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1. Referred to as a ferrite device that can be used in lieu of a 11. A measure of the reliability expressed as the average number of
duplexer to isolate a microwave transmitter and receiver when hours between successive failures.
both are connected to the same antenna. a. MTBF
a. Isolator b. MTTR
b. Circulator c. Downtime
c. Coupler d. Outage time
d. Diode 12. A microwave band of 18 to 27 GHz is considered as the ______
band.
2. What is the principal mode of a rectangular waveguide? a. C
a. TEM b. X
b. TE11 c. Q
c. TE10 d. K
d. TM11
13. The radius in the circular zone is in the first fresnel zone when the
3. What microwave device combines the advantages of the klystron reflected path is ______ longer than the direct path.
and the Traveling Wave Tube? a. Half wavelength
a. Stripline b. Wavelength
b. Microstrip c. Quarter wavelength
c. Cfa d. 2wavelengths
d. Twystron
14. The microwave path wherein the microwave beam just barely
4. A microwave tube that uses a slow-wave structure as an input touches the obstruction.
section that is isolated from another slow-wave section at its a. LOS
output. b. Grazing
a. Klystron c. Obstructed path
b. Magnetron d. Direct path
c. Twystron
d. TWT 15. A fade margin of 28 dB has a reliability of
a. 99%
5. A waveguide acts as a b. 99.9%
a. LPF c. 99.99%
b. HPF d. 99.999%
c. BPF
d. Resonator 16. The velocity of a resultant wave as it travels through the
waveguide.
6. Which of the following is a microwave frequency? a. Speed of light
a. 1.7 MHz b. Group velocity
b. 750 MHz c. Phase velocity
c. 0.98 GHz d. Incident velocity
d. 22 GHz
17. The smallest free space wavelength that is just unable to
7. Which of the following permits a microwave signal to travel in one propagate in the waveguide under given conditions.
direction with virtually no loss but severely attenuates any signal a. Guide
attempting to travel in the reverse direction? b. Phase
a. Isolator c. Cut-off
b. Wave trap d. Group
c. Tunnel diode
d. Circulator 18. Indicate which of the following cannot be followed by the word
"waveguide".
8. A waveguide has a cut-off frequency of 17 GHz. Which of the a. Elliptical
following signals will not pass thru the waveguide? b. Flexible
a. 15 GHz c. Coaxial
b. 18 Ghz d. Ridge
c. 22 GHz
d. 255 GHz 19. Which of the following waveguide tuning components is not easily
adjustable?
9. When the electric field is perpendicular to the direction of a. Screw
propagation, the mode is said to be b. Stub
a. Vertically polarized c. Iris
b. Horizontally polarized d. Plunger
c. Transverse electric
d. Transverse magnetic 20. What microwave component can sample part of the power
traveling thru the waveguide?
10. Which of the following is not a microwave tube? a. Directional coupler
a. TWT b. Magic tee
b. CRT c. Circulator
c. Klystron d. Isolator
d. Magnetron

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21. A rectangular waveguide is 5.1 cm by 2.4 cm. The cut-off

frequency for the dominant mode is 31. The region within the influence of the induction field of an antenna.
a. 2.94 GHz a. Far field
b. 6.25 GHz b. Near field
c. 664 MHz c. Radiation field
d. 57.7 GHz d. Radiation pattern
22. If the MTBF of a communications circuit is 20,000 hours and its 32. Which of the following is unlikely to be used as a pulse device?
MTTR is 5 hours, what is its unavailability? a. TWT
a. 0.00025 b. CFA
b. 99.975% c. BWO
c. 0.25% d. Multicavity Klystron
d. 0.975%
33. The wavelength of microwaves at 100 GHz?
23. What would be the ERP, in watts, if the transmitter output is 30 a. 3 cm
dBm and the waveguide loss is 20 dB and the antenna connected b. 0.3 cm
to it has a power gain of 60 dB? c. 0.03 cm
a. 10000 watts d. 0.3 m
b. 1000 watts
c. 100 watts 34. The k factor under normal atmospheric conditions in a microwave
d. 10 watts radio data profile calculation is
a. 2/3
24. A waveguide section used to couple a circular to a rectangular b. 0
waveguide. c. 4/3
a. Taper d. 1
b. Twist
c. Bend 35. To install an antenna with an LOS transmission at a distance of 75
d. Tee miles, determine the height of a receiving antenna if the
transmitting antenna is 250 ft.
25. A waveguide section used to change the signal polarization a. 1385 ft
a. Taper b. 600 ft
b. Twist c. 400 ft
c. Bend d. 255 ft
d. Tee
36. Determine the gain of a 6 ft parabolic dish operating at 1800 MHz.
26. A waveguide section used to combine two or more signals a. 30 dB
a. Taper b. 11.2 dB
b. Twist c. 15.5 dB
c. Bend d. 28.17 dB
d. Tee

27. A signal propagated in a waveguide has a full wave of electric field

37. What is the free space loss, in dB, between two microwave
intensity change between two further walls and no component of antennas 38 km apart operating at 7 GHz?
the electric field in the direction of propagation. The mode is a. 145.6 dB
a. TE11 b. 138.5 dB
b. TE10 c. 135.5 dB
c. TM22 d. 140.89 dB
d. TE20
38. How many receiving antenna(s) are used with frequency diversity?
28. A microwave transmission line constructed of a center conductor a. 1
suspended between parallel conductive ground planes is called b. 2
c. 3
a. Microstrip d. 4
b. Coax
c. Stripline 39. A type of diversity reception, where the output of the transmitter is
d. Waveguide fed to two or more antennas that are physically separated by an
appreciable number of wavelengths.
29. The principal characteristic of tunnel diodes a. Frequency
a. Negative resistance region b. Space
b. High forward current rating c. Angle
c. Very high piv d. Polarization
d. High forward resistance
40. Which of the following is used as a high power microwave
30. A metal wrapped around the parabolic antenna aperture to oscillator?
eliminate sidelobes interferin nearby stations. a. Thyratron
a. Radome b. Magnetron
b. Shield c. Klystron
c. Shroud d. Twystron
d. Bass drum

