QoS Quiz: Quality of Service (Network+) Traffic Prioritization

1. Which QoS mechanism delays packets to smooth traffic bursts?

Policing

Traffic Shaping

Queuing

Marking

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3. Which application type typically requires the most strict QoS guarantees?

Email

Web browsing

VoIP

File transfer

4. True or False: Random Early Detection (RED) proactively drops packets before queue overflow occurs.

True

False

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6. Which QoS priority queue should voice traffic typically use?

Best Effort

Background

Expedited Forwarding

Scavenger

7. What is congestion avoidance designed to prevent?

Packet fragmentation

Queue overflow and tail drops

Protocol switching

Route flapping

8. Which QoS model is stateless and scalable for large networks?

IntServ

DiffServ

Best Effort

MPLS QoS

9. True or False: QoS guarantees can be provided across the public Internet without additional protocols.

True

False

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11. Which QoS model uses a single priority queue and is the simplest to implement?

DiffServ

IntServ

Best Effort

MPLS

12. What does FIFO queuing mean in network traffic management?

First In, First Out processing of packets

Fragmented Input, Fragmented Output

Fair Information Flow Operation

Fast Internet Frame Organization

13. True or False: Policing allows traffic to temporarily exceed the rate limit by buffering excess packets.

True

False

14. Which Layer 3 header field is used to mark traffic for QoS treatment?

TTL

Protocol

ToS/DSCP

Flags

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16. Which QoS tool discards packets when traffic exceeds a defined rate?

Queuing

Policing

Shaping

Marking

17. What is the primary purpose of traffic classification in QoS?

To encrypt network traffic

To identify and categorize traffic flows for treatment

To increase overall bandwidth

To replace routing protocols

18. True or False: DiffServ requires end-to-end signaling across the entire network path.

True

False

19. Which QoS mechanism limits the maximum bandwidth a flow can consume?

Queuing

Traffic Shaping

Policing

Congestion Management

20. What does DSCP stand for in the context of QoS?

Differentiated Services Code Point

Dynamic Service Configuration Protocol

Data Service Control Point

Distributed Service Congestion Prevention

QoS Quiz: Can You Prioritize the Traffic?

1. Which QoS mechanism delays packets to smooth traffic bursts?

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What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Weighted Round Robin scheduling assigns ____ to different traffic classes.

3. Which application type typically requires the most strict QoS guarantees?

4. True or False: Random Early Detection (RED) proactively drops packets before queue overflow occurs.

5. The ____ field in the IPv4 header was renamed to DSCP for QoS marking.

6. Which QoS priority queue should voice traffic typically use?

7. What is congestion avoidance designed to prevent?

8. Which QoS model is stateless and scalable for large networks?

9. True or False: QoS guarantees can be provided across the public Internet without additional protocols.

10. The ____ algorithm allocates equal bandwidth to all active flows.

11. Which QoS model uses a single priority queue and is the simplest to implement?

12. What does FIFO queuing mean in network traffic management?

13. True or False: Policing allows traffic to temporarily exceed the rate limit by buffering excess packets.

14. Which Layer 3 header field is used to mark traffic for QoS treatment?

15. IntServ uses ____ to reserve bandwidth along the network path.

16. Which QoS tool discards packets when traffic exceeds a defined rate?

17. What is the primary purpose of traffic classification in QoS?

18. True or False: DiffServ requires end-to-end signaling across the entire network path.

19. Which QoS mechanism limits the maximum bandwidth a flow can consume?

20. What does DSCP stand for in the context of QoS?