Broadcast Routing — Test 1

Correct Answer: D. D. Telephone network
Explanation: Telephone network uses hierarchical routing and broadcasting cannot be used in this. Because broadcast routing is suitable for those applications in which, each packet is sent to broad range of destinations. But telephone network has small number of receivers.

Correct Answer: C. C. Best use of bandwidth
Explanation: It does not use bandwidth efficiently, if only a few destinations are interested in broadcast packets, so bandwidth will be wasted. Also, it increases the traffic in the network and slows down the system.

Correct Answer: B. B. One-to-all
Explanation: Broadcast routing is mostly used in those applications, where one packet is received by all destinations, like live streaming of one event is viewed by many people. It cannot be one-to-many because, it does not maintain groups like multicast routing.

Correct Answer: C. C. Broadcast/multicast unknown server (bus)
Explanation: Broadcast unknown server will receive the broadcast frame and makes copies of it. And then, sends the copies to every station by initiating the process of broadcast routing.