Some

sample exam questions J

1. How to avoid collisions in communication? Describe approaches you can
suggest.

2. A) Cite and explain two types of error in digital transmission systems

B) Describe the error correction process.

C) In which kind of applications error detection is not appropriated? Why?

3. Consider a scenario in which system includes the Profibus master with the
network address of 1Hex and one Profibus slave with the network address
of 8Hex. The Profibus slave contains 16 Inputs and 16 outputs. In the time
that all of the inputs of 1 to 15 are turned ON, the mentioned Profibus slave
sends the status of the inputs to the Profibus master in the message with SD2
start delimiter.

Fill out the empty places in the message in the table below:

SD2
LE
LEr
SD2
DA
SA
FC
Not Required to fill out.
Data Unit
FCS
Not Required to fill out.
ED
0 00010110 11
4. A) Name and describe basic principles of analog modulation techniques.
B) Describe the following encoding schemes:
a. NRZ
b. Bipolar-AMI
c. Manchester
5. A) What is a bit stuffing? Why and when it is used?
B) What is a difference between Nyquist and Shannon formulae for channel
capacity?
C) What is a payload?

6. A) Describe OSI model and why it was created?

C) What are the relations between baud and bps? Illustrate these by some
encoding example.

7. A) Describe at least 5 network topologies

B) Indicate the main features of each topology

C) Which topology would you follow to implement a CAN? Why?