1.

Which of the following is the first component of any MATV

system to receive broadcast signals?

a. Filter

b. LNA

c. RF amplifier

d. Antenna

2. Is the most common technique where apartment house, hotels,

schools, condominiums, and multi-unit buildings distribute TV and
FM signals to a number of receivers, using a single head-end.

a. CCTV

b. CATV

c. MATV

d. Antenna

3. TV channel 2, 4 and 5 belong to

a. Low band UHF

b. High band VHF

c. Mid band UHF

d. Low band VHF

4. A mechanism or device which enables the TV camera to move in

lateral and tilting motion

a. Panning device

b. Scanner

c. Tilting

d. Pan/tilt device

5. Which of the following is a solid state imaging device?

a. VIDICON

b. ICONOSCOPE

c. Charge couple device

d. CCTV

6. What class of TV camera lens used to cover short distances?

a. Normal

b. Wide angle

c. Telephoto

d. Zoom

7. What class of TV camera lens used to cover long distances?

a. Normal

b. Wide angle

c. Telephoto

d. Zoom

8. What is the local oscillator frequency in commercial AM

broadcast if it is equal to 455 kHz?

a. 0 to 1500 kHz

b. 0 to 455 kHz

c. 540 to 1600 kHz

d. 955 to 2055 kHz

9. What is the allowable deviation ratio of commercial FM

broadcast?

a. 20
b. 75

c. 5

d. 25

10. The maximum power suggested by KBP on 919-1312 AM broadcast

station in Metro Manila is

a. 5 kW

b. 10 kW

c. 15 kW

d. 20 kW

11. KBP radio code mandates that station must provide a minimum
of ___ minutes

a. 30

b. 45

c. 50

d. 60

12. What is the chroma subcarrier signal frequency for color

television?

a. 3.8 MHz

b. 6.8 MHz

c. 7.8 MHz

d. 8.8 MHz

13. What is the frequency tolerance of an FM Radio Broadcast

station?
a. ± 20000 Hz

b. ± 20 Hz

c. ± 200 Hz

d. ± 2000 Hz

14. The minimum frequency separation between frequency of AM

broadcasting station

a. 9 kHz

b. 18 kHz

c. 36 kHz

d. 72 kHz

15. The aspect ratio HDTV is

a. 4:3

b. 18:5

c. 14:8

d. 16:9

16. A newscast is a distinct unit of a program with a minimum

news content of _____ minute(s) excluding intro, extro, headline
and commercial load

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. 4

17. In accordance with existing provision of law and the KBP

rules and the regulations, all stations shall actively promote
the growth ands the development of Filipino music by playing
_____ OPM every clock hour.
a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. 4

19. Commercial load for radio shall not exceed _____ minutes for
a one-hour program outside Metro Manila.

a. 15

b. 16

c. 17

d. 20

20. Program interruption for airing of commercial in Metro Manila

shall not exceed _____ breaks in every program hour

a. 5

b. 6

c. 7

d. 8

21. Program interruption for the airing of commercial outside

Metro Manila shall not exceed _____ breaks in every program hour

a. 5

b. 6

c. 7

d. 8

22. For Metro manila, the classification of prime time blocks for
FM shall be

a. 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM
b. 6:00 AM to 12:00 NN

c. 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM

d. 12:00 NN to 12:00 MN

23. For provincial station, the classification of prime time

blocks for FM radio shall be

a. 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM

b. 6:00 AM to 12:00 NN

c. 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM

d. 12:00 NN to 12:00 MN

24. All airtime classifications shall be submitted to and subject

for approval by the

a. NTC

b. KBP-SA

c. DOTC

d. CCITT

25. _____ is the time circulation for one horizontal trace

a. 52 us

b. 62 us

c. 48 us

d. 50 us

26. Listing of the date and time of events, programs, equipment,

tests, malfunctions and corrections in communications system.

a. Reporting

b. Documentation
c. Log

d. File

27. Which of the following is not a low impedance microphone?

a. Dynamic

b. Velocity

c. Condenser

d. Crystal

28. Facsimile permits remote duplications of which of the

following items?

