NCSS Questions

LTE RA PaO 3.0

13. Which tool is NOT recommended in the global NPO tools portfolio?

a) Mentum Planet
b) Atoll
c) 9955RNP
d) Asset Radio

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14. What statement about modular working items(MWI) is false?

a) MWI is technology dependent.

b) A service can be defined using MWI.
c) MWI provide information on how to effectuate NPO related tasks.
d) MWIs are categorized into different NPO project steps.
15. Which tool does NOT belong to MINT(Management and Intelligence
tool)?

a) Network AUDITOR
b) PB2
c) PKDB
d) RADAR
86. Which global NPO community contains Network Planning and
Optimization guidance material grouped per technology or product?

a) Services community
b) Radio community Wiki
c) NPO Modular Working Items Wiki
d) NPO services Wiki

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1. Which statement is NOT TRUE related to Interference Rejection
Combining?

a) IRC maximizes SINR of the wanted user by applying weights to the antenna elements.
b) IRC can cancel interferers which are spatially correlated with the wanted signal.
c) IRC is performed per subcarrier.
d) IRC is applicable to PUSCH only.
2. Which interface carries the user data in LTE networks?

a) S5.
b) S11.
c) Gx.
d) S1-MME.
3. Which statement is false about Smart Admission control?

a) It support GRB and non GRB traffic.

b) For new GBR-DRB bearers the forecast on needed resources is based on periodical
measurements.
c) Data DRB are admitted/rejected comparing cell internal counters agais configured
thresholds.
d) It usually works together with allocation and retention priority feature .
4. The SSS(Secondary Synchronization Signal) is used to:

a) Achieve subframe synchronization.

b) Identify the central of channel bandwidth.
c) Achieve slot and symbol synchronization .
d) Achieve radio frame synchronization.
5. Which interface allows application data transfer through the serving
gateway?

a) X2.
b) LTE-Uu.
c) S1-U.
d) S1-MME.
 .
6 System Information Block(SIB) are mapped onto the:

a) Physical Downlink control channel.

b) Physical broadcast channel.
c) Physical downlink shared channel.
d) Physical Multicast channel.
7. How many subframes are within each half-frame in a LTE TDD frame type
2?

a) 5
b) 7
c) 10
d) 14
8. What protocol layer provides header compression and ciphering for user
plane data?

a) RLC
b) MAC
c) PDCP
d) TCP
9. Which of the following sentences is TRUE about cyclic prefix?

a) Pilot signals can be inserted into the cyclic prefix.

b) It provides protection against multi-path delay spread
c) It provides signal equalization in the receiver.
d) Reference signals can be inserted into the cyclic prefix.
10. Select the factor that does not improve spectral efficiency in massive
MIMO.

a) SINR improvement due to narrow UE beams.

b) Multiuser gain.
c) 3D beamforming
d) UL interference cancellation.
11. Which protocol stack layer within eNB is responsible for uplink and
downlink adaptation?

a) MAC Layer
b) RLC Layer
c) Physical Layer
d) PDCP Layer
12. Which of the following mMIMO statement is TRUE for radio pilot
overhead.

a) In TDD, it is independent of the number of spatially multiplexed Ues.

b) In FDD, it depends on number of antennas and the number of spatially multiplexed
UEs
c) In TDD, it depends on number of antennas and the number of spatially multiplexed
UEs
d) In FDD, it is only independent on the number of spatially multiplexed UEs.
16. In a field acceptance testing in a 20Mhz 4TX system,downlink peak throughput is 50Mbps while the
acceptance criteria target is 140Mbps.From the drive test tools the number of allocated MIMO streams is 2,
average MCS =28, RS SINR=30dB, CQI=15,average number of allocated PRB is 25, serving RSRP=-70dBm,
strongest neighbor RSRP=-105dBm, serving cell RSRQ=-10dB .What is the most probable cause for the low
Throughput?

a) Serving cell RSRP is too low as obtaining peak throughput requires RSRP>-50dBm.
b) The test UE does not support 4x4 MIMO
c) FTP protocol throughput is degraded by TCP setting of the FTP server or there is packet
loss somewhere in end-to-end transport.
d) Strongest neighbor is generating too much interference.
17. Nokia Single RAN solution is designed to support multiple Radio access technologies
with common or shared functionalities. Which of the following statement are correct? 1. A
single FSMF baseband capacity can be shared between GSM+WCDMA or GSM+LTE, but
not LTE+WCDMA SRAN 2. Common BTS OAM to simplify site creation, commissioning
and configuration process,where iOMS is re-used to handle SRAN operatability. 3. SRAN
solution is compatible with FSME, FSMF and Airscale system modules 4. Airscale system
module can be used as two logical SBTSs in full subrack, or one logical SBTS and one
logical LBTS in full subrack.

a) 2 and 3.
b) 1 and 4.
c) 2 and 4.
d) 1 and 3.
18. After activating the LTE 2571 ‘Dedicated target frequency list for load balancing’
feature.

a) Operators can create separate target frequency lists for inter frequency load balancing
handover(ifLB HO) and UMTS terrestrial radio access load balancing handover(UTRA LB HO).
b) Operators cannot select the frequencies that can be excluded from iFLB HO or UTRA LBHO.
c) Operators can create one target frequency list for both iFLB HO and UTRA LBHO.
d) Connected mode Load balancing strategies can not be differentiated between MOCN(Multi-
operator core networks) operators.
19. Which UE Access stratum release starts supporting UL carrier
aggregation?

