Computer Networks MCQs with Answers

Practice important Computer Networks MCQs with answers and explanations.

Multiple Choice Questions

Q1331: IGMP helps hosts communicate with routers to manage multicast group ________. membership
  • A: data
  • B: packet
  • C: size
  • D:
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A

Q1332: Flood-and-prune protocol is efficient when members are on ________. contiguous LANs
  • A: remote networks
  • B: different subnets
  • C: wide area networks
  • D:
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A

Q1333: Fill in the blank: Configuration-and-tunneling uses ________ multicast to transmit datagrams on local LANs.
  • A: hardware
  • B: software
  • C: virtual
  • D: logical
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A

Q1334: Which multicast protocol is used by the Unix program mrouted and the Internet Multicast Backbone (MBONE)?
  • A: DVMRP
  • B: CBT
  • C: PIM-SM
  • D: MOSPF
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A

Q1335: DVMRP uses ________ encapsulation to send multicast datagrams between sites.
  • A: IP-in-IP
  • B: TCP
  • C: UDP
  • D: HTTP
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A

Q1336: Core Based Trees (CBT) multicast routing builds a delivery tree from a ________.
  • A: central point
  • B: distributed nodes
  • C: random hosts
  • D: all routers
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A

Q1337: In CBT, when a user joins a group, routers send a message toward the ________.
  • A: core
  • B: member
  • C: node
  • D: switch
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A

Q1338: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) is called protocol independent because it does not depend on any particular ________.
  • A: unicast routing protocol
  • B: multicast group
  • C: address
  • D: host
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B

Q1339: PIM-Dense Mode (PIM-DM) floods multicast packets to all locations within an ________.
  • A: organization
  • B: Internet
  • C: subnet
  • D: ISP
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A

Q1340: In PIM-DM, routers without group members send a ________ message to prune the multicast tree.
  • A: leave
  • B: join
  • C: prune
  • D: acknowledge
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C

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