This is the Multiples Choice Questions Part 7 of the Series in Wire and Wireless Communications System as one of the Communications Engineering topic. In Preparation for the ECE Board Exam make sure to expose yourself and familiarize in each and every questions compiled here taken from various sources including but not limited to past Board Examination Questions in Electronic System and Technologies, Communications Books, Journals and other Communications References.
MCQ Topic Outline included in ECE Board Exam Syllabi
- MCQ in Mobile Communications
- MCQ in Cellular Communication
- MCQ in Trunk Radio
- MCQ in Radio Paging System
- MCQ in Facsimile
- MCQ in Telephone Set
- MCQ in Signaling
- MCQ in Transmission Considerations in long distance network
- MCQ in Insertion Loss
- MCQ in VF Repeaters
- MCQ in Traffic Calculations
- MCQ in Reference Equivalent and Standards
- MCQ in Telephone Networks
- MCQ in Billing
- MCQ in Network Hierarchy and Class type
- MCQ in Connection and Performance of Wire and Wireless Communications
Continue Practice Exam Test Questions Part 7 of the Series
301. The output power of a cellular radio is controlled by the
A. user or caller
B. cell site
C. called party
D. MTSO
Answer: Option D
Solution:
302. EDGE channel size is about
A. 250 kHz
B. 200 kHz
C. 150 kHz
D. 100 kHz
Answer: Option B
Solution:
303. A switching facility connecting cellular telephone base stations to each other and to the public switched telephone network.
A. MTSO
B. MSC
C. VLR
D. AuC
Answer: Option B
Solution:
304. A radio land station in the land mobile service
A. land station
B. ship earth station
C. base station
D. mobile station
Answer: Option C
Solution:
305. Transmission of brief text messages, such as pages or e-mail, by cellular radio or PCS.
A. SMS
B. MMS
C. paging
D. raking
Answer: Option A
Solution:
306. The point when the cell reaches maximum capacity occurs when the number of subscribers wishing to place a call at any given time equals the number of channels in the cell
A. saturation
B. blocking traffic
C. maximum traffic load
D. any of these
Answer: Option C
Solution:
307. In IS-41 standard, it is a process where the mobile unit notifies a serving MTSO of its presence and location through a base station controller.
A. dependent registration
B. autonomous registration
C. air interface
D. BTS to BSC interface
Answer: Option B
Solution:
308. Cellular telephones use which operation?
A. simplex
B. half-duplex
C. full-duplex
D. triplex
Answer: Option C
Solution:
309. A receiver capable of receiving several versions of the same signal with different arrival times and combining the received versions into a single signal with better quality
A. scanners
B. rake receivers
C. mobile subscriber unit
D. mobile stations
Answer: Option B
Solution:
310. In CMTS, the most important database for GSM is ____.
A. VLR
B. HLR
C. BTS
D. AUC
Answer: Option B
Solution:
311. In CMTS, the number of duplex voice channels for AMPS is ____.
A. 676
B. 285
C. 395
D. 790
Answer: Option C
Solution:
312. A geographic cellular radio coverage area containing three of more group of cells
A. cluster
B. cell
C. radio channel
D. MSC/VLR area
Answer: Option A
Solution:
313. A flawless cell-to-cell transfer is called ____.
A. hard handoff
B. soft handoff
C. heavy handoff
D. light handoff
Answer: Option B
Solution:
314. The bit length of System Identification (SID)
A. 32
B. 15
C. 10
D. 8
Answer: Option B
Solution:
315. The RF power output of a transmitter in a cellular mobile telephone system authorized by NTC for use in the Philippines.
A. 20.5 dBm
B. 31.5 dBm
C. 34.8 dBm
D. 22.1 dBm
Answer: Option D
Solution:
316. A class III mobile phone using AMPS has an ERP of
A. 4 W
B. 1.6 W
C. 600 mW
D. 1.4 W
Answer: Option C
Solution:
317. ____ is measuring the propagated field strength over the projected service area.
A. radio monitoring
B. radio sounding
C. radio survey
D. none of these
Answer: Option C
Solution:
318. Transmission of data in two directions on a channel by using different time slots for each directions.
A. time-division multiplexing
B. time-division multiple access
C. time-division duplexing
D. time-division
Answer: Option C
Solution:
319. When the cluster size is reduced with a constant cell size, what happens to the total channel capacity?
A. decreases
B. increases
C. stays constant
D. depends on the number of cell cites
Answer: Option B
Solution:
320. The transfer of a mobile unit from one base station’s control to another base station’s control
A. handoff
B. paging
C. roaming
D. dualization
Answer: Option A
Solution:
321. What is the frequency deviation of AMPS?
A. 12 kHz
B. 6 kHz
C. 3 kHz
D. 18 kHz
Answer: Option A
Solution:
322. The bit length of Digital Color Code (DCC)
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Answer: Option A
Solution:
323. A transmit channel has a frequency of 837.6 MHz. The receive channel frequency is
A. 729.6 MHz
B. 837.6 MHz
C. 867.6 MHz
D. 882.6 MHz
Answer: Option D
Solution:
324. A frequency-hopping spread-spectrum system hops to each of 100 frequencies every 10 seconds. How long does it spread on each frequency?
