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DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
TAKE HOME EXAM
SY 2015-2016
Name: _____________________________
____________________
Program/Year level _________________

Date:

INSTRUCTION: Multiple choice and Identification. Write your final answer in the space provided. Strictly No
Erasures! Erasures must be marked as wrong answer. Cheating will cause an automatic disqualification of
your exam.
1. The minimum sampling rate according to Nyquist Theorem. _____
a. equal to the lowest frequency of a signal
b. equal to the highest frequency of a signal
c. twice the bandwidth of a signal
d. twice the highest frequency of a signal
2. An error detection method which uses ones complement arithmetic. _____
a. Checksum
b. CRC
c. Simple-parity check
d. Two-dimensional parity
check
3. __________ is used in wireless applications in which stations must be able to share the medium without interception by an
eavesdropper and without being subject to jamming from a malicious intruder.
4. __________ is a connecting device between two internetworks that use different models.
5. __________ is an undesired shift or width change in digital bits of data due to circuitry action which causes bits to arrive at
different times.
6. In PCM system, _________ is the ratio of the maximum input voltage level to the smallest voltage
level that can be quantized.
7. A multiplexer combines four 100-kbps channels using a time slot of 2 bits, determine the frame duration. _____
a. 20s

b. 50s

c. 100s

d.400s
8. Determine the Hamming distance for the codewords ( 10101, 11001). _____
a. one
b. two
c.
three
d. five 9. An address space is the total number of addresses used by the protocol, such as IPv4 and IPv6. What is
the address space of IPv6? _____
a. 232
b. 264
c. 296
128
d. 2
10. _________ is a standard designed by ITU to allow
telephones in the public telephone network to talk to computers/terminals connected to
the internet.
11. __________ is a combination of compression at the transmitter and expansion at the receiver of communications system.
Companding
12. A series of pulses in which the amplitude of each pulse represents the amplitude of the information signal at a given time.
_____
a. PAM
b. PCM
c. PDM
d. PPM
13. It was the first fixed length character code. _____
a. ASCII Code b. Baudot Code c. Morse Code
d.
EBCDIC Code
14. It involves transmitting each character twice. _____
a. Error Correction b. Redundancy
c. Checksum
d.
Parity

PREPARED BY:

REVIEWED BY:

NOTED BY:

ENGR. VINCENT G. RONQUILLO

Instructor

ENGR. JONREY V. RANADA

Program Director

DR. ESTRELLA F. ALABASTRO

Dean

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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15. __________ a set of communication facilities allowing direct access to 64kpbs data streams (or multiples of) for drop and
insert. A form of cell relay, supports B-ISDN.
16. __________ a series of pulses, in which the timing of each pulse represents the ampltitude of the information signal at a
given time.
17. _________ refers to the rate of change of a signal on the transmission medium after encoding and modulation have
occurred.
18. It is a term that is often misunderstood and commonly confused with bit rate (bps). _____ a. Bandwidth
b ASK
c. Baud d. FSK
19. Duplicating each data unit for the purpose of detecting errors is a form of error detection called. _____
a. burst
b. redundancy
c. error correction
d. error
detection
20. What is the device that converts energy from one form to another? _____ a. transducer
b. converter
c.
transceiver
d. Inverter
21. It may be defined as any undesired voltages or currents that ultimately end up appearing in the receiver output. _____
a. reflection
b. Electrical noise
c. interference
d. loss
22. The channel capacity of a 5 kHz bandwidth binary system is __bits/s. Assuming no noise. _____ a. 1,000 b. 10,100 c.
10,000 d. 100,000
23. Data Communications refers to the transmission of ________._____
a. voice
b. video
c. Computer data
d. All of the above
24. For a PCM system with a maximum analog frequency of 4kHz, determine the minimum sample rate. _____
a. 8 kHz
b. 9 kHz
c. 10 kHz
d. 11 kHz
25. The computers that hold shared files, programs and the network operating system. They also provide access to network
resources to all the
users of the network. _____
a. Servers
b. Clients
c. Transmission media
d. Peripherals
26. __________ is the only error-correction scheme that actually detects and corrects transmission errors when they are
received without requiring a transmission.
27. _________This OSI Layer is responsible for network availability, data storage and processor capacity. It also determines
the type of dialogue available.
28. _________ is a digital process that allows several connections to share the high bandwidth of a link.
29. _________ a modulation process wherein both frequence and phase remains constant while the amplitude changes.
30. _________ is the most powerful redundancy checking technique which is based on binary division.
31. A source whose output satisfies the condition of statistical independence among letters in the sequence is said to
be_____. _____
a memoryless
b stationary
c. entropy
d. equivocation
32. Calculate the minimum data rate needed to transmit audio with sampling rate of 30 Khz and 14 bits per sample. _____
a. 420 b/s
b. 420 Kb/s
c. 420 Mb/s
d. 420 Gb/s
33. ___________ Handles error recovery, flow control (synchronization), and sequencing (which terminals are sending and
which are receiving). It is considered the media access control layer.
34. ___________A network topology where each device is connected to a center point and all data is routed through that point.
35. __________ is a simple means of error detection. It involves the addition of one extra bit to the bits that encode a
character.
36. A data compression scheme that uses fewer bits to represent more frequently occurring characters or bit patterns and
more bits to represent those occur less frequently. _____

