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WMN 1
WMN 1
A) 1G
B) 1.5G
C) 2G
D) 3G
Answer(C)
2G
Q2. What is the type signalling between Mobile Station and Base Transceiver Station in a 2G technology?
A) Analog
B) Digital
C) Discrete
D) Dampened
Answer(B)
Digital
Answer(A)
A) United Kingdom
B) United States
C) Europe
D) Australia
Answer(C)
Europe
Answer(B)
A) GPRS
B) EDGE
C) H
D) A and B
Answer(D)
Answer(A)
Answer(A)
A) 2G
B) 2.5G
C) 3G
Answer(B)
2.5G
A) USA
B) UK
C) France
D) Finland
Answer(D)
Finland
A) Circuit Switching
B) Packet Switching
C) A and B
D) None
Answer(C)
Q12. Which is the non European country operator to deploy GSM services?
A) AT&T
B) NTT
C) Telecom Australia
D) Docomo
Answer(C)
Telecom Australia
Answer(B)
Finnish PM, Harri Holkeri made the call using TeleNokia and Siemens network.
Q14. When did FAX, Data and SMS services in GSM network launch?
A) 1991
B) 1995
C) 1997
D) 2000
Answer(B)
1995
Q15. Commercial GPRS enabled handsets or mobiles were launched in ______ year for the first time.
A) 1995
B) 1997
C) 2000
D) 2003
Answer(C)
2000
Q16. Choose frequency band that was chosen to operate a GSM Network?
A) 900MHz
B) 1800MHz
C) 850, 1900MHz
Answer(D)
A) AT&T
B) TELSTRA, Australia
C) NTT, Japan
D) Vodafone, UK
Answer(B)
TELSTRA, Australia
In 1996.
A) A5/1
B) A5/2
C) A5/3
Answer(D)
A) GEA/1
B) GEA/2
C) GEA/3
Answer(D)
Q20. Which frequency band supports more coverage area in a GSM or 2G network?
A) 1900MHz
B) 1800MHz
C) 900MHz
Answer(C)
900MHz
A) 935-960MHz
B) 890-915MHz
C) 940-956MHz
D) 810-826MHz
A) 935-960MHz
B) 890-915MHz
C) 940-956MHz
D) 810-826MHz
B
5) What is the frequency band of a DCS - Digital Cellular System?
6) What is the frequency band of PCS (Personal Communication Service) system used in Canada and
USA?
A) 900, 1800MHz
B) 850, 900MHz
D) 1800, 1900MHz
9) What are the Rural and Urban Frequency bands used for GSM in the US?
A) 850MHz - Rural Band
10) What are the frequency bands supported by the European Triband Phones?
11) The Quad band phone supporting all four major GSM frequency bands like 850MHz, 1900MHz,
900MHz and 1800MHz is also called ______ phone.
A) Real Phone
B) World Phone
C) Super Phone
D) Global Phone
12) The term "Cellular Communication" was introduced by which GSM frequency band?
A) 900MHz
B) 1800MHz
C) 850MHz
D) 1900MHz
Explanation:
850MHz band was also used for AMPS networks in the United States.
A) TDMA
B) FDMA
C) CDMA
14) Who developed protocols to implement GSM, GPRS and EDGE services?
A) ANSI
B) SOLARIS
C) 3GPP
D) None
B
1) The area covered by one Transmitter in a GSM network is called _____?
A) Licensed area
B) Octagon
C) Cell
D) Yard
C
2) What is the maximum distance that a GSM Cell can radiate it's signal?
A) 10Km
B) 22Km
C) 35Km
D) 50Km
Explanation:
35Km or 22 Miles
B) Antenna gain
C) Weather conditions
C) Umbrella Cell
5) If an Antenna or Transmitter is mounted on top of a Tower or building, what is the Cell type formed?
A) Micro cell
B) Macro cell
C) Pico cell
D) Tento cell
6) If an Antenna or Transmitter is mounted at less height on the tower or building, what is the Cell type
formed?
