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1. Communication between a computer and a keyboard involves ______________

transmission.

A) simplex.

B) half-duplex

C) full-duplex

D) automatic

2. Which topology requires a central controller or hub?

A) Mesh

B) Bus

C) Star.

D) Ring

3. The _______ is the physical path over which a message travels.

A) Protocol

B) Signal

C) Medium.

D) All the above

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4. An unauthorized user is a network _______ issue.

A) Security.

B) Reliability

C) Performance

D) All the above

5. The ______ layer adds a header to the packet coming from the upper layer that includes
the logical addresses of the sender and receiver.

A) data link

B) network.

C) physical

D) none of the above

6. In the OSI model, as a data packet moves from the lower to the upper layers, headers are
_______.

A) removed.

B) added

C) rearranged

D) modified

7.________ can impair a signal.

A) Noise
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B) Attenuation

C) Distortion

D) All of the above.

8.________ is a type of transmission impairment in which the signal loses strength due to the
resistance of the transmission medium.

A) Distortion

B) Attenuation.

C) Noise

D) Decibel

9._______ data are continuous and take continuous values.

A) digital

B) analog.

C) (a) or (b)

D) none of the above

10.The signal rate is sometimes called the ____ rate.

A) bit

B) baud.

C) signal

D) none of the above

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11. Unipolar, bipolar, and polar encoding are types of _______ encoding.

A) line.

B) block

C) NRZ

D) Manchester

12. In _______ transmission, bits are transmitted over a single wire, one at a time.

A) asynchronous serial

B) synchronous serial

C) parallel

D) (a) and (b)

13. In ______ transmission, we send 1 start bit (0) at the beginning and 1 or more stop bits (1s) at
the end of each byte.

A) synchronous

B) asynchronous

C) isochronous

D) none of the above

14. In a _____ scheme, all the signal levels are on one side of the time axis, either above or
below.

A) unipolar
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B) polar

C) bipolar

D) all of the above

15. TCP/IP model was developed _____ the OSI model.

a) prior to
b) after
c) simultaneous to
d) with no link to
16. Transmission data rate is decided by ____________
a) network layer
b) physical layer
c) data link layer
d) transport layer

17. Wireless transmission of signals can be done via ___________

a) radio waves
b) microwaves
c) infrared
d) all of the mentioned
18. Which one of the following is a hybrid topology figure?
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19, Which topology combines two or more than two topologies?

a. Star
b. Bus
c. Ring
d. Hybrid

20. Who developed standards for the OSI reference model?

A) ANSI - American National Standards Institute
B) ISO - International Standards Organization
C) IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
D) ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

20. In which topology do all the computers connect with the help of a hub?
a. Star
b. Bus
c. Ring
d. Mesh

21. In a “class B” IPv4 address scheme the number of bits reserved for Network ID are
a) 8 bits
b) 24 bits
c) 16 bits
d) 32 bits

22. A ____ is a standard set of rules that determines how computers communicate with each
other across networks.

(A) Protomol

(B) Protochol
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(C) Protocool

(D) Protocol

23. Encryption and Decryption are the functions of ___ layers.

(A) Transport

(B) Session

(C) Presentation.

(D) Physical

24. The OSI model consists of ___ layers.

(A) Five

(B) Seven

(C) Eight

(D) Nine

25. Demodulation is the process of

(A) Dividing the high-speed signals into frequency bands

(B) Converting digital signals to analog signals

(C) Converting analog signals to digital signals.

(D) Combining many low speed channels into one high speed channel

26. Modulation is the process of

(A) Echoing every character that is received

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(B) Sending a file from one computer to another computer

(C) Converting digital signals to analog signals.

(D) Converting analog signals to digital signals

27. The highest data rate is provided by which of the following medium?
A Coaxial cable
B Optical fiber
C Microwave
D None of these above

28. Coaxial cables are widely used on

A telephone networks
B cable TV networks
C broadband networks
D none of these above

29. The loss of power a signal suffers as it travels from the transmitting computer to a
receiving computer is:
A echo
B jitter
C spiking
D attenuation.

30. An effective way to prevent attenuation is:

A adding repeaters or amplifiers to a circuit.
B compressing a circuit
C shielding wires
D none of these above

31. Which of the following medium does not use metallic conductor for transmission?
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A Twisted pair
B Coaxial cable
C Optical fiber.
D None of these above

32. The highest data rate is provided by the transmission medium

A Microwave
B Twisted pairs
C Optical fiber.
D Coaxial cable

33. Transmission media are usually categorized as

A Determinate and indeterminate
B Guided or unguided.
C Fixed or unfixed
D None of the above

34. The inner core of an optical fiber is ______

A Copper
B Glass or plastic
C Liquid
D Bimetallic
35. What is the name of the device that connect two computers by means of a telephone line?
A Cable
B Bus
C Modem.
D Tape

36. ___ is the process of converting digital data to digital signals.

A. Line coding.
B. Data Encoding
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C. Sampling
D. Data Decoding

37. A data element is the smallest entity that can represent a piece of ___.
A. Data
B. Knowledge
C. Information.
D. Signal

38. Data communication system within a building or campus is

A) MAN
B) LAN
C) WAN
D) None of these answers

39. Communication circuits that transmit data in both directions but not at the same time are
operating in

A) a simplex mode
B) a half-duplex mode.
C) an asynchronous mode
D) a full-duplex mode

40. Each IP address can identify the _________ or ________ of IP packets.

A) source, length
B) source, destination.
C) length, size
D) Size, destination

41. ______ refers to the physical or logical arrangement of a network.

A) Topology.
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B) Mode of operation

C) Data flow

D) None of the above

42. A ______ is a data communication system spanning states, countries, or the whole world.

A) MAN

B) WAN.

C) LAN

D) none of the above

43. Which topology requires a multipoint connection?

A) Bus.

B) Star

C) Mesh

D) Ring

44. A ________ is a set of rules that governs data communication.

A) protocol

B) forum

C) standard

D) none of the above

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45. The information to be communicated in a data communications system is the _______.

A) Medium

B) Protocol

C) Message.

D) Transmission

46. A television broadcast is an example of _______ transmission.

A) half-duplex

B) simplex.

C) full-duplex

D) automatic

47. Data flow between two devices can occur in a _______ way.

A) simplex

B) half-duplex

C) full-duplex

D) all of the above.

48. This was the first network.

A) CSNET

B) NSFNET

C) ARPANET.
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D) ANSNET

49. Devices may be arranged in a ______ topology.

A) mesh

B) ring

C) bus

D) all of the above

50. ________ is a collection of many separate networks.

A) A WAN

B) An internet.

C) A LAN

D) None of the above