1. Typical speech power
The signal quality of the calls
 A. 10 to 1000 µW
 B. 100 to 1000 mW
 C. 10 to 1000 nW
 D. 100 to 1000 pW
2. The maximum intelligibility for
voice frequency is located
between
 A. 250 and 500 Hz
 B. 1000 and 3000 Hz
 C. 500 and 1000 Hz
 D. 3000 and 5000 Hz
3. The maximum voice energy is
located between
 A. 250 and 500 Hz
 B. 1000 and 3000 Hz
 C. 500 and 1000 Hz
 D. 3000 and 5000 Hz
4. A device used to measure
speech volume.
 A. speech meter
 B. volume meter
 C. volume unit meter
 D. speedometer
5. By definition, for a sine wave
 A. 0 dBm = 0 V.U.
 B. 0 dBW = 0 V.U.
 C. 0 dBa = 0 V.U.
 D. 0 dBf = 0 V.U.
6. Presently, this is the “standard”
frequency bandwidth for voice
transmission.
 A. 0 to 4000 Hz
 B. 100 to 3400 Hz
 C. 300 to 3400 Hz
 D. 300 to 3000 Hz
7. Which of the following is
commonly used wire for
subscriber loop design?
 A. AWG # 19
 B. AWG # 18
 C. AWG # 30
 D. AWG # 33
8. The resistance limit for No. 2
Crossbar Exchange (US) is
 A. 1300 Ω
 B. 2000 Ω
 C. 1250 Ω
 D. 1200 Ω
9. AWG # 26 has a typical loss of
 A. 0.21 dB/1000 ft.
 B. 0.32 dB/1000 ft.
 C. 0.41 dB/1000 ft.
 D. 0.51 dB/1000 ft.
10. What is the standard voice
channel spacing?
 A. 44 MHz
 B. 40 kHz
 C. 4 kHz
 D. 40 MHz
11. Which tester is used to
measure SWR?
 A. Multimeter
 B. Oscilloscope
 C. Spectrum analyzer
 D. Reflectometer
12. What is singing?
 A. The result of
intermodulating two or more
signals of different
frequencies to produce a
tone having a frequency
equal to the sum of the
frequencies of the signals
intermodulated.
 B. The result of
intermodulating two or more
signals of different
frequencies to produce a
tone having a frequency
higher than that of the signal
having the highest
frequency.
 C. An undesired self-
sustained oscillation in a
system, generally caused
by excessive positive
feedback.
 D. An art or form of
entertainment that can make
one rich.
13. Which stage increases the
selectivity of the circuit in an AM
receiver?
 A. Detector
 B. IF stage
 C. Modulator
 D. Mixer
14. The ________ of radio receiver
amplify weak signal and produce
a desirable intelligence at the
output speaker.
 A. sensitivity
 B. selectivity
 C. reliability
 D. fidelity
15. Full-duplex transmission
means
 A. One-way transmission
 B. 24-hour transmission
 C. Broadcast transmission
 D. Two-way
simultaneous
transmission
16. What is a multidrop line?
 A. A piece of wire with a
thick insulating material that
serves to protect the
conductive materials from
damage in the event the
wire is dropped.
 B. A line designed to
withstand high pressure.
 C. A line or circuit
interconnecting several
situations.
 D. A bus line
17. A passive _________ is an
electronic device which reduces
signal strength by a specified
amount in dB.
 A. Splitter
 B. Filter
 C. Trimmer
 D. Attenuator
18.
is constantly monitored by the
base station, when the quality of
the calls drops below a certain
specified level. The base request
the MTSO to try and find a better
cell site.
 A. Hand-off
 B. Cell splitting
 C. Roaming
 D. Frequency reuse
19. A digital identification
associated with a cellular system.
 A. SAT
 B. SID
 C. ESN
 D. MIN
20. How many seconds does
facsimile transmit a stranded
page?
 A. 5
 B. 10
 C. 20
 D. 25
21. A kind of recording used in
facsimile.
 A. Electrolytic
recording
 B. Electrothermal
recording
 C. Electropercussive
recording
 D. Electrostatic recording
22. A type of distortion a facsimile
produce when it becomes out of
synchronization?
 A. Pincushion
 B. Barrel
 C. Skewing
 D. Fattening
23. What is an acoustic coupler?
 A. A device that radiates
audible signals via a
transmitting antenna
 B. A device that
converts electric signals
into audio signals,
enabling data to be
transmitted over the
public telephone network
via a conventional
telephone handset
 C. A device that receives
audible signals and
retransmits them at VHF
frequencies
 D. A transducer
24. Cause a herringbone pattern
in facsimile
 A. Single-frequency
interference
 B. Crosstalk
 C. Phase jitter
 D. Noise
25. The _______ in an FM receiver
causes a stronger signal to
dominate over a weaker signal on
the same frequency.
  A. Capture effect
 B. Flywheel effect
 C. Hall effect
 D. Skin effect
26. A device that converts a 2-
wire circuit to a 4-wire circuit.
 A. RS-232 interface
 B. Hybrid circuit
 C. Balun
 D. Stub
27. ______ theory is deciding
between a set of hypothesis when
given a collection of imperfect
measurements.
 A. Estimation
 B. Traffic
 C. Decision
 D. Nyquist
28. ______ of a data reduction says
that when reducing a set of data
into the form of an underlying
mode, one should be maximally
non-committal with respect to
missing data.
 A. Jaynes maximum
entropy principle
 B. Kullback principle of
minimum discrimination
 C. Minimum
discrimination
 D. Maximum entropy
29. _______ is selecting the best
value of a parameter from a
continuum of possible values
when gives a collection if
imperfect measurements
 A. Estimation
 B. Traffic
 C. Decision
 D. Nyquist
30. Combination of madulator,
channel, and detector.
 A. Transceiver
 B. Transponder
 C. T/R channel
 D. Discrete channel
31. What is the frequency band of
DECT?
 A. 1.88 – 1.90 GHz
 B. 1.68 – 1.70 GHz
 C. 1.48 – 1.50 GHz
 D. 1.28 – 1.30 GHz
32. How many simultaneous calls
does each DECT system can
support?
 A. 96
 B. 12
 C. 24
 D. 49
33. How many simultaneous calls
does a DECT radio transceiver can
assess at any given time?
 A. 120
 B. 240
 C. 480
 D. 960
34. The AGC voltage of a radio
receiver is always _______.
 A. Present before
adjustments can be made
 B. DC, but may have
either polarity positive
DC
 C. Positive DC
 D. Negative
35. What is a concentrator?
 A. A system that improves
the signal-to-noise ratio by
compressing the volume
range of a signal.
 B. A device that varies the
characteristics of a carrier
signal in accordance with the
waveform of a modulating
signal which contains useful
information
 C. A switching system
that lets a large number
of telephone or data
processing subscribers
use a lesser number of
transmission lines or a
narrow bandwidth
 D. Equipment in the
central office.
36. If you find that an SAW filter
output is 6 dB down from the
input of a receiver during test,
______
 A. This is normal.
 B. The device if faulty
 C. The receiver is
improperly terminated
 D. The filter is not
resonating
37. A triple conversion
superheterodyne receiver, diode
mixer stages are
 A. Operated in the linear
region
 B. Operated in the
nonlinear region
 C. Operated as Class-A
amplifiers
 D. Operated as Class-B
amplifiers
38. What is a leased line?
 A. A piece of wire used in
a local area network in one
building
 B. A piece of wire
connecting a telephone set
to a PABX
 C. A temporary
connection of one computer
to a mainframe via a modern
and a telephone line
 D. A permanent circuit
for a private use within a
communication network
39. If two FM signals of different
strengths are received on the
same frequency
 A. One steady heterodyne
will appear in the AM output
 B. Both will appear in the
AF output
 C. Only the stronger
will appear in the AF
output
 D. Neither signal will be
intelligence unless the
weaker signal is at least 10
times
40. Cellular mobile system was
first operated in
 A. 1979
 B. 1981
 C. 1983
 D. 1985
41. TACS is a cellular system with
______ channels.
 A. 666
 B. 1000
 C. 832
 D. 200
42. Supervisory Audio Tone (SAT)
has _______ frequency.
 A. 5960 Hz
 B. 6000 Hz
 C. 6040 Hz
 D. 1004 z
43. What is the number of
channels of a cellular system with
an allocated spectrum of 25 MHz
and with a channel of 30 kHz
bandwidth?
 A. 833
 B. 240
 C. 1000
 D. 666
44. GSM uses what digital
modulation technique?
 A. QAM
 B. GFSK
 C. BPSK
 D. GMSK
45. What is the power output of
Personal Communication System
(PCS)?
 A. 10 mW
 B. 75 mW
 C. 150 mW
 D. 10 W
46. RG-B8 cable has a loss of
about ______ dB at cellular
frequencies up to 15 ft. length.
 A. 2
 B. 1
 C. 4
 D. 3
47. The signals designed to keep
the receivers and transmitters
aligned.
 A. Carrier frequencies
 B. Pilot carrier signals
 C. Synchronizing signals
 D. Reference signals
48. If the spacing of a two-wire
open air transmission line is 12
inches and the conductor
diameter is 0.25 inch, the
characteristic impedance is
  A. 547 Ω
 B. 357 Ω
 C. 273 Ω
 D. 300 Ω
49. The impedance of the
quarterwave transformer used to
match a 600 Ω line to a 300 Ω
load is
 A. 382 Ω
 B. 424 Ω
 C. 565 Ω
 D. 712 Ω
50. When a line and a load are
match the reflection coefficient is
 A. Unity
 B. Zero
 C. Positive infinity
 D. Negative infinity
51. When line is terminated in an
open circuit load, the reflection
coefficient is
 A. Unity
 B. Zero
 C. Positive infinity
 D. Negative infinity
52. A 300 ohms line is terminated
in a resistance load of 200 ohms,
the VSWR is
 A. 0.65
 B. 1.5
 C. Unity
 D. Zero
53. If the reflection coefficient is
0.5, the standing wave ratio is
 A. 0.33
 B. Unity
 C. 3
 D. Zero
54. To least the fault of the given
line, a signal is fed to the line, 30
µs later the signal returned. What
is the distance of the fault?
