sTopic: Digital Communications

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

3 (Correct Answer)
2. Exchange of predetermined signals when a connection is
established between two dataset devices.
handshaking (Your Correct Answer)
3. A data compression scheme that uses fewer bits to
represent more frequently occurring characters or bit patterns
and more bits to represent that occur less frequently.
Huffman code (Correct Answer)
4. _______ is the physical and logical relationship between
nodes in the network.
network topology (Correct Answer)
5. For a 16 QAM modem, the input to the modem is called:
quadbit (Correct Answer)
6. Two or more LAN linked together over a wide geographical
area.
WAN (Your Correct Answer)
7. Digital modulation scheme that represents a bit pattern by a
change in phase from the previous state.
DPSK (Correct Answer)

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

analog signal is digitized varies too quickly for the system to
follow.
slope overload (Your Correct Answer)
9. Digital switching concepts that can handle more channels:
TMS (Correct Answer)
10. An equipment that interfaces the data terminal equipment
to the analog transmission line.
Modem (Correct Answer)
11. Equipments that are classified as non-ISDN, thus,
computers terminals are connected to the system through
physical interfeaces.
TE2 (Correct Answer)
12. ______ is a data communications network designed to
provide two-way communications between a large varieties of
data communications terminal equipment within a relatively
small geographic area.
Local Area Network (Correct Answer)
13. _____ is the thermal noise power normalized to a 1-Hz
bandwidth and is characterized by the ratio of the noise power
and the bandwidth.
noise power density (Your Correct Answer)
14. ______ is defined as the ratio between the minimum
voltage and the quantization noise voltage.
signal-to-quantization noise ratio (Correct Answer)

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

a channel with a given noise level?
Shannon-Hartley theorem (Correct Answer)
16. An international organization concerned with devising and
preparing / proposing recommendations for international
telecommunications.
ISO (Correct Answer)
17. A seven-bit character can represent one of ______
possibilities.
128 (Correct Answer)
18. Which computer terminal can be programmed to perform
new functions?
Intelligent terminal (Correct Answer)
19. Codes must be:
agreed upon in advance between sender and receiver
(Your Correct Answer)
20. An assembly comprising of an encoder and a decoder in
the same equioment.
codec (Correct Answer)
21. T-1 carrier service has ______ digital bit rate.
1.544 Mbps (Correct Answer)
22. Refers to one of the commonly used internet service
domain.

 .net (Your Correct Answer)

23. Digital signals _______.

do not provide a continuous set of values

can utilize binary system
represent values as discrete steps
all of the above (Correct Answer)

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

signal-to-noise ratio of 15 dB. What is the maximum data rate
that can be transmitted using four possible outputs.
40 kbps (Correct Answer)
25. The transformation signal coding method for T1 carrier is:
BPRZ (Correct Answer)
26. What is the transmission rate of a system for transmitting
the output of a microcomputer to a line printer operating at a
speed of 60 lines/minute? Assume that the line printer has an
8 bits of data per character and prints out 90characters/line:
720 bps (Correct Answer)
27. Synchronization standard where the clock transition occurs
at almost the same rate.
plesiochronous (Correct Answer)
28. Quantizing noise is present in ______ system.
PCM (Correct Answer)
29. Asynchronous transmission is:

 is less efficient but simpler (Correct Answer)

30. The three common types of digital modulation techniques
used are:
PSK, FSK, QAM (Your Correct Answer)
31. Delta modulation is a/an:
1-bit differential PCM system (Correct Answer)
32. Modems will no longer be needed when terminal
equipment and transmission system are _____.
digital (Your Correct Answer)
33. In a binary digit system, how many bits are required to
transmit 32 equiprobable events?
5 (Correct Answer)
34. Indicate the false statement:

In QPSK, bit rate equals baud rate

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

35. DQDB in metropolitan area network is an acronym for

_______.
distributed queue dual bus (Correct Answer)
36. What is the Nyquist sample rate for a voice input of 10
kHz?
20 kHz (Correct Answer)

37. ______ is a network operating system within several

buildings in compound.
Novell Netware (Correct Answer)
38. In ______ modulation the carrier is a periodic train of
pulses.
pulse (Correct Answer)
39. Mode of communication system where both sides of the
system can transmit at the same time:
Full duplex (Your Correct Answer)
40. A transmission system for a multidrop network:
Polling (Correct Answer)
41. A cellular identification that gives the serial number or the
mobile equipment.
ESN (Correct Answer)
42. How many channels does a super group have?
60 (Correct Answer)
43. The north american TDMA digital cell phone standard
transmits at 24.3 kilo baud using DQPSK. What is the channel
data rate?
48.6 kbps (Correct Answer)
44. A means of improving the quality of a private-line circuit
by adding amplifiers and equalizers to it:
Line conditioning (Your Correct Answer)

45. A group of 8 bits is called:

byte (Your Correct Answer)
46. Who promulgate communications-related military
standards (MIL-STD)?
DCA (Correct Answer)
47. What is one principal difference between synchronous and
synchronous transmission?
the clocking is derived from the data in synchronous
transmission (Correct Answer)
48. A formal set of conventions governing the formatting and
relative timing of message exchange between two
communications system:
Protocol (Correct Answer)
49. Calculate the bandwidth required to transmit a DS-1 signal
using AMI code.
772 Khz (Correct Answer)
50. A transmission where data are inputted inside the carrier
wave:
> Broadband (Correct Answer)