A Complete Chapter Quiz

Data Link Control

Compilation of all the quizzes (MCQs) for each and every chapters in the book of Data
Communications and Networking 4th Edition by Behrouz A. Forouzan.

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1. In Go-Back-N ARQ, if 5 is the number 6. HDLC is an acronym for _______.
of bits for the sequence number, then the A) Half-duplex digital link combination
maximum size of the receive window B) Host double-level circuit
must be _____. C) High-duplex line communication
A) 1 D) High-level data link control
B) 15 7. In Selective Repeat ARQ, if 5 is the
C) 16 number of bits for the sequence number,
D) 31 then the maximum size of the receive
2. In Go-Back-N ARQ, if frames 4, 5, and window must be _____.
6 are received successfully, the receiver A) 1
may send an ACK _______ to the B) 15
sender. C) 16
A) 6 D) 31
B) 7 8. In Go-Back-N ARQ, if 5 is the number
C) 5 of bits for the sequence number, then the
D) any of the above maximum size of the send window must
3. The Stop-And-Wait ARQ, Go-Back-N be _____.
ARQ, and the Selective Repeat ARQ are A) 1
for ______ channels. B) 15
A) noiseless C) 16
B) noisy D) 31
C) either (a) or (b) 9. In Stop-and-Wait ARQ, the
D) neither (a) nor (b) acknowledgment number always
4. The _________Protocol, adds a announces in ______ arithmetic the
simple error control mechanism to the sequence number of the next frame
_______Protocol. expected.
A) Selective Repeat ARQ; Go-Back-N A) modulo-m
ARQ B) modulo-2
B) Go-Back-N ARQ; Stop-and-Wait C) modulo-4
C) Stop-and-Wait ARQ; Stop-and-Wait D) none of the above
D) none of the above 10. In Selective Repeat ARQ, if 5 is the
5. In PPP, the ________ is responsible number of bits for the sequence number,
for establishing, maintaining, configuring, then the maximum size of the send
and terminating links. window must be _____.
A) PAP A) 1
B) CHAP B) 15
C) LCP C) 16
D) NCP D) 31

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11. _______ control refers to a set of each station can function as a primary
procedures used to restrict the amount of and a secondary.
data that the sender can send before A) ARM
waiting for acknowledgment. B) ABM
A) Flow C) NBM
B) Error D) NRM
C) Transmission 17. Byte stuffing means adding a special
D) none of the above byte to the data section of the frame
12. In the Go-Back-N Protocol, if the size when there is a character with the same
of the sequence number field is 8, the pattern as the ______.
sequence numbers are in ________ A) trailer
arithmetic, B) flag
A) modulo-256 C) header
B) modulo- 8 D) none of the above
C) modulo-2 18. The ______ Protocol has neither flow
D) none of the above nor error control.
13. ______ control refers to methods of A) Selective-Repeat ARQ
error detection and correction. B) Go-Back-N ARQ
A) Flow C) Stop-and-Wait
B) Error D) Simplest
C) Transmission 19. The most common protocol for point-
D) none of the above to-point access is the Point-to-Point
14. In a Go-Back-N ARQ, if the window Protocol (PPP), which is a
size is 63, what is the range of sequence _________protocol.
numbers? A) byte-oriented
A) 1 to 63 B) bit-oriented
B) 1 to 64 C) character-oriented
C) 0 to 63 D) none of the above
D) 0 to 64 20. For Stop-and-Wait ARQ, for 10 data
15. Both Go-Back-N and Selective- packets sent, _______
Repeat Protocols use a _________. acknowledgments are needed.
A) sliding window A) less than 10
B) sliding frame B) more than 10
C) sliding packet C) exactly 10
D) none of the above D) none of the above
16. In _________, the configuration is 21. _________framing uses two
balanced. The link is point-to-point, and categories of protocols: character-
oriented and bit-oriented.

