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The transparency mechanism used with SDLC is called

a. zero-bit insertion

b. modified link test

c. beacon test

d. invert-on-zero coding

ans: a

What equation defines the composition of an ISDN basic access line?

a. 2B + D

b. B + D

c. B + 2D

d. 2B + 2D

ans: a

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)

ans: d

T-1 carrier service has _____ digital bit rate.

a. 1.544 Mbps

b. 2048 Mbps
 c. 1.644 Mbps

d. 9600 Mbps

ans: a

Non-ISDN equivalent can be connected to ISDN line by the use of _____.

a. terminal equipment

b. terminal adapters

c. modem

d. network adaptors

ans: b

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

ans: a

What is the transmission signal coding for T1 carrier?

a. binary

b. NRZ

c. bipolar

d. Manchester

ans: c

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 The primary purpose of the data modem.

a. interface analog terminal equipment to analog communications channel

b. interface digital terminal equipment to digital communications channel

c. interface analog terminal equipment to digital communications channel

d. interface digital terminal equipment to analog communications channel

ans: d

The line control unit (LCU) that operates on the data in digital form.

a. data terminal equipment (DTE)

b. data communications equipment (DCE)

c. modem

d. UART

ans: a

SYN character of EBCDIC code.

a. 32 H

b. 8 H

c. 16 H

d. 4 H

ans: a

_____ ensures that the transmitter and receiver agree on the prescribed time slot for the occurrence of
a bit.

a. bit or clock synchronization

b. modem or carrier synchronization

c. character synchronization
 d. message synchronization

ans: a

Equation used to determine the number of Hamming bits in the Hamming code.

a. 2^n = m + n + 1

b. 2^n >= m + n + 1

c. 2^n > m + n + 1

d. 2^n < m + n + 1

ans: b

Data means

a. digital information

b. both digital and analog

c. analog information

d. neither digital or analog

ans: a

What determines which network configuration is most appropriate?

a. application layer

b. presentation layer

c. network layer

d. data link layer

ans: c

Ethernet is a baseband system using CSMA/CD operating at _____.

b. 20 Mbps

c. 30 Mbps

d. 40 Mbps

ans: a

Mechanism used by a station to gain access to local area network.

a. channel multiplexing

b. channel accessing

c. CSMA/CD

d. CSMA/CA

ans: b

What multiplexing scheme is used by baseband transmission?

a. TDM

b. space multiplexing

c. FDM

d. statistical multiplexing

ans: a

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
 ans: b

What defines how the stations are interconnected in a network?

a. topology

b. architecture

c. topology or architecture

d. topology and architecture

ans: c

_____ is a data communications network designed to provide two-way communications between a

a. private area network

b. local area network

c. wide area network

d. Ethernet

ans: b

_____ 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

ans: b

A seven-bit character represent one of _____ possibilities.

b. 14

c. 64

d. 128

ans: d

_____ 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

ans: d

Circuit that performs the inverse mapping and delivers to the user destination, a reproduction of the
original data source output.

a. source coding

b. channel coding

c. inverse coding

d. demodulation

ans: a

Digital modulation technique used in modems.

a. ASK

b. FSK

c. PSK

d. MSK
 ans: c

Who developed the fixed-length binary code for telegraphy?

a. Samuel Morse

b. Emile Baudot

c. Alexander Graham Bell

d. Guglielmo Marconi

ans: b

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

ans: d

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

ans: a

Store-and-forward multiple-access network.

a. ARPANET
 b. ALOHA

c. PRNET

d. Packet switching

ans: c

A source code whose average word length approaches the fundamental limit set by the entropy of a
discrete memoryless source.

a. prefix code

b. source code

c. entropy code

d. Huffman code

ans: d

Who promulgates communications-related military standards (MIL-STD)?

a. DOD

b. DCA

c. DOC-STD

d. ANSI-MIL

ans: b

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

ans: b
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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

ans: a

Digital switching concepts that can handle more channels.

a. SDS

b. TSI

c. TDM

d. TMS

ans: d

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

ans: a

Which of the following is the biggest disadvantage of PCM systems?

a. inability to handle analog systems

b. high error rate as a result of quantizing noise

d. the large bandwidth required

ans: d

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

ans: c

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

ans: a

The overlapping of the original spectrum and the first translated component is known as

a. dc wandering

b. aliasing

c. droop

d. distortion

ans: b

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 Transmission sent in both directions simultaneously.

a. full duplex

b. half duplex

c. simplex

d. echoplex

ans: a

Multiplexing in a time division multiplexing 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

ans: a

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 a common line

c. mailing letter at the post office

d. the ability to share frequency by time

ans: b

One of the reasons why FDM is being replaced by TDM.

a. there is more time than frequency

b. it is difficult to place channels side by side

c. noise is amplified with voice when an FDM system is used

ans: c

In _____ modulation the carrier is periodic train of pulses.

