Chapter 4 Data Link Layer

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1. Media access controls refer to the need to control when computers transmit. True Pg:120 The data link layer accepts messages from the network layer and controls the hardware that transmits them. True Pg:120 Only the sender of a data transmission needs to be concerned about the rules or protocols that govern how it communicates with the receiver False Pg:120 Most computer networks managed by a host mainframe computer use contention media access control. False Pg.121 Polling is the process of permitting all clients to transmit or receive at any time. False Pg.121 With roll-call polling, a server polls clients in a consecutive, pre-arranged priority list. True Pg.121 Token passing is a term that refers to hub polling, in which one computer starts a poll and passes it to the next computer on a multipoint circuit. True Pg.121 With contention, a computer does not have to wait before it can transmit. A computer can transmit at anytime. False Pg.121 Contention is commonly used with Ethernet local area networks. True Pg.121 Controlled access MAC approaches work better in a large network with high usage. True Pg.no.122 In a network, the type of errors caused during data transmission can be controlled by the network hardware and software. True Pg. 123 The two categories of network errors are: lost data and delimited data. False Pg. 123

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If a computer transmits a message containing ABC and the destination computer receives abc as the message, the message is corrupted. True Pg. 123 In data transmission, data errors are uniformly distributed in time. False Pg.122 Undesirable stray electrical voltage can cause data communication errors. True Pg.123 Gaussian noise is a special type of attenuation. False Pg.124 Impulse noise is caused by the thermal agitation of electrons. False Pg.124 Crosstalk occurs when the signal transmitted on one circuit or channel of a transmission system creates an undesired effect in another circuit or channel. True Pg 124 Attenuation refers to the loss of signal strength. True Pg.124 When the signals from two circuits combine to form a new signal that falls into a frequency band reserved for another signal, this is called, intermodulation noise. True Pg.125 Eliminating jitter to generate a pure carrier signal in an analog circuit is impossible. True Pg.124 The distance between repeaters or amplifiers on a telephone circuit is determined by the amount of power gained per unit length of the transmission. False Pg.125 When we amplify the signal on an analog circuit, we also amplify any noise that is present on the circuit. True Pg.125 For effective error detection and correction, extra error detection data must be included with each message True Pg.126 In an odd parity-checking scheme, the parity bit is set to make the total number of ones in the byte (including the parity bit) an even number. False Pg.126 Parity checking can only detect an error when an even number of bits are switched. False Pg.126

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Cyclical redundancy check is one of the most popular polynomial error-checking schemes. True Pg.126 The simplest method for error correction is retransmission. True Pg.127 Another term for stop-and-wait ARQ is sliding window. False Pg.128 One type of forward error correction is the Hamming code. True Pg.130 Forward error correction is commonly used in satellite transmission. True Pg.129 HDLC is very similar to the SDLC synchronous data link protocol. True Pg.135 Point-to-point Protocol is a byte-count-oriented protocol. True Pg.137 Overhead bits are used for error checking and marking the start and end of characters and packets. True Pg.137 Transmission efficiency refers to the percentage of bits transmitted without errors. False Pg.137