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A microwave communication system uses place reflectors as

passive repeaters. A parabolic antenna with 20 ft. diameter with an
1. An Ethernet bus is 200 meters long, uses a coaxial cable (velocity effective area of 250 ft was used. Calculate the reflector coupling
factor is 0.625), and a communication speed of 10 Mbps. Determine factor.
the total number of bits that would be sent by each station before it a. 0.96 c. 1.12
detects a collision, if both stations begin to transmit at the same time. b. 1.21 d. 0.706
a. 5 bits c. 11 bits
b. 13 bits d. 25 bits 15. The oscillator of a CB transmitter is guaranteed accurate to a plus
or minus .005 percent. Calculate the maximum frequency at which it
2. Broadcast station towers, by convention, is painted with colors___. could actually transmit if it is set to transmit on channel 18, with a
a. white and red c. white and orange nominal carrier frequency of 27.175 Mhz.
b. white and yellow d. orange and yellow a. 27.2180 Mhz c. 27.2064 Mhz
b. 27.1764 Mhz d. 27.1736 Mhz
3. A radio communication repeater has a transmitting output power of
1 KW, a 5 dB feedline loss, 6 dB duplexer and circulator loss, and a 16. An angstrom used to describe a lightwave is equal to 10 raised to
10 dB antenna gain. Calculate the effective radiated power. minus _____ micrometer.
a. 79.4 W c. 794 W a. 3 c. 6
b. 384 W d. 251 W b. 10 d. 4

