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Introduction to
Internet of Things
Assignment- Week 0
TYPE OF QUESTION:MCQ/MSQ
Number ofquestions:20 Total mark: 20 X 1 = 20

QUESTION 1:
An IoT Gateway is responsible for which of the following connectivity?

a. Internet connectivity
b. IoT LAN intra-connectivity
c. Both Internet connectivity & IoT LAN intra-connectivity
d. None of these

Correct Answer: c. Both Internet connectivity & IoT LAN intra-connectivity

Detailed Solution: IoT Gateways, with or without proxies, are mainly responsible for both
internet connectivity and IoT LAN intra-connectivity.
Lecture 2 @ 12:30

QUESTION 2:

Consider a service provider (SP) in the process of determining a cloud computing service model.
The SP team has the basic building blocks necessary for a cloud IT, i.e., they possess compute
machines, servers, network support, and a range of operating systems. They want to provide a
service such that the users/clients may use their resources for managing custom applications and
data. Which service model is appropriate for the SP?

a. IaaS
b. PaaS
c. SaaS
d. None of these

Correct Answer: b. PaaS

Detailed Solution:PaaS allows users to manage application development, deployment and

management of data.

Lecture 40 @ 3:31
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QUESTION 3:

Which of the following is not an MQTT method?

a. Connect
b. Disconnect
c. Callback
d. Unsubscribe

Correct Answer: c. Callback

Detailed Solution:Connect, Disconnect, and Unsubscribe are the MQTT methods which have
the respective functions of connecting to a broker, disconnecting from a broker, and
unsubscribe for message topics.
Lecture 6 @ 05:30
QUESTION 4:

Which of the following is not a difference between cloud computing and traditional data centers?

a. Elasticity
b. Flexibility
c. Running cost
d. Computation
Correct Answer: d. Computation

Detailed Solution:Difference between traditional data centers and cloud computing include
resilience and elasticity, flexibility and scalability, automation, running costs, and security.

Lecture 41 @ 10:11

QUESTION 5:
Which of the following channel encoding technique is utilized by Zwave?
a. RZ Encoding
b. NRZ Encoding
c. Differential Manchester Encoding
d. Manchester Encoding
Correct Answer: d. Manchester Encoding
Detailed Solution:Zwaveutilizes GFSK modulation andthe Manchester channel encoding
technique.
Lecture 13 @ 07:00
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QUESTION 6:

Which platform of M2M communication does heterogeneous data merging?

a. Device platform
b. User platform
c. Application platform
d. Access platform
Correct Answer: c. Application platform
Detailed Solution:Application platform provides integrated services based on device
collected data. It also merges heterogeneous data from various devices to create new
services.
Lecture 20 @ 17:55

QUESTION 7:

Which of the following is a bitwise operator?

a. <
b. &&
c. +=
d. ~
Correct Answer: d. ~
Detailed Solution:~ is the bitwise NOT operator that takes one number and inverts all bits of it.
Lecture 23 @ 01:00

QUESTION 8:
SLAAC stands for ______________
a. Stateless Address Auto-configuration
b. Stateless Area Auto-configuration
c. Stateless Address Administrator-configuration
d. State-local Address Auto-configuration

Correct Answer: a. Stateless Address Auto-configuration

Detailed Solution:SLAAC stands for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, which provides
the ability to address a host based on a network prefix using mechanisms like DHCPv6.
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Lecture 2 @ 13:00

QUESTION 9:

How many general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins are there in Raspberry Pi 3 Model B?
a. 30
b. 40
c. 50
d. 60
Correct Answer: b. 40
Detailed Solution:There are 40 GPIO pins in all the three major variants of Raspberry Pi-
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, and Raspberry Pi Zero.
Lecture 28 @ 05:05

QUESTION 10:

Which of the following is the clock speed of Arduino Uno board?

a. 16 MHz
b. 8 MHz
c. 14 MHz
d. 18 MHz
Correct Answer: a. 16 MHz
Detailed Solution:Every Arduino has an on-board clock source, typically running at 8 MHz
or 16 MHz.Arduino Uno works with a 16MHz external clock.

