COMMUNICATION

REVIEWER

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QUESTION
In cellular system, what enables the
mobile phone to determine whether it is
communicating with its home system or
roaming?
System identification number (SID)
QUESTION
What frequency is used to signal
handoffs to another cell and the
termination of the cell in cellular
communications?
10 kHz
QUESTION
What cellular radio access technology
that allows a single transmitter location
to provide multiple communication
channels by dividing the radio coverage
into focused radio beams that reuse the
same frequency?
Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
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QUESTION
What is any tone produced by a sound
source in addition to the fundamental
tone?
Overtone
QUESTION
What refers to a closure that contains
cellular/PCS transmission equipment
which comes with heater/airconditioner
units (environmental control) and is
located inside a “hut”?
Dog House
QUESTION
What traffic model is based on the
assumption that calls not immediately
satisfied at the first attempt are held in
system until served or abandoned?
Poisson
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QUESTION
A terrestrial microwave system for the
distribution of television, internet and
telephone services to businesses and
residences.
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution
System (MMDS)
QUESTION
What is the maximum data rate for
downstream and upstream of the very
high bit rate digital subscriber line
(VDSL)?
52 Mbps / 2.3 Mbps
QUESTION
Which cabling material is standard for
outdoor cables because it resists
moisture and stable over a wide
temperature range and resists abrasion?
Polyethylene
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QUESTION
What class of mobile phone has an
effective radiated power (ERP) of 6 dBW
(4W)?
Class I
QUESTION
A network using microwaves for two-
way transmission of telephony,
television, and high-speed data.
Local Multipoint Distribution System
(LMDS)
QUESTION
If the satellite is launched at a speed
exceeding 25,000 miles per hour, the
satellite will not go in orbit and will
break away from gravitational pull of the
earth and go out into deep space. What
do you call this satellite?
Space probe
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QUESTION
In a cable TV system providing internet
access, a 6 MHz TV channel can provide
data rate of _____Mbps.
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QUESTION
What is the frequency tolerance for
aircraft stations employing single-
sideband transmission?
20 ppm
QUESTION
What do you call a short bit sequence
sent typically 128 bits in digital
signatures?
Hash
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QUESTION
In cellular system, what defines the
geographic distance that is required
between cells using identical
frequencies in order to avoid
interference between the radio
transmissions at these cells?
Distance-to-reuse ratio (D/R)
QUESTION
Time Division Duplexing (TDD) is the
transmission signal format used by
cordless telephone – 2 (CT-2) dubbed as
the ___________.
portable payphone booth
QUESTION
What is the maximum daily exposure
limit for a loudness level between 100
and 110 dB?
20 minutes
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QUESTION
A few centimeters long, solid insulated
hookup wire that provides a small
capacitance to the ground that is
adjusted during circuit alignment by
bending the wire slightly in one direction
or another. What do you call this wire?
Gimmick
QUESTION
Compliance with the exposure rate limit
shall be determined by measurements
made with instruments, the radiation
sensitive volume of which shall have a
cross section parallel to the external
surface of the receiver with an area of
______ with no linear dimension larger
the 5 cm.
10 cm
QUESTION
High definition TV (HDTV) picture is
rectangular and contains about ______
times as much information as the
current TV picture?
5 copy watch
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QUESTION
In cable TV system, the channel
frequency response shall be within a
range of how many decibels for all
frequencies within 1 MHz + operating
frequency of the visual carrier
frequency?
2 dB
QUESTION
What refers to the crime of finding
cellular ID codes by monitoring cellular
transmission, then copying the code to
another cellular phone and making calls
with it?
Clone Fraud
QUESTION
A radio communications watch or a
video communication watch in which an
operator is required to maintain a
continuous receiver watch to keep a
complete log is called __________.
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QUESTION QUESTION
What media format is an MPEG-4 based Carbon film resistor has a flicker noise
video compression technology? voltage of ____ microV.

DivX 0.05 to 0.3

QUESTION QUESTION
The typical flicker noise voltage range in What radio system was developed to
microV of metal film resistor is _____. provide high-speed packet data access
for the GSM network?

0.02 to 0.2 GPRS

QUESTION
Which of the following wavelengths
where absorption of electromagnetic
waves becomes peak due to vibrational
resonances in the water vapor
molecule?
QUESTION
What do you call a special microwave
coaxial cable which is made of hard
tubing rather than wire with an
insulating cover that can be used on the
lower microwave bands?

1.35 cm and 1.7 mm Hard line

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QUESTION
What is the time period for a single time
slot in the GSM TDMA slot structure?
QUESTION
What is a system where cables and/or
wires are placed within the ceiling
spaced and poked up through the fire-
resistance floor structure to the office or
room above?

8 Poke through

QUESTION
Enhance Data for Global Evolution
(EDGE) uses enhanced GSM technology
to provide for higher data transfer rates
of ______ kbps than normally available.
QUESTION
What is typical flicker noise voltage
range of a carbon-composition resistor
in microV?

384 0.1 to 3.0

QUESTION QUESTION
What is a raceway of rectangular cross- In acoustics, what do you call the
section that is placed within or just pleasant combinations of intervals?
below the floor, and ties the distribution
duct or cell to the terminal or equipment
space?

Header Consonant intervals

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QUESTION QUESTION
What ITU standard sets the standard for What is the wavelength range of
videoconferencing over telephone lines? sunlight?

H.261 300 to 2000 nm

QUESTION
What do you call a three-digit code or
shortened phone number that has
specific purpose like 166 for police
assistance, etc.?
QUESTION
What is a special cable that consists of
two parallel wires with a grounded
shield around them? It is sometimes
used for gigabit Ethernet.

Service Code Twinax

QUESTION QUESTION
In satellite communication system, What part of the visible spectrum where
________ is a satellite component that camera pickup tubes have the greatest
senses the time or the incidence angle output?
of solar radiation and provides an
electrical signal that may be used to
compute the satellite orientation.

