.
a. Virus
b. Worm
c. Spyware
d. Trojan horse
e. Botnet
Consider an application that transmits data
with a bursty nature:
a. A circuit-switching network is more
appropriate for this application
b. A packet-switching network is more
appropriate for this application
c. A circuit-switching network is as
good as packet-switching network
for this application
d. Neither circuit-switching network
nor packet-switching network is
good for this application
e. The information given in the
statement above is not sufficient to
choose any of the given answers
What does IETF stand for?
a. Internet Engineering Task force
b. Internet Electronic Transmission
Function
c. Instant Electronic Transmission
Form
d. Insecure Electronic Transaction Flag
e. Internet Electronic Transmission
Forum
Consider the following HTTP request
message. What is the URL of the document
requested by the browser?

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1\r\n

Host: www-net.cs.umass.edu\r\n
User-Agent: Firefox/3.6.10\r\n
Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml\r\n
11. Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\n

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12. Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\n

13. Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf8;q=0.7\r\n
14. Keep-Alive: 115\r\n
15. Connection: keep-alive\r\n
16. \r\n
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a. www-net.cs.umass.edu
b. /index.html
c. www-net.cs.umass.edu/index.html
d. Firefox/3.6.10
e. text/html,application/xhtml+xml
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19. Which of the following cannot be a host?
a. Router
b. Server
c. Cell phone
d. Desktop computer
e. Laptop computer
20. (Questions 7-8) Consider a message that
is 1 M bits long that is to be sent from
source to destination in the figure below.
Suppose each link is 4 Mbps. Ignore
propagation, queuing, and processing
delays.
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22. Consider sending the message from source

to destination without message
segmentation. Assume that each switch
uses store-and-forward packet switching,
what is the total time to move the message
from source host to destination host?
a. 0.25 s
b. 1 s
c. 750 ms
d. 100 ms

e. 500 ms
23. Suppose now that the message is
segmented into 500 packets, with each
packet being 2000 bits long. How long does
it take to move the file from source host to
destination host when message
segmentation is used?
a. 1001 ms
b. 251 ms
c. 125 ms
d. 50 ms
e. 1004 ms
24. Which of the following application layer
protocols uses UDP?
a. HTTP
b. FTP
c. SMTP
d. DNS
e. None of the given choices
25. Which of the following statements is wrong?
a. FTP sends control information outof-band
b. Cookies are used by e-commerce
websites to keep a purchase record
for each customer
c. Network architecture and
application architecture are two
different things
d. For a P2P file-sharing application,
there is no notion of client and
server sides of a communication
session
e. Web caching reduces the delay for
all objects requested by a user, not
only some of the objects
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27. Which of the following statements is wrong?
a. An HTTP message with a status
code 200 OK could be sent as a
response to an HTTP conditional
GET with If-modified-since:
header line
b. FTP allows a client to browse a
remote directory by sending
commands over control connection
c. Mail servers keep outgoing (to be
sent) mail messages in mailboxes
d. MAIL FROM: in SMTP and From: in
the mail message itself are two
different things
e. The IP address of the host on which
the browser is running is not
included in the HTTP request
message
28. What does URL stand for?
a. Universal Record Link
b. Unspecified Record Location
c. User Remote Login
d. User Requested Location
e. Uniform Resource Locator
29. Which of the following statements is
correct?
a. SMTP uses non-persistent
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SMTP is a pull protocol

SMTP sends multiple objects in a
multipart message
d. SMTP server uses CRLF. to
determine end of message
e. Some of the SMTP commands are
non ASCII
Consider the following POP3 script. Which of
the following statements is wrong?
S: +OK POP3 server ready
C: user bob
S: +OK
C: pass hungry
S: +OK user successfully logged on
C: list
S: 1 498
S: 2 912
S: .
C: retr 1
S: <message 1 contents>
S: .
C: dele 1
C: retr 2
S: <message 1 contents>
S: .
C: dele 2
C: quit
S: +OK POP3 server signing off
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The user and pass are commands

issued by the client during the
authorization phase
b. The user has two messages in her
mailbox
c. The size of the second message is
912 bytes
d. This example uses download and
keep mode of POP3
e. POP3 is stateful across this session
Which of the following DNS servers act as
DNS registrar?
a. Root DNS Servers
b. Top-level domain (TLD) servers
c. Authoritative DNS servers
d. Local Name Servers
e. Any of the given answers
What type of DNS records, the name is alias
name for some canonical (the real) name?
a. A
b. CNAME
c. MX
d. NS
e. HINFO
What is the maximum data rate that a home
user can get using a dial-up modem?
a. 8 kbps
b. 56 kbps
c. 64 kbps
d. 1.544 Mbps
e. 3.152 Mbps
What type of media is most commonly used
in LANs nowadays?
a. CAT 3 twisted pair
b. CAT 5 twisted pair
c. Baseband Coaxial
d. Broadband Coaxial
e. Fiber Optic

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switching?
a. It uses statistical multiplexing
b. No resource sharing
c. No call setup
d. Congestion
e. None of the given choices
56. Which of the following Internet
architecture layers is responsible for
routing of datagrams from source to
destination?
a. Physical
b. Link
c. Network
d. Transport
e. Application
57. Which of the following services, the TCP
does not provide?
a. Connection oriented
b. Reliable transport
c. Security
d. Flow control
e. Congestion control
58. Which of the following applications prefers
UDP?
a. File transfer
b. Streaming multimedia
c. Remote terminal access
d. E-mail
e. Web
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60. Which of the following servers holds
resource records?
a. Name server
b. Mail server
c. Proxy server
d. HTTP server
e. Web server
61. Which of the following HTTP methods asks
server to leave requested object out of
response
a. DELETE
b. HEAD
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62. Consider the following HTTP reply message
sent from a server in response to an HTTP
GET message. What are the first 5 bytes of
the document being returned?
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64. HTTP/1.1 200 OK <cr><lf>Date: Tue, 07
Mar 2006
12:39:45GMT<cr><lf>Server:
Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)
<cr><lf>Last-Modified: Sat, 10
Dec2005 18:27:46 GMT
<cr><lf>ETag: "526c3-f22a88a4c80"<cr><lf>AcceptRanges: bytes<cr><lf>Content-Length:
3874<cr><lf>
Keep-Alive:
timeout=max=100<cr><lf>Connection:
Keep-Alive<cr><lf>Content-Type:
text/html; charset=
ISO-8859-1<cr><lf><cr><lf><!doctype
html public "//w3c//dtd html 4.0
transitional//en"><lf><html><lf>
<head><lf> <meta http-equiv="ContentType"
content="text/html; charset=iso-88591"><lf> <meta
name="GENERATOR"
content="Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows
NT
5.0; U) Netscape]"><lf> <title>CMPSCI
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NTU-ST550A Spring 2005
homepage</title><lf></head><lf>
<much more document text following
here (not shown)>
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a. <!doc
b. Mozil
c. Windo
d. NTU-S
e. HTTP/

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