1. An instrument designed to measure a
What is the expected critical frequency
frequency-weighted value of the sound
pressure level.
a. Sound-level meter
2. A unit of noisiness related to the
perceived noise level
a. Noy
3. An agreed set of empirical curves
relating octave-band osund pressure level
to the center frequency of the octave
bands
c. Noise rating curves
4. The frequency of free vibration
b. Natural frequency
5. The transmission of sound from one
room to an adjacent room, via common
walls, floors or ceilings.
a. Flanking transmission
6. A measure of threshold hearing,
expressed in decibels relative to a
specifoed standard of normal hearing.
c. Hearing level
7. A certain machine with a slightly out-of-
balance motor rotating at 1800/min is
fixed on a perfectly elastic mount with a
static compression of 2.50 mm. Calculate
the resonant frequency of mount.
a. 10 Hz
8. Calculate the lowest resonant frequency
for a brick partition 120 mm thick, 4m by
2min area with longitudinal wave velocity
of 2350 m/s. (Assume that it is supported
at its edges.)
d. 40 Hz
9. Velocity of sound in air.
b. 330 m/s
10.
for a 120 mm thick brick wall? Assume a
longitudinal wave velocity in brick of 2350
m/s and that the velocity of sound in air is
330 m/s.
b. 214.5 Hz
11. The sound power level of a certain jet
plane flying at a height of 1km is 160 dB
(re10-12W). Find the maximum sound
pressure level on the ground directly
below the flight path assuming that the
aircraft radiates sound equally in all
directions.
d. 89.1 dB
12. Speaker is a device that
b. Converts current variations into sound
waves
13. Which type of microphone operates on
the principle that the electrical resistance
of carbon granules varies as the pressure
on the granules vary?
c. Carbon
14. Bass response is 19. ________ is the unit of loudness level
of a sound.
c. Bypassing high audio frequencies
d. Phon
15. Pure tone of sound used as standard
on testing 20. ____________ is the average rate of
transmission of sound energy in a given
d. 1000 Hz direction through a cross-section area of 1
sqm at right angles to the direction.
16. ___________ is early reflection of c. Sound intensity
sound.
a. Echo 21. What is the unit of pitch?
d. Mel
17. Noise reduction system used for film
sound in movie.
22. A measure of the intensity of sound in
a. Dolby comparison to another sound intensity.
b. Decibel
18. What is the sound energy per unit area
at right angles to the propagation direction
per unit time? 23. Sound wave has two main
characteristics which are
d. Sound intensity
c. Pitch and loudness
24. Which type of microphone operated
by electromagnetic induction that
generates an output signal voltage?
b. Dynamic
25. The exciter lamp in the optical sound
part of a film projector draws 5 A at 10 V.
How much power in watts is this light
consuming?
d. 50 watts
26. Assume the speed of sound is 1,130
ft/s. What frequency has a wavelength of
1 foot, 1.5 inches?
b. 1000 Hz
27. The wire must bring 100 average watts
to a 4 ohms loudspeaker must safely carry
what rms current?
c. 5 A
28. A church has an internal volume of a. 12.4 miles/sec 34. Sound intensity level is _________.
90.05 ft3 (2550 m3). When it contains
customary sabine sof absorption (186 b. 5000 ft/sec
metric sabines), what will be its c. 186,000 ft/sec a. 10 log I/Iref
reverberation time in seconds.
d. 3141 ft/sec b. 10 log P/Pref
b. 2.2
32. What is the sound power from a motor c. 20 log I/Iref
car whose SPL at a distance of 7.5 m is 87
dB assuming that it radiates sound d. 30 log P/Pref
29. If the RMs sound pressure is 5lb/ft2,
what is the sound presure level? unifomly? 35. Sound pressure level is _________.

a. 7.6 dB
a. 0.15 W a. 20 log P/ Pref
b. 0.21 W b. 30 log P/ Pref
30. Speed that is faster than speed of
sound. c. 0.24 W c. 10 log P/ Pref
d. 0.18 W d. 20 log I/Iref
a. Ultrasonic 33. Crest-to-crest distance along the 36. The most important specification of
direction to wave travel. loudspeakers and microphones.
b. Supersonic

c. Subsonic
a. Compression a. Frequency response
d. Transonic

31. Sound waves travel faster in water at a b. Wavelength b. Field strength

______ speed. c. Period c. Power density
d. Sound wave d. Gain
37. Lowest fequency produced by a d. Refraction c. Ultrasonic
musical instrument.
40. Required time for any sound to decay d. Stereo
to 60 dB.
43. Which microphone will be damaged if
a. Midrange exposed to high temperature above 52°C?

