MODULE 1 ELECTRONICS 1.

An advantage of a magnetic disk, as compared with magnetic tape, for data storage and retrieval is that: 2. An advanced programming language, more advanced than high-level language. 3. What do you call the difference between any number within the set of numbers and the arithmetic mean of that set of numbers? 4. Three terminal voltage regulators, such as the 78XX series has a typical current rating of 1.5 Amperes. If a high current is required, say 30 amperes, how will you make the modifications from this regulator in order to provide the required current? 5. What will happen if a power transformer is to be operated at very high frequency? 6. What is true about core-type transformers? 7. Oscillators utilize the following except: 8. In motors of the same rating, which has the least starting torque? 9. What is the most important consideration in transmission lines? 10. High component density in integrated circuits results to: 11. How can a class-B amplifier be made suitable for hi-fi audio applications? 12. A class-A circuit would not work well as: 13. Negative feedback in an amplifier: 14. A device that measures amount of radiation from any portion of the sky. 15. A device that is used to measure current without opening the circuit. 16. NMOS can be interfaced to CMOS by providing: 17. Which of these diodes might be found in the oscillator circuit of a microwave transmitter? 18. Leakage flux in transformers will cause: 19. FTP stands for: 20. A disadvantage of Gallium-Arsenide devices is that: 21. Which of the ff materials is/are commonly used as a semiconductor? 22. The paths of the electrons in a magnetron are spirals rather than straight lines because of: 23. Which of the ff does not affect the capacitance of a capacitor? 24. What form of memory can be accessed, but not overwritten, in the course of normal operation? 25. The reactance of a section of a transmission line depends on all of the following except: 26. The most likely place you would find an LED would be: 27. An autotransformer: 28. When a diode is forward-biased, the anode is: 29. When an enhancement-mode MOSFET is at zero-bias: 30. A disadvantage of transformer coupling, as opposed to capacitance coupling is that: 31. A transformer quadruples the AC voltage. The primary-to-secondary impedance ratio is: 32. The input signal to a transistor amplifier results in saturation during part of the cycle. This produces: 33. If R is for resistance and Z is for impedance, R/Z stands for: 34. A crowbar circuit is used: 35. Active devices used in switching regulators may experience large over-current during conduction and large over-voltage during turn-off. These excessive currents and voltages may cause distraction or damage to the active devices. How do we protect them? 36. If there is reactance at the output of an impedance transformer, 37. An advantage of a grounded-grid power amplifier is: 38. In ________ transformers, when its primary is energized, the secondary should never be open-circuited. 39. An oscillator might fail to start for any of the ff reasons except: 40. Which of the ff is not an advantage of semiconductor devices over vacuum tubes? 41. In a parallel configuration, susceptances: 42. In a P-type semiconductor, electrons are: 43. An advantage of CMOS: 44. The power in a reactance is: 45. A time-domain display might be found in: 46. For a given value of capacitance, as the frequency goes down, the reactance, 47. Wave X leads wave Y by 270 degrees. This would be better expressed by saying that 48. It describes the System Services Control Point (SSCP), Logical Units (LU), and Physical Units (PU), as network addressable units. 49. A microcomputer attached to a network requires a ________ 50. Similar to a bridge, which connects networks at different sites and different protocols. 51. An advantage of full-wave rectifier over half-wave rectifier

ANSWER Data can be stored and retrieved more quickly with disks than with tapes. 4GL or 4th generation language Deviation By the use of external pass transistor

It will have a very high core loss. It has a shorter magnetic path. Negative Feedback DC shunt Minimizing losses Increase in operating speed. By using two transistors in push-pull A television transmitter power amplifier Reduces the gain Pyranometer Clamp probe Pull-up resistor IMPATT diode Voltage drop in the windings File Transfer Protocol It is expensive to produce. Gallium Arsenide the longitudinal magnetic flux the frequency (within reason) Read-only Memory The current in the line In a digital frequency display has one tapped winding positive relative to the cathode Drain current is zero with no signal Transformers cost more 1:16 Reduced efficiency Power factor As an over-voltage protection in power supplies. By installing a snubber circuit

There will be an impedance mismatch, no matter what the turns ratio of the transformer. Good stability current In-phase feedback Its ability to withstand high voltage levels. Simply add up Minority carriers Ability to handle high power levels Imaginary power An oscilloscope Gets more and more negative Wave X lags wave Y by 90 degrees Systems Network Architecture Network Interface Card Gateway The tube will conduct during both halves of the input cycle. Compiled by: TIKNIK

52. In a common-emitter circuit, the gain-bandwidth product is: 53. Three terminal fixed positive voltage regulators commonly used in industries. 54. An advantage of full-wave bridge rectification is: 55. The ripple frequency from a full-wave rectifier is: 56. A disadvantage of a half-wave rectifier: 57. Which of the following is the least noisy? 58. In charging power from one generator to another, what do you call the operational sequence wherein the incoming generator is connected first before removing the existing generator? 59. What do you mean by break power transfer?

