EXAM 5 - ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

Instruction: Submit your answer sheet B. Nitrogen that the bandwidth is 1.0 MHz and the
(provided) together with this C. Carbon-dioxide temperature is 20°C, and that the receiver
questionnaire to the office for D. Neodymium-YAG is connected to an antenna with an
checking. impedance of 75 Ω.
10. _________ of a frequency band is the
Time Element: 4 hours entry in the table of frequency allocation of A. 30.3 C. 3.03
a given frequency for the purpose of its B. 303 D. 0.303
1. The luminous flux emitted by a 60-cd use by one or more terrestrial or space
isotropic light source is concentrated on radiocommunication services or the radio 18. What is the modulation rate of the CCITT
an area of 0.5 m2. What is the illumination astronomy service under specified V.26 modem?
of the area? conditions.
A. 56 kbps C. 1200 bauds
A. 9.6 lx C. 377 lx A. Assignment C. Allocation B. 1560 cps D. 9600 bauds
B. 120 lx D. 1508 lx B. Allotment D. Regulation
19. What is the insertion loss of connector-
2. The ultrapure glass used to manufacture 11. In FM, the Carson’s Rule states that the type splices for a single mode fiber optics?
optical fibers is approximately _____ pure. bandwidth is equal to twice the sum of the
modulating frequency and ________. A. 0.51 dB C. 0.31 dB
A. 99.9 % C. 99.99 % B. 0.49 dB D. 0.38 dB
B. 99.999 % D. 99.9999 % A. carrier signal
B. modulating index 20. An object nearer to a converging lens than
3. What is the other name for parity? C. frequency deviation its focal point always has a/an ___ image.
D. image frequency
A. BCC C. LRC A. inverted C. same size
B. VRC D. CRC 12. Which microphone will be damaged if B. smaller D. virtual
exposed to high temperature above 52°C?
4. Which one of the following is not a reason 21. Which of the following ITU standards
for the use of an earth mat? A. Dynamic C. Crystal describes the interconnection techniques
B. Ribbon D. Capacitor between PDNs and PSTNs?
A. Impossibility of a good ground
connection. 13. What is the guardband between A. V.100 C. V.200
B. Provision of an earth for the antenna. supergroup 18 and supergroup D25? B. V.300 D. V.400
C. Protection of personnel working
underneath. A. 12 kHz C. 56 kHz 22. An object farther from a converging lens
D. Improvement of the radiation pattern B. 128 kHz D. 8 kHz than its focal point always has a/an _____
of the antenna. image.
14. If the modulation index of an AM wave is
5. What one part of the transmitter protects changed from 0 to 1, the transmitted A. inverted C. same size
the crystal oscillator from “pulling”? power is B. virtual D. smaller size

A. Buffer amplifier C. Modulator A. unchanged 23. Which of the following is the most widely
B. Power amplifier D. Antenna coupler B. halved used balanced modulator?
C. doubled
6. What is the capacitance of 55 miles #44 D. increased by 50% A. Full-wave bridge circuit
copper wire spaced 18 inches? From wire B. Balanced bridge modulator
tables, # 44 wire has a radius to 0.10215 15. Which mode of transmission achieves less C. Lattice modulator
in.? than full-duplex but more than half- D. None of these
duplex?
