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Electronics Engineering Board Exam Review

Review in Electronics Systems and Technologies

Licensure Assessment Review Evaluation 4 Answers

1. What is the microwave band for the 3.5 GHz?
c. C band

2. This principle for radio signal is exhibited just like a light within a prism that shows a single color is broken down to multiple color components.
c. Grimaldi’s principle

3. In PCM system, it is the ratio of the maximum input voltage level to the smallest voltage level that can be quantized and reproduced by the converters.
d. dynamic range

4. The bit value is determined by the change or the lack of change in the voltage level refers to
b. NRZ-I

5. A “long code” is how many bits long?

c. 242 – 1 bits

6. What radiowave propagation method uses the troposphere using above HF ranfe?
b. spacewave

7. The 802.11a 54 Mbps data rate uses 64-QAM. What is the symbol bit length for this modulation?
c. 6 bits

8. The device that allows a non-ISDN equipment to be connected to the ISDN.

c. Terminal adapter

9. Internet Protocol Version (IPv4) uses how many address bits?

b. 32

10. It is the tendency for stronger signals to interfere with the reception of weaker signals.
b. Near – Far effect

11. Type of cable that connect similar data communication devices

b. Cross over cables

12. A microwave communications system space loss calculation formula:

b. 92.4 + 20 logFGHz + 20 logDKm

13. What propagation method is utilized by microwave links?

b. Spacewave

14. What is the microwave band for a radio signal operating at a frequency of 18.5 GHz?
c. K band

15. A method of utilizing 2 or more receivers to reduce fading or increase reliability of the system.
b. diversity

16. What causes the ionosphere to absorb radio waves?

b. The ionization of the D region

17. Tropospheric scatter uses the frequencies in the ____ band.

b. UHF

18. What do you call a pulsed radar device with a high frequency (HF) transmitter used to measure the height, thickness, ionization of ionospheric layers by
sweeping the HF band and receiving the echoes?
b. Ionosonde

19. A fade margin of 38 dB has a reliability of

c. 99.99%

20. The radius in the circular zone is in the first Fresnel zone when the reflected path is ______ longer than the direct path.
a. Half wavelength

21. The equation is used to calculate the Fade Margin. This equation is known as.
a. Barnett - Vignant Equation

22. At what frequency is electromagnetic energy maximally absorbed due to oxygen in the atmosphere?
b. 63 GHz

23. Which of the following improves antenna directivity?

d. Parasitic element

24. Who predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves and calculated their speed of radio wave propagation on 1873?
d. James Clerk Maxwell

25. It is the highest frequency wherein the signal is able to return back to earth when beamed at a certain angle other than normal or vertical incidence.
d. optimum working frequency

26. What do you call the process of speeding up and slowing down the beam of electrons in the vacuum tube?
a. Velocity modulation

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27. Data transmission rates in excess of 56 Kbps can be achieved, however, over standard telephone circuits using an encoding tec hnique called ___.
d. Trellis Code Modulation

28. A form of redundancy error checking where each character has a numerical value assigned to it. The characters are combined together by means of arithmetic
sum.
c. Checksum

29. Write the ASCII codes for the following characters for B.
a. 1000010

30. A process of sending data in computing technology by asking each remote computer terminal one at a time if such computer terminal has data to send.
a. polling

31. Ethernet was first called _________.

c. Alto Aloha Network

32. One dit is equal to how many bits?

c. 3.32

33. What do you call a short bit sequence sent typically 128 bits in digital signatures?
c. hash

34. An error-detecting method in which the binary number corresponding to the group of bits to be checked is divided by a predetermined binary number and the
remainder is transmitted as a check.
b. Cyclic Redundancy Check

35. A special cable that consists of two parallel wires with a grounded shield around them.
c. Twinax Cable

36. A system to allow users to log on to a distant host by emulating a dumb terminal.
a. Telnet

37. Extra bits required to spread the signal in a direct-sequence spread spectrum sequence.
a. Chips

38. This is an object inserted into a waveguide to add capacitance or inductance.

c. tuning screw

39. This is the network that permits a transmitter and receiver to use the same antenna, at or very near the same frequency.
b. duplexer

40. A crossed-field microwave tube oscillator in which electrons circle around the cathode under the influence of a magnetic field.
b. Magnetron

41. A diagram which shows the relationship between RF signal phase and maximum bunching of the electron beam in velocity-modulated devices.
d. Applegate Diagram

42. What happens to a microwave signal as k-factor is increasing to a very large value?
b. flattening

43. Telecommunications equipment that is located on the customer’s end (physical location) rather than on the provider’s premises or in between. This includes
telephone handsets, modems, cable TV set-top boxes, and DSL routers.
c. CPE

44. In an Ethernet frame, what is the function of the section labeled “FCS”?
b. Error detection

45. Used to dynamically bind a high level IP address to a low-level physical hardware address
a. ARP

46. LAN is characterized by

c. Relatively high data rate

47. When the mismatch between load resistive impedance and line impedance is very high then,
a. the reflected power is high

