Digital Communications Questions and Answers – Error Detection and Correction 2

This set of Advanced Digital Communication Questions & Answers focuses on “Error Detection and Correction”.

1. Which needs re-sending of signal?
a) Error correction
b) Error detection
c) Error correction & detection
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: Error detection needs re-sending of data.

2. Which needs more check bits?
a) Error correction
b) Error detection
c) Error correction & detection
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: Error correction needs more check bits where as error detection needs less check bits.

3. Which gets less affected by noise?
a) Error correction
b) Error detection
c) Error correction & detection
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: Error detection is less affected by noise.
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4. Which is used to protect privacy of the information?
a) Compression coding
b) Source coding
c) Cipher coding
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: Cipher coding is used to provide privacy for the information.

5. Digital signals are easy for
a) Storage
b) Handling
c) Time dilation
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: Digital signals have ease of handing, storage and time dilation.

6. Which are forward error correcting codes?
a) Block codes
b) Convolutional codes
c) Block & Convolutional codes
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: Block codes and convolutional codes are examples of forward error correcting codes.

7. Which operates on continuous stream of data?
a) Block codes
b) Convolutional codes
c) Block & Convolutional codes
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: Convolutional codes operates on a continuous stream of data.
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8. Which is more complex?
a) Encoding
b) Decoding
c) Encoding & Decoding
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: In the case of block codes, decoding is a complex method.

9. Which has better minimum distance?
a) Check sum
b) Cyclic redundancy check
c) Check sum & Cyclic redundancy check
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: Cyclic redundancy check has better distances.
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10. In symmetric key cryptosystem, who knows the key?
a) Sender
b) Receiver
c) Sender & Receiver
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: In symmetric key cryptosystem, both sender and receiver knows the same key.

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