BICSI INSTALLER 1 LATEST 2026 EXAM TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Voltage, current, and amperes - ✔✔P(Power)=V(voltage) x I(Current)
✔✔What is bandwidth expressed in - ✔✔analog frequencies (0Hz to 1MHz)
✔✔AWG - ✔✔Smaller number - bigger wire
Higher number - smaller wire
✔✔A balanced twisted pair has... - ✔✔a nominal characteristic impedance of 100 Ohms
✔✔A unbalanced coaxial cable has... - ✔✔a nominal characteristic impedance of 75
Ohms
✔✔Category 3
Category 5e
Category 6
Category 6A
Category 8 - ✔✔16 MHz
100 MHz
250 MHz
500 MHz
2000 MHz
✔✔8P8C -A pinout - ✔✔White/green
Green
White/Orange
Blue
White/blue
Orange
White/brown
Brown
✔✔USOC RJ-61 pinout - ✔✔White/brown
White/green
White/orange
Blue
White/blue
Orange
Green
Brown
✔✔EF - ✔✔Entrance Facilities - telecommunications services entrance to the building.
Underground, tunnel, buried, Aerial, and wireless
, ✔✔ER - ✔✔Houses equipment that serves an entire building unlike a TR that serves a
single floor
✔✔TR - ✔✔Telecommunications room - serves one floor
✔✔TE - ✔✔A TE is a subset of a TR that generally serves a limited space. NOT TO BE
USED TO REPLACE A TR
✔✔Normal rack height and width? - ✔✔7 feet tall and 19/23 inches wide
✔✔Conduit fill ratio - ✔✔40 percent for new installation, not to exceed 60 percent
✔✔J-hooks - ✔✔Typically used to hold up to 50 cables. Placed every 4-5 feet to
support cable
✔✔Surface Mount Box types - ✔✔Shallow, Standard, and Deep
✔✔What are the six elements of professionalism listed in the ITSIMM - ✔✔
✔✔An installer should _ in public, and _ in private - ✔✔Praise. Correct.
✔✔Cabling installation companies are dependent on _ for new and repeat business -
✔✔Customers
✔✔What are the percentages of communication perception? - ✔✔Body language - 55%
Tone of voice - 38%
Word choice - 7%
✔✔What are three ways to minimize EMI? - ✔✔Using shielded cable (STP)
Using fiber instead of copper
Putting the cable in conduit (shielded pathway)
✔✔1 sine wave = _ - ✔✔1 Hz
✔✔The number of cycles a signal is repeated in a given time period is defined as the _ -
✔✔Frequency
✔✔10,000 MHz = _ GHz - ✔✔10
✔✔An analog signal varies in what two aspects? - ✔✔amplitude and frequency
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Voltage, current, and amperes - ✔✔P(Power)=V(voltage) x I(Current)
✔✔What is bandwidth expressed in - ✔✔analog frequencies (0Hz to 1MHz)
✔✔AWG - ✔✔Smaller number - bigger wire
Higher number - smaller wire
✔✔A balanced twisted pair has... - ✔✔a nominal characteristic impedance of 100 Ohms
✔✔A unbalanced coaxial cable has... - ✔✔a nominal characteristic impedance of 75
Ohms
✔✔Category 3
Category 5e
Category 6
Category 6A
Category 8 - ✔✔16 MHz
100 MHz
250 MHz
500 MHz
2000 MHz
✔✔8P8C -A pinout - ✔✔White/green
Green
White/Orange
Blue
White/blue
Orange
White/brown
Brown
✔✔USOC RJ-61 pinout - ✔✔White/brown
White/green
White/orange
Blue
White/blue
Orange
Green
Brown
✔✔EF - ✔✔Entrance Facilities - telecommunications services entrance to the building.
Underground, tunnel, buried, Aerial, and wireless
, ✔✔ER - ✔✔Houses equipment that serves an entire building unlike a TR that serves a
single floor
✔✔TR - ✔✔Telecommunications room - serves one floor
✔✔TE - ✔✔A TE is a subset of a TR that generally serves a limited space. NOT TO BE
USED TO REPLACE A TR
✔✔Normal rack height and width? - ✔✔7 feet tall and 19/23 inches wide
✔✔Conduit fill ratio - ✔✔40 percent for new installation, not to exceed 60 percent
✔✔J-hooks - ✔✔Typically used to hold up to 50 cables. Placed every 4-5 feet to
support cable
✔✔Surface Mount Box types - ✔✔Shallow, Standard, and Deep
✔✔What are the six elements of professionalism listed in the ITSIMM - ✔✔
✔✔An installer should _ in public, and _ in private - ✔✔Praise. Correct.
✔✔Cabling installation companies are dependent on _ for new and repeat business -
✔✔Customers
✔✔What are the percentages of communication perception? - ✔✔Body language - 55%
Tone of voice - 38%
Word choice - 7%
✔✔What are three ways to minimize EMI? - ✔✔Using shielded cable (STP)
Using fiber instead of copper
Putting the cable in conduit (shielded pathway)
✔✔1 sine wave = _ - ✔✔1 Hz
✔✔The number of cycles a signal is repeated in a given time period is defined as the _ -
✔✔Frequency
✔✔10,000 MHz = _ GHz - ✔✔10
✔✔An analog signal varies in what two aspects? - ✔✔amplitude and frequency