a. amplitude

b. analog

c. digital

d. pulse

ans: d

The process that uses the orthogonality of sines and cosines that makes it possible to transmit and
receive two different signals simultaneously on the same carrier frequency is

a. TDM

b. FDM

c. quadrature multiplexing

d. duplexing

ans: c

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

ans: d

Information theory was developed by _____.

b. Nyquist

c. Reeves

d. Hartley

ans: a

Disadvantage of digital transmission.

a. more bandwidth and precise timing are required

b. requires ADC and DAC device

c. incompatible with existing analog facilities

d. all of these

ans: d

A quadratic signaling has _____ possible states.

a. 16

b. 4

c. 8

d. 32

ans: b

What is the smallest unit of information in binary transmission system?

a. byte

b. digit

c. bit

d. nibble
 ans: c

The lowest layer in the ISO protocol hierarchy.

a. network layer

b. physical layer

c. transport layer

d. data link layer

ans: b

Basic speed rate of digital system.

a. 1.44 kbps

b. 144 kbps

c. 64 kbps

d. 2,048 kbps

ans: c

A formal set of conventions governing the formatting and relative timing of message exchange
between two communications system.

a. simplex

b. tail circuit

c. queuing

d. protocol

ans: d

A device that connects 2 data terminal equipment (DTE) directly by emulating the physical connections
of data communications equipment (DCE).
 a. short haul modem

b. null modem

c. X.25 modem

d. smart modem

ans: b

Impact printer

a. receives-only-printer with a keyboard

b. includes ink-jet and terminal devices

c. rapidly becoming obsolete

d. strikes a ribbon against the paper to produce character image

Modem is referred to as

a. universal asynchronous receiver transmitter

b. universal synchronous receiver transmitter

c. data terminal equipment

d. data communications equipment

ans: d

A signaling method relating to a multiplicity of circuits is conveyed over a single channel by labeled
messages.

a. code signaling

b. synchronous

c. common channel signaling

d. asynchronous

ans: c
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A data highway in LAN, this type of topology allows workstations to be connected to a common line
where all messages pass stations on the way to their destination.

a. CSMA/CD

b. bus

c. ring

d. star

ans: c

A packet format has an error detecting code at

a. the start of the packet framing sequence

b. the destination address

c. the packet number

d. the end of packet framing

ans: d

It is a protocol used to connect the other packet switching network.

a. X.75

b. X.25

c. X.50

d. X.10

ans: a

_____ is a network operating system within several buildings in compound.

a. internet

b. Novell Netware
 c. 10BASE-T

d. intranet

ans: b

Used by Bell 103/113 series for full duplex, 2 transmission speeds of 0 to 300 bps.

a. FSK

b. PSK

c. BPSK

d. ASK

ans: a

What is the Nyquist sample rate for a voice input of 10kHz?

a. 10kHz

b. 20kHz

c. 30kHz

d. 40kHz

ans: b

What is the minimum number of bits required in PCM code for a range of 10,000?

a. 12

b. 9

c. 14

d. 8

ans: c

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 How many levels can be represented in PCM transmission system if the binary numbers 00000000 to
11111111 are used to represent signal levels?

a. 256

b. 64

c. 128

d. 512

ans: a

Channel capacity is directly proportional to

a. bandwidth

b. noise

c. number of bits

d. power

ans: a

Which does not affect noise in a channel?

a. bandwidth

b. temperature

c. quantizing level

d. resistance

ans: c

_____ is a character oriented protocol.

a. BOP

b. Bisync

c. ETX
 d. BCC

ans: b

______ character signifies the start of the test for Bisync

a. ETX

b. STX

c. SOH

d. BCC

ans: b

In _____ the clock pulse is used to time the sending and receiving of the characters.

a. asynchronous data

b. synchronous data

c. bisynchronous data

d. isochronous data

ans: b

All bits in a character are sent and received in _____ in serial port.

a. one at a time

b. simultaneously

c. in groups of 2 bits

d. in groups of 3 bits

ans: a

Bridge can only interconnect LANs having identical protocols at the _____ layers.
 a. session and presentation

b. network and transport

c. physical and data link

d. presentation and session

ans: c

OSI stands for

a. Out-of-band Signaling Interconnect

b. Organization for System Interconnection

c. Open System Interconnection

d. Organization System Interconnection

ans: c

ISO stands for

a. International System Organization

b. International Standardization Organization

c. Interconnection for System Organization

d. International Subscribers Organization

ans: b

Message switching is ______ network.

a. hold and forward

b. forward

c. hold

d. store and forward

Packet switching is _____ network.

a. hold and forward

b. forward

c. hold

d. store and forward

ans: a

Polling is an invitation of the primary to a secondary equipment to _____ a message.

