Computer Networks Unit 4 – Transport Layer: AKTU previous year questions
16 AKTU questions from Unit 4 (Transport Layer) asked in 2018–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 18 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is TCP Protocol (16 times); 11 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.
Unit 4 previous year questions
- What is Silly Window Syndrome? Explain how sender and receiver can avoid it using Nagle's and Clark's algorithms. (7 marks, 2025, TCP Protocol)
- Explain TCP segment header. Also, illustrate the TCP connection management. (7 marks, 2025, TCP Protocol)
- Write about Registered ports. (2 marks, 2024, TCP Protocol)
- Differentiate between connection less and connection oriented. (2 marks, 2024, TCP Protocol)
- Define TCP features and header in detail. (10 marks, 2024, TCP Protocol)
- Define Connection Management. Explain how Three-way handshaking using diagram. (10 marks, 2024, TCP Protocol)
- Differentiate TCP and UDP in context of the header format. (10 marks, 2023, TCP Protocol)
- List out prime three functionality of transport layer. (2 marks, 2022, TCP Protocol)
- Explain the use of RST flag in TCP header. (2 marks, 2022, TCP Protocol)
- Write detailed note on TCP vs UDP. (10 marks, 2022, TCP Protocol)
- Explain about the TCP header and working of TCP protocol and differentiate between TCP and UDP with frame format. (7 marks, 2019, TCP Protocol)
- The following is the dump of a TCP header in hexadecimal format: 05320017 00000001 00000000 500207FF 00000000. (i) What is the sequence number? (ii) What is the destination port number? (iii) What is the acknowledgment number? (iv) What is the window size? (7 marks, 2019, TCP Protocol)
Most asked Unit 4 topics
- TCP Protocol – asked 16 times
- Process to Process Delivery
- UDP Protocol
Unit 4 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 5 asked in 2018–2025
- 7-mark questions: 4 asked in 2018–2025
- 10-mark questions: 7 asked in 2018–2025
- About 18 marks from Unit 4 in every paper
- 11 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 4 questions year by year
- 2025: 2 Unit 4 questions asked (14 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 4 Unit 4 questions asked (24 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 1 Unit 4 question asked (10 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 3 Unit 4 questions asked (14 marks across that year's papers)
- 2019: 2 Unit 4 questions asked (14 marks across that year's papers)
- 2018: 4 Unit 4 questions asked (32 marks across that year's papers)