GATE CS Computer Networks: 6 chapters, 53 previous year questions (100% of Computer Networks), 0 practice questions and one solved question from each chapter.
Creating an account is free. You get the rest of this chapter, step-by-step solutions, and a study plan built around the topics you are actually weak at.
Most platforms hand everyone the same content. Here the content moves with your performance, topic by topic.
Every answer you give moves your topic-level intelligence rate. The next question, the next revision card and tomorrow's plan all change with it.
We only revise topics you have actually attempted and are still below the safe bar on — never the same chapter on repeat.
Each question carries a measured toughness. You are served a rung above your current level, so practice keeps stretching you.
Full lesson cards for first study, curated short-note cards for the last mile — with derivations, traps and exam patterns marked.
Notes, chapter practice, previous-year questions, test series and full-length papers — all feeding one picture of your preparation.
No vanity streaks. Progress here means chapters mastered and accuracy that held up on harder questions.
Full notes and short notes, the complete question bank with worked solutions, mock tests, full-length papers, and an adaptive plan that rebuilds itself as you improve.
GATE CS Computer Networks: 6 chapters, 53 previous year questions (100% of Computer Networks), 0 practice questions and one solved question from each chapter.
53 previous year questions from Computer Networks in GATE CS, grouped by chapter with the exam year, answer key and step-by-step solution for each.
Computer Networks accounts for 53 of 53 Computer Networks previous year questions in our bank (100%), about 5.3 per paper across 10 papers.
| Chapter | Topics | PYQs | Share of unit PYQs | Practice questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network Models, Data Link Control, Error Detection and Multiple Access | Network Models, ARP and Link-Layer Addressing, Stop-and-Wait and Sliding-Window Flow Control, Error Detection, Coding and Reliable Transmission, Ethernet Collision Detection and Multiple Access | 16 | 30% | 0 |
| IPv4 Addressing, Subnetting, NAT and Fragmentation | IPv4 Fragmentation and MTU Handling, IPv4 Header Fields, Protocols and NAT, CIDR, Subnet Masks and Address Allocation | 11 | 21% | 0 |
| Routing Protocols and Packet Forwarding | Longest-Prefix Matching and Packet Forwarding, Distance-Vector and Link-State Routing | 8 | 15% | 0 |
| TCP Connection Management, Reliability and Congestion Control | TCP Handshake, Connection State and Termination, TCP Sequence Numbers and Wraparound, TCP Slow Start and Congestion-Window Evolution | 10 | 19% | 0 |
| Application Layer Protocols and Web Communication | DNS Resolution and Web Request Sequencing, HTTP Connections, Persistence and Web Latency, Application Protocol Message Delivery | 5 | 9% | 0 |
| Network Delay, Throughput and End-to-End Performance | Store-and-Forward Transfer and Bottleneck Throughput, Transmission and Propagation Delay | 3 | 6% | 0 |
Consider the transmission of data bits over a link that uses Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) code for error detection. If the generator bit pattern is given to be , which one of the following options shows the remainder bit pattern appended to the data bits before transmission?
If an IP network uses a subnet mask of 255.255.240.0, the maximum number of IP addresses that can be assigned to network interfaces is __________. <i>(answer in integer)</i>
Which one of the following protocols may need to broadcast some of its messages?