Electronics Engineering 13.

Process of zeroing the output of the op-amp when both of the

inputs are grounded.
1. A filter that uses amplifier such as transistor and op-amp as a) Grounding
one of its components. b) Stabilizing
a) LFP c) Balancing
b) Active d) Offsetting
c) Passive 14. It is the remaining variation in the output of a power supply
d) BPF filter.
2. What do you call and amplifier which has an output current a) Persistent voltage
flowing during the whole input current cycle? b) Offset voltage
a) Class AB amplifier c) Ripple
b) Class A amplifier d) Residual voltage
c) Class B amplifier 15. _________ are electrons at the outer shell.
d) Class C amplifier a) Valence electrons
3. A negative-shunt positive-biased clipper has a bias voltage of b) Conductor electrons
3V. If the input voltage is 5 Vpk sinusoid, calculate the c) Outside shell electrons
maximum and minimum voltage respectively out of this clipper d) Inside the shell electrons
circuit. 16. This is produced when sufficient energy is added to a valence
a) 0V, -5V electron and forces it to jump from the valence band to the
b) 3V, 0V conduction band.
c) 5V, 3V a) P type
d) 3V, -5V b) Depletion region
4. Two low pass filter sections each has a roll-off rate of -6 c) N type
dB/octave. If they are connected in cascade, what will be the d) Hole
overall roll-off rate? 17. What is the ripple factor of a half-wave rectifier?
a) -6 dB/octave a) 1.21
b) 6 dB/octave b) 0.25
c) 36 dB/octave c) 0.48
d) -12dB/octave d) 0.5
5. ____________is the air space between poles of magnet. 18. What is the atomic number of germanium?
a) Free zone a) 6
b) Vacuum b) 14
c) Air gap c) 4
d) Free space d) 32
6. How does junction diode rated? (0 correct answers) 19. The following denotes the transformation ratio (a) of an ideal
a) Maximum reverse current and capacitance transformer except
b) Maximum forward current and capacitance a) √(ZP/ZS)
c) Maximum forward current and PIV b) IP/IS
d) Maximum reverse current and PIV c) NP/NS
7. Which statement is true regarding the work function and band d) VP/VS
gap energy of a given material? 20. What happens to the output resistance of an amplifier
a) The work function is greater than the band employing voltage - series feedback?
gap energy for the same material a) It is decreased
b) The band gap energy is greater than the b) It remains the same
work function for the same material c) Equals infinity
c) Work function is equal to the band gap d) It is increased
energy 21. Portion of the n-type material which became a part of the
d) They are measured in watts depletion region is actually _______.
8. Color whose wavelength from 550 to 580 nm. a) One coulomb
a) Blue b) Negative
b) Orange c) Neutral
c) Green d) Positive
d) Yellow 22. Calculate the amplification factor of a VT triode whose output
9. Another name for Eccles – Jordan multivibrator. power is 1.94 watts, plate resistance is 5K Ω, load resistance 7K
a) Monostable Ω, and the input voltage 10 VRMS.
b) Bistable a) 40
c) Astable b) 30
d) Zerostable c) 20
10. An oscillator that employs 3 RC sections to produce a 180o d) 50
feedback phase shift. 23. The main reason for the variation of amplifier gain with
a) Wien bridge oscillator frequency is _________.
b) Hartley oscillator a) The logarithmic increase in its output
c) Colpitts oscillator b) The Miller effect
d) RC phase shift oscillator c) The presence of capacitance both external
11. It is a digital IC characterize by 100,000 gates or more. and internal
a) MSI d) Due to interstage transformer
b) ULSI 24. Find the half-power bandwidth of a parallel resonant circuit,
c) SLSI which has a resonant frequency of 3.6 MHz and a Q of 218
d) VLSI a) 58.7 kHz
12. What JFET operating region corresponds to Active region of b) 606 kHz
BJT? c) 47.3 kHz
a) Ohmic d) 16.5 kHz
b) Breakdown 25. The arrow in the schematic symbol for a diode points which
c) Cutoff way?
d) Saturation a) Towards magnetic North
 b) In the direction of the current flow 39. Distortion occurring in class B amplifier because of the cutoff
c) Towards the anode bias of the transistors.
d) Towards the cathode a) Clamping
26. The bulk resistance of the pn junction is typically ________ Ω. b) Clipping
a) 100 c) Motorboating
b) 250 d) Crossover distortion
c) 25 40. What is the effect of light in a photodiode?
d) 2.5 a) Reverse current
27. What is the power output of a 100-µ VT amplifier having a load b) Limits flow of current
resistance of 10kΩ, plate resistance of 5kΩ and an input of 1 c) Renders unstable current
VRMS? d) Forward current
a) 0.66W 41. Which of the following oscillators employs crystal?
b) 0.66µW a) Pierce oscillator
c) 0.44W b) Hartley oscillator
d) 1W c) Armstrong oscillator
28. The selective etching of SiO2 layer to expose portions of the d) Colpitts oscillator
silicon surface for doping. 42. Tesla, the SI unit for magnetic flux density is also defined as
a) Ion implantation a) Maxwell/m2
b) Annealing b) Lines/m2
c) Photolithography c) Weber/m2
d) Diffusion d) Gauss
29. Distortion at the upper end of the load line. 43. How much voltage regulation does commercial power supply
a) Upper end noise have?
