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What are common examples of data?

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What happens when you introduce noise into digital data and digital signals?

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IBM mainframe computers are major users of the EBCDIC character set.

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The control character ____________________ (CR) provides control between a processor and an input/output device.

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Converting analog data to digital signals is generally called ____________________.

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The Manchester encoding schemes are called ____, because the occurrence of a regular transition is similar to seconds ticking on a clock.

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The period of a signal can be calculated by taking the reciprocal of the frequency (1/frequency).

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One of the primary shortcomings of analog data and analog signals is how difficult it is to separate noise from the original waveform.

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The control character ____________________ (LF) provides control between a processor and an input/output device.

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One of the major problems with Unicode is that it cannot represent symbols other than those found in the English language.

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The most common example of ____ data is the human voice.

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Telephones, AM radio, FM radio, broadcast television, and cable television are the most common examples of analog data-to-digital signal conversion.

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____ are represented as continuous waveforms that can be at an infinite number of points between some given minimum and maximum.

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An inherent problem with the NRZ-L and NRZI digital encoding schemes is that long sequences of 0s in the data produce a signal that never changes.

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With NRZ-L, the receiver has to check whether there is a change at the beginning of the bit to determine if it is a 0 or a 1.

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Phase changes are not affected by amplitude changes, nor are they affected by intermodulation distortions.

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Certain control characters provide data transfer control between a computer source and computer destination.

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Cycles per second, or frequency, is represented by ____.

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When a signal is amplified by an amplifier, the signal gains in ____.

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What is the purpose of using digital encoding schemes?

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