a. Map

b. Pictures

c. Printed page

d. All of these

29. Television has a lot of features in common with

a. FM stereo

b. Telephone service

c. Motion picture

d. Magazine

30. The major component of the TV signal waveform is the

a. Video

b. Radar

c. Stereo
d. Antenna 31. For NTSC TV system, the image is scanned from

a. Top to bottom

b. Left to right

c. Right to left

d. Choices A and B above

32. One completes NTSC scanning cycle called field consists of

how many lines

a. 500

b. 525

c. 625

d. 60

33. The field rate in the NTSC television system

a. 30 Hz

b. 120 Hz

c. 60 Hz

d. 15.75 Hz

34. What is the horizontal synchronous blanking pulse rate?

a. 30 Hz

b. 60 Hz

c. 15.75 Hz

d. 120 Hz

35. What is the vertical blanking pulse rate?

a. 30 Hz
b. 60 Hz

c. 15.75 Hz

d. 120 Hz

36. The pulses riding on the vertical blanking pulse

a. Equalizing (sync) pulses

b. Serrated vertical sync pulses

c. Black level pulses

d. Choices A and B above

37. Television camera pickup tube is called

a. Vidicon

b. Image orthicon

c. Plumbicon

d. All of the above

38. The television picture tube magnetic fields can be used for

a. Beam focusing

b. Beam deflection

c. Beam production

d. Beam modulation

39. What is the purpose of an indirectly-heated cathode in a

cathode ray tube?

a. Beam focusing

b. Beam deflection

c. Beam production
d. Beam modulation

40. Video modulation for television is

a. Amplitude modulation

b. Frequency modulation

c. Vestigial sideband

d. Both amplitude modulation and vestigial sideband

41. Audio modulation for television is

a. Amplitude modulation

b. Frequency modulation

c. Vestigial sideband

d. Both amplitude modulation and vestigial sideband

42. What is the maximum frequency deviation for audio modulation

in TV transmission?

a. 25 kHz

b. 30 kHz

c. 50 kHz

d. 75 kHz

43. The video carrier and the audio carrier are separated by ____
MHz.

a. 4.5

b. 5.5

c. 6.5

d. 7.5
44. In a practical image scanned at the NTSC rate, the spectrum
will include components clustered at the fundamentals and
harmonics of _____ kHz

a. 15.75

b. 30

c. 12.25

d. 45.5

45. Brightness of an image is known as

a. Radiance

b. Chrominance

c. Reflectance

d. Luminance

46. The colors at the vertices of the color triangle are referred
to as

a. Primary

b. White

c. Desaturated

d. All of the above

47. A color signal which originate in the camera itself with

color television pickup?

a. Red

b. Green

c. Blue

d. All of these
48. What are the three separate signals derived from a matrix in
a color TV transmitter?

a. Y, I and Q

b. P, D and Q

c. M, N and O

d. R, S and T

49. Range of a VHF television transmitter

a. 54 – 98 MHz

b. 54 – 216 MHz

c. 54 – 128 MHz

d. 54 – 166 MHz

50. Range of a UHF television transmitter

a. 470 – 670 MHz

b. 470 – 770 MHz

c. 470 – 890 MHz

d. 470 – 980 MHz

51. What is the approximate bandwidth occupied by the chrominance video

signal for color TV?

a. 0.8 MHz

b. 1.8 MHz

c. 8.1 MHz

d. 1.6 MHz

52. The colors found around the perimeter of the color triangle are said to be
a. Saturated

b. Dark

c. Light

d. Monochrome

53. At what position on the color triangle will saturated yellow be located?

a. Between red and blue

b. Between red and green

c. Between blue and green

d. At the center

54. What is the phase difference between the I and Q color signal carriers?

a. 0°

b. 45°

c. 60°

d. 90°

55. _____ is the most effective filter for separating luminance and
chrominance frequency components.

