Wire and Wireless Communications System

1. Typical speech power

A. 10 to 1000 µW
B. 100 to 1000 mW
C. 10 to 1000 nW
D. 100 to 1000 pW
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2. The maximum intelligibility for voice frequency is located between
A. 250 and 500 Hz
B. 1000 and 3000 Hz
C. 500 and 1000 Hz
D. 3000 and 5000 Hz
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3. The maximum voice energy is located between
A. 250 and 500 Hz
B. 1000 and 3000 Hz
C. 500 and 1000 Hz
D. 3000 and 5000 Hz
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4. A device used to measure speech volume.
A. speech meter
B. volume meter
C. volume unit meter
D. speedometer
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5. By definition, for a sine wave
A. 0 dBm = 0 V.U.
B. 0 dBW = 0 V.U.
C. 0 dBa = 0 V.U.
D. 0 dBf = 0 V.U.
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6. Presently, this is the “standard” frequency bandwidth for voice transmission.
A. 0 to 4000 Hz
B. 100 to 3400 Hz
C. 300 to 3400 Hz
D. 300 to 3000 Hz
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7. Which of the following is commonly used wire for subscriber loop design?
A. AWG # 19
B. AWG # 18
C. AWG # 30
D. AWG # 33
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8. The resistance limit for No. 2 Crossbar Exchange (US) is
A. 2000 Ω
B. 1300 Ω
C. 1250 Ω
D. 1200 Ω
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9. AWG # 26 has a typical loss of
A. 0.21 dB/1000 ft.
B. 0.32 dB/1000 ft.
C. 0.41 dB/1000 ft.
D. 0.51 dB/1000 ft.
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10. What is the standard voice channel spacing?
A. 44 MHz
B. 40 kHz
C. 4 kHz
D. 40 MHz
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11. Which tester is used to measure SWR?
A. Multimeter
B. Oscilloscope
C. Spectrum analyzer
D. Reflectometer
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12. What is singing?
A. The result of intermodulating two or more signals of different frequencies to produce a
tone having a frequency equal to the sum of the frequencies of the signals
intermodulated.
B. The result of intermodulating two or more signals of different frequencies to produce a
tone having a frequency higher than that of the signal having the highest frequency.
C. An undesired self-sustained oscillation in a system, generally caused by excessive
positive feedback.
D. An art or form of entertainment that can make one rich.
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13. Which stage increases the selectivity of the circuit in an AM receiver?
A. Detector
B. IF stage
C. Modulator
D. Mixer
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14. The ________ of radio receiver amplify weak signal and produce a desirable
intelligence at the output speaker.
A. sensitivity
B. selectivity
C. reliability
D. fidelity
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15. Full-duplex transmission means
A. One-way transmission
B. 24-hour transmission
C. Broadcast transmission
D. Two-way simultaneous transmission
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16. What is a multidrop line?
A. A piece of wire with a thick insulating material that serves to protect the conductive
materials from damage in the event the wire is dropped.
B. A line designed to withstand high pressure.
C. A line or circuit interconnecting several situations.
D. A bus line
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17. A passive _________ is an electronic device which reduces signal strength by a
specified amount in dB.
A. Splitter
B. Filter
C. Trimmer
D. Attenuator
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18. The signal quality of the calls is constantly monitored by the base station, when the
quality of the calls drops below a certain specified level. The base request the MTSO to
try and find a better cell site.
A. Hand-off
B. Cell splitting
C. Roaming
D. Frequency reuse
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19. A digital identification associated with a cellular system.
A. SAT
B. SID
C. ESN
D. MIN
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20. How many seconds does facsimile transmit a stranded page?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 20
D. 25
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21. A kind of recording used in facsimile.
A. Electrolytic recording
B. Electrothermal recording
C. Electropercussive recording
D. Electrostatic recording
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22. A type of distortion a facsimile produce when it becomes out of synchronization?
A. Pincushion
B. Barrel
C. Skewing
D. Fattening
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23. What is an acoustic coupler?
A. A device that radiates audible signals via a transmitting antenna
B. A device that converts electric signals into audio signals, enabling data to be
transmitted over the public telephone network via a conventional telephone handset
C. A device that receives audible signals and retransmits them at VHF frequencies
D. A transducer
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24. Cause a herringbone pattern in facsimile
A. Single-frequency interference
B. Crosstalk
C. Phase jitter
D. Noise
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25. The _______ in an FM receiver causes a stronger signal to dominate over a weaker
signal on the same frequency.
A. Capture effect
B. Flywheel effect
C. Hall effect
D. Skin effect
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26. A device that converts a 2-wire circuit to a 4-wire circuit.
A. RS-232 interface
B. Hybrid circuit
C. Balun
D. Stub
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27. ______ theory is deciding between a set of hypothesis when given a collection of
imperfect measurements.
A. Estimation
B. Traffic
C. Decision
D. Nyquist
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28. ______ of a data reduction says that when reducing a set of data into the form of an
underlying mode, one should be maximally non-committal with respect to missing data.
A. Jaynes maximum entropy principle
B. Kullback principle of minimum discrimination
C. Minimum discrimination
D. Maximum entropy
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29. _______ is selecting the best value of a parameter from a continuum of possible
values when gives a collection if imperfect measurements
A. Estimation
B. Traffic
C. Decision
D. Nyquist
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30. Combination of madulator, channel, and detector.
A. Transceiver
B. Transponder
C. T/R channel
D. Discrete channel
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31. What is the frequency band of DECT?
A. 1.28 – 1.30 GHz
B. 1.68 – 1.70 GHz
C. 1.48 – 1.50 GHz
D. 1.88 – 1.90 GHz
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32. How many simultaneous calls does each DECT system can support?
A. 96
B. 12
C. 24
D. 49
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33. How many simultaneous calls does a DECT radio transceiver can assess at any given
time?
A. 120
B. 240
C. 480
D. 960
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34. The AGC voltage of a radio receiver is always _______.
A. Present before adjustments can be made
B. DC, but may have either polarity positive DC
C. Positive DC
D. Negative
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35. What is a concentrator?
A. A system that improves the signal-to-noise ratio by compressing the volume range of
a signal.
B. A device that varies the characteristics of a carrier signal in accordance with the
waveform of a modulating signal which contains useful information
C. A switching system that lets a large number of telephone or data processing
subscribers use a lesser number of transmission lines or a narrow bandwidth
D. Equipment in the central office.
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36. If you find that an SAW filter output is 6 dB down from the input of a receiver during
test, ______
A. This is normal.
B. The device if faulty
C. The receiver is improperly terminated
D. The filter is not resonating
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37. A triple conversion superheterodyne receiver, diode mixer stages are
A. Operated in the linear region
B. Operated in the nonlinear region
C. Operated as Class-A amplifiers
D. Operated as Class-B amplifiers
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38. What is a leased line?
A. A piece of wire used in a local area network in one building
B. A piece of wire connecting a telephone set to a PABX
C. A temporary connection of one computer to a mainframe via a modern and a
telephone line
D. A permanent circuit for a private use within a communication network
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39. If two FM signals of different strengths are received on the same frequency
A. One steady heterodyne will appear in the AM output
B. Both will appear in the AF output
C. Only the stronger will appear in the AF output
D. Neither signal will be intelligence unless the weaker signal is at least 10 times
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40. Cellular mobile system was first operated in
A. 1979
B. 1981
C. 1983
D. 1985
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41. TACS is a cellular system with ______ channels.
A. 666
B. 1000
C. 832
D. 200
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42. Supervisory Audio Tone (SAT) has _______ frequency.
A. 5960 Hz
B. 6000 Hz
C. 6040 Hz
D. 1004 z
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43. What is the number of channels of a cellular system with an allocated spectrum of 25
MHz and with a channel of 30 kHz bandwidth?
A. 833
B. 240
C. 1000
D. 666
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44. GSM uses what digital modulation technique?
A. QAM
B. GFSK
C. BPSK
D. GMSK
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45. What is the power output of Personal Communication System (PCS)?
A. 10 mW
B. 75 mW
C. 150 mW
D. 10 W
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46. RG-B8 cable has a loss of about ______ dB at cellular frequencies up to 15 ft. length.
A. 2
B. 1
C. 4
D. 3
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47. The signals designed to keep the receivers and transmitters aligned.
A. Carrier frequencies
B. Pilot carrier signals
C. Synchronizing signals
D. Reference signals
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48. If the spacing of a two-wire open air transmission line is 12 inches and the conductor
diameter is 0.25 inch, the characteristic impedance is
A. 547 Ω
B. 357 Ω
C. 273 Ω
D. 300 Ω
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49. The impedance of the quarterwave transformer used to match a 600 Ω line to a 300
Ω load is
A. 382 Ω
B. 424 Ω
C. 565 Ω
D. 712 Ω
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50. When a line and a load are match the reflection coefficient is
A. Unity
B. Zero
C. Positive infinity
D. Negative infinity
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51. When line is terminated in an open circuit load, the reflection coefficient is
A. Zero
B. Unity
C. Positive infinity
D. Negative infinity
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52. A 300 ohms line is terminated in a resistance load of 200 ohms, the VSWR is
A. 0.65
B. 1.5
C. Unity
D. Zero
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53. If the reflection coefficient is 0.5, the standing wave ratio is
A. 0.33
B. Unity
C. 3
D. Zero
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54. To least the fault of the given line, a signal is fed to the line, 30 µs later the signal
returned. What is the distance of the fault?
A. 9000 m
B. 300 m
C. 100 m
D. 4500 m
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55. The telephone set is powered by the central office on the ring side at
A. 42 to 52 Vdc
B. –42 to -52 Vdc
C. 24 to 64 Vdc
D. –24 to – 64 Vdc
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56. The telephone voice band frequency is from
A. 300 to 4 kHz
B. 400 to 3400 Hz
C. 300 to 3400 Hz
D. 400 to 4 kHz
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57. Which of the following wire is used to transmit the signal?
A. Black
B. Yellow
C. Red
D. Green
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58. The corresponding frequency for digit 7 in the touch tone telephone is
A. 770 & 1477 Hz
B. 852 & 1209 Hz
C. 852 & 1336 Hz
D. 770 & 1336 Hz
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59. The physical connection between the telephone set and the switching equipment is
called the
A. Trunk line
B. Link
C. Subscriber loop
D. Leased line
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60. What is the local loop of a telephone system?