 A. 9000 m
 B. 300 m
 C. 100 m
 D. 4500 m
55. The telephone set is powered
by the central office on the ring
side at
 A. 42 to 52 Vdc
 B. – 42 to -52 Vdc
 C. 24 to 64 Vdc
 D. – 24 to – 64 Vdc
56. The telephone voice band
frequency is from
 A. 300 to 4 kHz
 B. 400 to 3400 Hz
 C. 300 to 3400 Hz
 D. 400 to 4 kHz
57. Which of the following wire is
used to transmit the signal?
 A. Black
 B. Yellow
 C. Red
 D. Green
58. The corresponding frequency
for digit 7 in the touch tone
telephone is
 A. 770 & 1477 Hz
 B. 852 & 1209 Hz
 C. 852 & 1336 Hz
 D. 770 & 1336 Hz
59. The physical connection
between the telephone set and
the switching equipment is called
the
 A. Trunk line
 B. Link
 C. Subscriber loop
 D. Leased line
60. What is the local loop of a
telephone system?
 A. It is a two-wire or
four-wire communication
circuit between the
customer’s premise and
the central office
 B. It is a group of wires
connecting a telephone set
to a modern
 C. It is a four-wire circuit
connecting a facsimile
machine to a computer
 D. It is a single piece of
wire connecting the
subscriber’s telephone set to
another set in an adjacent
room.
61. Which of the ff. equipment is
used in long loop design?
 A. Dial long lines
 B. Voice repeater
 C. Loop range extender
 D. All of the above
62. What is a two-wire circuit?
 A. A circuit usually in
the subscriber loop,
between the telephone
set and the local central
office.
 B. A circuit having only
two terminals, both terminals
having the same
instantaneous voltage.
 C. A circuit with one input
terminal, one output
terminal, and a common
ground.
 D. A circuit consisting of
two transmission lines.
63. 1 mW is equal to
 A. 90 dBm
 B. 0 dBm
 C. -30 dBm
 D. 120 dBm
64. Which of the following
responds to the request of a
subscriber by sending a dial tone?
 A. Line finder
 B. First selector
 C. Connector
 D. Line equipment
65. The other name of Class 2
office in the North American
Switching Plan.
 A. Primary center
 B. Section
 C. Regional center
 D. Toll points
66. A cell in the cellular telephone
system means
 A. A power source
 B. Small area
 C. Large area
 D. Service area
67. What is the linking point
between cell phone and regular
telephone?
 A. Base station
 B. Control office
 C. C.O.
 D. MTSO
68. What is the typical power
output of a cellular phone?
 A. 5 W
 B. 10 W
 C. 1 W
 D. 3 W
69. When a single cell is divided
into smaller cells that process is
called
 A. Cell splitting
 B. Cell division
 C. Reuse
 D. Cell sharing
70. The first cell shape is a square
 A. Square
 B. Circle
 C. Rectangle
 D. Triangle
71. In order to provide 100%
coverage without overlap, cellular
telephone system can use
 A. Hexagon cell shape
 B. Triangle
 C. Rectangular
 D. All of the above
72. What is the beamwidth of the
reflector of the receiving antenna
in the base station
 A. 20 degrees
 B. 30 degrees
 C. 50 degrees
 D. 60 degrees
73. A cellular phone operates on
 A. Half duplex
 B. Full duplex
 C. Echoplex
 D. Lincomplex
74. Cellular phones transmit in
the band from
 A. 825 to 845 MHz
 B. 835 to 855 MHz
 C. 825 to 855 MHz
 D. 825 to 865 MHz
75. Cell phone receives in the
band from
 A. 860 to 880 MHz
 B. 870 to 890 MHz
 C. 870 to 880 MHz
 D. 860 to 890 MHz
76. What is the frequency
separation between the transmit
and the receive channels?
  A. 30 MHz
 B. 45 MHz
 C. 55 MHz
 D. 40 MHz
77. For channel 1,
transmit/receive frequency is
 A. 825.030/870.030 MHz
 B. 835.03/880.03 MHz
 C. 825.015/870.015
MHz
 D. 825.15/870.15 MHz
78. The number of
transmit/receive channels in the
cellular system is
 A. 625
 B. 645
 C. 655
 D. 666
79. The transmission range of
cellular telephony is generally
about
 A. 80 km
 B. 65 km
 C. 160 km
 D. 16 km
80. One of the following is not an
advantage of a cellular telephone
system
 A. Privacy
 B. Large service area
 C. No interference
 D. Mobility
81. When the message is
transferred from one cell site
transmitter to another cell site
transmitter as the caller crosses a
boundary __________ process takes
place.
 A. Shifting
 B. Hand off
 C. Give off
 D. Turn over
82. What is the sensitivity of a
cellular receiver?
 A. 20 dB
 B. 40 dB
 C. 50 dB
 D. 60 dB
83. What is the frequency
deviation of the cellular telephone
system?
 A. ±15 kHz
 B. ±30 kHz
 C. ±12 kHz
 D. ±75 kHz
84. Hailing channel is otherwise
known as
 A. Conversation channel
 B. Calling channel
 C. Signaling channel
 D. Remote channel
85. What is an Erlang?
 A. It is a unit of magnetic
field intensity measured
around a conductor
 B. It is the number of
erroneous bits received per
unit of time
 C. It a unit of electrical
energy radiated in space.
 D. It is equal to the
number of simultaneous
calls originated during a
specific hourly period.
86. All of the cell base stations
are linked together by _______
which serves as the central office
and management node for the
group.
 A. MTS
 B. IMTS
 C. MSTO
 D. MTSO
87. Provides interface between
the mobile telephone switching
office and the mobile units.
 A. Database
 B. Cell site
 C. Terrestrial link
 D. Radio transmitter
88. A phone call over the cellular
network actually requires
 A. Simplex channels
 B. Half duplex channels
 C. Full duplex channels
 D. Full/full duplex
89. A method of expressing the
amplitudes of complex non-
periodic signals such as speech.
 A. Volume
 B. Pitch
 C. Frequency
 D. Wavelength
90. _______ is signal returned to
the talker after one or more round
trips between the talker and the
listener.
 A. Singing
 B. Echo
 C. Jitter
 D. Crosstalk
91. ______ is a voice operated
device that inserts a high loss in
the opposite direction of
transmission of the talking party.
 A. Hybrid
 B. 2-wire circuit
 C. Echo suppressor
 D. VNL
92. _____ is picking up of the same
station at two nearby points on
the receiver dial.
 A. Double spotting
 B. Hot shot
 C. Image frequency
 D. Bail shot
93. When one channel picks up
the signal carried by another
channel.
 A. Echo
 B. Crosstalk
 C. Party line
 D. Crosslink
94. What type of connector
arrangement wherein a customer
may move to another location and
still retain the same telephone
number.
 A. TPL
 B. Bridge
 C. TPS
 D. Party line
95. It is an advantage of sidetone.
 A. Transmission efficiency
is increased
 B. Speaker increase his
voice resulting in a
strengthened signal
 C. No dissipation of
energy in the balancing
network
 D. Assures the
customer that the
telephone is working
96. Radio communications
between points using a single
share frequency.
 A. Simplex
 B. Full duplex
 C. Half-duplex
 D. Full/full duplex
97. The transmission of
information from multiple sources
occurring on the same facility but
not as the same time.
 A. FDM
 B. TDM
 C. WDM
 D. CDM
98. When human voice and music
are transmitted, the type of
communication employed is
known as
 A. Raditechnology
 B. Audio frequency
 C. Wired audio
 D. Radiotelephony
99. Printed documents to be
transmitted by fax are converted
into baseband electric signal by
the process of
 A. Copying
 B. Scanning
 C. Modulation
 D. Light variation
100. What is the most commonly
used light sensor in a modern fax
machine?
 A. Phototube
 B. Phototransistor
 C. Liquid-crystal display
 D. Charge couple
device
101. In FM fax, the frequencies for
black and white are ______
respectively.
 A. 1500 and 2300 Hz
 B. 2300 and 1500 Hz
 C. 1300 and 2400 Hz
 D. 1070 and 1270 Hz
102. Which resolution produces
the best quality fax?
 A. 96 lines per inch
 B. 150 lines per inch
  C. 200 lines per inch
 D. 400 lines per inch
103. Group 2 fax uses which
modulation?
 A. SSB
 B. FSK
 C. Vestigial sideband
AM
 D. PSK
104. The most widely used fax
standard is
 A. Group 1
 B. Group 2
 C. Group 3
 D. Group 4
105. Group 3 fax uses which
modulation?
 A. QAM
 B. ASK
 C. PSK
 D. GFSK
106. Block calls held condition
specified the held probability at a
time period equal to an average
holding time.
 A. Erlang B
 B. Erlang C
 C. Erlang D
 D. Poisson
107. What is an Echo?
 A. A signal of the same
amplitude but 180 degrees
out of phase from the
original signal and mixed
with the original signal at the
transmitter to produce a
more intelligible output
signal
 B. A wave which has
been reflected or
otherwise returned with
the sufficient magnitude
and delay for it to be
perceptible in some
manner as a wave
distinct from that directly
transmitted.
 C. The signal having a
higher frequency than the
original and transmitted
back to earth by a passive
satellite.
 D. A reflected signal.
108. What is the system used by
Personal Communication Network
(PCN)?
