Question 1

Marks: 1

Frequency diversity uses

Choose one answer.

a. Two transmitter & two receivers.

b. Single transmitter & two receivers.

c. Two transmitter & single receiver

d. Two IDUs , single ODU & two antennas

Question 2
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The ITU-T [1] specifies the international hypothetical reference connection

from path-end point (PEP) to path end point (PEP) is ---------- long.

Choose one answer.

a. 2500 Kms
 b. 27,500 km

c. 6000 Km

d. 15000 Km

Question 3
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What is VSWR?

Choose one answer.

a. Voltage Strength Wave Ratio

b. Voltage Standing Wave Ratio

c. Voltage Standing Wavelength Ratio

d. Variable Standing Wave Ratio

Question 4
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The 2 Mbps rate is also called level .
Choose one answer.

a. E0

b. E1

c. E2

d. E3

5
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Find the odd man out

Choose one answer.

a. AMI

b. CMI
 c. DMI

d. HDB3

Question 6
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Maximum How many BTS sites with each one E1 can be protected in a STM-
1 Microwave Loop?

Choose one answer.

a. 21 sites

b. 63 sites

c. 16 sites

d. 42 sites

Question 7
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How many rows in the first 9 columns of the STM-1 SOH are used for the
AU-4 pointer?
Choose one answer.

a. 1

b. 3

c. 4

d. None

8
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Four STM-1s can be multiplexed up to STM-4. What line rate will this STM-4
have, in Mbit/s?

Choose one answer.

a. 155.52

b. 311.04
 c. 455.52

d. 622.08

9
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What is VSAT?

Choose one answer.

a. Very Small Aperture Terminal

b. Variable Small Aperture Terminal

c. Variable Small Aperture Transceiver

d. Very Small Aperture Transceiver

10
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Find the odd man out

Choose one answer.

 a. MSP

b. MSSP

c. SNCP

d. SNMP

11
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Which of the following statement is correct for a Microwave Link having

lower value of earth radius factor (K)

Choose one answer.

a. Link demands higher antenna heights

b. Link demands lower antenna heights

c. Antenna heights are not designed depending on the K value

 d. Causes more interference to other Links

Question 12
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30dBm = -------------------------

Choose one answer.

a. 1watt.

b. 10watts

c. 2watts

d. 4watts

Question 13
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What is BER?

Choose one answer.

a. Bit Error Rate

 b. Bit Error Received

c. Byte Error Ratio

d. Byte Error Rate

14
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Name the type of Connector used in the two wires 75ohm E1 system?

Choose one answer.

a. GNC

b. BNC

c. DNC

d. Navy Blue

Question 15
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What is RNA?

Choose one answer.

a. Radio Network Availability

b. Radio Network Accessibility

c. Radio Node Analysis

d. Radio Node Availability

Question 16
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Rain will be more affecting on:

Choose one answer.

a. 15 GHz horizontally polarized Link

b. 15 GHz vertically polarized Link

 c. 7 GHz horizontally polarized Link

d. 7 GHz vertically polarized Link

17
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Microwave fading is more severe during.

Choose one answer.

a. Daylight

b. Night

c. Raining

d. B & C

e. A & B

18
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Which of the following statements are true for avoiding Interference
(multiple answer)?

Choose at least one answer.

a. Use different polarisation

b. Use small dishes

c. Use the highest available Frequency Band

d. Attenuate the Tx Power to a minimum just to meet the

required availability.

Question 19
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How many VC-3 are there in 1 VC-4

Choose one answer.

a. 1

b. 2
 c. 3

d. 4

20
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Which of the following frequency will give more availability for a MW Link
having more than 15 km distance?

Choose one answer.

a. 15 GHz

b. 7 GHz

c. 23 GHz

d. 18 GHz

Question 21
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If the band width required for SDH radio is 28 MHz. What is the Band width
required for XPIC radio
Choose one answer.

a. 21 MHz

b. 27 MHz

c. 28 MHz

d. 29 MHz

Question 22
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In microwave radio IDU consists of.

