M2 B1 Flashcards

1
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Which of the following is not a function of the sections within the career field training plan (CFETP) part I?

A

Identifies the specialty training standard (STS)

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2
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Which of the following is not a requirement for upgrade to 3D153?

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Obtaining flight chief approval for the award of Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) 3D153

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3
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Which 3D career field installs, supports, and maintains servers or other computer systems and responds to service outages and interruptions to network operations?

A

Cyber Systems Operations (3D0X2)

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Which 3D career field deploys, sustains, troubleshoots and repairs voice, data and video network infrastructure systems, Internet protocol (IP) detection systems and cryptographic equipment?

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Cyber Transport Systems (3D1X2)

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5
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What outlines mandatory training items that supervisors use to prepare job safety training guides (JSTG)?

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Job safety training outline (JSTO)

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6
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Which AF Form is used to report hazardous conditions that place Air Force personnel or property at risk?

A

457

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7
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Which hazard is caused by heavy workloads, lack of control over the pace of work, shift work, noise, working by yourself, and conflict with coworkers and employers?

A

Stress

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8
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Which Air Force program provides a means of reporting hazards that involve flight, ground, weapons, or space safety?

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Hazard reporting program

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9
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To prevent manual handling hazards, utilize team lifting when lifting items that weigh more than how many pounds?

A

25

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10
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The minimum milliamperes (mA) of current that result in cardiac arrest and can cause death is

A

50 mA

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11
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Within how many hours must a medical exam be conducted if non-ionizing radiation overexposure occurs?

A

72

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12
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Which technical order (TO) publication series covers standard Air Force installation practices?

A

TO 31–10 series

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13
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Which section of a horizontal cable duct is used for signal and control cables?

A

Upper

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14
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Why should the number of splices be controlled during fiber optic installation?

A

Minimize transmission loss

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15
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How are connectorized cables labeled?

A

The first label is placed within 12 inches of the connector and marked “TO”, and the second is
placed within two (2) inches of the first label and marked “FROM”

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16
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Which type of label will have machine printed markings of indelible ink?

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Adhesive

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17
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Who determines if local checklists and/or work cards are required for equipment?

A

Flight commander/chief

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18
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What are the three main functions of grounding?

A

Personnel safety, equipment protection, and noise reduction

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19
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The facility ground subsystem to uses surge arrestors is the

A

Lightning protection

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20
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What is the establishment of a low-impedance path between two metal surfaces?

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Bonding

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21
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The RED designation is used for equipment processing

A

clear-text classified information

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22
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Which electronic discharge sensitive (ESD) class has a sensitivity range from 0 – 999 volts?

A

Class I

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23
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Which of these activities would generate the most electrostatic voltage?

A

Walking across carpet

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24
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Which distinct region of the electromagnetic pulse is produced by the interactions between the weapon products and the earth’s atmosphere?

A

Source

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25
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What source region electromagnetic pulse region has a primarily vertical electromagnetic pulse electric field and what structures are affected?

A

Radiated; antennas and bore site feedhorns

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26
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Which of the following statements is true concerning shielding?

A

Sensitive equipment will be located within the shielded barrier

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27
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Little or no variations in the strength of the interfering signal when moving the receiving antenna for short distance normally indicates

A

enemy jamming

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28
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What type of equipment often generates many spurious emissions?

A

Rapid tuning transmitter.

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29
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What man-made noise results from voltage surges, arcing, or corona discharges?

A

Power line.

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30
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Who is tasked to provide interference resolution support to the unified commanders?

A

Joint Spectrum Center.

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31
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Who is the focal point for emission security (EMSEC) matters at an installation?

A

Wing information assurance office (WIAO).

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32
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What plays a major role in a conductor’s ability to minimizing compromising emanations?

A

Distances and angles

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33
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What secondary cell is prone to the memory effect?

A

Nickel cadmium

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34
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What power line fault category is symptomatic of a short term decrease in voltage levels?

A

Sag

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35
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What power line fault category is symptomatic of a total loss of utility power?

A

Blackout

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36
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What power line fault category is more typically referred to as electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI)?

A

Noise

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37
Q

What type of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) has traditionally been referred to as “offline” by technicians?

A

Passive standby

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38
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What type of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) uses a transformer or inductor between the utility power source and the load to correct or filter some variations in input power?

A

Line interactive

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39
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How many phases of generator power are usually required for industrial and commercial applications?

A

Three

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40
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What are the three general categories used to produce modulation in radio frequency (RF) transmission today?

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Amplitude, frequency, and phase

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41
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When the modulating signal and carrier signal are combined within a modulator, the output signal contains

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carrier, upper sideband, and lower sideband

42
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What factor determines the spacing of the sidebands in an amplitude modulated signal? a. Amplitude of the modulating signal

A

Frequency of the modulating signal

43
Q

The amount of effect or change that the intelligence has on the carrier in an amplitude modulated signal is expressed as the

A

percent of modulation

44
Q

Reducing modulation to less than 100 percent gives

A

no reduction in carrier power

45
Q

The output of the oscillator in a frequency modulation (FM) modulator increases in frequency with each

A

positive half cycle of the modulating signal

46
Q

A 5 kilohertz (kHz) modulating signal has enough peak voltage to cause a deviation of 15 kHz. What is the modulation index?

A

3

47
Q

What is the narrow frequency band between adjacent stations used to prevent frequency modulated sidebands from overlapping?

A

Guard band

48
Q

What is the advantage of adding more phase shifts?

