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 is any tone produced by a sound
source in addition to the fundamental
tone?

Overtone

QUESTION
What frequency is used to signal
handoffs to another cell and the
termination of the cell in cellular
communications?

10 kHz

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 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)

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

QUESTION
A terrestrial microwave system for the
distribution of television, internet and
telephone services to businesses and
residences.

Multichannel Multipoint
Distribution System

QUESTION
What class of mobile phone has an
effective radiated power (ERP) of 6 dBW
(4W)?

Class I

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
A network using microwaves for twoway transmission of telephony,
television, and high-speed data.

Local Multipoint
Distribution System (LMDS)

QUESTION
Which cabling material is standard for
outdoor cables because it resists
moisture and stable over a wide
temperature range and resists
abrasion?

Polyethylene

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

QUESTION
In a cable TV system providing internet
access, a 6 MHz TV channel can provide
data rate of _____Mbps.

27

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
What is the frequency tolerance for
aircraft stations employing singlesideband transmission?

20 ppm

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 do you call a short bit sequence
sent typically 128 bits in digital
signatures?

Hash

QUESTION
What is the maximum daily exposure
limit for a loudness level between 100
and 110 dB?

20 minutes

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
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
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
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
High definition TV (HDTV) picture is
rectangular and contains about ______
times as much information as the
current TV picture?

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 __________.

copy watch

QUESTION
What media format is an MPEG-4 based
video compression technology?

DivX

QUESTION
Carbon film resistor has a flicker noise
voltage of ____ microV.

0.05 to 0.3

QUESTION
The typical flicker noise voltage range in
microV of metal film resistor is _____.

0.02 to 0.2

QUESTION
What radio system was developed to
provide high-speed packet data access
for the GSM network?

GPRS

QUESTION
Which of the following wavelengths
where absorption of electromagnetic
waves becomes peak due to vibrational
resonances in the water vapor
molecule?

1.35 cm and 1.7 mm

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?

Hard line

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 fireresistance floor structure to the office or
room above?

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.

384

QUESTION
What is typical flicker noise voltage
range of a carbon-composition resistor
in microV?

0.1 to 3.0

QUESTION
What is a raceway of rectangular crosssection that is placed within or just
below the floor, and ties the distribution
duct or cell to the terminal or equipment
space?

Header

QUESTION
In acoustics, what do you call the
pleasant combinations of intervals?

Consonant intervals

QUESTION
What ITU standard sets the standard for
videoconferencing over telephone
lines?

H.261

QUESTION
What is the wavelength range of
sunlight?

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.?

Service Code

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.

Twinax

QUESTION
In satellite communication system,
________ is a satellite component that
senses the time or the incidence angle
of solar radiation and provides an
electrical signal that may be used to
compute the satellite orientation.

sun sensor

QUESTION
What part of the visible spectrum where
camera pickup tubes have the greatest
output?

Yellow-green

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
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
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
Depending on the terrain, microwave
systems use the line-of-sight
propagation and require repeaters
approximately every _____ km.

40

QUESTION
Which of the standards given below is
for terrestrial digital TV transmission?

8-VSB

QUESTION
High Definition Television (HDTV) has
how many horizontal scan lines?

1125

QUESTION
Which of the following is the nearest
star of the solar system?

Proxima Centauri

QUESTION
In digital AMPS (D-AMPS), a full-rate
TDMA system has _____ digital voice
channels combined into one 30-kHz
radio channel.

QUESTION
Cable TV uses what frequencies?

Between channel 6 and 7

and above channel 13

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
What data-compression technique takes
the advantage of the fact that
information bits are often repeated?

Run-length encoding

QUESTION
In radio communications systems, a
point on a line between the Earths
center an observer located farther from
the Earths center than the point is
called _______.

Nadir

QUESTION
What is the frequency of middle C?

262 Hz

QUESTION
What resistor has a typical flicker noise
voltage range of 0.01 to 0.2 microV?

Wire-wound

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 wavelength division multiplexing
involves multiple wavelengths usually
less than a few nanometers apart near
1.55 micrometers?

Dense Wavelength Division

Multiplexing

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

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

QUESTION
What is the IMT-2000 maximum data rate
for pedestrian mobile users and for
slow-moving vehicles?

384 kbps

QUESTION
Which of the following best describes
the ILS instrument system?

An aircrafts cockpit instrument which

provides two separate items of information

QUESTION
What video compression technique
deals with low-data rate video such as
found on CD-ROM and Internet?

MPEG-1

QUESTION
What navigation system is based on
application of Newtons Law of Motion?

Inertial navigation

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

QUESTION
What ground based navigation system
can provide 88 % to 98% global range?

Omega

QUESTION
What increase in network capacity can
be achieved by 3G wireless system?

70 %

QUESTION
What instrument normally measures the
virtual height of ionosphere?

Ionosonde

QUESTION
What is the frequency of one octave
above middle C?

524 Hz

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
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

QUESTION
What are the pulses in the vertical
blanking interval or a video signal that
creates interlaced scan called?

Equalizing pulses

QUESTION
At one atmospheric pressure, what is
the approximate speed of sound in
steel?