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41. A microwave communications system space loss calculation

formula 51. The subscript which indicates the number of half wavelengths
a. 94.2 + 20 log F + 20 log D along the waveguide height
b. 92.4 + 20 log F + 20 log D a. m
c. 94.2 + 10 log F + 20 log D b. n
d. 92.3 + 10 log F + 20 log D c. a
42. Which of the following frequency bands fall under the microwave d. b
band? 52. Which of the following microwave tubes uses the principle of
a. UHF and SHF velocity modulation?
b. SHF and EHF a. TWT
c. UHF, SHF and EHF b. CFA
d. VLF, LF and MF c. Magnetron
d. klystron
43. Find the cut-off frequency for a waveguide in the TE21 mode if the
dimensions of the guide are 3 by 1.5 cm with wall thickness of 0.08 53. An X band radar operates in which frequency band?
cm. a. 1 - 2 GHz
a. 14.14 GHz b. 2 - 4 GHz
b. 5 GHz c. 4 - 8 GHz
c. 5.28 GHz d. 8 - 12 GHz
d. 15.39 GHz
54. Calculate the cut-off wavelength, the guide wavelength and the
44. The progressive decrease of signal strength with increasing characteristic impedance of a circular waveguide whose internal
distance diameter is 4 cm for a 10 GHz signal propagated in it in the
a. Radiation dominant mode. (kr = 1.84)
b. Attenuation a. 6.83 cm, 3 cm, 420 ohms
c. Modulation b. 3 cm, 6.83 cm, 420 ohms
d. Propagation c. 6.83 cm, 3.34 cm, 420 ohms
d. 6.83 cm, 3.34 cm, 338 ohms
45. A magnetic field is introduced into the waveguide by a
a. probe 55. A wave is propagated in a parallel plane waveguide. The
b. dipole frequency is 6 GHz and the plane separation is 3 cm. The cut-off
c. stripline wavelength for the dominant mode, the group and phase velocities
d. capacitor are
a. 5 cm, 166 Mm/sec, 543 Mm/sec
46. Varactor and step recovery diodes are widely used in what type of b. 6 cm, 166 Mm/sec, 543 Mm/sec
circuit? c. 6 cm, 543 Mm/sec, 166 Mm/sec
a. Amplifier d. 5 cm, 543 Mm/sec, 166 Mm/sec
b. Oscillator
c. Frequency multiplier 56. The following are negative resistance amplifiers except
d. Mixer a. Tunnel
b. Gunn
47. The optimum clearance from an obstacle in a microwave system is c. IMPATT
accepted as ________ of the first fresnel zone radius. d. PIN diode
a. 0.6
b. 0.5 57. A cross between the TWT and the magnetron in its operation
c. 0.9 a. CFA
d. 1.5 b. BWO
c. EIA
48. A range of microwave frequencies more easily passed by the d. Twystron
atmosphere than the others
a. Window 58. Diodes designed to store energy in their capacitance during
b. Critical frequency forward bias and generates harmonics in the reverse bias
c. Gyro frequency a. Step recovery
d. Resonant b. Gunn
c. APD
49. When microwave signals follow the curvature of the earth, this is d. IMPATT
known as
a. Faraday effect 59. Topographical maps are maps used for microwave
b. Ducting communications systems design because _________ are shown,
c. Troposcatter thereby elevations are known.
d. Ionospheric reflection a. Latitudes
b. Longitudes
50. A waveguide mode in which there is no component of electric field c. Contour lines
in the direction of propagation given in the British European d. Scales
standards
a. H mode 60. Surface Acoustic Waves propagate in
b. E mode a. GaAs
c. TE mode b. Indium Phosphide
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d. Quartz crystal

61. What do you call the process of speeding up and slowing down the
beam of electrons in the vacuum tube?
a. Velocity modulation
b. Logitudinal velocity
c. Gyrofrequency
d. Group frequency

62. What is the name of the microwave transmission line that is used
with printed circuits?
a. Ferrite loop
b. Coax
c. Waveguide
d. Microstrip

63. The output of a LASER is monochromatic; this means that it is

a. Infrared
b. Narrow beam
c. Polarized
d. Single frequency

64. The attenuator is used in the TWT to

a. Help bunching
b. Prevent oscillation
c. Prevent saturation
d. Increase gain
65. The angle between electric and magnetic fields in a waveguide is
a. 90 degrees
b. 0 degrees
c. 180 degrees
d. 360 degrees

66. Materials generally preferred for waveguides are l

a. Brass and aluminum
b. Cast iron and steel
c. Non-metallic solids
d. High carbon steel and vanadian steel
67. Waveguide feeders are pressurized to
a. Reduce loss
b. Reduce noise
c. Detect faults
d. Prevent ingress of moisture

68. In order to reduce cross-sectional dimension, which of the

following waveguides is preferred?
a. Flexible
b. Rectangular
c. Circular
d. Ridged

69. A low noise, low power, narrow band microwave amplifier utilizing
a varactor to achieve gain
a. Parametric amplifier
b. LNA
c. SAW
d. CFA

70. Which of the following uses buncher and catcher cavities?

a. magnetron
b. klystron
c. TWT
d. Stripline

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