INDUSTRIETECHNIK

SRI LANKA INSTITUTE of ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL

EDUCATION

Electrical and Electronic

Engineering
Instructor Manual

Test Unit

Information Technology 3
Theory

No: EE 122

Test Unit
Information Technology 3
Theoretical Part
No.: EE 122

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EE 122
Information Technology 3
Theoretical Test

EE122
Information Technology 3
TEST

1. Name all LAN topologies and describe one of them in few words.

2. The OSI-Layer consists of various layers offer services. Name all layers
and give for the lowest three layers of the stack at least one example for a
service for the layers above

3. What

is

the

difference

between

connection-oriented

and

connectionless protocol?

4. Describe in few words data transmission on Ethernet?

5. Describe in few words the basic difference between wireless and ad hoc
networking.

6. What is function of DNS?

7. What is telnet?

8. Explain how data packets travel on Internet.

9. Describe in few steps process of displaying html file in browser.

10. What is TCP?

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TEST-solutions

1. Bus, Star, Ring, Point to point and Tree. The star topology refers to a
network topology where there is a central connection point (usually hub,
switch or router) to which multiple devices are connected.

2. Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data Link,

Physical. A service of the Physical Layer is changing a bit into an electric
signal, which can be sent on via a medium. A service of the Data Link
layer is to break down messages or bit streams into data frames and
passing them onto the layer below. A service of the Network layer is
determination of the routing.

3. In the connection-oriented concept the service establishes a connection,

negotiates about the transfer parameters, talks and ends the connection.
On the contrary the connection-less concept does not establish a
connection but packets are sent and routed individually. A connection-less
service is less reliable.

4. Before transmitting a packet of data, a sending terminal listens to check

whether the medium is already in use, and if so, it waits before
transmitting its data. When medium is idle it start sending data. If two or
more stations have started sending data at the same time, there will be
collision. If a collision occurs, a back-off procedure has to be followed
before re-attempting to resend data.

5. When a base station or wireless access point is available, the host is

connected to the access point directly. In the absence of an access point
the hosts could interconnect in-between each other, forming a small
wireless LAN. This form is referred to as ad-hoc networking.
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6. DNS, or domain name system, function is translating human-friendly

computer hostnames (for example www.example.com) into IP addresses
(208.77.188.166).

7. Telnet is the login and terminal emulation protocol common on the Internet
and in UNIX environments. It operates over TCP/IP networks. It allows
users to log into remote host systems and provides basic communication
functions between hosts.

8. The Internet uses a hop-by-hop routing model, which means that each
host or router that handles a packet examines the destination address in
the packet's IP header, computes the next hop that will bring the packet
one step closer to its destination, and delivers that packet to the next hop,
where the process is repeated.

9. First, web browser queries the domain name system (DNS) for the IPaddress of the hyperlink. Once the address has been returned, a TCP
connection is set up to this address by the web browse. Hypertext transfer
protocol (http) is then used to locate and retrieve the requested html file
from server. Once received, the web browser displays html document.

10. TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a reliable connection-oriented

protocol that allows a byte stream originating on one machine to be
delivered without error on any other machine in the internet. It fragments
the incoming byte stream into discrete messages and passes each one on
to the internet layer.

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