5150 m/s

QUESTION
The visual signal level shall be
maintained at ____ dB for any channel
other than within 6 MHz nominal
frequency separation.

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.

Class II cable TV channel

QUESTION
An inertial navigation system approach
in which the inertial sensors are directly
attached to the vehicle frame is the
________.

strap-down system

QUESTION
Which antenna is widely used on highspeed aircraft because they can be
integrated into the metallic skin of the
plane and therefore does not interfere
with air-flow dynamics at high speeds?

Slot antenna

QUESTION
What is the maximum power output of a
CB J3E emission?

12 W PEP

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
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
In broadcasting, geographically adjacent
stations must be spaced at least _____
channels apart to provide sideband
interference protection.

QUESTION
What absorber is which efficient
absorption is only possible over a very
narrow band approaching 1.0 (total
absorption)?

Helmholtz resonator

QUESTION
What is another name for a singlebutton microphone?

Carbon-button

QUESTION
What would be the most important
advantage of converting the entire
telephone system, including the local
loop, to fiber optics?

Unlimited bandwidth

QUESTION
What type of coupling is used between a
waveguide and a waveguide
wavemeter?

Hole

QUESTION
What is the IMT-2000 maximum data rate
for mobile users in high-speed vehicles?

144 kbps

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 refers to the metallic chambers of
various shapes and sizes that are used
as parallel-tuned circuits and filters?

Cavity resonator

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

QUESTION
What do you call the wavelengthdivision 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)

QUESTION
What is the proportion of scanning lines
in a video system that, on average, can
be used in determining vertical
resolution?

Utilization factor

QUESTION
Which navigation system is now
standard equipment on most planes,
ships and submarines?

Inertial Navigation System

(INS)

QUESTION
In bit-oriented protocols SDLC and
HDLC, which bit sequence represents
the flag?

01111110

QUESTION
What characteristic of solitons makes
them interesting for long-distance fiber
optic transmission?

Solitons can propagate for very

long distances without

QUESTION
What do you call the speech coding
process used by the third generation
(3G) cellular system?

Adaptive multirate

QUESTION
What is the term for a periodic variation
in refractive index along the length of a
fiber?

Fiber grating

QUESTION
What is the maximum antenna height for
CB?

60 feet above the ground or 20

feet above the building

QUESTION
What term tells how many cycles (Hz) a
crystal may differ from its designated
frequency for every 106 Hz of frequency?

ppm

QUESTION
Essentially, supervisory audio tone
(SAT) in analog AMPS is equivalent to
_______ in digital AMPS (D-AMPS).

Coded Digital Verification Color

Code (CDVCC)

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)?

Noise-equivalent power

QUESTION
How much dB gain may represent one S
unit?

6 dB

QUESTION
What is the maximum data rate for
GPRS?

172.2 kbps

QUESTION
Any radiation produced by a radio
transmitter will have an rbe of _____.

QUESTION
What operator frequency is needed to
heterodyne 629 kHz up to 3.58 MHz?

4.21 MHz

QUESTION
What refers to any noise that has equal
power per octave?

Pink noise

QUESTION
Infrared which is an electromagnetic
signal produced primarily by heat
covers what range?

0.7 to 100 micrometers

QUESTION
In cellular communications, what do you
call the interrupting the voice channel to
send control information?

Blank and burst signaling

QUESTION
What is reduced by rounding off squarewave emissions?

Clicks

QUESTION
What is the typical center frequency
spacing between adjacent channels
(transponders) in satellites?

40 MHz

QUESTION
10 Base 5 Ethernet system is also
known as ______.

The older Thick Ethernet

system

QUESTION
What is the frequency equivalent of the
international pitch A?

435 Hz

QUESTION
In what scale in which all intervals
would be exactly consonant?

Diatonic scale

QUESTION
What is the approximate critical
frequency of F2 layer?

8 MHz

QUESTION
Thin Ethernet is colloquially known as
________.

Cheapernet

QUESTION
In multiple-channel digital
communications, how many channels
make up an extended superframe?

576

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
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 predictable horizontal
position accuracy of the preciseposition service (PPS) of GPS?

22 m

QUESTION
What is the band of frequencies
allocated to Cable Television Relay
Service?

From 12.17 to 13.20 GHz

QUESTION
What is the only way to achieve a wider
aspect ratio is to use fewer active scan
lines?

Letterboxing

QUESTION
What is the peak wavelength of
sunlight?

500 nm

QUESTION
What cable is mostly used by 10 Mbps
and 100 Mbps Ethernet installations?

Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)

cable

QUESTION
What refers to the time from when you
go off-hook and when you receive a dial
tone from the host switch?

Dial-Tone delay

QUESTION
Thick coaxial cable is the medium used
by what type of Ethernet system?

Standard classical

QUESTION
If twisted-pair wiring is used for gigabit
Ethernet, how many pairs of category 5
cable are needed?

Four pairs

QUESTION
What connector is popular in attaching
test instruments like oscilloscopes,
frequency counters, spectrum
analyzers, etc?

BNC

QUESTION
What layer in the ionosphere has an
approximate single-hop nighttime range
of 4130 km?

