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Computer Network Quiz

Total questions: 80

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of network is small in geographic size spanning a room, floor, building, or campus?

a)

Personal Area Network

b)

Local Area Network

c)

Wide Area Network

d)

Metropolitan Area Network

2.

What large network that encompasses parts of states, multiple states, countries, and the world?

a)

Metropolitan Area Network

b)

Local Area Network

c)

Personal Area Network

d)

Wide Area Network

3.

What network that transmits voice and computer data?

a)

Computer network

b)

Voice network

c)

Data network

d)

Data communications

4.

What process involves the design, installation, and support of a network, including its hardware and software?

a)

Computer network

b)

Network management

c)

Data communications

d)

Telecommunications

5.

Which of the following computer network layout that is popular with home users and small businesses?

a)

Personal area network-to-workstation

b)

Local area network-to-wide area network

c)

Local area network-to-metropolitan area network

d)

Microcomputer-to-Internet

6.

Which of the following computer network layout that interconnects wireless devices such as PDAs, laptops and notebooks, and music playback device?

a)

Microcomputer-to-Internet

b)

Personal area network-to-workstation

c)

Sensor-to-local area network

d)

Microcomputer-to-local area network

7.

Which of the following computer network layout is typically long-distance wireless connection?

a)

Sensor-to-local area network

b)

Cell phones

c)

Satellite and microwave

d)

Wide area network-to-wide area network

8.

Which of the following that exists in the computer hardware?

a)

Logical Connection

b)

Physical Connection

c)

Network Layout

d)

Network Architecture

9.

Which of the following performs a series of miscellaneous functions necessary for presenting the data package properly to the sender or receiver?

a)

Physical layer

b)

Application layer

c)

Network layer

d)

Transport layer

10.

Which of the following handles the transmission of bits over a communications channel?

a)

Network layer

b)

Physical layer

c)

Presentation layer

d)

Application layer

11.

What is the interconnection of computers and computing equipment using either wires or radio waves over the small or large geographic area?

a)

Wide Area Network

b)

Metropolitan Area Network

c)

Computer network

d)

Local Area Network

12.

What network that serves an area of 1 to 30 miles, approximately the size of a typical city?

a)

Wide Area Network

b)

Personal Area Network

c)

Local Area Network

d)

Metropolitan Area Network

13.

What network of a few meters, between wireless devices such as PDAs, laptops, and similar devices?

a)

Metropolitan Area Network

b)

Local Area Network

c)

Personal Area Network

d)

Wide Area Network

14.

What network that transmits telephone signal only?

a)

Data network

b)

Voice network

c)

Computer network

d)

Data communications

15.

What is the transfer of signal that is either digital or analog?

a)

Telecommunications

b)

Data network

c)

Voice network

d)

Data communications

16.

What network that contains software, applications, and/or data?

a)

Network management

b)

Computer network

c)

Telecommunications

d)

Network cloud

17.

Which of the following computer network layout is found in systems that have two or more LANs and a need for them to intercommunicate?

a)

Local area network-to-metropolitan area network

b)

Local area network-to-local area network

c)

Microcomputer-to-local area network

d)

Local area network-to-wide area network

18.

Which of the following computer network layout is used to interconnect companies to networks that encompass a city?

a)

Local area network-to-wide area network

b)

Microcomputer-to-local area network

c)

Local area network-to-local area network

d)

Local area network-to-metropolitan area network

19.

What is the study of transmitting telephone signals?

a)

Voice network

b)

Data network

c)

Data communications

d)

Telecommunications

20.

Which of the following computer network layout is highly common throughout the business and the academic environment?

a)

Personal area network-to-workstation

b)

Local area network-to-local area network

c)

Microcomputer-to-Internet

d)

Microcomputer-to-local area network

21.

What are entities that convey meaning?

a)

Analog

b)

Signals

c)

Data

d)

Digital

22.

What is the electric or electromagnetic encoding of data?

a)

Data

b)

Signals

c)

Analog

d)

Digital

23.

What is the continuous waveform?

a)

Signals

b)

Digital

c)

Analog

d)

Data

24.

What is the discrete or non-continuous waveform?

a)

Data

b)

Signals

c)

Analog

d)

Digital

25.

What are the set of all textual characters or symbols and their corresponding binary patterns?

a)

Data Plan

b)

Data Signal

c)

Data Loss

d)

Data Codes

26.

What is the number of times a signal makes a complete cycle within a given time frame?

a)

Modulation

b)

Spectrum

c)

Frequency

d)

Bandwidth

27.

What is the range of frequencies that is a signal spans from minimum to maximum?

a)

Bandwidth

b)

Frequency

c)

Modulation

d)

Spectrum

28.

