On which physical channel are the SIBs (System

Information Blocks) transmitted?

Physical Broadcast Channel.

Physical Downlink Shared Channel.
Physical Downlink Control Channel.
Physical Control Format Indicator Channel.

In which RRC state is the cell re-selection taking place?

Only in RRC _Connected state.

Only In RRC_Idle state.
In both RRC_Idle and RRC_Connected State.
The re-selection process is not handled by the RRC
protocol.

Which NE allocates the IP address to the UE in LTE?

MME.
Serving GW.
PDN-GW.
SAE-GW.

From which physical channel can the mobile learn the

physical cell id ?

Primary Synchronisation Signal.

Secondary Synchronisation Signal.
Physical Broadcast Channel.
DL Reference Signals.

Who is sending the HANDOVER REQUEST message and

who is receiving it?

The mobile is sending and the source base station is

receiving it.
The target base station is sending and Mobility
Management Entity is receiving it.
The source base station is sending and the target base
station is receiving it.
The source base station is sending and the mobile is
receiving it.

Which radio condition give best air-interface DL throughput

in the case of 2x2 MIMO?

High SINR and low correlation in MIMO channels.

High SINR and high correlation in MIMO channels.
High RSRP and low SINR.
Low RSRP and low SINR.

DL RSSI measure by a UE contains (inside the

measurement bw):

Only serving cell power.

Only interfering power.
Reference signal total power.
All received power.

What is the required SINR NOT dependent on?

Cell edge throughput.

Peak data rate of the connection.
Antenna scheme (e.g. 1Tx-2RX).
Pathloss.

How Average number of active users per cell and Average

of RRC connected users per cell KPIs relate to each other?

Average number of active users is always equal or smaller

than Average of RCC connected users.
Average number of active users is always equal or bigger
than Average of RCC connected users.
Average number of active users is always equal to
Average of RCC connected users.
Relation is purely random.

What are the 5 categories of KPIs?

Usage, Accessibility, Retainability,HO success, Paging.

Connectivity, Call drop rate, Retainability, Integrity,
Mobility.
Usage, Accessibility, Retainability, Integrity, Mobility.
HO success, Paging, Connectivity, Call drop rate,
Retainability.

From which UL physical channels UL RSSI and SINR

related counters are measured?

PUSCH.
PUCCH.
PUSCH and PUCCH.
Over the whole UL bandwidth (all physical channels).

Which state must the UE be in order to be paged by the

MME?

RRC- connected.
RRC-connected and eCM-connected.
eMM- registered.
eCM -connected.

When the UE is in ECM-IDLE, the network knows the

location of the UE with an accuracy of:

Cell.
eNodeB.
Tracking Area.
MME.

When would the counter M8006C0 (EPS bearer setup

attempt) be triggered?

On receipt of InitialContextSetupRequest from MME.

On transmission of RRCConnectionReconfiguration to
UE.
On transmission of Modify Bearer Request to SGW.
On transmission of InitialUEMessage to MME.

Buffer Status Report (BSR) is?

Sent by the eNodeB to indicate an overload condition.

Sent by UE to describe the number of bytes of data ready
for UL transport.
Sent by UE to indicate the difference (headroom) between
its current power output and its maximum power output.
Sent by UE to identify the sending UE and traffic flow.

What event is triggering best cell HO?

A5.
A3.
A2.
A1.

When the UE is in ECM-CONNECTED, the network knows

the location of the UE with an accuracy of:

Cell.
eNodeB.
Tracking Area.
MME.

RRC Connection Re-establishment is triggered by:

eNodeB.
UE.
MME.
eNodeB or UE.

What are KPIs?

Network quality indicators made up from 1 or more

counters.
Values set down by acceptance tests.
Parameters set in the database by which the eNodeB is
measured.
Network quality indicators are reported by the eNodeB.

What is the formula to calculate the paging request discard

ratio?

100%* (Sum (transmitted RRC paging records)/ sum

(discarded RRC paging records)).
100%* (Sum (discarded RRC paging records)/ sum (RRC
paging requests)).
100%* (Sum (RRC paging requests)/ sum (transmitted
RRC paging records)).
100%* (Sum (discarded RRC paging records)/ sum
(transmitted RRC paging records)).

What E-RAB Drop KPI is NOT specified in RL40?

Active connection drops per minute.

Drops per GByte of data.
Drop per UE type.
Drop ratio.

Call drop in LTE is typically measured with which KPI?

E-RAB Drop Ratio.

Data Radio Bearer Drop Ratio.
RRC Connection Drop Ratio.
Signalling Connection Drop ratio.

What is the main reason that the number of E-RAB setups

is different to the number of Data RB setups?

E-RAB setup fails more often than Data RB setup.