b) Compliance clipping a) Within 1%
c) Saturation clipping b) 10%
d) Cutoff clipping c) 15% and above
30. _________ refers to the majority carrier in an N-type d) 10% and above
semiconductor. (0 correct answers) 44. Shows the magnitude of a quantity by the number of activated
a) Negative ion segments.
b) Positive ion a) Dot matrix
c) Electron b) Bar graph
d) Hole c) Bar display
31. Another name for band gap energy. d) Graphic
a) Barrier potential 45. An amplifier class in which the transistor is biased way below
b) Conduction energy cutoff and usually employs a tuned circuit.
c) Energy gap a) B
d) Built-in potential b) A
32. Find the normal operating voltage and current of light emitting c) AC
diode. d) C
a) 1.7 volts and 20 mA 46. Minimum VDS at which ID become constant when VGS is zero.
b) 0.7 volts and 60 mA a) Cutoff
c) 5 volts and 50 mA b) Pinchoff
d) 60 volts and 20 mA c) turn-on voltage
33. The plate resistance of a triode is in the range of __________. d) Saturation
a) 100kΩ - 1MΩ 47. An oscillator in which a piezoelectric crystal is connected in a
b) 10kΩ tank circuit between the input and output.
c) 50kΩ - 100kΩ a) Armstrong
d) 100Ω b) Clapp
34. Which of the following circuits is the least probable building c) Pierce
block of an op-amp? d) Colpitts
a) Tuned circuit 48. Type of diode that is made of metal whisker touching a very
b) Current source small semiconductor die.
c) Level source a) Varactor diode
d) Differential amplifier b) Zener diode
35. What is the unit of magnetic of magnetic flux in SI system? c) Point contact diode
a) Maxwell d) A junction diode
b) Weber 49. What is the effect in terms of bandwidth when the Q of a
c) Tesla single-tune stage is doubled?
d) Gauss a) Doubled
36. The ____________ the Q of a circuit, the narrower is its b) The same
bandwidth. c) Four times
a) Lower d) Halved
b) Higher 50. Is the factor by which the open loop gain will decrease if
c) Broader feedback is applied?
d) Selective a) Feedback fraction
37. The h-parameter hf is a ________. b) Attenuation factor
a) Forward current gain c) CMRR
b) Conductance d) Sacrifice factor
c) Resistance 51. Circuit that is used to eliminate portion or portions of the input
d) Reverse voltage gain waveform above or below a specified level.
38. Another name for harmonic. a) Clamper
a) Fourier frequency b) DC restorer
b) Overtone c) Multiplier
c) Rhythm d) Clipper
d) Melody
52. The maximum rate of increase in anode to cathode voltage c) Amplification factor
that will cause false triggering. d) Plate resistance
a) Roll-off rate 65. Materials with permeabilities slightly less than that of free
b) Slew rate space referred to as
c) Critical rise rating a) Non-magnetic
d) Valley voltage b) Diamagnetic
53. Among the values given, which could be the most probable c) Paramagnetic
value of an intrinsic standoff ratio? d) Ferromagnetic
a) 0.3 66. What is the ripple factor of a full-wave rectifier?
b) 0.7 a) 0.48
c) 0.1 b) 1.21
d) 0.4 c) 0.5
54. What term in electronics is used to express how fast an energy d) 0.25
is consumed? 67. Material usually used as gate of MOS for IC.
a) Load a) Gold
b) Power b) Mono-crystalline silicon
c) Conductance c) Poly-silicon
d) Volt d) Platinum
55. This type electrical machine is used for varying the input 68. The rotating part of a dynamo is commonly called a (n)
voltage into a higher or a lower potential without changing the __________.
power transferred. a) Commutator
a) Generator b) Brushes
b) Motor c) Yoke
c) Transformer d) Armature
d) Alternator 69. What happens in the resistance of copper wire when its
56. The voltage at which the device suddenly turns on or off. temperature is raised?
a) Knee voltage a) Decreased
b) Holding voltage b) Increased
c) Bias voltage c) Zero
d) Trigger d) Steady
57. The general term for integral multiples of a given frequency. 70. When resistors are connected in series, what happens?
a) Decade a) The effective resistance is increased
b) Harmonic b) Nothing
c) Multiplier c) The tolerance is decreased
d) Octave d) The effective resistance is decreased
58. A circuit that is used to vary the conduction angle through a 71. Refers to a force of field that exists between ions where they
load. either repel or attract each other.
a) Phase controller a) Resisting Field
b) Varistor b) Potential Field
c) Snubber c) Electromotive
d) Crowbar d) Diaelectric
59. The op-amp input that causes a phase inversion when used as 72. A special type of comparator that detects if the input voltage is
a signal input? out of range.
a) VCC a) Window comparator
b) Inverting input b) Schmitt trigger
c) –Vee c) Level detector
d) Non inverting input d) Voltage follower
60. A Quartz crystal is made up of what kind of material? 73. It is the current source used for very low current applications.
a) SiO2 a) Widlar current source
b) Ceramic b) 2-transistor current source
c) Lead c) 3-transistor current source
d) Carbon d) Wilson current source
61. The circulation of current on the cross-section of the core is 74. The difference in energy between the valence and conduction
called ___________. bands of a semiconductor is called
a) Secondary current a) Conductivity
b) Eddy current b) Extrinsic photoeffect
c) Hysteresis current c) Energy density
d) Primary current d) Band gap
62. Semiconductor which is considered to be “low power” of 75. Which type of network offers the greatest transformation
“small signal” usually have power dissipation ratings of ratio?