b. Harmonic a. Echo time

c. Reflection b. Delay time a. Dynamic

d. Refraction c. Reverberation time b. Crystal

38. Tendency of a sound energy to spread. d. Transient time c. Ribbon

41. The intensity needed to produce an d. Capacitor

audible sound varies with __________.
a. Diffraction 44. A thin springy sheet of bakelite or
metal that permits the voice coil in a
b. Rarefraction dynamic loudspeaker to move back and
a. Frequency forth salong the core of its magnet.
c. Reflection
b. Noise
d. Refraction
c. Amplitude a. Vibrator
39. When waves bend away from straight
lines of travel, it is called _________. d. Tone b. Diaphragm
42. Sound that vibrates too high for the c. Hypex
human ear to hear (over 20 kHz).
a. Reflection d. Spider
b. Diffraction 45. One hundred twenty µbars of pressure
a. Subsonic variation is equal to
c. Rarefraction
b. Transonic
 c. Proximity effect c. 10 kHz to 20 kHz

a. 120 dB SPL d. Reverberation d. 20000 Hz to 30 kHz

b. 57.78 dB SPL 48. What is the audio frequency range? 51. What is the dB SPL of a voice paging in
an office?
c. 115.56 dB SPL

d. 41.58 dB SPL a. 20 kHz to 20 MHz

a. 90
46. The reverberation time of a 184.2 b. 0 Hz to 20 kHz
cubic meters broadcast studio is 0.84 sec. b. 65
c. 300 Hz to 400 Hz
Find the absorption effect of the materials
used in metric sabines. c. 55-60
d. 20 Hz to 20 kHz
d. 80-85
49. What is the bass frequency range?
a. 35.3 52. What is the dB SPL of an auditorium
with contemporary music?
b. 10.96 a. 2500 Hz to 5000 Hz
c. 379.8 b. 5000 Hz to 10 kHz a. 80-95
d. 109.6 c. 40 kHz to 160 kHz b. 85-90
47. What is the microphone characteristic d. 10 Hz to 20 kHz c. 95-100
that results in a boost in bass frequencies
for close microphone spacing? 50. High frequency range of audio signals. d. 100-105

53. What is the church dB SPL with speech

a. Field effect a. 2500 Hz to 5000 Hz reinforcement only?

b. P.A. effect b. 5000 Hz to 10 kHz

a. 90
b. 80-85 sound and its intensity varies inversely b. 3 times as great
with the square of its distance.
c. 85-90 c. 4 times as great

d. 90-95 d. 5 times as great

a. Volume
54. Intensity can also be called as 59. At a sensation level of 40 dB, 1000 Hz
b. Bass tone is

c. Treble
a. Volume
d. Loudness a. 1000 mels
b. Loudness
57. If the distance between the listener b. 500 mels
c. Sharpness and the source of the sound is doubled,
c. 2000 mels
d. Strength the intensity is reduced to
d. 100 mels
55. The loudness of a sound depends upon
the energy of motion imparted to 60. If the sound waves are converted to
a. ½
________ molecules of the medium electrical waves by a microphone, what is
transmitting the sound. b. 1/3 the frequency of the electric current?

c. 2/3

a. Transmitting d. 1/4 a. 3 – 30 MHz

b. Running 58. If the distance between the listener b. 25 – 8000 Hz

and the source of the sound is decreased
c. Moving c. 4 – 40 Hz
to ½ tye original amount, the intensity of
d. Vibrating the sound would be d. 30 – 3000 Hz

56. _________ is affected by the distance 61. For a music lover concert “A” is 440 Hz.
between the listener and the source of the a. 2 times as great If a musical note one octave higher were
played, it would be _______ that d. Octaves c. Microprocessors
frequency.
64. _________ is an undesired change in d. Exciters
wave form as the signal passes through a
67. Half construction and internal finishes
device.
a. One – half affect the final sound quality ________.

