1. Which one of the following statements is correct? Digital modulation techniques are used in satellite communication systems since:
They are easier to handle
Large bandwidth utilization is possible
They have a higher spectral efficiency
They are less prone to interference
2. How many bits are required to encode 32 level PCM:
6
5
4
3
3. The noise is more dominant in which of the following:
(1) PAM
PWM
PPM
FSK
4. The phase velocity of wave propagating in a hollow metal wave guide is:
(1) Greater than the velocity of the light in free space
Less than the velocity of the light in free space
Equal to the velocity of the light in free space
Equal to the group velocity
5. The magnitude of the open-circuit and short circuit input impedance of a transmission line are 100 ohm and 25 ohm respectively. The characteristic impedance of line is:
25 ohm
50 ohm
75 ohm
100 ohm
6. The line of sight communication requires transmit and receive antenna to face each other. If the transmit antenna is vertically polarized, for the best reception the receive antenna should be:
Horizontally polarized
Vertically polarized
At 45° with respect to the horizontal polarization
At 45° with respect to the vertical polarization
7. A network contains linear resistance and ideal voltage source. If the value of all the resistors are doubled, then the voltage across each resistor is:
Halved
Doubled
Increased by four times
Not changed
8.Twelve 1 ohm resistances are used as edge to form a cube. The resistance between two diagonally opposite corners of the cube is:
5/6 ohm
1 ohm
6/5 ohm
3/2 ohm
9. An eight bit digital data 10101100 is fed to an ADC. The reference voltage is +10V. The analog output voltage will be:
1.05V
6.74V
10.10V
5.15V
10. A series RLC circuit has a resonant frequency of 1 KHz and a quality factor Q = 100. If each of the R,L and C is doubled from its original value, the new Q of the circuit is:
25
50
100
200
11. The input to a coherent detector is DSB-SC signal plus noise. The noise at the detector output is:
The in-phase component
The quadrature-component
Zero
The envelope
12. Gunn diode is a:
Negative resistance device
Positive resistance device
High noise device
Low frequency device
13. The intrinsic carrier concentration of silicon sample at 300° K is 2.5×1016/m3. If after doping, the number of majority carriers is 5×1020 /m3, the minority carrier density is:
1.25×1012/m3
0.125×1012/m3
2.5×1020/m3
0.5×104/m3
14. The unit of ?× H is:
Ampere
Ampere/meter
Ampere/meter2
Ampere-meter
15. A PIN diode is:
A metal semiconductor point-contact diode
A microwave mixer diode
Often used as a microwave detector
Suitable for use as a microwave switch
16. 11001, 1001 and 111001 correspond to the 2’s complement representation of which one of the following sets of number?
25, 9 and 57 respectively
–6, –6 and –6 respectively
–7, –7 and –7 respectively
–25, –9 and –57 respectively
17. To couple a coaxial line to a parallel wire line, it is best to use a:
A slotted line
Balun
Directional coupler
Quarter wave line transformer
18. Which of the following is used extensively where lowest power consumption is necessary?
CMOS
NMOS
PMOS
Any of the above
19. Reflex klystron is a:
Low power generator
High power oscillator
Low gain amplifier
Not an oscillator
20. If the radiated power of AM transmitter is 10 KW, the power in the carrier for modulation index of 0.6 is nearly:
8.24 KW
9.26 KW
8.47 KW
9.6 KW
21. The current through 8 ohms branch is:
1A
0.5A
1.5A
None of these
22. JFET in properly biased condition acts as a:
Current controlled current source
Voltage controlled voltage source
Voltage controlled current source
Impedance controlled current source
23. The circuit shown in figure is best described as a:
Bridge rectifier
Ring modulator
Frequency discriminatory
(4) Voltage doubler
24. Which amplifier will be preferred for highest gain?
Darlington pair
Cascade amplifier
Cascode amplifier
Depends on the circuitry
26. Without any additional circuitry, an 8:1 MUX can be used to obtain:
Some but not all Boolean functions of 3 variables
All function of 3 variables but none of 4 variables
All functions of 3 variables and some but not all of 4 variables
All functions of 4 variables
27. The resolution of a potentiometer should be:
Zero
Low
High
Infinite
28. Negative feedback in amplifier:
Improves the SNR at input
Improve SNR at output
(3) Reduces distortion
Decreases bandwidth
29. Spectral density expresses:
Average voltage
Average current
Average power in a waveform as a function of frequency
None of these
30. Which of the following is used as a data selector?
Encoder
Decoder
Multiplexer
De-multiplexer
31. If a signal x(n)=x(–n), then it is called ____ signal:
Odd
Energy
Power
Even
32. The response of an LTI/LSI system is given by the _______ of input and impulse response:
Convolution
Correlation
Superposition
None
33. Companders are used in communication systems to:
Compress bandwidth
To improve frequency response
To improve signal to noise ratio
None of these
34. ICB0 in a transistor can be reduced by reducing:
IB
VCC
IE
Temperature
34. Light is confined within the core of a simple optical fiber by:
Refraction.
Total internal reflection at the outer edge of the cladding.
Total internal reflection at the core cladding boundary.
Reflection from the fiber's plastic coating.