a) UE accessStratumrelease rel8
b) UE accessStratumrelease rel9
c) UE accessStratumrelease rel10
d) UE accessStratumrelease rel11
20. Open loop Spatial multiplexing relies upon the following feedback from
UE:

a) As it is open loop it does not rely on any UE feedback.

b) CQI and RI.
c) CQI and PMI.
d) CQI,RI and PMI.
21. What power control mechanism is used in downlink?

a) Open loop power control.

b) Both, closed and open loop power control .
c) Closed loop power control.
d) Semi-static power control.
22. NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies and optimized for improved coverage .
Which one of the following techniques enable coverage improvement?

a) Transmission repetitions.
b) Half duplexed operation.
c) Reduced transport block size.
d) Single antenna transmission.
23. Which of the following parameters must have the same settings for Pcell and Scell
when CA is activated? a)riEnable(rank indication reporting enable)
b)periodicCqifeedbacktype(Periodic CQI feedback type) c) cqiPerSbCyck (Periodic CQI
sub-bands cycles) d) caSchedFairFact(Carrier Aggregation scheduling fairness control)
a) a), b) and d)
b) a), c) and d)
c) b), c) and d)
d) a), b), c) and d)
24. Select all the statement(s) which are correctly describing the Uplink Power control function/algorithm: 1.
Uplink Power control is trade-off between inter-cell interference and throughput. 2. Closed loop ULPC is UE
oriented, SINR and RSSI target window power control steering. 3. Interference aware ULPC replaces Closed loop
ULPC for PUSCH/SRS region, but keeps OLPC algorithm untouched. 4. UL interference offset feature overcomes
the impact of power restrictions on PUCCH by allocating PUCCH away from power restricted region

a) 1,2,3 and 4
b) 1 and 3
c) 2 and 4
d) 1,3 and 4
25. When carrier aggregation is enabled, serving cells are selected based on
lowest normalized Load compare value(NLVC) metric? Which of the
following is not considered by the NLVC metric?

a) PDCCH
b) PUCCH
c) Non-GBR load
d) Available PRBs for non-GBR traffic
26. Which scheduler considers the UL interference level and the signal
strength of each UE during resource allocation?

a) Fair schedular
b) Channel unaware schedular
c) Interference aware schedular
d) Channel aware schedular
27. Select the incorrect statement concerning ‘LTE in unlicensed band’
a) eNB can select the lowest activity channel for the LTE-U secondary cell.
b) When Pcell can handle the non-GBR data in the buffer, the LTE-U secondary cell is
deactivated
c) Even though Pcell can handle the non-GBR data in the buffer, the LTE-U secondary cell
will not deactivate until the UE completes a handover.
d) RRC connection reconfiguration is needed to add the secondary LTE-U cell.
28. What is the benefit of standalone deployment for NB-IoT?

a) No new hardware needs to be installed.

b) No capacity reduction on legacy LTE
c) No new spectrum needed.
d) No PCI planning required.
29. What is the benefit of LTE11:Robust header compression feature?

a) It increases the connection throughput requirement.

b) It decreases the connection throughput requirement and increases the cell capacity in
terms of VoLTE users
c) It decreases the Uplink maximum allowed path loss.
d) It decreases the capacity of the cell in terms of VoLTE users.
30. LTE4475 NB-IoT Multiple coverage levels is based upon:
a) The UE comparing the measured RSRP against the given thresholds.
b) The UE comparing the measures RSRQ against the given thresholds
c) The eNB using the CQI values sent by UE.
d) The eNB considering the distance to UE using different measurement reports sent by
the UE .
31. What is FALSE about tracking areas(TA) in LTE?

a) A UE registers within a specific Tracking area when attaching to the network.

b) One cell can belong to several TAs.
c) TA does not need to be the same as the area served by one MME gateway.
d) TA does not necessary be exactly the same as the Location Areas in a 3G co-located
network.
32. Measurement based Scell selection is done based on which measurement
event?

a) A3
b) A4
c) A6
d) 1F
33. Which answer can NOT be applied to the following statement: When a UE in
RRC_CONNECTED mode and RRC security is active, the UE can register Radio
link failure(RLF) and initiate RRC connection Re-establishment due to:

a) T310 timer expiry

b) Reaching the maximum number of UL RLC retransmission.
c) TA timer Expiry.
d) Handover failure(T304 expiry).
34. Throughput test shows low throughput value for TCP, but UDP
throughput is high, which statement is incorrect between UDP and throughput
TCP performance?
a) When UDP throughput is higher than TCP throughput, it means that there may be
packet loss somewhere between the core network and eNodeB.
b) TCP throughput is impacted by latency.
c) UDP Throughput is not impacted by latency.
d) Shaping is enable in the transport path between the core and the eNodeB.
35. Which statement regarding ‘LTE2832:SRVCC due to Admission control
Rejection’ is correct?

a) A UE which has been rejected by the AC and has not been able to establish a voice call, can
now establish a voice call and move from a congested LTE cell towards a WCDMA cell.
b) The success ratio for QCI1 establishment is not improved.
c) This feature functions even if the Smart admission control and ARP- based AC for E-RAB
features are deactivated.
d) Even though this feature is activated, if the GBR load has already reached the
‘maxGbrTrafficLimit’, the VoLTE call will be rejected by the eNB.
36. How can a certain level of LTE service be guaranteed during the planning
phase from the RF point of view?

a) Only RSRP must be better than minimum threshold.

b) Only SINR must be better than minimum threshold.
c) RSRP must be better than the design threshold while SINR must be above -3dB.
d) Both RSRP and SINR must be better than the design thresholds.