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ENGR. VINCENT G. RONQUILLO

Instructor

ENGR. JONREY V. RANADA

Program Director

DR. ESTRELLA F. ALABASTRO

Dean

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a. Cyclic redundancy check
b. Bit stuffing
c. Huffman coding
d. Bit overhead
37. Speed at which symbols are transmitted in a digital communication systems. _____
a. Bit rate
b. Baud rate
c. Data rate
d. Flow rate
38. It is the ratio of the largest possible magnitude to the smallest possible magnitude that can easily be decoded by the
digital to analog converter in the receiver. _____
a. Sampling rate
b. Noise Ratio
c. Dynamic Range
d. Coding Efficiency
39. _________ is the institution that developed the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Intertchange).
40. In early 1900s, he showed that any composite signal is a sum of a set of sine waves of different frequencies, phases and
amplitudes. _____
a. Henri Fourier
b. Robert Fourier
c. Jean-Baptiste Fourier
d. Harry Nyquist
41. _________It is an electronic device that is used for computer communications through telephone lines.
42. A telephone line has a bandwidth of 4.5 kHz and a signal-to-noise ratio of 40dB. A signal is transmitted down this line
using a four level code.
43. Showed mathematically that it is possible to reconstruct a band-limited analog signal from periodic samples, as long as
the sampling rate is
at least twice the frequency of the highest frequency component of the signal. _____
a. Shannon-Hartley
b. Claude E. Shannon c. Harry Nyquist
d. R. Hartley
44. Find the maximum dynamic range for a linear PCM system using 8-bit quantizing. _____ a. 62.24dB b. 49.92dB c.
20.10dB d. 15.78dB
45. In operation, many modern codecs achieved compression by first encoding the signals using a 12-bit linear PCM code,
then converting the
12-bit linear code into an 8-bit compressed code by discarding some of the bits. This is a simple example of: _____
a. Compression
b. Differential PCM
c. Vocoders
d. Digital Signal Processing
46. The basic building block of the FDM hierarchy. _____
a. Message Channel b. Group
c. Multiplexer
d.
Small Group
47. Who invented the telegraph? _____
a. Carl Friedrich
b. Samuel F.B Morse
c. Alexander Grahambell d.
Emile Baudot
48. The simplest modulation technique, where a binary information signal modulates the amplitude of an analog carrier. _____
a. Ampitude-Shift Keying
c. Continous-Phase Frequency-Shift Keying
b. Frequency-Shift Keying
d. Phase-Shift Keying
49. Is the lowest Open System Interconnection hierarchy and is responsible for the actual propagation of unstructured data
bits (1s and 0s) through a transmission medium. ________
a. Physical Layer b. Data Link Layer c. Network Layer d.
Transport Layer
50 It is a method of switching that provides a separate physical path for each symbol_____
a. circuit switching
b. packet switching
c. space switching
d. time switching
51. The OSI Layer responsible for data tracking as it moves through a network. It controls and ensures the end to end
integrity of the data message propagated through the network between two devices. _____
a. Application b.
Transport c. Physical d. Session
52. In pulse-code modulation, it translates the quantized samples into digital code words. _____
a. ADC b. DAC c.
encoder d. decoder
53. _________ is an error detection technique in which a redundant bit is appended to every data unit so that the total
number of 1s in the unit (including the parity bit) becomes even.