 A. TACS
 B. Modified GSM
 C. AMPS
 D. CDMA
109. Termination refers to
 A. Cutting both ends of a
conductor
 B. Disconnecting a line
from a transmitter
 C. Looking back
impedance of a line with no
load
 D. Load connected to
the output end of a
transmission line
110. The multiple access used by
Digital European Cordless
Telephone (DECT)
 A. CDMA
 B. FDMA
 C. TDMA
 D. CDMA/FDMA
111. Blocked calls delay condition
specified delay probability
 A. Erlang B
 B. Erlang C
 C. Erlang D
 D. Poisson
112. Status information provided
by telephone signaling.
 A. Busy tone, dial tone
and ringing
 B. Congestion and call
charge data
 C. All of the above
 D. None of the above
113. The modulation technique
used by DECT.
 A. GFSK
 B. ASK
 C. QAM
 D. PSK
114. What is a four-wire circuit?
 A. Is used between
serving central offices for
long-distance
connections, with one
pair being used for each
direction of transmission.
 B. Is a circuit with three
output terminals and one
input terminal
 C. Is an oscillator that
produces four different
frequencies simultaneously
 D. A circuit consisting of
four transmission lines.
115. Cellular CDMA system uses
what modulation method?
 A. GFSK
 B. ASK
 C. QAM
 D. BPSK
116. PABX means
 A. Private All-purpose
Broadcasting Exchange
 B. Private Automatic
Branch Exchange
 C. Public Access Bi-
directional Exchange
 D. Public Automatic
Branch Exchange
117. What is the voted cellular
digital standard at TIA?
 A. Digital AMPS
 B. GSM
 C. CDMA
 D. TACS
118. What is the number of
channels for Band A and for Band
B in Digital AMPS
 A. 832
 B. 416
 C. 666
 D. 888
119. The mobile-to-base
frequency assignment for GSM
system is
 A. 890-915 MHz
 B. 935-960 MHz
 C. 870-890 MHz
 D. 825-845 MHz
120. The range (in miles) of a
cellular CDMA system.
 A. 13
 B. 30
 C. 45
 D. 20
121. In a cellular system, ________
is used to measure the spectrum
efficiency.
 A. Radio efficiency
 B. Diversity
 C. Frequency reuse
 D. Radio capacity
122. Which of the following echo
is completely out of control?
 A. Worst echo
 B. Reverberation
 C. Singing
 D. Feedback
123. Which of the following
devices increase the battery
voltage on a loop and extends its
signaling range?
 A. Loop extender
 B. VF repeater
 C. VF amplifier
 D. All of these
124. Under ordinary
circumstances, the CCITT
recommends that the number of
circuits in tandem must not
exceed
 A. 9
 B. 10
 C. 11
 D. 12
125. What is the system capacity
of AMPS?
 A. 30,000
 B. 60,000
 C. 100,000
 D. 120,000
126. NAM means
 A. Non Alternable Memory
 B. Numeric Allocation
Module
 C. Numeric Assignment
Module
 D. Numeric Access Module
127. A mobile telephone service
using trunked channels but not
cellular nature
 A. IMTS
 B. MTSO
  C. IMSI
 D. IMEI
128. The GSM cellular radio
system uses GMSK in a 200-kHz,
with a channel data rate of
270.833 kbps. Calculate the
frequency shift between mark and
space in kHz?
 A. 135.4165
 B. 153.6514
 C. 315.4651
 D. 513.1654
129. A cellular system is capable
of coping with a handoffs once
every 2 minutes. What is the
maximum cell radius if the system
must be capable of working with
cars traveling at highway speed of
120 km/hr?
 A. 3 km
 B. 1 km
 C. 4 km
 D. 6 km
130. Radio communication
operation service between mobile
and land stations or between
mobile stations.
 A. land mobile
 B. land mobile satellite
service
 C. mobile service
 D. maritime mobile
service
131. A multiple access technique
used in GSM cellular system.
 A. FDMA
 B. CDMA
 C. TDMA
 D. TACS
132. This is the Nordic analog
mobile radio telephone system
originally used in Scandinavia
 A. NMT
 B. GSM
 C. PCN
 D. PCS
133. The combination of the
mobile cellular phone and the
cell-site radio equipment is known
as
 A. forward link
 B. base transceiver
station
 C. air interface
 D. base station controller
134. The duplex frequency of GSM
 A. 40 MHz
 B. 80 MHz
 C. 120 MHz
 D. 30 MHz
135. The channel separation of
GSM channel
 A. 270 kHz
 B. 200 kHz
 C. 120 kHz
 D. 60 kHz
136. The number of control
channels for AMPS
 A. 25
 B. 23
 C. 21
 D. 19
137. The modulation technique
used audio signal for TACS
 A. FM
 B. FSK
 C. TFSK
 D. QAM
138. Speech coding rate for GSM
 A. 80 kbps
 B. 25 kbps
 C. 21 kbps
 D. 13 kbps
139. Number of channels for GSM
 A. 333
 B. 666
 C. 124
 D. 248
140. It is a database that contains
information about the identity of
mobile equipment that prevents
calls from stolen, unauthorized, or
defective mobile stations.
 A. Equipment Identity
Register
 B. Authentication Center
 C. Home Location Register
 D. Visitor Location
Register
141. It provides all the control
functions and physical links
between the MSC and BTS
 A. OSS
 B. OMC
 C. MSC
 D. BSC
142. It is the functional entity
from which the operator monitors
and controls the mobile
communication system.
 A. Operation and
Maintenance System
 B. Mobile Switching
Center
 C. Gateway Mobile
Switching Center
 D. Operation and
Support System
143. A node in the switching
system of GSM that provides
integrated voice, fax and data
messaging.
 A. Gateway Mobile
Switching Center
 B. Mobile Service Node
 C. GSM Internetworking
Unit
 D. Message Center
144. It is a node in the switching
system of GSM that handles
mobile intelligent network
services.
 A. Message Center
 B. Gateway Mobile
Switching Center
 C. Mobile Service Unit
 D. Mobile Switching
Center
145. The modulation scheme used
for NADC
 A. NFSK
 B. Quarter wavelength
Shifted QPSK
 C. GFSK
 D. Trellis coding
151. The telephone was invented
by
 a. Watson
 b. Bell
 c. Strowger
 d. Edison
152. The central office detects a
request for service from a
telephone by
 a. A flow of loop
current
 b. No loop current
 c. A ringing signal
 d. Dial pulses
153. Which office local is the local
central office?
 a. 2
 b. 3
 c. 4
 d. 5
154. Which exchange is used to
connect between central offices
when a direct trunk is not
available?
 a. Local
 b. Tandem
 c. Toll
 d. Any of the above
155. Which of the following is a
type of dc signaling?
 a. Loop current
 b. Reverse battery
 c. E and M
 d. All of the above
156. The voice frequency channel
pass band is
 a. 0 to 4000 Hz
 b. 300 to 3000 Hz
 c. 8140 to 8188 Hz
 d. None of the above
157. What is used to transmit
more than one conversation over
a path?
 a. Hybrid
 b. Tandem
 c. Multiplexing
 d. All of the above
158. The common channel
signaling method
 a. Uses the same channel
for signaling as for the
related conversation
 b. Uses a separate
channel for signaling only
 c. Carries the signaling for
only one related
conversation
 d. Is used on local loops
159. Telephone switching is
accomplished by
 a. Manual switchboard
 b. Step-by-step switches
 c. Crossbar switches
 d. Any of the above
160. The step-by-step switch
 a. Was invented by
Strowger
 b. Generates much noise
 c. Cannot operate directly
from DTMF tones
 d. All of the above
161. Time division multiplexing is
used for
 a. Analog transmission
 b. Digital transmission
 c. Both of the above
 d. None of the above
162. What type of transmitter is
most commonly used in a
conventional telephone handset?
 a. Carbon
 b. Electromagnetic
 c. Electret
 d. Ceramic
163. Which component in the
telephone set has the primary
function of compensating for the
local loop length?
 a. Resistor
 b. Varistor
 c. Capacitor
 d. Induction coil
164. What type of receiver is most
commonly used in a conventional
telephone handset?
 a. Carbon
 b. Electromagnetic
 c. Electret
 d. Ceramic
165. Which component in the
telephone set has the primary
function of interfacing the
handset to the local loop?
 a. Resistor
 b. Varistor
 c. Capacitor
 d. Induction coil
166. How many unique tones are
used for the 12-key dual-tone
multi-frequency keypad?
 a. 2
 b. 3
 c. 7
 d. 12
167. Which of the following are
important for the proper interface
of a DTMF generator to the
telephone line?
 a. Impedance
 b. Tone amplitude
 c. Loop current
 d. All of the above
168. The anti-tinkle circuit
 a. Prevents tampering
with the telephone
 b. Prevents dial
pulsing from ringing the
bell
 c. Prevents speech signals
from ringing the bell
 d. All of the above
169. The sidetone is
 a. A type of feedback
 b. Determined by the
balancing network
 c. Permits the talker to
hear his/her own voice
 d. All of the above
170. On-hook current must be
kept low so that the
 a. Line relays in the
central office will not
mistake it for off-hook
current
 b. Comparatively small
wires in the cables will not
overheat
 c. Ringer will not ring
incorrectly
 d. Carbon microphone will
not be damaged
171. Overvoltage protection is
 a. Needed in the
telephone set because of the
high ringing voltage
 b. Is nearly always
incorporated in the IC chip
 c. Is primarily a central
office function
 d. Needed because of
transients from dial
pulsing, lightning,
induction or short circuit
172. A special rectifier bridge is
used in electronic telephone
because
 a. The ac power must be
converted to dc to simulate a
battery
 b. it is necessary to shunt
the speech frequencies and
keep them off of the loop
 c. the voltage drop
across conventional
bridges leaves too little
voltage to operate the
set
 d. All of the above
173. Voltage and current
regulation
 a. Is provided by the
central office
 b. Is needed to ensure
proper IC operation
 c. Can be performed by
circuits built into the IC
 d. B and C above
174. Memory is added to the
telephone set to
 a. Allow more digits to be
dialed
 b. Allow faster dialing
 c. Allow automatic
redialing of the last
number dialed
 d. None of the above
175. What is the function of the
diode rectifier bridge in the line
circuit?