A) Micro cell
B) Macro cell
C) Pico cell
D) Tento cell
A) Micro cell
B) Macro cell
C) Pico cell
D) Femto cell
8) What is the type Cell that connects to the Service provider network through a Broadband or Internet
connection at a remote village? (Transmission media is internet instead of OFC / Microwave)
A) Micro cell
B) Macro cell
C) Pico cell
D) Femto cell
9) A Cell that covers already existing small cells is called ____ cell.
A) Micro cell
B) Macro cell
C) Umbrella cell
D) Pico cell
11) The power level of an Umbrella cell compared to inner cells is ______?
A) More
B) Less
C) Equal
D) Very high
Explanation:
A call is handed over to an Umbrella cell only if the vehicle or mobile is moving fast. So, less power
makes the phone to choose inner cells instead of Umbrella cell at first.
12) What do you call an Equipment that Receives and Transmits radio signals?
A) BTS
B) Transceiver
C) Transistor
D) Controller
13) Which type of GSM Cell provides indoor coverage in shopping malls, tunnels and airports?
A) Macro cell
B) Micro cell
C) Pico cell
D) Femto cell
Explanation:
The Cheap and best option is to install repeaters inside the shopping mall.
15) A GSM technique Timing Advance used by BTS or Base station can _______ Cell radius.
A) Decrease
B) Increase
D) None
Explanation:
Timing Advance allows a mobile a communicate from really longer distances with the Base station.
A) BSC
B) BTS
C) Cluster
D) Atom
A) 4
B) 7
C) 12 or 21
D) All
B) Frequency Reuse
D) None
Explanation:
Clusters have a fixed number of frequencies. These frequencies are reused in other clusters. Care is
taken not to use the same frequencies in adjacent clusters.
19) When reusing a Frequency, what is the minimum distance (in terms of Diameter of cell) to be
followed?
A) 1.5D
B) 2D
C) 2.5D
D) None
C
Explanation:
A) Frequency or Spectrum is costly. It is allotted limitedly to each Operator. Say 5MHz to each.
C) Using TDMA, a single carrier frequency can serve up to 8 simultaneous customers in a 4.615ms time
frame. So, simply adding more frames improves call quality in densely populated areas.
D) All
A) Mobile Station
C) Both A and B
D) None
3) What are the main parts of a BSS (Base Station Subsystem) in a GSM network?
C) A and B
D) None
4) What are the main parts of a NSS (Network and Switching Subsystem) of a GSM Architecture?
C) VLR, EIR
5) What are the main parts of an MSC (Mobile Switching Center) system in a GSM structure?
B) MSC Server
C) Both A and B
D) None
A) Mobile Station
B) BSS
C) MSS
D) NSS
A) Mobile tower
B) Exchange
C) Charging Point
D) None
A) IMEI
B) SIM
C) IMSI
D) None
D) None
A) IMSI
B) IMEI
C) MSDN
D) None
D) None
A) IMSI
B) SIM
C) MSISDN
D) None
Explanation:
A) MSISDN
B) IMEI
C) ICCID
D) None
Explanation:
A) BSC
B) MSC
C) HLR
D) VLR
Explanation:
15) How many digits of PIN (Personal Identification Number) is allowed to protect a SIM card?
A) 4
B) 8
C) 10
D) None
B) 4 digit code
C) It is like a password to enter after inserting SIM in a mobile for the first time. It prevents misuse.
D) All
A) Back cover
B) SIM
C) Screen guard
D) None
A) 8
B) 12
C) 16
D) 22
B) Frequency hopping
D) All
D) All
D
1) What is the name of the database that stores subscriber information under an MSC and his eligible
services?
A) MSC
B) HLR
C) EIR
D) AuC
Explanation:
2) What is the name of a database used mainly that stores information of a subscriber along with eligible
services under roaming or another MSC area?
A) HLR
B) VLR
C) EIR
D) AuC
A) VLR
B) HLR
C) EIR
D) AUC
A) HLR
B) EIR
C) AUC
D) none
5) Between VLR and HLR, which one is used mostly allow or bar services to the user?
