LAN Switching and Wireless

501. Signals with a frequency below 2 MHz use _________ propagation.

  1. ground
  2. sky
  3. line-of-sight
  4. none of the above

Correct answer: (A)
ground

502. Signals with a frequency between 2 MHz and 30 MHz use _________ propagation.

  1. ground
  2. sky
  3. line-of-sight
  4. none of the above

Correct answer: (B)
sky

503. Some new two-layer switches, called _________ switches, have been designed to forward the frame as soon as they check the MAC addresses in the header of the frame.

  1. cut-through
  2. go-through
  3. come-through
  4. none of the above

Correct answer: (A)
cut-through

504. SONET defines _________ layers.

  1. two
  2. three
  3. four
  4. five

Correct answer: (C)
four

505. SONET network topologies can be _________.

  1. linear
  2. ring
  3. mesh
  4. all of the above

Correct answer: (D)
all of the above

506. Standard Ethernet (10-Mbps) uses _________ encoding

  1. NRZ
  2. AMI
  3. Manchester
  4. differential Manchester

Correct answer: (C)
Manchester

507. Stop-and-Wait ARQ is a special case of Go-Back-N ARQ in which the size of the send window is 1.

  1. 2
  2. 1
  3. 8
  4. none of the above

Correct answer: (B)
1

508. TCP/IP is a _________ hierarchical protocol suite developed _________ the OSI model.

  1. seven-layer; before
  2. five-layer; before
  3. six-layer; before
  4. five-layer; after

Correct answer: (B)
five-layer; before

509. Teledesic satellites are __________ satellites.

  1. GEO
  2. MEO
  3. LEO
  4. none of the above

Correct answer: (C)
LEO

510. Telephone companies provide two types of analog services: analog _________ services and analog _________ services.

  1. switched; in-band
  2. out-of-band; in-band
  3. switched; leased
  4. leased; out-of-band

Correct answer: (C)
switched; leased

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