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Demystifying Networking Week 4 Nptel Assignment Answers (July-Dec 2025)
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Question 1. A router between a client and web server faults the application layer. This will affect the client’s web request from the server. Which of the following statement applies to this situation?
a) No, the packets will have no problem reaching the client
b) The router operates at the network layer, it cannot fault the application layer
c) No, web requests do not need application layer processing
d) None of the options are correct
Question 2. CIA triad consist of:
a) Consistency, Inheritance, Accountability
b) Coherence, Integrity, Availability
c) Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
d) Consistency, Integrity, Availability
Question 3. As per IT ACT 2000, if a person cheats someone using a computer resource or communication he/she can be punished under which of its following sections?
a) 66A
b) 66D
c) 67
d) 67B
Question 4. Employees have been noticed sharing passwords of some office applications which contain specific data. Recently during penetration testing, it has been found out the passwords used by the employees are weak and susceptible to dictionary attacks especially the onsite team that accesses the office applications from a public network. The team has decided to make some system and network policy changes. Which of the following policies could best resolve the above-mentioned issues?
a) Educate users to use strong passwords.
b) Educate users not to share passwords.
c) Enforce strong passwords and educate users not to share passwords.
d) Penalize employees who use weak passwords.
Question 5. IT department of the office has reported an increase in the number of system failures in the training labs. A detailed investigation revealed the reason to be malware and computer virus. It was found out that young trainees tend to use personal pen drives in those systems which are infected with viruses.
a) Physically remove or seal the USB ports in the labs.
b) Disable USBs on lab systems and educate the users about the dangers of using personal pen drives.
c) Display the rules restricting the usage of personal USB drives in the lab.
d) Penalize the employees using personal USB drives.
Question 6. Anti-virus cannot protect the computer from malicious software, malware, spyware, etc. but Firewall can.
a) True
b) False
Question 7. Using the firewall, one can block packets having a particular port number.
a) True
b) False
These are Demystifying Networking Week 4 Nptel Assignment Answers
Question 8. A host from one network sends packets to the host from another network, which address does the router look at while doing so?
a) MAC Address
b) Physical Address
c) Subnet Mask
d) IP Address
Question 9. L1 can open xyz.org hosted in web server.
a) True
b) False
Question 10. DHCP server can assign the addresses ____________ when a request comes.
a) 192.16.0.254
b) 172.16.0.2
c) 192.16.0.3
d) 172.16.0.254
These are Demystifying Networking Week 4 Nptel Assignment Answers