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1. What is the stunt value needed to make a 50 a. none of these

0-1 mA meter into a 0-50 mA meter? b. 20 k
a. 1 c. 0.015
b. 1.01 d. 6 m
c. 5.55
d. 1.11 10. If a 20 k/V meter with 5k internal resistance
is used in an ohmmeter with 3V battery, what
2. What are the two methods of expressing the internal resistance is required in the meter to
Sensitivity of a meter? produce proper zeroing?
a. /V a. 60 k
b. full scale deflection b. 20 k
c. full scale current c. 16.67
d. a and c only d. none of these

3. What do pointers or underdamped meters do? 11. On most ohmmeters where is the 0-
a. Oscillate above and below the value graduation?
b. Move too fast to indicate value a. far left
c. Move to the correct reading rapidly but b. far right
does not overshoot c. both left and right
d. Move slowly and will not indicate rapid d. none of these
variations adequately
12. On what range on multirange ohmmeters is the
4. What do pointers on overdamped meters do? meter most likely to be dangerous to equipment
a. Oscillate above and below the value being tested?
b. Move too fast to indicate value a. High R
c. Move to the correct reading rapidly but b. Mid R
does not overshoot c. none of these
d. Move slowly and will not indicate rapid d. Low R
variations adequately
13. What does VOM mean?
5. Indicate which is not a way producing damping a. Volt-ohm-milliammeter
in meters. b. Volt-ohm-milliampere meter
a. shunt coil c. Volt-ohm-meter
b. multiplier d. none of these
c. aluminum coil form
d. air paddle 14. What is required to convent a dc EVM to an ac-
reading EVM?
6. Which is the most sensitive meter from among a. DC to AC converter
the choices? b. AC probe
a. 0-50 A c. both AC probe and DC to AC
b. 0-10 mA converter
c. 0-1 mA d. none of these
d. 0-100 mA
15. The time interval that a waveform is high (or low)
7. What is the /V sensitivity of a 0-2 mA meter? is the __________ of the signal.
a. 500 /V a. pulse width
b. 40 k /V b. pulse length
c. 50 /V c. pulse position
d. 5 k /V d. duty cycle

8. What is the /V sensitivity of a 0-25 A meter? 16. A Wheatstone bridge is balanced if

a. 500 /V a. the ratio of resistors on one side
b. 40 k/V of the bridge is one while the
c. 50 /V ratio of resistors on the other
d. 5 k/V side is infinity
b. the ratio of resistors on one side
9. What would be the value of the multiplier used of the bridge is greater than the
with a 50-A movement, 300-V meter?
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ratio of resistors on the other c. peak to peak
side d. average
c. the ratio of resistors on one side
of the bridge equals the ratio of 24. An element in electronics which serves as a
resistors on the other side protection against overload?
d. the bridge uses identical a. Resistor
resistors b. Transistor
c. Semiconductor
17. The pointer of an indicating instrument is in the d. Fuse
final deflected position, the _________ is zero.
a. deflecting torque 25. How does an ohmmeter behave if its positive
b. controlling torque lead is connected to the cathode of a diode
c. damping torque while negative to anode?
d. frictional a. Has infinite high resistance
18. A moving system force in analog instruments b. Has unstable resistance
which causes the moving system to deflect from c. Has very low resistance
its zero position. d. Has decreasing resistance
a. Deflecting force
b. Damping force 26. As you increase the doping level of a crystal
c. Return-to-zero force diode its voltage________.
d. Controlling force a. destabilizers
b. decreases
19. A moving system force in analog instruments c. increases
which ensures that the deflection of the pointer d. stabilizers
for a given value of measured quantity always
has the same value. 27. Which are the three terminals of a bipolar
a. Damping force transistor?
b. Controlling force a. cathode, plate and grid
c. NRZ force b. base, collector and emitter
d. Deflecting force c. input, output and ground
d. gate, source and sink
20. All voltmeters except one of the following are
operated by the passage of current. 28. How do zener diodes widely used?
a. Moving-iron a. Current limiters
b. Dynamometer b. Variable resistors
c. Electrostatic c. Voltage regulators
d. Permanent-magnet moving coil d. Power collectors

