SCTE BPI UPDATED FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔a house hook - ✔✔Is among the materials and tools required for attaching the drop
cable to the customer premises contact. The other materials and tools are personal
safety equipment, messenger drop wire clamps, and in awl or drill
✔✔During the Ariel drop attachment to the customer premises - ✔✔Attach the
messenger drop cable to the house hook using a messenger drop wire clamps
✔✔For an underground drop installation, the most important consideration in planning
the ground block location is - ✔✔Compliance with grounding and bonding requirements
✔✔In an underground Service drop installation - ✔✔Always use non messengered
flooded coaxial drop cable between the pedestal and the ground block
✔✔When planting a new underground drop cable route - ✔✔Ask the customer if he
would like to drop routed in any specific way
✔✔When an underground drop cable cannot be buried at the time of installation,
prepared for later burial of the cable by - ✔✔Running the unburied drop cable along a
fence line to minimize the hazard of anyone tripping over the drop \\ reporting the
temporary drop status to your Broadband cable system, so the cable can be buried
within the specified time frame
✔✔To hand bury drop cable - ✔✔Make the bottom of the cut in the ground as level as
possible, so the cable can lie flat
✔✔Plastic or polyethylene drop cable conduit - ✔✔Can either be plowed or polled into
the ground with a cable plow
✔✔To bury drop cable, a starting Trench and a receding pit typically are required to
perform - ✔✔Manual and machine boring
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true concerning tap enclosures in an
underground drop system? - ✔✔Always insert the Service drop cable under an inside
the pedestal or vault housing whenever possible in preparation for tap connection
✔✔To properly connect a buried drop cable to a tap port - ✔✔Use silicone grease or
some other method of weatherproofing the connection to prevent moisture penetrating
at the tap port
✔✔To properly route an attach buried drop cable on the premises exterior up to the
ground block location - ✔✔Choose a route that makes the cable inconspicuous and
uses the least amount of cable
✔✔Which of the following formulas calculates total cable loss - ✔✔cable footage x cable
loss
✔✔Which of the following formulas calculates total loss - ✔✔Insertion loss + total cable
loss
✔✔Which of the following formulas calculate expected output level - ✔✔Output level -
total loss
✔✔Assume a Series 6 cable length of 130 ft from the top to the ground block, what
would be the calculated cable loss - ✔✔7.93 dB
✔✔Assume cable length of 200 ft from the tap to the ground block, using series 11
cable what would be the calculated cable loss - ✔✔7.96 dB
✔✔When would you use series 11 drop cable instead of Series 6 - ✔✔For runs longer
than a 150 ft
✔✔How much signal is necessary from the subscribers tap port to provide a minimum
of 3.0 dBmV to the TV set, when they drop cable is 150 ft of Series 6 cable and just one
Outlet - ✔✔11.5 dBmV
✔✔When measuring signal levels at the output of the tap or the input to the CPE, you
are measuring signal amplitude, expressed in - ✔✔dBmV
✔✔Cable loss is expressed in - ✔✔dBmV
✔✔According to data speeds provided in module 12, the average download speed for
hsd service provided by cable operators is 10 mbps. By comparison what is the average
download speed from a phone companies DSL service? - ✔✔3 mbps
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔a house hook - ✔✔Is among the materials and tools required for attaching the drop
cable to the customer premises contact. The other materials and tools are personal
safety equipment, messenger drop wire clamps, and in awl or drill
✔✔During the Ariel drop attachment to the customer premises - ✔✔Attach the
messenger drop cable to the house hook using a messenger drop wire clamps
✔✔For an underground drop installation, the most important consideration in planning
the ground block location is - ✔✔Compliance with grounding and bonding requirements
✔✔In an underground Service drop installation - ✔✔Always use non messengered
flooded coaxial drop cable between the pedestal and the ground block
✔✔When planting a new underground drop cable route - ✔✔Ask the customer if he
would like to drop routed in any specific way
✔✔When an underground drop cable cannot be buried at the time of installation,
prepared for later burial of the cable by - ✔✔Running the unburied drop cable along a
fence line to minimize the hazard of anyone tripping over the drop \\ reporting the
temporary drop status to your Broadband cable system, so the cable can be buried
within the specified time frame
✔✔To hand bury drop cable - ✔✔Make the bottom of the cut in the ground as level as
possible, so the cable can lie flat
✔✔Plastic or polyethylene drop cable conduit - ✔✔Can either be plowed or polled into
the ground with a cable plow
✔✔To bury drop cable, a starting Trench and a receding pit typically are required to
perform - ✔✔Manual and machine boring
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true concerning tap enclosures in an
underground drop system? - ✔✔Always insert the Service drop cable under an inside
the pedestal or vault housing whenever possible in preparation for tap connection
✔✔To properly connect a buried drop cable to a tap port - ✔✔Use silicone grease or
some other method of weatherproofing the connection to prevent moisture penetrating
at the tap port
✔✔To properly route an attach buried drop cable on the premises exterior up to the
ground block location - ✔✔Choose a route that makes the cable inconspicuous and
uses the least amount of cable
✔✔Which of the following formulas calculates total cable loss - ✔✔cable footage x cable
loss
✔✔Which of the following formulas calculates total loss - ✔✔Insertion loss + total cable
loss
✔✔Which of the following formulas calculate expected output level - ✔✔Output level -
total loss
✔✔Assume a Series 6 cable length of 130 ft from the top to the ground block, what
would be the calculated cable loss - ✔✔7.93 dB
✔✔Assume cable length of 200 ft from the tap to the ground block, using series 11
cable what would be the calculated cable loss - ✔✔7.96 dB
✔✔When would you use series 11 drop cable instead of Series 6 - ✔✔For runs longer
than a 150 ft
✔✔How much signal is necessary from the subscribers tap port to provide a minimum
of 3.0 dBmV to the TV set, when they drop cable is 150 ft of Series 6 cable and just one
Outlet - ✔✔11.5 dBmV
✔✔When measuring signal levels at the output of the tap or the input to the CPE, you
are measuring signal amplitude, expressed in - ✔✔dBmV
✔✔Cable loss is expressed in - ✔✔dBmV
✔✔According to data speeds provided in module 12, the average download speed for
hsd service provided by cable operators is 10 mbps. By comparison what is the average
download speed from a phone companies DSL service? - ✔✔3 mbps