 a. Lower the voltage to
the telephone electronics
 b. Raise the voltage to the
telephone electronics
 c. Short out the line when
the set is on-hook
 d. Protect the set
against polarity reversals
on the line
176. What bad electrical effect
happens when the switch-hook is
opened?
 a. A high voltage
transient is generated
 b. The line is shorted out
 c. The line is opened
 d. No bad effects happen
177. Pulse dialing occurs at the
rate of
 a. 20 pulses per minute
 b. 10 pulses per minute
 c. 10 pulses per second
 d. 80 pulses per second
178. How many different tones
may be produced by a four-
column DTMF keypad?
 a. 2
 b. 8
 c. 4
 d. 16
179. What is the advantage of
electronic ringers?
 a. Louder volume
 b. Smaller size
 c. Good directionality
 d. Greater weight
180. What function are provided
in a multi-tone ringing generator?
 a. Anti-tinkle circuitry
 b. Tone generation
 c. Output amplifier
 d. All of the above
181. The DTMF generator in an
electronic phone produces tones
using a(an)
 a. LC circuit
 b. RC circuit
 c. Digital divider circuit
 d. Digital multiplier
circuit
182. Which function is not
required in an integrated
telephone circuit?
 a. Regulator
 b. Dialer
 c. Visual display
 d. Speech network
183. Transient protection is
provided for integrated telephone
circuits is typically provided by
 a. Bridge rectifiers
  b. Zener diodes
 c. Inductors
 d. Capacitors
184. Speakerphones operate in
 a. Full-duplex mode
 b. Half-duplex mode
 c. Open-duplex mode
 d. Computer mode
185. Sampling the analog wave
produces
 a. Impulse noise
 b. Phase distortion
 c. Pulse amplitude
modulation
 d. Frequency coherence
186. The simplest form of coding
is
 a. Diphase
 b. Hybrid
 c. Compressed
 d. Linear
187. In digital multiplexing
systems, bit interleaving is used
in
 a. Lower level systems
 b. Higher level systems
 c. To interleave a code
word
 d. All of the above
188. Synchronous multiplexed
systems have the time placement
of bits
 a. Dedicated
 b. Unassigned
 c. Random
 d. As required
189. A synchronous multiplexed
systems are used
 a. Mostly for voice
transmission
 b. Mostly for data
transmission
 c. To carry only speech
information
 d. All of the above
190. Fold-over distortion or
aliasing is
 a. Eliminated by filtering
out the frequencies below
300 Hz
 b. Another name for
crosstalk
 c. The presence of
spurious frequencies
caused by having too
high frequencies in the
sampled signal
 d. None of the above
191. Multiplexer systems used in
the public network are of the
______ type.
 a. Synchronous
 b. Plesiochronous
 c. Asynchronous
 d. Isochronous
192. The line coding scheme used
for the DS-1 signal is
 a. Non-return-to-zero
 b. Binary 3 zero-
substitutions
 c. Ternary
 d. Bipolar
193. Modems are required to
connect to telephone lines
because
 a. The telephone network
bandwidth is too high
 b. The telephone
network will not pass
direct current
 c. Telephone company
rules require them
 d. None of the above
194. The most common technique
for binary data transmission
 a. Bisynchronous
transmission
 b. Synchronous
transmission
 c. Asynchronous
transmission
 d. Plesiochronous
transmission
195. Asynchronous data
transmission requires a clock
 a. At the transmitter end
 b. At the receiver end
 c. At neither end
 d. At both ends
196. What kind of modulation is
used in modems?
 a. Phase modulation
 b. Frequency modulation
 c. Amplitude modulation
 d. All of the above
197. The parameter that most
affects transmission of the high
speed modem data is
 a. Phase distortion
 b. Amplitude distortion
 c. Frequency shift
 d. Impulse noise
198. Protocols may be
 a. Bit oriented
 b. Byte oriented
 c. Character oriented
 a. All of the above
199. The telephone network is
being converted to digital
operation primarily to
 a. Carry digital computer
data
 b. Reduce costs
 c. Improve speech quality
 d. Increase system
capacity
200. A code for a 64-interval must
produce how many bits?
 a. 2
 b. 10
 c. 8
 d. 7
201. The MTSO searches the
location of a mobile phone. This is
called ______
 a. Handoff
 b. Hand on
 c. Paging
 d. Receiving
202. Mobile cellular transmitter
have a maximum output power of
 a. 1 mW
 b. 10 W
 c. 3 W
 d. 500 mW
203. A province in the Philippines
has an area of 2000 sq km. it has
to be covered by cellular mobile
telephone service using cells with
a radius of 2 km. assuming
hexagonal cells, find the number
of cell sites needed.
 a. 154
 b. 144
 c. 145
 d. 132
204. IS-95 system uses direct
sequence spread spectrum with a
chipping rate of
 a. 1.23 MHz
 b. 200 kHz
 c. 500 MHz
 d. 10.7 MHz
205. Modulation scheme used by
cellular CDMA system
 a. BPSK
 b. QPSK
 c. QAM
 d. GFSK
206. How often will hand-offs
occur when vehicle travels
through a CMTS at 100 km per
hour speed if the distance
between cell sites is 10 km?
 a. 6 mins
 b. 12 mins
 c. 395 sec
 d. 10 hrs
207. The TACS base station
frequency range of operation
 a. 821-849 MHz and 869-
894 MHz
 b. 890-915 MHz and
935-960 MHz
 c. 870-885 MHz and 925-
940 MHz
 d. 825-890 MHz and 925-
970 MHz
208. The antenna separation
required in a cellular system when
the antenna height at the base is
15 m is
 a. 5.477 m
 b. 1.364 m
 c. 4.869 m
 d. 2.434 m
209. What type of modulation is
used by a standard analog
cordless telephone?
 a. AM
 b. FM
 c. PSK
 d. WAM
210. Cellular communication
began in
 a. 1977
 b. 1956
 c. 1983
 d. 1999
211. When calculating the data
rates for LMDS, capacity is the
number of cell sites multiplied by
which of the following?
 a. The capacity per cell
site
 b. The number of cells
 c. The number of sectors
in the cell site
 d. The sector capacity
212. The name for an alternative
form of cellular communication
which operates in specialized
mobile radio band just adjacent to
the cellular frequency band. It is a
blend of wireless interconnects
and dispatch services which
makes it very unique compared to
existing cellular and PCS systems
 a. iDEN
 b. CDMA
 c. JTACS
 d. PDC
213. The MTSO is responsible for
______.
 a. Connecting the cell
with the telephone central
office
 b. Assigning channels for
retransmission
 c. Billing function
 d. All of the above
214. The master control center for
a cellular telephone system is the
 a. Cell site
 b. Mobile telephone
switching office
 c. Central office
 d. Branch office
215. The IS-54 system uses TDMA
with three calls per 30 kHz
channel. The modulation used is
 a. PSK
 b. FM
 c. DQPSK
 d. QAM
216. Which of the following is
used to estimate the distance that
a subscriber can be located while
still achieving acceptable
reliability?
 a. Call-size selection
 b. Link budget
 c. Capital cost model
 d. Cell design
217. It is a spread spectrum
technology that relies on time-
division duplexing
 a. IS-661
 b. IS-136
 c. PCS 1900
 d. PDC
218. Which of the following is not  b. Configuration
a 3G system? management
 a. IMT-2000  c. Accounting
 b. WCDMA management
 c. UMTS  d. Tower management
 d. TDMA IS-136 228. A ___ is a computerized
219. The unlicensed national center that is responsible for
information infrastructure band connecting calls, recording call
 a. 5 GHz information and billing
 b. 54 GHz  a. Base station
 c. 2.4 GHZ  b. Mobile switching
 d. 880MHz center
220. Cellular radios use FM with a  c. Cell
maximum deviation of plus or  d. Mobile station
minus __ 229. What determine the size of
 a. 12 kHz the cell?
 b. 20 kHz  a. The area terrain
 c. 15 kHz  b. The area population
 d. 30 kHz  c. The number of MTSOs
221. IS-136, IS-95 and iDEN  d. All of the above
belong to 230. LDMS is an acronym for
 a. 1 G which of the following?
 b. 2 G  a. Link multipoint digital
 c. 2.5 G service
 d. 3 G  b. Local multipoint
222. A wireless data distribution service
communication service, standard  c. Low-speed multiple
or technology in which data data streams
packets are transmitted  d. Local multimedia
 a. EDGE distribution service
 b. GPRS 231. In ___, a mobile station
 c. CDMAOne always communicates with just
 d. IS-136 one base station.
