Exam 2: Fundamentals of Data and Signals

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____________________ is the opposite of attenuation.

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Amplitude shift keying is susceptible to sudden noise impulses such as the static charges created by a lightning storm.

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____________________ are the electric or electromagnetic impulses used to encode and transmit data.

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The bps of the data transmitted using quadrature amplitude modulation is four times the baud rate.

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In Unicode, the letter "r" is represented by the binary value of 0000 0000 0101 0100 0010.

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When traveling through any type of medium, a signal always experiences some loss of its power due to friction. This loss of power, or loss of signal strength, is called ____.

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The ASCII character set exists in a few different forms, including a ____ version that allows for 128 possible combinations of textual symbols.

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If you want to transfer data from one point to another, either via a physical wire or through radio waves, the data has to be converted into a(n) ____.

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With NRZI, the receiver has to check the voltage level for each bit to determine whether the bit is a 0 or a 1.

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____ are entities that convey meaning within a computer or computer system.

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____________________ is a phenomenon that occurs when the frequencies of two or more signals mix together and create new frequencies.

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____________________ is a relative measure of signal loss or gain and is used to measure the logarithmic loss or gain of a signal.

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The Unicode character set uses ______ bit characters.

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The primary advantage of a bipolar scheme is that when all the voltages are added together after a long transmission, there should be a total voltage of ____.

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What are the four possible data-to-signal conversion combinations?

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The amplitude of a signal can be expressed as volts, ____, or watts.

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The ____________________ digital encoding scheme transmits 1s as zero voltages and 0s as positive voltages.

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What are common examples of signals?

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The ____________________ encoding scheme takes 4 bits of data, converts the 4 bits into a unique 5-bit sequence, and encodes the 5 bits using NRZI.

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____________________ is an encoding technique that provides a unique coding value for every character in every language, no matter what the platform.

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