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CNSST 3.2: Telephony, Cellular and Facsimile
CNSST 3.2: Telephony, Cellular and Facsimile
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The feedback signals that helps prevent the speaker from talking too loudly
Ans. Sidetone
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Aside from the tip and ring used in local loops the third wire when used is
called _____
Ans. sleeve
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Signals that provide call status information, such as busy or ringing signals
Ans. Supervising
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Signals that provide the routing information, such as calling and called
numbers
Ans. Addressing
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These are unused sections of cables that are connected in shunt working
cables.., such as local loop. They are used for party lines.
Ans. Bridge tap
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Special type of line conditioning that specifies the maximum limit for
attenuation distortion and envelope delay distortion
Ans. C-line conditioning
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A special type of line conditioning that sets the minimum requirements for
signal-to-noise ratio a nonlinear distortion
Ans. D-type line conditioning
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It is the 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.
Ans. Phase hits
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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?
Ans. 45 msec
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Circuits that are designed and configured for their use only and often
referred to as private circuits or dedicated circuits.
Ans. Leased circuits
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In a telephone channel, _____ is used if the total via net loss of a given
trunk circuit exceeds approximately 2.5 dB.
Ans. echo suppressor *
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A switchboard with four digits can accommodate how many telephone numbers
Ans. 10,000
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The trunk circuits that are terminated in tandem switches are called ______.
Ans. Tandem trunks or Intermediated trunks
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When subscriber initiates a long distance call, the local exchange connects
the caller to the toll office through a facility called _____,
Ans. Toll-connecting trunk or Inter-office toll trunk
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The telephone switching plan that allows a certain degree of route selection
when establishing a phone call
Ans. Switching hierarchy
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Class of switching office which is the local exchange where the subscriber
loops terminated and received dial tone.
Ans. Class 5 End office
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The class of switching office that provides service to small groups of class
4 offices within a small area of state
Ans. Class 3 Primary center
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The highest ranking office in the DDD network in terms of size of the
geographical area served and the trunk options available
Ans. Class 1 Regional center
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A telephone service that uses a common 800 area code regardless of the
location of the destination
Ans. Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS)
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It allows customers to change to a different service and still keep the same
phone number
Ans. Porting
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_____ are local telephone switches equipped with SS7-compatible software and
terminating signal links.
Ans. Service Switching Points (SSP)
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If a telephone voice signal has a level of 0 dBm, what is its level in dBrn?
Ans. 90 dBrn
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Traffic model used in telephone system that is based on the assumption, that
calls not immediately satisfied at the first attempt are held in the system until
it is satisfied?
Ans. Erlang C *
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100. A _____ site is a very small unit that can mount on a streetlight pole.
Ans. microcell
101. Very small cells called ______ are used for reliable indoor reception.
Ans. picocells
102. Compared with AMPS, digital cellular phones require _____ bandwidth.
Ans. less
103. What is the speed of Cellular Data Packet Data (CDPD)
Ans. 17.2 or 19.2
104. In analog CMTS, the interfering signal strength must remain approximately less than
_____ percent of the desired signal strength.
Ans. 2
105. SCM identifies the _______________.
Ans. maximum power level of a cellphone
122. 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.
Ans. Maximum traffic load
123. Determine the channel capacity of a cellular telephone area comprised of seven
macrocell with 10 channels per cell
Ans. 70 channels per area
124. Determine the channel capacity if 7 macrocells with 10 channels per cell is split
into 4 minicells.
Ans. 280 channels per area
125. Decreasing co-channel interference while increasing capacity by using directional
antenna is called _____.
Ans. Sectoring
126. 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
Ans. Segmentation
127. It is a means of avoiding full-cell splitting where the entire area would otherwise
need to be segmented into smaller cells.
Ans. Dualization
128. Provides a centralized administration and maintenance point for the entire network
and interfaces with the public telephone network through the telephone wireline voice
trunks and data links.
Ans. Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO)
129. It is when a mobile unit moves from one cell to another from one companys service
area to another companys service area.
Ans. Roaming
130. The transfer of a mobile unit from one base stations control to another base
stations control
Ans. Handoff or Handover
131. An open standard that allows PCs, peripherals, cordless telephones, and other
consumer electronic devices to communicate and interoperate with one another without
the complexity and expense associated with installing new wires?
Ans. Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP)
132. A connection is momentarily broken during the cell-to-cell transfer is called
Ans. Hard handoff
133. A flawless cell-to-cell transfer is called ______.
Ans. Soft handoff
134. Soft handoff normally takes _____ of time delay
Ans. 200 ms
135. 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
Ans. Autonomous registration
136. It is a digital telephone exchange located in the MTSO that is the heart of a
telephone system
Ans. Electronic switching center
137. Component of a cellular telephone network that manages each of the radio channels
at each site
Ans. Cell-site controllers or Base station controllers
138. The actual voice channel where mobile users communicate directly with other mobile
or wireline subscriber through the base station
Ans. User channel
139. A channel used for transferring control and diagnostic information between mobile
users and a central cellular telephone switch through the base stations.
