ANNAI MIRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Question Bank

YEAR & SEMESTER : III & VI

REGULATION : 2021
DEGREE & BRANCH : B.E & CSE
SUBJCET CODE : CCS365
SUBJECT NAME : SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK
INCHARGE : A. GAYATHRI,AP/CSE

UNIT – I
SDN: INTRODUCTION
SYLLABUS:
Evolving Network Requirements – The SDN Approach – SDN architecture - SDN Data Plane,
Control plane and Application Plane.
PART – A (2 MARKS)
1. What is software defined network?
2. What is SDN device?
3. What is southbound interface?
4. Define data plane.
5. What is northbound interface?
6. List the functions of control plane?
7. What is network device?
8. What are the challenges of traditional network?
9. State fundamental characteristics of SDN?
10. Explain Plane separation, simplified device and centralized control?
11. Give a brief description of network automation, Virtualization and Openness?
12. What are API’s?
13. Explain East API’s and West API’s?
14. Write short notes on ONF, SDN devices.
15. What is control, Data and Management planes? Explain each.
16. What is mean by SDO’s?
17. What are the advantages of SDN?
18. What is mean by vendor lock-In?
19. What is mean by REST?
20. Difference between SDN & NFV?
21. How SDN is different from a normal network setup?
22. What is Network Controller in SDN?
23. What are the central tasks of the Control Plane with its Network Controller?
24. What are the central tasks of the Data Plane with the forwarding hardware?
25. What is the advantage of central intelligence over distributed intelligence in SDN?
26. How does control plane and data place communicate in SDN?
27. What is Open Flow?
28. What is RBAC?
29. What are the importance interfaces in the SDN?
30. Explain the concept of decoupling in SDN?
31. What is Open vSwitch?
32. What are the modes of SDN?
33. What are the different models of SDN?
34. Write any two SDN approach requirements

PART – B& C

1. Explain in detail about SDN Architecture with block diagram .(13m)

2. Analyze the evolving networking requirements for SDN.(13m)
3. What are the difference of SDN & traditional networking.(8m)
4. What is the relation between SDN and NFV.(7m)
5. What are SDN and NFV related standards explain? (8m)
6. Explain in detail about SDN Approach.(13m)
7. Explain in details about SDN Planes?(8m)
8. Discuss about the Traditional Data Center and Software Defined data Centre.(8m)
9. Explain about the characteristics of Software Defined Networking.(7m)
10. What is Control, Data and Management planes? Explain each in detail.(8m)
11. Explain Northbound API’s, Southbound API’s, East/West API’s.(8m)
12. What are the challenges of traditional networks?(7m)
13. Discuss the advantage and disadvantages of SDN.(6m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-12 1-4
G2(60-79) 1-24 1-7
G1(>80) All the above Questions
 UNIT – II
SDN DATA PLANE AND CONTROL PLANE
Data Plane functions and protocols – Open Flow Protocol - Flow Table - Control Plane
Functions - Southbound Interface, Northbound Interface – SDN Controllers - Ryu, Open
Daylight, ONOS - Distributed Controllers.
PART – A
1. What is an open flow protocol? Why it Is used?
2. Explain various types of flow in detail.
3. Explain proactive and reactive flow.
4. Write open flow advantages and disadvantages.
5. Draw and explain open flow controller in detail.
6. What are the various open flow ports?
7. What is an open flow switch?Why it is used?
8. Compare open v switch features.
9. Explain pipeline processing.
10. What is SDN controller?
11. Define overlay networking.
12. What is logical ports?
13. What is synchronous communication?
14. Define Openflow.
15. Explain proactive rules.
16. What is VLAN?
17. What is VxLAN?
18. Expand the MPLS,TTL,QoS.
19. What are the top of the protocol running to TCP?
20. Define open flow light?
21. Define OVSDB?
22. What are the two interior router protocols?
23. What is the use of BGP?
24. Define REST.

PART – B& C

1. Explain about the architecture and function of SDN data plane.(13m)

2. Explain in detail about the open flow logical network device.(13m)
3. Discuss about the open flow protocol.(7m)
 4. Explain about the architecture of control plane.(13m)
5. Explain the (i)open day light
(ii)Ryu
6. Explain about the concept of ONOS.(8m)
7. Explain in detail about the SDN Controller.(13m)
8. Explain the distributed controllers of SDN.(8m)
9. Discuss the concept of pipeline processing.(8m)
10.Explain the concept of routing .(7m)
11.Explain the flow table structure.(6m)
12.Give the difference between the northbound and southbound interface.(6m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-15 1-6
G2(60-79) 1-21 1-9
G1(>80) All the above Questions

UNIT III
SDN APPLICATIONS
SDN Application Plane Architecture – Network Services Abstraction Layer – Traffic Engineering
– Measurement and Monitoring – Security – Data Center Networking.
PART – A
1. Define mininet.
2. What is data centre orchestration?
3. Expand the NOX and POX.
4. List the function of data center orchestration?
5. Define traffic engineering.
6. What is mean by data center networking?
7. What is mean by network services abstraction layer?
8. What is the use of MAC address?
9. Expand the AMS,ODC & DDOS?
10. Give the two examples of Data center SDN application.
11. What are the two aggregation switches in data center network.
12. Write short notes on :Beacon,Maestro.
13. Define SLA.
14. What are the parameters of service level aggrements?
15. Define Attack mitigation systems?
 16. Define Protected Networks.
17. What are the two CCN packets?
18. What is frenetic?