F2 layer

QUESTION
In acoustics, what do you call the
unpleasant combinations of intervals?

Discordant interval

QUESTION
What is the bandwidth of NBVM
(Narrowband Voice Modulation) SSB
System?

1300 Hz

QUESTION
What is the typical power of a cell site
transmitter?

10 to 50 W

QUESTION
What is the international urgency signal
for radiotelegraphy?

PAN

QUESTION
If the forward channel radio in cellular
system is 875 MHz, what is the reverse
channel radio frequency?

830 MHz

QUESTION
In IBM token-ring network, when a
special data-grade shielded twisted-pair
wiring is used, how many nodes can be
supported?

260 nodes

QUESTION
In general, an analog cell site has how
many installed radio channels?

50

QUESTION
In a cellular phone, a memory location
where telephone numbers to be used in
the system are stored is known as
_______.

Number Assignment Module

(NAM)

QUESTION
What is the range of distance of the
MEO satellites orbiting the earth?

8000 km to 20,000 km

QUESTION
Category 5 UTP cable works with _____
Mbps?

100

QUESTION
What gas is used by most common jet
thrusters?

Hydrazine

QUESTION
Which Ethernet system is limited to 500
meters?

Thick Ethernet

QUESTION
What do you call the largest time
interval in the GSM system frame
structure?

Hyperframe

QUESTION
How many time slots per channel is
TDMA which is the multiple access
method used in GSM?

QUESTION
In the TDMA frame of D-AMPS, there are
how many bits per frame?

1944 bits

QUESTION
Which of the following is known as the
symmetric key cryptography?

Private key

QUESTION
What unit refers to the amount of
radiation actually absorbed?

rad (radiation absorbed dose)

QUESTION
What is the typical beamwidth range of a
horn antenna?

10 to 60 degrees

QUESTION
What is the listening period of Ethernet
LAN CSMA/CD protocol?

9.6 microseconds

QUESTION
Who invented the superheterodyne
receiver in 1918?

Edwin H. Armstrong

QUESTION
What standard is used in high speed
wireless Ethernet access known as WiFiTM?

IEEE 802.11b

QUESTION
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
has an uplink (sending) rate of ______
kbps.

14

QUESTION
In analog cellular system, the interfering
signal strength remains approximately
less than _____ of desired signal
strength to assure negligible
interference.

2%

QUESTION
What is the unique address of a pager
which is sent every time it is paged?

Capcode

QUESTION
What do you call the random data that is
sent continuously by a network
interface card (NIC)?

Jabber

QUESTION
What term used in asynchronous
transfer mode (ATM) system to describe
a byte?

Octet

QUESTION
What is the IEEE standard of WiMax?

IEEE 802.16

QUESTION
Who introduced the idea of using
satellites as relay stations for an
international microwave radiotelephone
system in 1945?

Arthur Clarke

QUESTION
In microwave communications, what
concept may be used to analyze
interference by obstacles near the path
of a radio beam?

Fresnel zone concept

QUESTION
Who coined the word cyberspace in
1984?

William Gibson

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.

11

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
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 asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
cell format, what indicates the node
source and packet destination?

Virtual channel identifier

QUESTION
In which of the following areas is it most
difficult to accurately evaluate the
effects of RF radiation exposure?

In the near field

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?

Push Messages

QUESTION
In acoustics, what is a method of
adjusting reverberation within a studio
or concert hall by means of loudspeaker
feedback system?

Ambiophony

QUESTION
What refers to the provision of voice
communication using Internet Protocol
(IP) technology, instead of traditional
circuit switched technology?

Voice Over Internet Protocol

(VoIP)

QUESTION
What frequency weighting curves were
modeled on the ears response to low
and high levels of sound respectively?

A and B

QUESTION
What is the usual transmission power of
most Bluetooth products?

1 mW

QUESTION
Which microphone will be damaged if
exposed to high temperature above
52C?

Crystal microphone

QUESTION
What is the typical bandwidth of the
single-mode step index fiber?

50 to 100 GHz/km

QUESTION
What helps protect data in transit over
the wireless link between client device
and the AP, via 64-, 128- or 256-bit
encryption?

Wired Equivalent Privacy

QUESTION
In broadband ISDN (BISDN), what is the
channel rate of H21?

32.768 Mbps

QUESTION
What refers to the cost-effective,
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?

ZigBee

QUESTION
In microwave communications, what is
the maximum allowable obstruction as a
rule of thumb?

40 %

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?

Active Noise Control

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
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
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
Ultra Wideband is designed for shortrange radio that will be used to transmit
data between devices over distances as
much as ____ feet.

20

QUESTION
In speech transmission for
entertainment purposes, which
frequency is required in order to capture
the naturalness of the speakers
voice?

80 to 8000 Hz

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

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 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 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 communication
blackout on most sunlit side of earth for
one to two hours?

R4

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

QUESTION
Which of the following predicts that rf
energy decays exponentially when it
encounters a conductive medium?

Maxwells equation

QUESTION
What is the code name for the next
version of Bluetooth?

Lisbon

QUESTION
What is code name for the version of
Bluetooth after Lisbon?

