Multiple Choice Questions & Answers on Media Access Control Layer

1. MAC stands for ________

a) Media Area Control

b) Memory Access Control

c) Memory Area Control

d) Media Access Control

Answer: Media Access Control

2. MAC addresses are used as ________

a) Network addresses

b) IP address

c) Hardware address

d) Burned in address

Answer: Network addresses

3. Networking Hardware Address is referred with ________

a) IP address

b) MAC address

c) NIC

d) Organizationally Unique Identifier

Answer: MAC address

4. Hardware address is known as _________

a) MAC address

b) IP Address

c) Network Interface Card

d) Address Resolution Protocol

Answer: MAC address

5. The original IEEE 802 MAC address comes from________

a) MAC address

b) IP address

c) Ethernet address

d) Http

Answer: Ethernet address

6. On wireless networks ________ filtering is the security measure.

a) OUI

b) IP

c) NIC

d) MAC

Answer: MAC

7. ____________ assigns a unique number to each IP network adapter called the MAC address.

a) Media Access Control

b) Metro Access Control

c) Metropolitan Access Control

d) Both b and c

Answer: Media Access Control

8. The Media Access Control (MAC) layer frame has

a) 5 fields

b) 7 fields

c) 9 fields

d) 11 fields

Answer: 9 fields

9. The value of the frame body field of Media Access Control frame is in between

a) 0 and 512 bytes

b) 0 and 1214 bytes

c) 0 to 2312 bytes

d) 0 to 3450 bytes

Answer: 0 to 2312 bytes

10. The duration field D of Media Access Control layer frame contains

a) 2 bytes

b) 4 bytes

c) 6 bytes

d) 8 bytes

Answer: 2bytes

11. The field of the Media Access Control (MAC) frame that alerts the receiver and enables it to synchronize is known as

a) SFD

b) Preamble

c) Source address

d) Destination address

Answer: Preamble

12. Media access control is the sub layer of

a) LLC

b) IEEE

c) ANSI

d) both a and c

Answer: IEEE

13. What translates IP address into MAC address?

a) Organizationally Unique Identifier

b) Address Resolution Protocol

c) Network Interface Card

d) Burned In Address

Answer: Network Interface Card

14. Which one of the following is not used in media access control?

a) Ethernet

b) Digital subscriber line

c) Fiber distributed data interface

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: None of the mentioned

15. Does MAC address contain characters.

a) True

b) False

Answer: True

16. IEEE standards for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

a) True

b) False

Answer: True

17. MAC addresses are very useful in diagnosing network issues.

a) True

b) False

Answer: True