COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING COMPREHENSIVE EXAM INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions.

Mark only one answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 2 only. 1. What is the first message sent via Morse telegraph? a. What hath Jam taught b. Mr. Watson,come here I like you c. What hath God wrought d. I am now engineer, yes!!!!!yahooooo What type of second detector is used in AM? a. mixer b. lattice c. PLL d. diode The sum of the effective voltage in both sidebands is what percentage of the carrier voltage during 100% modulation? a. 50 b. 70 c. 25 d. 67 14. What type of laser is used in fiber optics? a. laser sword b. semiconductor laser c. ruby laser d. carbon monoxide laser 15. A fiber optic system has a rise time of 16 nsec, the source rise time of 1.5 nsec and detector rise time of 2 nsec, what is the cable rise time? a. 2.5 nsec b. 12.32 nsec c. 3.71 nsec d. 14 nsec 16. In a PIN photodiode, which material is slightly doped? a. P-type material b. Intrinsic c. N-type material d. extrinsic 17. What skin damage occurs when exposed to laser radiation? a. Erythema b. Gout c. Haematoma d. Athletes foot 18. The field strength of a free space signal is measured as 2 uV/m at a distance of 85 000 km. What is the transmitter power? a. 563 W b. 963 W c. 600 W d. 1000 W 19. Zoning is used with a dielectric antenna in order to a. reduce the bulk of the b. increase the bandwidth lens of the lens c. permit pin point d. correct curvature failure focusing 20. What would be the physical size of a Hertz antenna operating at 74.784 MHz (k = 0.95)? a. 71 in b. 75 in c. 79 in d. 83 in 21. A paraboloid is to have a power gain of 41.55 dB. If the frequency of operation is to be 8 GHz, what is the radius of the parabolic reflector? a. 6 ft b. 3 ft c. 1.83 ft d. 0.915 ft 22. This circuit has the function of demodulating the frequency-modulated signal. It is a: a. AGC b. AFC c. envelope detector d.foster-seeley discriminator 23. A piston attenuator is a a. vane attenuator c. waveguide below cutoff b. mode filter d. flap attenuator

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4. When the modulating frequency is doubled, the modulation index is halved and the modulating voltage remains the same. What is the modulation system? a. amplitude modulation b. QAM c. phase modulation d. frequency modulation 5. A receiver with an equivalent noise resistance of 70 ohms is connected to an antenna whose resistance is 100 ohms. What is the receivers noise temperature? a. 203 C b. 11.9C c. -70 C d. 174 K What is the operating frequency of a LED with a bandgap energy of 1.9 eV? a. 549 KHz b. 459 THz c. 477 KHz d. 460 THz To provide 2 or more voice circuits with the same carrier, it is necessary to use a. ISB b. SSB with pilot carrier c. carrier reinsertion d. Lincompex A superheterodyne receiver with an iF of 450 KHz is tuned to a signal at 1200 KHz. The image frequency is a. 750 KHz b. 900 KHz c. 2100 KHz d. 1650 KHz A receiver has poor IF selectivity. It will therefore also have poor a. blocking b. double spotting c. diversity reception d. desensitivity

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10. The velocity factor of a transmission line a. depends on the b. increases the velocity dielectric constant of the along the line material c. governed by skin effect d. higher for solid dielectric 11. Frequencies in the UHF range propagate by means of a. ground waves b. surface waves c. skywaves d. space waves 12. Show which of the following terms does not apply to Yagi-Uda array a. good bandwidth b. parasitic elements c. folded dipole d. high gain 13. Determine the maximum bit rate for NRZ encoding for a pulse spreading constant of 10 nsec and a cable length of 50 m. a. 500 Kbps b. 1 Mbps c. 1.5 Mbps d. 2 Mbps MITRC

24. The output level of a dynamic microphone is of the order of a. 1 microvolt b. 0 dB c. 40 dBm d. 55 dBm 25. A second modulating tone having the same amplitude, but a different frequency, is added to the first at the input to the amplitude modulator, the modulation index will be increased by a factor of: a. 1 b. 2 c. 2 d. 2 2 26. What is the bandwidth of an antenna cut for 60 MHz having a quality factor of 30? a. 1.57 MHz b. 2 MHz c. 3 MHz d. 60 MHz 27. What is the radio horizon distance between a 150 ft transmitting station and a 70 ft receiving station? a. 29.15 miles b. 29.15 km c. 82.46 miles d. 82.46 km

