UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

A Metropolitan Area Network spans a geographic region larger than a single building but smaller than a country, such as a city or a university campus. It often acts as a backbone that interconnects several local area networks. MANs can be implemented using high capacity fibre links and are sometimes managed by telecom providers. Therefore, the network described in the stem is a MAN.

Option A:
Option A is correct because MANs are defined in networking literature as covering metropolitan scale areas and linking multiple LANs, which matches the scope mentioned.

Option B:
Option B, LAN, is limited to smaller areas like offices or buildings and does not typically connect widely separated sites across a city.

Option C:
Option C, WAN, covers much larger geographic areas, often internationally, and would go beyond the scale indicated in the question.

Option D:
Option D, PAN, refers to very short range personal networks around an individual and is much smaller in scope than a MAN.