TELEPHONY AND CELLULAR TELEPHONY

1. A local telephone network is an example of a _______ network.

A)

packet-switched

B)

circuit-switched*

C)

message-switched

D)

none of the above

2. The modern telephone network is now ________.

A)

digital

B)

analog

C)

digital and analog*

D)

none of the above

3. The telephone network is made of ______ major components.

A)

B)

3*

C)

D)

none of the above

4. The local loop has _______ cable that connects the subscriber telephone to the
nearest end office.

A)

twisted-pair*

B)

coaxial

C)

fiber-optic

D)

none of the above

5. The original telephone network, which is referred to as the plain old telephone
system (POTS), was an ________ system.

A)

digital

B)

analog*

C)

digital as well as analog

D)

none of the above

6. ______technology is a set of technologies develpoed by the telephone companies

to provide high data rate transmission.

A)

ASL

B)

DSL*

C)

LDS

D)

none of the above

7. The protocol that is used for signaling in the telephone network is called ______.

A)

POP

B)

SSS

C)

SS7*

D)

none of the above

8. In cellular networks, simultaneous users over the same channel is achieved by:
I. Digital Technology.
II. Frequency re-use.
III. CDMA and TDMA.
IV .Using VLRs in each area and the HLR in the network switching centre.

A. I and II
B. I and III
C. II and III*
D. IV only

9. Which of these statements are correct?

I. Mobile Switching Centre(MSC) would process the call made by one mobile phone
user to another mobile phone user.
II. Public Switched Telephone Network(PSTN) would be involved in processing a call
when the call is made by a mobile phone user to a land phone.
III. Both MSC and PSTN processes a call made from a mobile phone to a land phone.
IV. Electronic Serial Number(ESN) is the telephone number of the cellular instrument
assigned to the subscriber.

A. III only
B. I, II and IV
C. III and IV
D. I and II*

10. Telephone companies normally provide a voltage of __________to power

telephones.
A. +24 volts DC B. -24 volts DC
C. +48 volts DC D. -48 volts DC*

11. Trunks are the lines that run between

A. Subscribers and exchange
B. switching system and power plant
C. Local area network.
D. Switching stations*

12. When a switch capacity is full, calls coming into that switch are said to be____.
A. open B. shorted
C. blocked* D. shunted

13. Side tone is the speech heard by

A. the receiving subscriber
B. both the receiving and calling subscriber
C. by an on-looker
D. by the calling subscriber*

14. Busy hour traffic is the

A. maximum average simultaneous traffic.
B. traffic during peak hour*
C. traffic when all subscribers are engaged.
D. the duration of maximum calls.

15. What is the average traffic per subscriber in Erlang if there are 30 subscribers
generating 100 calls in a busy hour with an average holding time of 5 minutes?
A. 0.27 E*
B. 1 E
C. 0.5 E
D. 0.67 E
Solution:
A = [100*(5/60)]/30 = 0.27 E

16. Calculate the carried traffic for a traffic-engineered service telephone system
with an offered traffic of 50E and GOS of 1.3%.

A. 45.39 E
B. 44.59 E
C. 49.35 E*
D. 43.95 E
Solution:
Tc = 50 (1 0.013) = 49.35

17. What is the channel capacity if seven macrocells with 16 channels per cell are
split into four minicell?
A. 450
B.449
C. 448*
D. 447
Solution:
C = 7*15*4 = 448

18. What is the GOS if there are 900 lines connected for service in a telephone
network and there are 15 blocked calls during busy hour?

A. 0.164
B. 0.0164*
C. 0.00164
D. 1.64
Solution:
GOS = 15/(900+15) = 0.0164