Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology

Computer networks (ECS-601)

Ques1: Compare OSI reference model with TCP/IP reference model.
Ques2: Explain the concept of Service, Interface and Protocol.
Ques3: What is network topology? Explain each of them.
Ques4: Numerical on Nyquist theorem and Shannon theorem.
Ques5: Mention the properties of optical fiber cable discuss its merits and demerits. Why
it employed as back bone.
Ques6: What are the advantages of multipoint over point to point connection.
Ques7: What is the difference between point to point and broadcast network?
Ques8: Discuss DQDB in context of MAN
Ques9: Write Short note on
• LAN, MAN, WAN
• Various transmission media
• ISDN
• Switching methods
• Repeater, Hub, Bridge, Router, Modem and Gateway.
Ques10: What are the different FRAMING methods? Explain each of them with example.
Ques11: Explain 802.3 standards and its frame format. Explain Binary Backoff algorithm.
Ques12: Distinguish between pure ALOHA and slotted ALOHA.
Ques13: Write short note on 1- Persistent, P-Persistent and non-Persistent.
Ques14: Numerical based on CRC, Hamming, parity, Checksum , ALOHA and
LRC/VRC.
Ques15: Explain FDDI.
Ques16: Compare Stop-and-Wait, Go-back-N and Selective-repeat.
Ques17: Numerical on efficiency of Stop-and-wait and sliding window protocol.
Ques18: Differentiate between
• Connection oriented and Connectionless Communication.
• Datagram subnet and virtual circuit subnet.
• IPv-4 and Ipv-6.
• Packet switching and circuit switching
• Adaptive and Non adaptive routing protocol.
Ques19: Numerical based on Distance Vector routing.
Ques20: Explain various primitives used at transport layer.
Ques21: Short note on
• Distance vector routing.
• Link state routing.
• Flooding and broadcasting.
• Hierarchical routing.
• Count to infinity problem.
• CSMA/CD

Ques22: Discuss various congestion control mechanism (leaky bucket and token bucket).
Ques23: Discuss Three-way-handshake for connection establishment and connection
release in TCP.

Ques24: Short note on

• Remote procedure call.
• Presentation Layer.
• Session Layer.
• TCP window management.
• Silly window syndrome.
• RSA and DES.
• Public key cryptography and Private Key cryptography.
• ARP and RARP.
• BOOTP and DHCP.
• IMAP, SMTP, POP.
• HTTP, SNMP, DNS.
• FTP and Telnet.
• VPN and Digital signature.
• RIP

Ques25: Numerical on RSA

Ques26: Explain RLE, Huffman and LZW Data Compression techniques.
Ques27: Explain how e-mail works.
Ques28: List few application layer protocols.
Ques29: What do you understand by internetworking? Discuss the parameters on which
Networks differs
Ques30: Give the classification of different IP addresses.
Ques31: Write the header format for the following
• IPv4
• IPv6
• TCP
• UDP
• RIP
• IEEE 802.3, 802.4 & 802.5
Ques32: Explain different QoS parameters available in transport layer
Ques33: write algorithm for RSA encryption
Ques34: Numerical on Manchester/Differential Manchester Encoding.