Mid Semester Exam
January - June 2019 Semester
AIDC123· Introduction to Data Communication
AIDC123·INTRODUCTION TODATA
COMMUNICATION
MID-TERM EXAMINATIONS
Faculty : Information and Communication Technology
Date/Day : 02/04/2019
Duration : 2 hours
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATE
1. This examination is worth 20% of the overall semester assessment.
2. The total number of marks available for this examination is 70.
3. This examination paper contains THREE (3) sections in FOUR (4)
printed pages including the cover page.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATE
1. Answer ALL questions in Section A,B and C
2. Write all your answers in the answer booklet provided.
3. If you make a mistake please put a single diagonal line through the
section you wish to be ignored by the examiner.
4. Return all examination papers and scripts upon completion of the
examination including any workings.
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Section A [Total Marks 20]
1. Differentiate between an Intranet and Extranet, provide examples for each.
[10]
2. What is the difference between headers and trailers? [2]
3. Mention any four components that can be found in a LAN. [4]
4. Match the following to one or more layers of the OSI model [4]
a. End-to-end message delivery. Oversees the transmission and arrival
of all packet of a message at the destination point
b. Mechanical, electrical, and functional interface
c. Responsibility for carrying frames between adjacent nodes
d. Connection control, Decides whether or not to send all packets by a
single path
Section B [Total Marks
20]
1. Define digital-to-analog conversion. [2]
2. Discuss thoroughly any two application architectures of your choice and
provide one example on each. [6]
3. What is the difference between signalling and encoding? [2]
4. Given this data 00110100010, show with each of the following modulation
techniques how the data will be modulated;
a. FSK [2]
b. ASK [2]
c. FSK [2]
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5. Draw the graph of the Bipolar-return-to-zero Encoding using each of the
following data streams. [4]
a. 00000000
b. 01010101
c. 11111111
d. 00110011
Section C [Total Marks
30]
1. Assume that source S and destination D are connected through two
intermediate routers labelled R. determine how many times each packet
has to visit the network and data link layer during transmission from S to
D. [5]
S R R D
2. Using the diagram below, construct the routing table for machine c. [10]
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3. Different addresses must be translated from one type to another (for a
message to travel from sender to receiver). This translation is known as
address resolution. Discuss thoroughly how address translation is done
using domain name service (DNS) and address resolution protocol.
[15]
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