PREPARED BY:

REVIEWED BY:

NOTED BY:

ENGR. VINCENT G. RONQUILLO

Instructor

ENGR. JONREY V. RANADA

Program Director

DR. ESTRELLA F. ALABASTRO

Dean

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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54. The only way to achieve high data rates with a narrowband channel is to increase the number of bits per symbol, the
most reliable way to do this is to use a combination of amplitude and phase modulation known as _________. _____
a. quadrature amplitude modulation
b. phase shift keying
c. frequency shift keying
d. frequency modulation
55. __________ is a form of digital modulation similar to PSK except the digital information is contained in both amplitude
and the phase of the transmitted carrier.
56. _________ is the most common circuit used for demodulating binary FSK signals.
57. A network topology in which data circulates from one computer to the next in sequence. ______ a. ring
b. star
c. bus
d. mesh
58. _________ is a means of transmitting data by shifting the phase angle of the transmitted signal.
59. The name given for a set of standards for communicating among computers in which the primary purpose is to serve as a
structural guideline
for exchanging information between computers, workstations and networks. _____
a. OSI
b. TCP/IP
c.
PDU
d. LAN
60. Any transmission system which conveys more than one signal simultaneously can experience this type of interference
due to the reception of
portions of a signal from one channel in another channel. _____
a. Distortion
b. Noise
c. Crosstalk
d. Echo
61. What type of digital modulation scheme uses two or more different output frequencies? ____ a. PSK
b. FSK c.
QAM
d. QPSK
62. It is an error-correcting code used for correcting transmission errors in synchronous data streams. _____
a. Hamming code
b. Morse Code
c. ASCII code
d. EBCDIC code
63. Is a form of constant amplitude angle modulation similar to standard frequency modulation except the modulating signal
is a binary signal
that varies between two discrete voltage levels rather than a continuously changing analog waveform. _____
a. ASK
b. FSK
c. CP-FSK
d. BPSK
64. The highest layer in the hierarchy and is analogous to the general manager of the network by providing access to the OSI
environment. ____
a. Application layer
b. Presentation Layer
c. Transport layer
d. Session Layer
65. A term used to describe a telephone instrument whose handset is on its cradle, ready to receive a ring signal _____
a. On hook
b. Off hook
c. crosstalk
d. sidetone
66. The most commonly used digital modulation scheme. _____
a. PCUM
b. PPM
c. PDM
d. PCM
67. Is an eight-bit fixed length character set developed in 1962 by the International Business Machines Corporation. _____
a. ASCII code
b. Baudot Code
c EBCDIC code
d. Code 39
68. Calculate the capacity of a telephone channel that has a S/N of 1023? _____ a.16,000 b/s b. 30,000 b/s c.
25,000b/s d. 3000 b/s
69. Designed to send characters of the message with the specified bit rate but without any fixed timing relationship from one
character to the
next. ______
a. asynchronous
b. synchronous
c. error detection
d. error
correction
70. Token Ring Standard. ______
a. 802.2
b. 802.3
c. 802.4
d. 802.5

PREPARED BY:

REVIEWED BY:

NOTED BY:

ENGR. VINCENT G. RONQUILLO

Instructor

ENGR. JONREY V. RANADA

Program Director

DR. ESTRELLA F. ALABASTRO

Dean

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
ISO 9001:2008
Manila

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

CERTIFIED

College of Engineering
ENG-FO-018

PREPARED BY:

REVIEWED BY:

NOTED BY:

ENGR. VINCENT G. RONQUILLO

Instructor

ENGR. JONREY V. RANADA

Program Director

DR. ESTRELLA F. ALABASTRO

Dean