21. Disc is made of what material in eddy current 29. The region in an electronic transistor that is
damping? lightly doped and very thin is referred to the
a. Conductor and non-magnetic ________.
material a. collector-base
b. Conductor and magnetic b. collector
material c. base
c. Non-conductor and non- d. emitter
magnetic material
d. Non-conductor and magnetic 30. A transistor acts as ________ when saturated.
material a. open circuit
b. very low resistance
22. The time interval between pulses is called c. very high resistance
a. pulse frequency d. variable resistance
b. pulse delay
c. pulse duration 31. In semiconductor technology, the characteristic
d. pulse period of a transistor in cut-off refers to a condition
when _________.
23. An oscilloscope provides easy measurement of a. the transistor is at its operating
________ values. point
a. Instantaneous b. no current flows from emitter to
b. Rms collector
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c. there is no base current c. Hydraulic and jointed arm
d. maximum current flows from d. None of these
emitter to collector
40. A servo characteristic which is the time it takes
32. Which is the principal characteristic of a tunnel between input signal and actual movement of
diode? the load.
a. A very high PIV a. Precision timing
b. A high forward current rating b. Resolution period
c. A high forward resistance c. Time lag
d. A negative resistance region d. None of these

33. A type of servo whose goal is to control the 41. A servo characteristic that is undesirable and is
position of the load. reduced through the use of high gain amplifiers.
a. Control servo a. None of these
b. Position servo b. Resolution period
c. Load servo c. Precision timing
d. None of these d. Time lag

34. Thermocouple an electrical temperature 42. A type of synchro used in systems requiring
sensing device which is composed of a pair of large amounts of power and a high degree of
different kinds of metal wires joined together in accuracy.
three complete loops. a. Tri-speed synchro
a. Thermocouple b. System synchro
b. Thermowire c. Accurate synchro
c. Thermopair d. Differential synchro
d. Thermodynamics
43. Tri-speed Synchro system a type of synchro
35. One of the most common mechanical system that is used to transmit very large
configuration in robotics. quantities of data.
a. Hydraulic a. Tri-speed synchro system
b. Hydropneumatic b. System synchro system
c. Pneumodraulic c. Accurate synchro system
d. Pneumatic d. Differential synchro system

36. A basic requirement of a closed-loop system 44. The special requirement of the pulse-counting
(not present in open-loops) that present load accelerometer is designed for ___.
position to be sensed. a. Analog data
a. Ground b. Digital data
b. Short c. Special data
c. Feedback d. None of these
d. None of these
45. Open-loop it is a control system that is
37. A French scientist in 1852 who first coined the controlled directly, and only, by an input signal.
word gyroscope. a. Closed-loop
a. Leon Gyronel b. Open-loop
b. Leon Foucault c. Directly-controlled
c. Francois LeFolt d. Signal-controlled
d. None of these
46. The heart of any normal computer
38. One advantage of hydraulic actuator in industrial a. Microcontroller
robots. b. electronic heart
a. great force capacity handling heavy loads c. microprocessor
b. light loads d. computer heart
c. fast reaction
d. none of these 47. Powered one of the first portable electronic
calculators
39. Two actuator types used in industrial robots. a. 8088
a. Pneumatic and hydraulic arm b. 4004
b. Pneumatic and jointed arm c. 80386
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d. 80486 55. A situation or a term used where instruction
execution overlap.
48. MIPS is related to ______ a. overflow
a. clock speed b. pipelined architecture
b. the process done by the c. overlapped instructions
microprocessor d. execution overlap
c. wire velocity
d. memory 56. Which of the following is not a basic type of
circuit?
49. Sends address to memory a. the R-circuit
a. data bus b. the C-circuit
b. control bus c. the L-circuit
c. address bus d. the R-L-C-circuit
d. USB
57. In each case of the basic type of circuit, current
50. The simplest ALU will depend upon ___________.
a. 8-bit adder I. magnitude of emf
b. 8-bit divider II. Multiplying factors
c. 8-bit multiplier III. corresponding ohmic values
d. 8-bit logic IV. Corresponding inductance values
a. I and II
51. Allows multiple outputs to connect a wire, but b. III and IV
only one of them actually drive a 1 or a 0 onto c. II and III
the line d. I and III
a. disconnector
b. tri-state buffer 58. What is the unit of inductance?
c. connector a. Farad
d. register b. Ohm
c. Henry
52. Which is not a function of a control bus? d. Mho
a. tell the input/output
registers to latch the 59. Unit of capacitance.
value currently on the a. Farad
data bus b. Ohm
b. tell the instruction c. Henry
register to latch the d. Mho
value currently on the
data bus 60. Unit of reactance.
c. tell the program counter a. Farad
to increment b. Ohm
d. tell the program counter c. Henry
to reset to zero d. Mho
53. Contains bytes of information, and the
microprocessor can read or write to those bytes 61. Unit of admittance.
depending on whether the RD or WR line is a. Farad
signaled. b. Ohm
a. ROM c. Henry
b. PROM d. Mho
c. RAM
d. DRAM 62. There are ____ possible series combinations of
R, L, and C.
54. When the microprocessor starts, it begins a. 3
executing instructions it finds in the b. 5
a. DOS c. 4
b. BIOS d. 6
c. AUTOEXEC.BAT
d. SYSTEM.INI 63. The behavior of a pure resistor in an a-c circuit
is ___________ to that in d-c circuit.
a. not similar
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b. may be similar 71. A CMOS with series pmos and complementary
c. sometimes similar parallel nmos is equivalent to logical
d. exactly similar a. nand gate
b. nor gate
64. Current and voltage phasors are ________ in c. and gate
resistor circuits. d. or gate
a. sometimes in phase
b. never in phase 72. Which of the following is the probable output if
c. always in phase all inputs of a TTL gate are binary 1?
d. out-of-phase a. Interdeterminate
b. Determinable
65. A pure inductor in an a-c circuit takes a current c. Binary 1
that ________. d. Binary 0
a. leads the impressed emf by exactly 90
electrical degrees. 73. Which is not an advantage of CMOS over TTL
b. lags behind the impressed emf by logic family?
exactly 90 electrical degrees. a. Lower power dissipation
c. leads the impressed emf by the b. Greater fan-out
computed electrical degrees. c. Lower propagation delay
d. lags behind the impressed emf by the d. Greater packing density
computed electrical degrees.
74. A __________ is a junction field effect transistor
66. In a system with MOS devices, the main bus with a Schottky barrier instead of a normal
loading factor is likely to be semiconductor junction.
a. Resistive a. biFET
b. Current b. MOSFET
c. Capacitive c. MESFET
d. Static charge d. JUGFET