A

Higher data rates within a given bandwidth

49
Q

What is the first step in the pulse code modulation process?

A

The analog signal is band limited

50
Q

Quantization in the pulse code modulation process is

A

placing an infinite number of amplitude values to a finite number of values

51
Q

In asynchronous transmissions, what bit is used by the receiving device to verify that the transmission was received correctly?

A

Parity

52
Q

If an error should occur, what transmission is lost in an synchronous transmission?

A

Block of data

53
Q

The significance the amount of ones have in a data bit pattern when using vertical redundancy check (VRC) is that it determines

A

Parity

54
Q

What two error detection methods, when used together, are 98 percent effective in detecting errors?

A

VRC and LRC

55
Q

When using forward error control as a method of error correction, where does error correction ?

A

Receiving end

56
Q

In telecommunications cable, the “tip” or “primary” wire color group order is

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white, red, black, yellow, and violet

57
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Two types of network cables are

A

straight through and crossover

58
Q

An optical transmitter is comprised of

A

a driver, optical source, and fiber optic pigtail

59
Q

What is the bandwidth of multimode step-index optical fiber cable?

A

10 MHz – 100 MHz/km

60
Q

Which type of cable is the hardest to splice?

A

Single mode fiber

61
Q

A short section of single fiber cable that has a connector at each end is called a

A

Patch cord

62
Q

What allows transportation of all active virtual LANs (VLAN) between switches using a single physical link?

A

Trunks

63
Q

Which device has multiport connectivity that directs data between nodes on a network?

A

Router

64
Q

Which routing protocol do Internet backbones use?

A

Border gateway protocol (BGP)

65
Q

Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow the AF to extend network resources across a/an

A

public network

66
Q

Which of the following is not a function that a virtual private network (VPN) concentrator performs?

A

Encapsulates data

67
Q

What software do video compression circuits use to determine the amount of change that occurs between frames?

A

Compression and decompression (codec) algorithm

68
Q

Simple network management protocol (SNMP) is a tool used by network administrators to manage network performance, investigate and solve network problems, and help plan for

A

future growth

69
Q

Which of the following is not a basic SNMP command?

A

Get

70
Q

Which identity management process uses a fingerprint to authenticate a user?

A

Biometrics

71
Q

Which threat vector is considered more of an annoyance than an attack?

A

Spam

72
Q

Which vulnerability preventive measure is a small piece of code that software developers create to address the flaws found in the original code of a program?

A

Patches

73
Q

What physical security implementation will ensure continuous operation of critical network equipment?

A

Uninterruptible power supply

74
Q

In general, you should deny direct dial-in access to a network device by disabling the

A

auxiliary port

75
Q

When using a multimeter, which option should be used if the display is unreadable due to fluctuations?

A

Display hold

76
Q

When using an ohmmeter to take a resistance reading, what preliminary precaution should you take?

A

Disconnect the power from the circuit being tested

77
Q

Which mode of triggering an oscilloscope causes a trace to be drawn on the screen at all times, whether there is an input signal or not?

A

Auto

78
Q

Which oscilloscope probe is essentially just a shielded piece of wire?

A

Passive 1:1

79
Q

What area of a digital storage oscilloscope takes digitized samples and performs numerous manipulations on the data including measuring rise and fall times, periods, time intervals, and performing math computations?

A

Microprocessors

80
Q

In real-time sampling, what type of interpolation is used when measuring pulse waves?

A

Linear

81
Q

The size of a test pattern segment transmitted from a bit error rate test (BERT) is determined by the

A

number of bits that can represent the total number of bits in the test pattern

82
Q

What type of error is the result of two successive logic one pulses of the same polarity that violates alternate mark inversion coding rules?

A

Bipolar violation

83
Q

What type of error is the result of a bit not positioned where it should be?

A

Bit slip

84
Q

What is the first step in testing ground?

A

Disconnect the earth electrode under test from its connection to the site

85
Q

A known current is generated by the earth ground tester between the earth ground electrode and the

A

auxiliary current probe

86
Q

Voltage potential is measured in the fall of potential ground testing method between the

A

auxiliary potential electrode and the earth test ground electrode

87
Q

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has recommended a ground resistance value of

A

5 ohms or less

88
Q

What component of a protocol analyzer stores all frames based on the user configuration inputs?

A

Buffer

89
Q

What component on a protocol analyzer process the frames based on the selected test and user configuration inputs?

A

Central processing unit

90
Q

What active test is selected to determine if a network node is connected or responding?

A

Packet internetwork groper (PING)

91
Q

What active test is selected to see the path that the packets are traveling and the time it takes the packets to compete the trip?

A

Trace route

92
Q

A radio frequency generator is used to

A

align telemetry receivers

93
Q

Which are the correct four classes of electronic counters?

A

Frequency counters, universal counters, microwave counters, and reciprocal counters

94
Q

The 10:1 power ratio represented by 1 bel can also be represented by how many decibels (dB)?

A

10 dB

95
Q

When transmitter decibel (dB) power is doubled, it has increased by

A

3 dB

96
Q

Plug-in elements of the wattmeter are selected based on the

A

frequency and power to be measured

97
Q

What test equipment combines the operations of many test instruments into a single compact unit?

A

Communication service monitor

98
Q

What function is not part of the communication service monitor?

A

Analog multimeter

99
Q

What operational capability of the communication service monitor produce sine, square and triangle waveforms?

A

Function generator

100
Q

Which of the following is not a type of power level displayed by a power meter?

A

Decibels