223. IEEE standard pertaining to  a. Roaming
wireless networks  b. A hard handoff
 a. 802.6  c. A soft handoff
 b. 802.11  d. A roaming handoff
 c. 802.12 232. LDMS optimizes frequency
 d. 802.15 reuses by optimizing which of the
224. Soft handoff is a flawless following?
handoff which normally takes ___.,  a. Minimizing multipathing
which is imperceptible to voice  b. Cross polarization
telephone users.  c. Sectoring the
 a. 300 ms distribution system
 b. 600 ms  d. All of the above
 c. 200 ms 233. In cellular telephony, a
 d. 500 ms service area is divided into small
225. A Bluetooth network can regions called ___.
have ___ master(s).  a. Cells
 a. One  b. Cell offices
 b. Two  c. MTSOs
 c. Three  d. Relay sites
 d. Eight 234. _______ is a first generation
226. The GSM system uses the cellular phone system
890- to 915- and 935- to 960-MHz  a. AMPS
frequency range. There are 124  b. D-AMPS
25 kHz channels spaced 200 kHz  c. GSM
intervals. The modulation is  d. IS-95
______. 235. ______ is a cellular telephone
 a. GMSK system popular in Europe.
 b. QPSK  a. AMPS
 c. MSK  b. D-AMPS
 d. GFSK  c. GSM
227. Which of the following is not  d. IS-95
included in the LMDS network 236. IS-95 has a frequency reuse
management? factor of
 a. Fault management  a. 1
 b. 5
  c. 7 247. The output of a cellular radio
 d. 95 is controlled by the
237. ________ base stations use  a. User or caller
GPS for synchronization.  b. Cell site
 a. AMPS  c. AMPS
 b. D-AMPS  d. MTSO
 c. GSM 248. What is the system used by
 d. IS-95 Personal Communications
238. NMT is a cellular standard Network?
developed by the Nordic countries  a. PCS 1900
of Sweden. Denmark, Finland, and  b. Modified GSM
Norway in ______.  c. AMPS
 a. 1983  d. DCS 1800
 b. 1989 249. Multiple access scheme used
 c. 1981 by DECT
 d. 1980  a. CDMA
239. Cellular receiver sensitivity  b. FDMA/CDMA
 a. 50 dB  c. TDMA
 b. 40 dB  d. FDMA
 c. 20 dB 250. Voted cellular digital
 d. 35 dB standard at TIA
240. When a single cell is  a. IS-136
subdivided into smaller cells, the  b. AMPS
process is called  c. PCS 1900
 a. Cell division  d. PDC
 b. Cell sharing 251. Base station transmitter
 c. Cell splitting output power of Improved Mobile
 d. Cell reuse System (IMTS)
241. What modulation technique  A.100-W to 200-W
uses digital modulation range
technique?  B. 200-W to 300-W range
 a. BPSK  C. 150-W to 400-W range
 b. QPSK  D. 300-W to 400-W range
 c. GFSK 252. The chipping rate of WCDMA
 d. GMSK (UMTS)
242. Supervisor audio tone  A. 3.84 Mcps
frequency  B. 3.6484 Mcps
 a. 6000 Hz  C. 1.25 Mcps
 b. 6010 Hz  D. 1.22 Mcps
 c. 5960 Hz 253. A technique that divides the
 d. 6040 Hz group of channels into smaller
243. Spacing between the groupings or segments of
simultaneously used transmit and mutually exclusive frequencies;
receive frequencies is cell sites, which are within the
 a. 45 MHz reuse distance is assigned their
 b. 30 kHz own segment of the channel
 c. 12kHz group
 d. 200 kHz  A. sectoring
244. Each cell site contains a  B. dualization
 a. Repeater  C. partitioning
 b. Control computer  D. segmentation
 c. Direct link to a branch 254. The actual voice channel
exchange where mobile users communicate
 d. Touch-tone processor directly with other mobile or
245. Cellular telephones use what wireline subscriber through the
type of operation? base station
 a. Simplex  A. control channel
 b. Half-duplex  B. forward channel
 c. Full-duplex  C. reverse channel
 d. Triplex  D. voice channel
246. In a cellular radio, the 255. Supervisory Audio
duplexer is a Tones(SAT) have the following
 a. Ferrite isolator frequencies except:
 b. Waveguide assemble  A. 5940 Hz
 c. Pair of TR/ATR tubes  B. 5970 Hz
 d. Pair of sharp  C. 6000 Hz
bandpass filters  D. 6030 Hz
256. Each cell site contains a
 A. Repeater
 B. Control computer
 C. Direct-link to a branch
exchange
 D. Touch-tone processor
257. A class II mobile phone using
AMPS has an ERP of
 A. –6 dBW
 B. –4 dBW
 C. 2 dBW
 D. 6 dBW
258. The wideband designation in
Wideband-CDMA (WCDMA)
denotes a bandwidth of
 A. 2.5 MHz
 B. 3 MHz
 C. 4.5 MHz
 D. 5 MHz
259. An automobile travels at 60
km/hr. Find the time between
fades in the car uses a PCS phone
at 1900 MHz.
 A. 2.4 ms
 B. 3.4 ms
 C. 4.7 ms
 D. 5.1 ms
260. A cellular system is capable
of coping with handoffs once
every 2 minutes. Suppose this
system is in the city with
maximum car speeds of 65km/hr.
What is the maximum cell radius
for this urban system?
 A. 1.08 km
 B. 3 km
 C. 5 km
 D. 2 km
261. How wide is the spectrum
bandwidth of a single GSM
carrier?
 A. 16 kHz
 B. 200 kHz
 C. 100 kHz
 D. 50 kHz
262. Changing the time order of
digital information before
transmission to reduce the effect
of burst errors in the channel.
 A. progression
 B. interleaving
 C. epoch
 D. raking
263. The bandwidth of WCDMA is
___ times larger than GSM.
 A. 5
 B. 15
 C. 20
 D. 25
264. It is the process in which the
same set of frequencies can be
allocated to more than one cell,
provided that the cells are
separated by a sufficient distance
 A. frequency reuse
 B. handoff
 C. clustering
 D. radio survey
265. A connection is momentarily
broken during the cell-to-cell
transfer is called ______.
 A. hard handoff
 B. soft handoff
 C. medium handoff
 D. light handoff
266. Transmission from mobile
stations to the base stations is
called
 A. forward link
 B. reverse link
 C. control link
 D. user link
267. It is a database in the PCS
network that stores information
about the user, including home
subscription information and what
supplementary services the user
is subscribed to.
 A. visitor location register
 B. home location
register
 C. equipment
identification register
 D. authentication register
268. Determine the transmit
power for a CDMA mobile unit
that is receiving a signal from the
base station at 100 dBm
 A. 12 dBm
 B. 24 dBm
 C. 36 dBm
 D. 14 dBm
269. When transmitting digital
information, voice transmission is
inhibited, this is called ______.
 A. quieting
 B. muting
 C. blank-and-burst
 D. any of these
270. A metropolitan area of 1000
square km is to be covered by
cells with a radius of 2 km. How
many cell sites would be required,
assuming hexagonal cells?
 A. 72
 B. 73
 C. 74
 D. 75
271. Refers to a land station in a
maritime mobile services
 A. coast station
 B. maritime station
 C. coast earth station
 D. ship earth station
272. Class of orthogonal
spreading coded used in CDMA
communication.
 A. Color code
 B. Walsh code
 C. PCS code
 D. CDMA
273. In a spread spectrum
system, the tendency for a
stronger signals to interfere with
the reception of weaker signals.
 A. near-far field
 B. near-far effect
 C. direct-sequence
 D. spread-spectrum
274. Macrocells have base
stations transmit power between
_____.
 A. 3 W to 7 W
 B. 1 W to 6 W
 C. 2 W to 8 W
 D. 0.1 W to 5 W
275. It is when the area of a cell,
or independent component
coverage areas of a cellular
system, is further divided, thus
creating more cell areas.
 A. cell splitting
 B. cell clustering
 C. cell partitioning
 D. cell sectoring
276. It is when a mobile unit
moves from one cell to another
from one company’s service area
to another company’s service
area.
 A. roaming
 B. handoff
 C. handover
 D. paging
277. It is a 34-bit binary code that
represents the 10-digit telephone
number
 A. electronic serial
number
 B. system identification
 C. digital color code
 D. mobile identification
number
278. The bandwidth of WCDMA is
__ times larger than CDMAone.
 A. 4
 B. 5
 C. 6
 D. 7
279. Receive channel 22 is 870.66
MHz. Receive channel 23 is
 A. 870.36 MHz
 B. 870.63 MHz
 C. 870.96 MHz
 D. 870.69 MHz
280. In mobile wireless
communication, the radio
equipment and the propagation
path
 A. FSL
 B. air interface
 C. direct link
 D. mobile interface
281. The signaling one may be
transmitted on the voice channel
during a call in what frequency?
 A. 25 kHz
 B. 20 kHz
 C. 15 kHz
 D. 10 kHz
282. Station in the mobile service
not intended to be used while in
motion.
 A. base station
 B. fixed station
 C. coast station
 D. land station
283. In the GSM system, a "smart
card" containing all user
information, which is inserted into
the phone before use.
 A. IMSI
 B. IMEI
 C. IMTS
 D. SIM
284. Determine the number of
channels per cluster of a cellular
telephone area comprised of 10
clusters with seven cells in each
cluster and 10 channels in each
cell.
 A. 70 channels per
cluster
 B. 700 channels per
cluster
 C. 7000 channels per
cluster
 D. 7 channels per cluster
285. Determine the channel
capacity if 7 macrocells with 10
channels per cell is split into 4
minicells
 A. 120 channels per area
 B. 360 channels per area
 C. 280 channels per
area
 D. 460 channels per area
286. Technique of spread
spectrum that breaks message
into fixed-size blocks of data with
each block transmitted in
sequence except on the different
carrier frequency.
 A. spread spectrum
 B. time-division
multiplexing
 C. frequency-hopping
 D. direct sequence
287. A base and mobile is
separated by 5 km. What is the
propagation time for a signal
traveling between them?
 A. 14.5 µsec
 B. 18.9 µsec
 C. 20.8 µsec
 D. 16.7 µsec
288. A digital identification
associated with a cellular system
 A. MIN
 B. ESN
 C. SAT
 D. SIM
289. A new regulation issued by
the National Telecommunications
Commission providing for the
guideline for mobile personal
communication having a global
coverage using satellite.