A. It is a two-wire or four-wire communication circuit between the customer’s premise
and the central office
B. It is a group of wires connecting a telephone set to a modern
C. It is a four-wire circuit connecting a facsimile machine to a computer
D. It is a single piece of wire connecting the subscriber’s telephone set to another set in
an adjacent room.
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61. Which of the ff. equipment is used in long loop design?
A. Dial long lines
B. Voice repeater
C. Loop range extender
D. All of the above
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62. What is a two-wire circuit?
A. A circuit usually in the subscriber loop, between the telephone set and the local
central office.
B. A circuit having only two terminals, both terminals having the same instantaneous
voltage.
C. A circuit with one input terminal, one output terminal, and a common ground.
D. A circuit consisting of two transmission lines.
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63. 1 mW is equal to
A. 90 dBm
B. 0 dBm
C. -30 dBm
D. 120 dBm
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64. Which of the following responds to the request of a subscriber by sending a dial
tone?
A. Line finder
B. First selector
C. Connector
D. Line equipment
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65. The other name of Class 2 office in the North American Switching Plan.
A. Primary center
B. Section
C. Regional center
D. Toll points
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66. A cell in the cellular telephone system means
A. A power source
B. Small area
C. Large area
D. Service area
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67. What is the linking point between cell phone and regular telephone?
A. Base station
B. Control office
C. C.O.
D. MTSO
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68. What is the typical power output of a cellular phone?
A. 5 W
B. 10 W
C. 1 W
D. 3 W
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69. When a single cell is divided into smaller cells that process is called
A. Cell splitting
B. Cell division
C. Reuse
D. Cell sharing
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70. The first cell shape is a square
A. Square
B. Circle
C. Rectangle
D. Triangle
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71. In order to provide 100% coverage without overlap, cellular telephone system can
use
A. Hexagon cell shape
B. Triangle
C. Rectangular
D. All of the above
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72. What is the beamwidth of the reflector of the receiving antenna in the base station
A. 20 degrees
B. 30 degrees
C. 50 degrees
D. 60 degrees
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73. A cellular phone operates on
A. Half duplex
B. Full duplex
C. Echoplex
D. Lincomplex
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74. Cellular phones transmit in the band from
A. 825 to 845 MHz
B. 835 to 855 MHz
C. 825 to 855 MHz
D. 825 to 865 MHz
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75. Cell phone receives in the band from
A. 860 to 880 MHz
B. 870 to 890 MHz
C. 870 to 880 MHz
D. 860 to 890 MHz
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76. What is the frequency separation between the transmit and the receive channels?
A. 30 MHz
B. 45 MHz
C. 55 MHz
D. 40 MHz
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77. For channel 1, transmit/receive frequency is
A. 825.030/870.030 MHz
B. 835.03/880.03 MHz
C. 825.015/870.015 MHz
D. 825.15/870.15 MHz
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78. The number of transmit/receive channels in the cellular system is
A. 625
B. 645
C. 655
D. 666
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79. The transmission range of cellular telephony is generally about
A. 80 km
B. 65 km
C. 160 km
D. 16 km
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80. One of the following is not an advantage of a cellular telephone system
A. Privacy
B. Large service area
C. No interference
D. Mobility
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81. When the message is transferred from one cell site transmitter to another cell site
transmitter as the caller crosses a boundary __________ process takes place.
A. Shifting
B. Hand off
C. Give off
D. Turn over
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82. What is the sensitivity of a cellular receiver?
A. 20 dB
B. 40 dB
C. 50 dB
D. 60 dB
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83. What is the frequency deviation of the cellular telephone system?
A. ±15 kHz
B. ±30 kHz
C. ±12 kHz
D. ±75 kHz
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84. Hailing channel is otherwise known as
A. Conversation channel
B. Calling channel
C. Signaling channel
D. Remote channel
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85. What is an Erlang?
A. It is a unit of magnetic field intensity measured around a conductor
B. It is the number of erroneous bits received per unit of time
C. It a unit of electrical energy radiated in space.
D. It is equal to the number of simultaneous calls originated during a specific hourly
period.
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86. All of the cell base stations are linked together by _______ which serves as the central
office and management node for the group.
A. MTS
B. IMTS
C. MSTO
D. MTSO
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87. Provides interface between the mobile telephone switching office and the mobile
units.
A. Database
B. Cell site
C. Terrestrial link
D. Radio transmitter
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88. A phone call over the cellular network actually requires
A. Simplex channels
B. Half duplex channels
C. Full duplex channels
D. Full/full duplex
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89. A method of expressing the amplitudes of complex non-periodic signals such as
speech.
A. Volume
B. Pitch
C. Frequency
D. Wavelength
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90. _______ is signal returned to the talker after one or more round trips between the
talker and the listener.
A. Singing
B. Echo
C. Jitter
D. Crosstalk
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91. ______ is a voice operated device that inserts a high loss in the opposite direction of
transmission of the talking party.
A. Hybrid
B. 2-wire circuit
C. Echo suppressor
D. VNL
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92. _____ is picking up of the same station at two nearby points on the receiver dial.
A. Double spotting
B. Hot shot
C. Image frequency
D. Bail shot
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93. When one channel picks up the signal carried by another channel.
A. Echo
B. Crosstalk
C. Party line
D. Crosslink
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94. What type of connector arrangement wherein a customer may move to another
location and still retain the same telephone number.
A. TPL
B. Bridge
C. TPS
D. Party line
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95. It is an advantage of sidetone.
A. Transmission efficiency is increased
B. Speaker increase his voice resulting in a strengthened signal
C. No dissipation of energy in the balancing network
D. Assures the customer that the telephone is working
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96. Radio communications between points using a single share frequency.
A. Simplex
B. Full duplex
C. Half-duplex
D. Full/full duplex
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97. The transmission of information from multiple sources occurring on the same facility
but not as the same time.
A. FDM
B. TDM
C. WDM
D. CDM
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98. When human voice and music are transmitted, the type of communication employed
is known as
A. Radiotechnology
B. Audio frequency
C. Wired audio
D. Radiotelephony
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99. Printed documents to be transmitted by fax are converted into baseband electric
signal by the process of
A. Copying
B. Scanning
C. Modulation
D. Light variation
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100. What is the most commonly used light sensor in a modern fax machine?
A. Phototube
B. Phototransistor
C. Liquid-crystal display
D. Charge couple device
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101. In FM fax, the frequencies for black and white are ______ respectively.
A. 1300 and 2400 Hz
B. 2300 and 1500 Hz
C. 1500 and 2300 Hz
D. 1070 and 1270 Hz
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102. Which resolution produces the best quality fax?
A. 96 lines per inch
B. 150 lines per inch
C. 200 lines per inch
D. 400 lines per inch
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103. Group 2 fax uses which modulation?
A. SSB
B. FSK
C. Vestigial sideband AM
D. PSK
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104. The most widely used fax standard is
A. Group 1
B. Group 2
C. Group 3
D. Group 4
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105. Group 3 fax uses which modulation?
A. QAM
B. ASK
C. PSK
D. GFSK
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106. Block calls held condition specified the held probability at a time period equal to an
average holding time.
A. Erlang B
B. Erlang C
C. Erlang D
D. Poisson
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107. What is an Echo?
A. A signal of the same amplitude but 180 degrees out of phase from the original signal
and mixed with the original signal at the transmitter to produce a more intelligible output
signal
B. A wave which has been reflected or otherwise returned with the sufficient magnitude
and delay for it to be perceptible in some manner as a wave distinct from that directly
transmitted.
C. The signal having a higher frequency than the original and transmitted back to earth
by a passive satellite.
D. A reflected signal.
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108. What is the system used by Personal Communication Network (PCN)?
A. TACS
B. Modified GSM
C. AMPS
D. CDMA
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109. Termination refers to
A. Cutting both ends of a conductor
B. Disconnecting a line from a transmitter
C. Looking back impedance of a line with no load
D. Load connected to the output end of a transmission line
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110. The multiple access used by Digital European Cordless Telephone (DECT)
A. CDMA
B. FDMA
C. TDMA
D. CDMA/FDMA
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111. Blocked calls delay condition specified delay probability
A. Erlang B
B. Erlang C
C. Erlang D
D. Poisson
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112. Status information provided by telephone signaling.
A. Busy tone, dial tone and ringing
B. Congestion and call charge data
C. All of the above
D. None of the above
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113. The modulation technique used by DECT.
A. GFSK
B. ASK
C. QAM
D. PSK
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114. What is a four-wire circuit?
A. Is used between serving central offices for long-distance connections, with one pair
being used for each direction of transmission.
B. Is a circuit with three output terminals and one input terminal
C. Is an oscillator that produces four different frequencies simultaneously
D. A circuit consisting of four transmission lines.
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115. Cellular CDMA system uses what modulation method?
A. GFSK
B. ASK
C. QAM
D. BPSK
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116. PABX means
A. Private All-purpose Broadcasting Exchange
B. Private Automatic Branch Exchange
C. Public Access Bi-directional Exchange
D. Public Automatic Branch Exchange
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117. What is the voted cellular digital standard at TIA?
A. Digital AMPS
B. GSM
C. CDMA
D. TACS
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118. What is the number of channels for Band A and for Band B in Digital AMPS
A. 832
B. 416
C. 666
D. 888
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119. The mobile-to-base frequency assignment for GSM system is
A. 890-915 MHz
B. 935-960 MHz
C. 870-890 MHz
D. 825-845 MHz
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120. The range (in miles) of a cellular CDMA system.
A. 13
B. 30
C. 45
D. 20
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121. In a cellular system, ________ is used to measure the spectrum efficiency.
A. Radio efficiency
B. Diversity
C. Frequency reuse
D. Radio capacity
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122. Which of the following echo is completely out of control?
A. Worst echo
B. Reverberation
C. Singing
D. Feedback
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123. Which of the following devices increase the battery voltage on a loop and extends
its signaling range?