_____________. a) L-network
a) 10 watt or less b) Constant-K
b) Exactly 1 watt c) Constant-M
c) 1 watt or less d) Pi-network
d) 5 watt or less 76. __________ is a low frequency oscillation which sometimes
63. What are the three terminals of a TRIAC? occurs under fault condition in electron tube circuits (0 correct
a) Collector, base and emitter answers)
b) Anode 1, anode 2 and anode 3 a) Jitter
c) Anode, cathode and gate b) Ping pong
d) MT1, MT2 and gate c) Motor boating
64. It is the opposition of an electron tube to produce a variation d) Glitch
in the plate current in response to a variation in the plate to 77. Which of the following oscillator has a sine-wave output?
cathode voltage. a) Astable
a) Gain b) Bistable
b) Transconductance c) LC
 d) Relaxation d) I2L
78. The h - parameter hr is a ________. 91. Which statement is wrong regarding a class A amplifier?
a) Resistance a) Conduction angle of 360o
b) Reverse voltage gain b) placed at the output stage
c) Conductance c) ηMAX = 25%
d) Forward current gain d) output with little distortion
79. Premature failure of the electron tube long before its 92. What is the law that determines polarity of an induced
statistical life expectancy. voltage?
a) Catastrophic failure a) Len’s law
b) Blasted failure b) Norton’s law
c) Early failure c) Faraday’s law
d) Wear-out failure d) Thevenin’s law
80. Which configuration is best to use in matching low source 93. Which of the following components has an automatic
resistance with a high load resistance? degenerative feedback?
a) CB a) Resistor
b) CD b) Capacitor
c) CC c) Inductor
d) CE d) Triode
81. Which of the following does not have a control grid? 94. A half-wave rectifier circuit utilizing one half of an AC input
a) Triode cycle have a ripple frequency in its output equivalent to
b) Tetrode _______.
c) Pentode a) 110 cps
d) FET b) 120 cps
82. A high power, low frequency diode is normally _________ than c) 60 cps
a low power, high frequency diode. d) 240 cps
a) Heavier 95. Pin 5 of 555 timers.
b) Smaller a) control voltage
c) Larger b) Threshold
d) Smoother c) discharge
83. ________ is the most influential factor in the switching speed d) Vcc
of saturated bipolar transistor. 96. The magnitude of the core loss is directly proportional to
a) Base current ___________. (n=no. of laminations)
b) Hfe a) N
c) Collector current b) 1/n
d) Charge storage c) N2
84. What is the net charge of an n-type material? d) 1/n2
a) Positive 97. What are the three terminals of an SCR?
b) Negative a) Anode, cathode and gate
c) Neutral b) Collector, base and emitter
d) Dependent upon temperature c) Anode1, anode2 and anode3
85. Another name for voltage divider bias. d) MT1, MT2 and gate
a) Feedback bias 98. Magnetic core are usually laminated due to the following
b) Universal bias except
c) Double resistor bias a) Decrease core loss
d) Fixed bias b) Increase efficiency
86. Which is the wrong statement about a forward biased ideal c) Decrease manufacturing cost
diode? d) Decrease equivalent core resistance
a) The diode will have no control over the 99. What type of circuit whose parameters are constant which do
current through it not change with voltage or current?
b) The diode will have no resistance a) Reactive circuit
c) It has voltage drop equal to the barrier b) Lumped circuit
potential of the diode c) Linear circuit
d) The diode will have no voltage drop across d) Tuned circuit
its terminals 100. A triac behaves like two
87. A dynamo using a permanent magnet in producing a magnetic a) Diodes in series
flux. b) Four-layer in parallel
a) Magneto c) Inverse parallel connected SCRs with
b) Amplidyne common gate
c) Relay d) Four-layer diodes in parallel
d) Alternator 101. It is the maximum permissible reverse voltage for the diode.
88. Find the two stable operating conditions of an SCR. a) Tolerable voltage
a) Oscillating and quiescent b) Peak reverse voltage
b) NPN condition and PNP condition c) Maximum voltage
c) Forward conducting and reverse conducting d) Barrier voltage
d) Conducting and non-conducting 102. The best way to control the speed of an AC induction motor is
89. Ratio of variation in the op-amp voltage to the variation in the by varying the _____________.
supply voltage. a) Supply frequency
a) Power supply rejection ratio b) Series resistance of the field
b) Differential voltage c) Both supply voltage and frequency
c) Output offset voltage simultaneously
d) Common mode rejection ratio d) Supply voltage
90. Which of the following bipolar digital IC families is the fastest? 103. Which has the highest noise?
a) DTL a) Pentode
b) TTL b) Triode
c) ECL c) Tetrode
 d) Diode c) Mass
104. A BJT that has an hfe of 100 has an hfb of _________. d) Cross sectional area
a) Infinity 116. Protons are about ___________ heavier than electrons.
b) 100 a) Twice
c) -101 b) Less than thrice
d) Zero c) Less
105. A CMOS with series PMOS and complementary parallel NMOS d) 1, 800 times
is equivalent to logical 117. What is the distinguishing feature of a class C amplifier?
a) NOR gate a) Output is present for more than 180
b) Nand gate degrees but less than 360 degrees of the
c) OR gate input signal cycle
d) AND gate b) Output is present for exactly 180 degrees of
106. It is the maximum allowable peak or dc reverse voltage that the input signal cycle
will not turn on a transient suppressor. c) Output is present for the entire signal cycle
a) Maximum reverse stand - off voltage d) Output is present for less than 180 degrees
b) Turn-off voltage of the input signal cycle
c) Peak reverse voltage 118. A circuit whose output is the continuous summation of a signal
d) Peak inverse voltage over a period of time.
