Sample Questions: 9.

The property used to solve the fourier

transform of the imaginary and real part of the
Signals and Spectra
given function.
1. What describes the frequency of the signal (in
A. Integration in time domain
scientific form)?
B. Conjugate functions*
A. Spectra* C. domain
C. Differentiation in time domain
B. Range D. fold
D. Frequency shifting
2. In digital signal processing (DSP). Which of the
10. It is the opposite property of differentiation in
following is NOT a domain of digital signals?
time domain
A. Spatial domain
A. Integration in time domain*
B. One dimension domain *
B. Conjugate functions
C. Autocorrelation domain
C. Differentiation in the time domain
D. Wavelet domain
D. Frequency shifting
3. It is defined at the cross-correlation of the
NOISE
signal with itself over varying intervals of time
11. Energy content of atmospheric noise
and space?
A. Does not depend of frequency
A. Spatial C. Wavelet
B. Decreases as frequency increased*
B. Autocorrelation* D. Time
C. Increases as frequency is increased
D. Either (A) or (C) depending on the
4. In time and space domain of digital signals.
temperature
What method is used to enhance input signal?
A. Amplifying C. doubling
12. A receiver connected to an antenna whose
B. Inserting D. filtering*
resistance is 50 ohms has an equivalent noise
resistance of 30 ohms. What is the receiver’s
5. Filters are characterize as finite impulse
noise temperature?
response when
A. 754K C. 464K
A. It uses only the input signals.*
B. 174K* D. 293K
B. It uses both the input signal and previous
samples of the output signal
13. Considered as the main source of an internal
C. It use only one input signal and the previous
noise
samples of the output signal
A. Flicker
D. It uses only the output signal
B. Thermal agitation*
C. Device imperfection
6. Filters are characterize as infinite impulse
D. Temperature change
response when
A. It uses only the input signals
14. What is the noise current for a diode with a
B. It uses both the input signal and previous
forwards bias of 1mA over a 1 MHz bandwiith?
samples of the output signal*
A. 179 nA C. 17.9 nA*
C. It use only one input signal and the previous
B. 91.5 uA D. 9.15 nA
samples of the output signal
D. It uses only the output signal
15. An amplifier with a half 6 dB has a (S/N) of 25
dB. what is the output S/N?
7. Which of the following is a method to find the
A. 25 dB C. 91 dB
coefficients from the specifications of a filter?
B. 6 dB D. 19 dB*
A. Frequency sampling
B. Window design
16. What is the percent modulation for an AM
C. Minimax design
wave that has a power content of 12W in the
D. All of the above*
carrier and 2kW in each sideband when
modulated in a single tone?
8. A transform used to express signal equation in
A. 66% C. 75%
frequency domain.
B. 30% D. 82%*
A. Laplace C. Z
B. Wavelet D. Fourier*
17. Three audio waves with 100, 200 and 300 volts 25. In radio communication systems, the main
amplitudes respectively, simultaneously advantage of base modulation by the collector
modulate a 450 volts carrier. What is the total modulations of a Class C transistor amplifier is
percent of modulation of the AM wave? ____.
A. 69% C. 115.5% A. The lower modulating power required*
B. 50% D. 83%* B. Better amplifier efficiency
C. Increase power output
18. If the 500 Hz modulation of a 1 MHz carrier has D. Better linearity produced
3rd harmonic distortion, what is the emission
bandwidth? FREQUENCY MOD
A. 1 KHz C. 3 kHz* 26. A 1000kHz carrier is simultaneously modulated
B. 1500 Hz D. 1 MHz with 300Hz, 800Hz and 2kHz audio sine waves.
Which of the following frequency is least likely
19. What produces splatter in an AM transmission? to be preset in the output?
A. harmonics C. clipping A. 1002 kHz C. 1000 kHz*
B. flickering D. overmodulation* B. 999.2 kHz D. 998.0 kHz

