EXCEL EST COACHING EST 2 15.

In wave propagation, what layer is present

only at daytime?
1. The letter and number designation of carrier ANS.
and one sideband is __.
ANS. H3E 16. What type of antenna array is consisting of
linear arrangement of simple dipoles 90O out
2. The bit rate of TDMA is __ kbps. of phase and have a radiation pattern of
ANS. 8 maximum directivity in plane of the array?
ANS.
3. L600 mastergroup baseband has a bandwidth
of __ kHz. 17. A system where cables and/or wires are
ANS. 2728 placed within the ceiling space and poked up
through the fire-resistant floor structure to
4. It is a multi-channel surround sound format the office or room above.
used in DVD and HDTV, and first used in ANS. POKE THROUGH
movie theaters in 1992.
ANS. DOLBY DIGITAL 18. What will be the result of the gain level being
too high for signals entering the modulator?
5. The number of lines scanned per frame in the ANS.
raster on a picture tube is ___.
ANS. 525 19. Interference in the form of a series of
horizontal lines on a TV screen caused by
6. The time when the FET is “on” is called __. extreme surges from loudspeaker, applause
ANS. ACQUISITION or certain musical instruments.
ANS.
7. In data communications employing FSK, baud
date is ___ bit rate. 20. A closet which by terminating facilities for key
ANS. EQUAL telephone system services, stations, and
central offices and PBX lines but does not
8. High-frequency waves are affected by the __. contain key telephone system circuitry.
ANS. SOLAR CYCLE ANS.

9. The minimum illumination recommended for 21. What is the major problem with VHF
reading is __ lux. oscillator?
ANS. 800 ANS. POOR FREQUENCY STABILITY

10. The combining of two sound signals into a 22. What determines the selectivity of a receiver?
composite recording is called __. ANS. THE BANDWIDTH OF THE TUNED
ANS DUBBING CICUIT

11. If the grade of service of a telephone system
indicated P of 0.05, what does it mean?
ANS. LOST CALLS OF 5%
12. A mobile receiver experiences “dead” areas of
reception as a result of
ANS. SHADING OF THE RF SIGNALS BY
HILLS AND TREES
13. A text code that makes use of 16-bit long
code words.
ANS. UNICODE
14. A CGS unit of luminance or brightness,
defined as brightness of a perfectly diffusing
surface, when the total flux radiated is 1
lumen per square cm.
ANS.
23. What is the aspect ratio of HDTV?
ANS. 16:9
24. What is measured on a circuit where it is
correctly terminated but does not have any
traffic?
ANS. WHITE NOISE
25. When a space-wave signal passes over a
mountain ridge, a small part of the signal is
diffracted down the far side of the mountain.
This phenomenon is called ___.
ANS. KNIFE-EDGE DIFFRACTION
26. A set of charts used in color TV to verify hue,
brilliance and chroma.
ANS. MUNSELL COLOR SCALE
27. Ground wave communications is most 40. The number of times each second that the
effective in what frequency range? information displayed on a nonpermanent
ANS. 300 kHz to 3 MHz display is rewritten?
ANS. REFRESH RATE
28. Jitter is term used to magnify phase shifts of
the information transmitted. Jitter above 10 41. What is the least expensive connector that is
Hz is called ___. widely used for CATV, VCRs and TV sets?
ANS. WANDER ANS. F-7 TYPE

29. At very high frequencies, transmission lines 42. An antenna whose technical equivalent is λ/4
acts as ___. line which is open circuited.
ANS. ANTENNAS ANS. DIPOLE

30. How many voice channels are there in a DS-2 43. An advantage of digital over analog
digital signal hierarchy for TDM? transmission.
ANS. 96 ANS. NOISE IMMUNITY

31. The total cost of a radio or TV program 44. What antenna is used for radiating AM
production, or sponsorship. broadcast band?
ANS. NUT ANS. λ/4 VERTICAL ANTENNA

32. Noise when measured across the tip and ring 45. In a TV picture tube, what is the purpose of
terminals of a network shall be ___ dBrnCO. large picture tube voltage?
ANS. 15 ANS. ATTRACT ELECTRONS TOWARD THE
FACE OF THE TUBE
33. __ is another term for optical density.
ANS. RADIANT FLUX 46. What is the typical output voltage of magnetic
microphone?
34. What microwave antenna is formed from a ANS. 1 mV
circular waveguide?
ANS. CONICAL HORN ANTENNA 47. What optical fiber has the smallest
beamwidth?
35. A sponge-rubber or plastic foam cap placed ANS. GLASS FIBER CORE
over the end of a microphone to reduce
sibilance, breathy sounds and other unwanted 48. What is BFO in SSB receiver called?
vocal effects. ANS. CARRIER OSCILLATOR
ANS. POP FILTER
49. What is the standard distance from the TV
36. What causes attenuation present in a screen that is considered as the best viewing
waveguide? distance?
ANS. WALLS OF THE GUIDE ANS.