sun sensor Yellow-green

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QUESTION
What system is used to describe certain
systems that distribute signals to many
terminals without installing expensive
components at every terminal?
Passive Optical Network (PON)
QUESTION
What is the term used to describe a card
with an embedded integrated circuit,
that can be used for functions such as
storing subscriber information for a PCS
system?
Smart Card
QUESTION
Which of the standards given below is
for terrestrial digital TV transmission?
8-VSB
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QUESTION
In communication system, what do you
call the channel or the path that is used
to transmit data, i.e. perform the primary
function for which the system is built?
Datawire
QUESTION
Depending on the terrain, microwave
systems use the line-of-sight
propagation and require repeaters
approximately every _____ km.
40
QUESTION
High Definition Television (HDTV) has
how many horizontal scan lines?
1125
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QUESTION
Which of the following is the nearest
star of the solar system?
Proxima Centauri
QUESTION
Cable TV uses what frequencies?
Between channel 6 and 7 and above
channel 13
QUESTION
What data-compression technique takes
the advantage of the fact that
information bits are often repeated?
Run-length encoding
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QUESTION
In digital AMPS (D-AMPS), a full-rate
TDMA system has _____ digital voice
channels combined into one 30-kHz
radio channel.
3
QUESTION
In microwave tube, what do you call to
any device that causes a wave to
propagate at less than the speed of light,
so that the electron beam and the wave
move at approximately the same speed?
Slow-wave structure
QUESTION
In radio communications systems, a
point on a line between the Earth’s
center an observer located farther from
the Earth’s center than the point is
called _______.
Nadir
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QUESTION
What is the frequency of middle C?
262 Hz
QUESTION
Optimum working frequency (OWF) is
normally used for ionospheric
transmissions that is chosen to be
_______ less than the maximum usable
frequency (MUF)?
15 %
QUESTION
What scrambling method is used in the
compact disc digital audio system to
ensure that enough transitions between
zeros and ones take place to easily
recover clocking information?
Eight-to-fourteen modulation
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QUESTION
What resistor has a typical flicker noise
voltage range of 0.01 to 0.2 microV?
Wire-wound
QUESTION
What wavelength division multiplexing
involves multiple wavelengths usually
less than a few nanometers apart near
1.55 micrometers?
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
QUESTION
What is the reason why the number of
satellites for continuous
communications greater at lower
satellite altitudes?
Satellite at low altitudes spend less time
above the horizon
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QUESTION
What is the IMT-2000 maximum data rate
for pedestrian mobile users and for
slow-moving vehicles?
384 kbps
separate items of information in relation to the runway.
QUESTION
What video compression technique
deals with low-data rate video such as
found on CD-ROM and Internet?
MPEG-1
QUESTION
What do you call a card that comes with
an 800/888 number that the card owner
dials to reach a network that allows
them to dial anywhere they like?
Prepaid Phone Card
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QUESTION
Which of the following best describes
the ILS instrument system?
An aircraft’s cockpit instrument which provides two
QUESTION
What navigation system is based on
application of Newton’s Law of Motion?
Inertial navigation
QUESTION
What ground based navigation system
can provide 88 % to 98% global range?
Omega
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QUESTION
What increase in network capacity can
be achieved by 3G wireless system?
70 %
QUESTION
What is the frequency of one octave
above middle C?
524 Hz
QUESTION
Radiation exposure rates produced by
cold cathode gas discharge tubes shall
not exceed _____ milliroentgens per
hour at a distance of 30 cm from any
point on the external surface of the tube.
10
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QUESTION
What instrument normally measures the
virtual height of ionosphere?
Ionosonde
QUESTION
The frequency synthesizer changes
frequencies four times for each bit of
time of the serial binary data. The time
that the synthesizer remains on a single
frequency is called the _________.
dwell time
QUESTION
What are the pulses in the vertical
blanking interval or a video signal that
creates interlaced scan called?
Equalizing pulses
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QUESTION QUESTION
At one atmospheric pressure, what is The visual signal level shall be
the approximate speed of sound in maintained at ____ dB for any channel
steel? other than within 6 MHz nominal
frequency separation.

5150 m/s 12

QUESTION
A signaling path provided by a cable TV
system to deliver to subscriber
terminals TV signals that are intended
for reception by a TV broadcast receiver
without the use of an auxiliary decoding
device and which signals are not
involved in broadcast transmission path.
QUESTION
An inertial navigation system approach
in which the inertial sensors are directly
attached to the vehicle frame is the
________.

Class II cable TV channel strap-down system

QUESTION QUESTION
Which antenna is widely used on high- What is the maximum power output of a
speed aircraft because they can be CB J3E emission?
integrated into the metallic skin of the
plane and therefore does not interfere
with air-flow dynamics at high speeds?

Slot antenna 12 W PEP

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QUESTION
What refers to the many of the major
wireless manufacturers have now
combined to create a set of de facto
standards for creating this content?
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
QUESTION
In broadcasting, geographically adjacent
stations must be spaced at least _____
channels apart to provide sideband
interference protection.
3 Helmholtz resonator
QUESTION
What is another name for a single-button
microphone?
Carbon-button
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QUESTION
A signaling path provided by a cable TV
system to transmit signals of any type
from a subscriber terminal to another
point in the cable TV system.
Class IV cable TV channel
QUESTION
What absorber is which efficient
absorption is only possible over a very
narrow band approaching 1.0 (total
absorption)?
QUESTION
What would be the most important
advantage of converting the entire
telephone system, including the local
loop, to fiber optics?
Unlimited bandwidth
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QUESTION
What type of coupling is used between a
waveguide and a waveguide wavemeter?
Hole
QUESTION
What do you call the ratio of the
separation distance between two
cochannel cells and the cell radius?
Cochannel Interference Reduction Factor
QUESTION
What can be an attractive alternative to
installing a modem into each computer
workstation and attaching a separate
telephone line to each modem?
Modem pool
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QUESTION
What is the IMT-2000 maximum data rate
for mobile users in high-speed vehicles?
144 kbps
QUESTION
What refers to the metallic chambers of
various shapes and sizes that are used
as parallel-tuned circuits and filters?
Cavity resonator
QUESTION
What do you call the wavelength-
division multiplexing has recently come
into wide use as a way to increase the
capacity of existing fiber optic cables
when many different wavelengths are
used?
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
(DWDM)
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QUESTION
What is the proportion of scanning lines
in a video system that, on average, can
be used in determining vertical
resolution?
QUESTION
Which navigation system is now
standard equipment on most planes,
ships and submarines?

Utilization factor Inertial Navigation System (INS)

QUESTION QUESTION
In bit-oriented protocols SDLC and What characteristic of solitons makes
HDLC, which bit sequence represents them interesting for long-distance fiber
the flag? optic transmission?

01111110 Solitons can propagate for very long

distances without dispersion

QUESTION QUESTION
What do you call the speech coding What is the term for a periodic variation
process used by the third generation in refractive index along the length of a
(3G) cellular system? fiber?

Adaptive multirate Fiber grating

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the maximum antenna height for What term tells how many cycles (Hz) a
CB? crystal may differ from its designated
frequency for every 106 Hz of frequency?

60 feet above the ground or 20 feet above ppm

the building

QUESTION
Essentially, supervisory audio tone
(SAT) in analog AMPS is equivalent to
_______ in digital AMPS (D-AMPS).
QUESTION
What do you call the input power needed
to generate an electrical current equal to
the root-mean-square noise of the
detector (or receiver)?

Coded Digital Verification Color Code Noise-equivalent power

(CDVCC)

QUESTION QUESTION
How much dB gain may represent one S What is the maximum data rate for
unit? GPRS?

6 dB 172.2 kbps

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QUESTION QUESTION
Any radiation produced by a radio What operator frequency is needed to
transmitter will have an rbe of _____. heterodyne 629 kHz up to 3.58 MHz?

1 4.21 MHz

QUESTION QUESTION
What refers to any noise that has equal Infrared which is an electromagnetic
power per octave? signal produced primarily by heat
covers what range?

Pink noise 0.7 to 100 micrometers

QUESTION QUESTION
In cellular communications, what do you What is reduced by rounding off square-
call the interrupting the voice channel to wave emissions?
send control information?

Blank and burst signaling Clicks

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the typical center frequency 10 Base 5 Ethernet system is also
spacing between adjacent channels known as ______.
(transponders) in satellites?

40 MHz The older “Thick Ethernet” system

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the frequency equivalent of the In what scale in which all intervals would
international pitch A? be exactly consonant?

435 Hz Diatonic scale

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the approximate critical Thin Ethernet is colloquially known as
frequency of F2 layer? ________.