107. If the zener voltage is known, the maximum allowable zener a) Schmitt trigger
current can be computed if ________ is given. b) Differentiator
a) Voltage regulation c) Level detector
b) Dc power dissipation rating d) Integrator
c) Zener power derating factor 119. Which of the majority carrier in an N-type semiconductor?
d) Zener resistance a) Electron
108. The objective of a capacitor is to b) Hole
a) Block DC and pass AC current c) Positive ion
b) Store AC current d) Negative ion
c) Block AC and pass DC current 120. Which is not true regarding a gas filled tube?
d) Block AC current a) It can be used as an amplifier
109. In semiconductor physics, it is another word for impure. b) Its control grid loses its control over the
a) Extrinsic plate current once it is turned on
b) Alloy c) Its terminals are larger than their equivalent
c) Molecule for VT
d) Mixture d) They handle higher current
110. Which if the VT amplifier is best suited for high fidelity 121. What type of bias is required for an LED to produce
amplifiers? luminescence?
a) Diode a) Reverse bias
b) Pentode b) Zero bias
c) Triode c) Forward bias
d) Tetrode d) Inductive bias
111. Which comparison of ordinary pn junction and PIN diode is not 122. What was the first transistor developed by Shockley, Brattain,
true? and Bardeen on 1948?
a) The PIN diode has an intrinsic layer at the a) Point contact
middle of P and N type while the pn b) BJT
junction only has the depletion region at c) JFET
the middle d) MESFET
b) The pn junction diode has a definite turning 123. What technique below is used to increase the gain in linear
point in the curve while the PIN diode ICs?
shows no definite knee voltage a) Resistor ratio design
c) The pn junction conduction starts at nearly b) Use of transistor with narrow bases
0V while the PIN diode starts conducting at c) Use of high resistance transistor
0.75V. d) Use of transistor with wide base
d) When forward biased the PIN diode is not 124. What is the term used to express the amount of electrical
conducting while the pn junction is energy stored in an electrostatic field?
conducting a) Watts
112. It is a circuit that shifts the input waveform either all above or b) Coulombs
all below a specified dc level. c) Joules
a) Clipper d) Volts
b) Multiplier 125. What is the gain of a VT triode amplifier having a µ of 100 and
c) Level shifter a load resistance equal to the plate resistance?
d) Limiter a) 1
113. Find the charge in coulombs of dielectric that has a positive b) 50
charge of 14.5 x 10 to the 18th power protons. c) 200
a) 29 x10 to the 18th Coulombs d) 100
b) 14.5 x 10 to the 16th Coulombs 126. What is the atomic number of cooper?
c) 14.5 x 10 to the 18th Coulombs a) 27
d) 29 x 10 to the 16th Coulombs b) 14
114. What is another name for clamper? c) 1
a) Dc restorer d) 29
b) Clipper 127. What happens to the input resistance of an amplifier
c) Limiter employing voltage - series feedback?
d) Slicer a) Equals infinity
115. ___________ is the factor that does not affect resistance. b) It remains the same
a) Length c) It is increased
b) Resistivity d) It is decreased
128. ____________refers to a constant-K filter. 139. __________ is a pn junction semiconductor device that emits
a) A filter whose velocity factor is constant non coherent optical radiation when biased in the forward
over a wide range of frequencies direction, as a result of a recombination effect.
b) A filter whose product of the series and a) Optical cavity
shunt element impedance is a constant for b) JUGPET
all frequencies. c) LASER
c) A filter whose input impedance varies d) LED
widely over the design bandwidth 140. The factor by which current increases from the base of a
d) A filter that uses Boltzmann constant transistor to its emitter.
129. It is caused by the magnetic field, which is set up in the a) η
armature. It tends to oppose the rotation of the armature due b) α
to the attraction and repulsion forces between the armature c) β
field and the main field. d) ɣ
a) Motor reaction 141. What does the second strip of an electronic resistor color code
b) Armature coupling represents?
c) Armature reaction a) Second digit value
d) Armature de-coupling b) Temperature
130. Which terminal of the tetrode is nearest to its anode? c) Tolerance
a) Suppressor grid d) Multiplier
b) Screen grid 142. What JFET operating system corresponds to Cutoff of BJT? (0
c) Control grid correct answers)
d) Cathode a) Cutoff
131. A transformer consist of the following b) Saturation
a) An inductance and resistance c) Ohmic
b) A capacitor and an inductor d) Breakdown
c) A parallel resonant circuit 143. What will happen to an atom if an electron is either taken out
d) Two coils wound on a common core or taken into the same atom?