A. 0.476 µF C. 0.476 nF 24. A non-exclusive facility at which the public
B. 0.476 pF D. 0.476 fF A. Full/full duplex C. Echoplex may, by the payment of appropriate fees,
B. Isochronous D. Synchronous place as well as receive telephone calls or
7. What is the go-ahead sequence? a telegram or other messages.
16. If the current ratios of the two or more
A. 10111111 C. 00000010 elements must be held 5% and the phase A. Public Toll Service Station
B. 11111110 D. 01111111 angle to 3°, the antenna is called a B. Public Toll Calling Station
C. Public Toll Carrier Station
8. Noise is primarily A. end fire array D. Public Toll Bus Station
B. critical phased array
A. high-frequency spikes C. broadband array 25. What is a thin springy sheet of bakelite or
B. low-frequency variations D. wideband array metal that permits the voice coil in a
C. random level shifts dynamic loudspeaker to move back and
D. random frequency variations 17. Calculate the noise figure of the receiver forth along the core of its magnet?
whose RF amplifier has an input
9. Which laser emits light in the visible range resistance of 1000 Ω and an equivalent A. Vibrator C. Diaphragm
of 400 to 700 nm? shot-noise resistance of 2000 Ω, a gain of B. Hypex D. Spider
25 and a load resistance of 125 kΩ. Given
A. Argon-ion
26. The transistor with the lowest noise figure C. Bridge circuit D. Butterworth filter
in the microwave region is a D. Constant current source
44. The square of the thermal noise voltage
A. MOSFET 35. What is a form of amplitude distortion generated by a resistor is proportional to
B. Dual-gate MOSFET introduced when the positive and negative
C. JFET alternations in the AM modulated signals A. its resistance
D. MESFET are not equal? B. its temperature
C. the bandwidth over which it is
27. What is the estimated medium wind A. Envelope distortion measured
loading in the Philippines for antenna B. Spurious emission D. all of the above
tower design? C. Carrier shift
D. Johnson noise 45. What modulation is used by asynchronous
A. 300 kph C. 100 kph data?
B. 200 kph D. 250 kph 36. What protocol is used to connect the other
packet switching network? A. QPSK C. FSK
28. What is the primary disadvantage of FM? B. PSK D. QAM
A. X.75 C. X.25
A. Higher cost and complexity B. X.50 D. X.10 46. How to make the antenna efficiency of an
B. Excessive use of spectrum space HF grounded vertical antenna comparable
C. Noise susceptibility 37. What polarization is employed in AM to that of a half-wave antenna?
D. Lower efficiency broadcasting?
A. By installing a good ground radial
29. Any entity authorized by NTC to lease A. Horizontal C. Vertical system
space segment capacity. B. Circular D. Omnidirectional B. By isolating the coax shield from
ground
A. Space segment occupant 38. One of the sources of errors of GPS signal C. By shortening the vertical
B. Space segment lessee is ionospheric effect which contributes D. By lengthening the vertical
C. Space occupant _____ of error.
D. Space segment player 47. Waveguide becomes compulsory above
A. ± 5 m C. ± 2.5 m what frequency?
30. To find the characteristic impedance of a B. ± 10 m D. ± 3 m
coaxial cable, measurements are made A. Above 3 GHz C. Above 10 kHz
with (a) the far end open circuited and (b) 39. In the phasing method of SSB generation, B. At 300 MHz D. Above 10 GHz
far end short circuited, the corresponding one sideband is canceled out due to
readings being 48. What multi-channel digital surround sound
a) Ro = 3 Ω and Xc = 55 Ω, capacitive A. phase shifting format used for both commercial/theatrical
b) Rs = 10 Ω and XL = 90 Ω, inductive B. sharp selectivity and consumer grade applications typically
What is the characteristic impedance, Z0, C. carrier suppression uses 384 or 448 kbit/s (overall)?
of the line? D. phase inversion
A. Dolby 5.1 C. DTS 5.1
A. 75.7 – j2.0 Ω C. 70.7 + j1.19 Ω 40. The purpose why an RF amplifier is B. SDDS 5.1 D. AC-3
B. 87.5 – j5 Ω D. 70.7 – j1.97 Ω operated under linear class-B conditions
(as opposed to class-C) is to 49. How does the bandwidth of the
31. What is the most important specification of transmitted signal affect selective fading?
loudspeakers and microphones? A. generate only even harmonics
B. generate only odd harmonics A. It is more pronounced at narrow
A. Frequency response C. increase the efficiency bandwidths
B. Field strength D. amplify an AM signal B. It is equally pronounced at both
C. Power density narrow and wide bandwidths
D. Gain 41. A rectangular waveguide has dimensions C. It is more pronounced at wide
of 3 cm x 5 cm. What is the dominant bandwidths
32. What is known as the frequency of a free mode cut-off frequency? D. The receiver bandwidth determines
vibration? the selective fading
A. 2 GHz C. 3 GHz
A. Resonant frequency B. 2.5 GHz D. 3.5 GHz 50. What is the phase delay of an 800 Hz
B. Natural frequency voice signal if the phase shift is 15
C. Center frequency 42. Echo suppressors are used on all degrees?
D. Normal frequency communications system when the round
trip propagation time exceeds how many A. 52 µsec C. 1.25 µsec
33. What is usually used to demodulate SSB milliseconds? B. 83.33 µsec D. 26 µsec
or CW signal?
A. 50 ms C. 30 ms 51. What is the minimum number of turns a
A. PLL C. BFO B. 100 ms D. 1 ms helix antenna must have?
B. Ratio detector D. All of these
43. Identify an electronic device, not A. 3 C. 5
34. What is the principal circuit in the popular specifically designed for the purpose, B. 4 D. 6
1496/1596 IC balanced modulator? which can be used as a phase detector.