b. One-fourth
a. Noise
c. Double a. poorly
b. Vibration
d. Triple b. mildly
c. Distortion
62. In a 220 Hz, if a note was played one c. significantly
octave lower, it would be ______. d. Harmonics
d. badly
65. Distortion enhances intelligibly when
an ________ is added. 68. Positioning a loudspeaker near a wall
a. 22 Hz can dramatically alter its frequency
response in two distinct ways namely;
b. 27.5 Hz
a. Equalizer
c. 440 Hz
b. Igniter a. Gump and dump
d. 110 Hz
c. Exciter b. Hump and notch
63. Much of music is generally referred to
in d. Emulsifier c. Fade and gone

66. A class of signal processors. d. Bad and worst

a. Harmonics 69. The acoustics of most auditoria are

very ________ when the room is full
b. Good hearing a. Amplifiers compared to the empty condition.
c. Fidelity b. Equalizers
 72. The kinds of generating elements are
__________.
a. Different a. 348.03 cm/s

b. Similar b. 980 cm/s

a. Expense and fidelity
c. Good c. 980 m/s
b. Complexity and ruggedness
d. Bad d. 341.8 m/s
c. Longevity
70. A _________ converts acoustical 75. Calculate the velocity of sound in
energy. d. All of these ft./sec. if the temperature is 1490C?

73. When the average absorption is

greater than 0.2, __________ formula is
a. Electro-acoustic a. 1530.03 ft/sec
used to compute the actual reverberation
b. Microphone transducer time. b. 1320 ft/sec

c. Microphone c. 1357.03 ft/sec

d. Electric Microphone a. Sabine d. 1920.345 ft/sec

71. All microphone have two basic b. Stephen and Bate 76. The wavelength of a sound of 20 kHz
components namely, ___________. c. Norris-Eyring frequency is

d. Notch
a. Wired and body 74. At room temperature, what is the a. 16.5 m

b. Ceramic and crystal velocity of sound in meters/seconds? b. 16.5 cm

c. Diaphragm and generating element c. 16.5 mm

d. Coil and magnet d. 16.5 um

77. The radio of frequencies is termed d. Pitch a. Pitch

80. An effect that occurs in the ear where b. Frequency

a louder sound can reduce or even stop
a. Octave c. Timbre
the nerve voltage generated by a weaker
b. Interval sound. d. Loudness

c. Harmonics 83. Define as the time taken from the

a. Piezoelectric effect intensity of sound energy in the room to
d. Masking drop to one millionth of its initial value.
78. What is the increase in sound pressure b. Skin effect
level in dB, if the pressure is doubled? c. Lasing
a. Reverberation time
d. Masking
b. Transit time
a. 2 dB 81. For computation of ideal reverberation
c. Decaying time
b. 3 dB time, which formula is applicable?
d. Response time
c. 6 dB
84. __________ is the sound energy per
d. 4 dB a. Sabine
unit area at right angles of the propagation
79. A term which is subjected but b. Stephen and Bate direction, per unit time.
dependent mainly on frequency and also c. Norris-Eyring
affected by intensity,
d. Notch a. Loudness

82. The __________ of the sound is a b. Coherence

a. Timbre subjective effect which is a function of the
c. Sound stress
b. Quality ear and brain.
d. Sound intensity
c. Frequency
85. One octave above 600 Hz is d. Phon b. Sound

88. Consist of a rapid succession of c. Disturbance

noticeable echoes.
a. 601 Hz d. Speech

b. 800 Hz 91. Considered to be the threshold of

a. Rarefaction hearing.
c. 1400 Hz
b. Refraction
d. 1200 Hz
c. Reflection a. 10-12 W/cm2
86. A car horn outdoors produces a sound
intensity level of 90 dB at 10 m away. At d. Flutter echo b. 10-16 W/m2
this distance, what is the sound power in
89. Laid the foundations of acoustic theory c. 10-13 W/m2
watt?
of buildings.
d. 10-12 W/m2

92. The average absorption for a person is

a. 0.63
a. Charles H. Townes
b. 1.26
b. W.C Sabine
a. 5.7 units
c. 0.315
c. A. Javin
d. 0.56 x 10-6 b. 4.7 units
d. Stephen and Bate
c. 6.7 units
87. The unit of loudness level
90. An aural sensation by pressure
variations in the air which are always d. 3.7 units
produced by some source of vibrations. 93. The number of vibration or pressure
a. Sone
fluctuations per seconds.
b. dB
a. Music
c. Mel
a. Frequency d. 160 dB c. dB

b. Timbre 96. The minimum sound intensity that can d. Mel

be heard is termed
c. Quality 99. What is the increase in sound pressure
level in dB, if the intensity is doubled?
d. Pitch
a. Threshold of feeling
94. Defined as the average rate of
transmission of sound energy in a given b. Threshold of pain a. 2 dB
direction through a cross-sectional area of
c. Threshold of sensation b. 3 dB
1 m2 at right angles to the direction.
d. Threshold of hearing c. 4 dB

