Republic of the Philippines

BICOL UNIVERSITY POLANGUI CAMPUS

Polangui, Albay

Name ____________________________ yr/sec ________ Date ____________

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1. Redundancy means the _____.

A. transmission rate of the system
B. symbols are to be repeated
C. time between failures
D. time between successes

2. Which transmission media is not suitable to CSMA operation?

A. Radio
B. Optical Fiber
C. Coaxial Cable
D. Twisted Pair
3. Is a device used to convert a time varying electrical quantity to an appropriate form.
A. Codec
B. Transducer
C. ADC/DAC
D. Modem
4. The bandwidth of U600 mastergroup is
A. 2250 kHz
B. 2728 kHz
C. 2520 kHz
D. 2278 kHz
5. Refers to the Combined digitally encoded signals transmitted with FDM signals as one
composite baseband signal.
A. Composite data
B. Data Under Voice (DUV)
C. Hybrid Data
D. Data In Voice (DIV)
6. Transmit Frequency-division-multiplexed voice band signals over a coaxial cable for
distance up to 4000 miles.
A. T carrier systems
B. A carrier systems
C. L carrier systems
D. D carrier systems
7. Level 5 of Japanese PCM multiplex hierarchy has a channel capacity of
A. 7680 VB channels
B. 5760 VB channels
C. 8064 VB channels
D. 5670 VB channels
8. The line data rate (in Mbs) for level 4 of CEPT 30 + 2 PCM multiplex hierarchy is
A. 97.728
B. 400.352
C. 274.176
D. 139.264
9. The guardband between supergroup 18 and supergroup D25 is
A. 12 kHz
B. 56 khz
C. 128 khz
D. 8 khz
10. Supergroup 17 has a carrier frequency (in khz) of
A. 2108
B. 2356
C. 1860
D. 1612
11. A radio channel is composed of _____ VB channels.
A. 1800
B. 900
C. 10800
D. 8064
12. What is the guardband between supergroup 1 and supergroup 2?
 A. 12 khz
B. 10 khz
C. 8 khz
D. 6 khz
13. CCITT’s supermastergroup has how many voiceband channels?
A. 600
B. 1800
C. 10800
D. 900
14. The transparency mechanism used with SDLC is called
A. Zero-bit insertion
B. Modified link test
C. Beacon test
D. Invert-on-zero coding
15. What equation defines the composition of an ISDN basic access line?
A. 2B + D
B. B + D
C. B + 2D
D. 2B + 2D
16. 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)
17. T-1 carrier service has _____ digital bit rate.
A. 1.544 Mbps
B. 2048 Mbps
C. 1.644 Mbps
D. 9600 kbps
18. Non-ISDN equivalent can be connected to ISDN line by the use of _____.
A. Terminal equipment
B. Terminal adapters
C. Modem
D. Network adaptors
19. 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
20. What is the transmission signal coding for T1 carrier?
A. Binary
B. NRZ
C. Bipolar
D. Manchester
21. The primary purpose of the data modem.
A. Interface analog terminal equipment to analog communications channel
B. Interface digital terminal equivalent to digital communications channel
C. Interface analog terminal equipment to digital communications channel
D. Interface digital terminal equipment to analog communications channel
22. The line control unit (LCU) operates on the data in digital form.
A. Data terminal equipment (DTE)
B. Data communications equipment (DCE)
C. Modem
D. UART
23. SYN character of EBCDIC code
A. 32 H
B. 8 H
C. 16 H
D. 4 H
24. _______ ensures that the transmitter and receiver agree on 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
25. Equation used to determine the number of Hamming bits in the Hamming code.
 A.
B.
C.
D.
26. Data means
A. Digital information
B. Both digital and analog
C. Analog information
D. Neither digital nor analog
27. What determines which network configuration is most appropriate?
A. Application Layer
B. Presentation Layer
C. Network Layer
D. Data link layer
28. Ethernet is a baseband system using CSMA/CD operating at _________.
A. 10 Mbps
B. 20 Mbps
C. 30 Mbps
D. 40 Mbps
29. Mechanism used by a station to gain access to local area network.
A. Channel Multiplexing
B. Channel accessing
C. CSMA/CD
D. CSMA/CA
30. What multiplexing scheme is used by baseband transmission?
A. TDM
B. Space multiplexing
C. FDM
D. Statistical multiplexing
31. 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
32. What identifies how the stations are interconnected in a network?
A. Topology
B. Architecture
C. Topology or Architecture
D. Topology and Architecture
33. ______ is a data communications network designed to provide two-way
communications between a large variety of data communications terminal equipment
within a relatively small geographic area.
A. Private Area Network
B. Local Area Network
C. Wide Area Network
D. Ethernet
34. ______ is the mode of transmission in public data network in which data is 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
35. A seven-bit character can represent one of ______ possibilities.
A. 7
B. 14
C. 64
D. 128
36. _____ 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