PART – B& C

1. Explain in detail about architecture of SDN Application plane.(13m)

2. Explain network services abstraction layer in detail.(8m)
3. Explain about the traffic engineering.(10m)
4. Explain the need of security in SDN Applications in details.(13m)
5. Discuss the concept of data center networking.(13m)
6. Explain the information – centric networking.(7m)
7. Give the example of network service abstraction layer of frenetic programming
language.(13m)
8. Describe the CCN Communications.(6m)
9. Explain Mininet.(6m)
10. Implement SDN based firewall.(8m)
11. Explain a platform for building network control applications.(7m)
12. Describe NOX and POX in detail.(6m)
13. Explain the need of Security in SDN Applications in detail.(13m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-11 1-5
G2(60-79) 1-16 1-6
G1(>80) All the above Questions
 UNIT IV
MAP REDUCE APPLICATIONS
NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION
Network Virtualization - Virtual LANs – Open Flow VLAN Support - NFV Concepts – Benefits
and Requirements – Reference Architecture.
PART – A
1. What is Network functions Virtualization?
2. What are the key components of Virtualization in SDN.
3. What is VLAN?
4. What is VxLAN?
5. Define communication VLAN Membership.
6. What is the use of VID?
7. Define Virtual private networks.
8. Define Label-switching routers?
9. Define forwarding equivalence class(FEC)
10. What are the goals of NFV?
11. List three NFV principles.
12. What is Frenetic?
13. Explain Representational State Transfer APIs.
14. What is container virtualization?
15. Define MANO.
16. What is a type 2 hypervisor?
17. What is the key differentiator between containers and virtual machines?
18. Write short note on: Failure Recovery, Multitenancy.
19. What are the APLs and Protocol?
20. Define Media access control frame?
21. Define Encapsulating Security Payload.
22. What is mean by label-switched path (LSP)?
23. Expand the terms: LINP, COTS, NAT, and DNS.

PART – B & C
1. Explain about the Architecture of Network virtualization .(13m)
2. Explain the details about levels of Abstraction for network Virtualization.(8m)
3. Discuss the concept of Network Resource Hierarchical model.(8m)
4. Explain virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN)
5. Define Virtual LANs. Explain the concept of Virtual LANs.(13m)
6. Explain the nested VLANs.(6m)
 7. Explain Openflow VLAN support in detail.
8. Describe with a neat diagram of Network Virtualization using Generic Routing
Encapsulation (NVGRE).
9. Explain NFV Benefits and requirements and also explain NFV Principles.
10. Explain type 1 hypervisor. Compare type 1 with type 2 hypervisor.
11. Explain (i) OpenDaylight’s Virtual Tenant Network
(ii) Virtual Tenant Network Elements
12. Explain about the SDI architecture.(10m)
13. Explain details about the NFV Reference Architecture.(13m)
14. Explain Key Components of Virtualization in SDN.(7m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-11 1-6
G2(60-79) 1-18 1-9
G1(>80) All the above Questions

UNIT V

NFV FUNCTIONALITY
NFV Infrastructure – Virtualized Network Functions – NFV Management and Orchestration –
NFV Use cases – SDN and NFV.
PART – A
1. Define NFV.
2. Compare SDN and NFV.
3. What are the benefits of Network functions of virtualization?
4. What are the challenges for network functions virtualization?
5. Who are the leading NFV vendor?
6. What is data center orchestration?
7. What are the functions of management and orchestration ?
8. Explain bandwidth calendaring.
9. What are the goals of NFV ?
10. What are NFV Domains?
11. What is service abstraction layer?
12. Explain about Juniper network.
13. What is cloud computing?
14. Define Virtual machine.
 15. Give any five inter-domain interfaces in NFVI.
16. Define NIC.
17. What is mean by NFVI-PoP?
18. Define hypervisor domain.
19. What are the roles of infrastructure network domain?
20. List the virtual network service.
21. Define Virtual overlay.
22. What are the use of passive optical network?

PART – B & C

1. Explain in detail about the NFV functionality and infrastructure.(13m)

2. Explain the concept of NFV Management and Orchestration.(13m)
3. Discuss about the NFV Usecases.(13m)
4. Explain the concept of SDN and NFV.(13m) (Or)
Explain about the Mapping of SDN components with NFV architecture.(13m)
5. Explain the challenges of Network Function Virtualization.(8m)
6. Explain the deployment of NFVI containers.(6m)
7. Discuss about the VNFC to VNFC Communication.(7m)
8. Explain NFV interfaces.(6m)
9. Explain the functions and advantage of Network Virtualization.(6m)
10. Compare the L2 versus L3 Virtual networks.(6m)
11. Explain hypervisor domain.(7m)
12. Explain management interface.(7m)
13. Explain NFV orchestrator.(8m)
14. Explain the components of cloud computing.(8m)

Grade Part A Part B

G3(50-59) 1-12 1-5
G2(60-79) 1-18 1-8
G1(>80) All the above Questions

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