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JUNE 3, 2009

1. Semiconductor memory a. Karl Capek

matrix storing digital data. b. George Devol
a. ROM c. Joseph Engelberger
b. EPROM d. Isaac Asimov
c. EEPROM
d. RAM 11. A robot arm is a/an _____.
a. Manipulator
2. The rate at which computer b. End effector
processes information. c. Actuator
a. Baud rate d. Link
b. Throughput
c. Bandwidth 12. A robot hand is a/an _____.
d. Processing speed a. Manipulator
b. End effector
3. Uses laser to change spin of c. Actuator
electrons. d. Link
a. Plate
b. Laser gun 13. The terminal voltage first increases
c. Quantum coupler then decreases.
d. Cathode ray tube a. Series-wound motor at
constant speed
4. Uses laser instead of electric current b. Series-wound generator at
a. Optical mouse constant speed
b. Optical fiber c. Parallel-wound motor at constant
c. Optical storage speed
d. Optical computer d. Parallel-wound generator
at constant speed
5. Mechanism for read/write on disk.
a. Access arm 14. Uses multiple saturablecore
b. Spinner reactors; low fidelity, time lag, not for
c. Optical reader high frequencies
d. Step motor a. Class A amplifier
b. Class C amplifier
c. Magnetic amplifier
6. Time to spin within a particular disk
sector. d. Class B amplifier
a. Spin time
b. Latency time 15. This results when the countertorque
c. Period of a synchronous motor is exceeded.
d. Spin second a. Stalling
b. Reverse motion
c. Forward motion
7. Format used for commercial tape
recording. d. Overspeeding
a. 18-track format
b. 12-track format 16. This varies armature resistance,
c. 9-track format flux/pole, and voltage.
d. 6-track format a. Armature current
b. Controlling voltage of a
8. Forces between atomic moments. DC motor
c. Armature voltage
a. Momentum
b. Magnetism d. Controlling current of an AC
motor
c. Ferromagnetism
d. Attraction
17. Motor starter with variable speed
control.
9. Instrument for measuring a. Brush
oxygenation of blood via the earlobe. b. Controller
a. Blood oxymeter
c. Starting resistor
b. Oxymeter
d. None of these
c. Oxygen meter
d. Blood meter
18. The magnitude of angular
momentum vector
10. Coined robotics in his novel a. Azimuthal quantum number
Runaround, 1942
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b. Angular velocity 28. No change; no ionization;