8 MHz Cheapernet

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QUESTION
In multiple-channel digital
communications, how many channels
make up an extended superframe?
576
QUESTION
The capacity of the third generation (3G)
digital cellular system is ______
compared to second generation (2G)
digital cellular system.
2 to 4 times greater
QUESTION
What is the band of frequencies
allocated to Cable Television Relay
Service?
From 12.17 to 13.20 GHz
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QUESTION
Which fiber can amplify signals at 1.53
to 1.63 um and with the addition of
resonator mirrors will become a laser
that generates their own signals?
Erbium-doped fiber
QUESTION
What is the predictable horizontal
position accuracy of the precise-
position service (PPS) of GPS?
22 m
QUESTION
What is the only way to achieve a wider
aspect ratio is to use fewer active scan
lines?
Letterboxing
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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the peak wavelength of What cable is mostly used by 10 Mbps
sunlight? and 100 Mbps Ethernet installations?

500 nm Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable

QUESTION QUESTION
What refers to the time from when you Thick coaxial cable is the medium used
go off-hook and when you receive a dial by what type of Ethernet system?
tone from the host switch?

Dial-Tone delay Standard classical

QUESTION
If twisted-pair wiring is used for gigabit
Ethernet, how many pairs of category 5
cable are needed?
QUESTION
What connector is popular in attaching
test instruments like oscilloscopes,
frequency counters, spectrum analyzers,
etc?

Four pairs BNC

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QUESTION QUESTION
What layer in the ionosphere has an In acoustics, what do you call the
approximate single-hop nighttime range unpleasant combinations of intervals?
of 4130 km?

F2 layer Discordant interval

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the bandwidth of NBVM What is the typical power of a cell site
(Narrowband Voice Modulation) SSB transmitter?
System?

1300 Hz 10 to 50 W

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the international urgency signal If the forward channel radio in cellular
for radiotelegraphy? system is 875 MHz, what is the reverse
channel radio frequency?

PAN 830 MHz

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QUESTION
In IBM token-ring network, when a
special data-grade shielded twisted-pair
wiring is used, how many nodes can be
supported?
QUESTION
In general, an analog cell site has how
many installed radio channels?

260 nodes 50

QUESTION
In a cellular phone, a memory location
where telephone numbers to be used in
the system are stored is known as
_______.
QUESTION
What is the range of distance of the MEO
satellites orbiting the earth?

Number Assignment Module (NAM) 8000 km to 20,000 km

QUESTION QUESTION
Category 5 UTP cable works with _____ What gas is used by most common jet
Mbps? thrusters?

100 Hydrazine

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QUESTION QUESTION
Which Ethernet system is limited to 500 What do you call the largest time interval
meters? in the GSM system frame structure?

Thick Ethernet Hyperframe

QUESTION QUESTION
How many time slots per channel is In the TDMA frame of D-AMPS, there are
TDMA which is the multiple access how many bits per frame?
method used in GSM?

8 1944 bits

QUESTION QUESTION
Which of the following is known as the What unit refers to the amount of
symmetric key cryptography? radiation actually absorbed?

Private key rad (radiation absorbed dose)

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the typical beamwidth range of a What is the listening period of Ethernet
horn antenna? LAN CSMA/CD protocol?

10 to 60 degrees 9.6 microseconds

QUESTION QUESTION
Who invented the superheterodyne What standard is used in high speed
receiver in 1918? wireless Ethernet access known as Wi-
FiTM?

Edwin H. Armstrong IEEE 802.11b

QUESTION
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
has an uplink (sending) rate of ______
kbps.
QUESTION
In analog cellular system, the interfering
signal strength remains approximately
less than _____ of desired signal
strength to assure negligible
interference.

14 2%

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the unique address of a pager What do you call the random data that is
which is sent every time it is paged? sent continuously by a network interface
card (NIC)?

Capcode Jabber

QUESTION QUESTION
What term used in asynchronous What is the IEEE standard of WiMax?
transfer mode (ATM) system to describe
a byte?

Octet IEEE 802.16

QUESTION
Who introduced the idea of using
satellites as relay stations for an
international microwave radiotelephone
system in 1945?
QUESTION
In microwave communications, what
concept may be used to analyze
interference by obstacles near the path
of a radio beam?

Arthur Clarke Fresnel zone concept

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QUESTION
Who coined the word “cyberspace” in
1984?
William Gibson
QUESTION
Local Multipoint Distribution Service
(LMDS) is a two-way broadband service
that allows communications providers to
offer a variety of high-bandwidth
services to home and businesses,
including broadband internet access.
LMDS operates at what frequency range.
27 to 31 GHz
QUESTION
In asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
cell format, what indicates the node
source and packet destination?
Virtual channel identifier
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QUESTION
Wireless Internet Service Providers
(WISPs) use Wi-Fi technology to provide
internet access at airports, hotels,
convention centers, coffee shops, and
other public places. WISPs offer access
to the internet at speeds up to _____
Mbps when users are in range of an
antenna.
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QUESTION
What is a unique form of voice encoding
that relies on the values of individual
bits to predict the behavior of the
incoming signal?
Continuously Variable Slope Delta
QUESTION
In which of the following areas is it most
difficult to accurately evaluate the
effects of RF radiation exposure?
In the near field
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QUESTION
What refers to the Information
transmitted to the mobile phone, either
subscribed or unsolicited messages,
without a user request and are initiated
by the server of the content provider?
QUESTION
In acoustics, what is a method of
adjusting reverberation within a studio
or concert hall by means of loudspeaker
feedback system?

Push Messages Ambiophony

QUESTION
What refers to the provision of voice
communication using Internet Protocol
(IP) technology, instead of traditional
circuit switched technology?
QUESTION
What frequency weighting curves were
modeled on the ear’s response to low
and high levels of sound respectively?

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) A and B

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the usual transmission power of Which microphone will be damaged if
most Bluetooth products? exposed to high temperature above
52°C?

1 mW Crystal microphone

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QUESTION
What is the typical bandwidth of the
single-mode step index fiber?
QUESTION
What helps protect data in transit over
the wireless link between client device
and the AP, via 64-, 128- or 256-bit
encryption?

50 to 100 GHz/km Wired Equivalent Privacy

QUESTION QUESTION
In broadband ISDN (BISDN), what is the What refers to the cost-effective,
channel rate of H21? standards-based wireless solution that
specifically supports low data rates, low
power consumption, security and
reliability and is also known as IEEE
802.15.4?

32.768 Mbps ZigBee

QUESTION
In microwave communications, what is
the maximum allowable obstruction as a
rule of thumb?
QUESTION
What is an electronic method of
reducing or removing unwanted sound
by the production of a pressure wave of
equal amplitude but opposite sign to the
unwanted sound?

40 % Active Noise Control

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QUESTION
In microwave communications, what
Fresnel zone must be kept largely free
from obstructions to avoid interfering
with the radio reception?
The first zone
QUESTION
What refers to a relatively new category
of wireless communication which uses
laser operating in the near-infrared
region of the light spectrum?
Free-space optics
QUESTION
In speech transmission for
entertainment purposes, which
frequency is required in order to capture
the “naturalness” of the speaker’s
voice?
80 to 8000 Hz
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QUESTION
Ethernet is a baseband system that uses
a bus topology designed for use in a
local area network. In its packet format,
what is used for bit synchronization?
Preamble
QUESTION
Ultra Wideband is designed for short-
range radio that will be used to transmit
data between devices over distances as
much as ____ feet.
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QUESTION
MP3 is a format for compressing music
which delivers almost CD-quality sound.
In MP3, a three-minute song can be
stored in about ______.
3 Megabytes
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QUESTION
What radio blackout condition is
described as weak or minor degradation
of HF radio communication on the sunlit
side and occasional loss of radio
contact?
R1
QUESTION
What radio blackout condition is
described as wide area blackout of HF
radio communication and loss of radio
contact for about an hour on the sunlit
side of earth?
R3
QUESTION
What radio blackout condition is
described as HF radio blackout on the
entire sunlit side of the earth lasting for
a number of hours?
R5
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What radio blackout condition is
described as limited blackout of HF
radio communication on the sunlit side
and loss of radio contact for tens of
minutes?
R2
QUESTION
What radio blackout condition is
described as HF radio communication
blackout on most sunlit side of earth for
one to two hours?
R4
QUESTION
Which of the following predicts that rf
energy decays exponentially when it
encounters a conductive medium?
Maxwell’s equation
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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the code name for the next What is code name for the version of
version of Bluetooth? Bluetooth after Lisbon?

