Progression: Field Tech IV – V Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
Baseband signaling ✔✔is predominant in Ethernet networks.
two ways we can use a flow of energy to carry data ✔✔Analog and digital
Simplex ✔✔A signal may
...
Progression: Field Tech IV – V Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
Baseband signaling ✔✔is predominant in Ethernet networks.
two ways we can use a flow of energy to carry data ✔✔Analog and digital
Simplex ✔✔A signal may flow in only one direction. A commercial radio station uses simplex
communication, because listeners cannot transmit radio signals back to the station.
Half-duplex ✔✔Signals may flow in either direction, but not simultaneously. For example, a
two-way radio allows only one user to speak at any one time.
Full-duplex ✔✔Signals may flow in both directions simultaneously. A telephone is the best
example of full-duplex communication. One wire brings a signal from the telephone company to
your home, and a second wire carries a separate signal from your home back to the telephone
company. Thus, you can both hear and speak simultaneously.
Synchronous ✔✔The communicating parties or endpoints use time to organize communication.
In a data network, two communicating computers use each clock "tick" to detect whether a
digital bit is a 1 or 0. For example, as each time interval passes, a computer checks the network
cable to see whether the voltage is high (binary 1) or low (binary 0). Because the timing
determines the meaning of the signal, it is essential that the endpoints are synchronized to the
same clock before sending signals.
Asynchronous ✔✔Bits are not transmitted on any strict timetable. For example, a computer
modem typically uses 8 bits to represent one character or letter. To indicate the start of each
character, the sending modem transmits a "start" bit to alert the receiving end to the incoming
signal. After the final bit of the eighth character is transmitted, the sending modem transmits a
"stop" bit to indicate the end of the character. This process is repeated for each character the
modem transmits. Thus, the receiving modem must stay synchronized to the signal only for the
length of time it takes to transmit 8 bits. If the sending and receiving clocks are slightly out of
synchronization, these short data transfers will still be successful.
Which of the following is most typical of a broadband network? ✔✔Multiple analog channels
Data bus size ✔✔The size of the bus refers to the number of data bits a CPU can work on in a
single instruction.
Clock speed ✔✔The clock speed indicates how many instructions per second the processor can
execute. Each "tick" of the clock is called a cycle, thus clock speed is measured in cycles per
second. A single cycle per second is called 1 hertz (Hz), 1,000 Hz is 1 kilohertz (kHz), 1 million
Hz is 1 megahertz (MHz), and 1 billion Hz is 1 gigahertz (GHz). A CPU that runs at 400,000,000
cycles per second is a 400- MHz processor.
storage ✔✔used to describe media that hold data for longer periods, even when the power goes
off.
What components are common to all computer syste
[Show More]