📝 Communication Protocols in Distributed Systems

📖 From Operating System • 17. Distributed Systems • 35 questions available

Practice MCQs for Communication Protocols in Distributed Systems. Test your knowledge with carefully crafted questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.

🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-27

Easy Questions

Medium Questions

Hard Questions

📝 Sample Questions

Q1. Which OSI layer is primarily responsible for converting data into electrical signals for transmission over a cable?

🔹 A. Physical layer

🔹 B. Data link layer

🔹 C. Network layer

🔹 D. Transport layer

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: A

Q2. What is the main purpose of the transport layer in the OSI model?

🔹 A. To provide reliable end‑to‑end communication

🔹 B. To route packets across networks

🔹 C. To define electrical standards for cables

🔹 D. To encrypt data for security

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: A

Q3. A router receives a packet with a destination address that is not in its routing table. What is the most likely action taken by the network layer?

🔹 A. Drop the packet and send an ICMP error

🔹 B. Forward the packet to the default gateway

🔹 C. Encapsulate the packet in a new frame

🔹 D. Log the event and continue processing

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: B

⬆️ View all questions in the quiz below

🔗 Related Topics

📝 Advantages of Distributed Systems 📝 Resource sharing in distributed system 📝 Computation speedup in distributed system 📝 Reliability in distributed system 📝 Communication in distributed system

🚀 Start Quiz 📝 Practice Mode