A. Differential amplifier A. Wien bridge

B. Rectifier B. Colpitts oscillator
C. Balanced modulator
52. Sound waves travel in water at what A. 120 degrees east longitude 70. An increase in transmitter power from 25
speed? B. 146 degrees east longitude W to 30 W will cause the antenna current
C. 158 degrees east longitude to increase from 700 mA to
A. 12.4 miles/sec C. 5,000 ft/sec D. 160 degrees east longitude
B. 186,000 ft/sec D. 3,141 ft/sec A. 800 mA C. 750 mA
62. Dolby Digital is the common version B. 767 mA D. 840 mA
53. What is the CCITT recommendation for a containing up to 6 total channels of sound,
preparation of loss plan, a variable loss with 5 channels for normal-range 71. Bass response is
plans and a fixed loss plan? speakers (Right front, Center, Left Front,
Right Rear and Left Rear) and one A. maximum high frequency response
A. G.133 C. G.141 channel for the subwoofer. It is otherwise B. emphasizing the high audio
B. G.132 D. G.122 known as ____. frequencies
C. bypassing high audio frequencies
54. What is the diameter of a copper wire to A. AC-3 C. AC-1 D. bypassing low audio frequencies
be used in a 16 km loop with a dc loop B. AC-2 D. AC-4
resistance of 100 ohms/km? 72. Standard tariff for flat rate telephone
63. As of August 2006 the GPS system used service beyond the normal flat rate in that
A. 0.838 mm C. 0.432 mm a satellite constellation of ____ active area.
B. 1.626 mm D. 2.159 mm Block II/IIA/IIR/IIR-M satellites in
intermediate circular orbits. A. WATS C. OTLP
55. What is the overall Eb/No for a satellite B. TIP D. DTWX
with an up-link Eb/No of 14 dB and a A. 29 C. 24
downlink Eb/No of 18 Db? B. 26 D. 30 73. What is the expected critical frequency for
a 120 mm thick brick wall? Assume a
A. 12.5 C. 12.5 dB 64. What is the expected lifespan of the longitudinal wave velocity in brick of
B. 1.25 D. 1.25 dB Philippine Mabuhay Satellite? 2350m/s and that the velocity of sound in
air is 330 m/s.
56. What is the core diameter of step-index A. 15 years C. 20 years
multimode optical fiber? B. 10 years D. 12 years A. 114.5 Hz C. 214.5 Hz
B. 314.5 Hz D. 414.5 Hz
A. 0.02 nm C. 0.2 nm 65. What concept is used to analyze
B. 2 nm D. 0.002 nm interference by obstacles near the path of 74. What INTELSAT satellite used the first
a radio beam? FDMA demand-assignment system
57. What kind of cell is appropriate for load developed by COMSAT for satellites?
management, fast moving mobiles and A. Fresnel zone concept
low-usage areas? B. Frenzel zone concept A. Intelsat III C. Intelsat V
C. Huygens’ concept B. Intelsat IV D. Intelsat VI
A. Pico cells C. Micro cells D. Ray theory concept
B. Nano cells D. Umbrella cells 75. Not more than ________ digits make up
66. How strong interference from one an international telephone number as
58. What is the proper procedure for particular station can be eliminated? recommended by CCITT REC. E. 161.
suppressing electrical noise in a mobile
station? A. By using noise limiters A. 8 C. 10
B. By using squelch circuits B. 11 D. 12
A. Apply shielding and filtering where C. By using negative feedback
necessary D. By using wave traps in the antenna 76. What are unidirectional amplifiers having
B. Insulate all plain sheet metal circuitry 20-25 decibel gain that are placed about
surfaces from each other 75 km apart used to compensate for
C. Apply anti-static spray liberally to all 67. What is the power loss of a telephone losses along the telephone line?
nonmetallic hybrid?
D. Install filter capacitors in series with A. VF repeaters
all dc wiring A. 1 dB C. 2 dB B. Loading coils
B. 3 dB D. 6 dB C. Loop extenders
59. When light strikes a flat polished end of a D. Echo suppressors
fiber, it produces a loss of what percent? 68. Which of the following is considered as an
indirect method of generating FM? 77. To generate an SSB or DSB signal one
A. 14 % C. 4 % must use a circuit known as
B. 10 % D. 1 % A. Reactance modulator
B. Balanced modulator A. filter modulator
60. MPEG-2 is more formally known as C. Varactor diode modulator B. ring modulator
international standard ___________. D. Armstrong system C. balanced modulator
D. reactance modulator
A. ISO/IEC 13818-3 69. What type of microphone operates on the
B. ISO/IEC 13818-4 principle that the electrical resistance of 78. What is the gain, in dB of a helical
C. ISO/IEC 13818-2 carbon granules varies as the pressure on antenna with diameter of λ/3, 10 turns at
D. ISO/IEC 13818-1 the granules vary? pitch of λ/4, used at 100 MHz?

61. What is the orbital location of the A. Dynamic C. Crystal A. 16 C. 41.1

Philippine Mabuhay Satellite in the B. Carbon D. Ribbon-type B. 31.4 D. 1.25
geostationary orbit?