A. Loop extender
B. VF repeater
C. VF amplifier
D. All of these
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124. Under ordinary circumstances, the CCITT recommends that the number of circuits in
tandem must not exceed
A. 9
B. 10
C. 11
D. 12
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125. What is the system capacity of AMPS?
A. 30,000
B. 60,000
C. 100,000
D. 120,000
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126. NAM means
A. Non Alternable Memory
B. Numeric Allocation Module
C. Numeric Assignment Module
D. Numeric Access Module
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127. A mobile telephone service using trunked channels but not cellular nature
A. IMTS
B. MTSO
C. IMSI
D. IMEI
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128. The GSM cellular radio system uses GMSK in a 200-kHz, with a channel data rate of
270.833 kbps. Calculate the frequency shift between mark and space in kHz?
A. 135.4165
B. 153.6514
C. 315.4651
D. 513.1654
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129. A cellular system is capable of coping with a handoffs once every 2 minutes. What
is the maximum cell radius if the system must be capable of working with cars traveling
at highway speed of 120 km/hr?
A. 3 km
B. 1 km
C. 4 km
D. 6 km
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130. Radio communication operation service between mobile and land stations or
between mobile stations.
A. land mobile
B. land mobile satellite service
C. mobile service
D. maritime mobile service
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131. A multiple access technique used in GSM cellular system.
A. FDMA
B. CDMA
C. TDMA
D. TACS
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132. This is the Nordic analog mobile radio telephone system originally used in
Scandinavia
A. NMT
B. GSM
C. PCN
D. PCS
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133. The combination of the mobile cellular phone and the cell-site radio equipment is
known as
A. forward link
B. base transceiver station
C. air interface
D. base station controller
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134. The duplex frequency of GSM
A. 40 MHz
B. 80 MHz
C. 120 MHz
D. 30 MHz
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135. The channel separation of GSM channel
A. 270 kHz
B. 200 kHz
C. 120 kHz
D. 60 kHz
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136. The number of control channels for AMPS
A. 25
B. 23
C. 21
D. 19
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137. The modulation technique used audio signal for TACS
A. FM
B. FSK
C. TFSK
D. QAM
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138. Speech coding rate for GSM
A. 80 kbps
B. 25 kbps
C. 21 kbps
D. 13 kbps
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139. Number of channels for GSM
A. 333
B. 666
C. 124
D. 248
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140. It is a database that contains information about the identity of mobile equipment
that prevents calls from stolen, unauthorized, or defective mobile stations.
A. Equipment Identity Register
B. Authentication Center
C. Home Location Register
D. Visitor Location Register
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141. It provides all the control functions and physical links between the MSC and BTS
A. OSS
B. OMC
C. MSC
D. BSC
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142. It is the functional entity from which the operator monitors and controls the mobile
communication system.
A. Operation and Maintenance System
B. Mobile Switching Center
C. Gateway Mobile Switching Center
D. Operation and Support System
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143. A node in the switching system of GSM that provides integrated voice, fax and data
messaging.
A. Gateway Mobile Switching Center
B. Mobile Service Node
C. GSM Internetworking Unit
D. Message Center
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144. It is a node in the switching system of GSM that handles mobile intelligent network
services.
A. Message Center
B. Gateway Mobile Switching Center
C. Mobile Service Unit
D. Mobile Switching Center
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145. The modulation scheme used for NADC
A. NFSK
B. Quarter wavelength Shifted QPSK
C. GFSK
D. Trellis coding
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146. What type of modulation is used by a standard analog cordless telephone?
a. AM
b. FM
c. PSK
d. WAM
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147. It is the process in which the same set of frequencies can be allocated to more than
one cell, provided that the cells are separated by a sufficient distance
A. frequency reuse
B. handoff
C. clustering
D. radio survey
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148. The maximum frequency deviation of an FM cellular transmitter is
A. 6 kHz
B. 12 kHz
C. 30 kHz
D. 45 kHz
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149. The number of dedicated lines used to interconnect 100 parties
A. 99 lines
B. 1250 lines
C. 4950 lines
D. 3450 lines
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150. These are unused sections of cables that are connected in shunt working cable pair,
such as a local loop. They are used for party lines to connect to the same local loop.
A. cross-connect loop
B. drop wire tap
C. bridge tap
D. wire tap
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151. The telephone was invented by
a. Watson
b. Bell
c. Strowger
d. Edison
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152. The central office detects a request for service from a telephone by
a. A flow of loop current
b. No loop current
c. A ringing signal
d. Dial pulses
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153. Which office local is the local central office?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
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154. Which exchange is used to connect between central offices when a direct trunk is
not available?
a. Local
b. Tandem
c. Toll
d. Any of the above
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155. Which of the following is a type of dc signaling?
a. Loop current
b. Reverse battery
c. E and M
d. All of the above
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156. The voice frequency channel pass band is
a. 0 to 4000 Hz
b. 300 to 3000 Hz
c. 8140 to 8188 Hz
d. None of the above
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157. What is used to transmit more than one conversation over a path?
a. Hybrid
b. Tandem
c. Multiplexing
d. All of the above
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158. The common channel signaling method
a. Uses the same channel for signaling as for the related conversation
b. Uses a separate channel for signaling only
c. Carries the signaling for only one related conversation
d. Is used on local loops
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159. Telephone switching is accomplished by
a. Manual switchboard
b. Step-by-step switches
c. Crossbar switches
d. Any of the above
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160. The step-by-step switch
a. Was invented by Strowger
b. Generates much noise
c. Cannot operate directly from DTMF tones
d. All of the above
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161. Time division multiplexing is used for
a. Analog transmission
b. Digital transmission
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
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162. What type of transmitter is most commonly used in a conventional telephone
handset?
a. Carbon
b. Electromagnetic
c. Electret
d. Ceramic
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163. Which component in the telephone set has the primary function of compensating
for the local loop length?
a. Resistor
b. Varistor
c. Capacitor
d. Induction coil
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164. What type of receiver is most commonly used in a conventional telephone handset?
a. Carbon
b. Electromagnetic
c. Electret
d. Ceramic
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165. Which component in the telephone set has the primary function of interfacing the
handset to the local loop?
a. Resistor
b. Varistor
c. Capacitor
d. Induction coil
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166. How many unique tones are used for the 12-key dual-tone multi-frequency keypad?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 7
d. 12
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167. Which of the following are important for the proper interface of a DTMF generator to
the telephone line?
a. Impedance
b. Tone amplitude
c. Loop current
d. All of the above
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168. The anti-tinkle circuit
a. Prevents tampering with the telephone
b. Prevents dial pulsing from ringing the bell
c. Prevents speech signals from ringing the bell
d. All of the above
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169. The sidetone is
a. A type of feedback
b. Determined by the balancing network
c. Permits the talker to hear his/her own voice
d. All of the above
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170. On-hook current must be kept low so that the
a. Line relays in the central office will not mistake it for off-hook current
b. Comparatively small wires in the cables will not overheat
c. Ringer will not ring incorrectly
d. Carbon microphone will not be damaged
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171. Overvoltage protection is
a. Needed in the telephone set because of the high ringing voltage
b. Is nearly always incorporated in the IC chip
c. Is primarily a central office function
d. Needed because of transients from dial pulsing, lightning, induction or short circuit
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172. A special rectifier bridge is used in electronic telephone because
a. The ac power must be converted to dc to simulate a battery
b. it is necessary to shunt the speech frequencies and keep them off of the loop
c. the voltage drop across conventional bridges leaves too little voltage to operate the
set
d. All of the above
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173. Voltage and current regulation
a. Is provided by the central office
b. Is needed to ensure proper IC operation
c. Can be performed by circuits built into the IC
d. B and C above
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174. Memory is added to the telephone set to
a. Allow more digits to be dialed
b. Allow faster dialing
c. Allow automatic redialing of the last number dialed
d. None of the above
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175. What is the function of the diode rectifier bridge in the line circuit?
a. Lower the voltage to the telephone electronics
b. Raise the voltage to the telephone electronics
c. Short out the line when the set is on-hook
d. Protect the set against polarity reversals on the line
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176. What bad electrical effect happens when the switch-hook is opened?
a. A high voltage transient is generated
b. The line is shorted out
c. The line is opened
d. No bad effects happen
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177. Pulse dialing occurs at the rate of
a. 20 pulses per minute
b. 10 pulses per minute
c. 10 pulses per second
d. 80 pulses per second
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178. How many different tones may be produced by a four-column DTMF keypad?
a. 2
b. 8
c. 4
d. 16
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179. What is the advantage of electronic ringers?
a. Louder volume
b. Smaller size
c. Good directionality
d. Greater weight
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180. What function are provided in a multi-tone ringing generator?
a. Anti-tinkle circuitry
b. Tone generation
c. Output amplifier
d. All of the above
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181. The DTMF generator in an electronic phone produces tones using a(an)
a. LC circuit
b. RC circuit
c. Digital divider circuit
d. Digital multiplier circuit
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182. Which function is not required in an integrated telephone circuit?
a. Regulator
b. Dialer
c. Visual display
d. Speech network
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183. Transient protection is provided for integrated telephone circuits is typically
provided by
a. Bridge rectifiers
b. Zener diodes
c. Inductors
d. Capacitors
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184. Speakerphones operate in
a. Full-duplex mode
b. Half-duplex mode
c. Open-duplex mode
d. Computer mode
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185. Sampling the analog wave produces
a. Impulse noise
b. Phase distortion
c. Pulse amplitude modulation
d. Frequency coherence
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186. The simplest form of coding is
a. Diphase
b. Hybrid
c. Compressed
d. Linear
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187. In digital multiplexing systems, bit interleaving is used in
a. Lower level systems
b. Higher level systems
c. To interleave a code word
d. All of the above
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188. Synchronous multiplexed systems have the time placement of bits
a. Dedicated
b. Unassigned
c. Random
d. As required
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189. A synchronous multiplexed systems are used
a. Mostly for voice transmission
b. Mostly for data transmission
c. To carry only speech information
d. All of the above
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190. Fold-over distortion or aliasing is
a. Eliminated by filtering out the frequencies below 300 Hz
b. Another name for crosstalk
c. The presence of spurious frequencies caused by having too high frequencies in the
sampled signal
d. None of the above
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191. Multiplexer systems used in the public network are of the ______ type.
