DITAL AND DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK PART

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101. It is defined as knowledge or intelligence that

is communicated between two or more points.
a. Carrier
b. Sideband
c. Information
d. Broadband
102. What is the category of data transmission if the
binary pulse is maintained for the entire bit time?
a. Return to zero
b. Bipolar
c. Unipolar
d. Non return to zero
103. Which medium is the most widely used in
LANs?
a. Twin Lead
b. Fiber optic cable
c. Twisted Pair
d. Coax
104. These are used for transmission of PCM
encoded time division multiplexed digital signal.
a. I carriers
b. E carriers
c. A carriers
d. T carriers
105. Which of the following is not a typical FDM
application?
a. Telemetry
b. Stereo broadcasting
c. Telephone
d. Secure communications
106. A LAN device that is used to interconnect two
networks that use different protocols and formats.
a. Gateways
b. Routers
c. Bridges
d. Hubs
107. A pulse modulation technique as the width of a
constant amplitude pulse is varied proportional to
the amplitude of the analog signal at the time the
signal is sampled.
a. Pulse Width Modulation
b. Pulse Length Modulation
c. Pulse Duration Modulation
d. All of these
108. The FDM telephone systems accommodate
many channels by
a. Increasing the multiplexer size
b. Using many final carriers
c. Narrowing the bandwidth of each
d. Using multiple levels of multiplexing

109. It is the transmittal of digitally modulated

analog signals (carrier) between two or more points
in a communications system.
a. Digital modulation
b. Digital transmission
c. Data communications
d. Pulse modulation
110. Indicate which of the following systems is
digital.
a. Pulse-position modulation
b. Pulse-code modulation
c. Pulsewidth modulation
d. Pulse-frequency modulation
111. Classification of protocol that interprets a
frame of data as a group of successive bit combined
into predetermined pattern of fixed length, usually 8
bits each.
a. Character-oriented protocols
b. Byte-oriented protocols
c. Bit-oriented protocols
d. Character and Byte-oriented protocols
112. Dividing the data block by a constant produces
a remainder that is used for error detection. It is
called the
a. Vertical redundancy check
b. Horizontal redundancy check
c. Block check character
d. Cyclic redundancy check
113. Which of the following is not a benefit of
spread spectrum?
a. Jam proof
b. Security
c. Immunity of fading
d. Noise proof
114. Converting analog signals to digital is done by
sampling and ___________.
a. Quantizing
b. Companding
c. Pre emphasis
d. Mixing
115. It is a process of converting an infinite number
of possibilities to a finite number of conditions.
a. Sampling
b. Coding
c. Quantization
d. Aliasing
116. In T1, it is equal to the reciprocal of the sample
rate
a. Slot Time
b. Transmission time
c. Frame time
d. Bit rate

117. What is the final output of a multiplexer?

a. Baseband
b. Composite baseband
c. Information
d. Composite carrier
118. The baud rate
a. is always equal to the bit transfer rate
b. is equal to twice the bandwidth of an ideal
channel
c. is not equal to the signaling rate
d. is equal to one half the bandwidth of an
ideal channel
119. Bit errors in data transmission are usually
caused by
a. equipment failures
b. typing mistakes
c. noise
d. poor S/N ratio at receiver
120. A digital modulation technique which is a form
of constant amplitude angle modulation similar to
standard frequency modulation except the
modulating signal is binary signal that varies
between two discreet voltage levels.
a. QAM
b. ASK
c. PSK
d. FSK
121. Start and stop bits, respectively, are
a. Mark, space
b. Space, mark
c. Space, space
d. Mark, mark
122. It is the processing of analog signals using
digital methods and includes band limiting and
signals with filters, amplitude equalization, and
phase shifting
a. Digital communications
b. Digital Signal Processing
c. Data communications
d. Carrier recovery method
123. It is a network access method used primarily
with LANs configured in a ring topology using
either baseband or broadband transmission formats
a. Ethernet
b. Token passing
c. Token ring
d. Token bus
124. A small telephone switching system that can
be used as a LAN is called
a. Ring
b. WAN
c. UART

d. PBX
125. The most common method used for sampling
voice signals in PCM systems
a. unnatural sampling
b. flat top sampling
c. natural sampling
d. free sampling
126. In PCM, it converts the PAM sampled to
parallel PCM codes
a. Analog-to-Digital converter
b. Digital-to-analog converter
c. Pre-emphasis circuit
d. Compander
127. The OSI layer that provides the control
functions necessary to establish, manage and
terminated the connections as required to satisfy the
user request.
a. Application layer
b. Network layer
c. Session layer
d. Physical layer
128. In PAM demultiplexing, the receiver clock is
derived from
a. standard radio station WWV
b. a highly accurate internal oscillator
c. the PAM signal itself
d. the 60 Hertz power line
129. It is also known as digital modulation
a. Digital transmission
b. Digital sampling
c. Digital radio
d. Data transmission
130. Time division multiplex
a. can be used with PCM only
b. combines five groups into supergroup
c. stacks 24 channels in adjacent frequency
slots
d. interleaves pulses belonging to different
transmissions
131. It is a numerical indication of how efficiently a
PCM code is utilized
a. Coding efficiency
b. Companding
c. Pre-emphasis
d. Dynamic Range
132. Type of PCM which is designed to take
advantage of the sample-to-sample redundancies in
the typical speech waveform
a. Single bit PCM code
b. Pulse Code Modulation
c. Differential PCM
d. Delta modulation

