Digital and Data Communications a.

PCM
b. PWM
1. Redundancy means the ________ c. Vocoder
a. Transmission rate of the system d. PFM
b. Symbols are to be repeated
c. Time between failures 9. Equation used to determine the number of
d. Time between successes Hamming bits in the hamming code.
a. 2n = m+ n +1
2. The digital information is contained in both the b. 2n > m +n +1
amplitude and phase of the modulated carrier. c. 2n > m +n +1
a. PSK d. 2n < m +n +1
b. FSK
c. QAM 10. What determine which network configuration is
d. ASK most appropriate?
a. Application layer
3. The input signal is a binary digital signal and a b. Presentation layer
limited number of out put phases are possible. c. Network layer
a. PSK d. Data link layer
b. FSK
c. QAM 11. Ethernet is a baseband system using CSMA/CD
d. ASK operating at ____
a. 10 Mbps
4. A radio channel is composed of ___VB channels. b. 20 Mbps
a. 1800 c. 30 Mbps
b. 900 d. 40 Mbps
c. 10800
d. 8064 12. Use of coaxial cables in interconnecting
networks is limited to an overall length of __.
5. What equation defines the composition of an a. 1500 ft
ISDN basic access line? b. 1500 m
a. 2B + D c. 1500 km
b. B + D d. 1500 kft
c. B + 2D
d. 2B + 2D 13. What identifies how the stations are
interconnected in a network?
6. A digital network where voice, video, text and a. Topology
data are multiplied into a single network for b. Architecture
processing and are transmitted prior to use. c. Topology or architecture
a. Frame delay d. Topology and architecture
b. Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
c. ISDN 14. _______is a data communications network
d. Synchronous digital hierarchy(SDH) designed to provide two-way communications
between a large varieties of data
7. Non-ISDN equivalent can be connected to ISDN communication terminal equipment within a
line by the use of ____. relatively small geographic area
a. Terminal equipment a. Private Area network
b. Terminal adapter b. Local Area Network
c. Modem c. Wide area network
d. Network adaptor d. Ethernet

8. A special voice encoder/decoder used in 15. ______ is the mode of transmission in public
digitizing speech signal only is data network in which data are transferred from
 source to the network then to the destination in a. The process of increasing bandwidth on a
an asynchronous data format channel
a. Synchronous mode b. A technique that enables more than one
b. Start/stop mode data source to share the use of a common
c. Packet mode line
d. Circuit mode c. Mailing letter at the post office
d. The ability to share frequency by time
16. A seven digit character can represent one
of______ possibilities. 23. In ____ modulation the carrier is a periodic train
a. 7 pulses.
b. 14 a. Amplitude
c. 64 b. Analog
d. 128 c. Digital
d. Pulse
17. ______ is defined to be the maximum rate at
which information can be transmitted through a 24. Which of the following pulse modulation
channel. techniques is a digital transmission system?
a. Bit rate a. Pulse duration modulation
b. Baud rate b. Pulse position modulation
c. Coding c. Pulse width modulation
d. Channel capacity d. Pulse code modulation

18. Who developed the fixed-length binary code for 25. A process where the higher amplitude analog
telegraphy? signals are compressed prior to transmission
a. Samuel Morse then expanded at the receiver.
b. Emile Baudot a. Compressing
c. Alexander Graham Bell b. Expanding
d. Guglielmo Marconi c. Encoding
d. Companding
19. Inventor of pulse-code modulation for the
digital encoding of speech signals. 26. _______uses a single bit PCM code to achieve a
a. R.V.L. Hartley digital transmission of analog signal
b. J.R. carson a. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
c. H. Nyquist b. Frequency Shift Keying(FSK)
d. Alex Reeves c. Delta Modulation(DM)
d. Phase Modulation(PM)
20. Serial binary data interchange between DTE and
DCE at rates up to 20 kbps. RS 232 is its EIA 27. The line speed of bell system T1 carrier system is
equivalent. a. 64 kbps
a. V.26 b. 3.152 Mbps
b. V.24 c. 1.544 Mbps
c. V.42 d. 6.312 Mbps
d. V.32
28. How many channels does a super group have?
21. RS 232 is normally an interface between DTE a. 60
and DCE. What is its signal rate? b. 600
a. 20 kbps c. 1800
b. 30 kbps d. 10800
c. 40 kbps
d. 50 kbps 29. The output frequency at the channel combiner
of channel 7 is
22. What is multiplexing? a. 76 – 80 kHz
b. 80 – 84 kHz
 c. 84 – 88 kHz c. Digital
d. 88 – 92 kHz d. Analog