20. The modulation index of an AM wave is 27. Inputs c(t) and m(t) are used to generate an
changed from 0 to 2. The transmitted power is? FM signal. If the peak frequency deviation of
A. Halved the generated FM signal is three times the
B. doubled transmission bandwidth of the AM signal, then
C. Unchanged the coefficient of the term cos[2p(1008 x
D. Increased by 50%* 10^3t) in the FM signal (in terms of the Bessel
Coefficients) is
RADIO COMM CKTS A. 5 l(3)
21. Which of the following is the indirect way of FM B. 5/2 I(5)
generation? C. 5/2 I(4)
A. Reactance bipolar transistor modulator D. 5 I(6)*
B. Armstrong modulator*
C. Varactor diode modulator 28. In radio regulation, the first symbol in the
D. Reactance FM modulator designation of radio emission is
A. Bandwidth
22. What do you call a heterodyne frequency B. Nature of signal(s) modulating the main
changer? carrier
A. Modulator C. Type of modulation of the main carrier*
B. mixer* D. Type of information to be transferred
C. Frequency translator
D. Frequency synthesizer 29. A 88-MHz FM carrier is modulated by an audio
tone that caused a frequency deviation of
23. A method of generating SSB signal that utilizes 15kHz. What is the carrier using of this FM
only one balanced modulator circuit? signal?
A. Filter method* A. 30 kHz* C. 60 kHz
B. Phase – shift method B. 15 kHz D. 20 kHz
C. Weaver method
D. Third method 30. For a 75-Mhz FM carrier modulated by a 5kHz
audio turns that causes a frequency deviation
24. In a radio communication system, in a of 15 kHz, determine the FM signal bandwidth?
superheterodyne receiver, among the stages A. 80kHz C. 100kHz
enumerated below, which is tuned first? It is B. 200 kHz D. 40 kHz*
the _____ stage.
A. 1st detector C. RF
nd
B. 2 detector* D. Audio amplifier
WAVE PROPAGATION ACOUSTICS/BROADCAST
31. In radio wave propagation, the wavelength of a 38. A woofer should be fed from the input through
Super High frequency (SHF) is ____ meters. a
A. 1.0 to 0.10 C. 0.10 to 0.01* A. Low pass filter*
B. 0.01 to 0.0010 D. 0.001 to 0.0001 B. High pass filter
C. Band pass filter
32. In accordance with the Philippine Electronics D. Band stop filter
Code. The maximum accumulated permissible
dose (MPD) of radiation associated with radio 39. In Closed Circuit TV(CCTV) systems, for purpose
transmitters for a human being when 50 years of detection, the image of the person should
old is ____ rem. NOT be less than ____ percent of the height of
A. 42 C. 60 the screen.
B. 160* D. 360 A. 10* C.5
B. 25 D. 12
33. In the past, shortwave radio broadcasting
stations are widely used, such as those used by DIGITAL COMM
Voice of America broadcast station in the 40. Frequency shift keying is used mostly in
Philippines. The wavelength of short wave A. telegraphy*
signals are approximately _____. B. telephony
A. 10m to 1000m C. 1.0m to 100m C. satellite communication
B. 10m to 100m* D. 100mm to 10m D. radio communication

