GSM Basics, UMTS and LTE fundamentals and Architecture
Time allowed: 30 Minutes Maximum Marks: 50
Section-1: GSM (20 Questions)
1. GSM stands for....
a) Groupe Spécial Mobile b) Global System for Mobile Communications
c) Great Streaming of Media d) Global Standard of Mobile Communications
2. The three subsystems of GSM/DCS are
a) NMS, PSTN, MS b) NMS, BSS, MS
c) NSS, BSS, MS d) NSS, BSS, NMS
3. Which of the following combination best describes the Base Station Subsystem?
a) Base Station Controller, Transcoder, Base Transceiver Station
b) Mobile Station, Base Station Controller, Base Transceiver Station
c) Transcoder, Submultiplexer, Base Transceiver Station
d) Base Station Controller, Base Transceiver Station, Mobile Equipment
4. Which of the following combination best describes the Network Switching Subsystem?
a) MSC, BSC, HLR b) MSC, AUC, BTS
c) MSC, AUC, EIR, VLR, HLR d) HLR, VLR
5. What is AUC?
a) All User Charging b) Authenticated user Class
c) Authenticated user Cell d) Authentication Center
6. What is TRAU?
a) Transcoder and Rate Adaptation Unit b) Transcoder and Rate Adaptor Unit
c) Transmitter and Receiver Adaptation Unit d) Transcoder and Rate Authencicating Unit
7. Speech transcoding from 13 to 64 kbits/s and vice versa is done by a transcoder between which two points?
a) BTS and BSC at BTS site b) BTS and BSC at BSC site
c) BSC and MSC at MSC site d) All above are possible
8. Which network element creates bills for the subscriber?
a) HLR with information from MSC b) MSC with information from Billing Centre
c) Billing Centre with information from MSC d) Billing Centre with information from
Transcoder
9. What are the Three lists in EIR
a) White, Black, Blue b) Black, Green, Red
c) Red, Green, Yellow d) White, Black, Grey
10. The contents of the authentication triplet are
a) SRES, RAND, A3 b) SRES, RAND, Kc
c) A3, A5, A8 d) RAND, A3, A8
11. Interface between BTS and BSC?
a) Air b) Abis
c) Gb d) A-interface
12. Interface between BSC and SGSN?
a) Air b) Abis
c) Gb d) A-interface
13. What is SGSN?
a) Serving GPRS Support Node b) Serving GPRS Support Network
c) Serving GPS Support Node d) Special GPRS Serving Node
14. What is EDGE?
a) Enhanced Data rates for GPS Evolutional b) Enhanced Data rates for GSM Enable
c) Evolved Data rates for GSM Evolutional d) Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolutional
15. What is BCCH?
a) Broadcast Control Channel b) Broadband Concept Channel
c) Broadcast Country Channel d) Billing Control Channel
16. What is AGCH?
a) Access General Channel b) Access Grant Channel
c) Authentication Grant Channel d) Access Grant Coding
17. Channel used for transmitting Paging Info?
a) PDTCH b) PCCH
c) PCM d) PCH
18. Which of the following are Dedicated Channels?
a) FCCH, SCH, AGCH b) SDCCH, TCH, SACCH
c) RACH, FACCH, TCH d) BCCH, SDCCH, SACCH
19. The function of AGCH is to
a) inform the mobile station of the frequency hopping sequence
b) provide the mobile station the handover information
c) inform the mobile station of a dedicated signalling channel
d) transmit adaptive frame alignment information to the mobile station
20. Short message service is transmitted in
a) SDCCH b) SACCH
c) Both of them d) neither of them
Section-2: UMTS (15 Questions)
21. The BSS in GSM is functionally equivalent to the ___ in UMTS
a) UTRAN b) RNS
c) RNC d) There is no equivalence
22. UMTS Supports voice and data calls simultaneously
a) TRUE b) FALSE
23. The PS domain in UMTS networks typically comprises
a) One or several MSCs and GMSCs b) Only one SGSN and several GGSN
c) One or several SGSNs/GGSNs and HLR/AuC/EIR databases
d) Two or more RNSs
24. UTRAN typically comprises
A One or several RNCs controlling one or several Node Bs B Only one RNC controlling one or several Node Bs
