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UNIT IV - DIGITAL MODULATION SCHEME

1. Which has same probability of error?


a) ASK and FSK
b) ASK and PSK
c) PSK and FSK
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

2. Which has higher error probability performance?


a) Uni-polar base-band signalling
b) Bipolar base-band signalling
c) ASK
d) FSK

Answer: b

3. The average power of white noise is


a) Zero
b) Unity
c) Infinity
d) Between zero and one

Answer: c

4. White noise has _____ mean and ______ variance.


a) Zero and zero
b) Finite and zero
c) Zero and finite
d) One and zero

Answer: c

5. QPSK is a composite of
a) Two BPSK
b) Three BPSK
c) Two FSK
d) Two M-ary PSK

Answer: a
6. Examples of double side band signals are
a) ASK
b) PSK
c) ASK & PSK
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

7. Main disadvantage of DPSK is that


a. Power margin is very low
b. It requires much larger power
c. It is locked on a specific signaling speed
d. None of these

Answer : c

8.In FSK , the threshold level is independent of


a. Carrier amplitude
b. Carrier frequency
c. Both of these
d. None of these

Answer :a

9. The bandwidth efficiency of QPSK is _______ that of BFSK.


a) Greater than
b) Less than
c) Equal to
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

10. Which modulation is the most efficient one?


a) BPSK
b) BFSK
c) QPSK
d) QAM

Answer: d
11. The primary communication resource is
a) Transmitted power
b) Received power
c) Efficiency
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

12. Greater the redundancy lesser is the bandwidth expansion.


a) True
b) False

Answer: b

13. FSK is preferred to ASK in applications where


a. Fading of signal is prevalent
b. Synchronous detection is not possible
c. Both of these
d. None of these

Answer :c

14. Which modulation requires more bandwidth?


a) QPSK
b) OQPSK
c) BPSK
d) BFSK

Answer: c

15. Which modulation has lower side lobe levels?


a) QPSK
b) OQPSK
c) BPSK
d) MSK

Answer: d
16. Which modulation is spectrally more efficient?
a) BPSK
b) MSK
c) QPSK
d) OQPSK

Answer: b

17. Which modulation spectrum has narrow main lobe?


a) QPSK
b) OQPSK
c) BPSK
d) MSK

Answer: a

18.Which technique can be used for bandwidth reduction?


a) BPSK
b) QPSK
c) M-ary PSK
d) M-ary FSK

Answer: c

19. QPSK amplitude modulates


a) Sine function
b) Cosine function
c) Sine & Cosine function
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

20. QAM is a combination of


a) ASK and FSK
b) ASK and PSK
c) PSK and FSK
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b combination of both ASK and PSK and is also called as amplitude phase keying.
21. Antipodal signals are
a) Mirror images
b) 180 degree apart
c) One is negative of the other
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d

22. Simulation is used to determine


a) Bit error rate
b) Symbol error rate
c) Bit error
d) Symbol error

Answer: a

23. Matched filter is a _____ technique.


a) Modulation
b) Demodulation
c) Modulation & Demodulation
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

24. Which is called as on-off keying?


a) Amplitude shift keying
b) Uni-polar PAM
c) Amplitude shift keying & Uni-polar PAM
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

25. QAM uses ______ as the dimensions.


a) In phase
b) Quadrature
c) In phase & Quadrature
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c
26. Which has same probability of error?
a) BPSK and QPSK
b) BPSK and ASK
c) BPSK and PAM
d) BPSK and QAM

Answer : a

27. Which system uses QAM?


a) Digital microwave relay
b) Dial up modem
c) Digital microwave relay & Dial up modem
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

28. Average energy per bit is given by


a) average energy symbol/log2 M
b) average energy symbol * log2 M
c) log2 M/ Average energy symbol
d) none of the mentioned

Answer: a

29. Which FSK has no phase discontinuity?


a) Continuous FSK
b) Discrete FSK
c) Uniform FSK
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

30. FSK reception is


a) Phase Coherent
b) Phase non coherent
c) Phase Coherent & non coherent
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c
31. FSK reception uses
a) Correlation receiver
b) PLL
c) Correlation receiver & PLL
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

32. In non coherent reception _____ is measured.


a) Phase
b) Energy
c) Power
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

33. In DPSK technique, the technique used to encode bits is


a. AMI
b. Differential code
c. Uni polar RZ format
d. Manchester format

Answer : (b)