 A. NMT
 B. GMPCS
 C. GSM
 D. TACS
290. The following are the typical
cluster size except
 A. 3
 B. 7
 C. 12
 D. 15
291. Provides a centralized
administration and maintenance
point for the entire network end
interfaces with the public
telephone network through the
telephone wireline voice trunks
and data links
 A. PSTN
 B. MTSO
 C. central offices
 D. MSC
292. It is a digital telephone
exchange located in the MTSO
that is the heart of a telephone
system
 A. mobile switching center
 B. electronic switching
center
 C. gateway switching
center
 D. electronic mobile
switching center
293. A database in the PCS
network that stores information
pertaining to the identification
and type of equipment that exist
in the mobile unit.
 A. visitor location register
 B. home location register
 C. equipment
identification register
 D. authentication register
294. When a signal from a mobile
cellular unit drops below a certain
level, what action occurs?
 A. The unit is "handed
off" to a closer cell.
 B. The call is terminated.
 C. The MTSO increases
power level.
 D. The cell site switches
antenna.
295. A method of transmitting
data on AMPS cellular telephone
voice channels that are temporary
unused.
 A. cellular digital
packet data
 B. digital color code
 C. control mobile
attenuation code
 D. electronic serial code
296. A vehicle travels through a
cellular system at 100 km per
hour. Approximately how often
will handoffs occur if the cell
radius is 10 km.
 A. 12 min
 B. 14 min
 C. 16 min
 D. 18 min
297. In the GSM system, a
telephone number that is unique
to a given user, worldwide.
 A. IMTS
 B. IMEI
 C. IMSI
 D. SIM
298. An area divided into
hexagonal shapes that fit
together to form a honeycomb
pattern is called ______.
 A. cluster
 B. transport area
 C. cell
 D. area of responsibility
299. Determine the channel
capacity of a cellular telephone
area comprised of twelve
macrocell with ten channels per
cell
 A. 12 channels per area
 B. 120 channels per
area
 C. 1200 channels per area
 D. 12000 channels per
area
300. Transmission from base
stations to mobile stations is
called ____.
 A. forward link
 B. reverse link
 C. control link
 D. user link
301. The output power of a
cellular radio is controlled by the
 A. user or caller
 B. cell site
 C. called party
 D. MTSO
302. EDGE channel size is about
 A. 250 kHz
 B. 200 kHz
 C. 150 kHz
 D. 100 kHz
303. A switching facility
connecting cellular telephone
base stations to each other and to
the public switched telephone
network.
 A. MTSO
 B. MSC
 C. VLR
 D. AuC
304. A radio land station in the
land mobile service
 A. land station
 B. ship earth station
 C. base station
 D. mobile station
305. Transmission of brief text
messages, such as pages or e-
mail, by cellular radio or PCS.
 A. SMS
 B. MMS
 C. paging
 D. raking
306. The point when the cell
reaches maximum capacity
occurs when the number of
subscribers wishing to place a call
at any given time equals the
number of channels in the cell
 A. saturation
 B. blocking traffic
 C. maximum traffic
load
 D. any of these
307. In IS-41 standard, it is a
process where the mobile unit
notifies a serving MTSO of its
presence and location through a
base station controller.
 A. dependent registration
 B. autonomous
registration
 C. air interface
 D. BTS to BSC interface
308. Cellular telephones use
which operation?
 A. simplex
 B. half-duplex
 C. full-duplex
 D. triplex
309. A receiver capable of
receiving several versions of the
same signal with different arrival
times and combining the received
versions into a single signal with
better quality
 A. scanners
 B. rake receivers
 C. mobile subscriber unit
 D. mobile stations
310. In CMTS, the most important
database for GSM is ____.
 A. VLR
 B. HLR
 C. BTS
 D. AUC
311. In CMTS, the number of
duplex voice channels for AMPS is
____.
 A. 676
 B. 285
 C. 395
 D. 790
312. A geographic cellular radio
coverage area containing three of
more group of cells
 A. cluster
 B. cell
 C. radio channel
 D. MSC/VLR area
313. A flawless cell-to-cell transfer
is called ____.
 A. hard handoff
 B. soft handoff
 C. heavy handoff
 D. light handoff
314. The bit length of System
Identification (SID)
 A. 32
 B. 15
 C. 10
 D. 8
315. The RF power output of a
transmitter in a cellular mobile
telephone system authorized by
NTC for use in the Philippines.
 A. 20.5 dBm
 B. 31.5 dBm
 C. 34.8 dBm
 D. 22.1 dBm
316. A class III mobile phone
using AMPS has an ERP of
 A. 4 W
 B. 1.6 W
 C. 600 mW
 D. 1.4 W
317. ____ is measuring the
propagated field strength over the
projected service area.
 A. radio monitoring
 B. radio sounding
 C. radio survey
 D. none of these
318. Transmission of data in two
directions on a channel by using
different time slots for each
directions.
 A. time-division
multiplexing
 B. time-division multiple
access
 C. time-division
duplexing
 D. time-division
319. When the cluster size is
reduced with a constant cell size,
what happens to the total channel
capacity?
 A. decreases
 B. increases
 C. stays constant
 D. depends on the
number of cell cites
320. The transfer of a mobile unit
from one base station’s control to
another base station’s control
 A. handoff
 B. paging
 C. roaming
 D. dualization
321. What is the frequency
deviation of AMPS?
 A. 12 kHz
 B. 6 kHz
 C. 3 kHz
 D. 18 kHz
322. The bit length of Digital Color
Code (DCC)
 A. 2
 B. 3
 C. 4
 D. 5
323. A transmit channel has a
frequency of 837.6 MHz. The
receive channel frequency is
 A. 729.6 MHz
 B. 837.6 MHz
 C. 867.6 MHz
 D. 882.6 MHz
324. A frequency-hopping spread-
spectrum system hops to each of
100 frequencies every 10
seconds. How long does it spread
on each frequency?
 A. 0.2 sec/hop
 B. 0.4 sec/hop
 C. 0.3 sec/hop
 D. 0.1 sec/hop
325. What is the transmission rate
of a GSM cellular system?
 A. 128 kbps
 B. 240 kbps
 C. 64 kbps
 D. 270 kbps
326. A card with an embedded
integrated circuit that can be
used for functions such as storing
subscriber information for a PCS
system.
 A. smart card
 B. SIM
 C. Intelligent card
 D. Credit card
327. It is a means of avoiding full-
cell splitting where the entire area
would otherwise need to be
segmented into smaller cells.
 A. segmentations
 B. dualization
 C. sectoring
 D. splitting
328. A channel used for
transferring control and
diagnostic information between
mobile users and a central cellular
telephone switch through the
base stations.
 A. forward channel
 B. voice channel
 C. control channel
 D. reverse channel
329. It is the provision of voice
communication using internet
protocol technology, instead of
traditional circuit switched
technology.
 A. WAP
 B. GPRS
 C. VOIP
 D. WIFI
330. Determine the total number
of channel capacity of a cellular
telephone area comprised of 10
clusters with seven cells in each
cluster and 10 channels in each
cell.
 A. 7 channels
 B. 70 channels
 C. 700 channels
 D. 7000 channels
331. Technique used in spread
spectrum that adds a high-bit rate
pseudorandom code to a low bit
rate information signal to
generate a high-bit rate
pseudorandom signal closely
resembling noise that contains
both the original data signal and
pseudorandom noise.
 A. direct-sequence
 B. frequency-division
multiplexing
 C. frequency hopping
 D. CDMA
332. Refers to the first generation
of local loop system in
telecommunication technology
 A. TACS
 B. DECT
 C. Analog cellular
 D. GSM
333. An information sent by the
base station in a cellular radio
system set the power level of the
mobile transmitter.
 A. cellular digital packet
data
 B. digital color code
 C. control mobile
attenuation code
 D. electronic serial code
334. A 32-bit binary code
permanently assigned to each of
the mobile unit
 A. supervisory audio tone
 B. station class mark
 C. electronic serial
number
 D. visitor location register
335. It serves as central control
for all users within that cell
 A. base stations
 B. antennas
 C. transceivers
 D. mobile subscriber units
336. What modulation technique
is used by Advanced Mobile
Phone System (AMPS)
 A. WBFM
 B. VSB
 C. NBFM
 D. FSK
337. A database in the PCS
network that stores information
about subscribers in a particular
MTSO serving area
 A. international mobile
subscriber identification
 B. visitor location
register
 C. home location register
 D. authentication register
338. In cellular phone, a memory
location that stores the telephone
number(s) to be used on the
system.
 A. EPROM
 B. UVPROM
 C. EEPROM
 D. NAM
339. A province in the Philippines
has an area 2000 sq. kms. It has
to be covered by a cellular mobile
telephone service using cells with
a radius of 3 kms. Assuming
hexagonal cells, find the number
of cell sites needed.
 A. 100
 B. 500
 C. 166
 D. 145
340. The modulation technique
used by GSM cellular system.
 A. QAM
 B. Phase Shift Keying
 C. Gaussian Minimum
Shift Keying
 D. Frequency Shift Keying
341. Microcells have base stations
transmit power between ____.
 A. 0.4 W to 0.7 W
 B. 1 W to 6 W
 C. 0.5 W to 8 W
 D. 0.1 W to 1 W
342. Determine the receive
carrier frequencies for AMPS
channel 3 and channel 991
 A. 870.09 MHz and
869.04 MHz
 B. 879.09 MHz and 859.04
MHz
 C. 869.09 MHz and 870.04
MHz
 D. 869.04 MHz and
870.09 MHz
343. Decreasing co-channel
interference while increasing
capacity by using directional
antenna is called ____.
 A. clustering
 B. splitting
 C. partitioning
 D. sectoring
344. Soft handoff normally takes
____ of time delay.
 A. 400 ms
 B. 300 ms
 C. 200 ms
 D. 100 ms
345. Component of a cellular
telephone network that manages
each of the radio channels at
each site.