a. Synchronous
b. Plesiochronous
c. Asynchronous
d. Isochronous
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192. The line coding scheme used for the DS-1 signal is
a. Non-return-to-zero
b. Binary 3 zero-substitutions
c. Ternary
d. Bipolar
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193. Modems are required to connect to telephone lines because
a. The telephone network bandwidth is too high
b. The telephone network will not pass direct current
c. Telephone company rules require them
d. None of the above
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194. The most common technique for binary data transmission
a. Bisynchronous transmission
b. Synchronous transmission
c. Asynchronous transmission
d. Plesiochronous transmission
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195. Asynchronous data transmission requires a clock
a. At the transmitter end
b. At the receiver end
c. At neither end
d. At both ends
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196. What kind of modulation is used in modems?
a. Phase modulation
b. Frequency modulation
c. Amplitude modulation
d. All of the above
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197. The parameter that most affects transmission of the high speed modem data is
a. Phase distortion
b. Amplitude distortion
c. Frequency shift
d. Impulse noise
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198. Protocols may be
a. Bit oriented
b. Byte oriented
c. Character oriented
a. All of the above
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199. The telephone network is being converted to digital operation primarily to
a. Carry digital computer data
b. Reduce costs
c. Improve speech quality
d. Increase system capacity
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200. A code for a 64-interval must produce how many bits?
a. 2
b. 10
c. 8
d. 7
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201. The MTSO searches the location of a mobile phone. This is called ______
a. Handoff
b. Hand on
c. Paging
d. Receiving
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202. Mobile cellular transmitter have a maximum output power of
a. 1 mW
b. 10 W
c. 3 W
d. 500 mW
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203. A province in the Philippines has an area of 2000 sq km. it has to be covered by
cellular mobile telephone service using cells with a radius of 2 km. assuming hexagonal
cells, find the number of cell sites needed.
a. 154
b. 144
c. 145
d. 132
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204. IS-95 system uses direct sequence spread spectrum with a chipping rate of
a. 1.23 MHz
b. 200 kHz
c. 500 MHz
d. 10.7 MHz
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205. Modulation scheme used by cellular CDMA system
a. BPSK
b. QPSK
c. QAM
d. GFSK
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206. How often will hand-offs occur when vehicle travels through a CMTS at 100 km per
hour speed if the distance between cell sites is 10 km?
a. 6 mins
b. 12 mins
c. 395 sec
d. 10 hrs
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207. The TACS base station frequency range of operation
a. 821-849 MHz and 869-894 MHz
b. 890-915 MHz and 935-960 MHz
c. 870-885 MHz and 925-940 MHz
d. 825-890 MHz and 925-970 MHz
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208. The antenna separation required in a cellular system when the antenna height at
the base is 15 m is
a. 5.477 m
b. 1.364 m
c. 4.869 m
d. 2.434 m
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209. What type of modulation is used by a standard analog cordless telephone?
a. AM
b. FM
c. PSK
d. WAM
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210. Cellular communication began in
a. 1977
b. 1956
c. 1983
d. 1999
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211. When calculating the data rates for LMDS, capacity is the number of cell sites
multiplied by which of the following?
a. The capacity per cell site
b. The number of cells
c. The number of sectors in the cell site
d. The sector capacity
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212. The name for an alternative form of cellular communication which operates in
specialized mobile radio band just adjacent to the cellular frequency band. It is a blend of
wireless interconnects and dispatch services which makes it very unique compared to
existing cellular and PCS systems
a. iDEN
b. CDMA
c. JTACS
d. PDC
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213. The MTSO is responsible for ______.
a. Connecting the cell with the telephone central office
b. Assigning channels for retransmission
c. Billing function
d. All of the above
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214. The master control center for a cellular telephone system is the
a. Cell site
b. Mobile telephone switching office
c. Central office
d. Branch office
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215. The IS-54 system uses TDMA with three calls per 30 kHz channel. The modulation
used is
a. PSK
b. FM
c. DQPSK
d. QAM
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216. Which of the following is used to estimate the distance that a subscriber can be
located while still achieving acceptable reliability?
a. Call-size selection
b. Link budget
c. Capital cost model
d. Cell design
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217. It is a spread spectrum technology that relies on time-division duplexing
a. IS-661
b. IS-136
c. PCS 1900
d. PDC
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218. Which of the following is not a 3G system?
a. IMT-2000
b. WCDMA
c. UMTS
d. TDMA IS-136
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219. The unlicensed national information infrastructure band
a. 5 GHz
b. 54 GHz
c. 2.4 GHZ
d. 880 MHz
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220. Cellular radios use FM with a maximum deviation of plus or minus __
a. 12 kHz
b. 20 kHz
c. 15 kHz
d. 30 kHz
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221. IS-136, IS-95 and iDEN belong to
a. 1G
b. 2G
c. 2.5G
d. 3G
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222. A wireless data communication service, standard or technology in which data
packets are transmitted
a. EDGE
b. GPRS
c. CDMAOne
d. IS-136
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223. IEEE standard pertaining to wireless networks
a. 802.6
b. 802.11
c. 802.12
d. 802.15
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224. Soft handoff is a flawless handoff which normally takes ___., which is imperceptible
to voice telephone users.
a. 300 ms
b. 600 ms
c. 200 ms
d. 500 ms
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225. A Bluetooth network can have ___ master(s).
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Eight
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226. The GSM system uses the 890- to 915- and 935- to 960-MHz frequency range. There
are 124 25 kHz channels spaced 200 kHz intervals. The modulation is ______.
a. GMSK
b. QPSK
c. MSK
d. GFSK
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227. Which of the following is not included in the LMDS network management?
a. Fault management
b. Configuration management
c. Accounting management
d. Tower management
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228. A ___ is a computerized center that is responsible for connecting calls, recording call
information and billing
a. Base station
b. Mobile switching center
c. Cell
d. Mobile station
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229. What determine the size of the cell?
a. The area terrain
b. The area population
c. The number of MTSOs
d. All of the above
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230. LDMS is an acronym for which of the following?
a. Link multipoint digital service
b. Local multipoint distribution service
c. Low-speed multiple data streams
d. Local multimedia distribution service
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231. In ___, a mobile station always communicates with just one base station.
a. Roaming
b. A hard handoff
c. A soft handoff
d. A roaming handoff
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232. LDMS optimizes frequency reuses by optimizing which of the following?
a. Minimizing multipathing
b. Cross polarization
c. Sectoring the distribution system
d. All of the above
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233. In cellular telephony, a service area is divided into small regions called _____.
a. Cells
b. Cell offices
c. MTSOs
d. Relay sites
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234. _______ is a first generation cellular phone system
a. AMPS
b. D-AMPS
c. GSM
d. IS-95
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235. ______ is a cellular telephone system popular in Europe.
a. AMPS
b. D-AMPS
c. GSM
d. IS-95
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236. IS-95 has a frequency reuse factor of
a. 1
b. 5
c. 7
d. 95
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237. ________ base stations use GPS for synchronization.
a. AMPS
b. D-AMPS
c. GSM
d. IS-95
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238. NMT is a cellular standard developed by the Nordic countries of Sweden. Denmark,
Finland, and Norway in ______.
a. 1983
b. 1989
c. 1981
d. 1980
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239. Cellular receiver sensitivity
a. 50 dB
b. 40 dB
c. 20 dB
d. 35 dB
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240. When a single cell is subdivided into smaller cells, the process is called
a. Cell division
b. Cell sharing
c. Cell splitting
d. Cell reuse
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241. What modulation technique uses digital modulation technique?
a. BPSK
b. QPSK
c. GFSK
d. GMSK
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242. Supervisor audio tone frequency
a. 6000 Hz
b. 6010 Hz
c. 5960 Hz
d. 6040 Hz
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243. Spacing between the simultaneously used transmit and receive frequencies is
a. 45 MHz
b. 30 kHz
c. 12kHz
d. 200 kHz
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244. Each cell site contains a
a. Repeater
b. Control computer
c. Direct link to a branch exchange
d. Touch-tone processor
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245. Cellular telephones use what type of operation?
a. Simplex
b. Half-duplex
c. Full-duplex
d. Triplex
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246. In a cellular radio, the duplexer is a
a. Ferrite isolator
b. Waveguide assemble
c. Pair of TR/ATR tubes
d. Pair of sharp bandpass filters
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247. The output of a cellular radio is controlled by the
a. User or caller
b. Cell site
c. AMPS
d. MTSO
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248. What is the system used by Personal Communications Network?
a. PCS 1900
b. Modified GSM
c. AMPS
d. DCS 1800
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249. Multiple access scheme used by DECT
a. CDMA
b. FDMA/CDMA
c. TDMA
d. FDMA
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250. Voted cellular digital standard at TIA
a. IS-136
b. AMPS
c. PCS 1900
d. PDC
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251. Base station transmitter output power of Improved Mobile System (IMTS)
A.100-W to 200-W range
B. 200-W to 300-W range
C. 150-W to 400-W range
D. 300-W to 400-W range
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252. The chipping rate of WCDMA (UMTS)
A. 1.25 Mcps
B. 3.6484 Mcps
C. 3.84 Mcps
D. 1.22 Mcps
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253. A technique that divides the group of channels into smaller groupings or segments
of mutually exclusive frequencies; cell sites, which are within the reuse distance is
assigned their own segment of the channel group
A. sectoring
B. dualization
C. partitioning
D. segmentation
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254. The actual voice channel where mobile users communicate directly with other
mobile or wireline subscriber through the base station
A. control channel
B. forward channel
C. reverse channel
D. voice channel
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255. Supervisory Audio Tones(SAT) have the following frequencies except:
A. 5940 Hz
B. 5970 Hz
C. 6000 Hz
D. 6030 Hz
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256. Each cell site contains a
A. Repeater
B. Control computer
C. Direct-link to a branch exchange
D. Touch-tone processor
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257. A class II mobile phone using AMPS has an ERP of
A. –6 dBW
B. –4 dBW
C. 2 dBW
D. 6 dBW
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258. The wideband designation in Wideband-CDMA (WCDMA) denotes a bandwidth of
A. 2.5 MHz
B. 3 MHz
C. 4.5 MHz
D. 5 MHz
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259. An automobile travels at 60 km/hr. Find the time between fades in the car uses a
PCS phone at 1900 MHz.