Lisbon Seattle

QUESTION QUESTION
What articulation efficiency corresponds What is the Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)
to 100% intelligibility for normal speech of Bluetooth 2.0?
in practice?

80 % 2.1 Mbps

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the standard positioning service What is the standard positioning service
(SPS) predictable vertical accuracy of (SPS) predictable horizontal accuracy of
GPS? GPS?

156 meters 100 meters

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the precise positioning service What is the precise positioning service
(PPS) predictable horizontal accuracy of (PPS) predictable vertical accuracy of
GPS? GPS?

22 meters 27.7 meters

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the precise positioning service What is the standard positioning service
(PPS) predictable time accuracy of (SPS) predictable time accuracy of
GPS? GPS?

200 ns 340 ns

QUESTION QUESTION
What is a recent weighting which is used What is the current version of IP
for measuring audible sound in the addressing used in the internet?
presence of ultrasound?

U-weighting IPv4

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QUESTION
For two different sounds, the combined
level cannot be more than ____ dB
above the higher of the two sound
levels.
3 1750 microseconds
QUESTION
What do you call the third configuration
of satellite transponder that performs
the basic amplification and frequency
translation functions and also actually
demodulates the received signal so that
remodulation is necessary to create the
downlink signal?
Regenerative repeater
QUESTION
In OSI model, BISYNC protocol is under
what layer?
Data link
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QUESTION
What is the envelop delay distortion
(EDD) limit of a basic telephone channel
between 800 Hz and 2600 Hz?
QUESTION
What ITU-T modem recommendation
provides specifications for 9600-bps
data transmission rate with true full-
duplex operation over four-wire leased
private lines or two-wire switched
telephone lines?
V.32
QUESTION
A transponder that demodulates the
baseband signals and then remodulates
a carrier is known as a(n) ________
transponder.
regenerative
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QUESTION
In telephony, what circuit disables line
amplifiers in trunk circuits to defeat
echoes?
Echo suppressor
QUESTION
Optical fibers for telecommunications
are typically about ____ mils thick and
consist of a glass core, a glass cladding
of lower index of refraction, and a
protective coating.
5 40
QUESTION
Citizen Band (CB) Radio Service is a
two-way voice communication service
for use in personal and business
activities. This service has an effective
communication distance of how many
kilometers?
8 780 and 950 nm
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QUESTION
What occurs when the voltage level of
two successive 1s is the same when
using alternate mark inversion data
format?
Bipolar violation (BPV)
QUESTION
Citizen Band (CB) Radio Service is a
two-way voice communication service
for use in personal and business
activities. This service uses how many
channels in the assigned frequency
range of 26.965 to 27.405 MHz?
QUESTION
Infrared technology is used to
implement wireless LANs as well as the
wireless interface to connect laptops
and other portable machines to desktop
computer equipped with an infrared
transceiver. What is wavelength band
used by the typical infrared LANs?
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QUESTION
What do you call a person who works in
the field of acoustics?
Acoustician
QUESTION
What is the bit-error-rate for a typical
satellite channel?
1 error in 1 billion bits transmitted
QUESTION
What antenna is used by submarines
when submerged and designed to pick
up transmission in the low frequency
(LF) or very low frequency (VLF)
ranges?
Trailing wire antenna
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QUESTION
What refers to an unwanted audio
oscillation which is caused by unwanted
feedback and this can be in audio-
amplifier states, in rf stages or as result
of acoustic feedback?
Howl
QUESTION
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution
System (MMDS) is a technology that
enables large amounts of data to be
carried over the air from the operator’s
antenna towers to small receiving
dishes installed at each customer
location. What is the approximate useful
signal range of MMDS?
30 miles
QUESTION
What are often used to replace local
oscillators (los) for channel selection in
earth station transmitters and receivers?
Frequency synthesizers
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QUESTION
What is the minimum spectral operating
frequency of Ultra Wideband (UWB)?
500 MHz
QUESTION
What microwave tube operates like the
TWT principles of electron-beam-RF
field interaction using a helix slow-wave
structure?
Backward-Wave Oscillator (BWO)
QUESTION
What IP addressing uses 128-bit address
code resulting to virtually limitless
addresses?
IPv6
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QUESTION
Which radar frequency bands are used
for very long range (e.g. ballistic missile
early warning) and ground and foliage
penetration?
UHF
QUESTION
In fiber optic cable system, most of the
disruptions in the long distance network
are a result of physical interruption of a
fiber run. These disruptions are
commonly called as ______.
Backhoe fade
QUESTION
What format for compressing music that
offers near CD-quality sound stores a
three-minute song in about thirty
megabytes of size?
WAV format
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QUESTION
What SS method where the signal
modulates a carrier that is linearly swept
over the band being used? This is used
primarily in radar system and in
distance-ranging equipment.
QUESTION
What refers to a signal generator usually
implemented with a PLL that produces
LO and transmitter carrier signals in a
transceiver?

Chirp Frequency synthesizer

QUESTION QUESTION
Most microwave amplifiers are designed What is the maximum radiated power of
to have input and output impedances of cordless telephone sets?
____ohms.

50 5 mW

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the typical velocity factor of What is the typical velocity factor of
twin-lead line? open-wire line?