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A) Standard D) ABM
B) Fixed-size 27. In a _________ protocol, the data
C) Variable-size section of a frame is a sequence of bits.
D) None of the above A) bit-oriented
22. _______ control refers to a set of B) byte-oriented
procedures used to restrict the amount of C) either (a) or (b)
data that the sender can send before D) none of the above
waiting for acknowledgment. 28. In ________ framing, we need a
A) Flow delimiter (flag) to define the boundary of
B) Error two frames.
C) Transmission A) standard
D) none of the above B) fixed-size
23. In a ________ protocol, the data C) variable-size
section of a frame is a sequence of D) none of the above
characters. 29. High-level Data Link Control (HDLC)
A) bit-oriented is a _______ protocol for communication
B) character-oriented over point-to-point and multipoint links.
C) either (a) or (b) A) byte-oriented
D) none of the above B) bit-oriented
24. In _______ framing, there is no need C) character-oriented
for defining the boundaries of frames. D) none of the above
A) standard 30. Bit stuffing means adding an extra 0
B) fixed-size to the data section of the frame when
C) variable-size there is a sequence of bits with the same
D) none of the above pattern as the ________.
25. The _______Protocol has both flow A) trailer
control and error control. B) flag
A) Stop-and-Wait C) header
B) Selective-Repeat ARQ D) none of the above
C) Go-Back-N ARQ 31. In the _________Protocol, if no
D) both (b) and (c) acknowledgment for a frame has arrived,
26. In _________, the station we resend all outstanding frames.
configuration is unbalanced. We have A) Go-Back-N ARQ
one primary station and multiple B) Selective-Repeat ARQ
secondary stations. C) Stop-and-Wait ARQ
A) ARM D) none of the above
B) NBM
C) NRM

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32. The Simplest Protocol and the Stop- which the password is kept secret; it is
and-Wait Protocol are for ______ never sent online.
channels. A) PAP
A) noiseless B) LCP
B) noisy C) NCP
C) either (a) or (b) D) CHAP
D) neither (a) nor (b) 38. In PPP, ________ is a simple
33. The _______Protocol has flow authentication procedure with a two-step
control, but not error control. process:
A) Selective-Repeat ARQ A) CHAP
B) Stop-and-Wait B) PAP
C) Simplest C) LCP
D) Go-Back-N ARQ D) NCP
34. In Stop-and-Wait ARQ, we use 39. In the _________ protocol we avoid
sequence numbers to number the unnecessary transmission by sending
frames. The sequence numbers are only frames that are corrupted.
based on __________arithmetic. A) Selective-Repeat ARQ
A) modulo-m B) Stop-and-Wait ARQ
B) modulo-2 C) Go-Back-N ARQ
C) modulo-4 D) none of the above
D) none of the above 40. In ________ protocols, we use
35. In the _____ Protocol, the sender ________.
sends its frames one after another with A) byte-oriented; bit stuffing
no regard to the receiver. B) bit-oriented; bit stuffing
A) Simplest C) character-oriented; bit stuffing
B) Selective-Repeat ARQ D) none of the above
C) Stop-and-Wait 41. In the _____ Protocol, the sender
D) Go-Back-N ARQ sends one frame, stops until it receives
36. _________control in the data link confirmation from the receiver, and then
layer is based on automatic repeat sends the next frame.
request, which is the retransmission of A) Simplest
data. B) Stop-and-Wait
A) Flow C) Selective-Repeat ARQ
B) Error D) Go-Back-N ARQ
C) Transmission 42. Stop-and-Wait ARQ is a special case
D) none of the above of Go-Back-N ARQ in which the size of
37. In PPP, _______ is a three-way the send window is ___.
hand-shaking authentication protocol in A) 1

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B) 2
C) 8
D) none of the above
43. ARQ stands for _______.
A) Acknowledge repeat request
B) Automatic retransmission request
C) Automatic repeat quantization
D) Automatic repeat request
44. _______ in the data link layer
separates a message from one source to
a destination, or from other messages
going from other sources to other
destinations.
A) Controlling
B) Framing
C) Digitizing
D) none of the above
45. Data link control deals with the design
and procedures for ______
communication.
A) node-to-node
B) process-to-process
C) host-to-host
D) none of the above
46. In _________ protocols, we use
________.
A) bit-oriented; character stuffing
B) character-oriented; bit stuffing
C) character-oriented; byte stuffing
D) none of the above

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