A. 2.4 ms
B. 3.4 ms
C. 4.7 ms
D. 5.1 ms
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260. A cellular system is capable of coping with handoffs once every 2 minutes. Suppose
this system is in the city with maximum car speeds of 65km/hr. What is the maximum
cell radius for this urban system?
A. 1.08 km
B. 3 km
C. 5 km
D. 2 km
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261. How wide is the spectrum bandwidth of a single GSM carrier?
A. 16 kHz
B. 200 kHz
C. 100 kHz
D. 50 kHz
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262. Changing the time order of digital information before transmission to reduce the
effect of burst errors in the channel.
A. progression
B. interleaving
C. epoch
D. raking
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263. The bandwidth of WCDMA is ___ times larger than GSM.
A. 5
B. 15
C. 20
D. 25
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264. It is the process in which the same set of frequencies can be allocated to more than
one cell, provided that the cells are separated by a sufficient distance
A. frequency reuse
B. handoff
C. clustering
D. radio survey
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265. A connection is momentarily broken during the cell-to-cell transfer is called ______.
A. hard handoff
B. soft handoff
C. medium handoff
D. light handoff
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266. Transmission from mobile stations to the base stations is called
A. forward link
B. reverse link
C. control link
D. user link
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267. It is a database in the PCS network that stores information about the user, including
home subscription information and what supplementary services the user is subscribed
to.
A. visitor location register
B. home location register
C. equipment identification register
D. authentication register
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268. Determine the transmit power for a CDMA mobile unit that is receiving a signal from
the base station at 100 dBm
A. 12 dBm
B. 24 dBm
C. 36 dBm
D. 14 dBm
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269. When transmitting digital information, voice transmission is inhibited, this is called
______.
A. quieting
B. muting
C. blank-and-burst
D. any of these
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270. A metropolitan area of 1000 square km is to be covered by cells with a radius of 2
km. How many cell sites would be required, assuming hexagonal cells?
A. 72
B. 73
C. 74
D. 75
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271. Refers to a land station in a maritime mobile services
A. coast station
B. maritime station
C. coast earth station
D. ship earth station
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272. Class of orthogonal spreading coded used in CDMA communication.
A. Color code
B. Walsh code
C. PCS code
D. CDMA
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273. In a spread spectrum system, the tendency for a stronger signals to interfere with
the reception of weaker signals.
A. near-far field
B. near-far effect
C. direct-sequence
D. spread-spectrum
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274. Macrocells have base stations transmit power between _____.
A. 3 W to 7 W
B. 1 W to 6 W
C. 2 W to 8 W
D. 0.1 W to 5 W
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275. It is when the area of a cell, or independent component coverage areas of a cellular
system, is further divided, thus creating more cell areas.
A. cell splitting
B. cell clustering
C. cell partitioning
D. cell sectoring
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276. It is when a mobile unit moves from one cell to another from one company’s service
area to another company’s service area.
A. roaming
B. handoff
C. handover
D. paging
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277. It is a 34-bit binary code that represents the 10-digit telephone number
A. electronic serial number
B. system identification
C. digital color code
D. mobile identification number
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278. The bandwidth of WCDMA is __ times larger than CDMAone.
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
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279. Receive channel 22 is 870.66 MHz. Receive channel 23 is
A. 870.36 MHz
B. 870.63 MHz
C. 870.96 MHz
D. 870.69 MHz
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280. In mobile wireless communication, the radio equipment and the propagation path
A. FSL
B. air interface
C. direct link
D. mobile interface
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281. The signaling one may be transmitted on the voice channel during a call in what
frequency?
A. 25 kHz
B. 20 kHz
C. 15 kHz
D. 10 kHz
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282. Station in the mobile service not intended to be used while in motion.
A. base station
B. fixed station
C. coast station
D. land station
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283. In the GSM system, a “smart card” containing all user information, which is inserted
into the phone before use.
A. IMSI
B. IMEI
C. IMTS
D. SIM
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284. Determine the number of channels per cluster of a cellular telephone area
comprised of 10 clusters with seven cells in each cluster and 10 channels in each cell.
A. 70 channels per cluster
B. 700 channels per cluster
C. 7000 channels per cluster
D. 7 channels per cluster
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285. Determine the channel capacity if 7 macrocells with 10 channels per cell is split into
4 minicells
A. 120 channels per area
B. 360 channels per area
C. 280 channels per area
D. 460 channels per area
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286. Technique of spread spectrum that breaks message into fixed-size blocks of data
with each block transmitted in sequence except on the different carrier frequency.
A. spread spectrum
B. time-division multiplexing
C. frequency-hopping
D. direct sequence
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287. A base and mobile is separated by 5 km. What is the propagation time for a signal
traveling between them?
A. 14.5 µsec
B. 18.9 µsec
C. 20.8 µsec
D. 16.7 µsec
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288. A digital identification associated with a cellular system
A. MIN
B. ESN
C. SAT
D. SIM
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289. A new regulation issued by the National Telecommunications Commission providing
for the guideline for mobile personal communication having a global coverage using
satellite.
A. NMT
B. GMPCS
C. GSM
D. TACS
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290. The following are the typical cluster size except
A. 3
B. 7
C. 12
D. 15
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291. Provides a centralized administration and maintenance point for the entire network
end interfaces with the public telephone network through the telephone wireline voice
trunks and data links
A. PSTN
B. MTSO
C. central offices
D. MSC
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292. It is a digital telephone exchange located in the MTSO that is the heart of a
telephone system
A. mobile switching center
B. electronic switching center
C. gateway switching center
D. electronic mobile switching center
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293. A database in the PCS network that stores information pertaining to the
identification and type of equipment that exist in the mobile unit.
A. visitor location register
B. home location register
C. equipment identification register
D. authentication register
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294. When a signal from a mobile cellular unit drops below a certain level, what action
occurs?
A. The unit is “handed off” to a closer cell.
B. The call is terminated.
C. The MTSO increases power level.
D. The cell site switches antenna.
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295. A method of transmitting data on AMPS cellular telephone voice channels that are
temporary unused.
A. cellular digital packet data
B. digital color code
C. control mobile attenuation code
D. electronic serial code
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296. A vehicle travels through a cellular system at 100 km per hour. Approximately how
often will handoffs occur if the cell radius is 10 km.
A. 12 min
B. 14 min
C. 16 min
D. 18 min
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297. In the GSM system, a telephone number that is unique to a given user, worldwide.
A. IMTS
B. IMEI
C. IMSI
D. SIM
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298. An area divided into hexagonal shapes that fit together to form a honeycomb
pattern is called ______.
A. cluster
B. transport area
C. cell
D. area of responsibility
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299. Determine the channel capacity of a cellular telephone area comprised of twelve
macrocell with ten channels per cell
A. 12 channels per area
B. 120 channels per area
C. 1200 channels per area
D. 12000 channels per area
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300. Transmission from base stations to mobile stations is called ____.

A. forward link
B. reverse link
C. control link
D. user link
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301. The output power of a cellular radio is controlled by the
A. user or caller
B. cell site
C. called party
D. MTSO
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302. EDGE channel size is about
A. 250 kHz
B. 200 kHz
C. 150 kHz
D. 100 kHz
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303. A switching facility connecting cellular telephone base stations to each other and to
the public switched telephone network.
A. MTSO
B. MSC
C. VLR
D. AuC
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304. A radio land station in the land mobile service
A. land station
B. ship earth station
C. base station
D. mobile station
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305. Transmission of brief text messages, such as pages or e-mail, by cellular radio or
PCS.
A. SMS
B. MMS
C. paging
D. raking
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306. The point when the cell reaches maximum capacity occurs when the number of
subscribers wishing to place a call at any given time equals the number of channels in
the cell
A. saturation
B. blocking traffic
C. maximum traffic load
D. any of these
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307. In IS-41 standard, it is a process where the mobile unit notifies a serving MTSO of its
presence and location through a base station controller.
A. dependent registration
B. autonomous registration
C. air interface
D. BTS to BSC interface
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308. Cellular telephones use which operation?
A. simplex
B. half-duplex
C. full-duplex
D. triplex
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309. A receiver capable of receiving several versions of the same signal with different
arrival times and combining the received versions into a single signal with better quality
A. scanners
B. rake receivers
C. mobile subscriber unit
D. mobile stations
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310. In CMTS, the most important database for GSM is ____.
A. VLR
B. HLR
C. BTS
D. AUC
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311. In CMTS, the number of duplex voice channels for AMPS is ____.
A. 676
B. 285
C. 395
D. 790
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312. A geographic cellular radio coverage area containing three of more group of cells
A. cluster
B. cell
C. radio channel
D. MSC/VLR area
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313. A flawless cell-to-cell transfer is called ____.
A. hard handoff
B. soft handoff
C. heavy handoff
D. light handoff
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314. The bit length of System Identification (SID)
A. 32
B. 15
C. 10
D. 8
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315. The RF power output of a transmitter in a cellular mobile telephone system
authorized by NTC for use in the Philippines.
A. 20.5 dBm
B. 31.5 dBm
C. 34.8 dBm
D. 22.1 dBm
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316. A class III mobile phone using AMPS has an ERP of
A. 4 W
B. 1.6 W
C. 600 mW
D. 1.4 W
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317. ____ is measuring the propagated field strength over the projected service area.
A. radio monitoring
B. radio sounding
C. radio survey
D. none of these
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318. Transmission of data in two directions on a channel by using different time slots for
each directions.
A. time-division multiplexing
B. time-division multiple access
C. time-division duplexing
D. time-division
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319. When the cluster size is reduced with a constant cell size, what happens to the total
channel capacity?
A. decreases
B. increases
C. stays constant
D. depends on the number of cell cites
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320. The transfer of a mobile unit from one base station’s control to another base
station’s control
A. handoff
B. paging
C. roaming
D. dualization
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321. What is the frequency deviation of AMPS?
