Name __________________________
QUIZ 1
CECS 406 Network Engineering
Wednesday, February 21, 2001
1. (2 points each) Identify the following words with the phrase that most fully describes them:
____ link A. intermediate computers connected by physical medium
____ bandwidth B. measured performance of a channel
____ latency C. amount of “extra” information that must be sent
____ half duplex D. end-to-end delay of a bit
____ asynchronous E. processing a job on the least busy machine
____ host F. the physical medium connecting computers
____ throughput G. number of changes in the signal per second
____ overhead H. a node running a user application program
____ multiple access I. number of bits transmitted in a given period of time
____ baud rate J. requires no coordination between sender and receiver
K. two links share a single physical medium
L. information is sent only one direction at a time
2. (2 points) ping and traceroute could be used to show all of the following except:
(a) Correlations in delay and hops across the Internet.
(b) The average number of hops to a host.
(c) The average delay to a host.
(d) The cause of a link failure on the Internet.
(e) The optimum packet size across the Internet.
(f) None of the above.
3. (2 points) The factors which impact the effects of attenuation and distortion on twisted pair lines
include:
(a) The bit rate of the data being transmitted.
(b) The type of twisted pair wire being used.
(c) The type of transmitters and receivers being used.
(d) The distance between the transmitting devices.
(e) All of the above.
4. (2 points each) Identify the following types of transmission media with the phrase that most
closely relates to it:
Dr. Tracy Bradley Maples (Spring 2001)
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