 A. base station
controllers
 B. base transceiver
stations
 C. mobile switching center
 D. mobile telephone
switching center
346. The bit length of Station
Class Mark (SCM).
 A. 4
 B. 5
 C. 8
 D. 10
347. The master control center for
a cellular telephone system is the
 A. Cell site
 B. MTSO
 C. Central office
 D. Branch office
348. The maximum frequency
deviation of an FM cellular
transmitter is
 A. 6 kHz
 B. 12 kHz
 C. 30 kHz
 D. 45 kHz
349. A receiver channel has a
frequency is 872.4 MHz. to
develop an 82.2 MHz IF, the
frequency synthesizer must apply
an local oscillator signal of ____
(The local oscillator is usually
higher than the receive
frequency)
 A. 790.2 MHz
 B. 827.4 MHz
 C. 954.6 MHz
 D. 967.4 MHz
350. A class I mobile phone using
AMPS has an ERP of
 A. 6 dBW
 B. 2 dBW
 C. -2 dBW
 D. -6 dBW
351. The simplest and most
straightforward form of telephone
service is called
 A. Public switch telephone
network
 B. Mobile telephone
switching office
 C. Plain and old
telephone service
 D. Central office service
352. _______ are local telephone
switches equipped with SS7-
compatible software and
terminating signal links
 A. switching points
 B. service points
 C. point codes
 D. service switching
points
353. A PABX is normally
connected to the central office via
an interface device called
 A. branch exchange unit
 B. subscriber loop unit
 C. foreign exchange
unit
 D. local exchange unit
354. The most widely used fax
standard is
 A. group 1
 B. group 2
 C. group 3
 D. group 4
355. The modern Touch-tone
telephone is called
 A. 600-type telephone set
 B. 2500-type telephone
set
 C. 2800-type telephone
set
 D. 1500-type telephone
set
356. Signals that provides call
status information, such as busy
or ringback signals
 A. supervising
 B. hybriding
 C. controlling
 D. ringing
357. A signal sent back to the
calling party at the same time the
ringing signal is sent to the called
party
 A. busy signal
 B. ringing signal
 C. ringback signal
 D. dial tone
358. It is comprised of two or
more facilities, interconnected in
tandem, to provide a transmission
path between a source and a
destination
 A. telephone line
 B. telephone set
 C. telephone circuit
 D. telephone trunk
359. The drum diameter of a
facsimile machine is 90.2 mm and
the scanning pitch is 0.2 mm per
scan. Find the index of
cooperation according to CCITT
 A. 451
 B. 2.22 x 10^-3
 C. 1417
 D. 144
360. It is the ratio in dB of the
power of a signal at that point to
the power the same signal would
be 0-dBm at any point in the
transmission system
 A. data level
 B. baseband level
 C. voice level
 D. transmission level
361. It is an indirect method of
evaluating the phase delay
characteristics of the circuit
 A. phase delay distortion
 B. envelope delay
distortion
 C. non-linear distortion
 D. linear distortion
362. It is characterized by high-
amplitude peaks of short duration
having an approximately flat
frequency response
 A. crosstalk
 B. interference
 C. impulse noise
 D. drop out
363. It is the presence of one or
more continuous, unwanted tones
within the message channels, the
tones are often caused by
crosstalk or cross modulation
between adjacent channels in a
transmission system due to
system nonlinearities.
 A. multiple-frequency
interference
  B. single-frequency
interference
 C. co-channel interference
 D. desensitizing
364. That portion of the local loop
that is strung between the poles
 A. aerial
 B. distribution cable
 C. feeder cable
 D. twisted-pair
365. It is the primary cause of
attenuation and phase distortion
on a telephone circuit
 A. local line
 B. local loop
 C. subscriber loop
 D. any of these
366. It is simply the frequency
response of a transmission
medium referenced to a 1004 -Hz
test tone
 A. attenuation distortion
 B. differential gain
 C. 1004-Hz deviation
 D. any of these
367. The time delay measured
in angular units, such as degrees
or radians is called __________
 A. propagation time
 B. phase delay
 C. holding time
 D. system delay time
368. It is a communications term
that indicates the presence of a
signal power comparable to the
power of an actual message
transmission
 A. dynamic range
 B. loaded
 C. node
 D. reference
369. It is any device used to
originate and terminate calls and
to transmit and receive signals
into and out of the telephone
network
 A. instrument
 B. station equipment
 C. station
 D. any of these
370. Exchanges connected
directly to the local loops are
called ______________
 A. central office
 B. local exchange
 C. exchange offices
 D. any of these
371. It provides functionality of
communicating with the voice
switch by creating the packets or
signal units necessary for
transmission over the SS7
network
 A. switching points
 B. service points
 C. point codes
 D. service switching
points
372. In a 4-wire telephone set
connection, (used to connect
telephone set to central office
switching) the green coded wire is
used _______________
 A. as ground wire
 B. to transmit the
signal
 C. to receive the signal
from the far end
 D. as a spare or for
special purpose applications
373. A technique where the called
subscriber is served by any other
central office, the switching
equipment will have to transfer
the digit dialed to the called
switching equipment.
 A. loop signaling
 B. step-by-step switching
 C. interoffice calling
 D. duplex signaling
374. Electromagnetic coupling
between two or more physically
interconnected transmission
media is what type of crosstalk?
 A. coupling crosstalk
 B. transmission crosstalk
 C. linear crosstalk
 D. non-linear crosstalk
375. The number of dedicated
lines used to interconnect 100
parties
 A. 99 lines
 B. 1250 lines
 C. 4950 lines
 D. 3450 lines
376. Class of switching office
which is the local exchange where
the subscriber loops terminated
and received dial tone.
 A. Class 5
 B. Class 4C
 C. Class 3
 D. Class 1
377. The maximum intelligibility
of voice frequency is between
 A. 2000 and 3000 Hz
 B. 1000 and 3000 Hz
 C. 2500 and 4000 Hz
 D. 1000 and 2500 Hz
378. It is the state of the
telephone when it is idle.
 A. on-hook
 B. off-hook
 C. semi-hook
 D. hook-in
379. Type of loop signaling which
is widely used in new switching
systems to supervise trunks
between two central offices.
 A. battery and ground
pulsing
 B. reverse battery
signaling
 C. loop pulsing
 D. duplex signaling
380. Printed documents to be
transmitted by fax are converted
into a baseband electrical signal
by the process of
 A. reflection
 B. scanning
 C. modulation
 D. light variations
381. The transmission speed of
group 4 fax is
 A. 4800 baud
 B. 9600 baud
 C. 56 kbps
 D. 192 kbps
382. It is a distortion formed if
SSB is used where the information
bandwidth is greater than half of
the carrier frequency.
 A. near-far effect
 B. hauffman effect
 C. kendall effect
 D. herringbone effect
383. It is simply an unshielded
twisted pair transmission line
consisting of two insulated
conductors twisted together.
 A. local loop
 B. local line
 C. subscriber loop
 D. any of these
384. It is an audible signal
comprised of two frequencies:
350 Hz and 440 Hz
 A. dial tone
 B. ringback signal
 C. busy tone
 D. call waiting tone
385. It enables the destination
station of a telephone call to
display the name of the telephone
number of the calling party before
the telephone is answered.
 A. conference call
 B. call wait
 C. call forwarding
 D. caller id
386. The largest cable used in a
local loop, usually 3600 pair of
copper wires placed underground
or in conduit.
 A. feeder cable
 B. distribution cable
 C. drop wire
 D. drop-wire cross-
connect cables
387. A weighting technique that
assumes a perfect receiver only,
therefore its weighting curve
corresponds to the frequency
response of the ear only.
 A. relative noise weighting
 B. above relative noise
weighting
 C. C-message noise
weighting
 D. psophometric noise
weighting
388. The difference between the
absolute delays of all frequencies.
 A. relative phase delay
 B. phase delay distortion
 C. absolute phase delay
 D. phase distortion
389. A special type of line
conditioning that sets the
minimum requirements for signal-
to-noise ratio a nonlinear
distortion.
 A. A-type line conditioning
 B. B-type line conditioning
 C. C-type line conditioning
 D. D-type line
conditioning
390. It is a form of incidental
phase modulation – a continuous
uncontrolled variations in the zero
crossings of a signal.
 A. crosstalk
 B. co-channel interference
 C. phase jitter
 D. spikes
391. A type of crosstalk which is a
direct result of nonlinear
amplification in analog
communications system
 A. linear crosstalk
 B. transmittance crosstalk
 C. nonlinear crosstalk
 D. coupling crosstalk
392. The operator of the
telephone instrument
 A. subscriber
 B. destination
 C. source
 D. terminal
393. It is a system of sensors,
switches and other electronic and
electrical devices that allow
subscriber to give instructions
directly to the switch without
having to go through the operator.
 A. manual switching
system
 B. automated
switching system
 C. common switching
system
 D. crossbar switching
system
394. Toll offices are connected to
other toll offices with
_____________
 A. intertoll trunks
 B. intratoll trunks
 C. interoffice trunks
 D. intraoffice trunks
395. The highest ranking office in
the DDD network in term of size
of the geographical area served
and the trunk options available.
 A. End office
 B. Sectional center
 C. Regional center
 D. Toll center
396. He invented the automatic
line selector, which led to the
automatic telephone system.
 A. Alexander Bain
 B. Alexander Graham Bell
 C. Thomas Edison
 D. Almon Strowger
397. It allows customers to
change to a different service and
still keep the same phone number
 A. changing
 B. porting
 C. transporting
 D. portability
398. By definition, speech power
is equal to v.u. reading minus
___________
 A. 1.8 dB
 B. 4 dB
 C. 1.4 dB
 D. 3 dB
399. When the telephone set is in
the ____________ state, a direct
current from the central office
(CO) flows through the transmitter
and receiver of the handset.
