1.

Redundancy means the ____________

a. Transmission rate of the system
b. Symbols are to be repeated
c. Time between failures
d. Time between successes
2. Which transmission media is not suitable to CSMA operation?
a. Radio
b. Optical fiber
c. Coaxial cable
d. Twisted pair
3. _________ is a device used to convert a time varying electrical quantity to an
appropriate form.
A. Codec
B. Transducer
C. ADC/DAC
D. Modem
4. The bandwidth of U600 mastergroup is
A. 2250 kHz
B. 2728 kHz
C. 2520 kHz
D. 2278 kHz
5. Refers to the combined digitally encoded signals transmitted with FDM signals as one
composite baseband signal
A. Composite data
B. Data under voice (DUV)
C. Hybrid data
D. Data in voice (DIV)
6. Transmit frequency-division-multiplexed voice band signals over a coaxial cable for
distances up to 4000 miles
A. T carrier systems
B. A carrier systems
C. L carrier systems
D. D carrier systems
7. The line data rate (in Mbps) for level 4 of CEPT 30 +2 PCM multiplex hierarchy is
A. 97.728
B. 400.352
C. 274.176
D. 139.264
8. The guardband between supergroup 18 and supergroup D25 is
A. 12 kHz
B. 56 kHz
C. 128 kHz
D. 8 kHz
9. Supergroup 17 has a carrier frequency (in kHz) of
A. 2108
B. 2356
C. 1860
D. 1612
10. A radio channel is composed of ________ VB channels
A. 1800
B. 900
C. 10800
D. 8064
11. What is the guardband between supergroup 1 and supergroup 2?
A. 12 kHz
B. 10 kHz
C. 8 kHz
D. 6 kHz
12. CCITT’s supermastergroup has how many voice band channels?
A. 600
B. 1800
C. 10800
D. 900
13. The transparency mechanism used with SDLC is called
A. Zero-bit insertion
B. Modified link test
C. Beacon test
D. Invert-on-zero coding
14. What equation defines the composition of an ISDN basic access line?
A. 2B + D
B. B + D
C. B + 2D
D. 2B + 2D
15. A digital network where voice, video, text and data are multiplexed into a single
network for processing and are transmitted prior to use
A. Frame relay
B. Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
C. ISDN
D. Synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)
16. T-1 carrier service has _______ digital bit rate
A. 1.544 Mbps
B. 2048 Mbps
C. 1.644 Mbps
D. 9600 Mbp
17. Non-ISDN equivalent can be connected to ISDN line by the use of ____________
A. Terminal equipment
B. Terminal adapters
C. Modem
D. Network adaptors
18. What is the baseband frequency of standard FDM basic supergroup?
A. 312 to 552 kHz
B. 60 to 2540 kHz
C. 60 to 108 kHz
D. 300 to 600 kHz
19. What is the transmission signal coding for TI carrier?
A. Binary
B. NRZ
C. Bipolar
D. Manchester
20. The primary purpose of the data modem
A. Interface analog terminal equipment to analog communications channel
B. Interface digital terminal equivalent to digital communications channel
C. Interface analog terminal equipment to digital communications channel
D. Interface digital terminal equipment to analog communications channel
21. The line control unit (LCU) operation on the data in digital from
A. Data terminal equipment (DTE)
B. Data communications equipment (DCE)
C. Modem
D. UART
22. SYN character of EBCDIC code
A. 32 H
B. 8H
C. 16H
D. 4H
23. __________ ensures that the transmitter and receiver agree on prescribed time slot
for the occurrence of a bit
A. Bit or clock synchronization
B. Modem or carrier synchronization
C. Character synchronization
D. Character synchronization
24. Equation used to determine the number of Hamming bits in the Hamming code
A. 2n = m + n +1
B. 2n≥ m + n +1
C. 2n> m + n +1
D. 2n< m + n +1
25. Data means
A. Digital information
B. Both digital and analog
C. Analog information
D. Neither digital nor analog
26. What determines which network configuration is most appropriate?
A. Application layer
B. Presentation layer
C. Network layer
D. Data link layer
27. Ethernet is a baseband system using CSMA/CD operating at ___________
A. 10 Mbps
B. 20 Mbps
C. 30 Mbps
D. 40 Mbps
28. Mechanism used by a station to gain access to local area network
A. Channel multiplexing
B. Channel accessing
C. CSMA/CD
D. CSMA/CA
29. What multiplexing scheme is used by baseband transmission?
A. TDM
B. Space multiplexing
C. FDM
D. Statistical multiplexing
30. Use of coaxial cables in interconnecting networks is limited to an overall length of ________
A. 1500 ft
B. 1500 m
C. 1500 km
D. 1500 kft
31. What identifies how the stations are interconnected in a network?
A. Topology
B. Architecture
C. Topology or architecture
D. Topology and architecture
32. ________ is a data communications network designed to provide two-way communications between a
large variety of data communications terminal equipment within a relatively small geographic area
A. Private Area Network
B. Local Area Network
C. Wide Area Network
D. Ethernet
33. _________ is the mode of transmission in public data network in which data are transferred from source to the
network then to the destination in an asynchronous data format.
