Chapter 3
___________ is not a type of digital signaling technique.
Data rate signaling
______________ refers to the time it takes for a signal to travel from sender to recipient (highly exaggerated with satellite transmission).
Propagation delay
With which type of digital signaling does the signal always return to zero volts after each bit?
Return-to-zero signaling
Inverse multiplexing means:
combining several low speed circuits to enable them to be transmitted across one high speed circuit
___________ refers to the spreading of the signal that different parts of the signal arrive at different times at the destination.
dispersion
Which of the following media has the lowest error rates and the highest transmission speeds?
fiber optic cable
The two basic types of media are:
guided and wireless (radiated)
The ability to transmit in both directions, but only in one direction at a time is an example of _______________ transmission.
half-duplex
To get more "bandwidth" in a digital transmission, you must:
increase the range of frequencies available for a transmission
Which of the following media is the least secure?
infrared
____________ transmission is prone to interference from smoke, heavy rain and fog and requires line-of-sight.
infrared
Time (non-statistical) division multiplexing differs from frequency division multiplexing because it:
splits the communication circuit vertically (with time slots) instead of horizontally
The type of media usually installed on homes and businesses by the telephone company is called ____________.
twisted pair
The type of multiplexer that divides the circuit horizontally into different light frequencies that are transmitted simultaneously across many channels is a:
wavelength division multiplexer
A coding scheme that uses 10 bits to represent each character is capable of representing _________ different characters.
1024
When sending four bits at a time using frequency modulation, the number of different frequency levels that would be needed would be _______.
16
The typical range of human hearing is:
20 to 14,000 Hz
How many bits are required to sample an incoming signal 4000 times per second using 64 different amplitude levels?
6
When converting analog voice data to digital signals, Pulse Code Modulation typically samples the incoming voice signal _______ times per second.
8,000
If the highest frequency of a circuit is 10KHZ and the lowest frequency is 900 Hz, the bandwidth available for this circuit is:
9100 Hz
With respect to converting digital data into analog signals, AM stands for:
Amplitude Modulation
____________ refers to the transmission characteristics of the circuit.
logical circuit
Which of the following would be considered a type of wireless media?
microwave
__________ is a line-of-sight type of wireless media.
microwave
____________ refers to changing the shape of the sound wave in different ways to represent a 1 or a 0.
modulation
The acronym, Modem, stands for _________________.
modulator/demodulator
________________ separate channels to reduce interference between channels in frequency division multiplexing.
Guardbands
Which of the following is not a key advantage of digital transmission?
It permits only low transmission rates.
The earliest type of fiber optic systems were:
Multimode
Which of the following statements is correct?
Serial transmission is slower than parallel transmission.
Digital Subscriber Line:
all of the above
Microwave transmission:
all of the above
The height of a sound wave is called its:
amplitude
Another term for the weakening of a signal over distance is:
attenuation
The _____________ of a circuit determines a circuit's capacity.
bandwidth
Transmission speeds:
differ widely among media
Which of the following media can best withstand harsh environmental conditions?
fiber optic cable
Frequency division multiplexing:
operates by dividing the signal into different frequencies
The direction in which the sound wave begins is known as:
phase
Which of the following is a characteristic of sound waves that can be modulated to convert digital data into analog signals?
phase
In which type of modulation is a 1 distinguished from a 0 by shifting the direction in which the wave begins?
phase modulation
Data is physically transmitted from one computer or terminal to another in the ________ layer.
physical
____________ is a modulation technique that combines two different amplitude combinations with eight different phase combinations modulation to send four bits per symbol.
quadrature amplitude modulation
When all bits of a character are transferred one after another, the bits are transferred in ___________ mode.
serial
_____________ is not a form of modulation used to transform digital data into analog signals.
synchronous time division