0.8 0.9

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QUESTION
What semiconductor material is usually
used as a rectifier material for
photovoltaic cells and for xerographic
printing?
Selenium
QUESTION
What refers to an antenna arrangement
technique for reducing the effects of
multipath fading in microwave
networks?
Antireflection
QUESTION
What refers to the portion of the wireless
network that carries the wireless calls
from cell site radios back to the mobile
switching center (MSC) and then on to
the appropriate service termination
points such as the public switched
telephone network (PSTN) and the
Internet?
Backhaul
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QUESTION
What is another way of describing a fade
(or reduction in input signal level) where
all frequencies in the channel of interest
are equally affected?
Flat fading
QUESTION
Telecommunications equipment (eg.
Cellular base stations) receive their
timing signals from the worldwide GPS,
an array of satellites that beam timing
signals accurate to within _____ to
receiving stations located around the
globe.
300 nsec
QUESTION
Personal Communication Services
(PCS) is a set of wireless
communication services personalized to
the individual. PCS is either a
narrowband type or broadband type. The
narrowband type is assigned to which
frequency range?
900 MHz
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QUESTION
What refers to the interchanging of the
frequency allocations of carrier
channels to prevent singing, reduce
cross talk and correct for line slope?
Frequency frogging
QUESTION
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
is an industry standard for high-speed
TDM transmission over optical fiber.
What is the base signal rate of SONET
on both the electrical and optic side?
51.84 Mbps
QUESTION
Mobile satellite communications are
used by the airline, maritime and
shipping industry. Which mobile satellite
communications service provider has
the widest distribution network and
operates with a global fleet of 21
satellites?
Intelsat
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QUESTION
Early technology limited the operation of
microwave systems to radio spectrum in
the 1-GHz range. Because of
improvements in solid-state technology,
commercial systems are transmitting in
what region of the radio spectrum?
40 GHz
QUESTION
In broadcast industry, short-haul
microwave is often referred to as
“wireless cable”, which comes in the
form of Local Multipoint Distribution
Service (LMDS) and Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS).
What are the two key advantages of
wireless cable technology?
Availability and affordability
QUESTION
For educational purposes, who is
credited as the “first inventor” of the
telephone?
Antonio Meucci
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QUESTION
What refers to the spurious pattern or
other distortion in a facsimile record and
was caused by unwanted modulation
produced by transmission of a carrier
signal?
Kendall effect
QUESTION
Wireless Communications Services
(WCS) is a category of service that
operates in what frequency band of the
electromagnetic spectrum from 2305 to
2320 MHz and 2345 to 2360 MHz?
2.3 GHz
QUESTION
All cell phones have special codes
associated with them. What is this
special cell phone code with a unique
32-bit number programmed into the
phone when it is manufactured?
Electronic Serial Number (ESN)
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QUESTION
Fiber channel is a high-performance
interconnect standard designed for
bidirectional point-to-point serial data
channels between desktop workstations,
mass storage subsystems, peripherals
and host systems. What is the key
advantage of a fiber channel?
Speed
QUESTION
Personal Handyphone System (PHS) is a
wireless technology that offers high-
quality, low cost mobile telephone
services using a fully digital system
operating in what frequency range?
1.9 GHz
QUESTION
What is the frame rate or refresh rate of
a typical PAL format television?
50 Hz
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QUESTION QUESTION
What is a 3G technology that delivers What term is normally associated with
broadband-like data speeds to mobile specifying the location of a celestial
devices? body in space?

EDGE Ephemeris

QUESTION
With Baudot Code, an error that is
interpreted as a FIGS character can
cause all the following information to be
interpreted as numerical until the next
LTRS character occurs. To reduce this
problem, most modern system used
what technique?
QUESTION
Iridium satellite system is constellation
of 66 low-earth orbit satellites that exists
at what particular height above the
surface of earth?

Unshift-on-space (USOS) 780 km

QUESTION
What is the standard cladding diameter
for a single-mode step-index fiber which
is considered the most widely used in
today’s wide-band communication
arena?
QUESTION
In fiber cables, the typical light
scattering loss is 2.5 dB at ______ nm of
light wavelength?

125 micrometer 820

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QUESTION
What is the optimum reverberation time
at 500 to 1000 Hz of an auditorium?
1.6 to 1.8 s
QUESTION
In cellular system, typically how many
cells are in the frequency-reuse plan
format?
7 Raman scattering
QUESTION
A switching network that does not use a
hierarchical structure but instead relies
on a computer to find the most direct
route between two points.
Flat network
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QUESTION
The average voltage value of the 3.58
MHz modulated chrominance signal in
TV receiver is __________.
the brightness of the color
QUESTION
A scattering that occurs when light
waves interact with vibrations of atoms
in a crystalline lattice?
QUESTION
A 100 Mbps LAN signaling standard
intended for use with fiber optics but
also used with coaxial cable.
Fiber Distribution Data Interface (FDDI)
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QUESTION
What is the shape of a trapezoidal
pattern at 100 % modulation?
QUESTION
What is an instrument that measures the
cumulative exposure to high energy
radiation such as x-ray and gamma
radiation?

Triangular Dosimeter

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the minimum ratio of visual How long does a repeater transmit after
signal level to system noise, and of a mobile signal drops out?
visual level to any undesired co-channel
TV signal operating on proper offset
performance?

36 dB 1 to 5 s

QUESTION
What refers to a series of tones that
sound good when used in combination?
QUESTION
Solid-state neodymium laser can
generate high power at _____ but
require external modulation to transmit a
signal?

Musical scale 1.3 microsec

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QUESTION QUESTION
The electronic serial number (ESN) What unit refers to the radiation other
assigned to the mobile phone at the than x-rays which will cause an
factory consists of absorption equal to 1 roentgen?

32 bits rep (roentgen equivalent physical)

QUESTION
What is the bit rate in Mbps for
terrestrial broadcasting in a 6-MHz
channel?
QUESTION
What refers to the non-linear effect that
occurs at low powers as low as few
milliwatts in single-mode fibers and
takes the form of a light shifted slightly
in frequency from the original light
wave?

19.39 Brillouin scattering

QUESTION
Which of the following identifies the
maximum transmitter power level of a
mobile phone?
QUESTION
The mandatory 24-h ship-to-shore
communications from 1910 to 1912 were
established by the United States, Great
Britain and other maritime nations as a
direct result of the sinking of the two
famous ships. Which of the following are
the two ships?

Station Class Mark (SCM) Republic and Titanic

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QUESTION QUESTION
What increase in sound level is What is low-level signal in a telephone
commonly perceived by most people? receiver deriving from the transmitter in
the same instrument?

6 to 10 dB Sidetone

QUESTION QUESTION
How is encryption of data for purpose of What is the equivalent frequency of the
privacy commonly achieved? American concert pitch A?

By using public-key encryption 440 Hz

QUESTION QUESTION
At what wavelengths does oxygen What is typical capacitance variation of
molecule absorption peaks to most varactors used in frequency
electromagnetic wave? modulators?

5 mm and 2.5 mm 12 to 1

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QUESTION QUESTION
Which of the following is considered the What is the maximum power of a class III
two most popular IF of TV receivers? analog cellular phone?

36 and 46 MHz 3W

QUESTION QUESTION
What expresses the steepness of the The ratio of calls that are irregularly
skirts or the skirt selectivity of a radio terminated to the total number of calls
receiver? made during the measurement period is
called ______.

Shape factor drop call rate

QUESTION
Refers to the reflection at the interface
between two optical materials that is
dependent on the difference of their
refractive indexes and the angle at
which light strikes the interface.
QUESTION
Radiation exposure rates produced by a
TV receiver shall not exceed ______
milliroentgens per hour at a distance of
5 cm from any point on the external
surface of the receiver.

Fresnel reflection 0.5

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QUESTION
What refers to a communications
system in which a common time interval
is not established between transmitting
stations and receiving stations?
Anisochronous system
QUESTION
What frequency-sharing technique uses
highly directional spot-beam antennas
to prevent interference between stations
on the same frequency?
Spatial isolation
QUESTION
Which of the following principal musical
intervals is considered dissonant?
7:8
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QUESTION
What is a plug-in circuit board for a
computer that contains the necessary
hardware and firmware to connect the
computer to a local area network?
Network interface card
QUESTION
What is essentially a cell site (shelter)
that is mounted on a flatbed tractor-
trailer used for emergency purposes?
COW
QUESTION
What are being used to “sign” important
documents sent electronically?
Digital signatures
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QUESTION QUESTION
In a propagation medium, such as in the Which of the following are antennas
glass of an optical fiber, _______ is the made with microstrip on PCBs?
scattering of an electromagnetic wave
by particles with a size about equal to or
greater than the wavelength.