48. A transport protocol that simply arranges data into datagrams and leaves the reliability feature to higher layer program.
b. UDP

49. What is the subnetwork address for a host with the IP address 200.10.5.68/28?
b. 200.10.5.64

50. Ethernet minimum frame size is

a. 64 bytes

51. The critical frequency at a particular time is 11.6 MHz. What is the OWF for a transmitting station if the required angle of incidence for propagation to a desired
destination is 70 degrees?
b. 28.83 MHz

52. Determine the radio horizon of an antenna at a height of 100 m over the surface of spherical earth.
a. 42.6 m
53. A wireless bridge link is deployed using the 5 GHz band. If both transmitting and receiving antennas are 30 miles apart and a building that is 50 feet high sits at
10-mile point closer to the receiving end , how high do the antenna’s need to be so that the first Fresnel zone is unobstructed?
b. 100 ft

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54. A line of sight radio link operating at a frequency of 6 GHz has a separation of 45 km between antennas. An obstacle in the p ath is located 15 km from the
transmitting antenna. By how much must the beam clear the obstacle?
a. 13.43 m

55. If the radius of the first fresnel zone is 5.2 meters, what is then the radius of the third fresnel zone?
d. 9 m

56. The network address of 172.16.0.0/19 provides how many subnets?

b. 8 subnets

57. What is the operating frequency of an LED with bandgap energy of 1.9 eV?
d. 459 THz

58. What is the maximum number of IP addresses that can be assigned to hosts on a local subnet that uses the 255.255.255.224 subn et mask?
d. 30

59. Determine the quantization noise for an 8-bit linear sign-magnitude PCM code for maximum decoded voltage of 1.27 V.
c. 0.005 V

60. A 6 MHz communication channel with a SNR of 43 dB is to be used to transport 16-bit coded signal. Find the theoretical channel capacity for the given signal.
a. 192 Mbps

61. Determine the required information capacity in order to transmit data to a standard voice grade channel.
b. 15586 bps

62. A waveguide in the dominant mode has 10 cm width and 5 cm height, what will happen to a microwave signal at a frequency of 800 MHz?
d. allowed

63. A half wave dipole radiates 100 watts of power in free space. Calculate the electric field intensity at a distance of 15 km from the source.
d. 4.67 mV/m

64. At 20 km in free space from a point source, the power density is 200 μW/m2. What is the power density 25 km away from the source?
c. 128 μW/m2

65. For TE11 trans line, find the cut-off frequency of the waveguide has a dimension of 4 in x 2 in and uses air as dielectric.
b. 3.30 GHz

66. What is the k-factor for a relatively flat earth if the surface refractivity is 275?
b. 1.28

67. What is the maximum range of the microwave radio system whose transmitter height is 42 m and the receiver height is 55 m?
b. 57.3 km

68. 14. Calculate the phase velocity of a waveguide for a 90-mm signal with a waveguide width of 70-mm?
a. 502x106 m/s

69. A microwave system is 50m in distance form site A to B. an obstruction is sited 20 km away from site A. (tree growth=15m, k=4/3).
Determine the earth bulge at the given obstruction.
b. 35.29m

70. A line of sight radio link operating at a frequency of 6 GHz has a separation of 45 km between antennas. An obstacle in the path is located 15 km from the
transmitting antenna. By how much must the beam clear the obstacle?
a. 13.43 m

71. What is the broadcast address of the host IP 192.168.5.51/26

c. 192.168.5.127

72. For a 12-bit data string 101100010010, determine the number of Hamming bits required.
c. 5

73. For a QPSK modulator with an input data rate(fb) equal to 10 Mbps and a carrier frequency of 70 MHz, determine the minimum double-sided Nyquist bandwidth.
b. 5 MHz

74. Determine the channel capacity of a digital communication system with a signal-to-noise ratio of 5dB. Assume a bandwidth of 36MHz.
b. 74 MHz

75. What is the dynamic range for a 9-bit sign magnitude PCM code?
d. 48.13 dB

76. What is the bandwidth efficiency of a system with an information bit rate of 24Mbps and baud rate of 8Megabaud if the system’s accuracy is 98%?
d. 3

77. The forward power in a transmission line is 115 W and the reverse power is 10 W. Calculate the SWR on the line.
d. 1.83

78. Ethernet is a baseband system using CSMA/CD operating at 10 Mbps whom Robert Metcalfe is considered as the father of this LAN technology. In an Ethernet
segment arranged in mesh topology, how many physical channel links are interconnected across 10 network devices?
c. 45
79. What is the error-free second percentage of a system that experiences ten seconds with errors in two mins transmission time of 512Kbytes of dat a?
b. 91.67%
80. For a satellite TV channel with a signal-to noise ratio of 20 dB and a video bandwidth of 10MHz, we get a maximum data rate of;
d. 66.58 Mbps

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