30. ________was the first fixed length 5-bit 38. Synchronous modems cost more than
character code. asynchronous modems because
a. EBCDIC a. They are larger
b. ASCII b. They must contain clock recovery circuits
c. Morse code c. The production volume is larger
d. Baudot code d. They must operate on a larger bandwidth

31. Amplitude shift keying is also known as ______. 39. When one station is designated as master and
a. Up/down keying the rest of the stations are considered slaves,
b. On/off keying message handling is _______.
c. Front/back keying a. store and forward
d. I/O keying b. polling
32. PCM system require_________. c. CSMA/CD
a. Analog signal d. Token passing
b. Large bandwidth
c. Digital signals 40. A store and forward switching.
d. Fiber optics cable a. Circuit switching
b. Packet switching
33. Which theorem sets the limit on the maximum c. Message switching
capacity of a channel with a given noise level? d. PSTN
a. Nyquist theorem
b. Hartley theorem 41. A timing signal generated by an oscillating
c. Shannon-Hartley theorem circuit that is used to synchronize data
d. Shannon theorem transmission.
a. Clock
34. _______is the difference between the original b. Start bit
and reconstructed signal. c. Quantizing
a. Quantizing noise d. BCC
b. Fade margin
c. Noise margin 42. Which system allows different types of networks
d. Noise figure to be linked together?
a. OSI
35. What are the steps to follow to produce a PCM b. CCITT
signal? c. Bell System
a. Sampling,coding and quantizing d. AT & T
b. Sampling,quantizing and coding
c. Quantizing,sampling and coding 43. A _____ that interconnects LAN having identical
d. Coding, quantizing and sampling protocols at the physical and data link layers.
a. Bridge
36. ________ identifies how the different stations in b. Router
a multipoint system are interconnected. c. Gateway
a. Network topology d. Hub
b. Star network
c. Ring topology 44. A _____ that interconnects LAN that has totally
d. Bus network different protocols and format
a. Bridge
37. A transmission where data are inputted directly b. Router
on the cable. c. Gateway
a. Broadband d. Hub
b. Base band
45. All bits in a character can be sent/received a. 32 kbps
simultaneously. b. 64 kbps
a. Serial data c. 144 kbps
b. Parallel data d. 192 kbps
c. Full duplex
d. Half duplex
53. How many bits are there to present 8
46. A system that perform parallel-to-series combinations?
conversion of a data link. a. 3
a. DTE b. 4
b. DCE c. 2
c. Modem d. 5
d. FEP
54. How many number of equiprobable events are
47. Which mode of transmission achieves less than there for 8-bits of information?
full-duplex but more than half-duplex. a. 256
a. Full/full duplex b. 132
b. Echoplex c. 2400
c. Isochronous d. 512
d. synchronous
55. Which character code is used without parity bit?
48. Rules governing the transmission of digital a. CCITT number 2
information. b. ASCCII
a. Data communications standard c. CCITT number 5
b. Line protocol d. EBCDIC
c. Isochronous
d. Digital communications 56. The percentage of bit errors relative to a specific
number of bits received; usually expressed as a
49. Codes must be number referenced to a power of ten.
a. Eight bits per character a. Bit error rate
b. Either seven or eight bits per character b. Transmission rate
c. Agreed upon in advance between sender c. Distortion
and receiver d. Parity check
d. The same in all modem computers
57. The process of one type of device imitating
50. Clear to send is a signal passed from the local another via a hardware/software package.
modem to the local terminal when data port is a. Conversion
ready to transmit data. It usually occurs in b. Emulation
response to c. Imitation
a. Data set ready d. Simultation
b. Request to send
c. Data terminal ready 58. A digital modulation technique that results in
d. Data carrier detect two different frequencies representing binary 1
and 0.
51. Digital to analog converter in synchronous a. FSK
modems send signals to the b. QPSK
a. Modulator c. ASK
b. Transmission lines d. DPSK
c. Terminal
d. equalizer 59. One dit is equal to _____ bits.
a. 3
52. What is the data rate of the ISDN Basic access B b. 3.5
channel? c. 3.32
 d. 4 b. 9
c. 14
60. A quadratic signaling has _____ possible states. d. 8
a. 16
b. 4 68. How many levels can be represented in PCM
c. 8 transmission system if the binary numbers
d. 32 00000000 to11111111 are used to represent
signal levels?
61. What is the smallest unit of information in a. 256
binary transmission system? b. 64
a. Byte c. 128
b. Digit d. 512
c. Bit
d. Nibble 69. A symbol to represent a data communications
facility within the wide area network.
62. The lowest layer in the ISO protocol hierarchy. a. Hub