A. 0.2 sec/hop
B. 0.4 sec/hop
C. 0.3 sec/hop
D. 0.1 sec/hop
Answer: Option D
Solution:
325. What is the transmission rate of a GSM cellular system?
A. 128 kbps
B. 240 kbps
C. 64 kbps
D. 270 kbps
Answer: Option D
Solution:
326. A card with an embedded integrated circuit that can be used for functions such as storing subscriber information for a PCS system.
A. smart card
B. SIM
C. Intelligent card
D. Credit card
Answer: Option A
Solution:
327. It is a means of avoiding full-cell splitting where the entire area would otherwise need to be segmented into smaller cells.
A. segmentations
B. dualization
C. sectoring
D. splitting
Answer: Option B
Solution:
328. A channel used for transferring control and diagnostic information between mobile users and a central cellular telephone switch through the base stations.
A. forward channel
B. voice channel
C. control channel
D. reverse channel
Answer: Option C
Solution:
329. It is the provision of voice communication using internet protocol technology, instead of traditional circuit switched technology.
A. WAP
B. GPRS
C. VOIP
D. WIFI
Answer: Option C
Solution:
330. Determine the total number of channel capacity of a cellular telephone area comprised of 10 clusters with seven cells in each cluster and 10 channels in each cell.
A. 7 channels
B. 70 channels
C. 700 channels
D. 7000 channels
Answer: Option C
Solution:
331. Technique used in spread spectrum that adds a high-bit rate pseudorandom code to a low bit rate information signal to generate a high-bit rate pseudorandom signal closely resembling noise that contains both the original data signal and pseudorandom noise.
A. direct-sequence
B. frequency-division multiplexing
C. frequency hopping
D. CDMA
Answer: Option A
Solution:
332. Refers to the first generation of local loop system in telecommunication technology
A. TACS
B. DECT
C. Analog cellular
D. GSM
Answer: Option C
Solution:
333. An information sent by the base station in a cellular radio system set the power level of the mobile transmitter.
A. cellular digital packet data
B. digital color code
C. control mobile attenuation code
D. electronic serial code
Answer: Option C
Solution:
334. A 32-bit binary code permanently assigned to each of the mobile unit
A. supervisory audio tone
B. station class mark
C. electronic serial number
D. visitor location register
Answer: Option C
Solution:
335. It serves as central control for all users within that cell
A. base stations
B. antennas
C. transceivers
D. mobile subscriber units
Answer: Option A
Solution:
336. What modulation technique is used by Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)
A. WBFM
B. VSB
C. NBFM
D. FSK
Answer: Option C
Solution:
337. A database in the PCS network that stores information about subscribers in a particular MTSO serving area
A. international mobile subscriber identification
B. visitor location register
C. home location register
D. authentication register
Answer: Option B
Solution:
338. In cellular phone, a memory location that stores the telephone number(s) to be used on the system.
A. EPROM
B. UVPROM
C. EEPROM
D. NAM
Answer: Option D
Solution:
339. A province in the Philippines has an area 2000 sq. kms. It has to be covered by a cellular mobile telephone service using cells with a radius of 3 kms. Assuming hexagonal cells, find the number of cell sites needed.
A. 100
B. 500
C. 166
D. 145
Answer: Option D
Solution:
340. The modulation technique used by GSM cellular system.
A. QAM
B. Phase Shift Keying
C. Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
D. Frequency Shift Keying
Answer: Option C
Solution:
341. Microcells have base stations transmit power between ____.
A. 0.4 W to 0.7 W
B. 1 W to 6 W
C. 0.5 W to 8 W
D. 0.1 W to 1 W
Answer: Option D
Solution:
342. Determine the receive carrier frequencies for AMPS channel 3 and channel 991
A. 870.09 MHz and 869.04 MHz
B. 879.09 MHz and 859.04 MHz
C. 869.09 MHz and 870.04 MHz
D. 869.04 MHz and 870.09 MHz
Answer: Option A
Solution:
343. Decreasing co-channel interference while increasing capacity by using directional antenna is called ____.
A. clustering
B. splitting
C. partitioning
D. sectoring
Answer: Option D
Solution:
344. Soft handoff normally takes ____ of time delay.
A. 400 ms
B. 300 ms
C. 200 ms
D. 100 ms
Answer: Option C
Solution:
345. Component of a cellular telephone network that manages each of the radio channels at each site.
A. base station controllers
B. base transceiver stations
C. mobile switching center
D. mobile telephone switching center
Answer: Option A
Solution:
346. The bit length of Station Class Mark (SCM).
A. 4
B. 5
C. 8
D. 10
Answer: Option A
Solution:
347. The master control center for a cellular telephone system is the
A. Cell site
B. MTSO
C. Central office
D. Branch office
Answer: Option B
Solution:
348. The maximum frequency deviation of an FM cellular transmitter is
A. 6 kHz
B. 12 kHz
C. 30 kHz
D. 45 kHz
Answer: Option B
Solution:
349. A receiver channel has a frequency is 872.4 MHz. to develop an 82.2 MHz IF, the frequency synthesizer must apply an local oscillator signal of ____ (The local oscillator is usually higher than the receive frequency)
A. 790.2 MHz
B. 827.4 MHz
C. 954.6 MHz
D. 967.4 MHz
Answer: Option C
Solution:
350. A class I mobile phone using AMPS has an ERP of
A. 6 dBW
B. 2 dBW
C. -2 dBW
D. -6 dBW
Answer: Option A
Solution:
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