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  • Computers cannot communicate with each other directly over telephone lines because they use digital pulses whereas telephone lines use analog sound frequencies. What is the name of the device which permits digital to analog conversion at the start of a long distance transmission?


  • Options
  • A. Interface
  • B. Modem
  • C. Attenuation
  • D. Teleprocessor
  • E. None of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • Modem 


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    • 1. Which of the following technique is used for encapsulation?

    • Options
    • A. a technique used in best-effort delivery systems to avoid endlessly looping packets.
    • B. a technique used by protocols in which a lower level protocol accepts a message from a higher level protocol and places it in the data portion of the low level frame.
    • C. One of the pieces that results when an IP gateway divides an IP datagram into smaller pieces for transmission across a network that cannot handle the original datagram size
    • D. All of the above
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 2. The cheapest modems can transmit

    • Options
    • A. 300 bits per second
    • B. 1,200 bits per second
    • C. 2,400 bits per second
    • D. 4,800 bits per second
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 3. Four routers have to be interconnected in a point-to-point Network. Each pair of root us may connected by a high-speed line, a medium speed line or a low speed line. Find the total number of topologies.

    • Options
    • A. 12
    • B. 81
    • C. 48
    • D. 729
    • Discuss
    • 4. Which network topology is considered passive?

    • Options
    • A. Cross
    • B. Ring
    • C. Star
    • D. Mesh
    • E. Bus
    • Discuss
    • 5. The receive equalizer reduces delay distortions using a

    • Options
    • A. tapped delay lines
    • B. gearshift
    • C. descrambler
    • D. difference engine
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 6. A central computer surrounded by one or more satellite computers is called a

    • Options
    • A. bus network
    • B. ring network
    • C. star network
    • D. All of the above
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 7. Which of the following summation operations is performed on the bits to check an error-detecting code?

    • Options
    • A. Codec
    • B. Coder-decoder
    • C. Checksum
    • D. Attenuation
    • Discuss
    • 8. Demodulation is a process of

    • Options
    • A. converting analog to digital signals
    • B. converting digital to analog signals
    • C. multiplexing various signals into one high speed line signals
    • D. performing data description.
    • Discuss
    • 9. Error detection at a data link level is achieved by

    • Options
    • A. bit stuffing
    • B. cyclic redundancy codes
    • C. Hamming codes
    • D. equalization
    • Discuss
    • 10. Transmission of computerised data from one location to another is called

    • Options
    • A. data transfer
    • B. data flow
    • C. data communication
    • D. data management
    • E. None of the above
    • Discuss


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