97. What is the intensity of the sound d. 6 dB

a. Sound pressure
whose RMS pressure is 200 N/m2?
b. Loudness 100. The velocity of sound is considered to
be constant at ________ for the purpose
c. Sound intensity of acoustics.
a. 96.9 W/m2
d. Pressure variation
b. 97.9 W/m2
95. What is the sound pressure level (SPL) a. 300 m/s
of a sound having a RMS pressure of 200 c. 95.9 W/m2
b. 330 mm/s
N/m2? d. 94.9 W/m2
c. 330 µm/s
98. The unit of pitch.
d. 330 cm/s
a. 150 dB

b. 140 dB 101. What do you call the speed of sound

a. sone in the study of acoustics?
c. 170 dB b. pitch
a. Rhythm 104. The tendency of a sound energy to b. Phon
spread
b. Tempo c. mel

c. Pitch d. Sone
a. Rarefaction
d. Frequency 107. a large speaker having a large
b. Reflection diameter(15 cm and above)
102. The term that describes the highness
or lowness of a sound in the study of c. Refraction
acoustics is called a
d. Diffraction a. coaxial speaker

105. _____ is the advantage rate of b. woofer

a. Tempo transmission of sound energy in a given
c. tweeter
direction through a cross-sectional area of
b. Pitch 1 sq m at right angles to the direction of d. triaxial speaker
c. Volume propagation.
108. A method of expressing the
d. Bass amplitude of a complex non-periodic
signal such as speech
103. The method of measuring absorption a. Sound pressure
coefficient of sound which considers all b. Sound intensity
angles of incidence is called
a. Frequency
c. Pressure variation

d. Loudness b. Wavelength
a. Distance method
c. Volume
106. The unit of pitch
b. Bounce back to back method
d. Pitch
c. Impedance method
a. Decibel 109. The lowest frequency produced by an
d. Reverberation chamber method instrument
 112. _____ is the transmission of sound c. Pitch
from one room to an adjacent room thru
a. Harmonic common walls, floors, or ceilings. d. SPL

b. Fundamental 115. Speaker is a device that

c. Midrange a. Reverberation
d. 0 Hz a. Converts current variations into sound
b. Refraction
waves
110. Sound intensity is given as c. Flanking transmission
b. None of these
d. Reflection
c. Converts electrical energy to mechanical
a. df/dp 113. The midrange frequency range of energy
b. dE/dP sound is from
d. Converts sound waves into current and
c. dA/dP voltage

d. dP/dA a. 256 to 2048 Hz 116. One-hundred twenty microbars of

pressure variation is equal to
111. Which of the following is considered b. 2048 to 4096 Hz
the most commonly used measurable c. 512 to 2048 Hz
components of sound? a. 120 dBSPL
d. 16 to 64 Hz
b. 115.56 dBSPL
114. Designates the sensation of low or
a. its temperature high in the sense of the bass and treble c. 41.58 dBSPL
b. particle displacement d. 57.78 dBSPL
c. softness a. Frequency 117. An instrument for recording
d. source waveforms of audio frequency
b. Intensity
 d. Around 5 times a. Dolby

a. Oscilloscope 120. A sound intensity that could cause b. dBx

painful sensation in a human ear
b. Phonoscope c. dBa

c. Radioscope d. dBk
a. Threshold of sense
d. Audioscope 123. Which type of microphone operates
b. Threshold of pain on the principle that the electrical
118. In the study of acoustics, the velocity resistance of carbon granules varies as the
of sound is dependent to one of the c. Hearing threshold pressure on the granules vary?
following
d. Sensation intensity

