Choice the correct answer

1 Which of the following a correct statement about digital and analog modulation?
a) Digital signal can be received only at the time of transmition
b) Digital signal can be corrupted over short distance compare to AM/FM
c) In digital modulation our carrier signal is analog in nature
d) Compare to AM, FM is applicable to long distance communication
2 Which one of the following is not the modification of amplitude modulation?
a) VSB b) SSB-SC c) DSB-FC D) DSB-SC
3 Which one of the following not performed at the transmitter part of communication?
A) Modulation b) Detection c) Coding d) Amplification
4 Which one of the following not correct regarding to ASK, FSK and PSK?
a) FSK produce more spectrum compare to ASK
b) ASK approximal equal bandwidth occupies with PSK
c) ASK have high immunity to nose compare to FSK and PSK
d) PSK more complex signal recover and detection compare to ASK and FSK
5 In an AM wave, the majority of the power is transmitted in _______
a) lower sideband b) upper sideband c) carrier d) none
6 The modulation index of FM system is doubled, what will be the transmitted power
a) doubled b) reduced by half c) increase by factor of 3 d) does not change
7 Why VSB modulation is preferred in TV
a) easily modulate the carrier frequency c) it results in better reception
b) it avoids phase distortion at low frequencies d) it reduces the bandwidth requirement to
half
8 Which of the following method is an indirect way of generating FM?
a) Armstrong modulator c) slope detector modulator
b) Varactor diode modulator d) Reactance bipolar transistor
9 For a given carrier wave, maximum undistorted power is transmitted when value of
modulation index is
a) 0 b) 0.6 c) 0.5 d) 1
10 Frequency modulation consists in
a) varying the frequency and amplitude of the carrier in accordance with the instantaneous
value of modulating signal
b) varying the amplitude of the carrier in accordance with the instantaneous value of the
modulating voltage
c) varying the frequency of the carrier voltage in accordance with the instantaneous value of
the modulating voltage
d) vary the frequency of the carrier voltage
11 The bandwidth of the input to pulse code modulation is restricted to 4kHZ, the input varies
from -4V to 4V and has an average power of 35mw, the required signal to quantization noise
 power ratio is 100 and the modulation produced binary output. What would number of bits
per ample, quantization level
a) 4,32 b) 5,32 c) 64 6 d) 7 ,128
12 Pulse modulation is often used in
a) microwave band c) telephony
b) FL band d) telegraphy
13 Which of the following form of angle modulation in this? If e = 10 sin (108 t + 3 sin 104 t)
a) AM C) PCM
b) FM d) PAM
14 The noise performance of a square law demodulator of AM signal is
a) better than that of an envelope detector
b) better than that of a synchronous detector
c) identical with that of a synchronous detector
d) poorer than that of an envelope detector
15 In AM the amplitude of carrier components ... while in FM it
a) remains constant, does not remain constant
b) does not remain constant ... remains constant
c) remains constant... also remains constant
d) does not remain constant, also does not remain constant
16 An AM wave is represented by the following volage signal expression
S(t)= (10 + 6cos 2π×5×103 t) sin2π×1×106 t volts. What are the minimum and
maximum amplitudes of the AM wave?
a) 4, 8 b) 16 4 c) 16 10 d) none
17 From question 16 efficiency and bandwidth of s(t) is
a) 15.33% ,10KHz b) 30% 2MHz c ) 15.33% ,5MHz d) none

18 As compared to AM, FM requires

a) narrow channel c) multiple times larger channel
b) same channel d) none
19 In PCM, the quantization noise depends on
a) sampling rate
b) signal power
c) number of quantization level
d) signal energy
20 The power rating of radio transmitters is around
a) 100 mW
b) 10 W
c) 10 kW
d) 10 MW
21 Communication channel with PCM transmission with the spectrum of the channel between
3Mhz and 4Mhz with signal to quantization ratio of 24dB.what would be the channel
capacity?
 a)6.69 Mb/sec b) 8.97Mb/sce c) 7.97Mb/sec d) none
22 High power AM transmission, modulation is done at
a) IF stage
b) buffer stage
c) RF stage
d) oscillator stage