Mie scattering Patch antennas

QUESTION
In cellular system, what defines the
geographic distance that is required
between cells using identical
frequencies in order to avoid
interference between the radio
transmissions at these cells?
QUESTION
In wide area networks, what routing
technique requires each node to take the
incoming packet and retransmit it onto
every outgoing link?

Distance-to-reuse ratio (D/R) Flooding

QUESTION QUESTION
What do you call the camera signal What is referred to as the formation of
output without sync? trapped gas pockets in an optical fiber?

Noncomposite video Blooming

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QUESTION
How will you consider a network that
assumes each cable in a LAN to carry
only data signal at a given time and no
modulation is used?
Baseband
QUESTION
In color CRT, what refers to the
adjustment of the three electron beams
so that each lands on phosphor dots of
the appropriate color?
Purity
QUESTION
In addition to maintaining the position of
the satellite in orbit, what do you call the
means that must be provided to position
the satellite for optimum performance?
Attitude control
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QUESTION
What are used to allow fiber optics to
operate with much higher data rates and
over longer distances without repeaters
than any other system now in use?
Soliton and heterodyne reception
QUESTION
In SSB transmitters, the average power
is typically between _______ of the peak
envelope power (PEP) with typical
human speech.
one-fourth to one-third
QUESTION
The light generating process in both
LEDs and laser diodes results from the
recombination of electrons and holes
inside a p-n junction, called ________.
electroluminescence
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QUESTION
What describes the various patterns of
electric and magnetic fields of a
waveguide?
QUESTION
In a rotating communications satellite,
an antenna with a mean beam that is
continuously adjusted in direction with
respect to the satellite so that the
antenna illuminates a given area on the
surface of the earth is called _______.

Modes of the waveguide despun antenna

QUESTION QUESTION
How many bits in block can be corrected In TV receivers, what type of
by using a Hamming Code? convergence is provided by adjusting
the permanent magnets?

1 Static convergence

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the maximum data rate of fiber What is the approximate critical
optic cables? frequency of the E layer?

10 Gbps 4 MHz

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QUESTION QUESTION
The number that identifies a mobile Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is also
phone (the mobile telephone number) in widely used insulator and is known as
a cellular system is called a _______.

Mobile Identification Number (MIN) teflon

QUESTION QUESTION
What type of filter uses acoustic waves What refers to the self oscillation in an
on the surface of a substrate to achieve RF amplifier that does not occur at the
the desired response? tuned frequency of the amplifier?

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Parasitic Oscillation

QUESTION
What C-type line conditioning is for
access lines and trunk circuits
associated with private switched
network?
QUESTION
In communications system, the total
system noise in the absence of
information transmission is called
_________.

C3 background noise

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the reason why the Smith chart An error-correcting system in which
is circular in form? errors are corrected at the receiver
using redundancy transmitted data
without using retransmission request.

Because it is the convenient way to represent the fact that Forward Error Correction (FEC)
impedances on a transmission line repeat every one-half
wavelength.

QUESTION QUESTION
In klystron, what is the cavity that How many horizontal lines are blanked
velocity-modulates the electron beam? out in the frame of TV receivers by V
blanking?

Buncher 42

QUESTION QUESTION
In a single-tube class C amplifier, why is What LED is the usual signal source for
the radiated modulated envelope not plastic fibers?
made up of varying amplitude dc
pulses?

Because of flywheel of LC tank Red LED

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QUESTION
What type of messages in the radio
control channel of cellular system tells a
particular mobile telephone that a call is
to be received?
Pages
QUESTION
What is the primary cause of echo and
singing?
Mismatch between the balancing network and its two-
wire connection
QUESTION
In IMT 2000, what does 2000 refer?
Both implementing date which is year 2000 and
operating frequency of about 2000 MHz
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QUESTION
System noise of a cable TV system is
specified in terms of RMS voltage or its
mean power level as measured in the 4
MHz bandwidth between ____ MHz
above the lower channel boundary of a
cable TV channel.
1.25 to 5.25 MHz
QUESTION
What class of mobile phone has a
maximum power level specified as
effective radiated power (ERP) of - 2
dBW (600 mW)?
Class III (portable phone)
QUESTION
A system that allows users to access
documents from widely separated
sources on the internet using a common
interface.
World Wide Web
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QUESTION
What principle is employed in cellular
telephony to allow simultaneous
transmission and reception without the
need to push to talk?
Frequency duplex
QUESTION
To what frequency must the gated-beam
quadrature circuit be tuned in an FM BC
(broadcast) receiver?
10.7 MHz
QUESTION
What is the reason why tropospheric
ducting not used very much for practical
communications system?
Because it is not reliable
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QUESTION
Why might it be difficult to produce
music transmissions with phase-type
SSB?
Because it is difficult to produce 90 degree AF phase
network to 5 or 10 kHz
QUESTION
While the called telephone is ringing, the
central office switch sends a pulsed ac
voltage to the calling telephone. What is
that signal called?
Ringback signal
QUESTION
Cable TV companies collect signals and
programs from many sources in a
facility called _______.
head end
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QUESTION QUESTION
What oscillator whose frequency is What sweep frequencies could be used
controlled by a binary number written to on a scope to stop an envelope pattern
an internal register? of 600 Hz modulation?

Numerically-controlled Oscillator Any submultiple of 600, 300, 150 etc.

QUESTION QUESTION
How close to a mobile microphone A wide area mobile radio telephone
should the lips be? system with its own switch base
stations and transmission by utilizing
radio frequencies.

2 inches Mobile Telephone System

QUESTION QUESTION
What helps protect fibers against For an angle of incidence equal to the
degradation caused by moisture? critical angle, the light will be refracted
________.

Cabling along the normal

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QUESTION
If a rocket contains more than one
satellites, the smaller satellite that will
be launched after the main satellite is
called ________.
QUESTION
How much more feed-point Z does a
folded dipole have than a normal dipole?

secondary payload 4 times

QUESTION
A device that converts audio frequency-
modulated lightwaves into a sound tone
by causing a crystal to vibrate at the
audio modulation frequency of the
lightwave is called ______.
QUESTION
In Ethernet LAN, what situation arises
when two or more terminals try to
transmit on the network at the same
time?

optoacoustic transducer Contention

QUESTION QUESTION
What is considered as a non-continuous What is the bandwidth allocation to each
noise? voice channel in analog telephone
signals?

Impulse noise 4 kHz

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QUESTION QUESTION
The antenna effective height is _____ to Damage to cells of the reproductive
_____ of the actual height tissues due to exposure to intense rf
radiation is called what?

½ to 2/3 Genetic

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the frequency separation Why are geostationary satellites
between the forward channel and the unsatisfactory for communications from
reverse channel of cellular radio? regions near the poles of the earth?

45 MHz The angle of elevation of the satellite is

too low in these regions

QUESTION QUESTION
How many TV fields are recorded on one What do you call the first note of a
slant tract of tape? musical scale?

1 Root note

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QUESTION
What devices are to be inserted in a
telephone channel if the total via net
loss (VNL) of a given trunk circuit
exceeds about 2.5 dB?
QUESTION
In general, what frequency range does
troposcatter wave propagation found to
be effective?

Echo suppressors 350 MHz to 10 GHz

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the typical loudness level of a A lens has an 8-cm focal length and 4-
watch ticking? cm diameter. What is its f rating?

20 Phons 2

QUESTION QUESTION
How many time slots are there in the What is the maximum power output of a
basic GSM frame structure? CB A3E emission?

