Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
3. Synchronization of digital switches in the 16. The equipment used by the telephone
North American telephone network is done network changes slowly to balance new
using a(an) ___ technique. technology against ___.
ANS. MASTER/SLAVE ANS. COST
4. The line coding scheme used for the DS-1 17. Which kinds of signal are transmitted on
signal is ___. the local loop?
ANS. BIPOLAR ANS. VOICE, TONES AND PULSES
5. Sampling the analog wave produces __ 18. Which office class is the local central
modulation. office?
ANS. PULSE AMPLITUDE ANS. 5
35. The telephone network is being converted 47. The average level of the luminance within
to digital operation primarily to an active picture. Usually expressed as a
ANS: REDUCE COSTS percentage of reference white level
ANS: AVERAGE PICTURE LEVEL (APL)
36. Digital transmission and signaling are
useful because digital logic circuits are 48. The designer of central office equipment
cheaper than analog, signaling is easier and it should maintain the ___ between the
can provide a lower ___. subscriber and central office
ANS: SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO ANS: STANDARD INTERFACE
37. Digital transmission has disadvantages 49. The difference between the lineside and
that stem primarily from the necessity for trunkside interfaces is that lineside refers to
interfacing with the ___ the subscriber loop and trunkside refers to
ANS: EXISTING ANALOG NETWORK ___.
ANS: CONNECTION TO OTHER OFFICES
38. The equation fs=2BW is called the ___
ANS: NYQUIST CRITERION 50. SLIC stands for
ANS: SUBSCRIBER LINE INERFACE CARD
ANS: BAND SEPARATOR
51. The noise generated by TDm carrier
system is ___ that generated by analog 64. Both dot and line pattern on a TV screen
carrier systems are produced by ___
ANS: MUCH LESS THAN ANS: PULSE WAVEFORM
52. One section in a D1 channel band handles 65. White-dot and cross-hatch generators are
___ voice channels chiefly used for ___
ANS: 24 ANS: CONVERGENCE
53. Functions performed by D-tye channel 66. Dynamic convergence controls are
banks are: adjusted to obtain correct convergence at the
ANS: DIALED NUMBER... __ of the screen
ANS: EDGES
54. Data sent by D1 channel bank are at __
Mbps 67. Which of the following is a midband
ANS: 1.544 cable TV channel?
ANS: A OR 14
55. Multiplexer systems used in the punlic
network are of the ___ types 68. Coaxial cable for distribution systems has
ANS: SYNCHRONOUS an impedance of
ANS: 75 OHMS
56. An area of great brightness on a TV
display or a very bright portion of a picture 69. The cable converter output for the tv
ANS: HIGHLIGHT receiver is usually on channel
ANS: 3
57. Pulse stuffing in used in TDM to ___ the
transmission rate between input channels 70. A tap for the subscriber drop line has a
ANS: EQUALIZE ANS: HIGH TAP LOSS
58. What kind of modulation is used to 71. The most popular plug for RG59U coaxial
modems? cable is the
ANS: FM, AM, PM ANS: F CONNECTOR
59. Asynchronous data transmission requires 72. The difference between asynchronous and
a clock at ___ synchronous transmission is the way the
ANS: BOTH ENDS synchronization is provided, the way the
beginning of a block of data is detected and
60. An added performance feature of modern the way the beginning of ___ is determined
modems is the provision of data rates of up to ANS: A CHARACTER
___ bps
ANS: 56000 73. The ability to collect light is directly
proportional to the
61. The most common US standard for ANS: SIZE OF THE ACCEPTANCE CONE
interfacing between digital terminal
equipment and modems is ____ 74. A typical light beam launched onto a fiber
ANS: EIA RS-232C optic will find a great number of modes of
propagation open to it. This is called ___
62. Modem of modern design using low cost dispersion
electronics to perform more advanced ANS: INTERMODAL
modulation techniques now
ANS: TDMA 75. Asynchronous transmission has low-speed
transmission of less than ___ kbps
63. An accessory that separates incoming ANS: 2.4
UHF, VHF and AM antenna signals so that
they can be directed to their respective
terminals
76. Mobile telephone users originate and 88. A switch invented by Strowger, that
receive calls automatically provided they are generates much noise and cannot operate
in ___ directly from DTMF tones
ANS: HOME AREA AND CHANNELS ARE ANS: STEP-BY-STEP
AVAILABLE
89. Time division multiplexing is ___
77. The regulator in an integrated telephone transmission
circuit controls ___ and ___ ANS: DIGITAL
ANS: CURRENT AND VOLTAGE
90. Conventional transmission used for media
78. Transient protection for integrated include twisted pair cable, microwave
telephone circuits is typically provided by ___ waveguide & ___
ANS: ZENER DIODES ANS: FIBER
79. The principal difference loop start and 91. The nominal value of the dial pulse break
ground start is that loop start is ___ signaling interval in milliseconds in the United States is
which may involve a slight delay ANS:
ANS: ONE ....
