MITRC REFRESHER COURSE

Digital Telephony

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1. Redundancy means the ________

a. Transmission rate of the system
b. Symbols are to be repeated
c. Time between failures
d. Time between successes

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12. What is multiplexing?
a. The process of increasing bandwidth on a
channel
b. A technique that enables more than one
data source to share the use of a common
line
c. Mailing letter at the post office
d. The ability to share frequency by time

b
2. The digital information is contained in both the
amplitude and phase of the modulated carrier.
a. PSK
b. FSK
c. QAM
d. ASK

13. In ____ modulation the carrier is a periodic train

pulses.
a. Amplitude
b. Analog
c. Digital
d. Pulse

3. The input signal is a binary digital signal and a

limited number of out put phases are possible.
a. PSK
b. FSK
c. QAM
d. ASK

14. Which of the following pulse modulation

techniques is a digital transmission system?
a. Pulse duration modulation
b. Pulse position modulation
c. Pulse width modulation
d. Pulse code modulation

4. A radio channel is composed of ___VB

channels.
a. 1800
b. 900
c. 10800
d. 8064

d
15. _______uses a single bit PCM code to achieve
a digital transmission of analog signal
a. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
b. Frequency Shift Keying(FSK)
c. Delta Modulation(DM)
d. Phase Modulation(PM)

a
8. A special voice encoder/decoder used in
digitizing speech signal only is
a. PCM
b. PWM
c. Vocoder
d. PFM

16. The output frequency at the channel combiner of

channel 7 is
a. 76 80 kHz
b. 80 84 kHz
c. 84 88 kHz
d. 88 92 kHz

9. ______ is defined to be the maximum rate at

which information can be transmitted through a
channel.
a. Bit rate
b. Baud rate
c. Coding
d. Channel capacity

b
17. ________was the first fixed length 5-bit
character code.
a. EBCDIC
b. ASCII
c. Morse code
d. Baudot code

d
10. Who developed the fixed-length binary code for
telegraphy?
a. Samuel Morse
b. Emile Baudot
c. Alexander Graham Bell
d. Guglielmo Marconi

d
18. Amplitude shift keying is also known as ______.
a. Up/down keying
b. On/off keying
c. Front/back keying
d. I/O keying

b
11. Inventor of pulse-code modulation for the digital
encoding of speech signals.
a. R.V.L. Hartley
b. J.R. carson
c. H. Nyquist

b
19. PCM system require_________.
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27. One dit is equal to _____ bits.

a. 3
b. 3.5
c. 3.32
d. 4

b
c
20. Which theorem sets the limit on the maximum
capacity of a channel with a given noise level?
a. Nyquist theorem
b. Hartley theorem
c. Shannon-Hartley theorem
d. Shannon theorem

28. A quadratic signaling has _____ possible states.

a. 16
b. 4
c. 8
d. 32

21. _______is the difference between the original

and reconstructed signal.
a. Quantizing noise
b. Fade margin
c. Noise margin
d. Noise figure

29. What is the smallest unit of information in binary

transmission system?
a. Byte
b. Digit
c. Bit
d. Nibble

22. What are the steps to follow to produce a PCM

signal?
a. Sampling,coding and quantizing
b. Sampling,quantizing and coding
c. Quantizing,sampling and coding
d. Coding, quantizing and sampling

30. What is the Nyquist sample rate for a voice input

of 10 kHz?
a. 10 kHz
b. 20 kHz
c. 30 kHz
d. 40 kHz

23. Digital to analog converter in synchronous

modems send signals to the
a. Modulator
b. Transmission lines
c. Terminal
d. Equalizer

31. What is the minimum number of bits required in

PCM code for a range of 10,000?
a. 12
b. 9
c. 14
d. 8

24. How many bits are there to present 8

combinations?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 2
d. 5

32. An 8-bit character code.

EBCDIC
BAUDOT
ASCII
HOLLERITH
a

a
33. To ____ is to send a file to a remote computer.
a. Upload
b. Download
c. Call
d. Transmit

25. How many number of equiprobable events are

there for 8-bits of information?
a. 256
b. 132
c. 2400
d. 512

34. What is the most widely used data

communications code?
a. Gray
b. EBCDIC
c. Baudot
d. ASCII

26. A digital modulation technique that results in two

different frequencies representing binary 1 and
0.
a. FSK
b. QPSK
c. ASK
d. DPSK

35. Mark and space refer respectively to

a. 1 and 0
b. Dot and dash
c. Message and interval
d. On and off

a
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Digital Telephony

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