23 How can the quantizing noise be reduced?

a) By using de-emphasis circuit
b) By using RF amplifier in the receiver
c) By increasing the number of quantization levels
d) By sending sloping pulses
24 An amplitude modulated wave demodulated by using a synchronous detection at the receiver
of communication system. However, the local arrange carrier has a phase error θ ,assume the
input of the detection is DSB-SC and θ=90 and x(t) is our message signal, what would be the
output of the detection
a) X(t)/2 b 0 c) 1 d 2x(t)
25 FM broadcast is done using
a) medium wave
b) short waves
c) VHF and UHF waves
d) microwaves
26 A CW transmitter radiates
a) modulated RF carrier
b) unmodulated RF carrier
c) both (a) and (b)
d) none of the above
27 The commonly employed filter in SSB generation is
a) high pass filter
b) RC filter
c) LC filter
d) mechanical filter
28 Which of the following pulse modulation is analog?
a) PCM
b) PWM
c) Delta
d) all
29 In AM receiver the oscillator frequency is
a) always equal to signal frequency
b) always equal to 455 kHz
c) always higher than signal frequency
d) always lower than signal frequency
30 pulse code modulation, if the signal is sampled at the rate of f and the number of pulses in
one code group is p, then the number of pulses per second will be
a) p/f
b) f/p
 c) 1/pf
d) pf
31 A narrow band FM does not have the following feature
a) it has two sidebands
b) both sideband equal in magnitude
c) both sideband have same Phase Difference
d) it does not show Amplitude variation

32 A pulse width signal can be governed by

a) free running multi-vibrator
b) monostable multi-vibrator
c) Schmitt trigger
d) JK flip-flop
33 A sinusoidal carrier voltage, having frequency 1000 Hz is amplitude modulated by a
sinusoidal voltage of frequency 15 kHz. The frequency of upper and lower sidebands will be
a) 1015 kHz and 985 kHz
b) 1030 kHz and 970 kHz
c) 13 kHz and 17 kHz
d) 14 kHz and 16 kHz
34 In amplitude modulation
a) the amplitude of carrier varies in accordance with the amplitude of the modulating
signal.
b) the modulating frequency lies in the audio range
c) the amplitude of the carrier remains constant
d) the amplitude of the carrier varies in accordance with the frequency of the
modulating signal.
35 In TV transmission, sound signal is ______ modulated
a) amplitude
b) frequency
c) phase
d) none of the above
36 A 100 V carrier is made to vary between 160 V and 40 V by the signal. What is the
modulation factor?
a) 0.3
b) 0.6
c) 0.5
d) none of the above
37 A 50-kW carrier is to be amplitude modulated to a level of 85 %. What is the carrier power
after modulation?
a) 50 kW
b) 42.5 kW
c) 58.8 kW
d) 25 kW
38 In a radio receiver, we generally use ___oscillator as a local oscillator.
a) crystal
 b) Wien-bridge
c) phase-shift
d) Hartley
39 Overmodulation (amplitude) occurs when signal amplitude is ____ carrier amplitude.
a) equal to
b) greater than
c) less than
d) none of the above
40 Which one of the following describe correctly about frequency modulated signal?
A) Amplitude of the carrier change with respect to the message signal
B) It has less bandwidth than AM modulated signal
C) infinite number of sidebands
D) Less immunity to noise compares to AM signal
41 The amount of data transmitted for a given amount of time is called

A) Bandwidth
B) Frequency
C) Noise
D) Signal power

42 The total power in an Amplitude Modulated signal if the carrier of an AM transmitter is

600K W and it is modulated 50 percent.

A) 850KW

B) 970KW

C) 1200KW

D 675 KW

43 Which of the following is not a form of pulse modulation?

A) Pulse width modulation

B) Pulse amplitude modulation

C) Pulse frequency modulation

D) pulse position modulation

44 The process of signal compression and expansion used to reduce distortion and noise is.

A) Modulating

B) Companding

C) Amplification

D) all.

45 Which of the following is correct about pulse modulation?

A) High power consumption
B) Transmit in analog domain
C) Low noise
D) Degraded signal cannot be regenerated.

46 Which of the following are the advantages of digital modulation?

A) Easy Multiplexing property
B) Higher noise Immunity
C) More reliable and secure
D) all
47 Which component of communication system does modulation of the signal is performed?
A) Transmitter
B) Receiver
C) Channel
D) all
48 Which one of the following correctly describe Shannon limit in communication theory?
A) The maximum number of quantizing levels in a channel
B) Highest frequency sent over the channel
 C) Maximum number of coding level in the channel
D) Maximum capacity of channel with a given noise level
49 A technique that allows the simntanousily transmission of multiple signals across a single
data link is
A) Filtering
B) Rectification
C) Multiplexing
D) Amplification
50 Superheterodyne principle refers to __________
a) using a large number of amplifier stages
b) using a push-pull circuit
c) obtaining lower fixed intermediate frequency
d) none of the above