C One or several RNCs controlling one Node B each
D Two or more RNSs
25. The interface between 2 RNC
a) IuPS b)Iur
c) Iub d) Um
26. The interface between MSS and RNC
a) IuPS b)Iur
c) Iub d) IuCS
27. What is UMTS?
a) User Mobile Telecommunications Service b) Uniform Mobile Telecommunications Service
c) Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service d) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
28. What is UMTS?
a) User Mobile Telecommunications Service b) Uniform Mobile Telecommunications Service
c) Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service d) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
29. What is HSDPA?
a) High Speed Data Packet Access b) High Secure Downlink Packet Access
c) High Speed Downlink Pulse Account d) High Speed Downlink Packet Access
30. Handover type when a UE is connected to cells owned by different NodeB
a) Soft Handover
b) Softer Handover
31. Functions of RNC
a) Radio Resource Management b) Sending Billing Information
c) Authenticating the IMEI d) Allocating IP address to UEs
32. The three categories of channels are
a) Physical, Traffic and Dedicated b) Logical, Data and Traffic
c) Logical, Transport and Physical d) Broadcast, Traffic and Logical
33. What is TDD
a) Traffic Data Dedicated b) Time Division Data
c) Traffic Division Data d) Time Division Duplex
34. UMTS handover types
a) Hard b) Soft
c) IRAT d) All of these
35. What is GGSN?
a) Gateway GPRS Service Node b) Gateway GPRS Support Node
c) Gateway GPRS Support Network d) Gateway GPS Support Node
Section-3: LTE (15 Questions)
36. What is LTE?
a) Long Term Evolution b) Long Term Entity.
c) Large Term Element d) Long Transmission Element
37. What is the function of X2 Interface?
a) It is used to connect e-NodeBs. b) It is used for simplifying data forwarding option.
c) Both a and b d) None of the above
38. Which of the following statement is/are true for PCRF?
a) It is responsible for Policy Control Decision Making b) It provides the QoS Authorization.
c) Both a and b d) None of the above
39. Which of the following is/are the function of E-UTRAN?
a) Radio Resource Management b) Header Compression
c) Security d) All of the above
40. LTE is:
a) Circuit Switch b) Packet Switch
c) Both a and b d) None of the above
41. What is EPC?
a) Element for Packet Core b) Enhanced Policy Charging
c) Evolved Packet Core d) Evolved Packet Control
42. What is PDN?
a) Packet Data Node b) Packet Data networks
c) Policy Data Networks d) Packet Digital networks
43. Which of the following statement is/are true for PCRF?
a) It is responsible for Policy Control Decision Making b) It provides the QoS Authorization.
c) Both a and b d) None of the above
44. Of the following statement is/are true for P-GW?
a) It is responsible for IP allocation for UE.
b) It is responsible for filtering of downlink user IP Packets.
c) Both a and b
d) None of the above
45. The LTE Specification provides uplink peak rates of
a) 75 Mbps b) 150 Mbps
c) 300 Mbps d) 1 Gbps
46. LTE evolved architecture comprises ……………..on the core side.
a) CS Core b) PS Core
c) IMS d) EPC
47. Interface used to communicate between MME and HSS.
a) Abis b) S10
c) S6a d) S3
48. Interface between P-Gw and S-Gw
a) X2 b) S5/S8
c) S1 d) S10
49. Which Element is responsible for Allocating IP address to UE?
a) S-Gw b) MME
c) P-Gw d) HSS
50. What is HSS?
a) Home Service Server b) Hard Subscriber Server
c) Home Subscriber Server d) Home Subscriber System