a. store

b. receive

c. transmit

d. read

ans: c

Bit rate is _____.

a. the rate of change at the output of the modulator.

b. the rate of change at the input of the modulator

c. the reciprocal of the time of one output signaling element

d. the reciprocal of the time of one input signaling element

ans: b

A code that uses three unequal length symbols, dot, dash, and space to encode a character.

a. Gray code
 b. Baudot code

c. Morse code

d. Hollerith cable

ans: c

A 5-bit character code

a. EBCDIC

b. BAUDOT

c. ASCII

d. HOLERITH

ans: b

An 8-bit character code.

a. EBCDIC

b. BAUDOT

c. ASCII

d. HOLERITH

ans: a

An equipment that interfaces the data terminal equipment to the analog transmission line.

a. modem

b. muldem

c. multiplexer

d. codec

ans: a
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Set of rules governing the orderly exchange of data information.

a. CCIR recommendation

b. protocol

c. CCITT recommendation

d. standard

ans: b

A communication network designed for transferring data from one point to another.

a. Public Telephone Network (PTN)

b. Public Data Network (PDN)

c. Value Added Network (VAN)

d. Packet Switching Network (PSN)

ans: b

Radio communications between points using a single share frequency.

a. simplex

b. full duplex

c. half-duplex

d. full/full duplex

ans: c

The number of pins in the RS232C interface

a. 20

b. 25
 c. 39

d. 30

ans: b

A modem is sometimes referred to as _____.

a. Data Terminal Equipment

b. Data Communication Equipment

c. Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

d. Universal synchronous Receiver Transmitter

ans: b

Provide post equalization to the received analog signal.

a. line equalizers

b. graphic equalizers

c. adaptive equalizers

d. post equalizers

ans: c

The receive equalizer in a synchronous modem is called

a. a compromise equalizer

b. a statistical equalizer

c. an adaptive equalizer

d. an impairment equalizer

ans: c

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 Compromise equalizer settings typically affect

a. amplitude only

b. amplitude delay

c. delay only

d. neither amplitude nor delay

ans: b

Training sequence (a bit pattern used to synchronize the receive modem) accomplishes one of the
following functions.

a. activate RLSD

b. enable any echo suppressors in the circuit

c. initialize the scrambler circuit

d. deactivate RLSD

ans: a

When asynchronous data are used with synchronous modems that is called

a. synchronous transmission

b. isochronous transmission

c. asynchronous transmission

d. bisynchronous transmission

ans: b

_____ is defined as a figure of merit used to express the degree of modulation achieved in an FSK
modulator.

a. modulation index

b. modulation ratio
 c. deviation factor

d. h factor

ans: d

What channel in the 103 modem occupies a passband from 300 to 1650 Hz?

a. low-band channel

b. voice band channel

c. high-band channel

d. message channel

ans: a

Low speed modems generally have bit rates of

a. 9600 bps

b. 2400 bps

c. 4800 bps

d. up to 2000 bps

ans: b

Medium speed modems have bit rates of

a. 9600 bps

b. 2400 bps

c. 4800 bps

d. 2400 - 4800 bps

ans: d

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 High speed modems have bit rates of

a. 9600 bps

b. 2400 bps

c. 4800 bps

d. 2000 bps

ans: a

A means of improving the quality of a private-line circuit by adding amplifiers and equalizers to it.

a. line equalizing

b. line amplifying

c. line conditioning

d. line encoding

ans: c

A voice-grade circuit using the PTN has an ideal passband from

a. 0 to 4 Hz

b. 0 to 4 MHz

c. 0 to 4 kHz

d. 0 to 4 GHz

ans: c

The digital-to-analog converter in a synchronous modem is called

a. a post equalizer

b. a statistical equalizer

c. an adaptive equalizer
 d. a line equalizer

ans: c

The minimum-quality circuit available using the PTN is called

a. basic voice grade (VG)

b. basic voice channel (VC)

c. basic voice band (VB)

d. basic telephone channel

ans: b

Direct distance dialing (DDD) network is commonly called

a. private-line network

b. PR network

c. dial-up network

d. trunk network

ans: c

The line control unit (LCU) operates on the data when it is in digital form and is therefore called

a. data terminal equipment (DTE)

b. data communications equipment (DCE)

c. modem

d. UART

ans: a

With _____, each character is framed between start and a stop bit.
 a. synchronous data

b. isochronous data

c. asynchronous data

d. nonsynchronous data

ans: c

With _____, rather than frame each character independently with start and stop bits, a unique
synchronizing character called a SYN character is transmitted at the beginning of each message.

a. asynchronous data

b. isochronous data

c. synchronous data

d. nonsynchronous data

ans: c

A logic _____ is used for the start bit.

a. 0

b. 0 or 1

c. 1

d. 0 and 1

ans: a