A. Synchronous mode
B. Start/stop mode
C. Packet mode
D. Circuit mode
34. A seven-bit character can represent one of ___ possibilities
A. 7
B. 14
C. 64
D. 128
35. ________ is defined to be the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted through a channel
A. Bit rate
B. Baud rate
C. Coding
D. Channel capacity
36. Circuit that performs the inverse mapping and delivers to the user destination, a reproduction of the original
digital source output
A. Source coding
B. Channel coding
C. Inverse coding
D. Demodulation
37. Digital modulation technique used in modems
A. ASK
B. FSK
C. PSK
D. MSK
38. Who developed the fixed-length binary code for telegraphy?
A. Samuel Morse
B. Emile Baudot
C. Alexander Graham Bell
D. Guglielmo Marconi
39. Inventor of pulse-code modulation for the digital encoding of speech signals
A. R.V.L Hartley
B. J.R. Carson
C. H. Nyquist
D. Alex Reeves
40. In what year did computers and terminals start communicating with each other over
long distance?
A. 1950’s
B. 1960’s
C. 1970’s
D. 1980’s
41. Store-and-forward multiple-access network
A. ARPANET
B. ALOHA
C. PRNET
D. Packet switching
42. A source code-whose average word length approaches the fundamental ----------- set
by the entropy of a discrete memoryless source
A. Prefix code
B. Source code
C. Entropy code
D. Huffman code
43. Who promulgate communications related military standards (MIL-STD)?
A. DOD
B. DCA
C. DOD-STD
D. ANSI-MIL
44. What is the class of probability in error detection techniques that is known as residual
error rate?
A. P1
B. P2
C. P3
D. P4
45. RS 232 is normally an interface between DTE and DCE, what is its signal rate?
A. 20 kbps
B. 30 kbps
C. 40 kbps
D. 50 kbps
46. Digital switching concepts that can handle more channels
A. SDS
B. TSI
C. TDM
D. TMS
47. What is the most significant advantage of modular switch than time-and-space switch?
A. Flexible size
B. Simplified control
C. Simplified manufacturing, testing and maintenance
D. The latter is more advantageous than the former
48. Which of the following is the biggest disadvantage of PCM systems?
A. Inability to handle analog signals
B. High error rate as a result of quantizing noise
C. Not compatible with TDM
D. The large bandwidth required
49. The reason why companding is employed in PCM systems is
A. To solve quantizing noise problem
B. To allow amplitude limiting in the receiver
C. To protect small signals in PCM From quantizing distortion
D. To overcome impulse noise in PCM receivers
50. The highest theoretical frequency that can be processed at a sampling rate(fs) without
aliasing
A. Folding frequency
B. Resonant frequency
C. Critical frequency
D. Natural frequency
51. The overlapping of the original spectrum and the first translated component is known
as
A. Dc wandering
B. Aliasing
C. Droop
D. Distortion
52. Transmission sent in both directions simultaneously
A. Full duplex
B. Half duplex
C. Simplex
D. Echoplex
53. Multiplexing in a time division multiplexer occurs based upon
A. The position of data within a frame
B. The position of a frame within a group of frames
C. The activity of connected device
D. The priority assigned to a connected device
54. What is multiplexing?
A. The process of increasing bandwidth on a channel
B. A technique that enables more than one data source to share the use of common
line
C. Mailing letter at the post office
D. The ability to share frequency by time
55. One of the reasons why FDM is being replaced by TDM
A. There is more time than frequency
B. If is difficult to place channels side by side
C. Noise is amplified with voice when an FDM system is used
D. Most available frequencies have been used
56. In ___________ modulation the carrier is a periodic train of pulses
A. Amplitude
B. Analog
C. Digital
D. Pulse
57. The process that uses the orthogonality of sines and cosines that makes possible to
transmit and receive to different signals simultaneously on the same carrier frequency is
A. TDM
B. FDM
C. Quadrature multiplexing
D. Duplexing
58. Which of the following pulse modulation technique is a digital transmission system?
A. Pulse duration modulation
B. Pulse position modulation
C. Pulse width modulation
D. Pulse code modulation
59. Which of the following is not an advantage of digital transmission?
A. Noise immunity
B. Ease of multiplexing
C. Bandwidth utilization
D. Ease of encryption
60. _________ is the ratio of the largest possible magnitude to the smallest possible
magnitude that can be decoded by the DAC
A. Resolution
B. Quantization
C. Dynamic range
D. Voltage ratio
61. A process where the higher amplitude analog signals are compressed prior to transmission then expanded at the
receiver
A. Compressing
B. Expanding
C. Encoding
D. Companding
62. For a resolution of 0.01V and analog sample voltage of 0.05V, the 12-bit linear sign-magnitude code is
A. 000000000101
B. 100000000101
C. 100010010011
D. 000001010001
63. ___________ uses a signal bit PCM code to achieve a digital transmission of analog signal
A. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)
B. Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)
