BATCH B- EST 08 (TELEPHONY) ANSWER

1 A star connected intermediate exchange is known as a _____ exchange. hub

2 The final selector is connected to the _____. called subscriber
3 Signalling transfer point (STP) exist in: SS7
4 Direct inward dialling is used as a feature in _____. EPABX
5 Side tone is the speech heard by: Calling subscriber.
6 Which transmission mode is used for data communication along telephone lines? Serial
7 The grade of service is measured in ______. fractional number
8 An off-hook signal will repeat for a/an ________ duration. finite
9 What is the bandwidth requirement of a telephone channel? 3 kHz
10 In a cellular system design, what is the frequency reuse factor if the co-channel
interference reduction factor is 4.6?

11 Engaged tone is generated in the: Exchange

12 A sample rate of ________is required for a good quality representation of 50 times per second per mile of
telephone conversation. distance travelled
13 Calculate the via net loss (VNL) of a telephone signal that takes 3 ms to reach its
destination for an acceptable amount of echo.
14 Network with point-to-point link is known as: Fully Connected Network
15 The signalling connection control part (SCCP) and message transfer part (MTP)
Network Service Part (NSP)
together are referred to as:
16 The ______ electro-mechanical switch (developed in 1938) had fewer moving
crossbar
parts than earlier switches.
17 What is the CCITT standard bandwidth for speech? 3400 Hz
18 Common channel signalling in SS7 is _____ control channel. in band
19 Distortion caused on telephone line by an adjacent channel is called ____. cross talk
20 Typical human voice is centered around ________ Hz. 280-3000
21 Telephone traffic is measured in _____. Erlang
22 A province in the Philippines has an area of 2000 sq. kms. It has to be covered by
cellular mobile telephone service using cells with a radius of 2 kms. Assuming
hexagonal cells, find the number of cell sites needed.

23 Mr. Cruz uses tone-dialing phone to dial the number 784-3742. If the digits
pushbuttons are held down for 0.25 s and the interdigit time is also 0.25 s, how
long will it take him to dial the said number?
24 Trunks are the lines that run between: Switching stations
25 A/An ______network is typically a company network that connects multiple
enterprise
company locations into a single network.
 BATCH B- EST 09 (DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS) ANSWER
1 What is the capacity of a binary symmetric channel? Given H(P) is binary entropy
1 – H(P)
function.
2 The modulation techniques used to convert analog signal into digital signal are: All of the choices
3 What factor/s cause quantizing error in delta modulation? Both slope overload distortion
and granular noise
4 The bandwidth of BFSK is ______ than BPSK. higher
5 Pulse shaping is done: All of the choices
6 In differential pulse code modulation techniques, the decoding is performed by
____. accumulator

7 The time interval over which the received signal may be sampled without error Width of eye opening of eye
may be explained by: pattern.
8 The frequency shifts in the BFSK usually lies in the range of ______ to _____. 50; 1000 Hz
9 In binary phase shift keying system, the binary symbols 1 and 0 are represented
by carrier with phase shift of ____. π

10 What is the preferred orthogonalization process for its numerical stability? House holder transformation
11 The data rate of QPSK is ___________ of BPSK. twice
12 The transmission bandwidth of the raised cosine spectrum is given by: Bt = 2w(1 + α)
13 Determine the resolution for an 8-bit linear sign-magnitude PCM for a maximum
decoded voltage of 2.55 Vp.

14 The maximum bandwidth is occupied by _____. FSK

15 What cause/s the difficulty in achieving the Nyquist criterion for system design? There are abrupt transitions
obtained at edges of the bands
16 ASK modulated signal has the bandwidth: Same as the bandwidth of
baseband signal.
17 The interference caused by the adjacent pulses in digital transmission is called
____. inter symbol interference

18 What is channel capacity? The maximum information

transmitted by one symbol over
the channel.
19 For a noise to be white Gaussian noise, the optimum filter is known as _____. matched filter
20 Determine the output voltage of a μ-law compander with a maximum voltage
range of 1 V and an input of 0.25 V.

21 In binary FSK, mark and space respectively represent: 1 and 0

22 The BPSK signal has +V volts and -V volts respectively to represent _____ logic
levels. 1 and 0

23 In PCM, what parameter is varied in accordance with the amplitude of the

None of the choices
modulating signal?
24 What is the minimum distance for unextended Golay code? 7
25 In delta modulation, what is the bit rate? N times the sampling frequency.
 BATCH B- EST 10 (DATA COMMUNICATIONS) ANSWER
1 Where can you find buffers in the data-link layer?
Both sending data-link layer and
receiving data-link layer.

2 _____ is a feedback process to stop or slow down sending nodes from pushing
Flow control
frames.
3 Which of the following signal types is carried by copper cable? Electrical
4 For an Ethernet bus that is 500 meters in length, using a cable with a velocity
factor of 0.66, and a communication rate of 10 Mb/s, calculate the total number of
bits that would be sent by each station before it detects a collision, if both stations
begin to transmit at the same time.

5 Alice has constructed a five-node failover cluster in which all five servers are
connected to a hard disk array using a dedicated Fibre Channel network. Which of SAN
the following terms describes this network arrangement?
6 IEEE 802.11b DSSS describes the high-rate direct-sequence spread spectrum
(HRDSSS) method for signal generation in the 2.400–4.835 GHz ISM band. HR-DSSS CCK (Complementary Code
is similar to DSSS except for the encoding method, what encoding method is used Keying)
in IEEE 802.11b DSSS?
7 What range of frequencies serve as the upstream data band? 5 to 42 MHz
8 In _________, auto negotiation allows two devices to negotiate the mode or data
fast ethernet
rate of operation.
9 Which of the following TCP/IP routing protocols measures the efficiency of routes Routing Information Protocol
by the number of hops between the source and the destination? (RIP)
10 In digital services which should have the higher data rate? Downloading
11 An Ethernet network interface adapter provides functions that span which two
Physical and data link
layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model?
12 How many errors can be expected in the transmission of eight sequential 512-byte
packets if the system BER is 2 x 10¯⁴?

13 This layer provides end-to-end connectivity by using the datagram approach to

switching. Routers and switches route the signal packets from the source to the MTP-3
destination.
14 Which of the following protocols provides connectionless delivery service at the
UDP
transport layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model?
15 For control fields in S-frame, when the code subfield is 10, the receiver asks the
Receive not ready
sender to slow down for congestion control.
16 Which of the following technologies enables the IP addresses assigned to clients by
a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to be automatically added to Dynamic DNS
the DNS namespace?
17 On a 10 Mbps Ethernet packet format, how fast can a 1500-byte block of data be
transmitted?

18 What problem/s may arise when you pack one whole message in one frame? A single bit error will require a
retransmission of the message
19 Which of the following DHCP address allocation methods enable the server to
Dynamic
reclaim IP addresses when they are no longer in use by clients?
20 At which layer of the OSI model do you find the protocol responsible for the
Network
delivery of data to its ultimate destination on an internetwork?
21 Which of the following devices is used to physically connect computers in the same
A switch
VLAN?
22 In Bluetooth, what layer is roughly equivalent to the MAC sublayer in LANs? Baseband
23 In the nomenclature 10Base5, the number defines the data rate (10 Mbps), the
A maximum length of 500 m
term Base means baseband (digital) signal, and 5 means?
24 Which of the following is the default subnet mask for an IPv4 Class A network? 255.0.0.0
25 What is the valid range of numbers for the well-known Transmission Control
1 through 1023
Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports used by servers?