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Engineering 180
Final Examination
Spring 2014
Student Name
Exam Date
b. __________________________________
Communications Systems
1. (1 pt) A parameter based on Cost could never be a TPM because it is
fundamentally not a technical parameter. True or False
2. (1 pt) To make digital information more immune to corruption by Noise,
which technique is used to encode the information for transmission by a
radio (circle answer a or b)
a. Channel Error Correction Coding Technique, or
b. Source encoding technique
3. (1) Source coding is the process of representing the information source in
a. Analog, b. Digital or c. Proprietary format.(circle a, b or c)
4. (1 pt) To provide uniform system availability across the continental United
States, the DirecTV system design includes downlink antenna pattern
shaping so that there is more power sent to regions of the country which
need more margin for (circle best answer a or b or c)
a. Mountain and hill fading, or
b. Rain fading, or
c. Urban area building fading
5. (1 pt) Free Space propagation loss in DB increases with the ______ of the
distance.
a. Log
b. Square
c. 4th Power
6. (1 pt) Frequency (F) and Wavelength are:
a. Two names for the same thing
b. Directly proportional
c. Inversely proportional
7. (1 pt) To be a good Communications Systems Engineer, it would be
essential to have experience as an Antenna designer? True or False
8. (1 pt) The Radio Frequency Spectrum is highly regulated however you can
use any frequency so long as you do not interfere with another service at
that frequency. True or False?
9. (3 pt) Technical Performance Measures (TPM). Define one TPM for each of:
a. DTV System Level _______________________________________
b. Satellite Subsystem ______________________________________
c. Receiver Decoder Unit ____________________________________
10. (2 pt) To become a Senior Systems Engineer or Technical Director,
demonstrated technical ability is really all that matters? True or False
11. (2 pt) list 2 important DBS stakeholders requirements and indentify the
corresponding stakeholder:
a. Requirement ______________________ Stakeholder _________
b. Requirement ______________________ Stakeholder _________
12. (2 pt) What was the top Technical Risk at the inception of the development
of DirecTV and how long was it anticipated to close this risk?
a. Risk = __________________________________________________
b. Months to close risk =______________________________________
13. (2 pt) What aspect of the Integrated Product Team (IPT) organizational
approach to a system development makes each team so effective?
________________________________________________________
14. (2 pt) When defining the requirements for the DBS User receiver/decoder
unit which ONE of the three items listed would it have been NOT
appropriate for the System Engineers to SPECIFY about the MPEG source
coding scheme to the units development team? (select best answer)
a. The processor chip that they should use
b. The license agreement for the MPEG software
c. The algorithms and estimated processing power and memory
15. (2 pt) Give two reasons why digital communications is preferable to analog
communications
a. ____________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________
16. (2 pt) What phenomenon of the universe ultimately limits a radios
communications range? ___________ (one word answer).
17. (2 pt) What is the name of the overall video information source coding
technique that was critical to the economic success of Direct Broadcast
Satellite Service (eg, DirecTV)? (choose a, b, c or d)
a. Reed-Solomon Coding
b. MPEG Coding
c. Convolutional Coding
d. other
18. (2 pt) If you have a innovative technical idea. If you want to convince
management to invest in it you will need to make a compelling
______________ case (fill in the blank word).
19. (2 pt) From the table below, what was the first calendar year for which the
operation had a net operating profit for that year (revenue was greater than
expenditures for that calendar year) _________
20. (2 pt) What was the worst case cash position for the company during the
establishment of the DBS business? $_______M (hint - the highest amount
of Cash ($s) that was laid-out in the business at a point in time).
Radar Sensors
1.
(3 points) Give the primary reason that a radar sensor was chosen for the
Magellan mission.
Answer:
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
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(3 points) Consider the same synthetic aperture radar. If the radar has a
circular antenna, how much would its diameter have to increase to double
the radars range?
a. 1.41:1
b. 1.68:1
c. 2.82:1
d. 8:1
Answer:
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8.
(3 points) List three factors that affect failure rates and thus reliability.
a. __________________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________________
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5. (2 points) CACHING
What are the two methods used to write results to memory in a CPU with caching?
(1)__________________________________________________________________
(2)__________________________________________________________________
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