Midterm Exam 2 (4 Pages, 5 Questions)
Midterm Exam 2 (4 Pages, 5 Questions)
Midterm Exam 2 (4 Pages, 5 Questions)
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Midterm Exam 2 (4 pages, 5 questions)
(Marks: 20 Points)
Question 1 (4 points)
Define briefly following terms:
CSMA/CD
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Bridge
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Router
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Aggregation
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Question 2 (2 points)
What is the difference routing and forwarding?
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Question 3 (5 points)
Mark the correct box. If more than one answer is correct for an item, mark all possible correct
responses.
1) Ethernet uses
a token-based access method
a random access method
Aloha as an access method
uses CSMA/CA as an access method
2) The IP protocol
is a connection oriented protocol
does not retransmits lost packets
acknowledges received packets
does not drop packets
4) 195.1.1.1 is
a class C address
a private address
a public address
a multicast address
5) 224.0.0.5 is
a broadcast address
a private address
a loop-back address
a multicast address
Question 4 (6 points)
The following frame was received over an Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 network. The CRC of the
frame is not displayed.
Frame 1
0180 c200 0000 0000 a2e4 91e1 0026 4242
0300 0000 0000 8000 0000 a2e4 91e0 0000
0000 8000 0000 a2e4 91e0 8004 0000 1400
0200 0f00 aaaa aa55 5555 5555
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2) The previous frame is represented using hexadecimal digits. What is the binary value of
the first received bit of the frame?
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3) What is the MAC destination address of the frame and what is its type?
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4) What is the MAC source address of the frame and what is its type?
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6) An Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 frame should have a minimal size of 64 bytes; otherwise padding
bytes are added to the Data field. Why an Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 should have a minimal
size?
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7) Are there any padding bytes in this frame? If your response is yes, how many padding
bytes are present in the frame?
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8) What is the next protocol that will process the data field of the frame?
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11) What is the type of the equipment that had sent the frame and what are its receivers?
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Question 5 (3 points)
A company has the class C address 195.14.12.0 to address its proper network. The company
has 5 different subnets. The number of hosts on each subnet may attain 20 hosts. For each
subnet, give the address of the subnet, the correspondent netmask, the broadcast address over
the subnet, and the lowest and highest addresses that could be allocated to hosts on each
subnet.