 A. on-hook
 B. off-hook
 C. semi-hook
 D. hook-in
400. Type of loop signaling which
involves opening and closing the
loop to dial to or through the
central office.
 A. ear and mouth
 B. duplex
 C. loop pulsing
 D. interoffice calling
401. When the image at the
receiving end of a facsimile
transmission is elongated
vertically,
 A. the transmitter IOC
is less than the receiver
IOC
 B. the transmitter IOC is
greater than the receiver IOC
 C. the transmitter IOC is
equal to the receiver IOC
 D. the IOC is not a factor
402. In FM fax, the frequencies for
black and white are
 A. 1500 and 2300 Hz
 B. 2200 and 1500 Hz
 C. 1300 and 2400 Hz
 D. 1070 and 1270 Hz
403. It is a measure of the faithful
reproduction of scanned prints in
a facsimile communications.
 A. fidelity
 B. contrast
 C. legibility
 D. chroma
404. The feedback signals that
help prevent the speaker from
talking too loudly.
 A. busy tone
 B. ringback tone
 C. dial tone
 D. sidetone
405. It is the exchange of
signaling messages between
switching machines
 A. loop signaling
 B. station signaling
 C. interoffice signaling
 D. pulse signaling
406. A signal sent from the
switching machine back to the
calling station whenever the
system cannot complete call
because of equipment
unavailability.
 A. busy tone
 B. call waiting tone
 C. fax tone
 D. congestion tone
407. The final length of cable pair
that terminates at the SNI
 A. aerial
 B. drop wire
 C. distribution cable
 D. cross-connect cables
408. It is the difference in circuit
gain experienced at a particular
frequency with respect to the
circuit gain of a reference
frequency.
 A. dynamic range
 B. absorption distortion
 C. attenuation
distortion
 D. selective fading
409. In telephone systems, a
special type of line conditioning
that pertains to line impairments
for which compensation can be
made with filters and equalizers.
 A. A-line conditioning
 B. B-line conditioning
 C. C-line conditioning
 D. D-line conditioning
410. An envelope delay distortion
test on a basic telephone channel
indicated that an 1800-Hz carrier
experienced the minimum
absolute delay of 400 us. The
maximum envelope delay for a
basic telephone channel is 1750
us within the frequency range 800
Hz to 2600 Hz. What is the
maximum envelope delay?
 A. 2150 microsec
 B. 2550 microsec
 C. 3000 microsec
 D. 3400 microsec
411. In SS7 signaling points,
codes that are carried in signaling
messages exchanged between
signaling points to identify the
source and destination of each
message
 A. signaling points
 B. service points
 C. switching points
 D. point codes
412. Stage of the step-by-step
switching system that is
composed of switches to
complete the connection to the
called subscriber.
 A. line equipment
 B. switch train
 C. connectors
 D. switching network
413. ____________ is the switching
system that is a branch of the
local central office.
 A. local exchange
 B. branch exchange
 C. subscriber loop
 D. line
414. Most fax printers are of
which type?
 A. Impact
 B. Thermal
 C. Electrosensitive
 D. Laser xerographic
415. Aside from tip and ring used
in local loops the third wire when
used is called __________.
 A. reserve
 B. sleeve
 C. ground
 D. none of these
416. Acknowledgement and
status signals that ensure the
process necessary to set up and
terminate a telephone call are
completed in an orderly and
timely manner,
 A. call progress tones
and signals
 B. call waiting tones and
signals
 C. incoming call tones and
signals
 D. call termination tones
and signals
417. POCSAG stands for
 A. Post Office Code
Standardization Advisory
Group
 B. Post Office Code
System Advisory Group
 C. Paging Operation Code
Standardization Advisory
Group
 D. Paging Operation Code
System Advisory Group
418. The location where individual
cable pairs within a distribution
cable are separated and extended
to the subscriber’s location on a
drop wire
 A. feeder cable and
distribution cable
 B. drop wire and aerial
cable
 C. distribution cable
and drop-wire cross-
connect cables
 D. distribution cable and
aerial cable
419. What is the standard
bandwidth of voice channel
according to CCITT
recommendations?
 a. 300 – 3.4 kHz
 b. 200 – 3.3 kHz
 c. 20 – 20 kHz
 d. 30 – 30 kHz
420. A the receiver, the phase
difference at the different carrier
frequencies is called _________.
 A. envelope delay
distortion
 B. phase delay
 C. envelope delay
 D. propagation time
421. It is a sudden, random
changes in the phase of the
signal. They are classified as
temporary variations in the phase
of the signal lasting longer than 4
ms.
 A. phase hits
 B. phase jitter
 C. interference
 D. distortion
422. Circuits that are designed
and configured for their use only
and often referred to as private
circuits or dedicated circuits.
 A. switched circuits
 B. leased circuits
 C. virtual circuits
 D. switched virtual circuits
423. It is a programmable matrix
that allows circuits to be
connected to one another.
 A. circuit switch
 B. tap switch
 C. equipment switch
 D. cross switch
424. Interstate long distance
telephone calls require a small
telephone office called _________.
 A. sectional office
 B. regional office
 C. toll office
 D. end office
425. A call that cannot be
completed because the necessary
trunk circuits or switching paths
are not available.
 A. blocking
 B. holding
 C. storing
 D. none of these
426. A mandate that requires all
telephone companies to support
the porting of telephone number.
 A. national number
portability
 B. regional number
portability
 C. local number
portability
 D. sectional number
portability
427. The connection between the
telephone and the central office’s
switching equipment.
 A. subscriber loop
 B. relay circuits
 C. line sensors
 D. supervisory relay
428. An exact reproduction of a
document or picture provided at
the receiving end.
 A. television
 B. telecommunication
 C. facsimile
transmission
 D. mobile communication
429. What type of graphics are
commonly transmitted by radio
fax?
 A. Newspaper text
 B. Architectural drawings
 C. Cable movies
 D. Satellite weather
photos
430. It is comprised of a
transmitter, receiver, an electrical
network for equalization,
associated circuitry to control
sidetone levels and to regulate
signal power and necessary
signaling circuitry.
 A. telephone
 B. television
 C. facsimile
 D. computer
431. Early paging system uses
what modulation technique?
 A. pulse modulation
 B. amplitude modulation
 C. phase modulation
 D. frequency
modulation
432. A device that serves as a
demarcation point between local
telephone company responsibility
and subscriber responsibility for
telephone service.
 A. standard network
interface
 B. subscriber line
interface card
 C. system network
architecture
 D. network interface card
433. It is the actual time required
for a particular frequency to
propagate from a source to a
destination through a
communications channel.
 A. relative phase delay
 B. phase delay distortion
 C. absolute phase
delay
 D. phase distortion
434. It is a sudden, random
change in the gain of the circuit
resulting in a temporary change
in the signal level.
 A. spikes
  B. gain hits
 C. jitter
 D. echo
435. A typical echo suppressor
suppresses the returned echo by
how much?
 A. 10 dB
 B. 30 dB
 C. 45 dB
 D. 60 dB
436. In telephony, functions that
supply and interpret control and
supervisory signals needed to
perform the operation
 A. calling functions
 B. maintenance functions
 C. signaling functions
 D. transmission functions
437. It is a central location where
subscribers are interconnected,
either temporarily or on a
permanent basis.
 A. central offices
 B. exchange offices
 C. exchanges
 D. any of these
438. It is simply a path between
two subscribers and is comprised
of one or more switches, two local
loops or possibly one or more
trunk circuits.
 A. way
 B. route
 C. path
 D. mode
439. It defines the procedures and
protocols necessary to exchange
information over the PSTN using a
separate digital signaling network
to provide wireless and wireline
telephone call setup, routing and
control.
 A. C7
 B. common channel
signaling system no. 7
 C. SS7
 D. any of these
440. In a 4-wire telephone set
connection, (used to connect
telephone set to central office
switching) the red coded wire is
used __________.
 A. as ground wire
 B. to transmit the signal
 C. to receive the signal
from the far end
 D. as a spare or for
special purpose applications
441. The connection between two
central offices
 A. line
 B. trunk
 C. loop
 D. signaling
442. In facsimile, the length of
time required to transmit a
document
 A. propagation time
 B. transmission rate
 C. holding time
 D. transmission time
443. It is a combination of passive
components that are used to
regulate the amplitude and
frequency response of the voice
signals.
 A. equalizer circuit
 B. balanced transformer
 C. balanced modulator
 D. hybrid network
444. A signal that is sent from the
switching machine back to the
calling station whenever the
called telephone number is off-
hook.
 A. dial tone signal
 B. ringback signal
 C. busy signal
 D. off-hook signal
445. A smaller version of the
feeder cable containing less wire
pairs.
 A. aerial
 B. drop wire
 C. feeder cable
 D. distribution cable
446. It is a parameter equivalent
to TLP except that it is used as a
reference for data transmission.
 A. transmission level point
 B. data level point
 C. voice level point
 D. baseband transmission
point
447. He developed the first
instrument that transmitted music
over a wire
 A. Philipp Reis
 B. Antonio Meucci
 C. Thomas Edison
 D. Almon Strowger
448. It is used to convert two-wire
circuits to four-wire circuits which
is similar to hybrid coil found in
standard telephone sets.
 A. balanced transformer
 B. hybrid circuits
 C. balanced modulator
 D. hybrid transformers
449. A switchboard with four
digits can accommodate how
many telephone numbers?
 A. 1,000
 B. 10,000
 C. 100,000
 D. 9999
450. The trunk circuits that are
terminated in tandem switches
are called
 A. tie trunks
 B. tandem trunks
 C. office trunks
 D. exchange trunks