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AS Computing Communication methods 3.9.1.1

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the primary purpose of communication?
a)
To send messages between senders and receivers
b)
To establish contact between senders and receivers
c)
To use technology
d)
To sell your mixtape
2.

What elements / participators would be needed for a successful communication of information?

a)

A Sender

b)

A Receiver

c)

An Observer

d)

A Communication Medium

3.

Which Communication method would send data simultaneously across several channels?

a)

Serial

b)

Parallel

c)

Trapezoid

d)

Rhombus

4.

Serial communication occurs as a series of individual communication 'packets', 'letters', 'words' or 'symbols'.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Serial communication requires a set of communication channels to work

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Select all of the Serial communication cables

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

Which of these is the main cause of issues for Parallel communication?

a)

synchronization

b)

installation

c)

cost

d)

Network traffic

8.

Asynchronous communication is when a sender sends an uninterrupted stream of data to a receiver.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Which Communication method is most practical for long distance, network communications?

a)

Serial

b)

Parallel

c)

Paper airplane

d)

Psychic Medium

10.

Which of these devices would use Parallel communication methods?

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

In asynchronous communication, There need be no timing relationship between successive characters (or bytes of data). Individual characters may be separated by any arbitrary idle period.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Without the use of Start and Stop bits, the sending and receiving systems will not know where one character ends and another begins

a)

True

b)

False

13.

What would a Baud rate be calculating?

a)

The number of bits transmitted over a communication channel

b)

The number of signal changes during communication

c)

The maximum amount of information that can be transmitted over a medium

d)

the minimum amount of information that can be transmitted over a medium

14.

1500 bps, at 8 bits per baud =

a)

12,000 bits per second

b)

85,000 bits per second

c)

80,400 bits per second

d)

9001 bits per second

15.

Which rate would reflect the actual bit rate you receive?

a)

Throughput

b)

Bandwidth

16.

Who is indisputably the most important person in The College: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives? (select all that apply)

a)

Dave

b)

Dave

c)

Dave

d)

Dave