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BICSI IN101 Exam Questions AndAnswers
Professionalism - Verified ANS ✔✔ - the competence or skill expected of a ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p ‘p
professional (How you look, sound, and feel)
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Actions of a professional - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Refrain from acts that cause background
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checks, time management, avoid arguments, park appropriot, do not steal time
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Principle of transmission - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The movement of information in either
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analog or digital form through copper conductors and fiber strands
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AC - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Alternating current
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Analog signal - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A signal in the form of a wave using continuous
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variations of physical characteristics (constant voltage)
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Bandwidth - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A range of frequencies available for signaling
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expressed in hertz (potential capacity of signals traveling at once)
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Bel - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A ratio for analog signal strength (10 dBs)
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Current (I) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The flow of electrons in a conductor (Amps)
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Decibel (dB) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A ratio for analog signal strength (1/10 BEL)
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DC - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Direct current
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Digital signal - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Signal in the form of sequences of discrete pulses
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(binary signal)
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EMI - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Electromagnetic interference
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Frequency - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The number of cycles that a signal completes in a
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given time
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Hertz (Hz) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - standard for measurement used for measuring
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frequency in cycles per second. (60 Hz = 60 completed cycles per second)
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Power (P) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The amount of energy transferred per unit time required
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to operate a device
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,Volt (V) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A unit of measurement for electromotive force
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Copper cabling - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Most common media for data transmission. Data
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is transmitted as electrical pulses. (Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6)
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Attenuation - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The loss or weakening of a signal between two point
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expressed in dBs (a ratio of signal sent and signal received)
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AWG - Verified ANS ✔✔ - American wire gauge
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Balanced twisted pair - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A type of wiring where a pair of conductors
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continually twist inside the cable to reduce or eliminate the possibility of EMI from other
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conductors in the cable (blue and blue white will be twisted together)
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Capacitance - Verified ANS ✔✔ - the ability of a conductor to store electrical energy
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coaxial cable - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Cabling with a central metallic inner conductor and a
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separated enclosed outer conductor by a dielectric material like a metallic braid
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Crosstalk - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Unwanted transfer of a signals electromagnetic energy
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(blue interfering with orange)
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Impedance (Z) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The total opposition that a circuit cable or
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compound offers to the flow of altering current (measured in ohms)
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Inductance - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The property of an electrical force field built around a
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conductor when current flows through it
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Insertion loss - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The signal loss resulting from the insertion of a
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component (attenuation when a new signal is transmitted)
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NVP - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Nominal velocity of propagation (coefficient used to
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determine the speed of transmission relative to the speed of light)
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Ohm (R) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The measure of electrical resistance
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Ohms law - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The mathematical relationship among electrical current
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resistance and voltage
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Ohms law formula - Verified ANS ✔✔ - V
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I|R ‘p ‘p
Resistance - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A measurement of opposition a material offers to the
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flow of direct current (measured in ohms)
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,Return loss - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A ratio of the power of the outgoing signal to the
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power of the reflected signal
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USOC - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Universal service order code
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Optical fiber cabling - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Transmits data modulated as light pulses
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The advantages of fiber - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Fiber has greater bandwidth, can carry
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signals over greater distances, and less susceptible to EMI
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Attenuation - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The loss or weakening of a signal between two point
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expressed in dBs (a ratio of signal sent and signal received)
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Bandwidth - Verified ANS ✔✔ - A range of frequencies available for signaling
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expressed in hertz (potential capacity of signals traveling at once)
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Cable loss - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The attenuation of a signal as it passes through optical
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fiber cable
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Cladding - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The outer concentric glass layer that surrounds the fibers
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core and has a lower index of refraction
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Dispersion - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The loss of signal resulting from the scattering of light
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pulses (The widening or spreading out of the modes)
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Ferrule - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The alignment sleeve portion of an optical connector
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FC - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Fiber connector
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Furcating harness - Verified ANS ✔✔ - And assembly used to increase the effective
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outer diameter of strands (also called a fan out)
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Insertion loss - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The signal loss resulting from the insertion of a
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component (attenuation when a new signal is transmitted)
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LC Connector - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Lucent Connector A SFF Single fiber connector
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used for termination of both multi mode and single mode (most common)
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Multimode optical fiber - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Wave guide that allows many bound
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modes to propagate (typically used for short distances)
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Optical fiber - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The transmission of media using thin glass to transmit
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signal via light pulses
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SFF - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Small Form Factor (physical fiber connectors and adapters)
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, SC - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Subscriber connector
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Optical fiber color codes - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Blue orange green brown slate white red
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black yellow violet rose aqua
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How is the second set of 12 fibers color coordinated - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Same color
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code with an additional black strip (black is stripped with yellow)
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Reflection - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Light bouncing off the surface of something
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Refraction - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Light bending as it passes through something
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Total internal refraction - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Light stays trapped inside a barrier and
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continues to travel forward bouncing back-and-forth off the barrier
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Index of refraction (IOR) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - The ratio of velocity of light in a vacuum
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to there in a medium
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Speed of light (in a vacuum) - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 300,000 km/s 186,000 mi/s
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Index of refraction in water - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 1.3 (225,000 km/s)
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Index of refraction in glass - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 1.5 (200,000 km/s)
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Nm - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Nanometers
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Single mode wavelengths - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Typically 1310nm & 1550nm
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Multimode wave links - Verified ANS ✔✔ - Typically 850nm (most popular) & 1300nm
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Single mode course size - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 9 µm core (micrometers)
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Multi mode courses size - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 62.5 µm or 50 µm (micrometers)
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Single mode and multi mode cladding size - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 125 µm (micrometers)
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DB loss per kilometer in 1310 (singlemode) wavelength - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 0.35
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DB loss per kilometer in 1550 (Singlemode) wavelength - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 0.22
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DB loss per kilometer in 850 (Multimode) wavelength - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 3.0
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DB loss per kilometer in 1300 (Multimode) wavelength - Verified ANS ✔✔ - 1.0
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DB loss per splice - Verified ANS ✔✔ - .01 (typically)
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