Networking - Interview Questions and Answers

Frame relay is a packet switching technology. It will operate in the data link layer.

Telnet is also called as terminal emulation. It belongs to application layer.

The process that allows a network to self-repair networks problems. The stations on the network notify the other stations on the ring when they are not receiving the transmissions. Beaconing is used in Token ring and FDDI networks.

Redirector is software that intercepts file or prints I/O requests and translates them into network requests. This comes under presentation layer.

NETBIOS is a programming interface that allows I/O requests to be sent to and received from a remote computer and it hides the networking hardware from applications.

NETBEUI is NetBIOS extended user interface. A transport protocol designed by microsoft and IBM for the use on small subnets.

A method for providing fault tolerance by using multiple hard disk drives.