Exam 2: The Telephone and the Telephone Line

The holiday typically used by the telephone company in determining the size of a switch is:

Whenever the switch needs to ring a telephone, ringing voltage must be applied to the ________ side of the pair.

A(n) ________ converts one form of energy into a different form of energy.

The physical components that make up the telephone receiver are the:

Ringing voltage is comprised of a ________ frequency that rides on a(n) ________ AC signal.

Explain how a telephone's transmitter and its receiver can both be viewed as transducers.

Which ration represents the most common value of customers per switch connection used by the telephone company to design switch capacity?

Which of the following is not one of the 5 major pieces of hardware that make up a telephone set?

The purpose of the metal lining in a telephone transmitter is to hold the lid over the carbon granules.

The difference between touchtone and rotary dial for identification of the digits selected is that the rotary dial uses pulses of specific lengths, while touchtone uses frequencies.

The flexible device found in the telephone that moves as electrical or sound waves push against it is called the ________.

In the telephone business, the word conductor refers to:

An idle circuit is a(n) ________ circuit.

A fast busy signal indicates that the party being called is already off-hook.

Ring back is the ringing of the other party's phone, which can be heard by the person dialing

The portion of the telephone that contains the receiver and transmitter is referred to as the ________.

The term "tip and ring pair"refers to the wire conductors used to connect the telephone subscriber to the serving central office.

Another name for the telephone transmitter is the ________.

On the main distribution frame (MDF), the subscriber termination from the outside plant is on the horizontal side and the switch is connected to the vertical side.

The ratio of customers per switch connection that is used to design switch capacity is called the ________ ratio.