Exam 5: Telecommunications, Wireless Technologies, and Computer Networks

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Hear music or sound clips when your phone rings

____ phones are a solid monolith leaving the display and buttons unprotected.

____ is the most popular international standard for mobile phones, used by over a billion people across more than 200 countries.

Personal computers attached to a network are often called ____.

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Hear tunes as recorded by original artists when your phone rings

Bluetooth is named after a tenth-century Danish ____.

Samson has seen cell phones advertised as 1G, 2G, 3G and 4G. He knows the "G" stands for generation, but does some research to find out more. -Samson concludes his report by talking about the 3G and 4G cell phones. He notes that the 4G phone expects to offer ____.

Dimitri is studying electronic technology at his local junior college. The first day, the teacher passed out pieces of cable, and asked the students to write a paragraph about each type and how they are used to connect to the Internet. -Dimitri also includes ____ cable which transmits signals using light beams.

Mariah is getting used to having a cell phone. This first month she was surprised by several extra charges on her bill, and called her cell phone service provider. -On the bright side, the agent explained to Mariah that since this was her first month that she did not have any ____ minutes. But in the future, this type of unused minutes could be applied to the next month's bill.

There are three components of telecommunications networks that do NOT include ____.

What is the difference between a protocol and a standard? Which of these are a protocol and which are a standard: TCP/IP, Ethernet, token ring?

____ out of every ten people in the world subscribe to a cell phone service-that's 4.1 billion people in all.

A virtual private network (VPN) uses a technique called ____ to securely send private network data over the Internet.

Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -Customize the look of your display

Samson has seen cell phones advertised as 1G, 2G, 3G and 4G. He knows the "G" stands for generation, but does some research to find out more. -The next generation, 2G, refers to ____ service.

____ phones have components that swivel out from the main body of the phone.

Connecting corporate computer systems among organizations is the idea behind ____ data interchange (EDI).

Hubs and switches are seldom combined.

A wireless ____________________ point connects to a wired network and receives and transmits data to wireless adapters installed in computers.

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a 4G wireless broadband technology that allows CDMA cellular technology to provide very high-speed Internet access. _________________________