Department of EJ/EN/EQ/ET/EX

22428 DSC MCQ (Digital Communication System)

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1. A cordless telephone using separate frequencies for transmission in base and portable
units is known as

A. duplex arrangement

B. half duplex arrangement

C. either (a) or (b)

D. neither (a) nor (b)

Answer: Option A

2. For attenuation of high frequencies we should use

A. shunt capacitance

B. series capacitance

C. inductance

D. resistance
Answer: Option A

3. A modem is classified as low speed if data rate handled is

A. upto 100 bps

B. upto 250 bps

C. upto 400 bps

D. upto 600 bps

Answer: Option D

4. VSB modulation is preferred in TV because

A. it reduces the bandwidth requirement to half

B. it avoids phase distortion at low frequencies

C. it results in better reception

D. none of the above

Answer: Option A

5. A woofer should be fed from the input through a

A. low pass filter

B. high pass filter

C. band pass filter

D. band stop filter

Answer: Option A
6. Which of the following is an indirect way of generating FM?

A. Armstrong modulator

B. Varactor diode modulator

C. Reactance FET modulator

D. Reactance bipolar transistor

Answer: Option A

7. When the length of antenna is a whole wavelength

A. the radiation at right angles is zero

B. the radiation at right angles is maximum

C. the radiation is zero in all directions

D. the radiation is maximum in all directions

Answer: Option A

8. Circular polarization

A. is useful in reducing depolarization effect on received wave

B. involves critical alignment of transmitting and receiving antenna

C. is useful in discrimination between reception of adjacent beams

D. none of the above

Answer: Option A
9. An FM radio receiver which is tuned to a 91.6 MHz broadcast station may receive an
image frequency of __________ MHz.

A. 102.3

B. 113

C. 70.2

D. 80.9

Answer: Option B

10. For telegraphy the most commonly used modulation system is

A. FSK

B. two tone modulation

C. PCM

D. single tone modulation

Answer: Option A

11. Commercial Frequency deviation of FM is

A. 70 kHz

B. 75 kHz

C. 80 kHz

D. 65 kHz

Answer: Option B
12. The colour of an object is decided by

A. the reflected colour

B. the wavelength transmitted through it

C. reflected colour for opaque object and wavelength transmitted through it for transparent
objects

D. none of the above

Answer: Option C

13. In Pulse Code Modulation system

A. large bandwidth is required

B. quantising noise can be overcome by companding

C. quantising noise can be reduced by decreasing the number of standard levels

D. suffers from the disadvantage of its incompatibly with TDM

Answer: Option A

14. If output power of a radio receiver is doubled, its volume is increased by __________
dB.

A. 2 B. 3

C. 1 D. -3

Answer: Option B

15. Which of the following statements is correct?

A. Convex lens has positive focal power and concave lens have negative focal power
B. Convex lens has negative focal power and concave lens have positive focal power

C. All lens have positive focal power

D. All lens have negative focal power

Answer: Option A

16. In Modulation, “carrier” is

A. resultant wave

B. speech voltage to be transmitted

C. voltage with constant frequency, phase or amplitude

D. voltage for which frequency, phase or amplitude is varied

Answer: Option D

17. To eliminate ghosts in the picture

A. use a longer transmission line

B. connect a booster

C. change the antenna orientation of location

D. twist the transmission line

Answer: Option C

18. The frequency range of 300 kHz to 3000 kHz is known as

A. low frequency

B. medium frequency
C. high frequency

D. very high frequency

Answer: Option B

19. Which of the following does not cause losses in optical fiber cables?

A. Stepped index operation

B. Impurities

C. Micro bending

D. Attenuation in glass

Answer: Option A

20. For a low level AM system, the amplifiers modulated stage must be

A. linear devices

B. harmonic devices

C. class C amplifiers

D. non-linear devices

Answer: Option A

21. Assertion (A): In FM the frequency of the carrier is varied by the modulating voltage

Reason (R): FM and PM are two forms of angle modulation.

A. Both A and R are correct and R is correct explanation of A

B. Both A and R are correct but R is not correct explanation of A

D. A is wrong but R is correct

Answer: Option B

22. A telephone channel requires a bandwidth of about

A. 1 kHz

B. 3 kHz

C. 10 kHz

D. 50 kHz

Answer: Option B

23. For a given carrier wave, maximum undistorted power is transmitted when value of
modulation is

A. 1

B. 0.8

C. 0.5

D. 0

Answer: Option A

24. As per Shannon-Hartley theorem, a noise less Gaussian channel has

A. zero capacity

B. infinite capacity
C. small capacity

D. none of the above

Answer: Option B

25. DVD uses

A. Laser beam for both recording and playback

B. Laser beam for recording and video head for playback

C. Video head for recording and laser beam for playback

D. None of the above

Answer: Option A

26. Fourier analysis indicate that a square wave can be represented as

A. a fundamental sine wave and odd harmonics

B. a fundamental sine wave and even harmonics

C. a fundamental sine wave and harmonics

D. fundamental and subharmonic sine waves

Answer: Option A

27. FM transmitting and receiving equipment as compared to AM equipment is

A. costly

B. cheaper

C. almost equally costly

Answer: Option A

28. An audio signal (say from 50 Hz to 10000 Hz) is frequency translated by a carrier
having a frequency of 106 Hz. The values of initial (without frequency translation) and
final (after frequency translation) fractional change in frequency from one band edge to the
other are

