Telecomminication Systems

Question 0

Which is the best description of backbone cabling?

Answer 0

Cables that may run between two buildings and to which other cables run.

Question 1

Which is the best description of horizontal cable?

Answer 1

Cables that run from the faceplate location to the telecommunications room.

Question 2

If a telecommunication services entrance facility contains only cables (no electronic equipment), the design temperature range?

Answer 2

Increases.

Question 3

(Fill in the blanks) Pull boxes should be installed every _____ feet to ensure that cables can be installed without _____?

Answer 3

100 feet; excessive strain.

Question 4

A telephone system that is the most basic service with a direct line for each user is called?

Answer 4

Private telephone lines.

Question 5

Which is a traditional old-line local telephone company that was not part of the Bell System?

Answer 5

ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier).

Question 6

All of the following are practical ways to resolve poor cellular coverage in a facility except?

Answer 6

Creating a Faraday cage.

Other choices were: asking the service provider to adjust antenna directions; installing a single-point repeater system; installing a DAS (distributed antenna system).

Question 7

(Fill in the blank) the most common type of horizontal cable consists of _____ pair(s) of wire in a common nonmetallic outer sheath.

Answer 7

Four pair.

Question 8

UTP cable installation standards require that the total length of a horizontal cable not exceed?

Answer 8

295 feet.

Question 9

For fiber-optic cable installation, the industry standard of maintaining a minimum radius of twenty times the diameter of the cable during installation and no less than Ten times the cable diameter after installation should be followed:

Answer 9

Unless other radius specifications are available.