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General exam question G8C09

Subelement G8, SIGNALS AND EMISSIONS· Group G8C

G8C09

Which is true of mesh network microwave nodes?

  • A.Having more nodes increases signal strengths
  • B.If one node fails, a packet may still reach its target station via an alternate node (correct answer)
  • C.Links between two nodes in a network may have different frequencies and bandwidths
  • D.More nodes reduce overall microwave out of band interference

WhyIn a mesh network of microwave nodes, if one node fails a packet may still reach its target station via an alternate node. A mesh network's defining strength is that its nodes can dynamically route around a failure, so if one node goes down, a packet can often still reach its destination by hopping through an alternate node in the mesh, answer B. Adding more nodes doesn't itself boost signal strength, links between different node pairs in the same mesh can and often do use different frequencies and bandwidths without that being a stated advantage of the mesh concept as posed here, and more nodes doesn't inherently reduce out-of-band interference, so A, C, and D are wrong.

Published 2026-08-28 · Last updated 2026-08-28 · Question text is verbatim from the 2023-2027 NCVEC Element 3 pool (public domain); the explanation above is original writing, see our methodology.

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