28. The transit time in the repeller space of a reflex klystron must be n + cycles to ensure that a. electrons are b. returning electrons accelerated by the gap give energy to gap voltage oscillations c. equal to the period of d. repeller is not damaged the cavity oscillations by striking electrons 29. An ethernet cable 100Base2 has a max distance of 185 meters and is classified as________. a. UTP Cat 1 b. UTP Cat 4 c. UTP Cat 2 d. UTP Cat 5 30. The cavity magnetron uses strapping to a. prevent mode jumping b. prevent cathode back heating c. ensure bunching d. improve phase-focusing effect 31. IEEE 802.5 is about_______________. a. Ethernet b.Token Bus topology c. Token Ring Topology d. WAN 32. In which OSI layer does the Media Access Control sublayer resides? a. data link b. network c. transport d. session 33. Compute the time it takes to send the message FFFF in hexadecimal form from one station to another using an 8-bit parallel data transfer if the transfer rate is 2 ms per transfer a. 32 ms b. 8 ms c. 4 ms d. 16 ms 34. The noise which assumes great importance at high frequencies is a. flicker noise b. Johnson noise c. transit-time noise d. short noise 35. When microwave signals follow the curvature of the earth, this is known as a. faraday effect b. ducting c. tropospheric scatter d. ionospheric reflection 36. In a certain network, an advertisement was transmitted in the form of data packets, what device will receive the advertisement? a. spoke b. switches c. hubs d. routers 37. Indicate which of the following diodes will produce the highest pulsed power output: a. varactor b. RIMPATT c. IMPATT d. magnetron 38. The angle subtended by earth at geostationary communication satellite is a. 17.34 b. 51.4 c. 120 d. 60 39. Ten devices are arranged in a mesh topology. How many physical links are there? a. 90 b. 10 c. 45 d. 60 40. The negative resistance in a tunnel diode a. is max at the peak point b. between the peak of the characteristics and valley points c. max at the valley point d. improved by the use of reverse bias 41. While describing the sheath of a cable, the abbreviation XLPE means ________ polyethylene. a. cross-layer b. external layer c. cross-linked d. extra-long MITRC

42. The process of removing dirt and rock from crude mica is called a. rifting b. dressing c. cobbing d. trimming 43. A 600 ohm line is to be connected using #18 wire (128 mils). Determine the spacing between wire centers. a. 9.55 inches b. 2.5 inches c. 12.5 inches d. 3.98 inches 44. A transmitter has a carrier output of 15 kW. Determine the power in the sidebands when the carrier is modulated 75% by a sine wave audio signal. a. 2.1 kW b. 4.2 kW c. 7.5 kW d. 15 kW 45. Usually caused by over driving the active device or working on a nonlinear part of its curve. a. harmonic distortion b. interference c. noise d. cross-modulation 46. In cyclic redundancy checking, what is the CRC? a. the divisor b. the dividend c. the remainder d. the quotient 47. Circuit superimposed in 2 two-wire circuits to form a third circuit suitable for passing current in the same frequency without causing interference a. phantom b. cross-circuit c. dual circuit d. hybrid circuit 48. Indicate which of the following is not a binary code a. Morse b. Baudot c. CCITT-2 d. ARQ 49. Quantizing noise occurs in a. time division multiplex c. frequency division multiplex b. PCM d. PWM

50. OSI layers model is what ISO model? a. 7498 b. 7499 c. 7500 d. 7501 51. An electronic equipment used in radio communications to measure standing wave ratio a. Radio meter b Reflectometer . c. Oscilloscope d. Wave meter 52. After a target has been acquired, the best scanning system for tracking is a. nodding b. helical c. spiral d conical . 53. An instrument for recording waveforms of audio frequency a. Oscilloscope b Phonoscope . c. Radioscope d. Audioscope 54. Which part of asynchronous data stream is used for bit synchronization between the transmitter and the receiver? a. Start bit b. Stop bit c. Parity bit d. First data bit 55. What is the first symbol of the radio signal emission having amplitude modulated main carrier single side band suppressed carrier? a. C b. A c J d. H . 56. If the target cross section is changing, the best system for accurate tracking is a. Lobe switching b. Conical scanning c. Sequential lobing d. monopulse

57. Equalizing pulses in TV are sent during a. Horizontal blanking b. Vertical blanking c. Aspect ratio d. The serrations 58. The video voltage applied to the picture tube of a television receiver is fed in a. Between grid and b. To the yoke ground c. To the anode d. Between grid and cathode 59. What is the ITU specification for RS232C? a. V.2 b. V.25 c. V.24 d. V.35 60. In study of wave propagation, a condition at which zero absorption of radio waves is describe as ______ a. Zero reflection b. Neutral medium medium c Free space medium d. Non-active medium . 61. At what distance is VHF propagation normally limited? a Around 500 miles b. Around 1500 miles . c. Around 2000 miles d. Around 1000 miles 62. Which of the following devices performs protocol conversion? a. router b gateway . c. switch d. hub 63. Ethernet sends and receives data at a rate of a. 10 Mbps b. 100 Mbps c. 1 000 Mbps d. 1 Mbps 64. This describes how ethernet protocol regulates communication among connection points. a. polling b. CSMA/CD c. contention d. LAN distribution 65. What is the term for an antenna element which is supplied power from a transmitter through a transmission line? a. Parasitic element b. Director element c Driven element d. Reflector element . 66. A mobile telephone system, which used analogue cellular radio standard which was superceded by the Advanced Mobile Phone System in the US a. TDMA b IMTS . c. CDMA d. D-AMPS 67. One (1) Erlang is equal to _____ a. 360 CCS b. 100 CCS c. 3.6 CCS d 36 CCS . 68. If a 10BaseT2network has been installed and one of the segments exceeds 200 meters, which type of device help prevents attenuation? a. repeater b. amplifier c. tuner d. receiver 69. The PCM sampling rate is 8 because a. That represents b. the maximum rate that the technology can support c. This rate allows d. unique values 000 samples per sec This rate allows the faithful reconstruction of the analog signal This rate is easily produced by sampling chip