A. 12 kHz
B. 6 kHz
C. 3 kHz
D. 18 kHz
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322. The bit length of Digital Color Code (DCC)
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
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323. A transmit channel has a frequency of 837.6 MHz. The receive channel frequency is
A. 729.6 MHz
B. 837.6 MHz
C. 867.6 MHz
D. 882.6 MHz
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324. A frequency-hopping spread-spectrum system hops to each of 100 frequencies
every 10 seconds. How long does it spread on each frequency?
A. 0.2 sec/hop
B. 0.4 sec/hop
C. 0.3 sec/hop
D. 0.1 sec/hop
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325. What is the transmission rate of a GSM cellular system?
A. 128 kbps
B. 240 kbps
C. 64 kbps
D. 270 kbps
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326. A card with an embedded integrated circuit that can be used for functions such as
storing subscriber information for a PCS system.
A. smart card
B. SIM
C. Intelligent card
D. Credit card
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327. It is a means of avoiding full-cell splitting where the entire area would otherwise
need to be segmented into smaller cells.
A. segmentations
B. dualization
C. sectoring
D. splitting
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328. A channel used for transferring control and diagnostic information between mobile
users and a central cellular telephone switch through the base stations.
A. forward channel
B. voice channel
C. control channel
D. reverse channel
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329. It is the provision of voice communication using internet protocol technology,
instead of traditional circuit switched technology.
A. WAP
B. GPRS
C. VOIP
D. WIFI
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330. Determine the total number of channel capacity of a cellular telephone area
comprised of 10 clusters with seven cells in each cluster and 10 channels in each cell.
A. 7 channels
B. 70 channels
C. 700 channels
D. 7000 channels
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331. Technique used in spread spectrum that adds a high-bit rate pseudorandom code to
a low bit rate information signal to generate a high-bit rate pseudorandom signal closely
resembling noise that contains both the original data signal and pseudorandom noise.
A. direct-sequence
B. frequency-division multiplexing
C. frequency hopping
D. CDMA
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332. Refers to the first generation of local loop system in telecommunication technology
A. TACS
B. DECT
C. Analog cellular
D. GSM
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333. An information sent by the base station in a cellular radio system set the power
level of the mobile transmitter.
A. cellular digital packet data
B. digital color code
C. control mobile attenuation code
D. electronic serial code
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334. A 32-bit binary code permanently assigned to each of the mobile unit
A. supervisory audio tone
B. station class mark
C. electronic serial number
D. visitor location register
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335. It serves as central control for all users within that cell
A. base stations
B. antennas
C. transceivers
D. mobile subscriber units
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336. What modulation technique is used by Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)
A. WBFM
B. VSB
C. NBFM
D. FSK
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337. A database in the PCS network that stores information about subscribers in a
particular MTSO serving area
A. international mobile subscriber identification
B. visitor location register
C. home location register
D. authentication register
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338. In cellular phone, a memory location that stores the telephone number(s) to be
used on the system.
A. EPROM
B. UVPROM
C. EEPROM
D. NAM
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339. A province in the Philippines has an area 2000 sq. kms. It has to be covered by a
cellular mobile telephone service using cells with a radius of 3 kms. Assuming hexagonal
cells, find the number of cell sites needed.
A. 100
B. 500
C. 166
D. 145
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340. The modulation technique used by GSM cellular system.
A. QAM
B. Phase Shift Keying
C. Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
D. Frequency Shift Keying
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341. Microcells have base stations transmit power between ____.
A. 0.4 W to 0.7 W
B. 1 W to 6 W
C. 0.5 W to 8 W
D. 0.1 W to 1 W
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342. Determine the receive carrier frequencies for AMPS channel 3 and channel 991
A. 870.09 MHz and 869.04 MHz
B. 879.09 MHz and 859.04 MHz
C. 869.09 MHz and 870.04 MHz
D. 869.04 MHz and 870.09 MHz
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343. Decreasing co-channel interference while increasing capacity by using directional
antenna is called ____.
A. clustering
B. splitting
C. partitioning
D. sectoring
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344. Soft handoff normally takes ____ of time delay.
A. 400 ms
B. 300 ms
C. 200 ms
D. 100 ms
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345. Component of a cellular telephone network that manages each of the radio
channels at each site.
A. base station controllers
B. base transceiver stations
C. mobile switching center
D. mobile telephone switching center
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346. The bit length of Station Class Mark (SCM).
A. 4
B. 5
C. 8
D. 10
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347. The master control center for a cellular telephone system is the
A. Cell site
B. MTSO
C. Central office
D. Branch office
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348. The maximum frequency deviation of an FM cellular transmitter is
A. 6 kHz
B. 12 kHz
C. 30 kHz
D. 45 kHz
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349. A receiver channel has a frequency is 872.4 MHz. to develop an 82.2 MHz IF, the
frequency synthesizer must apply an local oscillator signal of ____ (The local oscillator is
usually higher than the receive frequency)
A. 790.2 MHz
B. 827.4 MHz
C. 954.6 MHz
D. 967.4 MHz
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350. A class I mobile phone using AMPS has an ERP of
A. 6 dBW
B. 2 dBW
C. -2 dBW
D. -6 dBW
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351. The simplest and most straightforward form of telephone service is called
A. Public switch telephone network
B. Mobile telephone switching office
C. Plain and old telephone service
D. Central office service
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352. _______ are local telephone switches equipped with SS7-compatible software and
terminating signal links
A. switching points
B. service points
C. point codes
D. service switching points
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353. A PABX is normally connected to the central office via an interface device called
A. branch exchange unit
B. subscriber loop unit
C. foreign exchange unit
D. local exchange unit
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354. The most widely used fax standard is
A. group 1
B. group 2
C. group 3
D. group 4
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355. The modern Touch-tone telephone is called
A. 600-type telephone set
B. 2500-type telephone set
C. 2800-type telephone set
D. 1500-type telephone set
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356. Signals that provides call status information, such as busy or ringback signals
A. supervising
B. hybriding
C. controlling
D. ringing
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357. A signal sent back to the calling party at the same time the ringing signal is sent to
the called party
A. busy signal
B. ringing signal
C. ringback signal
D. dial tone
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358. It is comprised of two or more facilities, interconnected in tandem, to provide a
transmission path between a source and a destination
A. telephone line
B. telephone set
C. telephone circuit
D. telephone trunk
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359. The drum diameter of a facsimile machine is 90.2 mm and the scanning pitch is 0.2
mm per scan. Find the index of cooperation according to CCITT
A. 451
B. 2.22 x 10^-3
C. 1417
D. 144
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360. It is the ratio in dB of the power of a signal at that point to the power the same
signal would be 0-dBm at any point in the transmission system
A. data level
B. baseband level
C. voice level
D. transmission level
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361. It is an indirect method of evaluating the phase delay characteristics of the circuit
A. phase delay distortion
B. envelope delay distortion
C. non-linear distortion
D. linear distortion
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362. It is characterized by high-amplitude peaks of short duration having an
approximately flat frequency response
A. crosstalk
B. interference
C. impulse noise
D. drop out
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363. It is the presence of one or more continuous, unwanted tones within the message
channels, the tones are often caused by crosstalk or cross modulation between adjacent
channels in a transmission system due to system nonlinearities.
A. multiple-frequency interference
B. single-frequency interference
C. co-channel interference
D. desensitizing
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364. That portion of the local loop that is strung between the poles
A. aerial
B. distribution cable
C. feeder cable
D. twisted-pair
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365. It is the primary cause of attenuation and phase distortion on a telephone circuit
A. local line
B. local loop
C. subscriber loop
D. any of these
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366. It is simply the frequency response of a transmission medium referenced to a 1004
-Hz test tone
A. attenuation distortion
B. differential gain
C. 1004-Hz deviation
D. any of these
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367. The time delay measured in angular units, such as degrees or radians is called
__________
A. propagation time
B. phase delay
C. holding time
D. system delay time
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368. It is a communications term that indicates the presence of a signal power
comparable to the power of an actual message transmission
A. dynamic range
B. loaded
C. node
D. reference
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369. It is any device used to originate and terminate calls and to transmit and receive
signals into and out of the telephone network
A. instrument
B. station equipment
C. station
D. any of these
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370. Exchanges connected directly to the local loops are called ______________
A. central office
B. local exchange
C. exchange offices
D. any of these
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371. It provides functionality of communicating with the voice switch by creating the
packets or signal units necessary for transmission over the SS7 network
A. switching points
B. service points
C. point codes
D. service switching points
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372. In a 4-wire telephone set connection, (used to connect telephone set to central
office switching) the green coded wire is used _______________
A. as ground wire
B. to transmit the signal
C. to receive the signal from the far end
D. as a spare or for special purpose applications
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373. A technique where the called subscriber is served by any other central office, the
switching equipment will have to transfer the digit dialed to the called switching
equipment.
A. loop signaling
B. step-by-step switching
C. interoffice calling
D. duplex signaling
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374. Electromagnetic coupling between two or more physically interconnected
transmission media is what type of crosstalk?
A. coupling crosstalk
B. transmission crosstalk
C. linear crosstalk
D. non-linear crosstalk
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375. The number of dedicated lines used to interconnect 100 parties
A. 99 lines
B. 1250 lines
C. 4950 lines
D. 3450 lines
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376. Class of switching office which is the local exchange where the subscriber loops
terminated and received dial tone.
A. Class 5
B. Class 4C
C. Class 3
D. Class 1
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377. The maximum intelligibility of voice frequency is between
A. 2000 and 3000 Hz
B. 1000 and 3000 Hz
C. 2500 and 4000 Hz
D. 1000 and 2500 Hz
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378. It is the state of the telephone when it is idle.
A. on-hook
B. off-hook
C. semi-hook
D. hook-in
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379. Type of loop signaling which is widely used in new switching systems to supervise
trunks between two central offices.
A. battery and ground pulsing
B. reverse battery signaling
C. loop pulsing
D. duplex signaling
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380. Printed documents to be transmitted by fax are converted into a baseband
electrical signal by the process of
A. reflection
B. scanning
C. modulation
D. light variations
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381. The transmission speed of group 4 fax is
A. 4800 baud
B. 9600 baud
C. 56 kbps
D. 192 kbps
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382. It is a distortion formed if SSB is used where the information bandwidth is greater
than half of the carrier frequency.