92. What type of transmitter has been
80. Ground start is ___ signaling that is replaced by the use of microphones in many
instantaneous modern telephones?
ANS: EITHER-WAY ANS: CARBON
81. Fold over distortion or aliasing is the 93. How many unique tones are used for the
presence of spurious frequencies caused by 12-key dual-tone multifrequency keypad?
having frequencies that are __ in the sampled ANS: 7
signals
ANS: TOO HIGH 94. An erroneous lower frequency obtained
when a periodic signal is sampled at a rate
82. Electronic crosspoint arrays require a ___ equal or less than twice the signal’s
to stay latched frequency.
ANS: MINIMUM HOLDING CURRENT ANS: ALIASING
83. TDM carrier systems are growing int 95. The telephone set can change as long as
number because they can use __ integrated the ___ remains the same.
circuits ANS:
ANS: LOW-COST, LARGE ...
96. What determines the minimum operating
84. The parameter that most affects current in the local loop?
ANS:
transmission of high speed modem data is
____
97. On-hook current must be kept low so that
ANS: PHASE DISTORTION
the line relays in the central office will not
___.
85. A type of dc signaling
ANS: MISTAKE IT FROM …
ANS: LOOP CURRENT, REVERSE ...
98. Power to operate the telephone and the
86. The voice frequency channel passband is subscriber loop is usually provided by the
___ Hz central office and is called __ because
ANS: 0 - 4000 batteries are sometimes used.
ANS:
87. Telephone switching is accomplished by
the use of ___ switches 99. A booth in a TV studio for observers, such
ANS: DIGITAL SWITCHES, STEP-BY- as sponsors and VIPs.
STEP, AND CROSSBARS ANS:
100. What is needed because of ANS: 16
transients from lightning, induction or short
circuits? 113. A device in a TV camera tube to
ANS: OVERLOAD PROTECTION reduce or eliminate streaks, called comets.
ANS: ANTI-COMET TAIL GUN
101. A special rectifier bridge is used in
electronic telephones because the voltage 114. Used in 3D-image TV camera
drop across conventional bridges leaves __ to systems to form a depth video signal.
operate the set. ANS: ANTI-LOGARITHMIC AMPLIFIER
ANS:
115. What is an advantage of electronic
102. The difference between the sound ringers?
carrier frequencies in two adjacent TV channel ANS: SMALLER SIZE
is ___.
ANS: 6 MHz 116. What functions are provided in a
multitone ringing generator?
103. Line-of-transmission is a ANS: ANTI-TINKLE CIRCUITRY, TONE
characteristic of propagation for the GENERATION AND OUTPUT AMPLIFIER
ANS: VHF BAND AND UHF BAND
117. The DTMF generator in an
104. In TV channel 14 (470 to 476 electronic phone produces tones using a(n)
MHz), the 3.58 MHz color signal is transmitted ___ circuit.
at ___. ANS: DIGITAL DIVIDER
ANS: 474.83 MHz
118. A piezoelectric transducer is a
105. The difference between the sound ceramic disc used to __.
carrier and the color subcarrier frequencies is ANS:
ANS: 0.92 MHz
119. The capability of an improved or
106. The maximum deviation of the FM enhanced piece of hardware to accept
sound signal, in kilohertz, is software designed for an earlier model.
ANS: 25 ANS: BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY