What Is a Telecommunications System

question 44

Multiple Choice

What is a telecommunications system?

• A) Enables the transmission of data over public or private networks
• B) A communications, data exchange, and resource-sharing system created by linking two or more computers and establishing standards, or protocols, so that they can work together
• C) Any network without a central file server and in which all computers in the network have access to the public files located on all other workstations
• D) A computer that is designed to request information from a server

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Definitions:

Earnings per Share

A company's profit divided by its number of common outstanding shares.

Weighted-average Shares

A calculation used in financial reporting that adjusts the number of outstanding shares for their time outstanding during the calculation period.

Retained Earnings

Earnings accumulated by a company thus far, after subtracting any dividends or distributions made to shareholders.

Price-earnings Ratio

A valuation metric for companies, representing the ratio of a company's share price to its per-share earnings.