Ans. Control channel
140. What modulation technique is used by Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)
Ans. Narrow band FM (NBFM)
141. What is the frequency deviation of AMPS?
Ans. 12 kHz
142. Transmission from mobile stations to the base stations is called _____.
Ans. Reverse link or Uplink
143. Determine the transmit and receive carrier frequencies for AMPS channel 3 and
channel 991.
Ans. 870.09 MHz and 869.04 MHz
144. It is a 34-bit binary code that represents the 10-digit telephone number.
Ans. Mobile Identification Number (MIN)
145. A 32-bit binary code permanently assigned to each of the mobile unit.
Ans. Electronic Serial Number (ESN)
146. Supervisory Audio Tones (SAT) have frequencies
Ans. 5970 Hz, 6000 Hz, and 6030 Hz
147. The bit length of System Identification (SID)
Ans. 15
148. The bit length of Station Class Mark (SCM)
Ans. 4
149. The bit length of Digital Color Code (DCC)
Ans. 2
150. 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.
Ans. Home Location Register (HLR)
151. A database in the PCS network that stores information about subscribers in a
particular MISO serving area.
Ans. Visitor Location Register (VLR)
152. Determine the transmit power for a CDMA mobile unit that is receiving a signal from
the base station at 100 dBm.
Ans. Pt = -76 dB Pr; Pt =-76 dB 100; Pt = 24 dBm
153. The North American PCS band is
Ans. 1.9 GHz
154. PCS cells are typically _______ than AMPS cells.
Ans. Smaller
155. IS-136 PCS is usually just called _______.
Ans. TDMA PCS
156. GSM is a _____ system.
Ans. TDMA
157. IS-95 PCS uses ______ technology.
Ans. CDMA
158. Current PCS systems are called ____-generation systems.
Ans. Second
159. Types of Class 4 toll center which provides human operators for both outward and
inward calling service.
Ans. Class 4C
160. The ERP of class II mobile phone used in GSM system.
Ans. 1.6
161. The ESS assigned at the factory of cellular mobile phone, consists of how many
bits?
Ans. 32
162. The speech coding rate for GSM cellular mobile is _______.
Ans. 13 kbps
163. What modulation technique is used by the European Cordless Telephone?
Ans. GFSK
164. Compared to AMPS, PCS cells are _______ in size.
Ans. Smaller
165. The spread-spectrum technique used in IS-95 is ________.
Ans. CDMA (direct sequence)
166. The spread-spectrum technique used in GSM is ________.
Ans. frequency hopping
167. Unlike AMPS, CDMA such as IS-95 allows for a _______ handoff.
Ans. Soft
168. The orthogonal PN sequences used in CDMA are called a ______ code.
Ans. Walsh
169. ______ diversity is inherent in any spread-spectrum system.
Ans. Frequency
170. RF channels S/N ratios _____ than zero is typical in CDMA systems.
Ans. Less
171. CDMA uses a ______-rate vocoder.
Ans. Variable
172. A phone user typically talks less than ________ of the time during a conversation.
Ans. 50%
173. How does GSM achieve frequency diversity?
Ans. It uses limited frequency hopping.
174. Why was PCS assigned to 1.9 GHz instead of the 800-MHz band used for AMPS?
Ans. The 800 MHz band was already overcrowded.
175. The forward PCS channel is
Ans. from base to the mobile
176. CDMA technology was invented by
Ans. Qualcomm
177. In GSM, voice channels are called
Ans. traffic channels
178. In CDMA
Ans. all frequencies are used in all cells
179. CDMA uses a set of PN sequences that are _______.
Ans. Orthogonal
180. If a 28.8 kbps modem is being used over a cell phone, how many words of text would
be lost during a 100-msec handoff interruption assuming 10 bits per letter and 5
letters per word?
Ans. 57.6
181. A certain cell site contains 200 cell phones. The probability that cell phone is
being used is 15%. What is the traffic in erlangs?
Ans. 30
182. WISPs offer access to the internet at speed up to _____ Mbps.
Ans. 11 *
183. The data signaling channel in a cellular system that handles the administrative
overhead is known as
Ans. Paging channel
184. The data rate of information transfer of mobile devices using Bluetooth
Ans. 1 Mbps
ACRONYMS
AMPS
BSC
CDPD
CMAC
DCC
EDGE
ERP
ESN
ESN
GPRS
IMSI
IMT
MIN
MSC
MSC
MTSO
NAM
PCS
PN
RCC
SAT
SCM
SID
SIM
UPT
UWT
WCDMA
WISP