Seattle

QUESTION
What articulation efficiency corresponds
to 100% intelligibility for normal speech
in practice?

80 %

QUESTION
What is the Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)
of Bluetooth 2.0?

2.1 Mbps

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

156 meters

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

100 meters

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

22 meters

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

27.7 meters

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

200 ns

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

340 ns

QUESTION
What is a recent weighting which is
used for measuring audible sound in the
presence of ultrasound?

U-weighting

QUESTION
What is the current version of IP
addressing used in the internet?

IPv4

QUESTION
For two different sounds, the combined
level cannot be more than ____ dB
above the higher of the two sound
levels.

QUESTION
What is the envelop delay distortion
(EDD) limit of a basic telephone channel
between 800 Hz and 2600 Hz?

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
What ITU-T modem recommendation
provides specifications for 9600-bps
data transmission rate with true fullduplex operation over four-wire leased
private lines or two-wire switched
telephone lines?

V.32

QUESTION
In OSI model, BISYNC protocol is under
what layer?

Data link

QUESTION
A transponder that demodulates the
baseband signals and then remodulates
a carrier is known as a(n) ________
transponder.

regenerative

QUESTION
In telephony, what circuit disables line
amplifiers in trunk circuits to defeat
echoes?

Echo suppressor

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
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.

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?

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?

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?

780 and 950 nm

QUESTION
What do you call a person who works in
the field of acoustics?

Acoustician

QUESTION
What refers to an unwanted audio
oscillation which is caused by unwanted
feedback and this can be in audioamplifier states, in rf stages or as result
of acoustic feedback?

Howl

QUESTION
What is the bit-error-rate for a typical
satellite channel?

1 error in 1 billion bits

transmitted

QUESTION
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution
System (MMDS) is a technology that
enables large amounts of data to be
carried over the air from the operators
antenna towers to small receiving
dishes installed at each customer
location. What is the approximate useful
signal range of MMDS?

30 miles

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

QUESTION
What are often used to replace local
oscillators (los) for channel selection in
earth station transmitters and
receivers?

Frequency synthesizers

QUESTION
What is the minimum spectral operating
frequency of Ultra Wideband (UWB)?

500 MHz

QUESTION
Which radar frequency bands are used
for very long range (e.g. ballistic missile
early warning) and ground and foliage
penetration?

UHF

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
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 IP addressing uses 128-bit
address code resulting to virtually
limitless addresses?

IPv6

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

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.

Chirp

QUESTION
What refers to a signal generator usually
implemented with a PLL that produces
LO and transmitter carrier signals in a
transceiver?

Frequency synthesizer

QUESTION
Most microwave amplifiers are designed
to have input and output impedances of
____ohms.

50

QUESTION
What is the maximum radiated power of
cordless telephone sets?

5 mW

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

0.8

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

0.9

QUESTION
What semiconductor material is usually
used as a rectifier material for
photovoltaic cells and for xerographic
printing?

Selenium

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
What refers to an antenna arrangement
technique for reducing the effects of
multipath fading in microwave
networks?

Antireflection

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
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

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

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
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
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
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
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

QUESTION
For educational purposes, who is
credited as the first inventor of the
telephone?

Antonio Meucci

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
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
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
Personal Handyphone System (PHS) is a
wireless technology that offers highquality, low cost mobile telephone
services using a fully digital system
operating in what frequency range?

1.9 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)

QUESTION
What is the frame rate or refresh rate of
a typical PAL format television?

50 Hz

QUESTION
What is a 3G technology that delivers
broadband-like data speeds to mobile
devices?

EDGE

QUESTION
What term is normally associated with
specifying the location of a celestial
body in space?

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?

Unshift-on-space (USOS)

QUESTION
Iridium satellite system is constellation
of 66 low-earth orbit satellites that exists
at what particular height above the
surface of earth?

780 km

QUESTION
What is the standard cladding diameter
for a single-mode step-index fiber which
is considered the most widely used in
todays wide-band communication
arena?

125 micrometer

QUESTION
In fiber cables, the typical light
scattering loss is 2.5 dB at ______ nm of
light wavelength?

820

QUESTION
What is the optimum reverberation time
at 500 to 1000 Hz of an auditorium?

1.6 to 1.8 s

QUESTION
The average voltage value of the 3.58
MHz modulated chrominance signal in
TV receiver is __________.

the brightness of the color

QUESTION
In cellular system, typically how many
cells are in the frequency-reuse plan
format?

QUESTION
A scattering that occurs when light
waves interact with vibrations of atoms
in a crystalline lattice?

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

QUESTION
A 100 Mbps LAN signaling standard
intended for use with fiber optics but
also used with coaxial cable.

Fiber Distribution Data

Interface (FDDI)

QUESTION
What is the shape of a trapezoidal
pattern at 100 % modulation?

Triangular

QUESTION
What is an instrument that measures the
cumulative exposure to high energy
radiation such as x-ray and gamma
radiation?

Dosimeter

QUESTION
What is the minimum ratio of visual
signal level to system noise, and of
visual level to any undesired co-channel
TV signal operating on proper offset
performance?

