Commonly Asked Networking Interview Questions And Answers | Set 4

1) Define Round Trip Time?

Ans) The time taken for a signal to reach the destination and travel back to the sender with the acknowledgment is termed as Round Trip time (RTT). It is also called as Round Trip Delay (RTD).

2) Define Brouter?

Ans) Brouter or Bridge Router is a device which acts as both bridge and a router. As a bridge, it forwards data between the networks. And as a router, it routes the data to specified systems within a network.

3) Define Static IP and Dynamic IP?

Ans) When a device or computer is assigned a specified IP address then it is named as Static IP. It is assigned by the Internet Service Provider as a permanent address.

Dynamic IP is the temporary IP address assigned by the network to a computing device. Dynamic IP is automatically assigned by the server to the network device.

4) How VPN is used in the corporate world?

Ans) VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. With the help of VPN, the remote users can securely connect to the organization’s network. Corporate companies, educational institutions, government offices etc use this VPN.

5) Explain Beaconing?

Ans) If a network self-repair its problem then it is termed as Beaconing. Mainly it is used in token ring and FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) networks. If a device in the network is facing any problem, then it notifies the other devices that they are not receiving any signal. Likewise, the problem gets repaired within the network.