1. Dialing a one before the area code stands for what?
a. North America
b. Long Distance
c. LATA code
d. Priority toll call
2. What voltage(s) appear(s) on the telephone line at your house?
a. 48 Volts DC and 70-105 Volts AC
b. 120 Volts AC
c. None
d. 10 Volts DC
e. Voice signal only
3. Tip and Ring originally stood for?
a. Telephone (tp) and ring signals
b. Two parts of an operator's cord-board plug
c. Connect and insert ring signal
d. Ringing and talk-information-path
4. Receiver Off-Hook Tone (the signal when someone forgets to hang up the phone) is composed of what?
a. Quad 1400, 2060, 2450, and 2600 hz
tones, pulsed at a 5 hz rate
b. Dial tone made louder and pulsed at
4 hz.
c. Busy signal tones
d. Every irritating noise the engineers
could find
5. What is REN as shown on the bottom of a telephone or other label?
a. A cartoon character endorsement
b. Ringer equivalent number
c. Refraction number for fiber
d. Receiver equalization network
6. How many North American circuits are carried in one DS-3 (Digital service,
level 3)?
a. 96
b. 1.5 million
c. 672
d. 24
7. Compared to a DS-3 the data load of an OC-3 (Optical carrier-level 3) is:
a. Larger
b. Smaller
c. The same
d. They cannot be compared
8. An Erlang is:
- Alex G. Bell's mother-in-law
- A unit of telephone traffic density
- A cable locator
- An error burst in a data circuit
9. The origin of the Sprint company name is
- Service Provider Network
- Southern Pacific Railroad
- Super Powered Internet
- Somebody Please Ring In New Telephones
10. Dialing the area code 711 will get you
- An all-night convenience store
- The toll-free number directory
- Telephone relay service for hearing impaired
- Emergency medical service
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