1. According to the classical Bohr model, the C.

In the most distant orbit from the nucleus

________ is viewed as having a planetary-type D. In the nucleus of an atom
structure. View Answer:
A. atom 9. How is positive ion formed?
B. proton A. When a valence electron breaks away from
C. electron the atom
D. neutron B. When there are more holes than electrons in
View Answer: the outer orbit
2. An n-type semi-conductive material is C. When the two atoms bond together
created by adding impurity atoms that have D. When an atom gains an extra valence
________ valence electrons. electron
A. 2 View Answer:
B. 4 10. How is negative ion formed?
C. 3 A. When a valence electron breaks away from
D. 5 the atom
View Answer: B. When there are more holes than electrons in
3. What composes an atom? the outer orbit
A. One nucleus and only one electron C. When the two atoms bond together
B. Protons, electrons, and nucleus D. When an atom gains an extra valence
C. One nucleus and only one proton electron
D. Electrons and protons only View Answer:
View Answer: 11. What is the most widely used
semiconductor material in electronic devices?
4. What is nucleus of an atom?
A. Germanium
A. It is made up of protons and neutrons.
B. Silicon
B. Only protons are there.
C. Gallium
C. Protons and electrons are within the
nucleus. D. Arsenic
D. It is composed only of neutrons. View Answer:
View Answer: 12. What energy band in which free electrons
exists?
5. What is the atomic number of silicon?
A. Valence band
A. 29
B. Conduction band
B. 34
C. First band
C. 14
D. Second band
D. 15
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13. How are electron-hole pairs produced?
6. What is the atomic number of germanium?
A. By recombination
A. 29
B. By thermal energy
B. 34
C. By ionization
C. 32
D. By doping
D. 15
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14. When an electron falls into a hole this is
7. What is the letter designation of the valence
shell in a silicon atom? A. recombination
A. M B. ionization
B. N C. avalanche breakdown
C. O D. doping
D. L View Answer:
View Answer: 15. What hold together the atoms in a
semiconductor crystal?
8. Where are valence electrons found?
A. By covalent bonding
A. In the closest orbit to the nucleus
B. By forces of attraction
B. In various orbits around the nucleus
C. By the interaction of valence electrons D. To increase number of free electrons
D. All of the choices View Answer:
View Answer: 23. What are the majority carriers in an n-type
16. In a silicon crystal, each atom has semiconductor?
A. four conduction electrons A. Valence electrons
B. eight valence electrons, four of its own and B. Conduction electrons
four shared C. Protons
C. four valence electrons D. Holes
D. no valence electrons View Answer:
View Answer: 24. What are holes in n-type semiconductor?
17. What produces the current in a A. Majority carriers that are thermally
semiconductor? produced.
A. The electrons only. B. Minority carriers that are thermally
B. The holes only. produced.
C. Negative ions only. C. Majority carriers that are produced by
D. By both electrons and holes. doping.
View Answer: D. Minority carriers that are produced by
doping.
18. In an intrinsic semiconductor,
View Answer:
A. the free electrons are thermally produced.
25. How is pn junction formed?
B. there are as many free electrons as there
are holes. A. By the boundary of p-type and n-type
material
C. there are no free electrons.
B. By ionization
D. Both A and B above.
C. By collision of proton and neutron in the
View Answer:
nucleus
19. What is the difference between
D. By the recombination process
semiconductor and an insulator?
View Answer:
A. The atomic structure.
26. What creates the depletion region?
B. The number of free electrons.
A. Ionization
C. A wider energy gap between the valence
band and the conduction band. B. Diffusion
D. All of the choices. C. Recombination
View Answer: D. All of the choices
20. What is the process of adding impurity to View Answer:
an intrinsic semiconductor? 27. What are in the depletion region?
A. Doping A. Positive and negative ions
B. Recombination B. Minority carriers
C. Ionization C. Majority carriers
D. Annihilation D. All of the choices
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21. What impurity is added to silicon to create 28. What does the term bias mean?
a p-type semiconductor? A. The amount of current across the junction.
