Quiznetik
Communication Engineering | Set 2
1. In which waveform logic 1 is represented by equal amplitude alternating pulses?
A. unipolar rz
B. bipolar rz
C. rz-ami
D. manchester coding
Correct : C. rz-ami
2. The signals which are obtained by encoding each quantized signal into a digital word is called as
A. pam signal
B. pcm signal
C. fm signal
D. sampling and quantization
Correct : B. pcm signal
3. The length of the code-word obtained by encoding quantized sample is equal to
A. l=log(to the base 2)l
B. l=log(to the base 10)l
C. l=2log(to the base 2)l
D. l=log(to the base 2)l/2
Correct : A. l=log(to the base 2)l
4. In PCM encoding, quantization level varies as a function of
A. frequency
B. amplitude
C. square of frequency
D. square of amplitude
Correct : B. amplitude
5. What is bit depth?
A. number of quantization level
B. interval between two quantization levels
C. number of possible digital values to represent each sample
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. number of possible digital values to represent each sample
6. Choosing a discrete value that is near but not exactly at the analog signal level leads to
A. pcm error
B. quantization error
C. pam error
D. sampling error
Correct : B. quantization error
7. In PCM the samples are dependent on
A. time
B. frequency
C. quanization leavel
D. interval between quantization level
Correct : A. time
8. DPCM encodes the PCM values based on
A. quantization level
B. difference between the current and predicted value
C. interval between levels
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. difference between the current and predicted value
9. Delta modulation uses bits per sample.
A. one
B. two
C. four
D. eight
Correct : A. one
10. Sample resolution for LPCM bits per sample.
A. 8
B. 16
C. 24
D. all of the mentioned
Correct : D. all of the mentioned
11. Adaptive DPCM is used to
A. increase bandwidth
B. decrease bandwidth
C. increase snr
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. decrease bandwidth
12. Vocoders analyse the speech signals at
A. transmitter
B. receiver
C. channel
D. if filter
Correct : A. transmitter
13. Vocoders the voice at the receiver.
A. analyse
B. synthesize
C. modulate
D. evaluate
Correct : B. synthesize
14. 6 CHANNEL VOCODER
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
15. Which of the following is not a vocoding system?
A. linear predictive coder
B. channel vocoder
C. waveform coder
D. formant vocoder
Correct : C. waveform coder
16. Which of the following pronunciations lead to voiced sound?
A. ‘f’
B. ‘s’
C. ‘sh’
D. ‘m’
Correct : D. ‘m’
17. Channel vocoders are the time domain vocoders.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
18. is often called the formant of the speech signal.
A. pitch frequency
B. voice pitch
C. pole frequency
D. central frequency
Correct : C. pole frequency
19. Formant vocoders use large number of control signals.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
20. Cepstrum vocoder uses
A. wavelet transform
B. inverse wavelet transform
C. cosine transform
D. inverse fourier transform
Correct : D. inverse fourier transform
21. The real part of an antenna’s input impedance is due to
A. swr
B. radiated signal
C. reflected signal
D. refracted signal
Correct : B. radiated signal
22. What is the other name for half-wave dipole antenna?
A. helical antenna
B. isotropic antenna
C. hertz antenna
D. maxwell antenna
Correct : C. hertz antenna
23. Measured on the ground, the field strength of a horizontally polarized half wave dipole antenna is strongest
A. in one direction
B. in two directions
C. depends on the number of elements
D. depends on the shape of antenna
Correct : B. in two directions
24. When an antenna radiates more energy in one direction than in other directions, it is called
A. selectivity
B. directivity
C. active antenna
D. resonance
Correct : B. directivity
25. What is the full form of ERP?
A. effective radiated power
B. effective reflected power
C. equivalent radiated power
D. equivalent reflected power
Correct : A. effective radiated power
26. The polarization of plane waves received from satellite is changed by
A. faraday rotation
B. gamma rays
C. helical rotation
D. distance travelled
Correct : A. faraday rotation
27. What is the input impedance to a lossless antenna, at resonance?
A. infinite
B. 0
C. resistive
D. capacitive
Correct : C. resistive
28. TDMA stands for
A. time division multiple access
B. time domain multiple access
C. time division mutual access
D. time domain mutual access
Correct : A. time division multiple access
29. Which term is used when signals move from one line to another?
A. path switching
B. space switching
C. line switching
D. cross-point switching
Correct : B. space switching
30. PSK stands for Pulse Shift Keying.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
31. Which term is used for moving PCM samples from one time slot to another?
A. time switching
B. space switching
C. phase switching
D. frequency switching
Correct : A. time switching
32. Power can be coupled into or out of a waveguide with a magnetic field probe.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
