Date: ___________ Nanocell Code : GSM/E1

GSM Exam
Maximum Marks: 40 Duration: 30 minutes Marks Scored:
Name: _____________________________________________
Q1. Fill in the blanks: (20)
1. ARFCN stands for _________________________________________________________
2. Duplex separation in GSM 900 band is _________________________
3. ____________________ coder is used as for channel coding in GSM.
4. Trafc channel multi-frame consists of ____________________ TDMA frames.
5. Each ARFCN can support a maximum of ___________________ simultaneous telephone calls.
6. ________________ channel is used for authentication and allocation of a trafc channel.
7. When an MS move to a new ___________________ area, it has to update the VLR.
8. _________________ is used to connect the same antenna with Tx and Rx paths.
9. The ________________ allows the called party to receive the line identity of the calling party.
10. ARFCN 124 has a downlink frequency of _______________________________
11. RR management is the responsibility of _________________ unit in the BSS.
12. The ____________________________ unit in BSS does the functions related to interleaving,
encryption, modulation, demodulation etc.
13. In a 7/21-frequency plan design, a frequency is repeated after every ____________ BTSs.
14. Normally highway BTS will have __________ sectors each having a beam width of 35
0
.
15. Space diversity is a method to compensate the fading due to ____________________________
16. The AuC is associated with __________________ unit in the core network.
17. The TCH/FS carries information at a gross bit rate of _____________ (after channel coding).
18. The MS for accessing the network uses the logical channel __________________________
19. The ______________ channel is associated and repeats periodically with trafc channel.
20. The duration of a TDMA frame is _________________________ mS.
Q2. Fill in the blanks from those given in multiple choices. (20)
1. The _______________________ link carries trafc from the PSTN to the MSC, between MSCs
and from MSC to BSC. [ Abis , SS7 , X.25 , E1 ]
2. The ______________________ is a channel that carries both the PCH and the AGCH on the
downlink, and the RACH on the uplink. [ DCCH , BCCH , FACCH , CCCH ]
3. The 13th Frame (F 12) in the 26 Frame trafc channel Multi frame is used by the
______________________ which carries link control information.
[ FACCH , PCH , RACH, SACCH ]
4. The maximum timing advance in GSM is approximately ____________ Sec. This caters for
a maximum cell radius of approximately 35 KMs. [ 462 , 577 , 120, 233 ]
5. When ___________________ is implemented, two antennas are situated at the receiver placed
at several wavelengths apart. [ciphering , frequency hopping , multipath , diversity ]
6. All MSs are capable of frequency hopping under the control of the ________________ which
must include the frequency hopping option. [HLR, BSS, MSC, OMC]
7. In response to the access request, BSS will allocate one dedicated channel to the MS over
____________________ [ SACCH , RACH, AGCH , SDCCH ]
8. ___________________ type of digital exchanges are not producing dial tone.
[ DLE, TAX, TDM, POI ]
9. The purpose of _____________________________ detach procedure is to indicate the network
that MS has switched of. [ MSISDN , IMSI , IMEI , SIM ]
10. Fault management is the responsibility of ___________ [ BTS , BSC , OMC , HLR ]
11. In GSM, Uplink frequency is chosen in lower band, because of a lower _________________
loss for lower frequencies. [Feeder , Duplexer , Free space , Connector ]
12. ___________ is the Erlang capacity for a single RF. [ 2.935, 0.025, 9.001, 8.000 ]
13. The data about all the active MSs in one MSC area is available in _________________
[ HLR , VLR , EIR , AuC ]
14. MS hardware identity is available in ___________ data base. [HLR, VLR, EIR, GMSC]
15. In GPRS, __________________ is responsible for the delivery of data packets from and to the
MS within its service area. [GGSN , PCU , SGSN , BSC ]
16. The unit which converts the 16 kbps (RPE-LTP coded signal) into 64 kbps (PCM signal) is
_________________ [ BTS , OMC , TRAU , MSC ]
17. One RF carrier (ARFCN) in GSM has a channel bandwidth of ________________
[ 25 MHz, 200 KHz , 45 MHz, 900 MHz ]
18. The purpose of ________________________________ is to distribute a data block across several
TDMA frames. [ciphering, frequency hopping, encoding, interleaving ]
19. Charging, billing and switching are the duties related with ____________________
[ BTS, BSC, TRAU , MSC ]
20. ________________ unit is connected to the core network of all other operators.
[ MSC , GMSC , OMC , BSC ]

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