A. Trivalent B. The ratio of majority to minority carriers.
B. Pentavalent C. The dc voltage applied to control the
C. Intrinsic operation of the devices.
D. Extrinsic D. All of the choice
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22. What is the purpose of a pentavalent 29. How to forward bias a pn junction diode?
impurity? A. By applying an external voltage that is
A. To reduce the conductivity of silicon positive to the anode and negative to the
B. To increase the number of holes cathode
C. To create minority carriers
B. By applying an external voltage that is 36. What is the ideal dc output of a capacitor
positive at the p-region and negative at the n- filter?
region A. Equal to the rms value of the rectified
C. By applying an external voltage that is voltage
negative at the anode and positive to the B. Equal to the average value of the rectified
cathode. voltage
D. Either A and B above. C. Equal to the peak value of the rectified
View Answer: voltage
30. What happens when the pn junction is D. Equal to the peak-to-peak value of the input
forward-biased? voltage
A. The current is produced by both holes and View Answer:
electrons 37. If the load resistance of a capacitor-filtered
B. Hole current is the only current full-wave rectifier is reduced, the ripple voltage
C. Electron current is only the current. A. increases
D. Majority carriers produced the only current. B. decreases
View Answer: C. has a different frequency
31. What causes a very small current in D. is not affected
reversed-bias condition? View Answer:
A. Majority carriers 38. What is the output of full-wave bridge-type
B. Minority carriers rectifier when one of the diodes opens?
C. Forward current A. 0 V
D. Reverse current B. A half-wave rectified voltage
View Answer: C. A 120-Hz voltage
32. What is typically the forward-bias voltage D. One fourth the amplitude of the input
for a silicon diode? voltage
A. Greater than 0.7 V View Answer:
B. Lesser than 0.7 V 39. A virtual ground is a ground for
C. Greater than 0.3 V. A. voltage but not for current
D. Lesser than 0.3 V B. current but not for voltage
View Answer: C. both current and voltage
33. When does a diode conduct current? D. neither current nor voltage
A. When applied with a voltage View Answer:
B. When forward-biased 40. Normally in a zener voltage regulator the
C. When reverse-biased cathode is
D. When power is on A. more negative than the anode
View Answer: B. more positive than the anode
34. What voltage is read by the voltmeter C. at +0.7 V
when connected across a forward-biased D. grounded
diode? View Answer:
A. The diode barrier potential 41. What determines line regulation?
B. The bias battery voltage A. The load resistance
C. The total circuit voltage B. The load current
D. 0 V C. The changes in load resistance and output
View Answer: voltage
35. If the positive lead of an ohmmeter is D. The changes in the output voltage and input
connected to the anode of a diode and the voltage
negative lead to the cathode then the diode is View Answer:
A. reversed-biased 42. What determines load regulation?
B. opened A. The changes in load current and input
C. shorted voltage
D. forward-biased B. The changes in load current and output
View Answer: voltage
C. The changes in load resistance and input C. 25 Hz
voltage D. 200 Hz
D. The changes in zener current and load View Answer:
current 50. How many diodes are used by a bridge
View Answer: type rectifier?
43. What is a no-load condition? A. Two
A. The load has infinite resistance. B. Four
B. The load has zero resistance. C. Three
C. The output terminals are open. D. Five
D. Both A and C. View Answer:
View Answer: 51. For the same dc output, center-tap circuit
44. What is the maximum efficiency of a full- should have _________ PIV as compare to
wave rectifier? bridge type circuit.
A. 40.6% A. same
B. 20.3% B. smaller
C. 90% C. higher
D. 81.2% D. not comparable
View Answer: View Answer:
45. The dc output of the bridge type rectifier is 52. What rectifier is used for high voltage
nearly _________ than that of center tap applications?
circuit for a given transformer. A. Center-tap
A. thrice B. Bridge type
B. twice C. Half-wave
C. four times D. Full-wave
D. three times View Answer:
View Answer: 53. What filter is generally employed in the
46. In a center-tap circuit, __________ power supply of a radio receiver?
transformer secondary voltage is utilized. A. Choke filter
A. one-half B. Capacitor input
B. full C. Resistance
C. one-third D. Inductor input
D. one-eight View Answer:
View Answer: 54. What capacitor is generally used in filter
47. What is the maximum efficiency of a half- circuits?
wave rectifier? A. Mica
A. 20.3% B. Paper
B. 80.6% C. Air
C. 50% D. Electrolytic
D. 40.6% View Answer:
View Answer: 55. In a half-wave rectifier, if ac supply is 50
48. What rectifier circuit in which a transformer Hz, then what is the ac ripple?
is essential? A. 100 Hz
A. Bridge type B. 50 Hz
B. Half-wave C. 25 Hz
C. Center-tap D. 12.5 Hz
D. Full-wave View Answer:
View Answer: 56. The dc output of a bridge type circuit is
49. In a full-wave rectifier, if ac supply is 50 _________ that equivalent center-tap circuit.
Hz, then what is the ac ripple in the output? A. the same as
A. 50 Hz B. more than
B. 100 Hz C. less than
D. smaller View Answer:
View Answer: 64. What is the maximum number of degrees
57. The values of L and C in filter circuits for a of freedom of any solid object?
half-wave rectifier are ________ as compared A. 3
to that of full-wave rectifier. B. 4
A. same C. 5
B. more D. 6
C. less View Answer:
D. not related 65. A microprocessor can communicate with
View Answer: other devices in the system of _______ buses.