37. What do you call a non-continuous noise of 50. What periodic waveform consists of odd
irregular pulses or spikes of short duration harmonics?
but with high amplitudes? ANS. SQUARE WAVE
ANS. JITTER
51. In videotape, the ability of the particles that
38. What figure of merit is used to measure light form the magnetic medium to keep their
gathering or light collecting ability of an magnetic charge.
optical fiber? ANS.
ANS. NUMERICAL APERTURE
52. __ is spread spectrum used to describe
39. What is the highest frequency that can be multiple access system in satellite
generated by an IMPATT microwave diode communications that has no limitation on the
oscillator? BW.
ANS. 30 GHz ANS. CDMA

53. Multiple accessing arrangement for satellite

communication system wherein earth station
 transmit within the same frequency band and
have no limitation on when they may transmit
or on which carrier frequency carrier
separation is accomplished with envelop
encryption/ decryption techniques.
ANS. CDMA
54. What protocol uses the checksum method of
error-detection?
ANS. XMODEM
55. What is the current digital video specification
applying video compression?
ANS. MPEG-4
56. What is the unit for median field strength of
TV broadcast station?
ANS. dBu
65. What system where transmitted and received
clock signals free run at approximately the
same speed?
ANS.
66. What type of laser is used for fiber optic
communications?
ANS. SEMICONDUCTOR LASER
67. What technique allows correction of data of
the receiver?
ANS. FEC
68. In color perception, the degree to which the
light energy is confined to a narrow frequency
band. It is thus the converse of the extent to
which the color is diluted with white light.
ANS. SATURATION

57. RG59u coaxial cable has an impedance of __ 69. Synchronous modems cost more than
ohms. asynchronous modems because ___.
ANS. 75 ANS. THEY MUST CONTAIN CLOCK
RECOVERY CIRCUITS
58. In order to convert most of the earth’s
surface, as the earth turns under the satellite 70. In April 2002, the IEEE published their 802.16
path during the 24 hour period, the orbit of standard for “broadband wireless access”
the GPS must maintain __ degrees of (BWA), more commonly known as ___.
inclination with respect to the equator. ANS. WIMAX
ANS. 55?
71. In TV, blurring of the verticals in a
59. What refers to the cost effective standard reproductive image.
based wireless solution that specifically ANS. SMEARING
supports low data rates, low power
consumption, security and reliability and is 72. In what acoustical scale are all intervals
also known as IEEE 802.15.4? exactly constant?
ANS. ZIGBEE ANS. DIATONIC