c. Momentary angle biological damage
d. None of these a. Alpha
b. Beta
19. This moves while paper/page is fed c. Gamma
into the printer. d. X-ray
a. From feed
b. Feed form 29. Selenium Material used for
c. Feeder photovoltaic cells
d. Stepper motor a. Silicon
b. Wafer
20. A type of device that writes on c. Selenium
screen d. Gallium arsenide
a. Pointing device
b. Screen pen 30. In volt meter the purpose of
c. Light pen series resistor is to _________.
d. None of these a. increase speed of
meter movement
21. A signal that external device wants b. decrease the current range
to send data to computer c. decrease the voltage range
a. Handshake d. increase the voltage range
b. Token
c. Interrupt 31. What sensor provides a dc voltage
d. None of these approximately 1 V at 10 mW?
a. Diode sensor
22. Permanent ROM programming b. Thermocouple sensor
a. Firmware c. Thermal sensor
b. Software d. Thermistor sensor
c. Hardware
d. Tupperware 32. An oscilloscope provides easy
measurement of ________ values.
23. Contains BIOS memory a. Instantaneous
a. XPOS memory b. Rms
b. WIN memory c. peak to peak
c. RAM d. average
d. OS memory
33. An element in electronics
24. Treatment with electric current. which serves as a protection
a. Current therapy against overload?
b. Voltage therapy a. Resistor
c. Electrotherapy b. Transistor
d. Pantotherapy c. Semiconductor
d. Fuse
25. Cell used as reference cell in large
laboratories. 34. Two pn silicon diodes are connected
a. Laboratory cell in series opposing. A 5V voltage is
b. Weston saturated cell impressed upon them. Find the
c. Bridge cell voltage across each junction at room
d. House cell temperature when nVT = 0.052 V.
a. 0.236V , 3.2V
b. 4.764V , 0.236V
26. Also known as throw-away factor
c. 0.036V , 4.964V
a. Lay-down factor
d. 3.21V , 1.79V
b. Waste factor
c. Sacrifice factor
d. None of these 35. When a factor of a junction
transistor is 0.98, the factor would
be equivalent to ________ value of
27. Double charge; easily stopped wave transistors beta.
a. Alpha a. 49
b. Beta b. 60
c. Gamma c. 20
d. X-ray d. 38
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36. A manufacturer quotes in his 43. If I/O is addressed, the address bus
specifications that a germanium contains a 16 bit memory address
diode conducts 50 mA at 1 volt. a. True
Determine its bulk resistance b. False
a. 100 ohms c. Cannot be determined
b. 60 ohms d. None of these
c. 14 ohms
d. 20 ohms 44. The first truly successful and
widespread programming
37. In semiconductor technology, the language for business applications.
characteristic of a transistor in cut-off a. DBASE III+
refers to a condition when b. COBOL
_________. c. FOXPRO
a. the transistor is at its operating d. RPG
point
b. no current flows from emitter to 45. Transfers information between the
collector microprocessor and its memory and
c. there is no base current I/O address space.
d. maximum current flows a. Address bus
from emitter to collector b. Data bus
c. Control bus
38. Which is the principal characteristic d. USB
of a tunnel diode?
a. A very high PIV 46. 1 kilo byte refers to __________.
b. A high forward current rating a. 1000 bits
c. A high forward resistance b. 976 bits
d. A negative resistance region c. 1024 bits
d. 1000 bytes
39. A computer language constructed of
ones and zeros using binary codes 47. A 4-bit wide memory location
that were stored in the computer a. Byte
memory system as groups of b. nibble
instructions called programs.
c. bit
a. assembler language
d. word
b. assembly language
c. machine language
d. FORTRAN language 48. Generally an 8-bit wide
binary number
a. Byte
40. Probably the easiest programming b. nibble
language to learn c. bit
a. FORTRAN
d. memory address
b. ALGOL
c. BASIC
d. COBOL 49. A program that converts an
instruction written in a high-level
language into machine code.
41. Written and developed by Bill Gates a. Assembler
for the Altair 8800 computer. b. Interpreter
a. Basic Language Interpreter
c. Compiler
b. PASCAL
d. Translator
c. CISC
d. MS DOS
50. How many pins that a 555 timer
has?
42. If memory is addressed, the address a. 6
bus contains a memory address, b. 10
which does not vary in width with the c. 8
different versions of d. 12
microprocessors.
a. True
51. Pin 1 of 555 timer.
b. False
c. Cannot be determined a. ground
d. None of these b. output
c. trigger
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d. reset 61. Invented fiber optics submarine

cable in 1981.
52. Pin 2 of 555 timer. a. Sony
a. Ground b. Philips
b. Output c. Sinclair Radionics
c. Trigger d. Standard Telephoned and
d. Reset Cables.

53. Pin 3 of 555 timer. 62. Type of power-line frequency meter

a. Ground composed of vibrating iron reeds
b. Output placed in alternating magnetic field.
c. Trigger a. Induction type
d. Reset b. Electrodynamic type
c. Resonant type
54. Pin 4 of 555 timer. d. Vibrating reed type
a. Ground
b. Output 63. Type of power line frequency meter
c. Trigger device utilizing a principle of
d. Reset balancing and indicator needle at
center of a scale using magnetic
fields (resistive and inductive)
55. Invented bar codes in 1974.
opposing each other.
a. Yu, Cady and Tantraporn
a. magnetic type
b. Magnavox b. resistive type
c. Ad Hoc Committee of Grocery c. resonant type
Industry
d. electrodynamic type
d. Hart and Slob