132. What is another name for base bias? a) Becomes an ion
a) Beta bias b) Nothing will happen
b) Fixed bias c) Becomes negative ion
c) Emitter bias d) Becomes positive ion
d) Gate bias 144. For the highest fidelity amplification using triode the load
133. This type of winding connection is formed by placing the coil in resistance should be __________.
slots a definite pole pitch apart. a) Equal to the plate resistance
a) Lap winding b) 2 to 3 times of the plate resistance
b) Wave winding c) 1MΩ
c) Multiple finding d) 100 Ω
d) Frog-leg winding 145. A biasing technique wherein the collector voltage will directly
134. What is responsible for the phenomenon when voltages across effect the base voltage
reactance in series can often be larger than the voltage applied a) VDB
to them? b) Emitter feedback bias
a) Resistance c) Collector bias
b) Conductance d) Collector feedback bias
c) Resonance 146. Which is not a characteristic of an ideal voltage amplifier?
d) Capacitance a) Zero propagation delay
135. An LC oscillator that employs a tapped capacitor in parallel b) Infinite input resistance
with an inductor. c) Infinite gain
a) Clapp d) Infinite output resistance
b) Colpitts oscillator 147. __________ is a unipolar semiconductor device which the
c) Hartley oscillator current is carried by the majority carriers only.
d) Armstrong oscillator a) Electronics Engineering
136. In which of the following statements is a pn junction not b) Point contact transistor
conducting? c) Zener Diode
a) The arrow of the diode symbol points to the d) Junction transistor
more negative of the diode potentials 148. _______ is an excess property of P-type semiconductor.
b) The anode voltage is far more positive than a) Proton
the cathode b) Hole
c) The arrow of the diode symbol points to the c) Electron
more positive of the diode potentials d) Neutron
d) The voltage differential between the anode 149. Amplifier of low level signals that provides an output that is an
and the cathode exceeds the barrier voltage accurate multiple of difference between two input signals.
137. It is the biasing of the BJT at room temperature with no a) Integrator
voltage applied. b) Instrumentation amplifiers
a) Unbias c) Level detector
b) Zero bias d) Schmitt trigger
c) VDB 150. In applying the right hand rule by holding a conductor with
d) Base bias your right hand so that the thumb represents the current, the
138. A separately packed circuit element with its own external encircling fingers around the conductor represent
connections is called a ____________ component. ____________.
a) Passive a) Electromagnetic field intensity
b) Active b) Magnetic lines of force
c) Discrete c) Electric lines of force
d) Integrated d) Electronic field of force
151. What is the total resistance of two equal valued resistors in
series?
 a) The product of both a) Schottky effect
b) Twice as one b) Hall effect
c) The sum of their reciprocal c) Seebeck effect
d) The different of both d) No effect
152. Low Audio frequencies usually handled by a woofer in a sound 165. Find the current voltage from full-wave rectifier with 120 V
system. peak rectified voltage.
a) Alto a) 7.639V
b) Bass b) 60V
c) Treble c) 76.39V
d) Tone d) 6.0V
153. A big metallic object that helps to cool transistors and usually 166. The total resistance of a two similar wire conductors
attached to the collector. connected in parallel is ___________.
a) Leads a) Same resistance of one wire
b) Heat sink b) One half the resistance of one wire
c) Transformer c) Resistance of one wire multiplied by 4
d) Bleeder resistor d) Double the resistance of one wire
154. Which of the following is not another name for a varactor 167. How do you stop conduction during which SCR is also
diode? conducting?
a) Tuning diode a) Interrupt anode current
b) Epicap b) Reduce gate current
c) Varicap c) Increase cathode voltage
d) Junction controlled capacitance d) Remove voltage gate
155. Transformers can be connected in parallel, provided that they 168. Breakdown mechanism occurring at higher values of reverse
must be voltage.
a) The same brand name a) Avalanche
b) The same transformation ratio b) Surge
c) The same kVA rating c) Zener
d) Insulated properly d) Overvoltage
156. An op-amp whose voltage gain is 1. 169. For normal operation, the varactor is _______________.
a) Emitter follower a) Reverse active
b) Common base b) Reverse biased
c) Source follower c) Forward biased
d) Voltage follower d) Unbiased
157. It is a kind of tuning circuit that is used to vary the value of the 170. At Zero bias, the drain current for D-MOSFET is
resonant frequency over a wide range of frequencies. a) 10mA
a) Fine tuning circuit b) 0mA
b) Resonant circuit c) IDSS
c) Band whole circuit d) Maximum
d) Coarse tuning circuit 171. What will be the output of the differential amplifier who’s
158. Device that increases power content from an input signal. input is 1mV for both inverting and non inverting input?
a) Amplifier a) 1mV
b) Transformer b) 0V
c) Oscillator c) 1V
d) Attenuator d) 2mV
159. This breakdown occurs because of the collision of electrons 172. Which is the best storage aid for the MOSFETs?
caused by excessive reverse voltage. a) Plastic
a) Zener b) Refrigerator
b) Surge c) Styrofoam
c) Overvoltage d) Aluminium foil
d) Avalanche 173. ___________is the quantity of magnetizing force needed to
160. Which is the wrong statement about a transformer? counter balance the residual magnetism of a magnetic
a) It is an important part of the power supply material.
circuit a) Reluctivity
b) It can step-up and step-down voltage b) Coercitivity
c) It is an amplifier c) Retentivity
d) It can step-up and step-down current d) Susceptivity
161. Theorem that allows the feedback capacitors at the input and 174. Which of the following is not a basic part of an atom?
output a) Coulomb
a) 2-Port Theorem b) Neutron
b) Miller’s Theorem c) Proton
c) Capacitor Theorem d) Electron
d) De Morgan’s Theorem 175. Which is not an advantage of a BJT over MOS?
162. Which grid should be held at almost the same voltage as the a) High output drive current
plate? b) Higher gain
a) Screen c) Lower power dissipation
b) Control d) Lower noise low
c) Suppressor 176. It is the ability of some material to convert electrical energy to
d) Filament mechanical energy and vice versa.
163. The typical capacitance of a thermionic diode. a) Magnetostrictivity
a) 1000pF b) Conductivity
b) 5µF c) Piezoelectrictricity
c) 1000µF d) Coercitivity
d) 5pF 177. What are the three terminals of a UJT?