33. What is the full form of LOS?
A. level of signal
B. line of sight
C. loss of signal
D. level of sight
Correct : B. line of sight
34. How we can define the satisfactory performance of an analog microwave system?
A. carrier to noise ratio that exceeds a given value
B. carrier to noise ratio that is below a given value
C. an erp value that exceeds a given value
D. an erp value that is below a given value
Correct : A. carrier to noise ratio that exceeds a given value
35. RGB stands for
A. red green brown
B. red green black
C. red gold blue
D. red green blue
Correct : D. red green blue
36. How many lines are there in an NTSC signal?
A. 1024
B. 1856
C. 625
D. 525
Correct : D. 525
37. Luminance refers to
A. contrast
B. diffusion
C. brightness
D. aperture
Correct : C. brightness
38. Linear modulation techniques are not bandwidth efficient.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
39. Which of the following is not a linear modulation technique?
A. oqpsk
B. π/4 qpsk
C. fsk
D. bpsk
Correct : C. fsk
40. In BPSK, the of constant amplitude carrier signal is switched between two values according to the two possible values.
A. amplitude
B. phase
C. frequency
D. angle
Correct : B. phase
41. BPSK uses non-coherent demodulator.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
42. DPSK uses coherent form of PSK.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
43. In DPSK system, input signal is differentially encoded and then modulated using a modulator.
A. amplitude
B. frequency
C. bpsk
D. qpsk
Correct : C. bpsk
44. QPSK has the bandwidth efficiency of BPSK.
A. twice
B. same
C. half
D. four times
Correct : A. twice
45. QPSK provides twice the bandwidth efficiency and energy efficiency as compared to BPSK.
A. twice
B. half
C. same
D. four times
Correct : C. same
46. What is the full form of OQPSK?
A. optical quadrature phase shift keying
B. orthogonal quadrature pulse shift keying
C. orthogonal quadrature phase shift keying
D. offset quadrature phase shift keying
Correct : D. offset quadrature phase shift keying
47. The bandwidth of OQPSK is to QPSK.
A. identical
B. twice
C. half
D. four times
Correct : A. identical
48. QPSK signals perform better than OQPSK in the presence of phase jitter.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
49. Which of the following is not a detection technique used for detection of π/4 QPSK signals?
A. baseband differential detection
B. if differential detection
C. fm discriminator detection
D. envelope detection
Correct : D. envelope detection
50. Which of the following is a combined linear and constant envelope technique?
A. mpsk
B. psk
C. bpsk
D. qpsk
Correct : A. mpsk
51. In an M-ary signalling scheme two or more bits are grouped together to form a
A. chip
B. symbol
C. byte
D. pattern
Correct : B. symbol
52. M-ary signalling techniques are not sensitive to timing jitters.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
53. M-ary modulation schemes have very good power efficiency.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
54. What is the radius of the circle in M-ary PSK on which message points are equaly spaced?
A. √es
B. √eb
C. eb
D. es
Correct : A. √es
55. As the value of M the bandwidth efficiency
A. increases, same.
B. increases, decreases
C. increases, increases
D. decreases, same
Correct : C. increases, increases
56. The power efficiency of the M ary PSK decreases because of the
A. freely packed constellation
B. increment of bandwidth efficiency
C. fixed null bandwidth
D. densely packed constellation
Correct : D. densely packed constellation
57. In QAM, the amplitude is and phase is
A. varied, constant
B. varied, varied
C. constant, varied
D. constant, constant
Correct : B. varied, varied
58. M-ary QAM signal have constant energy per symbol.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
59. In comparison to M-ary PSK, M-ary QAM bandwidth efficiency is and power efficiency is
A. identical, superior
B. less, superior
C. identical, identical
D. superior, superior
Correct : A. identical, superior
60. The bandwidth efficiency of an M-ary FSK signal with in M.
A. constant, increase
B. increases, increase
C. decreases, increase
D. decreases, decrease
Correct : C. decreases, increase
61. Power efficiency of M-ary FSK increases, since
A. constellation is densely packed
B. m signals are non-orthogonal
C. fixed null bandwidth
D. m-signals are orthogonal
Correct : D. m-signals are orthogonal
62. The method in which the tail of one pulse smears into adjacent symbol interval is called as
A. intersymbol interference
B. interbit interference
C. interchannel interference
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : A. intersymbol interference