8 4W

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QUESTION QUESTION
What modulation method is used by What is referred to as the change in the
enhanced data for global evolution direction of polarization of signals
(EDGE)? passing through the ionosphere?

8 PSK Faraday rotation

QUESTION QUESTION
What are the reasons why a cavity What is the maximum height above
resonator is preferred than conventional average terrain for a class B FM station?
circuits at microwave frequencies?

The Q of a cavity resonator is very high and conventional circuits

have impractically small dimensions at microwave frequencies
500 feet

QUESTION QUESTION
A television receiver design that uses What are pulses that retain their shapes
mixing between the picture and sound as they pass through optical fibers?
carriers to generate the sound
intermediate frequency. What do you call
this sound?

Intercarrier sound Solitons

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QUESTION QUESTION
What microphones are predominantly Which of the following is considered the
used in Aviation services? major obstacle of the “video-on-
demand” service of cable TV system?

Dynamic microphone Bandwidth

QUESTION QUESTION
Why “downtilt” used in cellular base What refers to the ways that the voice
stations? signal used in communications is dealt
with prior to being applied to the
modulator?

Because it can be used to reduce the range of a base Speech processing

station to reduce interference.

QUESTION QUESTION
GPS satellite takes how many hours to What might be a reliable range mobile-
complete one orbit? to-mobile?

12 hours 1 to 10 miles

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QUESTION
What type of license allows a software
package to be installed on any and all
workstations and servers at a given
site?
QUESTION
Refers to the transmission of brief text
messages, such as pages or e-mail, by
cellular radio or PCS.

Site license Short Messaging Service (SMS)

QUESTION
What is a signal on a frequency
separated from the desired signal
frequency by 2 times the IF value that
interferes with reception?
QUESTION
The portion of the horizontal blanking
pulse before the sync pulse is known as
________.

Image front porch

QUESTION QUESTION
In cellular system, what is data signaling At what frequency does magnetron in a
channel that handles the administrative microwave oven operate?
overhead of the cellular system?

Paging channel or control channel 2.45 GHz

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QUESTION
In a client-server network, what LAN
software makes sure that data on the
server that is being changed by one
station is not simultaneously read by
another?
QUESTION
What splicing is performed by butting
the tips of two fibers together and
heating them so they melt together?

Record locking Fusion splicing

QUESTION QUESTION
Damage to cells other than the What is another term for pink noise?
reproductive tissues due to exposure to
intense rf radiation is what?

Somatic Flicker noise

QUESTION QUESTION
What refers to a telephone that rings What do you call the range over which
another phone without dialing? the reference frequency can be varied
and still achieve phase lock?

Hot line Capture range

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QUESTION
What is the typical efficiency of a
parabolic antenna?
55%
QUESTION
What is the maximum deviation of
cellular radios that use FM?
±12 kHz
QUESTION
In what order would a three-stage
transmitter be tuned?
Oscillator, driver and PA
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QUESTION
In television, special effects and
production switching are done by the
_____.
SEG
QUESTION
What is the noise-reduction effect that
occurs with strong FM signals?
Threshold effect
QUESTION
A system for the broadcast and
automatic reception of maritime safety
information such as but not limited to
navigational/meteorological warnings,
search and rescue information, urgent
information by means of narrow band
direct printing telegraphy.
NAVTEX
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QUESTION
In the GSM system, _______ is the
telephone number that is unique to a
given user worldwide.
International Mobile Subscriber
Identification (IMSI)
QUESTION
What is the dielectric constant of
polyethylene (PE) insulator?
2.27
QUESTION
The colors in the color test signal are
arranged in the order whose luminance
levels form a signal whose amplitude
decreases from left to right. What do you
call this signal?
Staircase signal
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QUESTION
What is the variation of the discriminator
which greatly reduces sensitivity to
amplitude variations, at the cost of 50%
reduction in output voltage?
Ratio detector
QUESTION
What are commonly used to replace
conventional LC tuned circuits at UHF
and microwave frequencies where one-
half wavelength is less than 1 foot?
Transmission lines
QUESTION
Sound provides all sorts of information.
What information is related to mental
processes of knowledge, reasoning,
memory, judgment and perception?
Cognitive
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QUESTION
What factor is the cut-off frequency of
waveguide dependent upon?
Physical factor
QUESTION
What is the first type of modulation,
using a SB microphone called?
Absorption or loop
QUESTION
There are how many orbital planes
which are equally spaced around the
equator in the GPS operational
constellation?
6 Aurora borealis
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QUESTION
Which physical characteristic of vacuum
tube devices is used to generate power
at microwave frequencies?
Electron Bunching
QUESTION
In PM, a frequency shift occurs while
what characteristic of the modulating
signal is changing?
Amplitude
QUESTION
What may cause ionic disturbance
characterized by rapid fluttering sound,
hence voice communications are poor?
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QUESTION
The maximum radiation form electronic
equipment must not exceed _____ mr
per week.
QUESTION
What refers to any sonic, infrasonic or
ultrasonic wave which is emitted from
an electronic product as a result of the
operation of an electronic circuit in such
product?

100 Radiation

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the most ambitious of the How is the assigned frequency related to
proposed LEO systems? the suppressed carrier frequency with
J3E emissions?

Teledesic system 1.4 kHz higher

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the disadvantage of low IFs? Why does a higher-impedance line have
lower copper loss than a lower-
impedance line?

Can cause image interference problems Because higher-impedance line has lower
current for a given power level.