164. Electron tube effect wherein thermionic current increases with a) Anode 1, anode 2 and anode 3
applied anode to cathode voltage. b) MT1 and MT2 and gate
 c) Base 1, base 2 and emitter 189. Pin 7 of 555 timers.
d) Anode, cathode and gate a) discharge
178. Which is the wrong statement about a reverse biased ideal b) control voltage
diode? c) Threshold
a) The diode will drop the entire applied d) Vcc
voltage across its terminals 190. The rate at which dc power dissipation must be decreased per
b) The diode will have infinite resistance 0C rise above a specified temperature.
c) It will allow small amount of leakage a) Coefficient of power
current b) Power dissipation rate
d) The diode will not pass current c) Power density
179. He discovered the process of electromagnetic induction and d) Power derating factor
gave a theoretical description regarding this 191. Method used in producing thick film components.
a) Michael Faraday a) Screening
b) James Clerk Maxwell b) Diffusion
c) Nikola Tesla c) Evaporation
d) Charles Coulomb d) Epitaxial
180. A positive-shunt positive-biased clipper has a bias voltage of 192. __________is the procedure by which an atom is given a net
3V. If the input voltage is 5 Vpk sinusoid, calculate the charge by adding or taking away electron.
maximum and minimum voltage respectively out of this clipper a) Polarization
circuit. b) Ionization
a) 3V, - 5V c) Doping
b) 0V, -5V d) Irradiation
c) 5V, 3V 193. Which of the following is the toughest?
d) 3V, 0V a) Rochelle salt
181. What is the lagging effect between the magnetizing force b) Tourmaline
applied and the flux density? c) Carbon
a) Permeance d) Quartz
b) Eddy current 194. An amplifier with an input resistance of 600 ohms has an input
c) Hysteresis current of 500 microamperes. It delivers 100mA to a 1000-ohm
d) Reluctance load. Calculate the dB gain of the amplifier.
182. Which of the following refers to a characteristic of a magnetic a) 35.33 dB
line of force? b) 25.2 dB
a) Travels from north to the south through the c) 50.4 dB
surrounding medium of a bar magnet d) 48.2 dB
b) Travels back and forth between the north 195. Which of the following can be used as a square to spikes wave
and south pole of a bar magnet converter?
c) Stay stationary between the north and the a) Differentiator
south of a bar magnet b) Level detector
d) Travels from south to north through the c) Schmitt trigger
surrounding medium of a bar magnet d) Integrator
183. Portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes 196. The collector curve of the BJT relates the values of
infrared, visible and ultraviolet light. ___________.
a) Light color spectrum a) IB, IC, and VBE
b) Visible electromagnetic spectrum b) IB, IC, and VCE
c) Optical electromagnetic spectrum c) ID, VDS, and VGS
d) Color spectrum d) IB, IC, and IE
184. Which has the highest amplification factor? 197. As you increase the doping level of a crystal diode its voltage
a) Pentode ________.
b) Triode a) Destabilizes
c) Tetrode b) Stabilizes
d) Diode c) Increases
185. It is the metal strip that removes residual gas from an electron d) Decreases
tube. 198. Change in frequency by a factor of 10.
a) Getter a) Fascade
b) Microstrip b) Octave
c) Sipper c) Decade
d) Remover d) Octane
186. Which class of amplifier has the highest linearity and least 199. The condition that product of the feedback fraction and the
distortion? open-loop gain should be 1 for oscillation is known as
a) Class B _____________.
b) Class A a) Barkhausen criterion
c) Class C b) Negative feedback
d) Class AB c) Positive feedback
187. What term in electronics is used to express how fast energy is d) Osci requirement
consumed? 200. Electrical classification of materials having 1 to 3 valence
a) Power electrons.
b) Conductance a) Semiconductor
c) Load b) Compound
d) Volt c) Conductor
188. _________ is the thyristor which is fabricated as two d) Insulator
complementary SCRs in parallel with common gate terminal. 201. Electrical energy refers to ____________.
a) Unijunction transistor a) Watt
b) Bilateral SCR b) Volt-Ampere
c) Electronics Engineering c) Volt-Coulomb
d) Triac d) Joules divided by time
202. __________is called the magnetic flux density produced b) Approximately 10.0 volts
within, due to its own induced magnetism. c) Approximately 2.0 volts
a) Magnetic field intensity d) Approximately 3.0 volts
b) Electromagnetic field intensity 215. Circuit that is used to produce a DC output voltage that is some
c) Intensity of magnetization integral multiple of the peak of the AC input voltage.
d) Electronic field intensity a) Multiplier
203. What is the feedback component of an RC op-amp integrator? b) Differentiator
a) Capacitor c) Integrator
b) Resistor d) Restorer
c) Inductor 216. An LC oscillator that employs a tapped inductor in parallel with
d) Conductor a capacitor.
204. Another name for linear IC. a) Armstrong oscillator
a) CMOS b) Colpitts oscillator
b) TTL c) Hartley oscillator
c) Analog IC d) Clapp
d) Digital IC 217. How many electrodes does a pentode have?
