Chapter 1 Test Review

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1. Digital signal / data takes the form of:
A. an infinite range of voltage levels
B. specific, discrete voltage levels
C. sine waves
D.

2. Most of the time, the number of states or voltage
levels used by digital circuitry is:
A. 2
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7

3. The word that describes the number of states
used by most digital circuitry is:
A. quadrature
B. binary
C. decimal
D. bipolar

4. Pull down in the context of binary logic means:
A. loading the +DC supply voltage until it
sags
B. discharging a capacitor to ground
C. a change from logic 1 to logic 0
D. using a resistor or transistor to pull the voltage at
a point in the circuit to ground

5. TTL means:
A. transistor-transistor loading
B. transformer-transistor levels
C. transistor translation logic
D. transistor-transistor logic

6. The standard DC supply voltage for TTL is:
A. +1V
B. -5V
C. +15V
D. +5V

7. MOS means:
A. metal open source
B. material oxide semiconductor
C. metal oxide semiconductor
D. metal octal semiconductor

8. CMOS means:
A. capacitive MOS
B. combined MOS
C. complementary MOS
D.

9. The +DC supply voltage for a 4016 CMOS IC is:
A. 8V to 15V
B. 3V to 15V
C. 3V to 8V
D. -5V

10. A 74HCT14 is:
A. a lower-power, vaster version of TTL
B. a standard-CMOS version of a TTL IC
C. an IC manufactured in the 17th week of
1974
D. a CMOS IC that can work with TTL
Circuitry

11. The voltage levels or states used in binary
circuitry are commonly called:
A. high and low
B. in and out
C. 1 and 0
D. A and C above

12. Pinout means:
A. how long the IC pins are
B. which internal circuit points are connected
to which pins of an IC
C. which pin must be grounded first when an
IC is plugged in
D. how much current the IC can supply to its output
Terminals

13. Active low means
A. the low-voltage state represents 1
B. the low-voltage state represents 0
C. the circuit draws most current when in the
0 state
D. 1-0 transitions happen faster than 0-1

14. An undefined state is a voltage that:
A. is poorly regulated
B. is higher than the IC's proper power
supply voltage range
C. oscillates regularly between 1 and 0
D. is not high enough to be 1 or low enough
to be 0

15. For TTL circuitry, an undefined voltage is:
A. between 0.8V and 2V
B. between 1.5V and 3.5V
C. between 3.5V and 5V
D. between 0V and 2V

16. For CMOS running on a 5V supply, an undefined
voltage is:
A. between 0.8V and 2V
B. between 1.5V and 3.5V
C. between 3.5V and 5V
D. between 0V and 2V

17. The input of a CMOS circuit is essentially:
A. a virtual ground
B. an open circuit
C. an inductance
D. a fuse

18. A CMOS input should never be:
A. left floating
B. tied to ground
C. tied to +DC
D. tied to the output of its own gate

19. Shoot-through occurs:
A. when both transistors of a complementary
pair are on
B. during 0-1 or 1-0 transitions
C. if an input is left floating
D. all of the above

20. ESD is the abbreviation of:
A. electromagnetic damage
B. electrostatic discharge
C. electrostatic danger
D. electronic destruction

21. ESD shunt diodes:
A. drain ESD discharges off to the + rail or
ground
B. reroute ESD discharges to the gate's
output
C. reroute ESD charges to a filter capacitor
D. short out the power supply during ESD
Events

22. A build-out resistor:
A. is in series with a circuit input or output
B. is in series with the power supply rail
C. is connected between an input and
ground
D. is connected across the power supply

23. A 74LS14 IC is:
A. A CMOS equivalent of TTL
B. slower than standard TTL
C. low-power Schottky TTL
D. this is a date code