Topic: Digital Communications

1.How many bits are there to present 8 combinations?

 3 (Correct Answer)

2. Exchange of predetermined signals when a connection is

established between two dataset devices.

 handshaking (Your Correct Answer)

3. A data compression scheme that uses fewer bits to

represent more frequently occurring characters or bit patterns
and more bits to represent that occur less frequently.

 Huffman code (Correct Answer)

4. _______ is the physical and logical relationship between

nodes in the network.

 network topology (Correct Answer)

5. For a 16 QAM modem, the input to the modem is called:

 quadbit (Correct Answer)

6. Two or more LAN linked together over a wide geographical

area.

 WAN (Your Correct Answer)

7. Digital modulation scheme that represents a bit pattern by a

change in phase from the previous state.

 DPSK (Correct Answer)

8. In delta modulation, an error condition that occurs when the

analog signal is digitized varies too quickly for the system to
follow.
  slope overload (Your Correct Answer)

9. Digital switching concepts that can handle more channels:

 TMS (Correct Answer)

10. An equipment that interfaces the data terminal equipment

to the analog transmission line.

 Modem (Correct Answer)

11. Equipments that are classified as non-ISDN, thus,

computers terminals are connected to the system through
physical interfeaces.

 TE2 (Correct Answer)

12. ______ is a data communications network designed to

provide two-way communications between a large varieties of
data communications terminal equipment within a relatively
small geographic area.

 Local Area Network (Correct Answer)

13. _____ is the thermal noise power normalized to a 1-Hz

bandwidth and is characterized by the ratio of the noise power
and the bandwidth.

 noise power density (Your Correct Answer)

14. ______ is defined as the ratio between the minimum

voltage and the quantization noise voltage.

 signal-to-quantization noise ratio (Correct Answer)

15. Which theorem sets the limit on the maximum capacity of

a channel with a given noise level?
  Shannon-Hartley theorem (Correct Answer)

16. An international organization concerned with devising and

preparing / proposing recommendations for international
telecommunications.

 ISO (Correct Answer)

17. A seven-bit character can represent one of ______

possibilities.

 128 (Correct Answer)

18. Which computer terminal can be programmed to perform

new functions?

 Intelligent terminal (Correct Answer)

19. Codes must be:

 agreed upon in advance between sender and receiver

(Your Correct Answer)

20. An assembly comprising of an encoder and a decoder in

the same equioment.

 codec (Correct Answer)

21. T-1 carrier service has ______ digital bit rate.

 1.544 Mbps (Correct Answer)

22. Refers to one of the commonly used internet service

domain.

 .net (Your Correct Answer)

23. Digital signals _______.

  do not provide a continuous set of values
 can utilize binary system
 represent values as discrete steps
 all of the above (Correct Answer)

24. A radio channel has a channel bandwidth of 10 kHz and a

signal-to-noise ratio of 15 dB. What is the maximum data rate
that can be transmitted using four possible outputs.

 40 kbps (Correct Answer)

25. The transformation signal coding method for T1 carrier is:

 BPRZ (Correct Answer)

26. What is the transmission rate of a system for transmitting

the output of a microcomputer to a line printer operating at a
speed of 60 lines/minute? Assume that the line printer has an
8 bits of data per character and prints out 90characters/line:

 720 bps (Correct Answer)

27. Synchronization standard where the clock transition occurs

at almost the same rate.

 plesiochronous (Correct Answer)

28. Quantizing noise is present in ______ system.

 PCM (Correct Answer)

29. Asynchronous transmission is:

 is less efficient but simpler (Correct Answer)

30. The three common types of digital modulation techniques

used are:

 PSK, FSK, QAM (Your Correct Answer)

31. Delta modulation is a/an:

 1-bit differential PCM system (Correct Answer)

32. Modems will no longer be needed when terminal

equipment and transmission system are _____.

 digital (Your Correct Answer)

33. In a binary digit system, how many bits are required to

transmit 32 equiprobable events?

 5 (Correct Answer)

34. Indicate the false statement:

 In QPSK, bit rate equals baud rate

 In BPSK, bit rate equals baud rate
 FSK is a form of narrowband FM (Correct Answer)
 PSK is a form of angular modulation

35. DQDB in metropolitan area network is an acronym for

_______.

 distributed queue dual bus (Correct Answer)

36. What is the Nyquist sample rate for a voice input of 10

kHz?

 20 kHz (Correct Answer)

37. ______ is a network operating system within several

buildings in compound.

 Novell Netware (Correct Answer)

38. In ______ modulation the carrier is a periodic train of

pulses.
  pulse (Correct Answer)

39. Mode of communication system where both sides of the

system can transmit at the same time:

 Full duplex (Your Correct Answer)

40. A transmission system for a multidrop network:

 Polling (Correct Answer)

41. A cellular identification that gives the serial number or the

mobile equipment.

 ESN (Correct Answer)

42. How many channels does a super group have?

 60 (Correct Answer)

43. The north american TDMA digital cell phone standard

transmits at 24.3 kilo baud using DQPSK. What is the channel
data rate?

 48.6 kbps (Correct Answer)

44. A means of improving the quality of a private-line circuit

by adding amplifiers and equalizers to it:

 Line conditioning (Your Correct Answer)

45. A group of 8 bits is called:

 byte (Your Correct Answer)

46. Who promulgate communications-related military

standards (MIL-STD)?
  DCA (Correct Answer)

47. What is one principal difference between synchronous and

synchronous transmission?

 the clocking is derived from the data in synchronous

transmission (Correct Answer)

48. A formal set of conventions governing the formatting and

relative timing of message exchange between two
communications system:

 Protocol (Correct Answer)

49. Calculate the bandwidth required to transmit a DS-1 signal

using AMI code.

 772 Khz (Correct Answer)

50. A transmission where data are inputted inside the carrier

wave:

> Broadband (Correct Answer)