205. Which are the three terminals of a TRIAC? a) Three
a) Base, emitter and collector b) Five
b) Gate, source and sink c) Two
c) Emitter, base 1 and base 2 d) Four
d) Gate, anode1 and anode2 ( this shld. Be 218. Find the Thevenin’s impedance equivalent across R2 of a linear
gate, MT1 and MT2) close circuit having 10 V supply with two resistors (R1=100 Ω
206. General term for semiconductor devices primarily used as and R2=200 Ω).
switches. a) 6.666 k Ω
a) Thyristor b) 666Ω
b) Relay c) 66.6Ω
c) Thyratron d) 6.66 Ω
d) Shockley 219. Another name for collector bypass capacitor.
207. Which of the following crystals is not commonly used as a) Decoupling capacitor
oscillator? b) Electrolytic capacitor
a) Tourmaline c) Source capacitor
b) Carbon d) Varactor
c) Quartz 220. Grid added to the VT amplifier to minimize the control-grid to
d) Rochelle salt plate capacitance.
208. Ability of a material to conduct magnetic flux through it refers a) Screen
to b) Suppressor
a) Reluctivity c) Gate
b) Permittivity d) Control
c) Permeability 221. Which is the most stable biasing technique with β variation?
d) Conductivity a) Base bias
209. It is the doping process wherein impurity ions are given high b) Voltage divider bias
energy, accelerated, driven through the wafer and embedded c) Collector feedback bias
in the crystal. d) Emitter feedback bias
a) Ion implantation 222. The _________ grid is an electron tube is where the input
b) Czochralski technique signal is usually applied.
c) Diffusion a) Bias
d) Photolithography b) Suppression
210. What are the two terminals of a Shockley? c) Control
a) MT1 and MT2 d) Screen
b) Anode 1 and anode 2 223. Amount of additional energy required for electronic emission
c) Collector and emitter of metals.
d) Anode and cathode a) Electron volt
211. Which top shape of the LED gives the narrowest radiation b) Band gap
pattern? c) Work function
a) Deep chip spherical dome d) MeV
b) Shallow chip spherical dome 224. The band of frequencies that human eye can detect.
c) Diffused dome a) Infrared band
d) Aspherical dome b) Ultraviolet band
212. It is a measure of the effectiveness of the control grid voltage c) Visible band
relative to the anode to cathode voltage in controlling the d) C band
plate current. 225. Type of the feedback employed in amplifiers.
a) Amplification factor a) Negative
b) Plate resistance b) Positive
c) Gain c) Zero
d) Transcondutance d) Capacitive
213. This zener diode model is used mainly for predicting the 226. Circuits that generates non – sinusoid waveform that is
response of the diode to a change in circuit current. designed to have one, two or no stable output state.
a) Exact a) Rectifier
b) Ideal b) Multivibrator
c) Practical c) Clipper
d) Hybrid d) Converter
214. In order to obtain the best temperature stability, what should 227. A varactor diode with a low capacitance ratio can be used in
be the operating voltage of the reference diode in linear _________.
voltage regulator? a) Tuning fork
a) Approximately 6.0 volts b) Coarse tuning
 c) Fine tuning c) Series motors
d) Phase tuning d) Shunt motors
228. This model characterizes the diode as a simple that is either 241. A CMOS with parallel PMOS and complementary series NMOS
closed or open. is equivalent to logical.
a) Second approximation a) OR gate
b) Ideal b) NOR gate
c) Complete c) AND gate
d) Third approximation d) Nand gate
229. An amplifier class in which the transistor is conducting for the 242. The anode of a semiconductor diode indicates a ________
entire input cycle. charge during conduction.
a) B a) Positive
b) AB b) Negative
c) C c) Neutral
d) A d) Either, depending on design
230. Another name for band reject filter. 243. A circuit that is used to increase the strength of and AC signal.
a) Stop Band a) Attenuator
b) BPF b) Amplifier
c) Notch c) Transformer
d) Tuned circuit d) Rectifier
231. Filter that is characterized by a relatively flat passband and 244. The typical lifetime of a hole is in the range of _______.
slow roll-off rate. a) ps
a) Notch b) ms
b) Butterworth c) µs
c) Chebyshev d) ns
d) Elliptic 245. An electronic device draws 300 watts from its 24-volt power
232. ________ capability is analogous to permeance. source. Find the effective resistance.
a) Conductance a) 1.25 Ω
b) Reluctance b) 1.92 Ω
c) Resistance c) 19.20 Ω
d) Admittance d) 12.50 Ω
233. Color whose wavelength from 580 to 620 nm. 246. The ratio of emitter to base 1 resistance to the interbase
a) Orange resistance of a UJT.
b) Yellow a) Voltage gain
c) Blue b) Current gain
d) Green c) Aspect ratio
234. Which of the following solid state devices work in the d) Intrinsic standoff ratio
phenomenon avalanche breakdown? 247. Roll-off rate equal to 6 dB/ octave.
a) Unijunction a) 10 dB/decade
b) All of the above b) 6 dB/decade
c) Schottky diode c) 20 dB/decade
d) Triac d) 30 dB/decade
235. Which of the following exhibits the best piezoelectric activity? 248. The band of frequencies in which the wavelength is too short
a) Carbon to be detected by the human eye.
b) Rochelle salt a) C band
c) Quartz b) Ultraviolet band
d) Tourmaline c) Visible band
236. Find the equivalent of 10 Oersted (Oe) d) Infrared band
a) 1 Gb/cm 249. Failure of the electron tube resulting from continuing
b) 1 Gb/cm deterioration of its electrical characteristics.
c) 100 Gb/cm a) Early failure
d) 10 Gb/cm b) Blasted failure
237. What element possesses four valence electrons? (0 correct c) Catastrophic failure
answers) d) Wear-out failure
a) Hydrogen 250. _________ is a linear electronic voltage regulator.
b) Sodium a) A regulator in which the control is switch on
c) Germanium or off, with the duty cycle proportional to
d) Neon the line or load condition.