Lecture 22 @ 07:00

QUESTION 11:

In a cache-enabled architecture, the end users interact with:

a. Internal cache
b. External cache
c. Both internal and external cache
d. None of these

Correct Answer: a. Internal cache

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Detailed Solution:The cache-enabled architecture follows the sequence sensors-external

cache-internal cache-end users.
Lecture 45 @ 23:24

QUESTION 12:

The physical layer of HART operates in which of the following frequency band?
a. 800-900 MHz
b. 2.4 GHz
c. 800 MHz
d. 900 MHz

Correct Answer: b. 2.4 GHz

Detailed Solution:The HART physical layer derived from the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol
operates only in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. It employs and exploits 15 channels of the band to
increase reliability.

Lecture 11 @ 06:00

QUESTION 13:

Consider a client trying to decide what cloud computing service model to subscribe. The client has
a collection of softwares that he wants to deploy for potential customers. However, the client
failed to incorporate security modules for the softwares and applications. To deal with this
situation, which of the following models should he/she not choose?

a. PaaS
b. SaaS
c. Both Paas and SaaS
d. None of these
Correct Answer: d. None of these

Detailed Solution:IaaS does not provide application level security and the clients need to
arrange the security mechanisms themselves.

Lecture 41 @ 19:31

QUESTION 14:

Which of the following is true?

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a. Traditional electrical grid allows two-way communication but smart grid does not
b. Both traditional electrical grid and smart grid allows two-way communication
c. Traditional electrical grid allows one-way communication and smart grid allows two-way
communication
d. Both traditional electrical grid and smart grid allows one-way communication

Correct Answer: c. Traditional electrical grid allows one-way communication and smart
grid allows two-way communication
Detailed Solution:Traditional electrical grid allows one-way communication and smart grid
allows two-way communication

Lecture 53 @ 9:32

QUESTION 15:

The process of identification of users and providing specific access rights/priviledges accordingly
is:

a. Authentication
b. Authorization
c. Evaluation
d. None of these

Correct Answer: b. Authorization

Detailed Solution:Authorization is the process of incorporating access control mechanisms.

Lecture 41 @ 23:31

QUESTION 16:

Which of the following is true?

a. IIoT is not equivalent to IoT

b. IIoT is independent of IoT
c. IIoT is dependent on some features of IoT
d. None of these

Correct Answer: c. IIoT is dependent on some features of IoT

Detailed Solution:IIoT is an intersection of IoT and Industry 4.0

Lecture 55 @ 5:15

QUESTION 17:

IaaS provides complete control of the virtualized resources to the clients/users.

a. True
b. False
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Correct Answer: a. True

Detailed Solution:IaaS provides complete control of the virtualized resources to the
clients/users.
Lecture 40 @ 7:51

QUESTION 18:
Which of the following is an AMQP component?
a. Stack
b. Topic
c. Queue
d. None of these

Correct Answer: c. Queue

Detailed Solution: Queue is an AMQP component. The exchange component receives
messages and routes them to queues. Consumers receive messages from queues.

Lecture 8 @ 08:05

QUESTION 19:

Due to the unique advantages of fog computing, it enhances the features of the cloud computing.
Finally, fog computing will replace cloud computing to exist independently.

a. True
b. False

Correct Answer: b. False

Detailed Solution: Fog computing is designed to compliment the services of the cloud.

Lecture 47 @ 13:43
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QUESTION 20:

Which among the following involves the least M2M communications?

a. IoT
b. IIoT
c. I4.0
d. All of these

Correct Answer: a. IoT

Detailed Solution:I4.0 and IIoT uses M2M communications extensively.

Lecture 55 @ 25:05

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