4. To demonstrate the color picture of a television set, a ____ is used. 17. In data communications, the interfacing specifications coveing
a. equalizing transformer c. coil trap pre-ISDN standards for basic rate access in an ISDN environment is
b. rotational inductor d. degaussing coil the _____.
a. B c. S
5. In radio communication system, the purpose of AFC in an FM b. L d. R
receiver is ____.
a. to provide selectivity 18. In CMTS, a man inside his car is operating his cellphone and
b. to establish the gain uses frequency 825 Mhz. If he is traveling at a speed of 80 km/hr,
c. to increase the sensitivity what is the time between signal fades?
d. to help maintain the steady local oscillator frequency a. 7.27 ms c. 8.19 ms
b. 9.81 ms d. 7.92 ms
6. A phase-locked loop has a VCO with a free-running frequency of
10 Mhz. As the frequency of the reference input is gradually raised 19. In television using NTSC standard, the chrominance sub-carrier
from zero, the loop locks at 8 Mhz and comes out of lock again at 4 frequency is ____ Mhz.
Mhz. Determine the lock range. a. 3.5975 c. 2.785
a. 12 Mhz c. 4 Mhz b. 2.875 d. 3.5795
b. 8 Mhz d. 6 Mhz
20. In FM fax, the frequencies for black and white are ____
7. In Rado Navigation System, the marker beacon operates at a respectively.
carrier frequency of ____. a. 1500 and 3200 Hz c. 2300 and 4200 Hz
a. 156.8 Mhz c. 145 Mhz b. 1500 and 2300 Hz d. 2300 and 3200 Hz
b. 75 Mhz d. 123.8 Mhz
21. Calculate the time required to dial the number 932-51-74 using
8. How many Hamming bits would have to be added to a data block pulse dialing with 0.300 seconds interdigit time.
containing 120 bits? a. 4.8 sec c. 4.9 sec
a. 9 c. 6 b. 4.6 sec d. 4.1 sec
b. 8 d. 7
22. A type of diode popularly used as a microwave oscillator is a ____
9. In Radio Navigation, a navigation system which depends on time diode.
difference measurement and uses the lowest frequency application of a. avalance c. impatt
radio transmission is know as the ____. b. tunnel d. gunn
a. LORAN Radio Navigation System
b. Global Position Satellite Navigation System 23. What layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model
c. DECCA Radio Navigation System handles the transmission of bits over a communications channel?
d. OMEGA Radio Navigation System a. physical layer c. data link layer
b. transport layer d. network layer
10. Very small Aperture Satellite (VSAT) system operates within the
frequency band called ____ band. 24. What is the effective height of a broadcast antenna if the voltage
a. K c. L induced in the antenna is 2.7 volts and the measured field intensity
b. X d. C received in the antenna site is 27 mV/m?
a. 29.7 meters c. 72.9 meters
11. A hollow metallic structure through which microwave energy b. 100 meters d. 127 meters
propagates by reflection rather than conduction is a/an ____.
a. microstrip c. optical fiber 25. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite operates in the ___ frequency
b. waveguide d. pipeline band.
a. 2 – 18 Ghz c. 1.2 – 1.66 Ghz
12. For microwave application, the main advantage of traveling wave b. 1.0 – 2.5 Ghz d. 6 – 12 Ghz
tube over a Klystron is _____.
a. lower cost c. readily available 26. The normal design limitation of a telephone loop of its value of
b. wider bandwidth d. higher power loop resistance, Rz, the maximum value of Rloop must not
exceed____.
13. In acoustics, the loudness sound level of the voice of a singing a. 5400 ohms c. 2300 ohms
woman is 60 sones. What is its equivalent in phons? b. 1300 ohms d. 2800 ohms
a. 96 c. 98
b. 99 d. 100
27. Calculate the appropriate height of a GEO satellite using Kepler’s 40. A frequency modulation system requires a signal-to-noise ration
Third Law. (A = 42241.0979: P = 0.9972) of 40 dB at the detector output. The modulating frequency is 2 Khz
a. 34, 416.40 km c. 36,000 km and the deviation is 50 Khz. Determine the required minimum S/N at
b. 35, 790 km d. 421, 164 km the detector input.
a. 120 dB c. 80 dB
28. In telecommunications, short haul connection refers to a b. 25 dB d. 83.3 dB
connection not exceeding _____ kilometers.
a. 200 c. 250 41. A typical separation distance between satellites in a geostationary
b. 150 d. 300 orbit is 1839.7 miles. In terms of degrees, it is equivalent to ___
degrees.
29. One of the following is not a system specification for third a. 7 c. 4
generation wireless system. b. 6 d. 5
a. TD/CDMA c. CDMA 2000
b. WCDMA d. IMT 2000 42. At 0 degrees elevation, geostationary satellite can cover a
maximum of _____ percent of the earth’s surface.
30. Bluetooth wireless technology uses ____ to produce the a. 64 c. 46
spreading function of spectrum signals. b. 42.5 d. 33.33
a. hybrid direct-sequences
b. hybrid frequency-hopping 43. Luminance signals are adjusted to match the brightness
c. direct sequence sensation of human vision of color television. This is ____.
d. frequency-hopping a. 29 % red, 59 % green, and 12 % blue
b. 30 % red, 59 % green, and 11 % blue
31. What is the characteristic impedance of a basic parallel wireline, if c. 29 % red, 60 % green, and 11% blue
its diameter is 0.023 inches with spacing of 0.4 inches apart, if it uses d. 30 % red, 58 % green, and 12 % blue
a dielectric material made of continuous polyvinyl chloride?
a. 128.7 ohms c. 234 ohms 44. What is the actual length in feet of a one-half wavelength of a
b. 99 ohms d. 188 ohms coax with a velocity factor of 0.57 at 25 Mhz?
a. 42.17 c. 41.12
32. Crosstalk in telephony, refers to unwanted coupling between b. 44.87 d. 43.25
signal paths and contribute to noise in the telephone receiver.
Calculate the crosstalk coupling loss in dBx (one unit of crosstalk in 45. The choir in the church composed of 20 members, sings “silent
dB above reference coupling) if the crosstalk coupling is 20 dBx. night”. A soloist sings in a passage and is then joined by the rest of
a. 60 c. 80 the choir members singing with the same intensity. What is the
b. 70 d. 90 difference in the sound intensity level in the two cases?
a. 20 dB c. 2.0 dB
33. The critical maximum value of the external incident angle for b. 13 dB d. 1.3 dB
which light will propagate in the fiber is known as ____.
a. acceptance angle 46. How many voice channels are there in a DS-2 Digital Signal
b.critical angle Hierarchy for TDM signals?
c. internal incident angle a. 672 c. 48
d. critical internal incident angle b. 24 d. 96

