AMIETE IT (OLD SCHEME)
NOTE: There are 9 Questions in all.
ท Question 1 is
compulsory and carries 20 marks. Answer to Q. 1 must be written in the space
provided for it in the answer book supplied and nowhere else.
ท Out of the
remaining EIGHT Questions, answer any FIVE Questions. Each question carries 16
marks.
ท Any required data not
explicitly given, may be suitably assumed and stated.
Q.1 Choose the correct or the best alternative in the following: (210)
a.
The errors that involve changes to a small set of bits near a
single location is
(A)
Vertical error. (B)
Horizontal error.
(C)
Burst error. (D) Byte error
b. __________________ is a well known and widely
used networks technology that employs bus topology
(A)
Token Ring. (B) Ethernet.
(C) FDDI. (D) ATM.
c. SMDS
stands for
(A)
Switched Multi-megabit Data
Service.
(B) Simple
Multi-megabit Data Service.
(C) Simple
Multiple Data Service.
(D) None.
d. In
32 bit IP addressing scheme all 1s represent
(A)
This computer. (B) Directed broadcast.
(C) Limited broadcast. (D)
Loop back.
e. The
term byte stuffing refers to
(A)
data stuffing used with byte oriented hardware.
(B) data stuffing used with bit oriented hardware.
(C) data stuffing used with character oriented
hardware.
(D) none of the above.
f. The
language that describes how pages of text, graphics and other information are
organized, formatted and linked together on WEB is known as
(A)
Graphics and Multimedia Language.
(B) Hyper Text Markup Language.
(C) Web Pages Language.
(D) Application Language.
g. The
attribute ACTION accepts the ญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญ______________ for the script
that will process the data from the form.
(A)
value (B) URL
(C) text (D) tags
h. MTU
is specified by
(A)
IP datagram size. (B)
TCP segment size.
(C) Hardware
technology. (D) None
of the above
i. The
protocol that is used to monitor and control network devices operates at:-
(A) Application Layer. (B) Transport Layer.
(C) Network Layer. (D) Data Link
Layer.
j. The
environment variable SCRIPT_NAME in CGI script specifies:
(A) Name of the Server.
(B) The path of URL after server name.
(C) Domain name of the computer running on server.
(D) None of the above.
Answer any FIVE Questions out of EIGHT Questions.
Each question carries 16 marks.
Q. 2 a. What is IP address? Distinguish between
Static IP addressing and Dynamic IP addressing.
(3+5)
b. Give
the format of ICMP header and explain the meaning of each field. (8)
Q.3 a. What are the different types of networking /
internetworking devices? Discuss them.
(8)
b. Why
large network uses dynamic routing? Explain. (4)
c. What do you
understand by
Q.4 a. Compare and contrast Static, Configurable and
Dynamic addressing scheme? (8)
b. Discuss the
advantages of IPv6 over IPv4? (8)
Q.5 Write
short notes on following: (6+6+4)
(i) Functions of network management.
(ii) HTTP.
(iii) Reassembly.
Q. 6 a. Discuss
client-server paradigm. What are the characteristics of Clients and Servers in
Client-Server paradigm? (8)
b. What
are digital certificates? How they are
useful? (4)
c. Discuss
the difference between trivial FTP and FTP application layer protocols. (4)
Q.7 a. What
is a Segment? Why they are exchanged? (3)
b. How information is transferred from the Web Browser to a CGI
program? (5)
c. (i) What
is an Active Server Pages? How it is different from HTML? (2+2)
(ii) Define Session object.
How Sessions are created and destroyed in ASP? (2+2)
Q.8 a. Define e-Commerce. What are the various
categories of e-commerce based on the parties involved in a transaction? (2+6)
b. Describe the Electronic Data Exchange (EDI)
architecture in brief. (8)
Q.9 a. What is XML? Give reason why we use Document
Type Definition (DTD) in an XML file. Also, discuss different types of DTDs
with their benefits. (8)
b. Discuss WAP Architecture in detail. (8)