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Scheme of Valuation/Answer Key
(Scheme of evaluation (marks in brackets) and answers of problems/key)
APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
FIFTH SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION, MARCH 2022
Course Code: CST 303
Course Name: COMPUTER NETWORKS
Max. Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours
PART A
(Answer all questions; each question carries 3 marks) Marks
1 Any 3 applications of Computer Networks 3
2 3
Diagram - 1 mark
Explanation - 2 marks
3 Any 3 differences 3 marks 3
4 Fast ethernet (1.5 marks) Gigabit ethernet (1.5 Marks 3
5 Adaptive and Non adaptive / Static and Dynamic - with explanation 3 marks 3
6 Flooding – 1.5 marks 3
3 Applications -0.5 marks each
7 Range of private addresses - 1 mark per range 3
Class A - 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
Class B - 172.16.0.0 - 172.16.255.255
Class C - 192.168.0. - 192.168.255.
8 ARP -1 mark 3
Working – 2 marks
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Any 3 service primitives - 3 marks
10 Any 3 features of WWW - 3 marks 3
PART B
(Answer one complete question from each module)
Module -1
11 a) Any 7 points with explanation 1 mark each 7
1. Reliability – error detection, error correction
2. Addressing
3. Internetworking - Packet shaping
4. Scalability
5. Resource Allocation
6. Flow or Congestion Control
7. Quality of service (QOS)
8. Security
b) Explanation 4 marks 7
2 Applications of three types- 1 mark each
12 a) Simplex -with diagram and example - 2 marks 6
Half duplex -with diagram and example - 2 marks
Full duplex -with diagram and example - 2 marks
b) Manchester encoding and Differential Manchester encoding - 1 marks 8
Justification - 1 mark
Drawing patterns for 3 data - 2 marks each (1 mark for Manchester, 1 mark for
Differential Manchester encoding)
Module -2
13 a) SWP explanation – 4 marks 6
Figure- 2 marks
b) Ethernet frame format -3 marks 8
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Explanation of each field - 5 marks
14 a) Contention based protocols- 1 mark 9
Collision free protocols – 1mark
Two protocols from each type- 3.5 marks each
b) Explanation of CSMA/CA with RTS ,CTS and NAV mechanisms- 5 marks 5
Module -3
15 a) Working of algorithm- 5 marks 9
Example with explanation – 4 marks
b) Leaky bucket algorithm working and features- 4 marks 5
Implementation using finite queue- 1 marks
16 a) Congestion control with closed loop approach-2 marks 8
Any 2 methods like choke packets,load shedding with explanation- 3 marks each
b) Solutions for the duplicate packets: 6
Hop counter, Sequence number, selective flooding
Methods with explanation 2 marks each
Module -4
17 a) Purpose- 1 mark 8
Message types – 4 marks
Destination unreachable message situations-3 marks
b) Comparison of any 3 features of IPv6 with IPv4 ( 2 marks each) 6
18 a) DHCP protocol - 2 mark 8
Message format - 3 mark
Comparison with BOOTP - 3 marks
b) CIDR addressing expansion, prefix, explanation - 3 marks
This number 6 is not a power of 2.
The next number that is a power of 2 is 8 ( 23).
We need 3 more 1s in the subnet mask. The total number of 1s in the subnet mask is
27 (24 + 3).
/subnet mask: 255.255.255.224
The number of subnets is 8.
The number of addresses in each subnet is (5 is the number of 0s) 32.
Module -5
19 a) TCP 4 points - 4 marks 8
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UDP 4 points - 4 marks
b) FTP commands (USER, PASS, LIST, STOR, RETR) any 3 commands with 6
explanation - 2 marks each
20 a) Functional areas with explanation 1 mark each 7
b) Services ( ) - 4 marks 7
Reasons for distributed than centralized - 3 marks
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