121. A car horn outdoors produces a a. Dynamic

a. Temperature sound intensity of 90 dB at 10 ft away. At
this distance, what is the sound power in b. Crystal
b. Loudness watt?
c. Carbon
c. Source of sound
d. Ribbon-type
d. Properties of the medium a. 12 W
124. A unit of noisiness related to the
119. How much bigger in storage capacity b. 0.12 W perceived noise level
has digital video disk (DVD) have over the
conventional compact disk (CD)? c. 0.012 W

d. 1.2 W

a. Around triple 122. Noise reduction system for film sound

in movie
b. Around 15 times a. Noy

c. Around twice b. Sone

c. dB c. Norris-Eyring

d. Mel a. Gump and dump d. Notch

125. Required time for and sound to decay b. Hump and notch 130. The minimum sound intensity that
to 60 dB can be heard
c. Fade and gone

d. Bad and worst

a. Echo time a. Threshold of feeling
128. An effect that occurs in the ear where
b. Delay time a louder sound can reduce or even stop b. Threshold of pain
the nerve voltage generated by a weaker
c. Reverberation time sound c. Threshold of sensation

d. Transient time d. Threshold of hearing

126. If the distance between the listener a. Piezoelectric effect 131. The ____ of a sound is a subjective
and the source of the sound is doubled, effect which is a function of the ear and
the intensity is reduced to b. Doppler effect brain.

c. Haas effect

a. 1/2 d. Masking a. Pitch

b. 1/3 129. When the average absorption is b. Frequency

greater than 0.2, ____ formula is used to
c. 2/3 compute the actual reverberation time. c. Timbre

d. 1/4 d. Loudness

127. Positioning a loudspeaker near a wall a. Sabine 132. A term which is subjective but
can dramatically alter its frequency independent mainly on frequency and also
response in two distinct ways namely b. Stephen and bate affected by intensity
 135. What is the velocity of sound in dry b. 1 sone
air for a temperature change of 45 degrees
a. Pitch Celsius? c. 0.5 sone

b. Frequency d. 16 sones

c. Timbre a. 249.19 m/s 138. 80 phons + 80 phons =

d. Loudness b. 331.45 m/s

133. A sound 0f 18 kHz frequency has a c. 357.73 m/s a. 83 phons
wavelength of
b. 160 phons
d. 358.77 m/s

136. What us the resonant frequency of a c. 90 phons

a. 18.3 mm Helmholtz resonator whose volume is 2.5 d. 86 phons
b. 183mm cu m with neck radius of 8 cm?
139. An early reflection of sound
c. 250 mels

d. 1.86 mels a. 13 Hz
a. Echo
134. At a sensation level of 40 dB 1000 Hz b. 11 Hz
b. Reverberation
tone is c. 15 Hz
c. Pure sound
d. 14 Hz
d. Jitter
a. 1000 mels 137. 40 phons is equivalent to how many
b. 10000 mels sones? 140. An instrument designed to measure a
frequency weighted value of the sound
c. 250 mels pressure level

d. 800 mels a. 0 sone

a. Sound level meter 146. What is the increase in sound
pressure level if the pressure is doubled?
b. Transducer a. Variable capacitance

c. Sound pressure meter b. Variable resistance

a. Increase by 6 dB
d. Sound analyzer c. Variable inductance
b. Increase by 3 dB
141. The term used for the deafness of d. Piezoelectric effect
higher frequencies due to old age c. Decrease by 6 dB
144. Pressure is measured in term of
Pascal, microbar or d. Decrease by 3 dB

a. Ear deafness 147. The frequency limits of audio

frequency is
b. Cortial deafness a. Newtons

c. Tinnitus b. Newtons per meter

a. 300- 3000 Hz
d. Presbycusis c. Newtons per meter squared
b. 20 Hz -20 kHz
142. What is the dBSPL of an auditorium d. Pascal per meter squared
with contemporary music? c. 3 – 3 kHz
145. How much power can a human voice
possible produce d. 40 -40 kHz

a. 95-100 dB 148. A device that converts sound

pressure into electrical energy
b. 40-50 dB a. 100 milliwatts

c. 50-60 dB b. 1 watt
a. Microphone
d. 70-80 dB c. 10 watts
b. Headphone
143. What principle is used by a carbon d. 1 milliwatt
type micro phone? c. Headset
d. Speaker View Answer:

149. An agreed set of empirical curves
relating octave-band sound pressure level
to the center frequency of the octave
bands
B. It is always transverse 153. Through which medium does sound
travel fastest?
C. It is always longitudinal
a. Air

a. C-message weighting curve D. All of the above

b. Water
b. Psophometric curve

c. Noise rating curve View Answer:

c. Steel
d. F1A weighting curves 152. Which of the following can not travel
150. Pure tone of sound used as standard through a vacuum?
on testing d. Mercury