36 dB

QUESTION
How long does a repeater transmit after
a mobile signal drops out?

1 to 5 s

QUESTION
What refers to a series of tones that
sound good when used in combination?

Musical scale

QUESTION
Solid-state neodymium laser can
generate high power at _____ but
require external modulation to transmit
a signal?

1.3 microsec

QUESTION
The electronic serial number (ESN)
assigned to the mobile phone at the
factory consists of

32 bits

QUESTION
What unit refers to the radiation other
than x-rays which will cause an
absorption equal to 1 roentgen?

rep (roentgen equivalent

physical)

QUESTION
What is the bit rate in Mbps for
terrestrial broadcasting in a 6-MHz
channel?

19.39

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?

Brillouin scattering

QUESTION
Which of the following identifies the
maximum transmitter power level of a
mobile phone?

Station Class Mark (SCM)

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?

Republic and Titanic

QUESTION
What increase in sound level is
commonly perceived by most people?

6 to 10 dB

QUESTION
What is low-level signal in a telephone
receiver deriving from the transmitter in
the same instrument?

Sidetone

QUESTION
How is encryption of data for purpose of
privacy commonly achieved?

By using public-key encryption

QUESTION
What is the equivalent frequency of the
American concert pitch A?

440 Hz

QUESTION
At what wavelengths does oxygen
molecule absorption peaks to
electromagnetic wave?

5 mm and 2.5 mm

QUESTION
What is typical capacitance variation of
most varactors used in frequency
modulators?

12 to 1

QUESTION
Which of the following is considered the
two most popular IF of TV receivers?

36 and 46 MHz

QUESTION
What is the maximum power of a class
III analog cellular phone?

3W

QUESTION
What expresses the steepness of the
skirts or the skirt selectivity of a radio
receiver?

Shape factor

QUESTION
The ratio of calls that are irregularly
terminated to the total number of calls
made during the measurement period is
called ______.

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.

Fresnel reflection

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.

0.5

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 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 frequency-sharing technique uses
highly directional spot-beam antennas
to prevent interference between stations
on the same frequency?

Spatial isolation

QUESTION
What is essentially a cell site (shelter)
that is mounted on a flatbed tractortrailer used for emergency purposes?

COW

QUESTION
Which of the following principal musical
intervals is considered dissonant?

7:8

QUESTION
What are being used to sign important
documents sent electronically?

Digital signatures

QUESTION
In a propagation medium, such as in the
glass of an optical fiber, _______ is the
scattering of an electromagnetic wave
by particles with a size about equal to or
greater than the wavelength.

Mie scattering

QUESTION
Which of the following are antennas
made with microstrip on PCBs?

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?

Distance-to-reuse ratio (D/R)

QUESTION
In wide area networks, what routing
technique requires each node to take
the incoming packet and retransmit it
onto every outgoing link?

Flooding

QUESTION
What do you call the camera signal
output without sync?

Noncomposite video

QUESTION
What is referred to as the formation of
trapped gas pockets in an optical fiber?

Blooming

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
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 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 SSB transmitters, the average power
is typically between _______ of the peak
envelope power (PEP) with typical
human speech.

one-fourth to one-third

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

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

QUESTION
What describes the various patterns of
electric and magnetic fields of a
waveguide?

Modes of the 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 _______.

despun antenna

QUESTION
How many bits in block can be
corrected by using a Hamming Code?

QUESTION
In TV receivers, what type of
convergence is provided by adjusting
the permanent magnets?

Static convergence

QUESTION
What is the maximum data rate of fiber
optic cables?

10 Gbps

QUESTION
What is the approximate critical
frequency of the E layer?

4 MHz

QUESTION
The number that identifies a mobile
phone (the mobile telephone number) in
a cellular system is called a _______.

Mobile Identification Number

(MIN)

QUESTION
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is also
widely used insulator and is known as

teflon

QUESTION
What type of filter uses acoustic waves
on the surface of a substrate to achieve
the desired response?

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)

QUESTION
What refers to the self oscillation in an
RF amplifier that does not occur at the
tuned frequency of the amplifier?

Parasitic Oscillation

QUESTION
What C-type line conditioning is for
access lines and trunk circuits
associated with private switched
network?

C3

QUESTION
In communications system, the total
system noise in the absence of
information transmission is called
_________.

background noise

QUESTION
What is the reason why the Smith chart
is circular in form?

Because it is the convenient way to

represent the fact that impedances on a
transmission line repeat every one-half

QUESTION
An error-correcting system in which
errors are corrected at the receiver
using redundancy transmitted data
without using retransmission request.

Forward Error Correction (FEC)

QUESTION
In klystron, what is the cavity that
velocity-modulates the electron beam?

Buncher

QUESTION
How many horizontal lines are blanked
out in the frame of TV receivers by V
blanking?

42

QUESTION
In a single-tube class C amplifier, why is
the radiated modulated envelope not
made up of varying amplitude dc
pulses?

Because of flywheel of LC tank

QUESTION
What LED is the usual signal source for
plastic fibers?

Red LED

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
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 is the primary cause of echo and
singing?

Mismatch between the balancing network

and its two-wire connection

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
In IMT 2000, what does 2000 refer?