A. near-far effect
B. hauffman effect
C. kendall effect
D. herringbone effect
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383. It is simply an unshielded twisted pair transmission line consisting of two insulated
conductors twisted together.
A. local loop
B. local line
C. subscriber loop
D. any of these
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384. It is an audible signal comprised of two frequencies: 350 Hz and 440 Hz
A. dial tone
B. ringback signal
C. busy tone
D. call waiting tone
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385. It enables the destination station of a telephone call to display the name of the
telephone number of the calling party before the telephone is answered.
A. conference call
B. call wait
C. call forwarding
D. caller id
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386. The largest cable used in a local loop, usually 3600 pair of copper wires placed
underground or in conduit.
A. feeder cable
B. distribution cable
C. drop wire
D. drop-wire cross-connect cables
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387. A weighting technique that assumes a perfect receiver only, therefore its weighting
curve corresponds to the frequency response of the ear only.
A. relative noise weighting
B. above relative noise weighting
C. C-message noise weighting
D. psophometric noise weighting
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388. The difference between the absolute delays of all frequencies.
A. relative phase delay
B. phase delay distortion
C. absolute phase delay
D. phase distortion
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389. A special type of line conditioning that sets the minimum requirements for signal-to-
noise ratio a nonlinear distortion.
A. A-type line conditioning
B. B-type line conditioning
C. C-type line conditioning
D. D-type line conditioning
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390. It is a form of incidental phase modulation – a continuous uncontrolled variations in
the zero crossings of a signal.
A. crosstalk
B. co-channel interference
C. phase jitter
D. spikes
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391. A type of crosstalk which is a direct result of nonlinear amplification in analog
communications system
A. linear crosstalk
B. transmittance crosstalk
C. nonlinear crosstalk
D. coupling crosstalk
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392. The operator of the telephone instrument
A. subscriber
B. destination
C. source
D. terminal
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393. It is a system of sensors, switches and other electronic and electrical devices that
allow subscriber to give instructions directly to the switch without having to go through
the operator.
A. manual switching system
B. automated switching system
C. common switching system
D. crossbar switching system
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394. Toll offices are connected to other toll offices with _____________
A. intertoll trunks
B. intratoll trunks
C. interoffice trunks
D. intraoffice trunks
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395. The highest ranking office in the DDD network in term of size of the geographical
area served and the trunk options available.
A. End office
B. Sectional center
C. Regional center
D. Toll center
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396. He invented the automatic line selector, which led to the automatic telephone
system.
A. Alexander Bain
B. Alexander Graham Bell
C. Thomas Edison
D. Almon Strowger
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397. It allows customers to change to a different service and still keep the same phone
number
A. changing
B. porting
C. transporting
D. portability
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398. By definition, speech power is equal to v.u. reading minus ___________
A. 1.8 dB
B. 4 dB
C. 1.4 dB
D. 3 dB
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399. When the telephone set is in the ____________ state, a direct current from the central
office (CO) flows through the transmitter and receiver of the handset.
A. on-hook
B. off-hook
C. semi-hook
D. hook-in
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400. Type of loop signaling which involves opening and closing the loop to dial to or
through the central office.
A. ear and mouth
B. duplex
C. loop pulsing
D. interoffice calling
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401. When the image at the receiving end of a facsimile transmission is elongated
vertically,
A. the transmitter IOC is less than the receiver IOC
B. the transmitter IOC is greater than the receiver IOC
C. the transmitter IOC is equal to the receiver IOC
D. the IOC is not a factor
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402. In FM fax, the frequencies for black and white are
A. 1300 and 2400 Hz
B. 2200 and 1500 Hz
C. 1500 and 2300 Hz
D. 1070 and 1270 Hz
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403. It is a measure of the faithful reproduction of scanned prints in a facsimile
communications.
A. fidelity
B. contrast
C. legibility
D. chroma
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404. The feedback signals that help prevent the speaker from talking too loudly.
A. busy tone
B. ringback tone
C. dial tone
D. sidetone
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405. It is the exchange of signaling messages between switching machines
A. loop signaling
B. station signaling
C. interoffice signaling
D. pulse signaling
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406. A signal sent from the switching machine back to the calling station whenever the
system cannot complete call because of equipment unavailability.
A. busy tone
B. call waiting tone
C. fax tone
D. congestion tone
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407. The final length of cable pair that terminates at the SNI
A. aerial
B. drop wire
C. distribution cable
D. cross-connect cables
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408. It is the difference in circuit gain experienced at a particular frequency with respect
to the circuit gain of a reference frequency.
A. dynamic range
B. absorption distortion
C. attenuation distortion
D. selective fading
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409. In telephone systems, a special type of line conditioning that pertains to line
impairments for which compensation can be made with filters and equalizers.
A. A-line conditioning
B. B-line conditioning
C. C-line conditioning
D. D-line conditioning
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410. An envelope delay distortion test on a basic telephone channel indicated that an
1800-Hz carrier experienced the minimum absolute delay of 400 µs. The maximum
envelope delay for a basic telephone channel is 1750 µs within the frequency range 800
Hz to 2600 Hz. What is the maximum envelope delay?
A. 2150 µs
B. 2550 µs
C. 3000 µs
D. 3400 µs
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411. In SS7 signaling points, codes that are carried in signaling messages exchanged
between signaling points to identify the source and destination of each message
A. signaling points
B. service points
C. switching points
D. point codes
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412. Stage of the step-by-step switching system that is composed of switches to
complete the connection to the called subscriber.
A. line equipment
B. switch train
C. connectors
D. switching network
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413. ____________ is the switching system that is a branch of the local central office.
A. local exchange
B. branch exchange
C. subscriber loop
D. line
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414. Most fax printers are of which type?
A. Impact
B. Thermal
C. Electrosensitive
D. Laser xerographic
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415. Aside from tip and ring used in local loops the third wire when used is called
__________.
A. reserve
B. sleeve
C. ground
D. none of these
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416. Acknowledgement and status signals that ensure the process necessary to set up
and terminate a telephone call are completed in an orderly and timely manner,
A. call progress tones and signals
B. call waiting tones and signals
C. incoming call tones and signals
D. call termination tones and signals
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417. POCSAG stands for
A. Post Office Code Standardization Advisory Group
B. Post Office Code System Advisory Group
C. Paging Operation Code Standardization Advisory Group
D. Paging Operation Code System Advisory Group
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418. The location where individual cable pairs within a distribution cable are separated
and extended to the subscriber’s location on a drop wire
A. feeder cable and distribution cable
B. drop wire and aerial cable
C. distribution cable and drop-wire cross-connect cables
D. distribution cable and aerial cable
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419. What is the standard bandwidth of voice channel according to CCITT
recommendations?
a. 300 – 3.4 kHz
b. 200 – 3.3 kHz
c. 20 – 20 kHz
d. 30 – 30 kHz
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420. A the receiver, the phase difference at the different carrier frequencies is called
_________.
A. propagation time
B. phase delay
C. envelope delay
D. envelope delay distortion
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421. It is a sudden, random changes in the phase of the signal. They are classified as
temporary variations in the phase of the signal lasting longer than 4 ms.
A. phase hits
B. phase jitter
C. interference
D. distortion
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422. Circuits that are designed and configured for their use only and often referred to as
private circuits or dedicated circuits.
A. switched circuits
B. leased circuits
C. virtual circuits
D. switched virtual circuits
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423. It is a programmable matrix that allows circuits to be connected to one another.
A. circuit switch
B. tap switch
C. equipment switch
D. cross switch
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424. Interstate long distance telephone calls require a small telephone office called
_________.
A. sectional office
B. regional office
C. toll office
D. end office
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425. A call that cannot be completed because the necessary trunk circuits or switching
paths are not available.
A. blocking
B. holding
C. storing
D. none of these
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426. A mandate that requires all telephone companies to support the porting of
telephone number.
A. national number portability
B. regional number portability
C. local number portability
D. sectional number portability
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427. The connection between the telephone and the central office’s switching
equipment.
A. line sensors
B. relay circuits
C. subscriber loop
D. supervisory relay
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428. An exact reproduction of a document or picture provided at the receiving end.
A. television
B. telecommunication
C. facsimile transmission
D. mobile communication
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429. What type of graphics are commonly transmitted by radio fax?
A. Newspaper text
B. Architectural drawings
C. Cable movies
D. Satellite weather photos
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430. It is comprised of a transmitter, receiver, an electrical network for equalization,
associated circuitry to control sidetone levels and to regulate signal power and
necessary signaling circuitry.
A. telephone
B. television
C. facsimile
D. computer
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431. Early paging system uses what modulation technique?
A. pulse modulation
B. amplitude modulation
C. phase modulation
D. frequency modulation
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432. A device that serves as a demarcation point between local telephone company
responsibility and subscriber responsibility for telephone service.
A. standard network interface
B. subscriber line interface card
C. system network architecture
D. network interface card
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433. It is the actual time required for a particular frequency to propagate from a source
to a destination through a communications channel.
A. relative phase delay
B. phase delay distortion
C. absolute phase delay
D. phase distortion
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434. It is a sudden, random change in the gain of the circuit resulting in a temporary
change in the signal level.
A. spikes
B. gain hits
C. jitter
D. echo
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435. A typical echo suppressor suppresses the returned echo by how much?
A. 10 dB
B. 30 dB
C. 45 dB
D. 60 dB
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436. In telephony, functions that supply and interpret control and supervisory signals
needed to perform the operation
A. calling functions
B. maintenance functions
C. signaling functions
D. transmission functions
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437. It is a central location where subscribers are interconnected, either temporarily or
on a permanent basis.
A. central offices
B. exchange offices
C. exchanges
D. any of these
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438. It is simply a path between two subscribers and is comprised of one or more
switches, two local loops or possibly one or more trunk circuits.
A. way
B. route
C. path
D. mode
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439. It defines the procedures and protocols necessary to exchange information over the
PSTN using a separate digital signaling network to provide wireless and wireline
telephone call setup, routing and control.