Choose one answer.

a. RF Units.

b. Microwave functional units.

c. Mux, Demux & IF signal processing.

 d. Power Amplifier units

23
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Balloon test is part of:

Choose one answer.

a. RF Survey

b. In-Building Solution Survey

c. MW Survey

d. None of the above

Question 24
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Which of the following MW link uses only 7 MHz band width, with QPSK
MODULATION?

Choose one answer.

 a. Link with 4E1 capacity

b. Link with 2E1 capacity

c. Link with 8E1 capacity

d. Link with 16E1 capacity

25
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Waveguide is used in microwave radios.

Choose one answer.

a. IDU ODU

b. IDU Antenna

c. ODU Antenna
 d. IDU Tributary interface.

In space diversity what is spacing between Normal and diversity antenna

Choose one answer.

a. 180

b. 190

c. 200

d. 210

27
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What is the bit rate or the timeslot capacity used to carry a standard voice
signal according to the Nyquist Criteria?

Choose one answer.

a. 64 kBps
 b. 8 kbps

c. 3.4 kbps

d. 64 kbps

Question 28
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Commonly used line code for E1 2048 Kbps is:

Choose one answer.

a. CMI

b. AMI

c. HDB-3

d. 8B/10B

29
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What is the size in time of the 2 Mbit/s frame?

Choose one answer.

a. 125us

b. 500us

c. 1 s

d. 300us

30
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Which of the following term indicates the E1 interface between BSC and
BTS?

Choose one answer.

a. A-Ter interface

b. A-Bis interface
 c. Inter-MSC interface

d. None

31
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What is SES?

Choose one answer.

a. Synchronize error second

b. Severely error second

c. Secondary error second

d. Secured error second

What is the Bandwidth (bit rate) of E3.

Choose one answer.

 a. 4Mbps

b. 8Mbps

c. 34Mbps

d. 2Mbps

33
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Site A to Site B for space diversity arrangement which of the below

statement is true?

Choose one answer.

a. Both antennas at Site A will transmit and main antenna at

Site B will receive

b. Both antennas at site B will transmit and both antenna at site

A will receive

c. Main antenna at site A will transmit and both antennas at site

B will receive
 d. None of above

34
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What is ATPC?

Choose one answer.

a. Automatic Transfer Power Control

b. Automatic Transmit Power Control

c. Automatic Transmit Protection Control

d. Automatic Transfer Protection Control

Question 35
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If a 5km PDH hop is engineered with 0.6m,0.6m antenna diameter with an

effective fade margin of 40db.Can this hop be converted to SDH without
change in antenna diameter

Choose one answer.

 a. Yes

b. No

36
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If 0.5W is the power of PDH Radio. What is value in dBm.

Choose one answer.

a. -25 dBm

b. -28 dBm

c. -27 dBm

d. -29 dBm

37
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Which of the following statement is correct w.r.t to Hot Standby(HSB)?

Choose one answer.

 a. is a configuration with two radios, one is working and other
one has got no power on.

b. is a configuration with two radios, both of them have got

power on, but only one is transmitting and/or receiving.

c. is a configuration with two radios, both of them have got

power and both of them are transmitting and/or receiving.

Multipath fading is caused by

Choose one answer.

a. Atmospheric ducting

b. Ground reflection

c. Both 1&2

d. None

Which of the following term indicates the E1 interface between BSC and
BTS?
Choose one answer.

a. A-Ter interface

b. A-Bis interface

c. Inter-MSC interface

d. None

Which of the following statement is correct w.r.t to Warm Standby(WSB)?

Choose one answer.

a. is a configuration with two radios, one is working , other one

has got no power on.

b. is a configuration with two radios, both of them have got

power on, but only one is transmitting and/or receiving.

c. is a configuration with two radios, both of them have got

power , both of them are transmitting and/or receivi

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What is the default value of Earth radius factor (K) to be used if Local value
is not available?