34. In radio communication systems, what do you 41. The category of ISDN digital service that adds
call the effect that occurs in some amplifier an additional layer of functionality, including
where in the internal capacitance of the actual reverse charge, call waiting and others in the
device can cause feedback that produces the ____ services.
same effect on the circuit as a much larger A. Value added C. supplementary*
capacitance across the amplifier input? It is B. data D. bearer
called ____.
A. Colpitts C. Miller* 42. It is the most common means of overcoming
B. Pierce D. Crystal the problems of quantizing error and noise.
A. multiplexing
35. The tropospheric scatter signal is often B. companding*
characterized by very rapid fading caused by C. amplifying
which of the following factors? D. anti-aliasing
A. Extreme path lengths
B. Multipath propagation* 43. Inaccuracies caused by the representation of a
C. Turbulence in the atmosphere continuously varying quantity as one of a
D. Angle of the transmitter beam number of discrete values.
A. alias signal
MULTIPLEXING B. slope overload
36. The carrier frequency for channel 12 in a group C. distortion
formation is D. quantizing errors*
A. 68kHz C. 60kHz
B. 22kHz D. 64kHz* 44. In the pulse-code modulation block diagram,
what block translates the quantized samples
37. It is a multiplexing system similar to into digital code words.
conventional time-division multiplexing A. ADC C. DAC
concept that it was developed to be used with B. encoder* D. decoder
optical fibers.
A. PDM C. SONET*
B. STDM D. OTDM
45. Showed mathematically that it is possible to 52. Use an audio tone of two or more different
reconstruct a band-limited analog signal from frequencies to modulate a conventional analog
periodic samples as long as the sampling rate is transmitter for data transmission
at least twice the frequency of the highest A. Audio Amplitude Shift Keying (AASK)
frequency component of the signal. B. Audio Frequency Shift Keying (AFSK)*
A. Shannon Harley C. Audio Quadrature Amplitude
B. Claude E. Shannon Modulation(AQAM)
C. Harry Nyquist* D. Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)
D. R. Hartley
53. CAP modulation is a variant of QAM used with
46. For PCM system with the following parameters ADSL data communication systems. What does
determine the minimum number of bits used. CAP mean?
Maximum analog frequency 4kHz maximum A. Carrierless Amplitude Phase*
decoded voltage is 12.5V. Maximum dynamic B. Carrier Amplitude Phase
range 199.5 C. Canadian American Phase
A. 7 C. 6 D. Correlation of Amplitude & Phase
B. 8* D. 9
54. A digital modulation scheme that represents a
47. Calculate the minimum data rate needed to bit pattern by a change in phase from the
transmit audio with sampling rate of 30kHz and previous phase.
14 bits per sample. A. Digital Phase Shift Keying
A. 420 b/s C. 420 Kb/s* B. Differential Phase Shift Keying
B. 420 Mb/s D. 420 Gb/s C. Delta Phase Shift Keying*
D. Delta Shift Keying
48. A signal at the input a p-Layer compressor is
positive, with its voltage one-half the 55. DMT modulation is a modulation scheme for
maximum value. What proportion of the ADSL data communication systems that uses
maximum output voltage is produced? many carriers at different frequencies each
A. 0.876 Vo* C. 0.67 Vo modulated using QAM. What does DMT mean?
B. 0.768 Vo D. 0.867 Vo A. Discrete Multi-tone*
B. Digital Multi-tone
49. The significance of quantizing noise ____ as the C. Digital Multipurpose
number of bits per sample ____. D. Data Multi-tone
A. Decrease, Increase*
B. Increase, decrease TELEVISION
C. Decrease, decrease 56. A newer system of cable TV in which a fiber –
D. Increase, increase optic cable and a coaxial cable rather that just a
coaxial cable is used.
50. Compute the baud rate for a 72000 bps 64- A. MATV system
QAM signal. B. CCTV system
A. 12,000 baud* C. 1,200 baud C. Hybrid Fiber Cable (HFC) system*
B. 120,000 baud D. 12 baud D. Cable TV FIDS