A. C7
B. common channel signaling system no. 7
C. SS7
D. any of these
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440. In a 4-wire telephone set connection, (used to connect telephone set to central
office switching) the red coded wire is used __________.
A. as ground wire
B. to transmit the signal
C. to receive the signal from the far end
D. as a spare or for special purpose applications
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441. The connection between two central offices
A. line
B. trunk
C. loop
D. signaling
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442. In facsimile, the length of time required to transmit a document
A. propagation time
B. transmission rate
C. holding time
D. transmission time
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443. It is a combination of passive components that are used to regulate the amplitude
and frequency response of the voice signals.
A. equalizer circuit
B. balanced transformer
C. balanced modulator
D. hybrid network
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444. A signal that is sent from the switching machine back to the calling station
whenever the called telephone number is off-hook.
A. dial tone signal
B. ringback signal
C. busy signal
D. off-hook signal
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445. A smaller version of the feeder cable containing less wire pairs.
A. aerial
B. drop wire
C. feeder cable
D. distribution cable
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446. It is a parameter equivalent to TLP except that it is used as a reference for data
transmission.
A. transmission level point
B. data level point
C. voice level point
D. baseband transmission point
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447. He developed the first instrument that transmitted music over a wire
A. Philipp Reis
B. Antonio Meucci
C. Thomas Edison
D. Almon Strowger
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448. It is used to convert two-wire circuits to four-wire circuits which is similar to hybrid
coil found in standard telephone sets.
A. balanced transformer
B. hybrid circuits
C. balanced modulator
D. hybrid transformers
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449. A switchboard with four digits can accommodate how many telephone numbers?
A. 1,000
B. 10,000
C. 100,000
D. 9999
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450. The trunk circuits that are terminated in tandem switches are called
A. tie trunks
B. tandem trunks
C. office trunks
D. exchange trunks
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451. The class of switching office that provides service to small groups of class 4 offices
within a small area of state.
A. Class 1
B. Class 4
C. Class 2
D. Class 3
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452. A device used to measure speech volume
A. volume unit meter
B. volume milliammeter
C. volume pulse meter
D. volume intensity meter
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453. The communications between two or three central offices is called
A. interoffice calling
B. trunk
C. interoffice link
D. loop
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454. In telephony, the –48 V dc voltage was used rather than ac voltages because
A. to prevent power supply hum
B. to allow service to continue in the event of power outage
C. because people are afraid of ac
D. all of these
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455. Category of signaling message that indicates a request of service, such as going off-
hook or ringing in the destination telephone
A. dial tone
B. signaling
C. supervising
D. alerting
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456. Occurs in coherent SSBSC systems, such as those using frequency division
multiplexing when the received carrier is not reinserted with the exact phase relationship
to the received signal as the transmit carrier possessed.
A. phase delay distortion
B. phase jitter distortion
C. phase intercept distortion
D. all of these
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457. It is simply the dedicated cable facility used to connect an instrument at a
subscriber’s station to the closest telephone office.
A. subscriber lines
B. local loops
C. subscriber loops
D. any of these
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458. A telephone call completed within a single local exchange is called
A. intraoffice call
B. intraexchange call
C. intraswitch call
D. any of these
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459. Type of Class 4 toll center usually had only outward operator service or perhaps no
operator service at all.
A. Class 2
B. Class 4P
C. Class 1
D. Class 3
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460. In a 4-wire telephone set connection, (used to connect telephone set to office
central switching) the yellow coded wire is used _______________.
A. as ground wire
B. to transmit the signal
C. to receive the signal from the far end
D. as a spare or for special purpose applications
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461. When the image at the receiving end of a facsimile transmission us elongated
horizontally,
A. the transmitter IOC is less than the receiver IOC
B. the transmitter IOC is greater than the receiver IOC
C. the transmitter IOC is equal to the receiver IOC
D. the IOC is not a factor
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462. It is a special balanced transformer used to convert a two-wire circuit into a four-
wire circuit and vice-versa.
A. equalizer circuit
B. balanced transformer
C. balanced modulator
D. hybrid network
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463. It is a method originally used to transfer digits in the telephone set to the local
switch.
A. tone dialing
B. dial pulsing
C. battery and ground pulsing
D. reverse battery pulsing
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464. It is the time required to propagate a change in an AM envelope through a
transmission medium
A. envelope delay distortion
B. phase delay
C. envelope delay
D. propagation time
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465. It is the primary source of transmission errors in data circuits
A. impulse noise
B. crosstalk
C. gain hits
D. interference
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466. It eliminates the echo by electrically subtracting it from the original signal rather
than disabling the amplifier in the return circuit.
A. echo suppressors
B. echo limiters
C. echo cancellers
D. any of these
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467. In telephony, functions that involve the actual transmission of a subscriber’s
messages and any necessary control signals.
A. transmission functions
B. signaling functions
C. maintenance functions
D. calling functions
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468. The first computer-controlled central office switching system used in PSTN
A. No.7 ESS
B. No.2 ESS
C. No.5 ESS
D. No. 1 ESS
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469. It is an exchange without a local loops connected to it
A. double office
B. tandem office
C. exchange office
D. local office
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470. The 5-class switching hierarchy is a __________ scheme that establishes an end-to-
end route mainly through trial and error.
A. interleaved switching
B. progressive switching
C. point-to-point switching
D. step-by-step switching
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471. The frequency range of maximum voice energy is between
A. 150 and 300 Hz
B. 300 and 3400 Hz
C. 250 and 500 Hz
D. 100 and 300 Hz
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472. The oldest of the automatic switching system
A. manual switching
B. step-by-step
C. common control
D. Electronic
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473. Group 3 fax used which modulation?
A. QAM
B. FSK
C. Vestigial sideband AM
D. FM
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474. Signals that provides information in the form of announcements, such as number
changed to another number, a number no longer in service, and so on
A. addressing
B. ringing
C. controlling
D. supervising
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475. The switch closure in an off-hook condition causes a range of dc current to flow on
the loop, what is that range of current?
A. 23 mA to 50 mA
B. 15 mA to 30 mA
C. 10 mA to 20 mA
D. 20 mA to 80 mA
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476. These are unused sections of cables that are connected in shunt working cable pair,
such as a local loop. They are used for party lines to connect to the same local loop.
A. cross-connect loop
B. drop wire tap
C. bridge tap
D. wire tap
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477. The time delay encountered by a signal as it propagates from a source to a
destination is called ____________.
A. propagation time
B. phase delay
C. holding time
D. system delay time
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478. It is the decrease in gain of more than 12 dB lasting longer than 4 ms and is a
characteristics of temporary open circuit conditions and are generally caused by deep
fades in radio facilities or by switching delays.
A. echo
B. jitter
C. gain hits
D. dropouts
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479. It is similar to the local loop except that it is used to interconnect two telephone
offices.
A. trunk lines
B. subscriber loop
C. local lines
D. subscriber lines
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480. Calls that are placed between two stations that are connected to different local
exchanges.
A. interoffice calls
B. interswitch calls
C. interexchange calls
D. any of these
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481. _________ is defined as a momentary on-hook condition that causes loop making and
breaking from the telephone set dialer toward the central office.
A. dial tone
B. dial pulsing
C. on-hook
D. off-hook
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482. In facsimile technology, it is a number derived from the width-height ratio.
A. numerical aperture
B. scanning spot
C. index of cooperation
D. cut-off frequency
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483. In RJ-11, the RJ stands for
A. Recommended Jack
B. Released Jack
C. Registered Jack
D. Radio Jack
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484. A cross-connect point used to distribute the larger feeder cable into smaller
distribution cables
A. SLIC
B. serving area interface
C. LATA
D. cross-connect cabinet
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485. The process used to improve a basic telephone channel is called
A. line turnaround
B. line conditioning
C. line sensing
D. line improvement
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486. In telephony, functions that identify and connect subscribers to a suitable
transmission path
A. transmission functions
B. signaling functions
C. switching functions
D. calling functions
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487. The telephone switching plan that allows a certain degree of route selection when
establishing a phone call.
A. NPA
B. switching hierarchy
C. toll hierarchy
D. interoffice hierarchy
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488. It provides access to the SS7 network access to databases used by switches inside
and outside of the network, and transfer of SS7 messages to other signaling points within
the network.
A. point codes
B. signaling points
C. service points
D. switching points
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489. The connection between the subscriber and his own particular central office.
A. trunk
B. line
C. signaling
D. pulsing
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490. It is a measure of how well we can distinguish closely spaced objects or identify
small items on a print.
A. resolution
B. legibility
C. contrast
D. hue
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491. It is the exchange of signaling messages over local loops between stations and
telephone company switching machines
A. loop signaling
B. station signaling
C. interoffice signaling
D. pulse signaling
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492. Modern paging system uses what modulation technique?
A. FSK and QPSK
B. PSK and QAM
C. ASK and FSK
D. FSK and PSK
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493. The talker hears a returned portion of the signal as an echo, what is the round-trip
time of delay for an echo to quite annoying?
A. 15 msec
B. 25 msec
C. 35 msec
D. 45 msec
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494. When subscriber initiates a long distance calls, the local exchange connects the
caller to the toll office through a facility called ________.
A. interoffice toll trunk
B. intraoffice toll trunk
C. interoffice exchange trunk
D. intraoffice exchange trunk
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495. Range of speech power
A. 100 – 1000 µW
B. 10 – 100 µW
C. 10 – 1000 µW
D. 1000 – 10000 µW
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496. Which resolution produces the best quality fax?
A. 96 lpi
B. 150 lpi
C. 200 lpi
D. 400 lpi
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497. Facsimile standards are set by the
A. FCC
B. DOD
C. CCITT
D. IEEE
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498. Telephone set component placed directly across the tip and ring to alert the
designation party of an incoming call
A. transmitter
B. receiver
C. ringer
D. dialer
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499. The reference frequency of a typical voice-band circuit is typically around _________.
A. 1500 Hz
B. 1300 Hz
C. 1700 Hz
D. 1800 Hz
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500. The most versatile and popular crossbar switch was __________.
A. #4YB
B. 5#YB
C. #5XB
D. #5ZB
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