Interview questions

Network Engineer interview questions – page 2

107 questions. Tap “Show answer” to check yourself.

  1. What are the Data link protocols?

  2. What are the types of errors?

  3. What are the data units at different layers of the TCP / IP protocol suite?

  4. Define Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ)?

  5. Define NETBIOS and NETBEUI?

  6. What are the two types of transmission technology available?

  7. Define 5-4-3 rule?

  8. How Gateway is different from Routers?

  9. Define Flow Control?

  10. Define Fixed Size Framing?

  11. Why should you care about the OSI Reference Model?

  12. What do you mean by MAC address?

  13. What is "triple X" in Networks?

  14. Explain Bit Stuffing?

  15. Distinguish between ARP and RARP?

  16. Define EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol)?

  17. Explain Stop-and-Wait Protocol?

  18. What do you mean by autonomous system?

  19. Define cladding?

  20. What are the important topologies for networks?

  21. What is usage of Sequence Number in Relaible Transmission?

  22. Choose a city and estimate how many piano tuners operate a business there?

  23. What are the types of Transmission media?

  24. Explain Bandwidth?

  25. What is frame relay, in which layer it comes?

  26. Explain BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)?

  27. What do you mean by source route?

  28. Define Digrams and Trigrams?

  29. Describe subnet?

  30. What is Sliding Window?

Companies that ask Network Engineer questions