Networking Interview Questions and Answers

Answer - 131 : - A network in which there are multiple network links between computers to provide multiple paths for data to travel.

Answer - 132 : - A method for providing fault tolerance by using multiple hard disk drives.

Answer - 133 : - A Management Information Base is part of every SNMP-managed device. Each SNMP agent has the MIB database that contains information about the device's status, its performance, connections, and configuration. The MIB is queried by SNMP.

Answer - 134 : - A layer of a glass surrounding the center fiber of glass inside a fiber-optic cable.

Answer - 135 : - A generic term for section of a large networks usually separated by a bridge or router. A gateway operates at the upper levels of the OSI model and translates information between two completely different network architectures or data formats.

Answer - 136 : - A communications protocol used to connect computers to remote networking services including Internet service providers.

Answer - 137 : - 10Base2—An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that uses baseband signaling, with a contiguous cable segment length of 100 meters and a maximum of 2 segments 10Base5—An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that uses baseband signaling, with 5 continuous segments not exceeding 100 meters per segment. 10BaseT—An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that uses baseband signaling and twisted pair cabling.

Answer - 138 : - A protocol that assures accurate local timekeeping with reference to radio and atomic clocks located on the Internet. This protocol is capable of synchronising distributed clocks within milliseconds over long time periods. It is defined in STD 12, RFC 1119.

Answer - 139 : - (i) Simplex (ii) Half-duplex (iii) Full-duplex.

Answer - 140 : - (i) Broadcast (ii) point-to-point.