67. Which is not true regarding a CMOS inverter? 75. It is a type of ROM the contents of which can be
a. Essentially no current flows for logic 0 or erased by exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
logic 1 input a. EPROM
b. For devices of similar dimensions pmos b. PROM
is slower than nmos c. EEPROM
c. Full logical 0 and 1 levels are presented d. EAPROM
at the output
d. Increasing the input frequency, 76. It is a data manipulated by a computer program.
decreases the power dissipation a. Source program
b. Database
68. In MOS devices, the oxide is usually c. Object program
a. MnO d. Language
b. SiO
c. SiO2 77. It is a program written in a language
d. H2O understandable by human.
a. Source program
69. Material usually used as gate of MOS for IC. b. Database
a. Monocrystalline silicon c. Object program
b. Gold d. Language
c. Polysilicon
d. Platinum 78. A program written in machine language.
a. Source program
70. A CMOS with parallel pmos and complementary b. Database
series nmos is equivalent to logical c. Object program
a. nand gate d. Language
b. nor gate
c. and gate 79. A program that translates instructions written in
d. or gate assembly language into machine code.
a. Assembler
b. Interpreter
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c. Compiler b. Robert Noyce
d. Translator c. W S Boyle and G E Smith
d. ARPANET
80. Invented computer mouse in 1964.
a. Douglas Engelbart 90. Invented the video games in 1972.
b. R G Sweet a. Bell Labs, University of California
c. Allen and Gibbons b. Magnavox
d. Bryant Rogers c. W S Boyle and G E Smith
d. ARPANET
81. Invented fiber optics communications in 1966.
2
a. Douglas Engelbart 91. Invented the I L integrated circuit in 1972.
b. R G Sweet a. Bell Labs, University of California
c. Kao and Hockham b. Magnavox
d. Bryant Rogers c. W S Boyle and G E Smith
d. Hart and Slob
82. Invented IMPATT diode in 1964.
a. Douglas Engelbart 92. Invented CATT in 1974.
b. Johnson and deLoacn a. Yu, Cady and Tantraporn
c. Kao and Hockham b. Magnavox
d. Bryant Rogers c. W S Boyle and G E Smith
d. Hart and Slob
83. Invented TRAPATT diode in 1967.
a. Douglas Engelbart 93. Meters with moving coil are normally used for
b. Johnson and deLoach measuring _________.
c. Kao and Hockham a. dc only
d. Prager, Chang and Weisbrod b. ac only
c. both ac and dc
84. Invented BARITT diode in 1968. d. % of value of dc
a. G T Wright
b. Johnson and deLoach 94. Another name of PMMC instrument.
c. Kao and Hockham a. ferromagnetic
d. Prager, Chang and Weisbrod b. electrodynamometer
c. D Arsonval
85. Invented IC in 1958. d. iron vane
a. G T Wright
b. Johnson and deLoach 95. Find the voltage drop developed across D
c. Jack Kilby Aarsonval meter movement having an internal
d. Prager, Chang and Wesibrod resistance of 1 k ohm and full deflection current
of 150 micro amp.
86. Invented the IC aluminum metallization in 1968. a. 150 micro V
a. G T Wright b. 150 kV
b. Robert Noyce c. 150 V
c. Jack Kilby d. 150 mV
d. Prager, Chang and Weisbrod
96. It consists of a permanent magnet, moving coil,