60. What was the most significant contribution of
the satellite named “Score”?
ANS. IT WAS THE FIRST SATELLITE TO
TRANSMIT MESSAGE
61. In digital transmission using delta modulation
method, what normally causes error in the
demodulated signal?
ANS. SLOPE OVERLOAD
62. In asynchronous transfer mode, __ indicate
the mode source and packet destination.
ANS.
63. The rule of thumb states that one should be
seated at least __ ft. from a 31” screen.
ANS.
64. Radiation occurring on frequency which are
whole or multiple of the original desired
frequency is __ radiation.
ANS.
73. An MPEG-4 based video compression
technology uses a radio format known as ___.
ANS. DIVX
74. What term is used for RF radiation damage to
cells of reproductive tissue?
ANS. GENETIC
75. A set of standard for the digital transmission
of information over fiber optics, based on
increments of 51 Mbps, it was developed to
cost-effectively support broadband services
and multi-vendor inter0networking.
ANS. SONET (SYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL
NETWORKING)
76. What method of generating SSB signal utilizes
one balanced modulator circuit?
ANS. FILTER METHOD
77. When the loop in a PLL is locked, what is the
difference in frequency detected by the phase
detector?
ANS. ZERO
78. In video system, what determines the
maximum number of vertical picture
elements?
ANS. NUMBER OF LINES ON THE SCREEN
79. What term of digital modulation is using a
binary pulse stream that varies between two
discrete voltage levels as modulating signals?
ANS. FSK
80. What digital modulation method where it is
not necessary to recover a phase coherent
carrier but instead makes use of received
signaling element time slot and compared to
the nest signal element?
ANS. DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT
KEYING
81. A cable that carries several video channels
between facilities of a cable TV company.
ANS. SUPERTRUNK
82. Beam alignment magnets for camera tubes
are adjusted while rocking which control?
ANS. OPTICAL FOCUS
83. Among the resistors associated with transistor
as a result of the discrete particle of the
current carriers in all forms of semiconductor
is known as __ noise.
ANS. SHOT
84. In data communications, the T in 10 Base T
normally represents the ___.
ANS. TYPE OF CABLE USED
85. What frequency band is most suitable for LOS
propagation?
ANS. VHF
86. A relatively small satellite antenna typically
1.5 to 3.0 m in diameter, used for
transmitting and receiving one channel of
data communications.
ANS. VSAT (VERY SMALL APERTURE
TERMINAL)
87. What is the most common modulation
technique used for radio telegraphy?
ANS. FSK
88. What resistor has a typical flicker noise
voltage range of 0.02 to 0.20 µV?
ANS. METAL FILM
89. What is the meaning of MP3?
ANS. MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP
1, AUDIO LAYER 3
90. What is the gamma of the picture tube of the
television?
ANS. 2.2
91. A scheme in the transmission of two separate
information signals using two AM carriers at
same frequencies but differ in phase by 90
degrees.
ANS. QAM
92. The resistance of a photocell when light is
incident on the active surface of the tube
ANS.KOCH RESISTANCE
93. What determines the rate of frequency swing
for an FM broadcast transmitter?
ANS. MODULATION FREQUENCY
94. What is the main disadvantage of a single
tube transmitter?
ANS. FREQUENCY INSTABILITY
95. Intermediate power amplifier (IPA) in the
transmitter is also known as ___.
ANS. DRIVER
96. In one particular frequency known as ___
frequency, the periodic time of the wave
frequency becomes equal to the time required
for one complete revolution about the earth’s
magnetic field axis making the path a very
wide single loop.
ANS. GYRO
97. It is the act of moving a camera slowly from
one side of a scene toward the other.
ANS. PANNING
98. What room where boundaries absorb
effectively all incident sounds?
ANS. ANECHOIC ROOM
99. Does not fall within the visible frequency
range.
ANS. INFRARED
100. What fiber optic wavelength is used
because of an attenuation null at the
wavelength?
ANS. 1.3 MICRONS
101. Fiber optics performance is usually
indicated by ___.
ANS. PRODUCT OF BIT RATE AND
DISTANCE
102. A factor expressing the ability of a
electron gun to provide an electron stream
under the stimulus of a given accelerating
voltage.
ANS. PERVEANCE
103. What happens in standard AM
transmission if no modulating signal is being
transmitted?
ANS. THERE ARE NO SIDEBANDS
104. What is the disadvantage of slope
detection of FM?
ANS. NO NOISE DISCRIMINATION
105. What is the advantage of using high IF?
ANS. BETTER IMAGE REJECTION
106. A mirror that reflects one color but passes
all other colors is called ___.
ANS. DICHROIC
107. A process in which the temperature of the
substance that undergoes a change of some
kind stays constant.
ANS. ISOTHERMAL
108. Associated with certain types of
microphones, the closer the sound is to the
mic, the more the bass frequencies are
exaggerated.
ANS. PROXIMITY EFFECT
109. What do you call the combining circuit
used in TV?
ANS. MATRIX
110. Among the following systems, which one
uses CDMA as a method of multiplexing?
ANS. IS-95
111. The microwave tube that is a linear beam
tube, in which the interaction between the
beam and the RF fields is continuous, is called
__.
ANS. TRAVELING WAVE TUBE
112. The power output of SSB transmitters is
normally expressed as the ___ power.
ANS. PEAK ENVELOP
113. What is the signal rate of RS 232 normally
used as interface between DTE and DCE?
ANS. 20 KBPS
114. What can be used to demodulate a PAM
signal?
ANS. LOW PASS FILTER (LPF)
115. What is the standard IF frequency for
picture used in TV receivers following NTSC
standard?
ANS. 45.75 MHz
116. What unit is used to indicate the loudness
level of sound compared to the intensity of
1000 Hz-tone?
ANS. PHON
117. What is the first radio receiver?
ANS. CRYSTAL RADIO RECEIVER
118. In satellite communications, frequency
hopping used is a form of ___.
ANS. CDMA
119. The study of how the human brain records
and deciphers the signal that indicate the
direction from which a sound originates.
ANS. PSYCHOACOUSTICS
120. What colloquial term describes additional
side frequencies produced over modulation or
distortion in AM?
ANS. SPLATTER
121. What occurs during CW reception if too
narrow a filter bandwidth is used in the IF
stage of a receiver?
ANS. FILTER RINGING
122. Loss of vertical sync causing the picture to
move up or down the screen. This may result
from anti-copying devices played on
commercial prerecorded videotapes.
ANS. ROLL
