Blake: MCQs in Fiber-Optic Systems

This is the Multiple Choice Questions in Chapter 25: Fiber-Optic Systems from the book Electronic Communication Systems by Roy Blake. If you are looking for a reviewer in Communications Engineering this will definitely help. I can assure you that this will be a great help in reviewing the book in preparation for your Board Exam. Make sure to familiarize each and every questions to increase the chance of passing the ECE Board Exam.

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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. FDDI stands for:

• a. Fiber Digital Data Interface
• b. Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• c. Fiber Distribution Delay Interface
• d. Frequency-Division Data Interface

ANS: B

2. FITL stands for:

• a. Fiber In The Loop
• b. Fiber Input Timing Loss
• c. Frequency Input to The Loop
• d. Fiber Input Timing Loop

ANS: A

3. FTTC stands for:

• a. Fiber Transmission Timing Constraint
• b. Fiber Transmission Technology Committee
• c. Fiber Telephone Transmission Cable
• d. Fiber To The Curb

ANS: D

4. SONET stands for:

• a. Simple Optical Network
• b. Standard Optical Network
• c. Synchronous Optical Network
• d. none of the above

ANS: C

5. DWDM stands for:

• a. Digital Wavelength-Division Modulation
• b. Dense Wavelength-Division Modulation
• c. Double Wavelength-Division Modulation
• d. Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing

ANS: D

6. A Soliton is a:

• a. defect in the glass
• b. type of particle
• c. type of pulse
• d. type of optical network

ANS: C

7. Adding bits to synchronize one digital signal to another is called:

• a. bit stuffing
• b. bit-synch
• c. SDH
• d. WDM

ANS: A

8. Power above the minimum required by an optical receiver is called:

• a. gain margin
• b. system margin
• c. excess gain
• d. overdrive

ANS: B

9. Typically, repeaters are not required for fiber-optic cable lengths up to:

• a. 1000 miles
• b. 100 miles
• c. 100 km
• d. 10 km

ANS: C

10. In SONET, OC-1 stands for:

• a. Optical Carrier level one
• b. Optical Coupler unidirectional
• c. Optical Channel one
• d. Optical Cable type 1

ANS: A

11. In SONET, STS stands for:

• a. Synchronous Transport Signal
• b. Synchronous Transport System
• c. Synchronous Transmission Signal
• d. Synchronous Transmission System

ANS: A

12. A commonly used fiber-based system for LANs is:

• a. FDDI
• b. high-speed Ethernet
• c. gigabit Ethernet
• d. all of the above

ANS: D

13. The use of solitons on fiber-optic cables is:

• a. common
• b. experimental
• c. obsolete
• d. not possible

ANS: B

14. OTDR stands for:

• a. Optical Time-Delay Response
• b. Optical Timing Delay Requirement
• c. Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer
• d. Optical Time-Division Relay

ANS: C

15. Using fiber-optic cable in a telephone system except for the connection to the subscriber's phone is called:

• a. FDDI
• b. FTTC
• c. FITL
• d. SONET

ANS: B

COMPLETION

1. FTTC stands for Fiber To The ____________________.

ANS: Curb

2. FITL stands for Fiber In The ____________________.

ANS: Loop

3. SDH stands for Synchronous Data ____________________.

ANS: Hierarchy

4. WDM stands for ____________________-division multiplexing.

ANS: Wavelength

5. SONET stands for ____________________ Optical Network.

ANS: Synchronous

6. FDDI stands for Fiber ____________________ Data Interface.

ANS: Distributed

7. Optical amplifiers use ____________________-doped glass.

ANS: erbium

8. Optical amplifiers use a ____________________ laser.

ANS: pump

9. Dense ____________________ allows many different wavelengths of light to share a cable.

ANS: WDM

10. The OC-1 line rate is ____________________ Mbps.

ANS: 51.84

11. SONET does not use bit ____________________ to synchronize two digital signals.

ANS: stuffing

12. SONET uses a ____________________ to denote the starting position of an information frame.

ANS: pointer

13. FDDI systems use two ____________________ rings to carry signals.

ANS: token

14. The two rings of an FDDI system carry data in ____________________ directions.

ANS: opposite

15. Each ____________________ in an FDDI system acts as a regenerative repeater.

ANS: node

16. FDDI uses ____________________ mode cables.

ANS: multi

17. The data rate of an FDDI system is ____________________ bps.

ANS: 100 M

18. SONET frames have considerably more ____________________ than do DS frames for information about signal routing and setup.

ANS: overhead

19. The number of bytes in a SONET frame is ____________________.

ANS: 810

20. The number of bytes in the payload of a SONET frame is ____________________.

ANS: 774

21. The number of rows in a SONET frame is ____________________.

ANS: 9

22. The total number of overhead bytes in a SONET frame row is ____________________.

ANS: 4

23. The number of path overhead bytes in a SONET frame row is ____________________.

ANS: 1

24. SONET frame rows contain path overhead and ____________________ overhead.

ANS: transport

25. In SONET, SPE stands for synchronous payload ____________________.

ANS: envelope

SHORT ANSWER

1. What is the bandwidth of a first-order LPF with a rise time of 350 nanoseconds?

ANS:

1 MHz

2. Calculate the total rise time for a fiber-optic system if the transmitter, receiver, and cable each have a rise time of 50 nanoseconds.

ANS:

86.6 nanoseconds

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