Handover causes new Data RB setup in the target cell.
There are several Data RBs associated with one E-RAB.
Tracking area update requires Data RB setup but not ERAB setup.

What can be the reason for E-RAB setup failures due to

Radio Admission Control?

Not enough PDDCH capacity for each UE.

Not enough PUCCH capacity for each UE.
Not enough capacity on PDSCH.
Not enough capacity on PUSCH.

What is the predefined KPI report containing summary of

the most important KPI values?

System Program Report.

Cell Performance Report.
Neighbour Cell HO Report.
Cell Capacity Report.

What are the self Organising Network(SON) functionalities?

self-configuration, Self-healing, Self-planning.

self-configuration, Self-optimisation, Self-healing.
self-configuration, Self-optimisation, Self-healing, Selfplanning.
Self-optimisation, Self-healing, Self-planning.

Parameter consistency check with Policy Based Compare

feature (in NetAct CM Editor) requires:

A reference parameter list is created in NetAct.

Optimizer tool is properly configured.
Managed object templates are created and associated to
each LNBTS.
Site object with co-ordinates is created for each LNBTS.

Parameter consistency check with Policy Based Compare

feature (in NetAct CM Editor) requires:

A reference parameter list is created in NetAct.

Optimizer tool is properly configured.
Managed object templates are created and associated to
each LNBTS.
Site object with co-ordinates is created for each LNBTS.

PDCCH aggregation level 8 blocking is in higher level than

any other PDDCH aggregation level blocking. What is the
reason for this?

Most of the UEs in the cell are in poor radio coverage.

There are too many UEs in the cell.
Cell traffic volume is too high.
Many UEs are having problems in RRC Connection setup.

What is the most common measurement method for DL

SINR in LTE?

SINR is measured from Secondary Synchronization

signal.
SINR is measured from Reference signal.
SINR is measured over the whole bandwidth (i.e. wide
band SINR).
SINR is measured from PDDCH.

What is the most common measurement method for DL

SINR in LTE?

SINR is measured from Secondary Synchronization

signal.

SINR is measured from Reference signal.

SINR is measured over the whole bandwidth (i.e. wide
band SINR).
SINR is measured from PDDCH.

In the case of HO failure during a HO process, UE can do

successful RRC Connection Re-establishment:

Only to the source cell.

Only to the target cell.
What ever cell UE can detect.
To the target or to the source cell.

What is the most probable reason for experiencing low FTP

download throughput but good UDP DL streaming
throughput in the same location?

Poor radio conditions.

eNodeB link adaptation is not working optimally.
PDCCH blocking.
Dropped packets in transport/core network.

LTE533 Mobile Robustness feature can tune automatically

following cell handover parameters:

Neighbour relations.
Cell Individual Offset and Time to Trigger.

Inter-Frequency measurement threshold.

X2 interface relations.

What message is used by the eNodeB to inform the UE

about measurements it needs to make when in active
mode?

RRC Measurement Report.

X2 AP Handover Request.
RRC Connection Reconfiguration.
S1 AP Path Switch Request.

Which drive test measurement quantity is NOT impacted by

own cell load or by neighbour cell load?

Reference signal SINR.

Wideband SINR.
RSRP.
RSRQ.

What NSN internal tool is capable of tracing several

eNodeBs simultaneously?

BTS site manager.

BTS log.
Emil.
TTI trace.

The best way to reduce DL interference is:

Antenna vertical tilt optimization.

Limiting eNodeB maximum transmit power.
Deploying additional micro cells.
Handover parameter optimization.

What is the NOT possible method to improve Random

Access Preamble and Random Access Response reception
during RRC connection setup request?

Increase PDDCH aggregation from Random Access

Response.
Increase initial power for Random Access Preamble.
Reduce interference by RF optimization.
Increase maximum number HARQ retransmissions for
Random Access Response message.

What is the NOT possible method to improve Random

Access Preamble and Random Access Response reception
during RRC connection setup request?

Increase PDDCH aggregation from Random Access

Response.
Increase initial power for Random Access Preamble.
Reduce interference by RF optimization.
Increase maximum number HARQ retransmissions for
Random Access Response message.

E-RAB Setup Success Ratio related counters are trigged

by:

Messages between UE and eNodeB.

Messages between UE and MME.
Messages between eNodeB and MME.
Messages between eNodeB and SAE-GW.

When UE timerT310 expires, what UE does next?

Sends RRC Connection Re-establishment Request.

Does Cell Reselection and sends Tracking Area Update
Request.
Stops sending data and waits for new Timing Advance
update from eNodeB.
Does Random Access to get correct Timing Advance.

What message carriers measurement control setup to UE?

UE capability info message.

Tracking areas update response.
Hand Over command message.
RRC Connection Reconfiguration message.