51. The most common circuit used for 57. The receiving antenna used in CATV should be
demodulating binary FSK signals. cut to respective channel frequency for
A. squarer optimum reception with a front-to-back ratio
B. Phased Lock Loop* not less than _____dB.
C. band pass filter A. 14 C. 24
D. frequency divider B. 18* D. 15
58. When would optical fibers be used in an
Ethernet type LAN?
A. Never the standard calls for coaxial cable.
B. To extend transmission distance to reach
remote terminals*
C. Routinely the standard allows for optical
fiber
D. When transmission speeds exceed 50Mbps
59. Proposed the use of clad glass fiber in a
dielectric waveguide
A. Karpon and keck
B. Karpon and beckhem
C. Bockham and kao*
D. Kao and keck
60. What is the maximum core diameter for a fiber
if it is to operate in single mode at a
wavelength of 1550 mm if the NA is 0.12?
A. 99.9 um
B. -0.99 um
C. 9.9 um*
D. 99 um
TELEPHONY
61. A cordless telephone using separation
frequencies for transmission in base and
portable units is known as
A. Duplex arrangement*
B. Half Duplex arrangement
C. Simplex arrangement
D. Full-full Duplex arrangement
62. A telephone exchange has 9000 subscribers. If
the number of calls originated at peak time is
10,000 in one hour, the call rate is
A. 0.9 C. 10.9*
B. 0.81 D. 0.5
63. It is a database that stores information
pertaining to the identification and type of
equipment that exists in the mobile unit.
A. Home Location
B. Visitor Location Registry
C. Registry Main Location
D. Equipment identification Registry*
64. The difference between the lineside and the
trunkside interface is that
A. Trunkside has the requirement BORSCHT,
and lineside does not.
B. Lineside interfaces are usually multiplexed
analog carrier systems.
C. Lineside refers to the subscribers loop, and
trunkside to connections to other
switches.*
ANTENNA
65. In order to obtain reasonable efficiency with a
ƛ/4 vertical antenna mounted over poorly
conducting coil at a frequency of 10Mhz, It is
necessary to
A. Make the antenna out of large diameter
aluminum or copper tubing.
B. Suspend the antenna form a kite or ballon
C. Feed the antenna with a waveguide
D. Minimize the loss resistance by installing
numerous ground radicals*
66. In a zepp antenna. “feedline radiation” can be
minimized by
A. Using the antenna only at frequencies
where its length is whole-number multiple
of ƛ/2*
B. Using the antenna only at frequencies
where its length is whole-number multiple
of ƛ/10
C. Using the antenna only at frequencies
where its length is whole-number multiple
of ƛ/4
D. Using the antenna only at frequencies
where its length is whole-number multiple
of ƛ/4
67. Consider a single-turn closed loop having a
circumference of 65 ft. Suppose this loop is
circular, lies entirely in a straight in a single
plane, is fed with open-wire transmission line
and an antenna tuner, and is operated at 7Mhz.
The maximum radiation and response for this
loop can be expected to occur
A. In the plane containing the loop*
B. Along a line perpendicular to the plane
containing the loop
C. Along a line coinciding with the path of the
feeding
D. Equally in all directions in the three-
dimensional space.
68. Suppose the total resistance in an antenna
system is 80ohms and the loss resistance is
20ohms. The efficiency of the system is
A. 80%
B. 75%*
C. 25%
D. Impossible to determine without more
information.
TRANSMISSION LINES
69. What is the characteristic impedance of a single
wire with diameter of 0.25mm placed at the
center between grounded planes separated by
2mm apart. The wire held by a material with a
dielectric constant of 1.78
A. 1.38 ohms C. 73.2 ohms*
B. 234.5 ohms D. none of these
70. What is the phase shift coefficient of a
transmission line where the wavelength of a
signal is 0.1 meter.
A. 62.63 radians per meter*
B. 32.41 radians per meter
C. 94.24 radians per meter
D. 125.66 radians per meter
71. What is the characteristic impedance of the
transmission line whose capacitance is 20
pico(farad) while the inductance is 0.1
microfarad.
A. 5000 ohms C. 70.71 ohms*
B. 2500 ohms D. 140 ohms
72. What is the reflection coefficient of a
transmission line whose standing wave ration is
6?
A. 1.4 C. 0.166
B. 12 D. 0.71*
73. A transmission line is operating at 400Mhz, and
its primary constants are R= 0.1 ohms/meter.
L=0.2 microhenry per meter, G= 8
microSiemens per meter, C= 90 picofarad per
meter. What is its attenuation constant.
A. 0.0037 neper per meter
B. 10.66 neper per meter
C. 47.16 neper per meter
D. 0.001116 neper per meter*
74. Which is the wavelength of a signal whose
frequency is 1Ghz on a transmission line whose
dielectric constant is 2.2?
A. 0.136 meter C. 0.2 meter*
B. 0.6 meter D. 0.44 meter
75. A quarter wavelength transmission line
terminated in a short circuit is equivalent to a
A. Series LC circuit
B. Short circuit
C. Parallel circuit
D. Parallel LC circuit*
76. The sharing of a communication satellite by
many geographically dispersed station. DAMA
means
A. Demand Assigned Multiple Access*
B. Decibel Attenuated Microwave Access
C. Digital Analog Master Antenna
D. Dynamically-Assigned Multiple Access
77. The propagation communication satellite APPLE
is parked in the equatorial orbit at
A. 102 deg (longitude over sumathra)*
B. 90 deg(longitude over Banladesh)
C. 74 deg(longitude over India)
D. 62 deg(longitude over Pakistan)
MICROWAVE COMM & WAVEGUIDE
78. In radar system PRF stands for
A. Power Return Factor
B. Pulse Return Factor
C. Pulse Repetition Frequency*
D. Pulse Response Factor
79. In a waveguide, the whole field pattern forward
from superposition of two plane waves
travelling in different direction is know as____.
A.TEM C. mode*
B. path D. pattern
80. A certain waveguide is a rectangular with an
inner cross section of 22.86 mm by 10.16 mm.
Calculate its group velocity if frequency of the
signal is 10Ghz?
A. 67 x 103 m/s
B. 227 x 106 m/s*
C. 357 x 106 m/s
D. 34 x 109 m/s
81. Consider a space diversity microwave radio
system at an RF carrier frequency of 1.8GHz.
Each station has 2.4 m diameter parabolic
antenna that is fed by 100m of an filled coaxial
cable. The terrain is smooth and the area has a
humid climate. The distance between stations
is 40km. A reliability objective of 99.99% is
required. Determine the fade margin?
A. 41.5 dB C. 31.4 dB*
B. 20.5 dB D. 52.3 dB
82. What is the broadcast ID of the seventh subnet 88. Network 205.143.5.0 was assigned to Steve
created using 172.16.0.0/28? Company to connect to its ISP. The Network
A. 172.16.0.7 C. 172.16.0.7 administration of Steve would like to configure
B. 173.16.0.110 D. 172.16.0.111* one router with commands to access the
internet Which commands could be configured
83. How many subnet are created by the address on the gateway router to allow internet access
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.254? to the entire network?
A. 8 C. 16 A. Gateway(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0
B. 32* D. 64 206.143.5.2*
B. Gateway(config)#ip address 206.143.5.7
84. How many hosts are on the network 255.255.255.252
172.16.41.0/27? C. Gateway(config)#router rip
A. 24 C. 30* D. Gateway(config-router)#network
B. 62 D. 126 206.143.5.2