a. network layer b. Cloud
b. physical layer c. Server
c. transport laye d. Gateway
d. datalink layer
70. All bits in a character are sent and received
63. Modem is referred to as _____ in serial port.
a. Universal asynchronous receiver a. One at a time
transmitter b. Simultaneously
b. Universal synchronous receiver transmitter c. In group of 2 bits
c. Data terminal equipment d. In group of 3 bits
d. Data communication equipment
71. Message switching is ____ network.
64. A signaling method relating to a multiplicity of a. Hold and forward
circuits is conveyed over a single channel by b. Forward
labeled messages. c. Hold
a. code signaling d. Store and forward
b. syncronous
c. common channel signaling 72. Packet switching is _____ network
d. asynchronous a. Hold and forward
b. Forward
65. ______ is a network operating system within c. Hold
several buildings in compound. d. Store and forward
a. Internet
b. Novell netware 73. Polling is an invitation by the primary to
c. 10BASE-t secondary equipment to ____ a message.
d. intranet a. Store
b. Receive
66. What is the Nyquist sample rate for a voice c. Transmit
input of 10 kHz? d. Read
a. 10 kHz
b. 20 kHz 74. An 8-bit character code.
c. 30 kHz a. EBCDIC
d. 40 kHz b. BAUDOT
c. ASCII
67. What is the minimum number of bits required in d. HOLLERITH
PCM code for a range of 10,000?
a. 12
75. Equipment that interfaces the data terminal a. Print
equipment to the analog transmission line. b. Client
a. Modem c. Network
b. Muldem d. File
c. Multiplexer
d. Codec 83. _____ ensures that the transmitter and the
receiver agree on a prescribed time slot for the
76. A communication network design for occurrence of a bit.
transferring data from one point to another a. Bit or clock synchronization
a. Public Telephone network b. Modem or carrier synchronization
b. Public Data network c. Character synchronization
c. Value Added Network d. Message synchronization
d. Packet Switching network
84. Characters that must be transmitted other than
77. A conceptual network in which all transmission data are called
lines handle digital or digitalized data. a. Parity
a. LAN b. Error
b. WAN c. Overhead
c. ISDN d. Hamming bits
d. PSTN
85. The generating power polynomial x7 + x5 + x4 + x2
78. A data communications component that + x1 + x is equivalent
provides control or supporting services for other a. 101101110
computers, terminals, or devices in a network. b. 101101111
a. Host c. 010010001
b. Communication controller d. 10110111
c. Cluster controller
d. Interface equipment 86. A central device into which each node of a star
network is directly connected
79. Which data network configuration let a. Hub
computers share their resources? b. Central pointer
a. Peer to peer c. Router
b. Hierarchical d. Repeater
c. PVC
d. LAN 87. To ____ is to send a file to a remote computer.
a. Upload
80. A means of improving the quality of a private- b. Download
line circuit by adding amplifiers and equalizer to c. Call
it. d. Transmit
a. Line equalizer
b. Line amplifying 88. A microcomputer attached to a network
c. Line conditioning requires a
d. Line encoding a. NIC
b. RS 232
81. Direct distance dialing (DDD) network is c. Software
commonly called d. Protocol
a. Private-line network
b. PT network 89. Digital telephones and integrated voice-data
c. Dial-up network workstations are examples of what type of ISDN
d. Trunk network equipment?
a. TE
82. A type of server that allows multiple users to b. TA
take advantage of a single printing device. c. NT2
 d. TP c. Message and interval
d. On and off
90. How many OSI layers are covered under the 98. What is the other name for parity?
X.25 standard? a. BCC
a. 3 b. LRC
b. 4 c. VRC
c. 7 d. CRC
d. 2
99. A device that performs routing functions and
91. With _____, a station monitors the line to protocol translation from one network to
determine if the line is busy. another.
a. CSMA/CD a. Gateway
b. CSMA/CA b. Bridge
c. Token Passing c. Router
d. PDDI d. Repeater

92. CCITT standard concentrating on data 100. Not important characteristic of the physical
communications over the telephone network. layer
a. V series a. Electrical
b. X series b. Mechanical
c. I series c. Logical
d. T series d. All of them

93. Broadband uses

a. TDM
b. Space multiplexing
c. FDM
d. Statistical multiplexing

94. _____ uses the connecting medium as a single-

channel device.
a. Broadband transmission
b. Digital transmission
c. Base band transmission
d. Analog transmission

95. Which is considered as the fastest LAN

topology?
a. Ring
b. Bus
c. Star
d. Tree

96. What is the most widely used data

communications code?
a. Gray
b. EBCDIC
c. Baudot
d. ASCII

97. Mark and space refer respectively to

a. 1 and 0
b. Dot and dash