Choose one answer.

a. 1.33

b. 1.1

c. 1.5

d. 2.4

42
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Which of the following is the Equivalent North American standard for SDH

Choose one answer.

a. STM

b. SONET
 c. VC-4

d. AMPS

43
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Wavelength is formulated as: Where c is the velocity of propagation (m/s)

and f is the frequency (Hertz).

Choose one answer.

a. = c /f

b. = f /c

c. = c *f

d. = c2 /f

44
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HSB provides protection for,

Choose one answer.

 a. Climatic fading.

b. Rain fading

c. Equipment failure.

d. Path-protection

Question 45
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What is XPIC

Choose one answer.

a. Cross Polarization interference canceller

b. Cross Polarization intermediate canceller

c. Cross Parallel interference canceller

 d. None of the above

46
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At 1x10-6 BER, if we increase capacity of a link from 4E1 to 16 E1 then

receiver sensitivity of Radio equipments will;

Choose one answer.

a. Increase

b. Decrease

c. Remains unchanged

d. None of the above

Question 47
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In Microwave availability calculations, path availability denotes ------

Choose one answer.

 a. The availability criteria for a particular link only

b. The availability for a route having chain of links

c. The availability of a site

d. Network availability

48
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What is the Fresnel zone radius (R) of a MW Link at a distance of d1 km

from site A and d2 km from site B with a frequency of F GHZ?

Choose one answer.

a. R= 17.32 {( d1xd2)/ F(d1+d2)}

b. R= 17.32 {(d1+d2)/F(d1xd2)}

c. R= 17.32 {d1xd2)/F
 d. None of the above

49
Marks: 1

Frequency used for Long-haul Microwave Hops.

Choose one answer.

a. 56GHz 75GHz

b. 100MHz --300MHz

c. 3GHz 13GHz

d. 38GHz 56GHz

50
Marks: 1

Sampling frequency rate for human voice is ______ samples/sec

Choose one answer.

a. 3400
 b. 4000

c. 8000

d. 9600

51
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Space Diversity in a Microwave Link is a method used to overcome, The

effects of ------

Choose one answer.

a. Multipath Fading

b. Rain Fading

c. Both Multipath and Rain fading

d. None of the above

Question 52
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How many Time Slots are there in E1?

Choose one answer.

a. 32

b. 30

c. 28

d. 31

53
Marks: 1

In the context of PDH, please identify wrong statement.

Choose one answer.

a. In PDH (North America) bit rate for T3 or DS3 is 44.736

Mbit/s.

b. For higher order multiplexing additional bits are called

justification or stuffing bits are used.
 c. Plesio means nearly, hence the term Plesiochronous (nearly
synchronous) Digital Hierarchy.

d. In Europe primary rate used was 1544 Kbps while USA,

Canada and Japan used a primary rate of 2048 Kbit/s.

54
Marks: 1
In microwave radio IDU consists of
Choose one answer.

a. RF Units.

b. Microwave functional units.

c. Mux, Demux & IF signal processing.

d. Power Amplifier units

SDH is acronym for?

Choose one answer.

 a. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

b. Systematic Digital Hierarchy

c. Symmetrical Digital Hierarchy

d. Standard Digital Hierarchy

Question 56
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What is the reliability method followed for link engineering-

Choose one answer.

a. ITU 537/6

b. ITU 537/7

c. ITU 537/8
 d. ITU 537/9

Marks: 1

How many types of diversity schemes are available?

Choose one answer.

a. 3

b. 2

c. 4

d. 5

Which Frequency Bands are used in VSAT?

Choose one answer.

a. C and L
 b. C and Ku

c. Ku and L

d. Ku and F

Frequency used for Short-haul Microwave Hops.