34. Calculate the peak envelope power of a single sideband (SSB) 47. An optic fiber is made of glass with a refractive index of 1.54 and
transmitter that produces a peak-to-peak voltage of 240 volts across is clad with another glass with refractive index of 1.50. Launching
a 100 ohm antenna load. takes place from air. Calculate the numerical aperture of the fiber.
a. 144 W c. 72 W a. 0.352 c. 0.0352
b. 120 W d. 24 W b. 0.00352 d. 3.52

35. What is the purpose of an indirectly-heated cathode in a cathode 48. In spread-spectrum frequency hopping system, a ____ circuit
ray tube? selects the frequency modulated by the synthesizer.
a. beam modulation c. beam focusing a. frequency synthesizer c. PSN code generator
b. beam production d. beam deflection b. FSK oscillator d. frequency shifter

36. The time transfer accuracy used with a reference to the Universal 49. What synchronizes the horizontal of the TV picture tube?
Transmitter Mercator Grid is _____. a. HSC c. HFC
a. UTC c. GMT b. HAFC d. HAC
b. UTMG d. UTM
50. In FDM, how many voice band channels are there in a jumbo
37. Determine the shot noise for a diode with a forward bias of 1.35 group?
mA over a 110 Khz bandwidth. (1 = 1.6 x 10^-19 C) a. 7,200 c. 10,800
a. 0.006 uA rms c. 0.004 uA rms b. 3,600 d. 1,600
b. 0.005 uA rms d. 0.007 uA rms
51. Using the NTSC standard, what is the aural carrier frequency of
38. The velocity of sound in dry air medium is 331.45 m/s. Calculate UHF TV channel 28?
the new velocity if there is an increase of temperature equal to 10 a. 558.75 Mhz c. 553.75 Mhz
degrees centigrade. b. 559.75 Mhz d. 555.25 Mhz
a. 341.52 m/s c. 332.52 m/s
b. 337.52 m/s d. 332 m/s 52. An optical fiber and its cladding have refractive indexes of 1.55
and 1.32 respectively. Determine the acceptance angle.
39. Another name used for optical density is _____. a. 52.38 degrees c. 51.37 degrees
a. light density c. light flux b. 54.34 degrees d. 55.68 degrees
b. flux density d. radiant flux
53. Calculate the transmitted data stream for the following data and b. 10 bits/cycle d. 3 bits/cycle
CRC generating polynomials: Data C(x) = x raised to the power of 7 +
x raised to the power 5 + x raised to the power 4 + x raised to the 2nd 65. The modulation technique used by DECT
power + x + one. P(x) = x raised to the power of 5 + x raised to the a. PSV c. GFSK
power 5 + x + one. b. ASK d. QAM
a. 1011011111001
b. 1011011101001 66. The carrier transmitted 1.25 Mhz above the bottom frequency in
c. 10110111000101 the Philippines TV channel is the ___.
d. 1011010010001 a. intercarrier c. picture
b. sound d. sub-picture carrier
54. An AM transmitter uses a high level modulation. The RF power
amplifier runs from a 12 volt source putting out a carrier power of 85 67. Among the visible light rays of blue, green, yellow and orange,
watts, with an efficiency of 85 percent, what load impedance is which has the longest wavelength?
required in order for it to deliver the rated power? a. Green c. Yellow
a. 0.85 ohms c. 1.7 ohms b. Blue d. Orange
b. 80 ohms d. 83.6 ohms
68. An AM signal has the following characteristics: carrier frequency =
55. Find the frequency to which a 400 Hz baseband frequency will be 150 Mhz; modulating frequency = 3 Mhz; peak carrier voltage = 40
translated for channel 7 of a group of FDM system. volts and peak modulation voltage is 30 volts. Calculate the peak
a. 84.4 Khz c. 84 Khz voltage of the lower sideband frequency.
b. 80 Khz d. 83.6 Khz a. 15 volts c. 70 volts
b. 10 volts d. 20 volts
56. The radio wavelength known as ____ falls within the medium
frequency range. 69. A diagram which shows the relationship between the RF signal
a. centimetric waves c. hectometric waves phase and maximum bunching of the electron beam in velocity-
b. decametric waves d. myriametric waves modulated devices.
a. Applegate diagram c. S-parameter diagram
57. Single sideband full carrier emission type: b. Smith chart d. Venn diagram
a. H3E c. J3E
b. R3E d. B8E 70. What is the result of a balanced modulator if not perfectly
balanced?
58. A telephone signal takes 2 quarters of a second to reach its a. the lower sideband is transmitted
destination. Calculate the via net loss necessary for an acceptable b. both sidebands are transmitted
amount of echo. c. the carrier is transmitted
a. 104 dB c. 100 dB d. the SB is filtered
b. 10.4 dB d. 100.4 dB
71. The period for a single time slot in the GSM-TDMA slot structure
59. The power of any conducted spurious emission shall be is ____microsecond.
attenuated below the maximum level of carrier frequency in a. 577 c. 377
accordance with the following formula: b. 477 d. 277
a. Attenuation (dB) = 43 + 20logP
b. Attenuation (dB) = 43 + logP 72. An example of Marconi type antenna is ____.
c. Attenuation (dB) = 43 + 10logP a. Quarter wave vertical tower
d. Attenuation (dB) = 43 + log(P/10) b. Yagi
c. Collinear
60. When measuring he voice channel at a -4dB test point level, the d. Rhombic
meter reads -76dBm. Calculate the reading in dBrnC0.
a. 80 c. 8 73. The scientist who profounded the theory of electro-magnetic
b. 18 d. 28 radiation is:
a. Thomas Edison c. James Maxwell
61. An uplink transmitter of a satellite system operates at 6 Ghz with b. Guglielmo Marconi d. Heinrich Hertz
a transmitter power of 12 kW and an antenna gain of 50 dBi. The
receinver in a geostationary satellite has an antenna gain of 40 dBi. 74. At the ends of the half-wave antenna, what values of current and
The elevation angle to the satellite from the ground is 45 degrees, voltage exist compared to the remainder of the antenna?
calculate the received signal strength at the satellite (height of the a. minimum voltage and maximum current
satellite above the equator is 365,000 km., earth radius is 6400 km) b. minimum voltage and minimum current
a. 38.7 dBm c. -70.8 dBm c. equal voltage and minimum current
b. 70.89 dBm d. -38.7 dBm d. maximum voltage and minimum current