The frequency at which the gain is 1 78XX series It uses the whole transformer secondary for the entire AC input cycle Twice that from a half-wave circuit The output is hard to filter. transistor transistor logic No Break Power Transfer (NBPT)

60. Beat-frequency oscillator is not useful in: 61. In three-phase AC, the difference in phase between any to waves is: 62. Which type of amplifier circuit has the transistor of FET biased exactly at cutoff or pinch-off with zero signal input? 63. The efficiency of transformer will be maximum when: 64. A CMOS IC: 65. The advantage of J-K flipflop compared to R-S is that: 66. Which of the following devices always uses an IC as one of its active components? 67. The shell method of transformer winding. 68. The ratio of the amount of magnetic flux linking a secondary coil compared to the flux generated by the primary coil. 69. If X and Y are high, then X nand Y is: 70. In a step-up transformer: 71. In a step-down transformer: 72. Of the following appliances, which would need the biggest transformer? 73. Ripple voltage in power supplies causes unwanted effects on the load it is supplying,i.e. a hum in audio amplifiers. To minimize this effect several filtering techniques are used, however, ripple still exists. What is a better alternative to reduce further the ripples? 74. A class-A amplifier conducts during how much of the input cycle? 75. The oscillating frequency of a quartz crystal can be varied slightly by: 76. One of the main shortcomings of MOSFET is that they 77. A fuse with nothing but a straight wire inside is probably: 78. A linear circuit that compares two signal levels. 79. The circuit that converts ac-voltage to dc-voltage from a household main supply. 80. If a fuse blows, and it is replaced with one having a lower current rating, there's a good chance that: 81. In a parallel combination of light bulbs, if one bulb shorts out: 82. The capacitance between the primary and the secondary windings of a transformer can be minimized by 83. Portion of a FET which serves as a path for current synonymous to a garden hose. 84. Characteristic curves for JFET generally show: 85. In a PNP circuit, the collector: 86. In a P-channel JFET: 87. Portion of a FET which serves as a path for current synonymous to a garden hose. 88. The efficiency of a generator: 89. A ferromagnetic-core coil is preferred for use in the tuned circuit of an RF oscillator 90. The damping element for dynamometers. 91. The circuit responsible for SCR firing 92. What is that device w/c depends on the action of a movable permanent magnet, in aligning itself in the resultant field, produced either by a fixed permanent magnet and an adjacent coil/s carrying current, or by two or more current-carrying coils whose axes are displaced by a fixed angle? 93. What is the primary reason why carbon brushes are preferred over copper brushes in DC motors? 94. A digital circuit that produces a logic 1 output pulse for every 10 input pulses. 95. An advantage of a crystal-controlled oscillator over a VFO is: 96. Voltage-controlled oscillators uses: 97. Voltage doubler is useful when? 98. The intensity of the electron flow in a vacuum tube depends on all of the following except: 99. Combination of flipflops arranged so that they can be triggered at the same time. 100. In animated graphics involving fast motion, it is ideal to use:

The present on-line generator will be disconnected first before connecting the incoming generator. Detecting CW 120 degrees Class B copper loss is equal to constant loss Employs N-channel and P-channel FET in a single chip J-K has predictable outputs A digital computer provides maximum coupling Coefficient of Coupling Low The primary voltage is less than the secondary voltage The primary voltage is greater than the secondary voltage a TV broadcast transmitter Regulation

360 degrees Placing a small variable capacitor across the crystal. are easily damaged by static electricity a quick-break type comparator rectifier The fuse will blow right away. the circuit had better have a fuse placing the windings on opposite sides of a toroidal core channel Drain current as a function of drain voltage Is negative with respect to the emitter the drain is negative relative to the source the junction capacitance is equal to the output power divided by the output power No! Air-core coils work better in RF oscillators Air friction trigger ckt moving-magnet instrument

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