58. What is provided by transformer coupling? A. 2
A. Impedance matching B. 3
B. Good frequency response C. 4
C. Step-up in voltage D. 5
D. Simplicity and economy View Answer:
View Answer: 66. The repeatability of a servo-controlled
59. Germanium photodiodes have dark robot is within __________ mm rather than a
currents typically of the order of _______mA. fraction of a mm.
A. 10 A. 1
B. 15 B. 2
C. 20 C. 3
D. 25 D. 4
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60. How many filaments are there for a 67. The Kuka spot welding robot has how any
mercury vapor discharge tube for domestic degrees of freedom?
lighting? A. 2
A. 2 B. 3
B. 3 C. 4
C. 4 D. 6
D. 5 View Answer:
View Answer: 68. A negative resistance region evidenced in
61. What is the typical value of slew rate of an the Ep-Ip characteristic of a tetrode when dc
operational amplifier? screen voltage exceeds dc plate voltage. The
A. 1 V/μs negative slope of the plate current curve is due
to the screens attractive secondary electrons
B. 2 V/μs
from the plate when screen voltage exceeds
C. 3 V/μs plate voltage and the attendant reduction of
D. 4 V/μs plate current during the interval. What effect is
View Answer: mentioned above?
62. What is the typical frequency range about A. Tetrode effect
the center frequency of a tunable magnetron? B. Magnetron effect
A. ± 1% C. Compton effect
B. ± 3% D. Dynatron effect
C. ± 4% View Answer:
D. ± 5% 69. The reception and reproduction of radio
View Answer: signals by ordinary pieces of metal in contact
63. The largest computers commonly use a with each other, such as sections of
word size of how many bits? stovepipes. This occurs when rusty bolts, faulty
welds, or mechanically loose connections
A. 32
within strong radiated fields near transmitter
B. 64 and produce intermodulation interference. The
C. 128 mechanically poor connections serve as
D. 256
nonlinear diodes. What effect is mentioned D. The atomic mass
above? View Answer:
A. Singing-stovepipe effect 74. Who coined the term hypertext?
B. Dynatron effect A. Ted Nelson
C. Compton effect B. Tim Berners-Lee
D. Malter effect C. Larry Roberts
View Answer: D. Vannevar Bush
70. The elastic scattering of photons by View Answer:
electron. Since the total energy and total 75. Who is known as the Father of the
momentum are conserved in the collisions, the ARPANET?
wavelength of the scattered radiation is
A. Ted Nelson
changed by an amount that depends on the
angle of scattering, and part of the photon B. Tim Berners-Lee
energy is transferred to electrons. This effect is C. Larry Roberts
called D. Vannevar Bush
A. Compton effect View Answer:
B. Hall effect 76. Who coined the term nanotechnology?
C. Malter effect A. Norio Taniguchi
D. Thomson effect B. Aibo Nintendo
View Answer: C. Yakura Tamaguchi
71. The generation of acoustic waves, D. Sato Mikado
consisting of alternate regions of compression View Answer:
and refraction one half-wavelength apart, by a
77. What do you call waves of electrons
piezoelectric crystal vibrating in a longitudinal
traveling along the surface of metals?
mode in a liquid. When a parallel beam of light
sent through the liquid in a tank having plate- A. Plasmons
glass walls, the acoustic waves act as a B. Isotopes
diffraction grating that can be used to C. Nucleons
determine the velocity of sound in the liquid. D. Nanomons
This effect is called View Answer:
A. Damon effect 78. Who invented Ethernet?
B. Debye-Sears effect A. Bob Metcalfe
C. Thomson effect B. Douglas Engelbart
D. Malter effect C. Tim Berners-Lee
View Answer: D. Larry Roberts
72. When light falls on a light surface of an View Answer:
intermetallic semiconductor located in a
79. Who is the inventor of the mouse?
magnetic field that is parallel to the surface,
excess hole electron pairs are created. Those A. Bob Metcalfe
carriers diffuse in the direction of the light but B. Douglas Engelbart
are deflected by the magnetic field to give a C. Tim Berners-Lee
current flow through the semiconductor that is D. Larry Roberts
at right angles to both the light rays and
View Answer:
magnetic field. This is known as the
80. Who developed the internet browser called
A. Photoelectromagnetic effect
Mosaic?