Choose one answer.

a. 15GHz 38GHz.

b. 38GHz 56GHz

c. 3GHz 13GHz

d. 56GHz 75GHz

According to Nyquists theorem, the frame repetition is: ______(frames per

second)
Choose one answer.

a. 622

b. 6000

c. 6220

d. 8000

61
Marks: 1

Which Telecom standard do the Asian Regions follow?

Choose one answer.

a. ETSI

b. ANSI

c. ITU-T
 d. ITU

62
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Term STM is short form referred for?

Choose one answer.

a. Synchronous technology module

b. Standard Transmission module

c. Synchronous Transport Module

d. None of the above

63
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Which of the following are correct combinations for microwave frequency

deviation for 15 GHz and 18 GHz and 7 GHz generally used?

Choose one answer.

 a. 420 MHz, 12400 MHz,800MHz

b. 420 MHz, 30100 MHz,154MHz

c. 420 MHz, 10100 MHz,154MHz

d. 420 MHz, 11100 MHz,700MHz

Question 64
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Severely Error Seconds (SES) means ----------

Choose one answer.

a. A period of ten consecutive seconds of which each second has

a BER better than 1x10^-3

b. Any Second containing one or more errors

c. An error second with a BER worse than worse than 1x10^-3

 d. A period of ten consecutive seconds of which each second has
a BER worse than 1x10^-3

65
Marks: 1

Find the odd man out

Choose one answer.

a. LOS

b. AIS

c. QOS

d. LOF

66
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Term NMS stands for?

Choose one answer.

a. Network Monitoring system

 b. Network Measurement system

c. Network Management system

d. Network Mapping system

What is PRC?

Choose one answer.

a. Primary Received Clock

b. Preliminary Received Clock

c. Primary Routed Clock

d. Primary Reference Clock

Question 68
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Commonly used line code for 1 Gbps Ethernet technologies is:

Choose one answer.

a. 8B/10B

b. 64B/66B

c. 2B1Q

d. Manchester

Question 69
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According to WPC guidelines which of the following is the minimum distance

required for planning a link in 7 GHz frequency

Choose one answer.

a. 20 km
 b. 30 km

c. 40 km

d. 15 km

Question 70
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In SDH as well as in 2 Mbps frame, TDM (Time Division Multiplex) is used on

a basis

Choose one answer.

a. Bit interleaved

b. Byte interleaved

c. Frame interleaved

71
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How many 2 Mbit/s services can be carried in a VC-4?

Choose one answer.

 a. 63 2 Mbit/s

b. 64 2 Mbit/s

c. 126 2 Mbit/s

Which of the following antenna is having more gain?

Choose one answer.

a. 15 GHz / 1.2 m

b. 7 GHz / 1.2 m

c. 23 GHz/ 1.2 m

d. 18 GHz /1.2 m

73
Marks: 1

In Split-mount microwave radio RF-unit is located in

Choose one answer.

a. IDU

b. ODU

c. BTS

d. Antenna

74
Marks: 1

PCM is an abbreviation for?

Choose one answer.

a. Primary Code Modulation

b. Pulse Code Modulation

c. Pulse Code Modification

 d. Phase Code Modulation

Which of the following is not a microwave generation source?

Choose one answer.

a. Klystron

b. Magnetron

c. TWT

d. Diode

Question 76
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Which type of Companding is used in the European region?

Choose one answer.

a. A law
 b. u law

c. d law

d. law

Which of the following Equipment is required for measuring the terrain

height at a particular site?

Choose one answer.

a. Altimeter

b. Compass

c. Inclinometer

d. None

78
Marks: 1
Commonly used line code for 10 Gbps Ethernet technologies is:

Choose one answer.

a. 8B/10B

b. 64B/66B

c. 2B1Q

d. Manchester

79
Marks: 1

For what is the BIP-n used? (Example: BIP-8 in the B3 byte of the VC-4
POH.)