A) VLR
B) HLR
D) None
A) True
B) False
C) -
D) -
A) HLR
B) EIR
C) AUC
D) MSC
A) EIR
B) AUC
C) HLR
D) None
A) HLR
B) VLR
C) EIR
D) AUC
Explanation:
AUC - Authentication Center
10) In a GSM architecture, which system stores the IMEI numbers of all working mobile phones under
the network?
A) HLR
B) VLR
C) EIR
D) AUC
Explanation:
11) What are the types of lists maintained by EIR (Equipment Identification Register)?
A) Whitelist
B) Grey List
C) Black List
D) All
D) All
13) Mobile calls to or from Fixed Networks (Landlines) are handled by ________ ?
A) MSC
B) GMSC (Gateway MSC)
C) HLR
D) VLR
A) Cell number
D) None
Explanation:
CGI number.
A) Location number
D) None
A) HLR
D) None
B
17) Total area served by one network operator is called ______ ?
A) PSTN
B) PLMN
C) LA
D) CGI
Explanation:
A) DTC stops transmitter when the person is not talking. So less number of voice signals reach BTS with
less noise.
B) With the help of VAD (Voice Activity Detection), mobile identifies conversation and noise to turn off
transmission.
C) On the opposite end, the receiver produces a noise called Comfort Noise. With out this, DTX makes
the opposite person think that the line or call is cut.
D) All
19) Which technique of GSM Architecture tells the mobile to advance it's transmission bursts (data) so
that overlap with other bursts may be avoided at channel?
A) DTX
B) TA - Timing Advance
C) Power Control
D) None
D) All
D) None
D) All
3) Radio interface between Mobile Station and BTS is also called _____ ?
A) Gorilla interface
B) Air interface
C) Voice interface
D) Spectrum interface
A) Mobile side
B) BTS side
D) None
5) Power control feature aims at receiving all bursts of transmission at _______ power level.
A) Different
B) Variable
C) Same
D) None
Explanation:
A) BTS
B) BSC
C) Mobile Station
D) None
C
7) Discontinuous Reception is implemented with _______ in a GSM network.
A) Sideband channel
B) Pilot channel
D) None
8) What is the problem with Multipath traversal of radio signal between a Mobile and a BTS?
A) A copy the first signal arrives at the destination with a different phase
B) Arrived signal with two or more variants confuse receiver and cause noise.
D) All
D) None
10) The functions of a MSC (Mobile Services Switching Center) are _______?
D) All
D) All
D) All
D) All
D) All
D) All
16) For BSS Types 1, 4 and 5, Speech Transcoding unit presents ______ BSC.
A) Inside
B) Outside
C) -
D) -
17) In BSS Types 2, 6 and 7, Speech Transcoding unit is present ______ BSS.
A) Internally
C) --
D) --
18) In BSS Type 3, TRAU (Transcoder Unit) or Rate Adapter Unit is present in _____.
A) BSC
B) BTS
C) MSC
D) None
A) 8 kbps
B) 16kbps
C) 32kpbs
D) 64kbps
A) 8kbps
B) 16kbps
C) 32kbps
D) 64kbps
Explanation:
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1) What is the interface between a Mobile Station and a BTS?
A) M interface
B) A interface
C) Abis interface
D) U interface
A) U interface
B) Um interface
C) Abis interface
D) A interface
C
3) What is the interface between BSC and TRAU?
A) M interface
B) A interface
C) Abis interface
D) C interface
A) A interface
B) Abis interface
C) B interface
D) C interface
A) A interface
B) B interface
C) C interface
D) D interface
A) Abis interface
B) A interface
C) C interface
D) D interface
B) C interface
C) D interface
D) E interface
A) A interface
B) C interface
C) D interface
D) E interface
A) M interface
B) Abis interface
C) F interface
D) U interface
10) What is the interface between one VLR to other MSC VLRs?
A) Abis interface
B) E interface
C) F interface
D) G interface
A) E interface
B) F interface
C) H interface
D) M interface
A) Na
B) Nb
C) Nc
D) Nd
13) What is the interface between MSC Server and MGW which are part of MSC?
