ECT001 Potential Electronics Technician Board Exam Questions

1. What is the number of separate protocol layers at the serial interface gateway specified by
the X.25 standard?
2

2. Examples are packet switching using frame relay, and cell switching using ATM technologies.
Switching alternating

3. Which instrument would you use to measure electric potential or electromotive force?
A voltmeter

4. What is/are the term(s) applied to the space between and around charged bodies in which
their influence is felt?
Electrostatic field
Electric field of force
Dielectric field

5. Which of the following condition is used to transmit two packets over a medium at the same
time?
Collision

6. The packets switching concept was first proposed

In the early 1960s for military communication systems, mainly to handle speech

7. Which of the following values is equal to 100mA?

0.10 ampere

8. Which of the following characteristic(s) is/are suited to the PSS applications?

*Multiple remote host or applications accessed by a single local access circuit terminal
and circuit
*Bursty traffic and low communications intensity
*Widely dispersed terminals and access to international packets switched services

9. Suppose you have an unlimited supply of 1-W, 100- resistors. You need to get a 100-, 10-
W resistor. This can be done most cheaply by means of a series-parallel matrix of
4 4 resistors

10. A station in a network forwards incoming packets by placing them on its shortest output
queue. What routing algorithm is being used?
Hot potato routing

ECT002 Potential Electronics Technician Board Exam Questions

1. How should the dry cell be stored to obtain maximum shelf life?
In a refrigerated space

2. RS-449/442-A/423-A is
A set of physical layer standards developed by EIA and intended to replace RS-232-C.

3. What is the name of the network topology in which there are bi-directional links between each
possible node?
Mesh
4. Why are 'direct' (not via a repeater) UHF signals rarely heard from stations outside your
local coverage area?
UHF signals are usually not reflected by the ionosphere

5. Now-a-days computers all over the world can talk to each other. Which is one of the special
accessories essential for this purpose?
Modem

6. What happens to power lost in a feedline?

It is converted into heat

7. To make possible the efficient on-line servicing of many teleprocessing system users on large
computer systems, designers are developing
Virtual storage systems
Communication systems
Multiprogramming systems

8. What is the purpose of a gin pole?

To lift tower sections or antennas

9. What best describes a relay?

A switch controlled by an electromagnet

10. How many valence shell electrons are there in semiconductor atoms?
4

ECT003 Potential Electronics Technician Board Exam Questions

1. A common-collector transistor circuit is often used

To match a high impedance to a low impedance

2. A two-terminal electrical element that satisfies a prescribed algebraic relationship in

the chargevoltage (qV) plane.
Capacitor

3. A circuit element whose feature size is comparable to, or significantly larger than, the
wavelength of applied energy.
Distributed element

4. The frequency of common household ac in the United States is

60 Hz

5. In a cellular communications system, a technology in which cells overlap, but signals do

not interfere with each other because every phone set is assigned a unique signal code, is
known as
Code division multiple access

6. An isotope
Can have either a positive or negative charge
7. Suppose that five resistors, each one having the same ohmic value as all the others,
are connected in series, and the entire combination is connected to a 12-V battery. How does
the current through any one of the resistors compare with the current drawn from the battery?
The current through any one of the resistors is the same as the current drawn from the
battery

8. A circuit element that generates power.

Active element

9. In which of the following devices would a lantern battery most likely be found?
A two-way portable radio

10. With a ROM chip,

It is easier to read data from the device than to write data into it