A. 200 and 1.01

B. 200 and 10.01

C. 200 and 100.1

D. 200 and 200

Answer: Option A

29. If in a broadcasting studio, a 1000 kHz carrier is modulated by an audio signal of

A. 5

B. 4.9

C. 995

D. 10

Answer: Option D

30. Which one of the following is analog?

A. PCM

B. PWM
C. Delta modulation

D. Differential PCM

Answer: Option B

31. The disadvantage of FM over AM is that

A. high output power is needed

B. high modulating power is needed

C. noise is very high for high frequency

D. large bandwidth is required

Answer: Option D

32. Which of the following is a digital modulation technique?

A. PCM

B. PSK

C. DM

D. All

Answer: Option B

33. Which of the following is used to generate PDM?

A. Free running multi-vibrator

B. Monostable multi-vibrator

C. JK flip-flop
D. Schmitt trigger

Answer: Option B

34. SSB can be generated by

A. filter method

B. phase cancellation method

C. good attenuation characteristics

D. all of the above

Answer: Option D

35. A zero mean white Gaussian noise is passed through an ideal low pass filter of
bandwidth 10 kHz. The output of the samples so obtained would be

A. correlated

B. statistically independent

C. uncorrelated

D. orthogonal

Answer: Option B

36. What is the purpose of peak clipper circuits in radio transmitters?

A. To prevent over modulation

B. To reduce bandwidth

C. To increase bandwidth
D. To regulate oscillator I/P voltage

Answer: Option A

37. In case of low level amplitude modulation system, the amplifiers following the
modulated stage must be

A. class C amplifiers

B. linear devices

C. non-linear devices

D. harmonic devices

Answer: Option B

38. Under ordinary circumstances, impulse noise can be reduced in

A. FM only

B. AM only

C. both AM and FM

D. none of the above

Answer: Option A

39. In case of frequency modulation, modulating voltage remains constant if the

A. amplitude of distant sidebands decreases

B. amplitude of distant sidebands increases

C. amplitude of distant sidebands remains constant

Answer: Option B

40. If sampling is done at the rate of 10 kHz. The bandwidth required is

A. 35 kHz

B. 70 kHz

C. 10 kHz

D. 1280 kHz

Answer: Option A

41. It is found that a ship to ship communication suffers from fading. This can be avoided
by using

A. space diversity

B. frequency diversity

C. broad band antenna

D. directional antenna

Answer: Option B

42. Skip distance depends on time of day and angle of incidence.

A. True

B. False

Answer: Option A
43. In practical commercial FM system, channel bandwidth is

A. 150 kHz

B. 100 kHz

C. 88 MHz

D. 108 MHz

Answer: Option A

44. In EM waves, polarization

A. is always vertical in an isotropic medium

B. is caused by reflection

C. is due to transverse nature of waves

D. results from longitudinal nature of waves

Answer: Option C

45. The maximum power output of a standard A earth station over the total band allocated
to satellite communication is about

A. 0.5 kW

B. 8 kW

C. 20 kW

D. 50 kW

Answer: Option A
46. PAM stands for

A. Pulse Analogue Modulation

B. Phase Analogue Modulation

C. Pulse Amplitude Modulation

D. Phase Amplitude Modulation

Answer: Option C

47. The characteristic impedance of a twin wire feeder used for TV signals is about

A. 1000 ohm

B. 500 ohm

C. 300 ohm

D. 100 ohm

Answer: Option C

48. In a FM receiver, amplitude limiter

A. amplifiers low frequency signals

B. reduces the amplitude of signals

C. eliminates any change in amplitude of received FM signals

D. none of the above

Answer: Option C

49. A buffer amplifier is

B. a high gain D.C. amplifier

C. a cathode follower stage

D. none of the above

Answer: Option B

50. Leak type bias is used in plate modulated class C amplifier to

A. increase the bandwidth

B. prevent over modulation

C. prevent excessive grid current

D. prevent tuned circuit damping

Answer: Option C

51. The direction of rotation of a CD is

A. clockwise

B. anticlockwise

C. clockwise or anticlockwise depending on frequency of data stored

D. mostly anticlockwise but some times clockwise

Answer: Option B

52. One of the advantages of base modulation over collector modulation of a transistor
class C amplifier is
A. improved efficiency

B. better linearity

C. high power output per transistor

D. the lower modulating power requirement

Answer: Option D

53. Full duplex operation-permits transmission in both directions at the same time.

A. True

B. False

Answer: Option A

54. In a TV receiver antenna the length of reflector rod

A. is the same as that of dipole

B. is less than that of dipole

C. is more than that of dipole

D. may be equal, more or less than that of dipole

Answer: Option C

55. The modulation index of an FM is changed from 0 to 1. How does the transmitted
power change?

A. Gets halved

B. Gets doubled
C. Gets increased by 50 percent

D. Remains unchanged

Answer: Option C

56. For AM receivers the standard IF frequency is

A. 106 kHz

B. 455 kHz

C. 1.07 MHz

D. 10.7 MHz

Answer: Option B

57. For a plate-modulated class C amplifier the plate supply voltage is E. The maximum
plate cathode voltage could be almost high as

A. 2E

B. 3E

C. 4E

D. 6E

Answer: Option C

58. In TV systems, equalizing pulses are sent during

A. horizontal blanking

B. vertical blanking
C. serrations

D. horizontal retrace

Answer: Option A

59. A three stage telephone switching structure is to have 128 input and 128 output
terminals. There are 16 first stage and 16 third stage matrices. To avoid blocking the
number of intermediate paths required is

A. 16

B. 15

C. 8

D. 1

Answer: Option B

60. The main function of a balanced modulator is to

A. produce balanced modulation of a carrier wave

B. produce 100% modulation

C. suppress carrier signal in order to create a single-sideband or double sideband

D. limit noise picked by a receiver

Answer: Option B

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