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1.

EST Digital Communications

It consists of 36 unique codes representing the 10
digits and 26 uppercase letters.
a. Discrete Code
b. Code 39
c. Continuous Code
d. 20 Code

2.

The first fixed- length character code developed for

machines rather than for people.
a. ASCII Code
b. Gray Code
c. EBCIDIC Code
d. Baudot Code

3.

The early pioneer in the development of errordetection and correction procedures.

a. Richard W. Hamming
b. William R. Hamming
c. Emile Baudot
d. Samuel Baudot

4.

The most reliable convolutional coding scheme for

error detection.
a. Checksum
b. LRC
c. CRC
d. VRC

5.

For the given parameters, determine the energy per

bit-to noise power density ratio:
C = 10e-12 W
fb = 60 kbps
N = 1.2 x 10e-14`W
B = 120 kHz
a. 16.2 dB
b. 14.2 dB
c. 20.2 dB
d. 22.2 dB

6.

A signal at the input to a mu-law compressor is

positive with its voltage one-half the maximum
value. What proportion of the maximum output
voltage is produced?
a. 0.786 Vmax
b. 0.876 Vmax
c. 0.867 Vmax
d. 0.678 Vmax

7.

Inaccuracies caused by the representation of a

continuously varying quantity as one of a number of
discrete values.
a. Alias Signal
b. Slope Overload
c. Distortion
d. Quantizing Errors

8.

Circuit for digitizing voice at a low data rate by using

knowledge of the way in which voice sounds are
produced.
a. Vocoder
b. Codec
c. Sample-and-Hold Circuit
d. ADC

9.

A coding scheme that records the change in signal

level since the precious sample.
a. Unipolar Code
b. PPM
c. PCM
d. Delta modulation

10. Distortion created by using too low a sampling rate

when coding an analog signal for digital
transmission.
a. Aliasing

b.
c.
d.

Foldover Distortion
Either a or b
Neither a or b

11. A network with bandwidth of 10 Mbps can pass only

an average of 12000 frames per minute with each
frame carrying an average of 10000 bits. What is the
throughput of this network?
a. 1 Mbps
b. 2 Mbps
c. 3 Mbps
d. 4 Mbps
12. A telephone subscriber line must have an SNR dB
above 40. What is the minimum number of bits?
a. 3.56
b. 5.63
c. 6.35
d. 3.65
13. The thick coaxial cable implementation of standard
Ethernet.
a. 1000 Base-T
b. 10 Base-T
c. 10 Base 2
d. 10 Base 5
14. A bit pattern or a character added to the beginning
and the end of a frame to separate the frames.
a. Flag
b. Firewall
c. Frameguard
d. Footprint
15. An IPv4
a.
b.
c.
d.

has an address space of how many?

4294967296
6927694924
2449692769
9672969442

16. What is
a.
b.
c.
d.

the bit rate of STS 1?

51.84 Mbps
64 kbps
100 Mbps
2.4 Gbps

17. A block coding technique in which four bits are

encoded into a five bit code.
a. Baudot
b. 2B1Q Encoding
c. 4B/5B Encoding
d. 4A/5A Encoding
18. A national standards organization
standards in the United States.
a. ANSI
b. FCC
c. ITU
d. CCITT

that

defines

19. In asynchronous transmission, one or more bits to

indicate the end of transmission.
a. Trailer
b. Flag
c. Escape Byte
d. Stop Bit
20. What is the overhead (number of extra bits) in the
DS-3 service?
a. 1.368 Mbps
b. 1.480 Mbps
c. 2.048 Mbps

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d. 6.024 Mbps
21. The minimum sampling rate according to Nyquist
Theorem
a. equal to the lowest frequency of a signal
b. equal to the highest frequency of a signal
c. twice the bandwidth of a signal
d. twice the highest frequency of a signal
22. It is used in wireless applications in which stations
must be able to share the medium without
interception by an eavesdropper and without being
subject to jamming from a malicious intruder.
a. Modulation
b. Multiple Access
c. Multiple Access
d. Spread Spectrum
23. An error detection method which
complement arithmetic.
a. Checksum
b. CRC
c. Simple-parity Check
d. Two-dimensional parity check

uses

ones

24. It is a connecting device between two internetworks

that use different models
a. Bridge
b. Gateway
c. Repeater
d. Router
25. It is an undesired shift or width change in digital bits
of data due to circuitry action which causes bits to
arrive at different times.
a. Alias
b. Impulse
c. Jitter
d. Parity
26. In PCM system, it is the ratio of the maximum input
voltage level to the smallest voltage level that can be
quantized.
a. Dynamic Range
b. Figure of Merit

c.
d.

Quality Factor
Noise Figure

27. A multiplexer combines four 100-kbps channels using

a time slot of 2 bits, determine the frame duration.
a. 20s
b. 50s
c. 100s
d. 400s
28. Determine the Hamming distance for the codewords
( 10101, 11001).
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Five
29. An address space is the total number of addresses
used by the protocol, such
as IPv4 and IPv6. What
is the address space of IPv6?
32
a. 2
b. 264
c. 296
d. 2128
30. It is a standard designed by ITU to allow telephones
in the public telephone network to talk to
computers/terminals connected to the internet.
a. H. 111
b. H.123
c. H.321
d. H. 323
31. A computer monitor has a resolution of 1200 by 1000
pixels. If each pixel uses 1024 colors, how many bits
are needed to send the complete contents of a
screen?
a. 12 Gigabits
b. 1. 2 Gigabits
c. 120 Megabits
d. 12 Megabits