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Digital and Data Com Questionnaire
Digital and Data Com Questionnaire
34.The hardware circuit used to generate the state of parity bit is composed of a
number of ____ gates.
a. NOT
b. NOR
c. XOR
d. OR
35.How many Hamming bits would have to be added to a data block containing
128 bits?
a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 9
36.Which standards organization developed the OSI model?
a. IEEE
b. ANSI
c. ISO
d. IETF
37.The OSI model consists of ____ layers.
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 8
38.What is the ITU specification for the RS232C?
a. V.2
b. V.24
c. V.25
d. V.42
39.This is the ordinary telephone twisted pair, one of several media specified in
the IEEE802.3 standard for Ethernet LANs.
a. 10Base2
b. 10Base5 c. 10BaseT
d. 10BaseFL
40.This is a device that can be used to connect one Ethernet network to another
nearby Ethernet network.
a. Repeater
b. Hub
c. Bridge
d. LAN card
41.In _____ TDM, the multiplexer allocates exactly the same time slots to each
device at all times.
a. Synchronous
b. Asynchronous
c. Statistical d. Statical
42.In ISDN, the ____ channel is used for applications requiring a transmission
rate greater than 64 kbps.
a. B
b. C
c. D
d. H
43.The BRI data rate
a. 56 kbps
b. 64 kbps c. 112 kbps
d. 144 kbps
44.A microwave system uses 256 QAM. If it has a channel with a 40 MHz
bandwidth, what is its maximum data rate, ignoring noise?
a. 40 Mbps
b. 256 Mbps c. 640 Mbps
d. 1280 Mbps
45.A modulator transmits symbols, each of which has 64 diferent possible
states, 10000 times per second. Calculate the bit rate.
a. 10kbps
b. 30 kbps c. 60 kbps
d. 64 kbps
46.A 32 QAM modulated signal has a baud rate of 2000, the bit rate is _____ bps.
a. 16000
b. 10000
c. 4000
d. 1000
47.Which LAN has the highest data rate?
a. 10Base5
b. 10BaseT c. Twisted Pair Token Ring d. FDDI
48.____ uses a physical star topology.
a. 10Base5
b. 10Base2 c. 10BaseT
d. 10BaseX
49.10Base2 uses _____ cable while 10Base5 uses _____ cable.
a. Thick coax, thin coax
c. thin coax, thick coax
b. Twisted pair, thick coax
d. fiber optic, thin coax
50.Find the minimum bandwidth for an FDM multiplexer with 5 lines, each
requiring 4000 Hz and a 200 Hz guard separating each band.
a. 20.8 kHz
b. 21 kHz
c. 21.5 kHz
d. 25 kHz
51.The __________ is the physical path over which a message travels
a. Protocol
b. Medium c. Signal
d. All of the above
d. Ring
d. Ring
d. Automatic
58.In a _______________ connection, more than two devices can share a single
link.
a. Point-to-point
b. Multipoint
c. Primary
d. Secondary
59.In _______________ transmission, the channel capacity is shared by both
communicating devices at all times.
a. Simplex
b. Half-duplex
c. Full-duplex
d. Halfsimplex
60.A cable break in a _____________ topology stops all transmission.
a. Mesh
b. Bus
c. Star
d. Primary
61.Which organization has authority over interstate and international commerce
in the communications field?
a. ITU-T
b. IEEE
c. FCC
d. ISO
62.The process-to-process delivery of the entire message is the responsibility of
the ___________ layer.
a. Network
b. Transport c. Application
d. Physical
63.The __________ layer is the layer closest to the transmission medium.
a. Physical
b. Data link c. Network
d. Transport
64.Mail services are available to network users through the __________ layer.
a. Data link
b. Physical c. Transport
d. Application
65.Unipolar, bipolar and polar encoding are types of _______ encoding
a. Line
b. Block
c. NRZ
d.
Manchester
c. Analog-to-analog
d.
68.If the frequency spectrum of a signal has bandwidth of 500 Hz with the
highest frequency at 600 Hz, what should be the sampling rate, according to
the Nyquist theorem?
a. 200 samples/s b. 500 samples/s c. 1000 samples/s d. 1200 samples/s
69.ASK, PSK, FSK nad QAM are examples of __________ modulation.
a. Digital-to-analog
b. Digital-to-digital c. Analog-to-analog
Analog-to-digital
d.
70.In QAM, both phase and ____________ of a carrier frequency are varied.
a. Amplitude
b. Frequency
c. Bit rate
d.
Baud rate
71.The sharing of a medium and its link by two more devices is called ______.
a. Modulation
b. Encoding
c. Line Encoding
d.
Multiplexing
72.Which multiplexing technique transmits digital signals?
a. FDM
b. TDM
c. WDM
None of the above
d.
d.
77._____ is a device at the telephone company site that can packetize data to be
sent to the ISP Server.
a. A DSLAM
b. An ADSL modem
c. A filter
d. A splitter
78.______ was designed as an alternative to the T-1 line.
a. VSL
b. ADSL
c. SDSL
HDSL
79.SONET in an acronym for _____ Network.
a. Synchronous Optical
b. Standard Optical
d. Standard Open
d.
c. Symmetric Open
d. Five
d. (a)
a. 700 KHz
information
b. 705 KHz