Set: 2 Volume: 1

1. What document is best suited to identify and correct safety hazards within the Communications Cable and Antenna Systems career field?

Air Force Instruction 36–2903, Dress and Personal Appearance of Air Force Personnel.

Air Force Instruction (AFI) 91–203, Air Force Consolidated Occupational Safety Instruction.

Air Force Manual 33–120, Electromagnetic Spectrum Management

Air Force Technical Order Form 781A, Maintenance Discrepancy and Work Document.

2. Under ideal situations, in what type of spaces would you like to perform a retrofit on base telecommunications cabling system?

Existing, filled

Occupied, filled

Collapsed, empty.

Unoccupied, empty

3. When doing aerial work, how many pounds are suspended in the middle of the span of strand to test it before you ride or place a ladder on it?

300

400

500

600

4. Which quality is a characteristic of a hazardous atmosphere?

A flammable gas between 4 to 8 percent of its lower explosive limit.

An atmosphere with less than 19.5 percent oxygen

An atmosphere with oxygen content of 22 percent.

An atmospheric concentration of a toxin lower than its permissible exposure limit.

5. What type of inspection is done before operating special purpose vehicles?

Visual

Quality

Weekly.

Maintenance.

6. What is the smallest amount, in mill amperes, of current is likely to be fatal?

5

50

500

5000

7. Which item is an example of a climbing hazard?

Dulled gaffs

New pole.

Hard hat.

Gloves.

8. For rope to maintain its rated strength, you must

Keep the rope coiled as much as possible.

Work out any kinks after stress is applied.

Store it near heated exhaust outlets.

Maintain its natural lay.

9. On an installation project, when an existing cable is transferred to a different cable and count, the existing number and count is identified by

Brackets with parentheses

Heavy bold text

Red pencil.

Underlining.

10. Which statement is correct concerning the four outriggers on the low-profile truck?

They have independent controls.

They all operate at the same time

They are used only during drilling.

The control operator cannot view them

11. How many pounds, maximum, can the man-carrying bucket on the low-profile line truck hold?

150

200

250

300

12. Pole pullers are used to

Pull pole guys

Loosen pole butts

Pull pole anchors

Pull poles out

13. Cable reel collars on the spindle bar of the cable reel truck

Enables the reel driver rollers to make contact with the spindle bar

Prevents the cable reel from “walking” on the spindle bar

Prevents the cable reel from turning during transportation

Serves as a braking device for the cable reel

14. To haul poles longer than the 5-ton Elliott combination pole and cable reel trailer's telescoping tongue handles,

Place a king pole with a portable drawbar on the trailer

Display lights, reflectors, and flags on the pole ends.

Remove the lunette from the telescoping tongue

First connect the trailer to the prime mover

15. What does the fiber optic splicing trailer provide?

A secure work area indoors only.

Environmental protection in- or outdoors

A controlled working environment

A pressurized working environment

16. When you park the trencher overnight or leave it unattended, never

Stop the engine

Park on uneven ground.

Set the parking brake

Lower attachments to the ground.

17. Which reflector shape is most widely used for microwave antennas?

Square

Parabola

Rectangle.

Half-sphere.

18. How many times can you reuse guy grips after installing them?

Zero.

One

Two

Three.

19. When retrofitting an existing cable plant, what is essential to determining whether any part of an existing telecommunications system will be reused?

Good communications with the customer

Existing Plant-in-Place records.

As built building records

Previously used cutsheets.

20. What type of tool would you use when you work on energized communications-electronics equipment?

Nonconductive

Wood handled

Plastic coated.

Metallic

21. When are hard hats with chinstraps used?

While climbing and working aloft.

Only while climbing

Its use is optional

All the time

22. Who determines the personnel authorized to climb structures to install and maintain cable and antenna systems?

Unit commander.

Team chief

Supervisor

Any noncommissioned officer.

23. Which item is not used to protect personnel working along streets and highways?

Barriers.

Guard railings.

Warning devices.

Safety belts

24. Hawser-laid rope is

Made of three strands twisted together.