34.In coherent detection of signals,


a. Local carrier is generated
b. Carrier of frequency and phase as same as transmitted carrier is generated
c. The carrier is in synchronization with modulated carrier
d. All of the above

Answer : (d)

35. Synchronization of signals is done using


a. Pilot clock
b. Extracting timing information from the received signal
c. Transmitter and receiver connected to master timing source
d. All of the above

Answer : (d)
36.In On-Off keying, the carrier signal is transmitted with signal value ‘1’ and ‘0’ indicates
a. No carrier
b. Half the carrier amplitude
c. Amplitude of modulating signal
d. None of the above

Answer : (a)

37. ASK modulated signal has the bandwidth


a. Same as the bandwidth of baseband signal
b. Half the bandwidth of baseband signal
c. Double the bandwidth of baseband signal
d. None of the above

Answer : (a)

38. Coherent detection of binary ASK signal requires


a. Phase synchronization
b. Timing synchronization
c. Amplitude synchronization
d. Both a and b

Answer : (d)

39. The probability of error of DPSK is ______________ than that of BPSK.


a. Higher
b. Lower
c. Same
d. Not predictable

Answer : (a)

40. In Binary Phase Shift Keying system, the binary symbols 1 and 0 are represented by carrier
with phase shift of
a. Π/2
b. Π
c. 2Π
d. 0

Answer : (b)
41. BPSK system modulates at the rate of
a. 1 bit/ symbol
b. 2 bit/ symbol
c. 4 bit/ symbol
d. None of the above

Answer : (a)

42. The BPSK signal has +V volts and -V volts respectively to represent
a. 1 and 0 logic levels
b. 11 and 00 logic levels
c. 10 and 01 logic levels
d. 00 and 11 logic levels

Answer : (a)

43. The binary waveform used to generate BPSK signal is encoded in


a. Bipolar NRZ format
b. Manchester coding
c. Differential coding
d. None of the above

Answer : (a)

44.The bandwidth of BFSK is ______________ than BPSK.


a. Lower
b. Same
c. Higher
d. Not predictable

Answer : (c)

45. In Binary FSK, mark and space respectively represent


a. 1 and 0
b. 0 and 1
c. 11 and 00
d. 00 and 11

Answer : (a)
46. The frequency shifts in the BFSK usually lies in the range
a. 50 to 1000 Hz
b. 100 to 2000 Hz
c. 200 to 500 Hz
d. 500 to 10 Hz

Answer : (a)

47. The spectrum of BFSK may be viewed as the sum of


a. Two ASK spectra
b. Two PSK spectra
c. Two FSK spectra
d. None of the above

Answer : (a)

48. The maximum bandwidth is occupied by


a. ASK
b. BPSK
c. FSK
d. None of the above

Answer : (c)

49.QPSK is a modulation scheme where each symbol consists of


a. 4 bits
b. 2 bits
c. 1 bits
d. M number of bits, depending upon the requirement

Answer : (b)

50. The data rate of QPSK is ___________ of BPSK.


a. Thrice
b. Four times
c. Twice
d. Same

Answer : (c)
51.QPSK system uses a phase shift of
a. Π
b. Π/2
c. Π/4
d. 2Π

Answer : (b)

52. Minimum shift keying is similar to


a. Continuous phase frequency shift keying
b. Binary phase shift keying
c. Binary frequency shift keying
d. QPSK

Answer : (a)

53. In MSK, the difference between the higher and lower frequency is
a. Same as the bit rate
b. Half of the bit rate
c. Twice of the bit rate
d. Four time the bit rate

Answer : (b)

54. The technique that may be used to reduce the side band power is
a. MSK
b. BPSK
c. Gaussian minimum shift keying
d. BFSK

Answer : (c)

55.In differential PSK, the information is coded in terms of


a. Absolute phase for each symbol
b. Phase changes between adjacent symbols
c. Both of these
d. None of these
Answer : c

56.The disadvantage of coherent FSK detection is that


a. It leads t high signal fading
b.It requires two synchronized oscillators
c. Both of these
d. None of these

Answer :b

57.The disadvantage of FSK is that


a. It does not provide sufficient S/N ratio
b. It does not have low error probability
c. It is not sufficient in its use of spectrum space
d. None of these

Answer : c

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