a. Low pass

b. Band pass

c. Notch

d. Comb

56. The chrominance processing circuits can be deactivated when

monochrome broadcasts are received by the
a. Color killer

b. SAW filter

c. NOT gate

d. All of the above

57. What is the standard video level, in percent PEV, for blanking?

a. 25 %

b. 0 %

c. 12.5 %

d. 75 %

58. What is the percent video level, in percent PEV, for black?

a. 0 %

b. 25 %

c. 12.5 %

d. 70 %

59. What is the standard video level, in percent PEV, for white?

a. 0 %

b. 12.5 %

c. 25 %

d. 70 %

60. One should first perform _____ before a convergence setup is

performed.
a. Gray tracking

b. Screen setting

c. Alignment

d. Degaussing

61. If there are too many harmonics, one should check the

a. Coupling

b. Tuning of circuits

c. Shielding

d. Any of these

62. In transmitter amplifier design, an even-order harmonics can be

prevented or reduced by

a. Using a push-pull amplifier

b. Operating class C

c. Operating class AB

d. All of these

63. The vertical and horizontal pulses are separated at the

a. Sync separator

b. AFC

c. High voltage

d. AGC

64. The reason why buffer stage is included in a transmitter is to

a. Present a constant load to the oscillator stage

b. Present a low impedance to the oscillator stage

c. Stop the oscillator from generating parasitic oscillations

d. All of these

65. Where is the operating position of a radio station?

a. On the bridge

b. At the control point

c. At the location of the receiver

d. At the location of the transmitter

66. The alignment of the three color guns to a common point is known as

a. Blooming

b. Confetti

c. Demodulation

d. Convergence

67. A _____ is equivalent to 525 scanning lines

a. Field

b. Frame

c. Cycle

d. Interface set

68. A _____ represents one set of 262 ½ scanning lines

a. Field

b. Frame

c. Cycle

d. Interface set

69. The number of scanning lines is _____ per second

a. 14750

b. 15570

c. 15750

d. 16550

70. Picture frames are repeated at the rate of _____ per second

a. 25

b. 30

c. 40

d. 50

71. Lack of raster is an indication of no

a. AGC

b. High voltage

c. Video signal

d. Television signal

72. The sound and video signals are separated at the _____ of the TV
receiver
a. IF stage

b. Video amplifier

c. Video detector

d. Burst separator

73. The presence of color bars is an indication that there is a problem in the
_____ circuit

a. Horizontal

b. Reactor

c. Burst separator

d. Chroma amplifier

74. Type of emission produced when a frequency modulated transmitter is

modulated by a TV signal

a. A3F

b. F3F

c. A3C

d. F3C

75. What is emission A3F?

a. RTTY

b. SSB

c. TV

d. Modulated CW

76. What is emission F3F?

a. Facsimile
b. Modulated CW

c. Television

d. RTTY

77. Cause of slow rising white “hum bars” is the television

a. Pad filter

b. Bad rectifier

c. Bad picture tube

d. High voltage transformer

78. Adjusting the _____ may eliminate color confetti

a. Color chroma amplifier

b. Color killer

c. Color detector

d. Color oscillator

79. Video signal amplitude determine the picture quality called

a. Chrominance

b. Brightness

c. Contrast

d. Luminance

80. Part of broadcast day from midnight to local sunrise

a. Daytime

b. Experimental

c. Nighttime
d. Dawntime

81. Part of broadcast day from local sunset to local sunrise

a. Dawntime

b. Nighttime

c. Daytime

d. Experimental

82. What causes snow in television?

a. High Q in the tuned circuit

b. Excessive gain

c. Random noise in the signal

d. Insufficient wave traps

83. Vestigial sideband is known as _____ type of emission

a. CF3

b. C3F

c. B8E

d. A3E

84. Vestigial sideband modulation is commonly used in

a. TV broadcasting

b. Monaural broadcasting

c. Stereo broadcasting

d. HF point-to-point communications
85. Which of the following filters block FM radio band for TV channels (2 to
13)?

a. High-pass filter

b. Low-pass filter

c. Band pass filter

d. Band-reject filter

86. The FM broadcast band is from

a. 535 to 1600 kHz

b. 30 to 300 kHz

c. 88 to 108 MHz

d. 300 to 2000 MHz

87. The type of emission used by standard AM radio broadcast

a. A5C

b. A0

c. A3

d. F3

88. The standard AM radio broadcast belongs to which frequency band?

a. MF

b. HF

c. VHF

d. LF

89. When were UHF channels (14 – 83) of television added?

a. 1902

b. 1945

c. 1947

d. 1952

90. When was colored TV standards established in the United States?

a. 1904

b. 1945

c. 1953

d. 1960

91. What synchronizes the horizontal line of the TV picture tube?

a. HFC

b. HSC

c. HAFC

d. All of these

92. A measure of how well the receiver can respond to every weak signals/

a. Selectivity

b. Sensitivity

c. Fidelity

d. Quality factor

93. What is the allowable frequency deviation of a commercial FM broadcast

band?

a. 15 kHz
b. 75 kHz

c. 5 kHz

d. 100 kHz

94. The final amplifier of either FM or AM transmitter is operated as

a. Class A

b. Class B

c. Class C

d. Class D

95. Standard AM broadcasting use _____ for greater and efficient coverage

a. Circular polarized wave antenna

b. Horizontal polarized wave antenna

c. Both vertical and horizontal polarized wave antenna

d. Vertical polarized wave antenna

96. Receiver sensitivity means

a. The frequency allocation of the system

b. Input impedance of the receiver

c. The ability of picking up weak signal

d. The power to deliver the information

97. The main functions of the RF amplifier in a superheterodyne receiver is

to
a. Provide improved tracking

b. Permit better adjacent-channel rejection

c. Improve the rejection of the image frequency

d. All of these

98. Local oscillator of a broadcast receiver always tunes to a frequency

higher than the incoming frequency in order

a. To help the image frequency rejection

b. To allow easy tracking

c. To allow adequate frequency coverage without switching

d. All of these

99. Type of filter used in TV receivers that separates the chroma signal from
the colorplexed video signal but leaves intact the Y-component

a. Comb filter

b. Bandpass filter

c. Color filter

d. Low pass filter

100. What is the first letter-symbol for emission of unmodulated carrier?

a. A

b. N

c. H

d. F