Title: OLD Data Communications Overview
Course: Module 1, Concepts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Q: Which of the following are not peripheral output devices?
- Plotter
- Printer
- Scanner
- Speakers
- Mouse
A: Scanner; Mouse

Q: Which of the following are not peripheral input devices?
- Scanner
- Multimedia overhead projector
- Microphone
- Webcam
A: Scanner; Multimedia overhead projector

Q: The name of a peripheral used to capture or record sound
- Microphone
- Printer
- Speakers
- Monitor
- PIR sensor
- CD-R
- RAM
- ROM
A: Microphone

Q: To use sound in a presentation you should:
- think carefully about why you are using the sound
- always download it from the Internet
- newver download it from the Internet
- always create it yourself
- always use midi files
- always use MP3 files
- always use WAV files
A: think carefully about why you are using the sound

Q: This is a set of ANSI parallel interfaces that allow personal computers to communicate with peripheral hardware.
- uPNP
- SCSI
- ISRC
- MTFB
- ASPI
A: SCSI

Q: This is Apple Computer's version of the high-performance serial bus used to connect devices to your personal computer.
- Fire Wire
- High-performance parallel interface
- Parallel sysplex
- Apple attachment unit interface
- iLINK
A: Fire Wire

Q: This is the designation for an electronics standard for connecting devices to your personal computer.
- Universal Serial Bus (USB)
- VersaModular Eurocard bus
- IEEE 1394
- Universal Plug and Play
- AT interface
A: IEEE 1394

Q: This is a high-bandwidth interface between a computer and a hard disk or a tape device. The latest version of this interface supports RAID.
- Intelligent peripheral interface
- Small Computer System interface
- RS-232C
- Centronics parallel interface
- Open data-link interface
A: Intelligent peripheral interface

Q: This is a term for technologies in which human neural activity or states would effectively be an input peripheral for a computer.
- Machine vision
- Wearable computer
- Artificial intelligence
- Brain-machine interface
- Biomimetic
A: Brain-machine interface

Q: This is an interconnection system between a microprocessor and attached devices in which expansion slots are spaced closely for high speed operation.
- Peripheral component interconnect
- Input/tput supervisor
- Jumper block
- 12C bus
- High-speed serial interface
A: Peripheral component interconnect

Q: On a PC, your printer is usually attached through a parallel interface and cable, but your keyboard and mouse are connected through this kind of interface.
- Single mode fibre
- TWAIN
- Intelligent peripheral interface
- Serial
- QWERTY
A: Serial

Q: This is the microchip with programming that controls a computer's interface to its attached serial devices.
- Virtual device driver
- Flip chip-pin grid array
- Serial presence detect
- Bus master
- Universal Asynchronous Receiver / Transmitter
A: Universal Asynchronous Receiver / Transmitter

Q: This is a plug-and-play interface that allows you to add a new device such as a scanner or printer to your computer without having to add an adapter card or even having to turn the computer off.
- Audio/Modem riser card
- Universal Serial Bus
- Hot fix
- Virtual device driver
- PCMCIA card
A: Universal Serial Bus

Q: Which of the following input/output devices require a parallel port?
- Scanner
- Joystick
- Microphone
- Speakers
A: Joystick

Q: Which of the following is an input device?
- Mouse
- Printer
- LCD Projector
- Monitor
A: Mouse

Q: This is a network device, usually at a telephone company central office, that receives signals from multiple customer DSL connections and puts the signals on a high-speed backbone line.
- MBone
- Repeater
- Hub
- DSLAM
A: DSLAM

Q: This is the leading method of signal modulation for DSL service in which the usable frequency range is separated into 256 frequency bands (or channels) of 4.3125KHz each.
- Pulse code modulation
- Discrete multitone
- Frequency-division multiplexing
- Signalling system 7
A: Discrete multitone

Q: This is the protocol used to "gather" DSL traffic from users and forward it to a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, which consolidates traffic across the backbone network.
- Forward DNS lookup
- Transmission Control Protocol
- Asynchronous transfer mode
- Accelerated Hub Architecture
A: Asynchronous transfer mode

Q: This form of DSL uses most of the channel to transmit downstream to the user and only a small part to receive information from the user.
- VoIP
- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
- ISDN
A: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

Q: A technology that puts data from different sources together on an optical fiber, with each signal carried on its own separate light wavelength is called...
- Dense wavelength division multiplexing
- Frequency-division multiplexing
- Data Space Transfer Protocol
- Helical scan
- Laser diode
A: Dense wavelength division multiplexing

Q: One popular protocol that collects your e-mail for you until you ask your ISP to send it to you is...
- Lynx
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- POP3
- FTP
- USB
A: POP3

Q: The standard reference model for the events that happen in getting a message from one end user to another in a network is called...
- Distributed Computing Environment
- Intelligent Network
- Signal Computing System Architecture
- Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
- TCP/IP
A: Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)

Q: Most telephone company long-distance lines are made
of...
- Twinaxial cable
- Optical fibre
- Silicon
- Shielded twisted pair
- Wave-tube
A: Optical fibre

Q: This takes the entire allocated frequency range for a given service and multiplexes information for all users across the spectrum range at the same time in order to optimize bandwidth.
- Dynamic multi-pathing
- Time division multiple access
- Single mode fibre
- Code-division multiple access
- Channel extender
A: Code-division multiple access

Q: Developed by International Telecommunication Union (ITU), ______ is a code-division multiple access (CDMA) version of the IMT-2000 standard.
- CDMA
- WCDMA
- CMYK
- CDMA2000
A: CDMA2000