Transport Layer - Electronic Engineering (MCQ) questions & answers

1)   What is the purpose of using source & destination port numbers respectively in the addressing method of transport layer?

a. For Delivery & Reply operations
b. For Reply & Delivery operations
c. Only for Delivery operations
d. Only for Reply operations
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: For Reply & Delivery operations

Explanation:
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2)   STUB is a technique utilized in the client-server operation especially for implementation of __________

a. RPC
b. RTP
c. RTCP
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: RPC

Explanation:
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3)   Which mechanism in transport layer supplies multiple network connections along with the distribution of traffic over them in a round-robin basis/ fashion?

a. Upward Multiplexing
b. Downward Multiplexing
c. Buffering & Flow Control
d. Crash Recovery
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Downward Multiplexing

Explanation:
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4)   Which among the following specifies the impossibility of updating RTT estimator during the arrival acknowledgement of retransmitted data especially at the occurrence of timeout and retransmission phases in TCP?

a. NAGLE algorithm
b. Karn's algorithm
c. Clark's Solution
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Karn's algorithm

Explanation:
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5)   Which TCP timer signifies its contribution in measuring the time of connection maintenance in TIME_WAIT state?

a. Keep alive Timer
b. Persist Timer
c. Retransmission Timer
d. 2 Maximum Segment lifetime Timer
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 2 Maximum Segment lifetime Timer

Explanation:
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6)   Which among the below specified design issues should not be minimized while designing the system of a computer network?

a. Bandwidth
b. Content Switching
c. Software Overhead
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bandwidth

Explanation:
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7)   Which mechanism/s is/are extremely essential in data link and transport layers in accordance to operational services offered by the transport protocols?

a. Buffering
b. Flow Control
c. Both a & b
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both a & b

Explanation:
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8)   Which among the several transport services deals with the addresses, protocol utility class in addition to performance evaluating features of a connection?

a. Connection Management
b. Quality of Service
c. User Interface
d. Status Reporting
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Status Reporting

Explanation:
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9)   Which among the following are uncontrolled and un-registered form of ephemeral ports in accordance to IANA?

a. Well known Ports
b. Registered Ports
c. Dynamic Ports
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Dynamic Ports

Explanation:
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10)   Which among the following are delivered by the transport layer in process-to-process delivery mechanism?

a. Frames
b. Datagrams
c. Packets
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Packets

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!