36. The complement of AB+BC’+CD’ is:
A’CD+B’C’+B’D
A’C’+BC+AB’D’
AC+BC+ABD
A’C’+B’C’+A’B’D’
37. The following expression when simplified will become XY(X’YZ +X’Y’Z’+XY’Z)
0
1
–1
X
38. In a PCM system of telemetry, the quantization noise depends on:
The sampling rate and quantization level
The sampling rate only
The number of quantization level
Information provided is not sufficient
39. In PCM system, if we increase the quantization levels from 2 to 8, the relative bandwidth requirements will:
Be doubled
Remain same
Be tripled
Becomes eight times
40. The modulation system inherently most noise resistant is:
Frequency modulation
Pulse width modulation
(3) Pulse code modulation
Phase modulation
41. Which of the following microphone does not require polarizing current?
Crystal microphone
Condenser microphone
Carbon microphone
All of the above
42. The large signal bandwidth of an opamp is limited by its:
Loop gain
Slew rate
Output impedance
Input frequency
43. In an unclocked R-S flip flop made of NOR gates, the forbidden input condition is:
R=0, S=0
R=1, S=0
R=0, S=1
(4) R=1, S=1
44. A phase-locked loop (PLL) is a feedback circuit consisting of a:
Phase detector.
Low-pass filter.
VCO.
All of these
45. A 339 IC is an example of a fourteen-pin DIP that can be made to function as a ________:
Comparator
555 timer
D to A converter
Ladder network
46. Filters with the ___ characteristic are useful when a rapid roll-off is required because it provides a roll-off rate greater than –20/dB/decade/pole:
Butterworth
Chebyshev
Bessel
Elliptical
47. Which of the following applications include a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit?
Modems
AM decoders
Tracking filters
All of these
48. Rectification efficiency of a fullwave rectifier without filter is nearly equals to:
51%
61%
71%
81%
49. What is the voltage resolution of an 8-stage ladder network?
Vref /128
Vref /256
Vref /512
Vref /1024
50. In which region is the operating point stable in tunnel diodes?
Negative-resistance
Positive-resistance
Both negative- and positive-resistance
Neither negative- nor positive-resistance
51. Which of the following diodes is limited to the reverse-bias region in its region of operation?
Schottky
Tunnel
Photodiode
Rectifier
52. Which of the following semiconductor materials is (are) used for manufacturing solar cells?
Gallium arsenide
Indium arsenide
Cadmium sulfide
All of these
53. If Y (s) - {(S 2 - 1)/8}, the network has:
1 H inductor and 1 F capacitor in parallel
1 H inductor and 1 F capacitor in series
1 H inductor and 1 O resistor in series
1 H inductor and 1 O resistor in parallel
54. When the temperature of a doped semiconductor is increased, its conductivity
Decreases
Increases
Does not change
Increases or decreases depending on whether it is p-type or n-type
55. Schering bridge is used to measure
Frequency
Inductance
Capacitance
Mutual Inductance
56. A step voltage E is applied to a series R-L circuit. The rate of change of current is maximum at t = _:
Zero
Infinity
L/R
R/L
57. PLAs, CPLDs, and FPGAs are all which type of device?
SLD
(2) PLD
EPROM
SRAM
58. Holding current for an SCR is best described as:
The minimum current required for turn-off
The current required before an SCR will turn on
The amount of current required to maintain conduction
The gate current required to maintain conduction
59. What type of temperature coefficient do thermistors have?
Positive
Negative
(3) Either positive or negative
None of these
60. In a microprocessor:
One machine cycle is equal to one clock cycle
One clock cycle consists of several machine cycles
One machine cycle consists of several clock cycles
One machine cycle is always less than one clock cycle
61. In 8085 microprocessor with memory mapped I/O which of the following is true?
I/O devices have 16 bit addresses
I/O devices are accessed during IN and OUT instructions
There can be a maximum of 256 input and 256 output devices
Logic operations can not be performed
62. A blank EPROM has:
All bits set to logical 0
All bits set to logical 1
Half the total number of bits set to 0 and remaining half to logical 1
Either 0 or 1
63. One application of a digital multiplexer is to facilitate:
Code conversion
Parity checking
Parallel-to-serial data conversion
Data generation
64. The coefficient of coupling between two coils is 0.45. The first coil has an inductance of 75 mH and the second coil has an inductance of 105 mH. What is the mutual inductance between the coils?
3.54 mH
7.88 mH
39.9 mH
189.3 mH
65. The fast carry or look-ahead carry circuits found in most 4-bit parallel-adder circuits:
Increase ripple delay
Add a 1 to complemented inputs
Reduce propagation delay
Determine sign and magnitude
66. To multiply a number by 8 in 8085 we have to use RAL instruction:
Once
Twice
Thrice
Four times
67. An energy signal has G(f) = 10. Its energy density spectrum is:
10
100
50
20
68. Feedback factor at the frequency of oscillation of a Wien bridge oscillator is:
3
1/3
1/29
3/29
69. A 4-bit R/2R digital-to-analog (DAC) converter has a reference of 5 volts. What is the analog output for the input code 1010:
0.3125 V
3.125 V
0.78125 V
–3.125 V
70. A quarter wave line open circuited at far end behaves as:
Inductance
L and C in parallel
Capacitance
L and C in series
71. In a directional coupler:
Isolation (dB) equals coupling plus directivity
Coupling (dB) equals isolation plus directivity
Directivity (dB) equals isolation plus coupling
Isolation (dB) equals (coupling) (directivity)
72. In a circular waveguide the dominant mode is:
TE01
TE11
TE20
TE21
73. In a klystron amplifier the input cavity is called:
Buncher
Catcher
Pierce gun
Collector
74. A loss less line of characteristic impedance Z0 is terminated in pure reactance of –jZ0 value. VSWR is
10
2
1
Infinity
75. The velocity factor of a transmission line depends on: