Networking Interview Questions and Answers
Question - 71 : - What is Beaconing?
Answer - 71 : - The process that allows a network to self-repair networks problems. The stations on the network notify the other stations on the ring when they are not receiving the transmissions. Beaconing is used in Token ring and FDDI networks.
Question - 72 : - What does the Mount protocol do ?
Answer - 72 : - The Mount protocol returns a file handle and the name of the file system in which a requested file resides. The message is sent to the client from the server after reception of a client's request.
Question - 73 : - What are Digrams and Trigrams?
Answer - 73 : - The most common two letter combinations are called as digrams. e.g. th, in, er, re and an. The most common three letter combinations are called as trigrams. e.g. the, ing, and, and ion.
Question - 74 : - What is the HELLO protocol used for?
Answer - 74 : - The HELLO protocol uses time instead of distance to determine optimal routing. It is an alternative to the Routing Information Protocol.
Question - 75 : - What is the minimum and maximum length of the header in the TCP segment and IP datagram?
Answer - 75 : - The header should have a minimum length of 20 bytes and can have a maximum length of 60 bytes.
Question - 76 : - What do you meant by "triple X" in Networks?
Answer - 76 : - The function of PAD (Packet Assembler Disassembler) is described in a document known as X.3. The standard protocol has been defined between the terminal and the PAD, called X.28; another standard protocol exists between the PAD and the network, called X.29. Together, these three recommendations are often called "triple X".
Question - 77 : - What is attenuation?
Answer - 77 : - The degeneration of a signal over distance on a network cable is called attenuation.
Question - 78 : - What is Protocol Data Unit?
Answer - 78 : - The data unit in the LLC level is called the protocol data unit (PDU). The PDU contains of four fields a destination service access point (DSAP), a source service access point (SSAP), a control field and an information field. DSAP, SSAP are addresses used by the LLC to identify the protocol stacks on the receiving and sending machines that are generating and using the data. The control field specifies whether the PDU frame is a information frame (I - frame) or a supervisory frame (S - frame) or a unnumbered frame (U - frame).
Question - 79 : - What are the data units at different layers of the TCP / IP protocol suite?
Answer - 79 : - The data unit created at the application layer is called a message, at the transport layer the data unit created is called either a segment or an user datagram, at the network layer the data unit created is called the datagram, at the data link layer the datagram is encapsulated in to a frame and finally transmitted as signals along the transmission media.
Question - 80 : - What is difference between ARP and RARP?
Answer - 80 : - The address resolution protocol (ARP) is used to associate the 32 bit IP address with the 48 bit physical address, used by a host or a router to find the physical address of another host on its network by sending a ARP query packet that includes the IP address of the receiver.
The reverse address resolution protocol (RARP) allows a host to discover its Internet address when it knows only its physical address.