133. The Basic Rate Interface (BRI) of ISDN has a

total bit rate of _____.
a. 192 kbps
b. 148 kbps
c. 64 kbps
d. 1.544 Mbps
134. A form of angle modulated, constant
amplitude digital modulation similar to
conventional phase modulation except its input is
binary digital signal and there are limited numbers
of output phase possible.
a. ASK
b. PSK
c. FSK
d. QAM
135. The main circuit in a PSN generator is ____.
a. XOR
b. Multiplexer
c. Shift register
d. Mixer
136. The circuit that performs demultiplexing in an
FDM system is _____.
a. Op - Amp
b. Bandpass filter
c. Discriminator
d. Subcarrier oscillator
137. __________ defines how a user gets control of
the channel so as to allow transmission.
a. channel access
b. collision detection
c. collision avoidance
d. carrier sense
138. The fastest LAN topology is the
a. ring
b. bus
c. star
d. square
139. It is a the symmetrical expectation of the bit
error rate in the system
a. probability of errors
b. error detection
c. error control
d. bit error rate
140. It is simply the data rate at which serial PCM
bits are clocked out of the PCM encoder onto the
transmission line.
a. line speed
b. baud rate
c. output rate
d. bit rate
141. A quantizing is _______.
a. Multiplexer

b. Demultiplexer
c. A/D converter
d. D/A converter
142. Refers to the rate of change of a signal on a
transmission medium after encoding and
modulation have occurred
a. baud rate
b. phase shift
c. bit rate
d. frequency deviation
143. The magnitude difference between adjacent
steps in quantization is called __________.
a. Quantum
b. Step size
c. Resolution
d. Any of these
144. It is a set of rules implementing and governing
an orderly exchange of data between layers of two
devices, such as line control units and front end
processors.
a. Data Link Protocol
b. Network Protocol
c. Point to Point Protocol
d. File Transfer Protocol
145. A signaling system in which each letter of the
alphabet is represented by a different symbol is not
used because
a. it would be too difficult for an operator to
memorize
b. it is redundant
c. noise would introduce too many errors
d. too many pulses per letter are required
146. A modulation process that involves conversion
of a waveform from analog to digital form by
means of coding.
a. PDM
b. PCM
c. PLM
d. PAM
147. What is the bandwidth required to transmit at a
rate of 10 Mbps in the presence of a 28-bd S/N
ratio?
a. 1.075 MHz
b. 10 MHz
c. 5 MHz
d. 10.5 MHz
148. The slope of the analog signal is greater than
the delta modulator can maintain
a. overload distortion
b. granular noise
c. slope overload
d. peak limiting

149. A scheme in which several channels are

interleaved and then transmitted together is known
as
a. Frequency division multiplex
b. Time division multiplex
c. a group
d. a supergroup
150. The best frequency demodulator is the
a. PLL discriminator
b. Pulse-averaging discriminator
c. Foster-Seeley discriminator
d. Radio detector
ANSWERS

101. Information
102. Return to zero
103. Coax
104. T carriers
105. Secure communications
106. Gateways
107. All of these
108. Using multiple levels of multiplexing
109. Digital modulation
110. Pulse-code modulation
111. Character and Byte-oriented protocols
112. Cyclic redundancy check
113. Noise proof
114. Quantizing
115. Quantization
116. Frame time
117. Composite baseband
118. is equal to twice the bandwidth of an ideal
channel
119. noise
120. FSK
121. Space, mark
122. Digital Signal Processing
123. Token passing
124. PBX
125. flat top sampling
126. Analog-to-Digital converter
127. Session layer
128. the PAM signal itself
129. Digital radio
130. interleaves pulses belonging to different
transmissions
131. Coding efficiency
132. Differential PCM
133. 192 kbps
134. PSK
135. Shift register
136. Discriminator
137. channel access

138. bus
139. probability of errors
140. line speed
141. A/D converter
142. baud rate
143. Any of these
144. Data Link Protocol
145. noise would introduce too many errors
146. PCM
147. 1.075 MHz
148. slope overload
149. Time division multiplex
150. PLL discriminator