123. What stage in a radio transmitter isolates
the oscillator from the load?
ANS. BUFFER
124. What type of signal in which a receiver
selectivity of 2.4 kHz in the IF circuitry is
optimum?
ANS. SSB VOICE
125. An abortive attempt to eliminate the CRT
as the display method of large screen TV.
ANS. SCOPHONY
126. Small system network designed to
distribute direct to home TV signals
throughout a single dwelling block.
ANS. SMATV
127. What is the process required in product
detection?
ANS. HETERODYNING
128. What two basic functions are performed
by the AM detector in the receiver?
ANS. RECTIFICATION AND FILTERING
129. What would be produced by weak blue,
weak green and weak red on color CRT?
ANS. GRAY
130. What type of asynchronous is used on
data communications where in the beginning
and end of the character code is identified?
ANS. CHARACTER SYNCHRONIZATION
131. A device that prevents light from reaching
the light-sensitive surface of a TV camera
except during the desired period of exposure.
ANS. SHUTTER
132. In acoustics, what consists of a rapid
succession of noticeable echoes?
ANS. FLUTTER ECHO
133. What type of microphone has a into several channels to share its facilities
permanent magnet?
ANS. RIBBON
134. When a conduit enters a box, fitting or
other enclosure, ___ shall be provided to
protect the wire from abrasion.
ANS. BASHING
135. What is the average maximum data rate
for fiber optics?
ANS. 50 GBPS
136. An opening through which electrons, light,
radio waves or other radiation can pass
ANS. APERTURE
137. What is affected by the distance between
the listener and the source of the sound and
its intensity varies inversely with the square
of this distance?
ANS. LOUDNESS
138. Structure made of plastic like material
used to enclose the complete antenna
assembly to protect the antenna from the
weakness and to reduce wind and snow
loading.
ANS. RADOME
139. Number of electron beam that leaves the
electron gun on a single-gun CRT.
ANS. 3
140. In video, the frame surrounding a video
picture that has different proportions from
that of the TV screen.
ANS. BEZEL
141. What is commonly used telephone wire?
ANS. AWG # 19
142. A coaxial cable known as UHF connector.
ANS. PL-259
143. In telephony, what traffic model is based
on the assumption that calls not satisfied are
field in the system until it is satisfied?
ANS. ERLANG-C
144. How many mixers are there in an SSB
receiver?
ANS. 2
145. How many oscillators does a black and
white TV receiver contain?
ANS. 2
146. What device can divide a data character
usually at slower data rates?
ANS. CONVERTER
147. Unwanted sidebands in SSB equipment
can be suppressed by one or more of the
following methods.
ANS. PHASING METHOD AND FILTER
METHOD
148. What is the heater voltage of TV receiver
picture tube?
ANS. 6.3
149. An undesirable bright or dark ring
surrounding a spot of the fluorescent screen
of a TV CRT.
ANS. HOLE
150. The technique used in same special
microwave receivers to reduce noise level
even in microwave frequency is known as __.
ANS. OPERATING WITH CRYOGENIC
CONDITION
151. What is the lowest number of sections
required by communications receivers?
ANS. 4
152. What is the advantage of a low-level
modulated AM transmitter?
ANS. LEAST AUDIO POWER REQUIRED
153. The density with which a viewing surface
is divided into physical sensors, such as pixels
in an image or grains of emulsions in film.
ANS. GRANULARITY
154. What kind of modulation in which the
modulated wave is always present?
ANS. CONTINUOUS MODULATION
155. What are the three major types of
demodulators?
ANS. FOSTER-SEELEY, QUADRATURE AND
PLL
156. Shadow mask for color TV has about __
holes.
ANS. 300,000
157. What is the small length of wire found in
some RF equipment, connected only at one
end and use as a capacitance to the ground?
ANS. GIMMICK
158. What is the most reliable scheme for error
detection?
ANS. CRC
159. An unintelligible sound track caused by
speeding up videotape playback without
modifying the audio pitch.
ANS. DONALD DUCK EFFECT
160. Quality in sound that corresponds to color
in light is ___.
ANS. PITCH
161. What is the typical value of the velocity
factor of an open wire transmission line?
ANS. 0.9
162. The brightness of light source is called
luminous intensity, whose unit is ___.
ANS. CANDELA
163. Most widely used light generator in fiber
optic system.
ANS. INJECTION LASER DIODE (ILD)
164. Contained emission of light following
excitation of the screen of TV picture tubes to
decay to one period of its maximum value is
known as ___.
ANS. SCREEN PERSISTENCE
165. Tendency to reduce excessively the tonal
range of some part of the picture signal.
ANS. CRUSH
166. What consists of a rapid succession of
noticeable echoes?
ANS. FLUTTER ECHO
167. What component of the telephone set has
the primary function of compensating for the
local loop length?
ANS. VARISTOR
168. What do you call a special service circuit
connecting two private branch exchanges
(PBX)?
ANS. TIE TRUNK
169. What frequency that cannot be used for
reliable beyond-the-horizon terrestrial
communications without repeaters?
ANS. 12 GHz
170. What figure of merit is used to express
the degree of modulation scheme achieved in
FSK modulator?
ANS. H-FACTOR
171. The ability of a tuner to restrict or reject a
second, weaker signal in proximity to the
main signal.
ANS. CAPTURE EFFECT
172. What modulation system is employed by
the European Cordless Telephone?
ANS.
173. What device displays signal state of many
lines simultaneously?
ANS.
174. Modulating two waves of the same
frequency but with __ phase difference is
equivalent to modulating both amplitude and
phase of the same carrier.
ANS. 90 DEGREES
175. A diagram used to illustrate the principle
of electron bunching in velocity-modulated
tubes (e.g. klystron, traveling-wave tube)
ANS. APPLEGATE DIAGRAM
176. Grounding system of an AM broadcast
tower radiator may be improved using radial
wires known as ___.
ANS.
177. In data communications circuit,
synchronous data format is used to achieve
what type of synchronization?
ANS. BIT
178. The data signaling channel in a cellular
system that handles the administrative
overhead is known as the __ channel.
ANS.
179. How many groups are there in (CCITT’s
FDM hierarchy) a supermastergroup?
ANS. 75
180. Which among the IEEE standard refers to
the global specification for wireless LAN?
ANS. 802.11b
ANS. BACKLOBE RADIATION
194. An array of simple dipoles fed in phase
and having a radiation pattern whose
maximum directivity it along the axis normal
to the plane of the array.
ANS. BROADSIDE ARRAY