Stronger and more pliable than shroud-laid rope

Normally used on sheaves and drums

Used in extremely heavy work.

25. If additional strength is essential at the point of attachment, which knot would you use?

Square

Bowline

Overhand

Bowline-on-a-bight.

26. New communication engineering is based on

The wing commander’s need.

Renovated facilities.

Existing drawings

Outdated equipment.

27. Before making changes to a cable project you obtain approval by submitting

A digging permit from civil engineering

An Engineering Change Request.

Annotated drawings to the Engineering Data Service Center (EDSC).

Annotated drawings to the base Communications and Information Systems Officer (CSO)

28. Up to how many pounds can the cable reels weigh on the truck cable reel lifter?

4,000

6,000.

8,000.

10,000

29. To use the duty winch on the cable reel truck, first, you must

Set throttle control

Adjust the gear control

Engage the winch clutch

Engage the power-take-off

30. How often do you check the fiber optic splicing trailer's generator?

Daily.

Weekly.

Every 5 hours

Before each use

31. Which statement is not true about trenching?

Grade stakes indicate to what depth the ditch must be dug.

For a guide, have someone walk the trench line in front of the trencher.

It is better to dig an inch or two below grade than to not dig deep enough.

Use a straight board, carpenter’s level and a measuring stick to check the grade.

32. How often do you clean your body belt (harness) and safety straps?

Every 3 months.

Every 6 months.

Twice every 8 months

Once annually

33. Which layer of the atmosphere is a good reflector of electromagnetic waves?

Ozonosphere

Troposphere

Stratosphere.

Ionosphere.

34. When working on poles or towers, attach the hand line to

Your body.

Your body belt

Your safety strap

A crossarm, pole or tower

35. What causes rope to stiffen and become slippery?

Water

Solder

Paraffin

Penetrox.

36. Which is not drawn to scale on a cable vault record?

Tip cable

Shape of the vault

Distribution frame

Underground cable.

37. The correct engine speed to start digging with the low-profile truck should be about

1,000 revolutions per minute (rpm).

1,200 rpm

2,000 rpm.

2,200 rpm.

38. How often are the air tanks on the low-profile line truck opened to discharge condensation?

Daily

Weekly

Bi-weekly

Monthly

39. Before leather is cleaned with neutral soap, it should be

Oiled with neat’s-foot oil

Wiped off to remove surface dirt

Soaked with lukewarm water.

Cleaned with gasoline and rinsed in water

40. How many wires make up the ground screen on the discone grounding system?

60

72

84

96

41. Which newly installed poles must be equipped with 12-foot marker points?

Transmission line

Antenna support.

Telephone

All installed poles.

42. When using guy grips, what is placed on the strand to keep it from unraveling?

Lashing wire.

Friction tape

Strand vise.

Guy grip.

43. The front-wheel brake limits control on the low-profile truck

To allow the front brakes to work

Only during a vehicle emergency

To adjust brake power in varying road conditions

When 60 pounds of air brake pressure is obtained.

44. Which part of the low-profile line truck will not operate if the truck bed is not leveled?

The spirex boom extension.

The carrier bucket

The deck winch.

The derrick.

45. Manual transmissions on most forklifts have two levers, one for forward and

One for reverse

One lever for neutral

One for the gear ratio

Reverse and one for the gear ratio

46. When you move a pallet with a forklift, how many inches from the floor should you keep it?

2 to 4.

2 to 6.

6 to 12.

6 to 18.

47. What is the purpose of the turnbuckle safety installation on guy attachments?

Prevents backing off.

Secures temporary guys.

Secures guys to anchor rods

Replaces locking devise

48. Obstruction specifications for a 150 foot tower requires seven band markings. What color is the lowest and highest band?

Red

White

Orange

Yellow

49. A snubbing hitch is used for

Snubbing off hand lines to a tower base.

Fastening the end of a rope to a hook.

Raising or lowering heavy objects

Tying down loads under tension.