37. Circuit that performs the inverse mapping and delivers to the user destination, a
reproduction of the original digital source output.
A. Source coding
 B. Channel coding
C. Inverse coding
D. Demodulation
38. Digital Modulation technique used in modems
A. ASK
B. FSK
C. PSK
D. MSK
39. Who developed the Fixed-length binary code for telegraphy
A. Samuel Morse
B. Emile Baudot
C. Alexander Graham Bell
D. Guglielmo Marconi
40. Inventor of Push-code modulation for the digital encoding of speech signals.
A. R.V.L. Hartley
B. J.R. Carson
C. H. Nyquist
D. Alex Reeves
41. 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
42. Store-and-forward multiple-access network.
A. ARPANET
B. ALOHA
C. PRNET
D. Packet switching
43. A source code whose average world length approaches the fundamental limit set by
the entropy of a discrete memory less source.
A. Prefix code
B. Source code
C. Entropy code
D. Huffman code
44. Who promulgate communications related military standards (MIL-STD)?
A. DOD
B. DCA
C. DOD-STD
D. ANSI-MIL
45. 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
46. 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
47. Digital switching concepts that can handle more channels.
A. SDS
B. TSI
C. TDM
D. TMS
48. What is the most significant advantage of modulator 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
49. Which of the following is the biggest disadvantage of PCM systems?
A. Inability to handle analog signals
B. High error rate as a result of quantizing noise
C. Not compatible with TDM
D. The large bandwidth required
50. 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
51. 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
52. The overlapping of the original spectrum and the first translated component is known
as
A. Dc wandering
B. Aliasing
C. Droop
D. distortion
53. Transmission sent in both directions simultaneously.
A. Full duplex
B. Half duplex
C. Simplex
D. Echoplex
54. Multiplexing in a time division multiplexer 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
55. What is a 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
56. 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
D. Most available frequencies have been used
57. In _____ modulation the carrier is a periodic train of pulses.
A. Amplitude
B. Analog
C. Digital
D. pulse
58. the process that uses the orthogonality of sine’s and cosines that makes possible to
transmit and receive to different signals simultaneously on the same carrier
frequency is
A. TDM
B. FDM
C. Quadrature multiplexing
D. Duplexing
59. 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
60. Which of the following is not an advantage of digital transmission?
A. Noise Immunity
B. Ease of multiplexing
C. Bandwidth utilization
D. Ease of encryption
61. _____ is the ratio of the largest possible magnitude to the smallest possible
magnitude that can be decoded by the DAC.
A. Resolution
B. Quantization
C. Dynamic Range
D. Voltage ratio
62. A process where the higher amplitude analog signals are compressed prior to
transmission then expanded at the receiver.
A. Compressing
B. Expanding
C. Encoding
D. Companding
63. For a resolution of 0.01 V and analog sample voltage of 0.05 V, the 12-bit linear sign-
magnitude code is
A. 000000000101
B. 100000000101
C. 100010010011
D. 000001010001
64. _____ uses a single bit PCM code to achieve a digital transmission of analog signal
A. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)
B. Frequency shift keying (FSK)
C. Delta Modulation (DM)
D. Phase Modulation (PM)
65. The line speed of Bell System T1 carrier system is
A. 64 kbps
B. 3.152 Mbps
C. 1.544 Mbps
D. 6.312 Mbps
66. How many Channels does a T2 line carry?
A. 24
B. 48
C. 96
D. 672
67. The capacity standard 4khz telephone channel with 30 dB S/N is
A. 455225 bps
B. 42525 bps
C. 39846 bps
D. 39840 bps
68. How many channels does a super group have?
A. 60
B. 600
C. 1800
D. 10800
69. The output frequency at the channel combiner of channel 7 is
A. 76 – 80 kHz
B. 80 -84 kHz
C. 84 – 88 kHz
D. 88 – 92 kHz
70. The carrier frequency of the supergroup D25 is
A. 2652 kHz
B. 2900 kHz
C. 2356 kHz
D. 2108 kHz
71. Which of the following is not a hybrid data?
A. Data in voice
B. Data under voice
C. Data above voice
D. Data in video
72. _____ was the first fixed-length 5-bit character code.
A. EBCIDIC
B. ASCII
C. Morse Code
D. Baudot Code
73. CCIT V.26 modem has a modulation rate of ____.
A. 1200 Hz
B. 1200 Bauds
C. 1560 cps
D. 9600 bauds
74. What can a smart modem do?
A. Detect transmission errors and correct them automatically
B. Correct answer multiple choice quizzes
C. Accepts command from the terminals via RS232 interface
D. Do a smart Game
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