Chapter 14 - Fiber Optic Installation Practices

 

 

1. How many safety tips are given?

@4

 

2. Most cables have a strength member for pulling, and some special cables can be pulled by the jackets, but you should never pull a cable by what?

@Fiber

 

3. Damage to fiber optic cable caused in pulling can be reversed by sending the cable back to the factory.  T or F

@False

 

4. After you have followed the jacket slitter steps, what do you use to slit the jacket as far as necessary?

@Pull string or ripcord

 

5. Which cable is best for short runs inside a building with subcables being connected to patch panels?

@Breakout cable

 

6. What type of cable is in a breakout cable?

@Single fiber subcables

 

7. Where are distribution cables used?

@In dry conduit or short riser applications

 

9. What is the common tools that cuts the outside and armor of armored cable?

@Tubing cutter blade

 

10. What does the “gooey mess” inside a loose tube cable do?

@Protect the fibers from moisture or water

 

11. What is required for most loose tube cables for termination?

@Installing a breakout kit 

 

12. What is the size of the protective buffer around the fiber on a loose tube cable?

@250-micron buffering coating

 

13. What makes a fiber brittle?

@Moisture

 

14. What puts a twist in a cable and then takes it out again for long cable pulls?

@Figure 8

 

15. What are the three basic steps to connector termination?

      1. Prepare the cable to be terminated

      2. Assemble the connector onto the cable

      3. Scribe and polish the assembled connector

 

16. What do you use the scribe tool for?

@To scribe the glass.

 

17. Most of the time singlemode and multimode fibers use the same polishing technique.  T or F?

@True

 

18. What should you always do to the end of the cables before testing?

@Terminate

 

19. Place in order the basic procedures for every splice – fusion or mechanical:

      1. Preparing the cable ends

      2. Striping and cleaving the fiber

      3. Aligniing and optimizing the splice

      4. Fixing the splice to hold the fiber permanently

      5. Testing the splice for loss

 

Chapter 15 - The Business of Data, Voice, and Video Cabling

 

 

1.   1. Reaching customers and convincing them to use our services

      2. Identifying the customers' needs, furnishing them with prices, and entering into

          transactions

      3. Performing services according to the customer's needs

      4. Completing the terms of contracts and collecting payment

2.

3.   1. Company brochure

      2. Direct mail

4. Know how to find the necessary answers

5. How the job will flow and, more importantly, where the money will come from, and when

6. The distribution system for electrical construction materials is highly developed and compact.

     Finding the materials you need, when you need them, is generally not much of a problem.

7.   1. Base labor unit (and the material cost)

      2. Connect labor

8. Connect labor

9. Normal labor

10. Takeoff

11.       1. Review the symbol list.

      2. Review the specifications

      3. Mark all items that have been counted

      4. Always take off the most expensive itmes first

      5. Obtain quantities from other quantities whenever possible

      6. Do not rush

      7. Maintain a good atmosphere

      8. Develop mental pictures of the project

12. Request for Proposal (When someone wants a bid from you, he/she will send you an RFP

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14. Local labor inspector