79. A carrier is phase modulated by a test 87. What causes material dispersion? 94. The effective lineal dimension of the
tone. If the amplitude and the frequency of passive is 2 m in the direction in which the
the tone are both doubled, the amount of A. Wavelength dependence of the index beamwidth is to be measured. Determine
the deviation is of refraction. that beamwidth of the fully illuminated
B. Wavelength independence of the passive used at 4 GHz.
A. doubled C. unchanged index of refraction.
B. halved D. multiplied by 4 C. Dependence of the propagation A. 1.5° C. 2.0°
constant on the mode number. B. 2.2° D. 3.0°
80. A quarterwave transformer is connected to D. Independence of the propagation
a parallel wire line in order to match the constant on the mode number. 95. In microwave communications, what is the
line to a load of 1000 Ω. The transformer non-diversity probability of outage for a
has a characteristic impedance of 316.23 88. The term used to refer to the reduction of given path with an assigned fade margin
Ω. The distance between centers is 4 receiver gain caused by the signal of a of 45 dB? Assume a path length of 10 km
inches. What is the percentage reduction nearby station transmitter in the same and an operating frequency of 4 GHz.
in the diameter of the line? frequency band?
A. 1.9 x 10-9 C. 1.9 x 10-8
A. 85 % C. 83 % A. Quieting B. 1.9 x 10-5 D. 1.9 x 10-11
B. 86 % D. 90 % B. Cross-modulation interference
C. Squelch gain rollback 96. What radio blackout condition is described
81. The term “pulling” refers to D. Desensitizing as weak or minor degradation of HF radio
communication on the sunlit side and
A. the change of the crystal oscillator 89. A certain machine with a slightly out-of- occasional loss of radio contact?
frequency by loading balance motor rotating at 1800/min is fixed
B. one half-cycle operation of a push- on a perfectly elastic mount with a static A. R1 C. R0
pull amplifier compression of 2.50 mm. Calculate the B. R2 D. R3
C. loading on the transmitter caused by resonant frequency of mount.
the antenna connection 97. Which of the following predicts that rf
D. reduction of the power supply A. 10 Hz C. 20 Hz energy decays exponentially when it
terminal voltage as the transmitter is B. 30 Hz D. 40 Hz encounters a conductive medium?
keyed
90. What stages are common to both AM and A. Fresnel’s equation
82. A transmitter operating at 30 MHz with 4 FM receivers? B. Hertz’s equation
W output is connected via 10 m of RG- C. Maxwell’s equation
8A/u cable to an antenna that has an input A. Tuner, local oscillator, detector, AF D. Appleton’s theory
resistance of 300 Ω. Find the reflection amplifier
coefficient. B. RF amplifier, mixer, IF amplifier, AF 98. For monoaural sound reproduction, which
amplifier audio frequency is preferred?
A. 0.71 C. 0.77 C. Local oscillator, RF amplifier,
B. 0.97 D. 0.76 frequency discriminator, detector A. 160 to 8000 Hz C. 20 to 2000 Hz
D. Tuner, IF amp, detector, AF amp B. 16 to 15000 Hz D. 300 to 3000 Hz
83. Store-and-forward multiple-access
network. 91. Calculate the lowest resonant frequency 99. What is a recent weighting which is used
for a brick partition 120mm thick, 4m by for measuring audible sound in the
A. ARPANET 2m in area with longitudinal wave velocity presence of ultrasound?
B. ALOHA of 2350 m/s. (Assume that it is supported
C. PRNET at its edges.) A. U-weighting C. A-weighting
D. Packet switching B. C-weighting D. B-weighting
A. 10 Hz C. 20 Hz
84. What device measures the internal open B. 30 Hz D. 40 Hz 100. For two different sounds, the combined
circuit voltage of an equivalent noise level cannot be more than ____ dB above
generator having an impedance of 600 Ω 92. Determine the quality factor (Q) of an SSB the higher of the two sound levels.
and delivering noise power to a 600 Ω filter with the following characteristics: the
load? carrier or center frequency = 1709 kHz; A. 3 C. 12
dB suppression of the unwanted sideband B. 6 D. 9
A. Psophometer C. Barometer = 30 dB.
B. Reflectometer D. Voltmeter
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85. The dielectric constants of materials B. 10,239.01 D. 20,345.91
commonly used in transmission lines Submit not later than August 2, 2008
range from about 93. In microwave communications, what is the
separation requirement for optimum
A. 1.2 to 2.8 C. 2.8 to 3.5 operation between two antennas in space
B. 3.5 to 5.2 D. 1.0 to 1.2 diversity system operating in 6 GHz?
Assume a path length of 25 miles.
86. Hall construction and internal finishes
affect the final sound quality _______. A. 15.31 m C. 44.76 m
B. 23.15 m D. 31.68 m
A. poorly C. mildly
B. significantly D. badly