A) Nc
B) Mc
C) Um
D) U
14) What is the interface between BSC and SGSN (Serving GPRS Serving Node)?
A) Ga
B) Gb
C) Gc
D) Gd
A) Ga
B) Gb
C) Gc
D) Gi
16) What is the interface between SGSN and GGSN(Gateway GPRS Serving Node)?
A) Ga
B) Gb
C) Gn
D) Gi
A) Ga
B) Gn
C) Gi
D) Gp
A) Ga
B) Gb
C) Gc
D) Gi
A) Ga
B) Gb
C) Gc
D) Gd
A) Auc
B) MSC
C) EIR
D) VLR
1) What is the total number of Carrier Frequencies that can be formed in a 25MHz band width of either
Uplink or Downlink of GSM?
A) 128
B) 126
C) 124
D) None
2) What is the spacing between each carrier frequency to avoid interference and crosstalk?
A) 100KHz
B) 200KHz
C) 128KHz
D) 256KHz
Explanation:
A) 124
B) 248
C) 374
D) 448
Explanation:
A) 4
B) 6
C) 8
D) 10
5) In a GSM-900 Band, what is the duplex spacing between uplink and downlink channels?
A) 25MHz
B) 35MHz
C) 45MHz
D) None
Explanation:
25+20
6) In a GSM-1800 Band, what is the duplex spacing between downlink and uplink channels?
A) 75MHz
B) 85MHz
C) 95MHz
D) None
Explanation:
75 +20
7) What is the name of a single transmission burst that lasts for only 0.577ms in a GSM TDMA frame?
A) Frame
C) Link
Explanation:
A) 4.614ms
B) 5.614ms
C) 6.614ms
D) None
A) Traffic channels
B) Broadcasting channels
D) All
A) One to one
B) Many to one
C) One to many
D) Many to many
Explanation:
A) Engine
B) Driver
C) Pilot
D) None
C
12) Majority of the GSM Channels work on ______ interface?
A) Abis interface
B) A interface
C) Um interface
D) M interface
Explanation:
Um interface is also called Air interface. It works in between Mobile and BTS.
A) Voice
B) Data
D) Signalling
D) All
15) What is the other type of information that a TCH channel contain or carry?
C) Both A and B
D) None
D) All
17) What are the data rates of services available in ISDN and other services that can be transmitted in a
TCH channel?
A) 2.4kbps
B) 4.8kbps
C) 9.6kbps
D) All
18) What is the total bitrate after channel coding in a Half Rate TCH channel?
A) 11.4kbps
B) 22.8kbps
C) 34.2kbps
D) None
19) What is the speech rate before coding in a Half Rate TCH channel?
A) 11.4kbps
B) 22.8kbps
C) 5.6kbps
D) 11.2kbps
C
20) Possible data rates in a Half Rate TCH channel are _____ ?
A) 3.6kbps
B) 6kbps
C) 3.6, 6kbps
D) None
D) All
B) It contains Configuration parameters like LAC (Location Area Code), CID (Cell Identity) and Neighbor
cell info
C) It is the first frequency to be sampled by a Mobile station. If parameters are ok, MT attaches to the
Cell.
D) All
D
3) Which is the Broadcast channel that tells the MT (Mobile Station) which frequency to use in order to
communicate with a BTS?
A) BCCH
B) FCCH
C) SCH
D) None
D) All
D) None
D) None
D
7) What is TRUE about a PCH (paging Channel) in a GSM Network?
D) All
A) PCH
B) BCCH
C) RACH
D) SDCCH
9) Which is the downlink channel allotted to a Mobile after requesting with a RACH channel?
A) AGH
B) PCH
C) SDCCH
D) None
10) Which is a Full Duplex (both Downlink and Uplink), Point to Point Dedicated Control Channel below?
D) All
11) Which is the Dedicated Control channel that is used to transmit Power Control data, Timing Advance
(TA) data and other Radio link supervision signalling data?