Choose one answer.

a. As a path trace

b. For alarm indication to the remote end

 c. For bit error monitoring

80
Marks: 1

In Ethernet Technology, line coding issues at the physical layer are

represented by:

Choose one answer.

a. Collisions

b. Symbol Errors

c. Jabbers

d. Runts

81
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Commonly used line code for 100 Mbps Ethernet technologies is:

Choose one answer.

 a. 8B/10B

b. 64B/66B

c. 2B1Q

d. Manchester

Question 82
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Space diversity provides

Choose one answer.

a. Protection against multipath fading & receiver failure.

b. Protection to transmitter failure.

c. Protection to IDU & ODU.

 d. Protection to Branching unit.

Question 83
Marks: 1

According to ITU-R model which of the following zone is having highest rain
intensity

Choose one answer.

a. Zone A

b. Zone Q

c. Zone P

d. Zone B

Marks: 1

What is a E1 having four wire system called as:

Choose one answer.

a. Balanced
 b. Unbalanced

Question 85
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The Receive power in any transmission system is dependent on which factor?

Choose one answer.

a. TX power of opposite end

b. Link distance

c. Link losses

d. All of above.

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In below mentioned modulation scheme to transmit 8 mbps data which

scheme required less bandwidth

Choose one answer.

 a. bpsk

b. 4bpsk

c. 8bpsk

d. 16bpsk

Question 87
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40dBm = ____

Choose one answer.

a. 1watt

b. 10watts

c. 2watts
 d. 4watts

e. 100watts

Marks: 1
What is used for converting 75 ohms signal to 120 ohms signal ?
Choose one answer.

a. Attenuator

b. Switch

c. BalUn

d. Splicer

Marks: 1

ATPC feature in a microwave radio used to

Choose one answer.

 a. Improve Rx level

b. Avoid Interference

c. Reduce Noise

d. Both above

Which of the following network topology will improve the availability of a

Network?

Choose one answer.

a. Star Topology

b. Chain Topology

c. Spur Topology
 d. Ring Topology

In which overhead is the S1 (Quality of Synchronization) byte located?

Choose one answer.

a. Path

b. Regenerator section

c. Multiplexer section

As per G.702 in PDH maximum signal structure capacity is

Choose one answer.

a. 45 Mbps

b. 140 Mbps
 c. 130 Mbps

d. 155 Mbps

Considering all circumstances, (incl. backups etc.) how many PRS's should
be in active use simultaneously to synchronize a SDH network?

Choose one answer.

a. One only

b. At least two

c. As many as possible

An antenna operates at a frequency of 15GHz. It has a gain of 1.8 meters.

Its gain will be

Choose one answer.

a. 54 dBi
 b. 33 dBi

c. 46 dBi

d. 60 dBi

Question 95
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Which parameters are required for Rx level calculation in MW?

Choose one answer.

a. Link Distance

b. Frequency

c. TX Power

d. All of the Above

What is the recommended Polarization for a MW Link during Rainy Season?

Choose one answer.

a. Horizontal

b. Vertical

c. Cross

d. Linear

Question 97
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When multiplexing up to the higher rates, the input signals must have:

Choose one answer.

a. Frame synchronization
 b. Same bit rate

c. Same frame structure

d. all of the above

98
Marks: 1

Which is the first stage of PCM technique?

Choose one answer.

a. Quantization

b. Coding

c. Sampling

d. Serialization

Question 99
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Related to Microwave Radio Transmission interference, please select the
wrong statement.

Choose one answer.

a. In an analog system the interference effect is totally different

from a digital system.

b. There are two types of interfering signals: one with a variable

C/I and the other with a constant C/I.

c. The interference can also be coming from the radio network

due to frequency reuse.

d. Interference cannot result from reflections in a poorly

matched or damaged antenna/feeder system.

FSL ( dB) = 92.4 + 20log (Frequency) + 20log(Hop Length), In this formula,

unit of Frequency and Hop Length will be:

Choose one answer.

a. MHz & Meters

b. GHz & Meters

c. GHz & KM

d. GHz & Meters