85. Why is VLSM important to modern IP network? 89. Which command display the configuration
A. Because networks that use the same mask register setting?
cannot route. A. show ip route
B. Because every subnet must use a different B. show boot version
mask to avoid conflicts. C. show version*
C. Because it allows us to uniquely identify D. show flash
each subnet by its mast number.
D. Because it allows each subnet in a routed 90. Which command will copy the IOS to a backup
system to be correctly sized for the host on your network?
requirement.* A. transfer IOS to 172.16.10.1
B. copy run start
86. Why is summarization so important to an C. copy start tftp
affected routed system? D. copy flash tftp*
A. It adds to the route tables of routers.
B. Summarization sends all subnets as classful 91. What is the address range of a Class B network
networks, eliminating the overhead of address in binary?
transmitting the mask in routing updates A. 01xxxxxx
C. Summarization reduces the size of route B. 0xxxxxxx
tables, prevents route table instability due C. 10xxxxxx*
to Rapping routes and reduces the size of D. 110xxxxx
routing updates*
D. Summarization enforces router 92. What respect to security, the term mail spec
authentication, preventing spurious refers to
updates from excessively loading the A. Wireless only encryption
router. B. A pee-to-peer network
C. The use of wireless router
87. Which of the following is invalid type of IPv6 D. The highest obtainable level of security*
address?
A. Global unicast C. Link Local 93. The Internet Protocol network which is formed
B. Broadcast* D. Unique local from the combination of two or more networks
with common routing prefix is known as___.
A. Internet
B. Worldwide net
C. Supernet*
D. IPv4 protocol
94. In data transmission, Packet switching is
characterized by sending data in packets
through a network to some remote location. It
features__ delivery of data streams.
A. Synchronous-bit rate
B. Variable-bit rate*
C. Asynchronous bit rate
D. Symmetrical bit rate

95. Message switching is ____ network.

A. Hold and forward
B. Forward
C. Hold
D. Store and forward*

96. Packet switching is ____ network.

A. Hold and forward*
B. Forward
C. Hold
D. Store and forward

97. Polling is an invitation by the primary to

secondary equipment to ____ a message.
A. Store
B. Receive
C. Transmit*
D. Read

98. The digital-to-analog converter is a

synchronous modem is called
A. A post equalizer
B. A statistical equalizer
C. An adaptive equalizer*
D. A line equalizer
99. With _____ each character is framed between a
start and a stop bit.
A. Synchronous data
B. Isochronous data
C. Asynchronous data*
D. Nonsynchronous data

100. With____ rather than frames each

character independently with start and stop
bits, a unique synchronizing character called
SYN character is transmitted at the beginning of
each message.
A. Asynchronous data
B. Isochronous data
C. Synchronous data*
D. Nonsynchronous data