62. What kind of battery panels are used in some advanced satellite: 75. Which of the following is an example of a traveling wave antenna?
a. silicon based panels a. Yagi-Uda c. Discone
b. Germanium based panels b. Log-periodic d. Rhombic
c. Gallium phosphate solar panel array
d. Gallium arsenide solar panel array 76. The amplitude of a sine wave which is modulated by a musical
program will:
63. Give the audio power of 500 W which will modulate an RF a. be complex and contain fundamental and harmonic
amplifier to 50 percent modulation. Find the DC power input. frequencies
a. 1000 W c. 5000 W b. contain harmonic frequencies
b. 250 W d. 4000 W c. be complex
d. contain fundamental frequencies
64. If the transmission rate of a digital communication system of 10
Mbps modulation scheme used is 16 QAM, determine the bandwidth 77. Radiation resistance is the ratio of ____.
efficiency. a. radiated power to the antenna center current.
a. 5 bits/cycle c. 4 bits/cycle
 b. radiated power to the square of the antenna center 91. A filter-type SSB generator uses an ideal bandpass filter with a
current center frequency of 5.0 Mhz and a bandwidth of 2.7 Khz. What
c. voltage to any point of the antenna frequency should be used for the carrier oscillator if the generator is
d. square of voltage to the square of current at any point in to produce a USB signal with a baseband frequency response having
the antenna a lower limit of 280 Hz.
a. 4990.37 Khz. C. 5001.35 Khz
78. A ship-to-ship communication system is plagued by fading. The b. 4996.65 kHz d. 5001.63 Khz
best solution seems to be the use of ____.
a. a more directional antenna 92. A 500-candle power that is located 12 feet from a surface
b. frequency-diversity provides how many lux?
c. a broadcast antenna a. 3.648 c. 500
d. space diversity b. 0.3048 d. 37.57

