MCA MCQ Quiz Hub

1. In _________ systems, resources are allocated on demand.
packet switching
circuit switching
line switching
Frequency switching

2. Which of the following is not an application layer service?
Network virtual terminal
File transfer, access, and management
Mail service
error control

3. Which is not a application layer protocol?
HTTP
SMTP
FTP
TCP

4. The packet of information at the application layer is called __________
Packet
Message
Segment
Frame

5. Which one of the following is an architecture paradigms?
Peer to peer
Client-server
HTTP
Both Peer-to-Peer & Client-Server

6. Application developer has permission to decide the following on transport layer side
Transport layer protocol
Maximum buffer size
Both Transport layer protocol and Maximum buffer size
None of the mentioned

7. Application layer offers _______ service.
End to end
Process to process
Both End to end and Process to process
Both End to end and Process to process

8. Pick the odd one out.
File transfer
File download
E-mail
Interactive games

9. Which of the following is an application layer service?
Network virtual terminal
File transfer, access, and management
Mail service
All of the mentioned

10. To deliver a message to the correct application program running on a host, the _______ address must be consulted.
IP
MAC
Port
none of the mentioned

11. Which is a time-sensitive service?
File transfer
File download
E-mail
Internet telephony

12. Transport services available to applications in one or another form _________
Reliable data transfer
Timing
Security
All of the mentioned

13. Electronic mail uses which Application layer protocol?
SMTP
HTTP
FTP
SIP

14. The ____________ translates internet domain and host names to IP address.
domain name system
routing information protocol
network time protocol
internet relay chat

15. Which one of the following allows a user at one site to establish a connection to another site and then pass keystrokes from local host to remote host?
HTTP
FTP
Telnet
TCP

16. Application layer protocol defines ________
types of messages exchanged
message format, syntax and semantics
rules for when and how processes send and respond to messages
all of the mentioned

17. Which one of the following protocol delivers/stores mail to reciever server?
simple mail transfer protocol
post office protocol
internet mail access protocol
hypertext transfer protocol

18. The ASCII encoding of binary data is called
base 64 encoding
base 32 encoding
base 16 encoding
base 8 encoding

19. Which one of the following is an internet standard protocol for managing devices on IP network?
dynamic host configuration protocol
simple network management protocol
internet message access protocol
media gateway protocol

20. Which one of the following is not an application layer protocol?
media gateway protocol
dynamic host configuration protocol
resource reservation protocol
session initiation protocol

21. Which protocol is a signaling communication protocol used for controlling multimedia communication sessions?
session initiation protocol
session modelling protocol
session maintenance protocol
resource reservation protocol

22. Which one of the following is not correct?
Application layer protocols are used by both source and destination devices during a communication session
HTTP is a session layer protocol
TCP is an application layer protocol
All of the mentioned

23. When displaying a web page, the application layer uses the _____
HTTP protocol
FTP protocol
SMTP protocol
TCP protocol

24. The number of objects in a Web page which consists of 4 jpeg images and HTML text is _____
4
1
5
7

25. The default connection type used by HTTP is _____
Persistent
Non-persistent
Can be either persistent or non-persistent depending on connection request
none of the mentioned

26. The time taken by a packet to travel from client to server and then back to the client is called _____
STT
RTT
PTT
JTT

27. The HTTP request message is sent in _________ part of three-way handshake.
First
Second
Third
Fourth

28. In the process of fetching a web page from a server the HTTP request/response takes __________ RTTs.
2
1
4
3

29. The first line of HTTP request message is called _______
Request line
Header line
Status line
Entity line

30. The values GET, POST, HEAD etc are specified in ____________ of HTTP message
Request line
Header line
Status line
Entity body

31. The __________ method when used in the method field, leaves entity body empty.
POST
SEND
GET
PUT

32. The HTTP response message leaves out the requested object when ______ method is used
GET
POST
HEAD
PUT

33. Find the oddly matched HTTP status codes
200 OK
400 Bad Request
301 Moved permanently
304 Not Found

34. Which of the following is not correct?
Web cache doesnt has its own disk space
Web cache can act both like server and client
Web cache might reduce the response time
Web cache contains copies of recently requested objects

35. The conditional GET mechanism
Imposes conditions on the objects to be requested
Limits the number of response from a server
Helps to keep a cache upto date
none of the mentioned

36. Which of the following is present in both an HTTP request line and a status line?
HTTP version number
URL
Method
none of the mentioned

37. HTTP is ________ protocol.
application layer
application layer
network layer
data link layer

38. In the network HTTP resources are located by
uniform resource identifier
unique resource locator
unique resource identifier
union resource locator

39. HTTP client requests by establishing a __________ connection to a particular port on the server.
user datagram protocol
transmission control protocol
border gateway protocol
domain host control protocol

40. In HTTP pipelining _________
multiple HTTP requests are sent on a single TCP connection without waiting for the corresponding responses
multiple HTTP requests can not be sent on a single TCP connection
multiple HTTP requests are sent in a queue on a single TCP connection
multiple HTTP requests are sent at random on a single TCP connection

41. FTP server listens for connection on port number _________
20
21
22
23

42. In FTP protocol, client contacts server using ____ as the transport protocol.
transmission control protocol
user datagram protocol
datagram congestion control protocol
stream control transmission protocol

43. The File Transfer Protocol is built on ________
data centric architecture
service oriented architecture
client server architecture
connection oriented architecture

44. In File Transfer Protocol, data transfer cannot be done in _______
stream mode
block mode
compressed mode
message mode

45. Expansion of FTP is _______
Fine Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol
First Transfer Protocol
Fast Transfer Protocol

46. FTP is built on _____ architecture.
Client-server
P2P
Data centric
Service oriented

47. FTP uses _________ parallel TCP connections to transfer a file.
1
2
3
4

48. Identify the incorrect statement regarding FTP.
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol
FTP uses two parallel TCP connections
FTP sends its control information in-band
FTP sends exactly one file over the data connection

49. If 5 files are transferred from server A to client B in the same session. The number of TCP connections between A and B is _______
5
10
2
6

50. FTP server ________
Maintains state information
Is stateless
Has single TCP connection for a file transfer
Has UDP connection for file transfer