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QUESTION
What is the minimum ratio of visual
signal level to the RMS amplitude of any
coherent disturbances such as
intermodulation products or discrete-
frequency interfering signals not
operating on proper offset
assignments?
46 dB
QUESTION
What code is used in the100 Base Tx
Ethernet standard?
Three-level Manchester code
QUESTION
What were the three methods of
generating carriers before VTs were
used?
Spark, Arc and Alternator
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QUESTION
What is a system that uses
electromagnetic frequencies in the
optical spectrum for detection and
ranging determination of objects in a
manner similar to radar?
Light detection and ranging
QUESTION
In video compression, _______ is the
current digital video specification.
MPEG-4
QUESTION
The peak-to-peak variation visual signal
level caused by undesired low frequency
disturbances (hum or repetitive
transients) generated within the system,
or by inadequate low frequency
response, shall not exceed _____ of the
visual signal level.
5%
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QUESTION
What IC FM demodulator that uses a
differential amplifier and capacitive
storage peak detectors plus tuned
circuits to translate frequency variations
into voltage variations?
Differential Peak Detector
QUESTION
What results from the luminance
component interfering with the color
signal? It occurs whenever there is
diagonal detail in the picture and gets
worst with motion.
Cross luminance
QUESTION
Why do fading J3E signals distort less
than fading A3E signals?
SB not beating against fading carrier
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A signaling path provided by a cable TV
system to relay to subscriber terminal
TV broadcast programs that are received
off-the-air or are obtained by microwave
or by direct connection to a TV
broadcast station.
Class I cable TV channel
QUESTION
Why are printed circuit boards, such as
stripline and microstrip implemented on
transmission lines?
To create resonant circuits and filters
QUESTION
What is the maximum VF tone that may
be fed to a voice signal?
+6 VU
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QUESTION
In klystron, what do you call a cavity that
removes some of the energy from the
electron beam and transfers it in the
form of microwave energy to the output?
Catcher
QUESTION
What is the standard signal format of a
numeric paging receiver?
NEC D3 Standard
QUESTION
In SSB, the transmitter output is
expressed in terms of __________.
peak envelope power (PEP)
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What is the shifting of antenna pattern
so that the major lobe is at an angle
below the horizontal?
Downtilt
QUESTION
In SSB, the transmitter output is
expressed in terms of __________.
peak envelope power (PEP)
QUESTION
What type of noise occurs only in
devices where a single current
separates into two or more paths such
as bipolar junction transistor?
Partition noise
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QUESTION
Why does a high-Q circuit discriminate
against harmonics?
Because of purer sine wave ac
QUESTION
What refers to a circuit for digitizing
voice at a low data rate by using
knowledge of the way in which voice
sound is produced?
Vocoder
QUESTION
What do you call the line that is
terminated by its own impedance?
Nonresonant or resistive or flat line
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The satellite location is specified by a
point on the surface of the earth directly
below the satellite. What do you call this
point?
Subsatellite Point (SSP)
QUESTION
What is defined as a fixed or mobile station
used for the transmission of television and
related audio signals, signals of standards
and FM broadcast stations, signals of
instructional television fixed stations, and
cablecasting from the point of reception to a
terminal point from which the signals are
derived are distributed to the public?
Cable Television Relay Service (CARS) station
QUESTION
What usually is the antenna used for
radars?
Horn with a parabolic reflector that rotates
over a 360 degree angle.
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QUESTION
In TV system, if the color oscillator does
not operate, the trouble is _________.
no color
QUESTION
What do you call the technique of
cooling artificially the amplifiers used
with very low level signals to reduce
noise?
Cryogenics
QUESTION
What is usually the final amplifier stage
in the several stages of amplification of
a typical AM transmitter?
Power amplifier
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What refers to the sampling of an analog
signal using a sample-and-hold circuit,
such that the sample has the same
amplitude for its whole duration?
Flat-topped sampling
QUESTION
What terminal of a dc charging
generator should be grounded to reduce
radio noise?
Armature
QUESTION
The orbits of GPS satellites are nearly
circular with inclination angles of _____
degrees relative to the equator?
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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the term used to describe an What is the main disadvantage of a
ordinary voice telephony? single-tube transmitter?

Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) Frequency instability

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the velocity of a geostationary What is the specified cell site transmit
satellite in orbit? power of CDMA cellular system?

6879 statute miles per hour 1.25 W

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the data transmission rate of the F3 emission means carrier is frequency
North America AMPS? modulated by _______.

10 kbps voice

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QUESTION
Twisted pair is used by IBM token ring
network that operates at either ______
Mbps?
QUESTION
What amplifier is made to appear
inductive or capacitive by phase shift
and is used to produce wide-deviation
direct FM?

4 or 16 Reactance modulator

QUESTION QUESTION
In North America, what digital audio Selectivity of the TV signal is provided
compression system substitutes the by what particular filter?
MP3 audio?

Dolby AC-3 Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the achievable data rate of the If an audio line loses high frequencies,
third generation (3G) cellular system? what can be added to it to flatten the
response?

More than 2 Mbps Equalizer

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QUESTION
What is considered as the simplest
transmitter that is keyed on and off to
produce CW Morse code?
QUESTION
When real time communication is
required, the only way to address the
second problem is to uses a ________
containing more than one satellite.

Oscillator constellation

QUESTION QUESTION
Alpha particles and fast neutrons have What is the typical noise figure of metal
an rbe of ____. semiconductor FETs or MESFETs used
at microwave frequencies?

10 2 dB or less

QUESTION QUESTION
In a cellular or PCS system, what refers Where does most of the gain and
to the connection of a mobile to two or selectivity in a superhet found?
more base stations simultaneously?

Soft handoff In the IF amplifier

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Acoustic shock refers to the physical Which waveguide accessory is
pain, dizziness and sometimes nausea sometimes referred to as the magic T?
caused by hearing a sudden very loud
sound. The threshold of pain is about
_____.

120 dB Hybrid T

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the frequency of subcarrier What is another term for parity check?
modulated by the different signals in an
FM stereo multiplex transmission?

38 kHz Vertical redundancy check (VRC)

QUESTION
What circuit permits selective signaling
by allowing only low-frequency tones to
trigger the squelch?
QUESTION
What do you call the distortion created
by using too low a sampling rate when
coding an analog signal for digital
transmission?

Continuous Tone Control Squelch (CTCS) Aliasing

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the typical value of line turn What is the voltage of the local-loop on-
around? hook?

1.5 ms -48 Vdc

QUESTION QUESTION
Which pulse in V blanking corresponds What is the data rate (in bits per voice
to 3H lines wide? channel) of digital telephone signals?

V sync 64

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the speech coding rate in GSM What is the typical value of vidicon dark
cellular system? current?

13 kbps 0.2 microA

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QUESTION QUESTION
If a public key is used to encrypt the What antenna has its beamwidth
message then what is required to determined by the dimensions of its
decipher it? horn lens or reflector?

Private key Aperture antenna

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the main disadvantage of the What algorithm is used in MPEG-2
two-way paging system over the one- compression?
way paging system?

The two-way paging system is more Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)

expensive

QUESTION QUESTION
In TV receiver, what convergence is What is used to fire a geosynchronous
provided by varying currents through satellite to attain its final circular
the convergence coils? geostationary satellite?

Dynamic convergence Apogee kick motor

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QUESTION QUESTION
Which camera tube uses lead oxide What is the main accelerating element in
(PbO) for the photoconductive target a CRT?
plates?

Plumbicon Ultor

QUESTION QUESTION
What do you call the formula used to What is the least expensive LAN
calculate the overall noise performance topology but is disabled if one station
of a receiver or of multiple stages of RF fails?
amplification?

Friis’ formula Ring

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the fastest physical What is used in SSB and CW receivers
configuration of LAN? to produce a carrier that will mix with the
input signal in the demodulator to
generate the audio output?

Bus Beat Frequency Oscillator (BFO)

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the science of measuring light What is the minimum loss of a head end
visible to human eye? processor as RF input/output terminal
match?

Photometry 16 dB

QUESTION
What is a method of providing high-
speed data transmission or twisted-pair
telephone loops by using high-
frequency carriers?
QUESTION
A signaling path provided by a cable TV
system to deliver terminal signals that
are intended for reception by equipment
other than a TV broadcast receiver only
when used with auxiliary equipment.

Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line Class III cable TV channel

(ADSL)

QUESTION QUESTION
What is the typical range of the cellular What do you call the ratio that expresses
CDMA system? the percentage of incident voltage
reflected on a transmission line?

13 miles Reflection coefficient

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QUESTION QUESTION
What is the metal object threaded into a What is another term for “carrier
waveguide to add capacitance or frequency”?
inductance?

Tuning screw Rest frequency

QUESTION QUESTION
What effect is electro-optic modulation What refers to a measure of the relative
dependent upon? variances in propagation delay of
signals on the telephone lines?

Electro-optic effect Envelope Delay Distortion

QUESTION QUESTION
How does a mobile transmitter signal its What is used by the TV color receiver to
control channel in trunked system? retrieve the color signal?

Digital words Synchronous demodulation

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QUESTION QUESTION
What splicing is performed by joining What is the tonal ratio of an octave?
two fiber ends either by clamping them
within a structure or by gluing them
together?

Mechanical splicing 2 to 1

QUESTION QUESTION
What refers to one bit time for the At what loudness level do pitch (in mels)
pseudorandom code? and frequency (in Hz) are numerically
equal?

Chip 40 dB

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