Both implementing date which is year 2000

and operating frequency of about 2000
MHz

QUESTION
A system that allows users to access
documents from widely separated
sources on the internet using a common
interface.

World Wide Web

QUESTION
What principle is employed in cellular
telephony to allow simultaneous
transmission and reception without the
need to push to talk?

Frequency duplex

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
To what frequency must the gated-beam
quadrature circuit be tuned in an FM BC
(broadcast) receiver?

10.7 MHz

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
What is the reason why tropospheric
ducting not used very much for practical
communications system?

Because it is not reliable

QUESTION
Cable TV companies collect signals and
programs from many sources in a
facility called _______.

head end

QUESTION
What oscillator whose frequency is
controlled by a binary number written to
an internal register?

Numerically-controlled
Oscillator

QUESTION
What sweep frequencies could be used
on a scope to stop an envelope pattern
of 600 Hz modulation?

Any submultiple of 600, 300,

150 etc.

QUESTION
How close to a mobile microphone
should the lips be?

2 inches

QUESTION
A wide area mobile radio telephone
system with its own switch base
stations and transmission by utilizing
radio frequencies.

Mobile Telephone System

QUESTION
What helps protect fibers against
degradation caused by moisture?

Cabling

QUESTION
For an angle of incidence equal to the
critical angle, the light will be refracted
________.

along the normal

QUESTION
If a rocket contains more than one
satellites, the smaller satellite that will
be launched after the main satellite is
called ________.

secondary payload

QUESTION
How much more feed-point Z does a
folded dipole have than a normal
dipole?

4 times

QUESTION
A device that converts audio frequencymodulated lightwaves into a sound tone
by causing a crystal to vibrate at the
audio modulation frequency of the
lightwave is called ______.

optoacoustic transducer

QUESTION
In Ethernet LAN, what situation arises
when two or more terminals try to
transmit on the network at the same
time?

Contention

QUESTION
What is considered as a non-continuous
noise?

Impulse noise

QUESTION
What is the bandwidth allocation to each
voice channel in analog telephone
signals?

4 kHz

QUESTION
The antenna effective height is _____ to
_____ of the actual height

to 2/3

QUESTION
Damage to cells of the reproductive
tissues due to exposure to intense rf
radiation is called what?

Genetic

QUESTION
What is the frequency separation
between the forward channel and the
reverse channel of cellular radio?

45 MHz

QUESTION
Why are geostationary satellites
unsatisfactory for communications from
regions near the poles of the earth?

The angle of elevation of the

satellite is too low in these

QUESTION
How many TV fields are recorded on one
slant tract of tape?

QUESTION
What do you call the first note of a
musical scale?

Root note

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?

Echo suppressors

QUESTION
In general, what frequency range does
troposcatter wave propagation found to
be effective?

350 MHz to 10 GHz

QUESTION
What is the typical loudness level of a
watch ticking?

20 Phons

QUESTION
A lens has an 8-cm focal length and 4cm diameter. What is its f rating?

QUESTION
How many time slots are there in the
basic GSM frame structure?

QUESTION
What is the maximum power output of a
CB A3E emission?

4W

QUESTION
What modulation method is used by
enhanced data for global evolution
(EDGE)?

8 PSK

QUESTION
What is referred to as the change in the
direction of polarization of signals
passing through the ionosphere?

Faraday rotation

QUESTION
What are the reasons why a cavity
resonator is preferred than conventional
circuits at microwave frequencies?

The Q of a cavity resonator is very high and

conventional circuits have impractically small
dimensions at microwave frequencies

QUESTION
What is the maximum height above
average terrain for a class B FM station?

500 feet

QUESTION
A television receiver design that uses
mixing between the picture and sound
carriers to generate the sound
intermediate frequency. What do you
call this sound?

Intercarrier sound

QUESTION
What are pulses that retain their shapes
as they pass through optical fibers?

Solitons

QUESTION
What microphones are predominantly
used in Aviation services?

Dynamic microphone

QUESTION
Which of the following is considered the
major obstacle of the video-ondemand service of cable TV system?

Bandwidth

QUESTION
Why downtilt used in cellular base
stations?

Because it can be used to reduce the range

of a base station to reduce interference.

QUESTION
What refers to the ways that the voice
signal used in communications is dealt
with prior to being applied to the
modulator?

Speech processing

QUESTION
GPS satellite takes how many hours to
complete one orbit?

12 hours

QUESTION
What might be a reliable range mobileto-mobile?

1 to 10 miles

QUESTION
What type of license allows a software
package to be installed on any and all
workstations and servers at a given
site?

Site license

QUESTION
Refers to the transmission of brief text
messages, such as pages or e-mail, by
cellular radio or PCS.

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?

Image

QUESTION
The portion of the horizontal blanking
pulse before the sync pulse is known as
________.

front porch

QUESTION
In cellular system, what is data signaling
channel that handles the administrative
overhead of the cellular system?

Paging channel or control

channel

QUESTION
At what frequency does magnetron in a
microwave oven operate?

2.45 GHz

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?

Record locking

QUESTION
What splicing is performed by butting
the tips of two fibers together and
heating them so they melt together?