56. Invented the VHS recorder in 1975. 64. It is composed of a moving coil
a. Yu, Cady and Tantraporn which is free to rotate in reaction the
b. JVC magnetic field generated by passing
current through 2 stationary field
c. Ad Hoc Committee of Grocery coils.
Industry a. Ferromagnetic
d. IBM
b. Electrodynamometer
c. D Arsonval
57. Invented laser printer in 1975.
d. iron vane
a. Yu, Cady and Tantraporn
b. JVC
65. Electrodynamometer can be used to
c. Ad Hoc Committee of Grocery measure
Industry a. AC
d. IBM
b. AC and DC
c. DC
58. Invented Betamax Video Recorder in d. dynamic resistance
1975.
a. Sony
b. JVC 66. An electrodynamic meter used to
measure power
c. Ad Hoc Committee of Grocery a. hook-on type voltmeter
Industry
d. IBM b. multi-meter
c. wattmeter
59. Invented pocket TV receiver in 1977. d. watt-hour meter
a. Sony
b. JVC 67. How do you measure the current in
c. Sinclair Radionics a circuit without an ammeter?
d. IBM a. By computing the values of
resistance
b. Divide total circuit resistance by
60. Invented compact disc laser the total circuit load
optical recording.
c. Measure the voltage drop across
a. Sony the tube
b. Philips
d. Measure the voltage across
c. Sinclair Radionics known resistor
d. IBM
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68. The ideal internal resistance of an soldering iron which has a rating
ammeter should beN of 600 watts at 110 volts is
a. equal to the circuits resistance a) 5.455 amperes
b. higher than the circuit resistance b) 66 amperes
c. zero c) 18.2 amperes
d. infinity d) 0.182 ampere