79. Light loading as defined in the Philippines Electronics Code refer 93. By definition, speech power is equal tot v.u. reading minus_____.
to the loading taken as the resultant stress due to wind and dead a. 1.8 dB c. 1.4 dB
weight for ___ km per hour (kph) wind velocity b. 4 dB c. 3 dB
a. 140 c. 160
b. 150 d. 120 94. The range of speech power is_______.
a. 1-10 W c. 100-1000 mW
80. What is the persistence of sound in an enclosed space, as a b. 10-100 mW d. 10-1000 uW
result of multiple reflections or scattering after the sound source has
stopped? 95. The aspect ration of the 6 Mhz NTSC television standard is ____.
a. interference c. crosstalk a. 1.63 c. 0.75
b. echo d. reverberation b. 1.66 d. 1.33

81. Calculate the highest and lowest frequencies for a subcarrier 96. A portable radio transmitter has to operate at temperature from -5
signal at 629 Khz with bandwidth of + or – 500 Khz. degrees C to 35 degrees C. If its signal is derived from a crystal
a. 112 and 1129 Khz c. 150 and 1120 Khz oscillator with temperature coefficient of -1 ppm per degree C, and it
b. 1129 and 129 Khz d. 130 and 1150 Khz transmits at exactly 145 Mhz at 20 degrees C, find the transmitting
frequency at 35 degrees C.
82. Which resolution produces the quality fax? a. 144.9942 Mhx c. 145.0029 Mhz
a. 300 lpi c. 96 lpi b. 144.9956 Mhz d. 145.00435 Mhz
b. 400 lpi d. 200 lpi
97. A transistor has a power dissipation rating of 30 W. Assuming that
83. A telephone line has a bandwidth of 3.2 Khz and signal-to-noise the transistors is the only element that dissipates power in the circuit,
ration of 34 dB. A signal is transmitted down this line using a four- calculate the power an amplifier, using this transistor, could deliver to
level code. What is the maximum theoretical data rate? the load if it operates as class-A with an efficiency of 30 percent.
a. 72.6 kbps c. 36.3 kbps a. 35.7 W c. 22.5 W
b. 12.8 kbps d. 25.6 kbps b. 7.5 W d. 12.86 W

84. What is the horizontal scanning time for 2 pixels? 98. What is the reliable measurement for comparing amplifier noise
a. 0.25 microsec. c. 15 microsec. characteristics?
b. 0.125 microsec. d. 2.5 microsec. a. signal-to-noise ration
b. thermal agitation
85. What is known as Johnson’s noise? c. noise factor
a. cosmic noise c. solar noise d. noise margin
b. white noise d. static noise
99. Philippines belongs to what ITU region?
86. The frequency band used by cellular telephones and mobile a. 1 c. 2
communication services is ____. b. 3 d. 4
a. UHF c. VHF
b. EHF d. VLF 100. In CMTS, the most important database in a GSM network is
________.
87. An octave is an interval of ration of two frequencies of what
proportion? a. VLR c. AUC
a. 3:1 c. 8:1 b. BSC-D d. HLR
b. 1:1 d. 2:1

88. Find the distance in yards to an object if the display of a radar

signal measures 4.4 microseconds.
a. 164 c. 360.8
b. 1443.2 d. 721.6

89. A rectangular waveguide has a width of 0.6 inches. Calculate the

waveguide cut-off frequency.
a. 8 Ghz c. 10 Ghz
b. 6 Ghz d. 12 Ghz

90. Audio signals are not propagated directly to space because ___.
a. to do so will entail additional costs.
b. the signal will be highly attenuated
c. the will require antennas that are too long
d. the signal that will be propagated will be too weak