What is the unit of Frequency?

a)

Mz

b)

Dz

c)

Kz

d)

Hz

29.

What is the analog waveform that is tracked, using a binary 1 to represent a rise in voltage, and a 0 to represent a drop?

a)

Pulse Code Modulation

b)

Bipolar-AMI

c)

Delta modulation

d)

Manchester code

30.

What is the absolute value of the difference between the lowest and highest frequencies of a signal?

a)

Bandwidth

b)

Modulation

c)

Spectrum

d)

Frequency

31.

What is the position of the waveform relative to a given moment of time or relative to time zero?

a)

Phase

b)

Attenuation

c)

Data Codes

d)

Decibel

32.

What is the analog waveform is sampled at specific intervals and the “snapshots” are converted to binary values?

a)

Bipolar-AMI

b)

Delta modulation

c)

Manchester code

d)

Pulse Code Modulation

33.

What is the method that transmits 1s as zero voltages and 0s as positive voltages?

a)

NRZ-K

b)

NRZ-Z

c)

NRZ-I

d)

NRZ-L

34.

What is the method that has a voltage change at the beginning of a 1 and no voltage change at the beginning of a 0?

a)

NRZ-K

b)

NRZ-L

c)

NRZ-I

d)

NRZ-Z

35.

What is the method that every bit has at least one significant change?

a)

Pulse code modulation

b)

Manchester code

c)

Bipolar-AMI

d)

Delta modulation

36.

What is the encoding scheme that is unique among all the encoding schemes because it uses three voltage levels?

a)

Bipolar-AMI

b)

Manchester code

c)

Pulse code modulation

d)

Delta modulation

37.

What is the encoding scheme that converts four bits of data into five-bit quantities?

a)

1B/2B Digital

b)

4B/5B Digital

c)

3B/4B Digital

d)

2B/3B Digital

38.

What is the method that encodes a 0 while another amplitude encodes a 1?

a)

FSK

b)

ASK

c)

MSK

d)

PSK

39.

What is the method that encodes a 0 while another frequency encodes a 1?

a)

ASK

b)

FSK

c)

PSK

d)

MSK

40.

What is the method that change encodes a 0 while another phase change encodes a 1?

a)

PSK

b)

FSK

c)

ASK

d)

MSK

41.

What is type of wire that has one or more pairs of single conductor wires that have been twisted around each other?

a)

twisted pair

b)

twisting pair

c)

twister paired

d)

twisted pairing

42.

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Twisted Pair cable?

a)

relatively inexpensive

b)

immune to electromagnetic noise

c)

comes in shielded and unshielded forms

d)

easy to install

43.

What is the purpose of twisting the wire in twisted pair cable?

a)

it can be easily wire-tapped

b)

eliminate electromagnetic interference

c)

to increase data-carrying capacity

d)

none of these

44.

Which of the following is NOT an obsolete category of twisted pair cable?

a)

category 1

b)

category 2

c)

category 3

d)

category 4

45.

What is a single wire wrapped in foam insulation surrounded by a braided metal shield, then covered in a plastic jacket?

a)

coaxial cable

b)

twisted pair cable

c)

fiber-optic cable

d)

firewire cable

46.

What cable technology that uses digital signaling in which the cable carries only one channel of digital data?

a)

baseband twisted pair

b)

broadband twisted pair

c)

baseband coaxial

d)

broadband coaxial

47.

What is the first popular cell phone service; used analog signals and dynamically assigned channels in Cellular Telephone 1st Generation technology?

a)

RAMPS

b)

D-RAMPS

c)

AMPS

d)

D-AMPS

48.

What type of cable that uses thin glass cable approximately a little thicker than a human hair surrounded by a plastic coating and packaged into an insulated cable?

a)

twisted pair cable

b)

fiber-optic cable

c)

coaxial cable

d)

fire wire cable

49.

What cable technology transmits analog signals and is capable of supporting multiple channels?

a)

baseband twisted pair

b)

broadband twisted pair

c)

baseband coaxial

d)

broadband coaxial

50.

What is the wireless technology that is Land-based and line-of-sight transmission?

a)

Ultra-Wideband Transmission

b)

Satellite Microwave Transmission

c)

Terrestrial Microwave Transmission

d)

Wireless Local Area Network

51.

What is the wireless technology that use a focused ray of light?

a)

WiMax

b)

ZigBee

c)

Bluetooth

d)

infrared

52.

Which of the following is 2nd Generation Cellular Telephone technology?

a)

RDMA

b)

HDMA

c)

GSM

d)

CDMA

53.

Which of the following is NOT a 3rd Generation Cellular Telephone technology?

a)

UMTS

b)

GPRS

c)

1XEV

d)

GPS

54.