50. What type of base address number is always 00000 in the command, control, communications, and computer system installation record identification code?

Grid drawing.

Mixed drawing

Building drawing

Planning drawing.

51. How many derrick sections are on a low-profile truck?

One

Two

Three

Four

52. To make some hydraulic cable trailers completely self-powered, what are they equipped with?

Gasoline engine

Adjustable reel-drive

Hydraulic drive wheel.

Adjustable lifting arms

53. Correctly position the safety strap to the climbing harness D-ring by placing the keeper part of the snap hook toward the

Back and above the snap hook of the double end.

Back and below the snap hook of the double end

Front and below the snap hook of the double end.

Front and above the snap hook of the double end.

54. What is a line called that has no standing waves of current and voltage?

Resonant.

Radiating

Nonresonant

Nonradiating.

55. In order to convert an antenna from bi-directional to unidirectional, you must make the antenna

Resonant.

Nonresonant.

Half-wave

Quarter-wave.

56. If compressed air is used to clean equipment, limit the air pressure to less than

60 pounds per square inch (psi).

50 psi

40 psi

30 psi

57. Radar and microwave equipment are sources of what type of radiation?

Non-ionizing

Ionizing

Gamma

X-ray

58. The cable reel truck's grease fittings must be lubricated after how many hours of service

50

60

150

160

59. What is the horsepower class of model 6510 Ditch Witch®?

35

45

55

65

60. What size engine powers the model 3510 Ditch Witch®?

4-cylinder gasoline

4-cylinder diesel

6-cylinder gasoline

6-cylinder diesel

61. You clean the backhoe thoroughly and drain the fuel before you store it to

Avoid corrosion

Inhibit the parts from seizing.

Reduce the fire hazard.

Prevent fuel contamination.

62. Which safety regulation states "Supervisors shall ensure all safety climbing equipment is inspected by a competent person prior to each day's use"?

Air Force Instruction (AFI) 91–301, Air Force Occupational and Environmental Safety, First Protection, and Health (AFOSH) Program.

Air Force Occupational Safety and Health Standard (AFOSH STD) 91–25, Confined Spaces.

AFI 91–203, Air Force Consolidated Occupational Safety Instruction.

AFOSH STD 91–501, Air Force Consolidated Occupational Safety Standard.

63. What is caused by the imperfect insulating quality of the medium between the wires?

Inductance.

Capacitance.

Series resistance

Shunt conductance

64. At higher frequencies, radiation is greater and continues to increase as

Voltage increases.

Resistance decreases

Frequency increase

Capacitance decreases.

65. The efficiency with which radio waves are reflected depends on the

Strength of the signal.

Reflecting medium.

Frequency

Weather.

66. One common maintenance practice on a High Frequency Discone Antenna is to verify tension of down lead radiator elements by

Test pulls.

Chain hoist

Tensiometer.

In-line dynamometer.

67. What percent of the load, on the 5-ton Elliott combination pole and cable reel trailer, should you place over the front axle?

30.

40

50

60

68. You should keep the inside of the fiber optic splicing trailer clean to prevent

The parts from corroding

Losing materials

Contaminating the environment

Contaminating the fibers

69. When climbing, what term refers to insufficient pole penetration?

Creep stepping

Pole jockeying

Sneak climbing

Slapping the pole

70. Which is a common type of passive repeater?

Mirror.

Parabola.

Billboard.

Refraction.

71. When performing preventative maintenance on a telecommunications infrastructure there are three areas to check: communications-eletctronic (C-E), for breaks, end equipment, for corrosion, and

Cutsheets, for pair counts

Cable splices, for water damage

Electrical system, for proper operation

Grounding system, for electrical charge.

72. Transmission lines may be broadly classified according to their use. Whatever the particular application, transmission lines can be described as

Multiwire, coaxial, or elliptical lines

Single-wire, coaxial, or elliptical lines

Single-wire, multiwire, or coaxial lines

Single-wire, multiwire, or elliptical lines

73. What size guy strand is normally specified for support poles?

2.2, 6, and 10.