B. Conductive effect
A. Marc Andreesen
C. Photo effect
B. Paul Baran
D. Light effect
C. Larry Roberts
View Answer:
D. Bob Metcalfe
73. What determines the identity of an
View Answer:
element?
81. Who created the World Wide Web?
A. The number of protons in the nucleus
A. Bob Metcalfe
B. The number of electrons in the orbit
B. Douglas Engelbart
C. The number of neutrons in the nucleus
C. Tim Berners-Lee 88. The sudden, large increase in current that
D. Larry Roberts occurs when a particular value of reverse
View Answer: voltage is reached, and which is due to
ionization by the high intensity electric field in
82. Who wrote the Transmission Control
the depletion region in reverse-biased pn
Protocol (TCP) for internet?
junction.
A. Vinton Cerf
A. Zener effect
B. Bob Khan
B. Avalanche effect
C. Tim Berners-Lee
C. Radiation effect
D. Both A and B
D. Burst effect
View Answer:
View Answer:
83. Who wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
89. The liberation or absorption of heat when
(HTTP), the language computer could use to
an electric current flows from a warmer to a
communicate hypertext documents over the
cooler part of a conductor.
internet?
A. Zener effect
A. Vinton Cerf
B. Skin effect
B. Bob Khan
C. Surface effect
C. Tim Berners-Lee
D. Thomson effect
D. Larry Roberts
View Answer:
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90. The piercing of a barrier in a
84. What effect refers to a leakage current that
semiconductor by a particle that does not have
flow over a surface path between the collector
sufficient energy to go over the barrier.
and emitter in some types of transistors?
A. Channel effect
A. Channel effect
B. Damon effect
B. Collector follower effect
C. Tunnel effect
C. Leakage effect
D. Barrier effect
D. Emitter effect
View Answer:
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91. The development of a voltage across the
85. An effect about the change that the
junction of two dissimilar materials.
susceptibility of a ferrite undergoes under the
influence of high RF powder. A. Photovoltaic effect
A. Change effect B. Hall effect
B. Damon effect C. Piezoelectric effect
C. Dead-end effect D. Flywheel effect
D. Barnett effect View Answer:
View Answer: 92. The increase in the effective grid-cathode
capacitance of a vacuum tube due to the
86. An outward-curving distortion of lines of
charge induced electrostatically on the grid by
force near the edges of two parallel metal
the anode through the grid-anode capacitance.
plates that form a capacitor.
A. Hall effect
A. Change effect
B. Barnett effect
B. Edge effect
C. Damon effect
C. Dead-end effect
D. Miller effect
D. Skin effect
View Answer:
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93. The development of a voltage between the
87. The extension of the electrostatic field of
two edges of a current-carrying metal strip
an air capacitor outside the space between its
whose faces are perpendicular to a magnetic
plates.
field.
A. Fringe effect
A. Hall effect
B. Edge effect
B. Barnett effect
C. Extension effect
C. Miller effect
D. Flywheel effect
D. Damon effect
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94. A magnetic field when applied to a right plates. The insulator must be very thin on the
angles to the direction of a temperature order of 10^-7 meters. This results in a
gradient in a conductor, a temperature potential difference of up to about 100 volts.
difference is produced at right angles both to A. Mateucci effect
the direction of temperature gradient and the B. Malter effect
direction of the magnetic field.
C. Destriau effect
A. Hallwachs effect
D. Hall effect
B. Island effect
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C. Isotope effect
100. The magnetic force between adjacent
D. Leduc effect current-carrying conductors is referred to as
View Answer: A. motor effect
95. The ability of a resonant circuit to maintain B. edge effect
oscillation at an essentially constant frequency
C. proximity effect
when fed with short pulses of energy at
constant frequency and phase. D. generator effect
A. Flywheel effect
B. Leduc effect
C. Hall effect
D. Thomson
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96. The development of a DC voltage between
two regions of a photoconductive
semiconductor when one of the regions is
illuminated by diffusion of an optically
generated hole and electron pairs away from
the illuminated region.
A. Destriau effect
B. Isotope effect
C. Dember effect
D. Hawks effect
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97. Phenomenon of a current flowing between
two unequal illuminated electrodes of a certain
type when they are immersed in an electrolyte.
A. Bequerel effect
B. Destriau effect
C. Dember effect
D. Hawks effect
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98. The restriction of emission from the
cathode of an electron tube to a certain small
areas of the cathode when the grid voltage is
lower than a certain value.
A. Island effect
B. Isotope effect
C. Damon effect
D. Hawks effect
View Answer:
99. The tendency for layer of semiconductor
having a high secondary emission ratio to
become positively charged when bombarded
by electrons. This occurs when a thin insulator
separates the semiconductor from the metal