63. If each pulse of the sequence to be detected is in shape, the pulse can be detected without ISI.
A. sine
B. cosine
C. sinc
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. sinc
64. What is symbol rate packing?
A. maximum possible symbol transmission rate
B. maximum possible symbol receiving rate
C. maximum bandwidth
D. maximum isi value allowed
Correct : A. maximum possible symbol transmission rate
65. A nyquist pulse is the one which can be represented by shaped pulse multiplied by another time function.
A. sine
B. cosine
C. sinc
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. sinc
66. Examples of nyquist filters are
A. root raised cosine filter
B. raised cosine filter
C. root raised & raised cosine filter
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. root raised & raised cosine filter
67. The minimum nyquist bandwidth for the rectangular spectrum in raised cosine filter is
A. 2t
B. 1/2t
C. t2
D. 2/t
Correct : B. 1/2t
68. Roll off factor is the fraction of
A. excess bandwidth and absolute bandwidth
B. excess bandwidth and minimum nyquist bandwidth
C. absolute bandwidth and minimum nyquist bandwidth
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. excess bandwidth and minimum nyquist bandwidth
69. A pulse shaping filter should satisfy two requirements. They are
A. should be realizable
B. should have proper roll off factor
C. should be realizable & have proper roll off factor
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. should be realizable & have proper roll off factor
70. Examples of double side band signals are
A. ask
B. psk
C. ask & psk
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. ask & psk
71. ISI is by increasing channel bandwidth.
A. maximized
B. minimized
C. zero
D. infinite
Correct : B. minimized
72. Why is pulse shaping technique used?
A. to increase isi
B. to increase spectral width of modulated signal
C. to reduce isi
D. to reduce power spectral density
Correct : C. to reduce isi
73. Raised cosine filter does not satisfy Nyquist criteria.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
74. As the roll off factor in raised cosine rolloff filter the occupied bandwidth
A. manchester
B. faraday
C. graham bell
D. nyquist
Correct : D. nyquist
75. Gaussian pulse shaping filter follows Nyquist criterion.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
76. Gaussian filter has zero crossings at adjacent symbol peaks.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
77. Which of the following is true for a Gaussian filter?
A. large bandwidth
B. minimum isi
C. high overshoot
D. sharp cut off
Correct : D. sharp cut off
78. Gaussian pulse shaping filter reduces the spectral occupancy and ISI.
A. true
B. false
Correct : B. false
79. Gaussian pulses are used when cost and power efficiency are major factors.
A. true
B. false
Correct : A. true
80. The method in which small amount of controlled ISI is introduced into the data stream rather than trying to eliminate it completely is called as
A. correlative coding
B. duobinary signalling
C. partial response signalling
D. all of the mentioned
Correct : D. all of the mentioned
81. From digital filter we will get the output pulse as the of the current and the previous pulse.
A. summation
B. difference
C. product
D. ratio
Correct : A. summation
82. In duobinary signalling method, for M-ary transmission, the number of output obtained is
A. 2m
B. 2m+1
C. 2m-1
D. m2
Correct : C. 2m-1
83. The method using which the error propagation in dubinary signalling can be avoided is
A. filtering
B. precoding
C. postcoding
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. precoding
84. In precoding technique, the binary sequence is with the previous precoded bit.
A. and-ed
B. or-ed
C. exor-ed
D. added
Correct : C. exor-ed
85. The duobinary filter, He (f) is called as
A. sine filter
B. cosine filter
C. raised cosine filter
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. cosine filter
86. The method which has greater bandwidth efficiency is called as
A. duobinary signalling
B. polybinary signalling
C. correlative coding
D. all of the mentioned
Correct : B. polybinary signalling
87. In polybinary signalling method the present bit of binary sequence is algebraically added with number of previous bits.
A. j
B. 2j
C. j+2
D. j-2
Correct : D. j-2
88. The primary advantage of this method is
A. redistribution of spectral density
B. to favor low frequencies
C. redistribution of spectral density & to favor low frequencies
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. redistribution of spectral density & to favor low frequencies
89. Source encoding procedure does
A. sampling
B. quantization
C. compression
D. all of the mentioned
Correct : D. all of the mentioned
90. The range of amplitude difference gives the value of
A. width
B. distortion
C. timing jitter
D. noise margin
Correct : B. distortion
91. As the eye opens, ISI
A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. decreases
92. The index value n, in transversal filter can be used as.
A. time offset
B. filter coefficient identifier
C. time offset & filter coefficient identifier
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. time offset & filter coefficient identifier
93. The over-determined set of equations can be solved using
A. zero forcing
B. minimum mean square error
C. zero forcing & minimum mean square error
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : C. zero forcing & minimum mean square error
94. If the filter’s tap weight remains fixed during transmission of data, then the equalization is called as
A. preset equalization
B. adaptive equalization
C. fixed equalization
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : A. preset equalization
95. Equalization method which is done by tracking a slowly time varying channel response is
A. preset equalization
B. adaptive equalization
C. variable equalization
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. adaptive equalization
96. Preamble is used for
A. detect start of transmission
B. to set automatic gain control
C. to align internal clocks
D. all of the mentioned
Correct : D. all of the mentioned
97. The disadvantage of preset equalizer is that
A. it doesnot requires initial training pulse
B. time varying channel degrades the performance of the system
C. all of the mentioned
D. none of the mentioned
Correct : B. time varying channel degrades the performance of the system
98. For AWGN, the noise variance is
A. n0
B. n0/2
C. 2n0
D. n0/4
Correct : B. n0/2
99. A Gaussian distribution into the non linear envelope detector yields
A. rayleigh distribution
B. normal distribution
C. poisson distribution
D. binary distribution
Correct : A. rayleigh distribution
100. The DPSK needs Eb/N0 than BPSK.
A. 1db more
B. 1db less
C. 3db more
D. 3db less
Correct : A. 1db more