Fusion splicing

QUESTION
Damage to cells other than the
reproductive tissues due to exposure to
intense rf radiation is what?

Somatic

QUESTION
What is another term for pink noise?

Flicker noise

QUESTION
What refers to a telephone that rings
another phone without dialing?

Hot line

QUESTION
What do you call the range over which
the reference frequency can be varied
and still achieve phase lock?

Capture range

QUESTION
What is the typical efficiency of a
parabolic antenna?

55%

QUESTION
In television, special effects and
production switching are done by the
_____.

SEG

QUESTION
What is the maximum deviation of
cellular radios that use FM?

12 kHz

QUESTION
What is the noise-reduction effect that
occurs with strong FM signals?

Threshold effect

QUESTION
In what order would a three-stage
transmitter be tuned?

Oscillator, driver and PA

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

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 variation of the discriminator
which greatly reduces sensitivity to
amplitude variations, at the cost of 50%
reduction in output voltage?

Ratio detector

QUESTION
What is the dielectric constant of
polyethylene (PE) insulator?

2.27

QUESTION
What are commonly used to replace
conventional LC tuned circuits at UHF
and microwave frequencies where onehalf wavelength is less than 1 foot?

Transmission lines

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

QUESTION
Sound provides all sorts of information.
What information is related to mental
processes of knowledge, reasoning,
memory, judgment and perception?

Cognitive

QUESTION
What factor is the cut-off frequency of
waveguide dependent upon?

Physical factor

QUESTION
Which physical characteristic of vacuum
tube devices is used to generate power
at microwave frequencies?

Electron Bunching

QUESTION
What is the first type of modulation,
using a SB microphone called?

Absorption or loop

QUESTION
In PM, a frequency shift occurs while
what characteristic of the modulating
signal is changing?

Amplitude

QUESTION
There are how many orbital planes
which are equally spaced around the
equator in the GPS operational
constellation?

QUESTION
What may cause ionic disturbance
characterized by rapid fluttering sound,
hence voice communications are poor?

Aurora borealis

QUESTION
The maximum radiation form electronic
equipment must not exceed _____ mr
per week.

100

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?

Radiation

QUESTION
What is the most ambitious of the
proposed LEO systems?

Teledesic system

QUESTION
How is the assigned frequency related
to the suppressed carrier frequency with
J3E emissions?

1.4 kHz higher

QUESTION
What is the disadvantage of low IFs?

Can cause image interference

problems

QUESTION
Why does a higher-impedance line have
lower copper loss than a lowerimpedance line?

Because higher-impedance line

has lower current for a given

QUESTION
What is the minimum ratio of visual
signal level to the RMS amplitude of any
coherent disturbances such as
intermodulation products or discretefrequency interfering signals not
operating on proper offset
assignments?

46 dB

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
What code is used in the100 Base Tx
Ethernet standard?

Three-level Manchester code

QUESTION
In video compression, _______ is the
current digital video specification.

MPEG-4

QUESTION
What were the three methods of
generating carriers before VTs were
used?

Spark, Arc and Alternator

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%

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
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
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 are printed circuit boards, such as
stripline and microstrip implemented on
transmission lines?

To create resonant circuits and

filters

QUESTION
Why do fading J3E signals distort less
than fading A3E signals?

SB not beating against fading

carrier

QUESTION
What is the maximum VF tone that may
be fed to a voice signal?

+6 VU

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 shifting of antenna pattern
so that the major lobe is at an angle
below the horizontal?

Downtilt

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)

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

QUESTION
Why does a high-Q circuit discriminate
against harmonics?

Because of purer sine wave ac

QUESTION
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 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 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 do you call the line that is
terminated by its own impedance?

Nonresonant or resistive or flat

line

QUESTION
What usually is the antenna used for
radars?

Horn with a parabolic reflector that

rotates over a 360 degree angle.

QUESTION
In TV system, if the color oscillator does
not operate, the trouble is _________.

no color

QUESTION
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 do you call the technique of
cooling artificially the amplifiers used
with very low level signals to reduce
noise?

Cryogenics

QUESTION
What terminal of a dc charging
generator should be grounded to reduce
radio noise?

Armature

QUESTION
What is usually the final amplifier stage
in the several stages of amplification of
a typical AM transmitter?

Power amplifier

QUESTION
The orbits of GPS satellites are nearly
circular with inclination angles of _____
degrees relative to the equator?

55

QUESTION
What is the term used to describe an
ordinary voice telephony?

Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)

QUESTION
What is the main disadvantage of a
single-tube transmitter?

Frequency instability

QUESTION
What is the velocity of a geostationary
satellite in orbit?

6879 statute miles per hour

QUESTION
What is the specified cell site transmit
power of CDMA cellular system?

1.25 W

QUESTION
What is the data transmission rate of the
North America AMPS?

10 kbps

QUESTION
F3 emission means carrier is frequency
modulated by _______.

voice

QUESTION
Twisted pair is used by IBM token ring
network that operates at either ______
Mbps?

4 or 16

QUESTION
What amplifier is made to appear
inductive or capacitive by phase shift
and is used to produce wide-deviation
direct FM?