C. Delta Modulation (DM)
D. Phase Modulation (PM)
64. The line speed of Bell system T1 carrier system is
A. 64 kbps
B. 3.152 Mbps
C. 1.544 Mbps
D. 6.312 Mbps
65. How many channels does a T2 line carry?
A. 24
B. 48
C. 96
D. 672
66. The capacity of the standard 4-kHz telephone channel with 30dB S/N is
A. 455225 bps
B. 42525 bps
C. 39846 bps
D. 39840 bps
67. How many channels does a super group have?
A. 60
B. 600
C. 1800
D. 10800
68. The output frequency at the channel combiner of channel 7 is
A. 76 – 80 kHz
B. 80 – 84 kHz
C. 84 – 88 kHz
D. 88 – 92 kHz
69. The carrier frequency of the supergroup D25 is
A. 2652 kHz
B. 2900 kHz
C. 2356 kHz
D. 2108 kHz
70. Which of the following is not a hybrid data?
A. Data in voice
B. Data under voice
C. Data above voice
D. Data in video
71. ____ was the first fixed-length 5-bit character code
A. EBCDC
B. ASCII
C. Morse code
D. Baudot code
72. CCITT V.26 modem has a modulation rate of _______
A. 1200 Hz
B. 1200 bauds
C. 1560 cps
D. 9600 bauds
73. What can a smart modem do?
A. Detect transmission errors and correct them automatically
B. Correct answer multiple choice quizzes
C. Accepts commands from the terminal via RS 232 interface
D. Do a smart game
74. One is an advantage of PTM over PAM
A. Much better noise immunity
B. Low sampling rate required
C. Simpler to generate
D. Less costly
75. When did ISO adapt the seven-layer OSI model?
A. 1983
B. 1973
C. 1963
D. 1953
76. Amplitude shift keying is also known as __________
A. Up/down keying
B. On/off keying
C. Front/back keying
D. I/O keying
77. Which modulation system is used in telephony?
A. FSK
B. PCM
C. Two-tone modulation
D. Single-tone modulation
78. Modulation used by asynchronous data
A. QPSK
B. FSK
C. PSK
D. QAM
79. PCM systems require ____________
A. Analog signals
B. Large bandwidth
C. Digital signals
D. Fiber optics cable
80. Which theorem sets the limit on the maximum capacity of a channel with a given noise
level?
A. Nyquist theorem
B. Hartley theorem
C. Shannon-Hartley theorem
D. Shannon theorem
81. Quantizing noise is present in _______ system
A. PCM
B. ATM
C. TDM
D. PAM
82. _______________ is the difference between the original and reconstructed signal
A. Quantizing noise
B. Fade margin
C. Noise margin
D. Noise figure
83. What is the reason why companding is employed in PCM systems?
A. To solve quantizing noise problem
B. To allow amplitude limits in the receivers
C. To protect small signals in PCM from quantizing distortion
D. to overcome impulse noise in PCM receivers
84. Band of frequencies in a transmission medium allotted to each communication channel
on a continuous time basis
A. TDM
B. FDM
C. CDMA
D. Broadband
85. Error control used in high frequency radio data transmission
A. FEC
B. ARQ
C. Hamming
D. Parity
86. What are the steps to follow to produce a PCM signal?
A. Sampling, coding and quantizing
B. Sampling, quantizing and coding
C. Quantizing, sampling and coding
D. Coding, quantizing and sampling
87. __________ identifies how the different stations in a multipoint system are
interconnected
A. Network topology
B. Star network
C. Ring network
D. Bus network
88. A transmission where data are inputted directly on the cable
A. Broadband
B. Baseband
C. Digital
D. Analog
89. A transmission where data are inputted inside the carrier wave
A. Broadband
B. Baseband
C. Digital
D. Analog
90. Transmission system for a multidrop network
A. Token passing
B. CSMA/CD
C. Polling
D. CSMA/CA
91. Before attempting to transmit data, each station has to listen to the channel
A. CSMA /CD
B. Token passing
C. CSMA/CA
D. Polling
92. Synchronous modems cost more than asynchronous modems because
A. They are larger
B. They must contain clock recovery circuits
C. The production volume is larger
D. They must operate on a larger bandwidth
93. When one station is designated as master and the rest of the stations are considered
slaves, massage handling is _________
A. Store and forward
B. Polling
C. CSMA/CD
D. Token passing
94. The computer that initiates information transfer
A. Master
B. Slave
C. DCE
D. DTE
95. A store and forward switching
A. Circuit switching
B. Packet switching
C. Message switching
D. PSTN
96. It is used to connect computers in the same building or in same area
A. LAN
B. WAN
C. MAN
D. PBX
97. Two or more LAN linked together over a wide geographical area
A. HAN
B. MAN
C. WAN
D. RAN
98. Which systems allows different types of networks to be linked together?
A. OSI
B. CCITT
C. Bell system
D. AT &T
99. OSI consists of how many layers of interconnection?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 7
D. 9
100. Which network layer determine if the user can send or receive based on whether they can send and receive
simultaneously or alternately?
A. Physical layer
B. Data link layer
C. Transport layer
D. Session layer