69. Determine the percentage error of 76. An AF transformer is shielded to

reading of an ammeter due to a) Keep the amplifier cool
ammeter insertion. Ammeter b) Prevent induction due to stray
parameters include 70 ohms internal magnetic fields
resistance and a load resistor of 1.4 c) Protect from rusting
kilo ohms. d) To maintain secrecy
a. 2.0
b. 7.5 77. An interval required to address and
c. 3.76 read out memory word is called
d. 4.76 a) Propagation Delay
b) Setting Time
70. The output transformer used in a c) Transit Time
power amplifier is a transformer. d) Access Time
a) 1:1 ratio
78. Amplitude distortion is also called ____
b) Step-down
c) Step-up d) distortion.
Auto a) Intermodulation
b) Harmonic
c) Phase
71. A memory device which holds a fixed
set of data in a circuit is called d) Resonant
_______. ____
a. RAM 79. _____ is a term applied when a logic
b. ROM circuit rejects an unwanted signal.
c. Buffer a) Logic Levels
d. Register b) Noise Margin
c) Power Consumption
72. Transformer coupling can be used in d) Propagation Delay
amplifiers.
a) Only power 80. Transformer coupling introduces _____
b) Only voltage distortion.
c) Either power or voltage a) Amplitude
d) Only current b) Intermodulation
c) Frequency
73. When a voltage of 100 volts at 50 d) Jitter
Hertz is applied to a choking coil A,
the current is 8 amperes and the 81. ______ is responsible for the
power is 120 watts. When applied to phenomenon when voltages across
a coil B, the current is 10 amperes reactances in series can often be
and the power is 500 watts. What
larger than the voltage applied to them.
power will be taken when 100 volts
is applied to the two coils connected a) Capacitance
in series. b) Resistance
a) 4727 watts c) Conductance
b) 70 watts c) d) Resonance
140 watts d)
1454 watts 82. A pulsating DC applied to power
amplifiers causes ______
74. The most important consideration in a) Burning of Transistors
power amplifiers is b) Hum in the Circuit
a) Collector Efficiency c) Excessive Forward Voltage
b) Biasing the circuit d) Both (a) and (c)
c) To keep the transformer cool
d) Amplifier Distortion
83. A hexadecimal digital number systems
has______ symbols.
75. The current needed to operate a a) 16
b) 8
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c) 2 d) 10%
d) 32
e) 60 92. _____ is a fixed frequency oscillator.
a. Phase Shift
b. Colpitts
84. The disadvantage of impedance c. Hartley
matching is that it _____. d. Crystal
a. Gives Distorted Output
b. Requires a Transformer 93. An electronic transfer from one stage
c. Gives Low Power Output to the next is called _____.
d. Both (b) and (c) a. Coupling b.
Swamping c.
Doping d.
85. The binary equivalent of decimal Mixing
number 47 is
a. 11011 b. 94. An important limitation of crystal
110111 c. oscillator is
111101 d. a) Its low output
101111 b) Its high Q
c) Less availability of quartz crystal
86. If the gain versus frequency curve of a d) Its high output
transistor is not flat, then there is ___
95. _____ is analogous to permeance.
distortion.
a. Admittance
a) Amplitude b. Elastance
b) Frequency c. Conductance
c) Intermodulation d. Resistance
d) Both (a) and (c)
96. For microwave frequencies, a ___
87. What is the logic circuit having two or oscillator is required.
more inputs but only one output, with a. Klystron
high output if any or all inputs are high, b. Wien Bridge
c. Hartley
with low input only when all inputs are d. Colpitts
low?
a. AND Gate 97. A point contact diode is commonly used
b. OR Gate a) As a constant current source
c. NOR Gate b) As a constant voltage source
d. NAND Gate c) As an RF detector
d) As a high voltage rectifier
88. The most costly method of
coupling a. RC coupling 98. In an LC oscillator, if the value of L is
b. Direct
increased four times, then frequency of
c. Transformer
oscillation is
d. Impedance
a) Halved
89. Which of the following is NOT a dynamic b) Decreased 4 times
c) Doubled
test instrument? a.
Oscilloscope b. d) Quadrupled
Logic Monitor c.
Logic Analyzer d. 99. Which of the following is NOT a
Logic Probe secondary type cell?
a. Lithium
90. The signal generator generally used in b. Lead-acid
laboratories is _____ oscillator. c. All of these
a. Crystal d. Silver-Cadmium
b. Wien Bridge
c. Hartley 100. When shock-excited, a crystal will
d. Phase Shift
produce alternating EMF longer
than an LC circuit because crystal
91. A commercial power supply has ____
a.Has greater mechanical strength
voltage regulation.
b.Has lesser losses
a) 10% and above
c. Is small-sized
b) Within 1%
c) 15% and above d.Is lightweight
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ANSWERS 35. A 49
Solution:
1. A ROM = = 0.98 1 -
2. B throughput 1 - 0.98
3. C quantum coupler = 49
4. D optical computer 36. C 14 ohms
5. A access arm Solution:
6. B latency time rB = V VT = 1 0.3
7. C 9-track format V I 50mA
8. C ferromagnetism Where: V supply voltage
9. B oxymeter VT 0.3V for Ge
10. D Isaac Asimov rB = 14 - the actual resistance of
11. A manipulator the semiconductor
12. B end-effector 37. B no current flows from emitter to
13. B series-wound generator at collector
constant speed 38. D A negative resistance region
14. C magnetic amplifier 39. C machine language
15. A stalling 40. C basic
16. B controlling voltage of a DC motor 41. A basic language interpreter
17. B controller 42. B false
18. A azimuthal quantum number 43. B false
19. A form feed 44. B cobol
20. C light pen 45. B data bus
21. C interrupt 46. C 1024 bits
22. A firmware 47. B nibble
23. D OS memory 48. A byte
24. C electrotherapy 49. C complier
25. B Weston saturated cell 50. C 8
26. C sacrifice factor 51. A ground
27. A alpha 52. C trigger
28. C gamma 53. B output
29. C selenium 54. D reset
30. D increase the voltage range 55. C Ad Hoc Committee of Grocery
31. A Diode sensor Industry
32. C peak to peak 56. B JVC
33. D Fuse 57. D IBM
58. A Sony
34. C 0.036 V, 4.964 V
Solution: 59. C Sinclair Radionics
Circuit 60. B Philips
I Io 61. D Standard Telephoned and
5V Cables
62. D Vibrating reed type
D1 D2
63. A magnetic type
I = IO 64. B electrodynamometer
65. B AC and DC
From: I = IO(e(v1/nVT) 1) 66. C wattmeter
I / IO = e(v1/nVT) 1 1 67. D Measure the voltage across
+ 1 = e(v1/nVT) known resistor
2 = e(v1/nVT) 68. C zero
Taking the natural logarithm in both 69. D. 4.76
side 70. B
In 2 = (v1/nVT ) In 71. B
e 0.693 = V1 72. C
nVT Since 73. C
nVT = 0.052
V1 = (0.693)(0.052) 74. A
V1 = 0.036V 75. A
The voltage across D2 76. B
is V2 = 5 0.036 77. D
V2 = 4.964V 78. B
79. B
80. C
81. D
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82. B
83. A
84. A
85. D
86. B
87. B
88. C
89. B
90. B
91. B
92. D
93. A
94. A
95. C
96. A
97. C
98. A
99. A
100. B
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