A. Electromagnetic wave
a. 1 kHz View Answer:
b. 300-3400 Hz B. Radio wave 154. Speed that is faster than that of
sound.
c. 100 Hz

d. 800 Hz C. Sound wave

A. Ultrasonic
151. Which best describe the sound wave?

D. Light wave
B. Supersonic
A. It may be longitudinal
 156. Calculate a half wavelength sound for C. 30 Hz
sound of 16000 Hz
C. Subsonic

D. 20 Hz
A. 35 ft
D. Transonic

View Answer:
B 10 ft
View Answer: 158. Sound that vibrates at frequency too
high for the human ear to hear (over 20
155. What is the speed of sound in air at kHz)
20°C? C. 0.035 ft

A. Subsonic
A. 1087 ft/s D. 100 ft

B. Ultrasonic
B. 1100 ft/s View Answer:

157. The lowest frequency that a human

ear can hear is C. Transonic
C. 1126 ft/s

A. 5 Hz D. Stereo
D. 200 ft/s

B. 20 Hz View Answer:
View Answer:
159. The frequency interval between two
sounds whose frequency ratio is 10.
 D. 8

A. Octave B. Tone and loudness

View Answer:

B. Half octave 161. Sound waves composed of but one C. Pitch and loudness
frequency is a/an

C. Third-octave D. Rarefaction and compression

A. Infra sound

D. Decade View Answer:

B. Pure tone
163. When waves bend away from straight
lines of travel, it is called
View Answer:
C. Structure borne
160. A 16 KHz sound is how many octaves
higher than a 500 Hz sound A. Reflection

D. Residual sound

A. 2 B. Diffraction

View Answer:

B. 5 162. Sound wave has two main C. Rarefaction

characteristics which are

C. 4 D. Refraction
A. Highness and loudness
View Answer: B. Threshold of hearing View Answer:

164. The amplitude of sound waves, the 167. What is the device used in measuring
maximum displacement of each air sound pressure levels incorporating a
C. Reference pressure = 2 x 10^-5 N/m2
particle, is the property which perceive as microphone, amplification, filtering and a
_______ of a sound display.

D. All of these
A. Pitch A. Audiometer

View Answer:
B. Intensity 166. What is a device that is used to B. OTDR
measure the hearing sensitivity of a
person?
C. Loudness C. SLM

A. Audiometer
D. Harmonics D. Spectrum analyzer

B. OTDR
View Answer: View Answer:

165. It is the weakest sound that average 168. What weighted scale in a sound level
human hearing can detect. C. SLM meter gives a reading that is most closely
to the response of the human ear?

A. SPL = 0 dB D. Spectrum analyzer

A. Weighted scale A
 View Answer:

B. Weighted scale B 170. It is the device used to calibrate an D. Sound intensity

SLM?

C. Weighted scale C D. Sound pressure level

A. Microphone

D. Weighted scale D View Answer:

B. Pistonphone
172. A measure of the intensity of sound in
comparison to another sound intensity
View Answer:
C. Telephone
169. For aircraft noise measurements, the
weighting scale that is used is ________. A. Phon

D. Filter

A. Weighted scale A B. Decibel

View Answer:

B. Weighted scale B 171. _________ is the sound power C. Pascal

measured over the area upon which is
received.
C. Weighted scale C D. Watts

A. Sound pressure
D. Weighted scale D View Answer:

B. Sound energy
173. Calculate the sound intensity level in 176. The sound pressure level is increased
dB of a sound whose intensity is 0.007 by _________ dB if the pressure is
W/m^2. C. 140 dB doubled.

A. 95 dB D. 14 dB A. 3

B. 91 dB View Answer: B. 4
175. What is the sound intensity for an
RMS pressure of 200 Pascal?
C. 98 dB C. 5

A. 90 W/m^2
D. 101 dB D. 6

B. 98 W/m^2
View Answer: View Answer:

174. What is the sound pressure level for a 177. The sound pressure level is increased
given sound whose RMS pressure is C. 108 W/m^2 by _________ dB if the intensity is
200/m^2? doubled.