2.2, 6, and 16.

2.2, 10, and 16.

6, 10, and 16

74. Which statement about self-supporting towers is not correct?

Foundations must be sufficiently resistant to hold up the legs.

Towers can be erected most effectively by a mobile crane.

The legs are usually anchored on one large foundation.

They usually taper from the bottom to the top.

75. Which field is intercepted by receiving antennas in range?

Electric.

Magnetic

Induction.

Radiation.

76. Which antenna has an advantage of increased gain and directivity along with large amounts of radiated energy in a smaller sector?

Dipole

Conical.

Long-wire.

Log-periodic.

77. Which type of guyed tower base makes raising and lowering the tower an easy task?

Pivoted.

Tapered.

Insulated.

Composite.

78. To bind a load of poles, never use a

Wire rope

Winch line

Portable load binder

Permanent load binder

79. The impedance of a transmission line is the ratio between the voltage and the

Resistance

Current.

Power

Amps

80. How often should you test your climber gaffs for shape or sharpness?

Every day

After each use.

At least once weekly

At least once monthly

81. Which factors determine the rectangular waveguide's characteristics?

Length and width

Height and width

Height and thickness

Length and thickness

82. The turning radius of a horizontally installed AS 3482 Rotatable Log Periodic wire curtain is how many feet?

100

90

80

70

83. When plumbing a self-supporting tower, how many inches offset, per 50 feet of tower, can the tower be and is still considered plumb?

1/2

1

1 1/2

2

84. How many letters are in the geographical location indicator category code?

One

Two

Three

Four

85. Which element, of the drawing identification number, indicates the purpose of the drawing?

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

86. Distribution cables connected to a main or feeder cable through a cross-connection terminal is identified by the suffix

AA

A1

00

01

87. Which antenna uses a fiberglass radome to protect it from unfavorable weather conditions?

AS–3482/GRC.

AS–1181/UR.

AT–197/GR.

Monopole.

88. Which antenna has a four-element stacked array enclosed in a cylindrical waterproof radome?

AS–3482/GRC

AS–1181/UR

AT–197/GR.

1097/GR

89. What form, when signed by the host unit, is used to accept a completed Communications Cable and Antenna Systems project?

Air Force Information Management Tool (IMT) 103, Base Civil Engineering Work ClearanceRequest

AF IMT 332, Base Civil Engineer Work Request

AF Form 1261, Communications and Information Systems Acceptance Certificate.

AF IMT 1297, Temporary Issue Receipt.

90. What determines how poles or buildings are numbered?

Cable number with a T prefix

Cable terminals number with a T prefix

Terminals in sequence with a P or B prefix

Assigned by base civil engineer with a P or B prefix.

91. An electromagnetic field, known as radio waves, is usually divided into two parts. The two fields are known as

Induction and radiation

Induction and ionization.

Radiation and refraction.

Ionization and refraction.

92. Pole depth markers are installed how many feet from the butt (bottom) of the pole?

6

10

12

15

93. Which of the below is not an inherent property of transmission lines?

Resistance

Reactance.

Inductance.

Capacitance.

94. How many digits are in the numbers of cables terminated at the central office?

One

Two

Three

Four

95. The complete 5-ton Elliott combination pole and cable reel trailer includes

A removable rear bolster

A removable front bolster

Four permanent stanchions

Four removable upright adapters

96. Microwave antennas are checked, when performing maintenance inspections, for all of the following except.

Deteriorated radomes.

Improper guy tension

Defective grounding connectors.

Tower out of plumb

97. How often is the working set of command, control, communications and computer (C4) system installation records marked?

Hourly.

Daily.

Weekly

Monthly.

98. How many dipole elements does an AS–3482/GRC rotatable log-periodic antenna curtain have?

18

19

20

21

99. When performing aerial work on joint use poles, what is the minimum distance (inches) between a power cable with up to 87,000 volts and a communications cable?

70

60

50

40

100. You install a new 30 foot pole in firm ground. How many feet deep is the pole placed into the ground?

4

5

6

7