UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2016/2017
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BIT 1102A BAC 1107 INTERNET TECHNOLOGY, INTERNET AND WEB
TECNOLOGIES
FULL TIME/PART TIME/DISTANCE LEARNING
DATE: AUGUST, 2017 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer Question One & ANY OTHER TWO questions.
QUESTION ONE
a) Describe the ARPANET and NSFNET (6 Marks)
b) What do you mean by internet protocol? (2 Marks)
c) What is the role of Nation Internet Registry (NIR) in internet systems. [4 Marks]
d) How structure of a domain name look like, describe with an example. How forward DNS
resolution works? [6 Marks]
e) How IPv6 addresses can be classified? Discuss about IPv6 header structure.
[6 Marks]
f) What are the ranges in IPv4 IP classful addressing (8 Marks)
QUESTION TWO
Describe the following equipment used on computer networks and the internet
a) rj45
b) co-axial cable
c) firewall
d) server
e) switch
f) router
g) bridge
h) network interface card
i) multiplexor
QUESTION THREE
a) i) What possible factors can be considered while filtering the content in web? (3 Marks)
ii) How can SMTP Proxies be used to filter mails? [3 Marks]
b) What is the role of Internet engineering task force (4 Marks)
c) Describe the building blocks that need to be considered while designing Internet System
Network Architecture. [6 Marks]
QUESTION FOUR
a) Describe the Internet tiering structure with respect to the Internet service providers giving
examples (6 Marks)
b) How SMTP differs from POP? What are the reasons for multiple protocols in internet
systems? [6 Marks]
c) What is the role of RIR (4 Marks)
d) Distinguish between the TCP and UDP protocol (4 Marks)
QUESTION FIVE
b) What is the role of ICANN (3 Marks)
c) Describe the ISO model (7 Marks)
d) Describe the Standards the WWW ( 4 Marks)
e) What is the purpose of using HTML? By using HTML elements to design a simple web
page (6 Marks)
