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Tap on **AVAILABLE IN BUNDLE / PACKAGE DEAL** to unlock free bonus exams and everything you need. # CS6250 COMPUTER NETWORK EXAM 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR – JUST RELEASED Prepare for the **CS6250 Computer Network Exam 2** with a comprehensive study resource focused on the second half of the Georgia Tech Computer Networks curriculum. Current course materials place Exam 2 after the router-design material and cover **Software Defined Networking, Internet security, surveillance and censorship, video applications, and Content Delivery Networks**. The guide emphasizes **exam-style questions with correct answers and detailed rationales**, helping students understand networking concepts through both theoretical and applied scenarios. Questions reinforce protocol behavior, architectural tradeoffs, security mechanisms, programmable networking, Internet measurement, and application-level delivery systems. A major focus is **Software Defined Networking (SDN)**, including the separation of control and data planes, centralized versus distributed control, SDN controllers, programmable network behavior, OpenFlow concepts, forwarding rules, flow tables, and the motivations behind making network infrastructure more programmable and manageable. Current CS6250 materials specifically include SDN as a dedicated portion of the course. The resource also covers **SDN architecture and network programmability**, including controller responsibilities, switches, control-plane decisions, data-plane forwarding, APIs, flow-rule installation, network abstraction, and the advantages and limitations of centralized network control. Preparation extensively addresses **Internet security**, including common network threats, attack surfaces, confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, encryption, firewalls, intrusion detection, denial-of-service attacks, spoofing, traffic analysis, and security challenges created by interconnected network infrastructure. Questions reinforce **security mechanisms and defensive strategies**, requiring students to distinguish between different attacks and determine which security controls are appropriate for protecting network resources. Scenario-based questions connect security principles to realistic network environments. The guide further examines **Internet surveillance and censorship**, including traffic monitoring, filtering, blocking techniques, measurement methodologies, network interference, connectivity disruptions, and the technical challenges involved in identifying changes in Internet accessibility. These topics are part of the current CS6250 course sequence. Preparation also covers **Internet measurements and BGP-related analysis**, including autonomous systems, routing observations, route behavior, connectivity changes, measurement limitations, and the interpretation of Internet-wide events. The current course includes hands-on work involving BGP measurements and Internet-wide connectivity events. The material addresses **multimedia networking and Internet video**, including video-streaming requirements, bandwidth, latency, buffering, adaptive delivery, quality of service, encoding considerations, and the challenges associated with delivering large multimedia objects across heterogeneous networks. Additional preparation focuses on **Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)**, including distributed servers, caching, content replication, client-to-server selection, latency reduction, scalability, load distribution, and the reasons CDNs improve the delivery of high-volume Internet content. CDNs are explicitly included in the current CS6250 course progression. Questions also reinforce **network performance and application delivery**, requiring students to evaluate how bandwidth, delay, congestion, geographic distribution, caching, and server placement influence the user experience of network applications. Scenario-based questions integrate **SDN, security, Internet measurement, multimedia delivery, and CDN concepts**, requiring students to analyze network behavior, select appropriate architectural approaches, identify security risks, interpret measurement results, and determine how distributed content delivery can improve application performance. The resource is designed to support preparation for the **CS6250 Computer Network Exam 2** and is intended as a study and practice resource rather than a reproduction of the actual Georgia Tech examination. It does not claim to contain confidential, leaked, copyrighted, or identical questions from a live examination, and it is not an official Georgia Tech answer key.

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CS6250 COMPUTER NETWORK EXAM 2 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE THIS
YEAR – JUST RELEASED
CS6250 COMPUTER NETWORK EXAM 2
Exam Coverage
 Application-layer protocols, client-server architecture, sockets, HTTP, DNS, email, and
content distribution.
 Transport-layer multiplexing, UDP, TCP, reliable data transfer, sequencing,
acknowledgments, and retransmissions.
 TCP flow control, congestion control, sliding windows, slow start, AIMD, fast retransmit,
and recovery.
 Network-layer forwarding, routing, IPv4/IPv6 addressing, datagrams, fragmentation, TTL,
and ICMP.
 IP subnetting, CIDR notation, longest-prefix matching, routing tables, and address
aggregation.
 Routing algorithms, including link-state, distance-vector, Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, and
interdomain routing.
 BGP, autonomous systems, routing policies, path-vector concepts, and Internet-scale
routing.
 Data-link-layer framing, MAC addressing, Ethernet switching, ARP, VLANs, and spanning-
tree concepts.
 Wireless networking, CSMA/CA, hidden terminals, RTS/CTS, Wi-Fi operation, and
wireless performance.
 Network security, TLS, encryption, authentication, DNS security, firewalls, attacks, NAT,
DHCP, SDN, and troubleshooting.
CS6250 COMPUTER NETWORK EXAM 2 — 250 MCQs


1. Which networking principle explains why data is divided into smaller units before being

transmitted across a packet-switched network?


A. Circuit reservation

B. Packetization

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C. Frequency allocation

D. Address translation


Answer: B


Rationale: Packetization divides application data into manageable packets that can

independently traverse shared network links.




2. What is the primary purpose of a transport-layer port number in an Internet host?


A. Identify the physical network interface

B. Determine the destination router

C. Identify the application process receiving data

D. Replace the destination IP address


Answer: C


Rationale: Port numbers allow the transport layer to multiplex and demultiplex traffic among

application processes.




3. How does a TCP receiver normally indicate which byte it expects to receive next?


A. By sending an acknowledgment number

B. By changing its source port

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C. By modifying the IP checksum

D. By transmitting an ARP request


Answer: A


Rationale: TCP acknowledgment numbers identify the next byte expected, providing cumulative

acknowledgment information.




4. Which protocol commonly translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses?


A. DHCP

B. ARP

C. ICMP

D. DNS


Answer: D


Rationale: DNS provides distributed naming services that map domain names to resource

records, including IP addresses.




5. Why is UDP often preferred for applications such as real-time voice and video?


A. It guarantees packet delivery

B. It has relatively low protocol overhead and does not require connection establishment

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C. It automatically retransmits every lost packet

D. It guarantees constant bandwidth


Answer: B


Rationale: UDP avoids TCP-style connection establishment, retransmission, and congestion-

control mechanisms, reducing overhead and latency.




6. What does HTTP primarily define for communication between a web client and web

server?


A. Routing-table construction

B. Ethernet frame synchronization

C. Application-layer request and response behavior

D. IP address assignment


Answer: C


Rationale: HTTP defines how clients and servers exchange web resources through requests,

responses, methods, status codes, and headers.




7. Which TCP mechanism prevents a sender from overwhelming a receiver with more data

than it can buffer?

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