Reactance modulator

QUESTION
In North America, what digital audio
compression system substitutes the
MP3 audio?

Dolby AC-3

QUESTION
Selectivity of the TV signal is provided
by what particular filter?

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)

QUESTION
What is the achievable data rate of the
third generation (3G) cellular system?

More than 2 Mbps

QUESTION
If an audio line loses high frequencies,
what can be added to it to flatten the
response?

Equalizer

QUESTION
What is considered as the simplest
transmitter that is keyed on and off to
produce CW Morse code?

Oscillator

QUESTION
When real time communication is
required, the only way to address the
second problem is to uses a ________
containing more than one satellite.

constellation

QUESTION
Alpha particles and fast neutrons have
an rbe of ____.

10

QUESTION
What is the typical noise figure of metal
semiconductor FETs or MESFETs used
at microwave frequencies?

2 dB or less

QUESTION
In a cellular or PCS system, what refers
to the connection of a mobile to two or
more base stations simultaneously?

Soft handoff

QUESTION
Where does most of the gain and
selectivity in a superhet found?

In the IF amplifier

QUESTION
Acoustic shock refers to the physical
pain, dizziness and sometimes nausea
caused by hearing a sudden very loud
sound. The threshold of pain is about
_____.

120 dB

QUESTION
Which waveguide accessory is
sometimes referred to as the magic T?

Hybrid T

QUESTION
What is the frequency of subcarrier
modulated by the different signals in an
FM stereo multiplex transmission?

38 kHz

QUESTION
What is another term for parity check?

Vertical redundancy check

(VRC)

QUESTION
What circuit permits selective signaling
by allowing only low-frequency tones to
trigger the squelch?

Continuous Tone Control

Squelch (CTCS)

QUESTION
What do you call the distortion created
by using too low a sampling rate when
coding an analog signal for digital
transmission?

Aliasing

QUESTION
What is the typical value of line turn
around?

1.5 ms

QUESTION
What is the voltage of the local-loop onhook?

-48 Vdc

QUESTION
Which pulse in V blanking corresponds
to 3H lines wide?

V sync

QUESTION
What is the data rate (in bits per voice
channel) of digital telephone signals?

64

QUESTION
What is the speech coding rate in GSM
cellular system?

13 kbps

QUESTION
What is the typical value of vidicon dark
current?

0.2 microA

QUESTION
If a public key is used to encrypt the
message then what is required to
decipher it?

Private key

QUESTION
What antenna has its beamwidth
determined by the dimensions of its
horn lens or reflector?

Aperture antenna

QUESTION
What is the main disadvantage of the
two-way paging system over the oneway paging system?

The two-way paging system is

more expensive

QUESTION
What algorithm is used in MPEG-2
compression?

Discrete Cosine Transform

(DCT)

QUESTION
In TV receiver, what convergence is
provided by varying currents through
the convergence coils?

Dynamic convergence

QUESTION
What is used to fire a geosynchronous
satellite to attain its final circular
geostationary satellite?

Apogee kick motor

QUESTION
Which camera tube uses lead oxide
(PbO) for the photoconductive target
plates?

Plumbicon

QUESTION
What is the main accelerating element in
a CRT?

Ultor

QUESTION
What do you call the formula used to
calculate the overall noise performance
of a receiver or of multiple stages of RF
amplification?

Friis formula

QUESTION
What is the least expensive LAN
topology but is disabled if one station
fails?

Ring

QUESTION
What is the fastest physical
configuration of LAN?

Bus

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

Beat Frequency Oscillator (BFO)

QUESTION
What is the science of measuring light
visible to human eye?

Photometry

QUESTION
What is the minimum loss of a head end
processor as RF input/output terminal
match?

16 dB

QUESTION
What is a method of providing highspeed data transmission or twisted-pair
telephone loops by using highfrequency carriers?

Asymmetrical Digital
Subscriber Line (ADSL)

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.

Class III cable TV channel

QUESTION
What is the typical range of the cellular
CDMA system?

13 miles

QUESTION
What do you call the ratio that
expresses the percentage of incident
voltage reflected on a transmission
line?

Reflection coefficient

QUESTION
What is the metal object threaded into a
waveguide to add capacitance or
inductance?

Tuning screw

QUESTION
What is another term for carrier
frequency?

Rest frequency

QUESTION
What effect is electro-optic modulation
dependent upon?

Electro-optic effect

QUESTION
What refers to a measure of the relative
variances in propagation delay of
signals on the telephone lines?

Envelope Delay Distortion

QUESTION
How does a mobile transmitter signal its
control channel in trunked system?

Digital words

QUESTION
What is used by the TV color receiver to
retrieve the color signal?

Synchronous demodulation

QUESTION
What splicing is performed by joining
two fiber ends either by clamping them
within a structure or by gluing them
together?

Mechanical splicing

QUESTION
What is the tonal ratio of an octave?

2 to 1

QUESTION
What refers to one bit time for the
pseudorandom code?

Chip

QUESTION
At what loudness level do pitch (in mels)
and frequency (in Hz) are numerically
equal?

40 dB