A) TCH
B) SDCCH
C) FACCH
D) SACCH
12) State True or False. SACCH is used to transmit Urgent signalling data like Call setup.
A) TRUE
B) False
C) -
D) -
A) Call Setup
B) Call Termination
C) Call Handovers
D) All
14) If FACCH signalling data is transmitted over TCH instead of Traffic data by setting a Stealing Flag, the
process is called?
A) Overloading
B) Burdening
C) Preemption
D) None
15) What are the functions of the dedicated control channel SDCCH?
A) 0.5kbps
B) 0.8kbps
C) 1kbps
D) 1.2kbps
17) CCCH (Common Control Channel) channel contains all ________ channels.
A) PCH on downlink
B) AGCH on downlink
C) RACH on uplink
D) All
A) Timeslot 0
B) Timeslot 1
C) Timeslot 4
D) Timeslot 8
19) If there are two TRX in a given Sector or Cell, BCCH is defined on the _______ TRX or frequency.
A) First
B) Second
C) First or second
Explanation:
A) Timeslot
B) Group
C) Byte
D) None
21) How many timeslots are present in a GSM TDMA frame whose time duration is 4.615ms?
A) 4
B) 8
C) 16
D) 32
Explanation:
8 x 0.577ms = 4.615ms
22) What are the TDMA Multi frames used for TCH/H and TCH/F ?
A) 26 TDMA frames
B) 51 TDMA frames
C) 26 or 51 TDMA frames
D) None
23) A super frame contains _______ TDMA frames with all possible combinations of channels.
A) 51 x 26 TDMA
B) 51 x 51 TDMA
C) 1024 x 26TDMA
D) None
24) A Hyper Frame contains ______ TDMA frames, which can be used for Frequency Hopping and
Ciphering.
A) 1024 x 26 TDMA
B) 1024 x 51 TDMA
C) 2048 x 26 TDMA
D) 2048 x 51 x 26 TDMA
A) 5.12s
B) 6.12s
C) 7.12s
D) 8.12s
A) 3H 28M 2.2S
B) 3H 28M 50S
C) 3H 28M 53.76s
D) 3.5H
C
27) Choose a method of selecting a Cell (sector) by a Mobile Station in a Multicellular environment.
B) A good BCCH is chosen and the mobile tunes to that frequency to communicate with the BTS.
C) After successful authentication, Mobile attachea to the cell and will be in IDLE mode without using
TCH channel.
D) All
28) During a phone call, an SMS (Short Message Service) is sent on which GSM Channel?
A) SDCCH
B) TCH
C) SACCH
D) BCCH
29) When NO call is in progress (IDLE mode), what is the channel used to send an SMS?
A) TCH
B) BCCH
C) SACCH
D) SDCCH
C) Free SDCCH will be less. So TCH allocation for new calls will be slow.
D) All
D
31) What is the length of a single SMS in GSM architecture?
A) 140
B) 150
C) 160
D) 256
C) 70 16-bit characters
D) All
Explanation:
User can configure Support for Characters in SMS settings. Most of the phones display "Limited
Character Set" or "Full Character Set" options or "Use Simple Characters" etc.
33) What is the maximum number of SMS that can be sent to a Mobile in one minute time?
A) 1-5
B) 6-10
C) 11-15
D) 15-20
A) Point to Point
B) Point to Multipoint
35) All SMS are stored in which system in a GSM Architecture before forwarding to the recipient?
A) SC (SMS Center)
B) SMS-GMSC
C) MSC
D) VLR
36) To deliver an SMS to a Mobile Station, HLR enquiry is done through which system in GSM network?
A) SMS-GMSC
B) SC (SMS Center)
C) MSC
D) VLR
37) To deliver an SMS to a Mobile Station, VLR enquiry is done via which system in a GSM Network?
A) SC (SMS Center)
B) SMS-GMSC
C) MSC
D) HLR
38) Choose a correct flow of SMS from one system to the other in a GSM network.
A) SC to SMS-GMSC
B) SMS-GMSC to MSC
D) ALL
D