What is the broadband wireless system that delivers Internet services into homes, businesses, and mobile devices and designed to bypass the local loop telephone line?

a)

WiMax

b)

Ultra-Wideband

c)

Wireless Local Area Network

d)

broadband coaxial

55.

Which of the following is NOT a 4th Generation Cellular Telephone technology?

a)

LTE

b)

WiMax

c)

HSPA-

d)

HSPA+

56.

What is the wireless technology that travels from a ground station on earth to a satellite and back to another ground station?

a)

Ultra-Wideband Transmission

b)

Satellite Microwave Transmission

c)

Terrestrial Microwave Transmission

d)

Wireless Local Area Network

57.

Which of the following is NOT a 2.5 Generation Cellular Telephone technology?

a)

GPRS

b)

CDMA200

c)

IDEN

d)

4G

58.

What is the wireless technology that for short-range, point-to-point or point-to-multipoint voice and data transfer?

a)

WiMax

b)

ZigBee

c)

Bluetooth

d)

infrared

59.

Which of the following is NOT Classification of Satellite Microwave Transmission?

a)

LEO

b)

GEO

c)

MEO

d)

DEO

60.

What is the applied digital multiplexing techniques on top of AMPS analog channels in Cellular Telephone 1st Generation technology?

a)

RAMPS

b)

D-RAMPS

c)

AMPS

d)

D-AMPS

61.

Which of the following is NOT the Interface Standard Characteristics components?

a)

electronic component

b)

procedural component

c)

mechanical component

d)

functional component

62.

What is the process of providing all the proper interconnections between a computer and a peripheral?

a)

protocol

b)

interfacing

c)

interface

d)

de facto standards

63.

What is the Interface Standard which more powerful than EIA-232F?

a)

EIA-232G

b)

DB25 and DB9

c)

USB

d)

RS-232

64.

What is the Interface Standard originally designed to connect a modem to a computer?

a)

EIA-232E

b)

EIA-232D

c)

EIA-232F

d)

EIA-232C

65.

Which of the following is NOT Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment?

a)

switch

b)

network interface card

c)

modem

d)

hub

66.

Which of the following is not a Standart-Making Organization?

a)

IEEE

b)

EIO

c)

ANSI

d)

ITU

67.

What is the connection that connection transmits data in both directions but in only one direction at a time?

a)

complex

b)

half-duplex

c)

full-duplex

d)

simplex-duplex

68.

Which of the following is NOT Data Terminating Equipment?

a)

tablet PC

b)

multiplexer

c)

3G cellular phone

d)

desktop computer

69.

What is the transfer rate of USB 1.0?

a)

12 Mbps

b)

150 Kbps

c)

128 Mbps

d)

800 Kbps

70.

What is the connection that transmits data in both directions and at the same time?

a)

simplex-duplex

b)

full-duplex

c)

complex

d)

half-duplex

71.

What is the transfer rate of USB 3.0?

a)

4.8 Gbps

b)

800 Mbps

c)

1.2 Gbps

d)

4.7 Gbps

72.

What is the connection that transmits data in only one direction?

a)

half-duplex

b)

complex

c)

full-duplex

d)

simplex-duplex

73.

What is the digital interface dedicated for Apple products?

a)

Thunderbird

b)

Thunderwire

c)

Thunderbolt

d)

Thunderport

74.

What is the transfer rate of USB 2.0?

a)

480 Mbps

b)

4.8 Gbps

c)

470 Mbps

d)

4.7 Gbps

75.

What is the technique for interfacing disk storage to a computer via the Internet?

a)

iSCSI

b)

PATA

c)

SCSI

d)

SATA

76.

What is the transfer rate of FireWire?

a)

1.2 Gbps

b)

4.7 Gbps

c)

800 Mbps

d)

4.8 Gbps

77.

What is the high-speed network that connects a computer to multiple input/output devices?

a)

Synchronous Connections

b)

InfiniBand

c)

Fibre Channel

d)

Asynchronous Connections

78.

What is the technique for interfacing a computer to high-speed devices such as hard disk drives, tape drives, CDs, and DVDs?

a)

PATA

b)

iSCSI

c)

SATA

d)

SCSI

79.

What is the type of connection that creates a large frame that consists of header and trailer flags, control information, optional address information, error detection code, and data?

a)

Asynchronous Connections

b)

Synchronous Connections

c)

Isochronous Connection

d)

Fibre Channel

80.

What is the serial connection or bus that can carry multiple channels of data at the same time?

a)

Synchronous Connections

b)

Fibre Channel

c)

InfiniBand

d)

Asynchronous Connections