Download Jones/NCTI Cable Jeopardy Game 3

Category
Points
Question
Answer
Game #
Competition
100
The term used for distributing broadband data using power lines.
What is BPL or Broadband Over Power Lines?
3
This is the HFC architecture Verizon is using for their FiOS product.
What is FTTP, fiber to the premises or FTTH, fiber to
the home?
3
This is the term associated with Verizon and its entry into the broadband market.
What is FiOS?
3
The US term for a direct to home satellite service utilizing the KU microwave frequency band.
What is DBS or direct broadcast satellite?
Competition
Competition
Competition
200
300
400
3
500
FCC ruling that requires local cable systems to negotiate with local broadcast affiliates to
either pay for carriage of programming or be given "must carry" status.
What is retransmission consent?
3
CPE
100
This display uses a cathode and grid.
What is a CRT, cathode ray tube, display?
3
CPE
200
A device that stores digital and audio content to a hard drive for playback at a later time.
What is a DVR or PVR? (Digital or Personal Video
Recorder)
3
CPE
300
This aspect ratio is commonly referred to as "letterbox" or "widescreen".
What is 16:9?
3
CPE
400
Downloadable Conditional Access System
What is DCAS?
3
CPE
500
2-way communication using the TV as the display.
What is Interactive Television?
3
Fiber Optics
100
Fiber splicing procedure where 2 fibers are joined using heat.
What is fusion splicing?
3
Fiber Optics
200
This amplifier will only work at 1,550 nm.
What is EDFA, erbium doped fiber amplifier?
3
300
Properly done, this method for cutting the fiber end produces a perpendicular, mirror-like
finish.
What is cleaving?
3
What is a nanometer?
3
Competition
Fiber Optics
Fiber Optics
400
One billionth of a meter; a unit of measurement for light wavelength. Abbreviated nm.
This process works by combining multiple 1,550 nm laser transmitters into a multiplexer.
What is DWDM?
These are the three main parts of an F-connector.
What are the connector body, nut and post?
3
3
Fiber Optics
500
Installation
100
Installation
200
This comes in handy when pulling several feet of drop cable from a cable reel.
What is a cable caddy?
What is 12 inches?
300
The NEC specifies this is the minimum distance for the cable drop from power at the house
attachment.
400
The direction you should drill when going through brick.
What is from outside in?
3
These are three different grades of drop cable shielding designations.
What are dual shield, trishield, and quadshield drop
cable?
3
Installation
Installation
3
3
Installation
500
Maintenance
100
This device removes power if the current through it reaches a predetermined level.
What is a circuit breaker?
3
Maintenance
200
An AC receptacle that has slots of unequal length. The longest slot is normally neutral and
the shortest slot is normally hot (115 VAC ± 10%).
What is a polarized receptacle?
3
Maintenance
300
An AC component in the output voltage of a DC power supply that causes the DC voltage to
fluctuate regularly at the AC rate.
What is AC ripple?
3
400
When balancing this portion of the system you have to inject non-interfering test carriers
What is the RF Return plant?
3
What are sheath currents?
3
Maintenance
Maintenance
500
Unwanted electricity (such as power surges) that travel on the outer surface of coaxial cable.