Assiut University

Faculty of Computers & Information

In the following statements, check the correct statement by

Statement Mark
[1] The term telecommunication means communication at a distance
and it includes telephony, telegraphy, and television. True
[2] The word data refers to information presented in whatever form
is agreed upon by the parties creating and using the data. True
[3] Data communications are the exchange of speech between two
persons via some form of transmission medium such as a wire false
cable.
[4] A data a communication system is made up of a combination of
hardware (physical equipment) and software (programs).
True
[5] The effectiveness of a data communications system depends on
four fundamental characteristics: delivery, accuracy, timeliness, True
and jitter.
[6] A data communications system has four components, Sender,
Receiver, Message, and Transmission medium. false
[7] The transmission medium is the physical path by which a
message travels from sender to receiver. Some examples of True
transmission media include twisted-pair wire, coaxial cable,
fiber-optic cable, and radio waves.
[8] In data transmission, data today comes in only forms such as
text, numbers and images. false
[9] Communication between two devices can be only full-duplex.
false
[10] One common example of full-duplex communication is the
telephone network. When two people are communicating by a True
telephone line, both can talk and listen at the same time.
[11] A network is a set of devices (often referred to as nodes)
connected by communication links. A node can be a computer,
printer, or any other device capable of sending and/or receiving True
data generated by other nodes on the network.
 [12] A network must be able to meet a certain number of criteria.
The most important of these are performance, reliability, and True
security.
[13] When only two devices share a link, the connection is called a
a multi-point connection. false
[14] Topology of a network can be Mesh. Star, Bus and Ring.
True
[15] The -devices network with mesh topology needs
duplex-mode links. True
[16] The -devices network with star topology needs duplex-
mode links plus a hub. false
[17] Unlike a mesh topology, a star topology does not allow direct
traffic between devices. The controller, the hub, acts as an True
exchange
[18] The star topology is used in local-area networks (LANs). True
[19] A bus topology of a network of devices is multipoint which
has one long cable acts as a backbone plus n dropline links to True
link all the devices in a network.
[20] In a ring topology, each device has a dedicated point-to-point
connection with only the two devices on either side of it. A
signal is passed along the ring in one direction, from device to True
device, until it reaches its destination. Each device in the ring
incorporates a repeater.
[21] The following network is a hybrid one which is a mesh
backbone and three bus networks.

false

[22] Data can be analog or digital. Analog data are continuous and
take continuous values. Digital data have discrete states and True
take discrete values.
[23] Signals can be analog or digital. Analog signals can have an
infinite number of values in a range; digital signals can have True
only a limited number of values.
[24] A periodic signal does not completes a pattern within a
measurable time frame, called a period, and repeats that pattern
over subsequent identical periods. The completion of one full false
pattern is called a cycle. A nonperiodic signal changes without
 exhibiting a pattern or cycle that repeats over time.
[25] In data communications, we commonly use periodic analog
signals and do not use nonperiodic digital signals. false
[26] A sine wave is a periodic signal, which needs three parameters
to be completely identified, the amplitude, the frequency and True
the phase.
[27] In sine wave, frequency and period are non-related to each
other. false
[28] A sine wave with period has a frequency of
True
.
[29] The frequency of a signal is independent of the medium while
the wavelength depends on both the frequency and the True
medium.
[30] The wavelength is the distance a simple signal can travel in one
period of time. True
[31] The increase of the signal frequency, the decrease of the
wavelength. True
[32] The sine wave with amplitude A and frequency its amplitude
spectrum can be represented by two lines of length A, one is at
frequency and the second is at 2 . false
[33] A single frequency sine wave is not useful in data
communications; we need to send a composite signal, a signal True
made of many simple sine waves.
[34] A periodic composite signal can be decomposed into a series of
simple sine waves with discrete frequencies that have
harmonics values ( , 2 , 3 , and so on), where is True
called the fundamental frequency.
[35] The amplitude spectrum of a periodic composite signal can be
represented by a series of lines at ( , 2 , 3 , and so on),
where is called the fundamental frequency. The True
amplitude decrease as the frequency increases.
[36] Nonperiodic composite signal has discrete amplitude spectrum
while periodic one has continuous amplitude spectrum. false
[37] The bandwidth of the periodic signal contains all integer
frequencies between 1000 Hz and 5000 Hz is 5000 Hz. false
[38] A periodic signal has a bandwidth of 20 Hz and the highest
frequency is 60 Hz. Then the lowest frequency is 40 Hz. True
[39] A digital data with 2 levels is represented by1 bit while with
256 levels is represented by 8 bits. True
[40] The bit rate is the number of bits sent in 1 sec, expressed in bits
per second (bps). True
[41] A digitized voice channel is made by sampling a 4-kHz
bandwidth analog voice signal and representing each sample 8 false
 bits. Then the bit rate is
[42] A digital signal can be represented by a composite analog
signal with an infinite bandwidth. True
[43] A digital data with (bps) bit rate can be transmitted in the
baseband by a composite analog signal of three harmonics.
Then the transmitted medium should be a lowpass with a false
bandwidth of Hz.
[44] In data transmission, if we need to increase the bit rate, we
need more bandwidth. True
[45] If a signal travels through a transmission medium and its power
received at the end is reduced to one-half, then the power loss false
is dB.
[46] If the signal at the beginning of a cable with dB/km has a
power of 2 mW and the power of the signal at the end of the false
cable is 1.4 mW. Then the cable length is almost 10 km.
[47] Signals travel through transmission media suffer from sources
of impairments such as attenuation, distortion and noise.
Distortion is mainly caused by the fact that different frequency True
components arriving at the receive at receiver with different
delay-times.
[48] Data rate depends on the following three factors:
1. The bandwidth available True
2. The level of the signals we use
3. The quality of the channel (the level of noise)
[49] For a noiseless channel, the Nyquist bit rate formula which
defines the theoretical maximum bit rate is given by True
L is the number of signal levels used to represent data
and is the bandwidth.
[50] Claude Shannon introduced a formula for the highest data rate in a
noisy channel which is given by
false
where SNR is the signal to noise power ratio.