70. Find the minimum bandwidth for a frequency division multiplexer with 5 lines each requiring 4000 Hz and 200 Hz guard separating each band a. 20 KHz b 20.8 KHz . c. 21 KHz d. 25.2 KHz 71. Known as the data transfer handshaking principle a Synchronous data b. . transfer scheme c. Asynchronous data d. transfer scheme scheme that used DMA data transfer scheme Uninterrupted data transfer scheme

72. Noise reduction system used for film sound in movie. a. dBa b dolby . c. dBx d. dBjam 73. The method determining the bandwidth of any processing system is _____ a. Bandwidth analysis b. Frequency spectrum c Spectral analysis d. Frequency analysis . 74. What kind of recording is used in facsimile? a Electrothermal b. Electrolytic recording . recording c. Electrostatic d. Electropercussive recording recording 75. Color sync burst are located at the_____________. a. Front porch b. serrations c. Sync pulse d Back porch . 76. Which of the following will you avoid in the construction of a microwave station? a. Use of copper b. Short horizontal runs c. Coated parabola d Long horizontal . runs 77. An aircraft deviation measured by an ILS localizer a. Altitude b. Ground speed c. Vertical d Horizontal . 78. What is the power output of a Personal Communications System (PCS)? a. 10 mW b. 150 mW c. 75 mW d. 10 W 79. A diagram which shows the relationship between RF signal phase and maximum bunching of the electron beam in velocity modulated devices. a. Smith chart b. Applegate diagram c. Argand diagram d. Rf phasing diagram 80. Which agency developed standards for electrical connections and the physical transfer of data between devices a. EIA b. ANSI c. ITU-T d. ISO 81. Which area of the world first deployed cellular services for commercial use? a Scandinavia b. Central Asia . c. Central America d. Eastern Europe 82. The first GSM call in the world took place in Finland on a. June 5, 1993 b July 1, 1991 . c. May 1, 1001 d. November 23, 1990 83. Who profounded electromagnetic radiation theory? a. Sir Edward Appleton b. Sir Jaime Licuanan c. James Clerk d. Christian huygens Maxwell

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84. How many radio frequency bands will become available for 3G services in the country? a. 3 b 5 . c. 9 d. 12 85. What is the color subcarrier for channel 5? a. 77.25 MHz b 80.83 MHz . c. 3.58 MHz d. 79.58 MHz 86. B-scan in radar displays__________. a. Range and azimuth b. Direction detection c. Range and intensity d. Elevation azimuth and and

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97. What is the minimum carrier power output of a standard AM broadcast where effective and direct supervision of an Electronics and Communications Engineer is required? a. 1 kW b. 3 kW c. 4 kW d. 5 kW 98. Determine the bandwidth efficiency for QPSK modulation scheme at a transmission rate of 10 Mbps a. 1 bit/cycle b. 2 bits /cycle c. 4 bits/cycle d. 3 bits/cycle 99. An attenuator has a loss of 26 dB. If a power of 3 W is applied to the attenuator, find the output power. a. 7.54 W b. 1194 W c. 7.54 mW d. 45.21 W

87. Commercial load for radio shall not exceed _____minutes for a one-hour program in Metro Manila. a. 20 b. 16 c. 17 d. 15 88. What is the effective earth radius when the surface refractivity equals 300? a. 6370 km b. 8000 km c. 7300 km d 8500 km . 89. The principle of data reduction which says that when reducing a set of data into the form of un underlying mode, one should be maximally non-committal with respect to the missing data a Jaynes maximum b. Janes minimum . entropy principle bandwidth c. Minimum d. Johannes kullback discrimination principle principle

100. A telephone signal takes 3 ms to reach its destination. Calculate the via net loss required for an acceptable amount of echo. a. 1.02 dB b. 2.4 dB c. 1.5 dB d. 0.88 dB --------end of exam-------

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of the following term describes the specialized software that gives the computer the ability to take part in networked communications? a. ethernet b. Industry standard architecture 16 c Network operating d. World wide web . system

91. What is the common up-converter and down converter IF? a. 36 MHz b. 70 MHz c. 40 MHz d. 500 MHz 92. Proposed the use of a clad glass fiber as a dielectric waveguide a. Kao and Keck b. Bockham and Kao c. Karpon and Keck d. Karpon and Bockham 93. Which band is allocated to Short Range Radio Service in the country? a. ELF b UHF . c. VHF d. HF 94. The number of lines per field in the United States TV system is a. 525 b. 60 c. 262.5 d. 2 95. It is a non-combustible tubing which encases the riser cable between enclosed type metallic terminal cabinets or boxes a. Raceway b. Riser shaft c. Riser conduit d. Entrance cable 96. Encryption and decryption are functions of what layer a. network b presentation MITRC