181. What is the primary specification of a fiber
cable usually expressed as the loss in dB/km?
ANS. ATTENUATION
182. What is the width of V blanking pulse?
ANS. 1333 µs
183. What is the width of H blanking pulse?
ANS. 10.2 µs
195. The statement “incoming light is partially
absorbed and partially transmitted equally in
all directions” is known as the ___.
ANS. LAMBERTIAN REFLECTION
196. Refers to a topology which is relatively
immune to bottlenecks.
ANS.

184. Among the visible light rays of blue,

green, yellow and orange, which has the
longest wavelength?
ANS. ORANGE

185. In FSK, rate of change of frequency at the

input to the modulator is called ___.
ANS. BIT RATE

186. Which of the following is not an

application of PLL?
ANS. AM DISCRIMINATOR

187. Refers to a unit of an assembly or sections

and associated fitting, forming a rigid
structure system used to support cables?
ANS. CABLE TRAY

188. What is the GPRS uplinks data rate?

ANS. 14 KBPS

189. A routing scheme that delivers message to

all nodes in the internet network.
ANS. BROADCAST

190. What theorem sets a limit on the

maximum capacity of a channel with a given
noise level?
ANS. SHANNON-HARTLEY THEOREM

191. The speed of light in air compared to

speed of light in glass is ___.
ANS. HIGHER

192. Intermittent operation in which the load

condition is regularly recurrent.
ANS. PERIODIC DUTY

193. Form of unwanted radiation working

against the main beam caused by feeding a
parabolic reflector with an isotropic source.