1.

The type of systems which are characterized by input and the output capable of taking any

value in a particular set of values are called as

a) analog

b) discrete

c) digital

d) continuous

Answer: d

2.Which of the following is true regarding the number of computations requires to compute

an N-point DFT?

a) N2 complex multiplications and N(N-1) complex additions

b) N2 complex additions and N(N-1) complex multiplications

c) N2 complex multiplications and N(N+1) complex additions

d) N2 complex additions and N(N+1) complex multiplications

Answer: A

3. If X1 (k) and X2(k) are the N-point DFTs of X1 (n) and x2(n) respectively, then what is the

N-point DFT of x(n)=ax1 (n)+bx2(n)?

a) X1(ak)+X2(bk)

b) aX1(k)+bX2(k)

c) eakX1(k)+ebkX2(k)

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: B

4. In Overlap save method of long sequence filtering, what is the length of the input sequence

block?

a) L+M+1

b) L+M

c) L+M-1

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

5. For a decimation-in-time FFT algorithm, which of the following is true?

a) Both input and output are in order

b) Both input and output are shuffled

c) Input is shuffled and output is in order

d) Input is in order and output is shuffled

Answer: c

6.The interface between an analog signal and a digital processor is

a. D/A converter

b. A/D converter

c. Modulator

d. Demodulator

ANSWER: (b) A/D converter

7.The IIR filter designing involves

a. Designing of analog filter in analog domain and transforming into digital domain

b. Designing of digital filter in analog domain and transforming into digital domain

c. Designing of analog filter in digital domain and transforming into analog domain

d. Designing of digital filter in digital domain and transforming into analog domain

ANSWER: (b)

8. The filter with the system function H(z)=z-k is a ____________

a) Notch filter

b) Band pass filter

c) All pass filter

d) None of the mentioned

9. What is the region between stop band and the pass band frequencies in the magnitude

frequency response of a low pass filter?

a) Stop band

b) Pass band

c) Transition band

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

10. What is the cutoff frequency of a normalized filter?

a) 2 rad/sec
b) 1 rad/sec

c) 0.5 rad/sec

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

11.Where does the poles of the transfer function of normalized low pass Butterworth filter

exists?

a) Inside unit circle

b) Outside unit circle

c) On unit circle

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: C

12. What is the Butterworth polynomial of order 3?

a) (s2+s+1)(s-1)

b) (s2 -s+1)(s-1)

c) (s2 -s+1)(s+1)

d) (s2+s+1)(s+1)

Answer: d

13. What is the value of h(M-1/2) if the unit sample response is anti-symmetric?

a) 0

b) 1

c) -1

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

14. Which of the following is not suitable either as low pass or a high pass filter?

a) h(n) symmetric and M odd

b) h(n) symmetric and M even

c) h(n) anti-symmetric and M odd

d) h(n) anti-symmetric and M even

Answer: c
15.Which of the following defines the rectangular window function of length M-1?

a) w(n)=1, n=0,1,2...M-1

=0, else where

b) w(n)=1, n=0,1,2...M-1

=-1, else where

C) w(n)=0, n=0,1,2...M-1

=1, else where

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

16.With an increase in the value of M, the height of each side lobe ____________

a) Do not vary

b) Does not depend on value of M

c) Decreases

d) Increases

Answer: d

17.What is the approximate transition width of main lobe of a Hamming window?

a) 4π/M

b) 8π/M

c) 12π/M

d) 2π/M
Answer: b

18. Which of the following is an method for implementing an FIR system?

a) Direct form

b) Cascade form

c) Lattice structure

d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d
19.For a twos complement representation, the truncation error is ____________

a) Always positive

b) Always negative

c) Zero

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

20. Non-linearity in the output of converter is expressed in

a) None of the mentioned

b) Percentage of reference voltage

c) Percentage of resolution

d) Percentage of full scale voltage

Answer: d

21.What is the abbreviation of SQNR?

a) Signal-to-Quantization Net Ratio

b) Signal-to-Quantization Noise Ratio

c) Signal-to-Quantization Noise Region

d) Signal-to-Quantization Net Region

Answer: b

22. In recursive systems, which of the following is caused because of the nonlinearities due to

the finite-precision arithmetic operations?

a) Periodic oscillations in the input

b) Non-Periodic oscillations in the input

c) Non-Periodic oscillations in the output

d) Periodic oscillations in the output

Answer: d

23. What is the range of values called as to which the amplitudes of the output during a limit

cycle ae confined to?

a) Stop band

b) Pass band

c) Live band
d) Dead band

Answer: d

24. Limit cycles in the recursive are directly attributable to which of the following?

a) Round-off errors in multiplication

b) Overflow errors in addition

c) Both of the mentioned

d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c

A linear list of elements in which deletion can be done from one end (front) and insertion

can take place only at the other end (rear) is known as ?

a) Queue

b) Stack

c) Tree

d) Linked list

Answer: a

Which units are generally involved in Multiply and Accumulate (MAC)?

a. Adder

b. Multiplier

c. Accumulator

d. All of the above

ANSWER: (d) All of the above

Which type of architecture uses different storage space for program code and the data?

a) Von Neumann architecture

b) Harvard architecture

c) Fragmented architecture

d) Split cell architecture

Answer: b

The stage in which the CPU fetches the instructions from the instruction cache in

superscalar organization is
a) Prefetch stage

b) D1 (first decode) stage

c) D2 (second decode) stage

d) Final stage

Answer: a

In the operand fetch stage, the FPU (Floating Point Unit) fetches the operands from

a) floating point unit

b) instruction cache

c) floating point register file or data cache

d) floating point register file or instruction cache

Answer: c

What happens after the signal is passed through the analog to digital converter in a DSP?

a) Changed back to analog

b) Stored in a RAM

c) Amplified

d) Attenuated

Answer: b