87. Invented the internet in 1969. and spring and the deflection of the pointer
a. G T Wright depends upon the interaction of the magnetic
b. Robert Noyce fields of the current carrying coil and permanent
c. Jack Kilby magnet.
d. ARPANET a. ferromagnetic
b. electrodynamometer
88. Invented the UNIX operating system in 1970. c. D Arsonval
a. Bell Labs, University of California d. iron vane
b. Robert Noyce
c. Jack Kilby 97. What is the common type of meter movement?
d. ARPANET A. Fixed coil
b. Digital
89. Invented the CCD in 1970. c. Farad
a. Bell Labs, University of California d. D Arsonval
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a. ECG
98. With no added gadget, D Arsonval meter can be b. EEG
used to measure. c. ESC
a. AC d. ETX
b. AC and DC
c. DC 100. How many decibels gain does an amplifier if it
d. dynamic resistance produces 40-W output with an input of 0.016 W?
a. 3.398 dB
99. An instrument used to measure the voltage b. 33.9 dB
generated by human body parts in relation to the c. 67.959 dB
action of the human heart. d. 33.9 dB
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Answer: 48. A
1. B 49. C
Solution: The meter must handle 1% of the desired 50. A
full-scale reading. 51. B
0.0005 + 0.0495 = 0.05A 52. A
E= IR = (1mA) (50) = 0.05V 53. C
For a full-scale reading of 0.05A, The shunt 54. B
resistance will have to carry a current of 0.0495 A. 55. B
RSH = 0.05 / 0.0495 = 1.01 or 56. D
57. D
50 x 1/100 = 0.5 meter must handle 58. C
50 x 99/100 = 49.5 shunt must handle 59. A
50 = 1.01 60. B
49.5 61. D
62. C
2. D 63. D
3. A 64. C
4. D 65. B
5. B 66. C capacitive
6. A 67. D increasing the input frequency, decreases the
7. A Sensitivity = 1/2mA = 500 /V power dissipation
8. B 68. C SiO2
9. D 69. C polysilicon
10. A RT = 3V / 50 A = 60 k 70. A nand gate
11. B 71. B nor gate
12. D 72. D binary 0
13. B 73. C lower propagation delay
14. B 74. C MESFET
15. A pulse width 75. A EPROM
16. C the ratio of resistors on one side of 76. B database
the bridge equals the ratio of resistors on the other 77. A source program
side 78. C object program
17. C Damping torque 79. A assembler
18. A Deflecting force 80. A Douglas Engelbart
19. B Controlling force 81. C Kao and Hockham
20. C Electrostatic 82. B Johnson and deLoach
21. A Conductor and non-magnetic 83. D Prager, Chang and Weisbrod
material 84. A G T Wright
22. B pulse delay 85. C Jack Kilby
23. C peak to peak 86. B Robert Noyce
24. D Fuse 87. D ARPANET
25. A has infinite high resistance 88. A Bell Labs, University of California
26. B decreases 89. C W S Boyle and G E Smith
27. B base, collector and emitter 90. B Magnavox
28. C Voltage regulators 91. D Hart and Slob
29. C base 92. A Yu, Cady and Tantraporn
30. B very low resistance 93. A dc only
31. B no current flows from emitter to collector 94. C D Arsonval
32. D A negative resistance region 95. D 150 mV
33. B 96. C D Arsonval
34. A 97. D D Arsonval
35. D 98. C DC
36. C 99. A ECG
37. B 100. B 33.9 dB
38. A
39. B
40. C
41. D
42. D
43. A
44. B
45. B
46. C
47. B