D. 88 W/m^2
A. 200 dB A. 3

View Answer:
B. 20 dB B. 4
 179. The transmission of sound from one
room to an adjacent room, via common
C. 5 walls, floors or ceilings. C. Sound shadow

D. 6 A. Flanking transmission D. Reverberation

View Answer: B. Reflection View Answer:

178. If four identical sounds are added 181. Required time for any sound to decay
what is the increase in level in dB? to 60 dB
C. Refraction

A. 3 A. Echo time
D. Reverberation

B. 4 B. Reverberation time
View Answer:

180. __________ is the continuing

C. 5 presence of an audible sound after the C. Delay time
sound source has stop.

D. 6 D. Transient time
A. Flutter echo

View Answer: View Answer:

B. Sound concentration
182. A room containing relatively little C. Live room 185. It is an audio transducer that converts
sound absorption acoustic pressure in air into its equivalent
electrical impulses
D. Closed room
A. Dead room
A. Loudspeaker
View Answer:
B. Anechoic room
184. Calculate the reverberation time of B. Amplifier
the room, which has a volume of 8700 ft^3
and total sound absorption 140 sabins.
C. Live room
C. Baffle

A. 0.3 sec
D. Free-field
D. Microphone

B. 3.5 sec
View Answer:
View Answer:
183. A room in which the walls offer
essentially 100% absorption, therefore C. 3 sec 186. _________ is a pressure type
simulating free field conditions. microphone with permanent coil as a
transducing element.
D. 0.53 sec
A. Dead room
A. Dynamic
View Answer:
B. Anechoic room
B. Condenser
 188. A microphone that uses the C. Mid-range
piezoelectric effect
C. Magnetic

D. A or C
A. Dynamic
D. Carbon

View Answer:
B. Condenser
View Answer: 190. _____ is measure of how much sound
is produced from the electrical signal.
187. A microphone which has an internal
impedance of 25 kΩ is _________ type. C. Crystal

A. Sensitivity

A. High impedance D. Carbon

B. Distortion

B. Low impedance View Answer:

189. _________ is a type of loudspeaker C. Efficiency

driver with an effective diameter of 5
C. Dynamic inches used at mid-range audio frequency.
D. Frequency response

D. Magnetic A. Tweeter
View Answer:

View Answer: B. Woofer 191. It describes the output of a

microphone over a range of frequencies.
 A. Converts sound waves into current and
voltage
A. Directivity D. -40 dB

B. Converts current variations into sound

B. Sensitivity View Answer: waves
193. An amplifier can deliver 100 W to a
loudspeaker. If the rated efficiency of the
C. Frequency response loudspeaker is -60 dB. What is the C. Converts electrical energy to mechanical
maximum intensity 300 ft from it? energy

D. All of the above

A. 10 dB D. Converts electrical energy to
electromagnetic energy
View Answer:

192. A loudspeaker radiates an acoustic B. 20 dB

power of 1 mW if the electrical input is 10 View Answer:
W. What is its rated efficiency? 195. The impedance of most drivers is
C. 30 dB about __________ ohms at their resonant
frequency.
A. -10 dB
D. 40 dB
A. 4
B. -20 dB
View Answer:

194. Speaker is a device that B. 6

C. -30 dB
C. 8

A. Loudspeaker D. Panel board

D. 10

B. Driver View Answer:

View Answer: 199. _________ is early reflection of

sound.
196. It is a transducer used to convert C. Baffle
electrical energy to mechanical energy.

A. Echo
D. Frame
A. Microphone

B. Pure sound
View Answer:
B. Baffle
198. A circuit that divides the frequency
components into separate bands in order C. Reverberation
to have individual feeds to the different
C. Magnetic assemble drivers.
D. Intelligible sound

D. Driver A. Suspension system

View Answer:

View Answer: 200. Noise reduction system used for film

B. Dividing network
sound in movie.
197. It is an enclosure used to prevent
front and back wave cancellation.
C. Magnet assembly
A. Dolby D. None of the choices B. dB

B. DBx View Answer: C. Sone

202. What is the unit of loudness?

C. dBa D. Phon

A. Sone

D. dBk View Answer:

B. Phon 204. What is the loudness level of a 1KHz

tone if its intensity is 1 x 10-5W/cm2?
View Answer:

201. Using a microphone at less than the C. Decibel

recommended working distance will A. 100 phons
create a __________ which greatly
increases the low frequency signals. D. Mel
B. 105 phons

A. Roll-off View Answer:

C. 110 phons
203. A unit of noisiness related to the
B. Proximity effect perceived noise level

D. 100 phons

C. Drop out A. Noy