238. The term used to describe the process whereby two transistors b) A regulator in which the pass transistor
with positive feedback are used to simulate the action of the switches from the “off” state to the “on”
thyristor. state.
a) Arcing c) A regulator that has ramp voltage as its
b) Damping output
c) Latching d) A regulator in which the conduction of a
d) Switching control element is varied in direct
239. At this operating mode, further increase in base current will proportion to the voltage of load current
not increase the collector current. 251. Which of the following statements is true?
a) Forward active a) For BJT, VCE has considerable effect on IC
b) Cut-off b) For SCR, VAK has considerable effect on IA
c) Saturation c) For triode, VP has considerable effect on IP
d) Reverse active d) For JPET, VDS has considerable effect on ID
240. Type of motor where the field windings are connected in series 252. ___________ refers to the term, remote sensing with regard
with the armature coil and the field strength varies with to a linear voltage regulator.
changes in a) The feedback connection to the error
a) Load motors amplifier is made directly to the load
b) Compound motors
 b) The load connection is made outside the a) Its end are more heavily doped than its
feedback loop region near the junction
c) The error amplifier compares the input b) It’s typical switching time is in the low
voltage to the reference voltage picoseconds range
d) Sensing is accomplished by wireless c) It is not a semiconductor device
inductive loops d) It is an ultrafast diode
253. The maximum forward surge current capability of an SCR. 265. A current caused by thermal activity in a reverse biased diode.
a) Holding current a) Reverses saturation current
b) Peak surge current b) Bias current
c) Circuit fusing rating c) Surface leakage current
d) Trigger d) Thermal current
254. The decibel gain in cascaded amplifiers equals the 266. Another name for photo-SCR.
__________. a) LASCR
a) Difference of individual gains b) LASER
b) Sum of individual gains c) Photosensitive
c) Sum of voltage and current gains d) LED
d) Product of individual gains 267. Transition region refers to ________ with regards to transistor.
255. The particles that make up the lattice in ionic crystal. a) An area of low charge density around PN
a) Neutrons junction
b) Electrons b) The area of maximum P-type
c) Ions c) The area of maximum N-type charge
d) Molecules d) The point where wire leads are connected
256. Pin 4 of 555 timers. to the P or N type material
a) trigger 268. What is another term for magnetic lines of force?
b) Output a) Armature
c) Reset b) lodestone
d) Ground c) Flux
257. The maximum unclipped peak-to-peak output signal. d) magnetic pole
a) Signal strength 269. Absolute zero temperature is _______.
b) Compliance a) – 459.16 oF
c) rms b) – 273.16 oC
d) High fidelity signal c) 0K
258. What do you call a class of zener diodes that have extremely d) All of the above
high surge - handling capabilities? 270. This core construction is usually made up of E an I-shaped
a) Special purpose zeners laminations.
b) Power zeners a) Cylindrical type
c) Transient suppressors b) Core type
d) Diacs c) Wound core type
259. This happens when a free electron returns to the valence shell. d) Shell type
(0 correct answers) 271. What happens to the output resistance of an amplifier
a) Lifetime employing current-shunt feedback?
b) Hole a) It remains the same
c) Recombination b) It is decreased
d) Ionization c) It is increased
260. It is the same as βac. d) Equals infinity
a) βdc 272. The condition under which there is no power loss due to
b) α reflection at a source/load junction owing to the fact that the
c) hFE load impedance is matched to the source impedance.
d) hfe a) Alignment
261. PN junction acts as a one way valve for electrons because b) Maximum power
________. c) Resonance
a) When electrons are pump from P to N, free d) Half power point
electrons and holes are force apart leaving 273. It is a low distortion, tunable, high purity sine wave generator
no way for electrons to cross the junction for frequencies of 5 Hz to 500 kHz.
b) Electrons tend to follow the direction of the a) Wien bridge oscillator
diode b) Hartley oscillator
c) The circuit in which the diode is used, only c) Colpitts oscillator
attempts to pump electrons in one diode. d) RC phase shift oscillator
d) There is a little mechanical switch inside a 274. A two-terminal, unidirectional thyristor.
diode a) DIAC
262. As the frequency of the ac source increases, the core loss b) Diode
____________. c) TRIAC
a) decreases d) Shockley
b) remains the same 275. Rust in electrical (wire) connection will result to __________.
c) increases a) Conductance
d) approaches zero b) Inductance
263. A display made up of segments that either reflect or do not c) Resistance
reflect ambient light. d) Voltage
a) Common cathode display 276. It is usually an op-amp with no feedback and used to compare
b) Liquid crystal display two voltages.
c) Seven segment display a) Differential amplifier
d) Common anode display b) Voltage follower
264. Which is not the true statement regarding the step-recovery c) Comparator
diode? d) Open loop
277. It is the reduction in the quantity of emission by the cathode as c) The ratio of the output quantity to input
a result of contamination due to gas trapped in the tube. quantity of an amplifier.
a) Cutoff d) The total increase in output quality over the
b) Saturation input quantity of an amplifier.
c) Amplification 290. Which does not identify the cathode lead of the LED?
d) Cathode poisoning a) It has a shorter lead
278. It is the grid added to the tetrode to minimize secondary b) It is nearest to the flat side of the case
emission. c) It has a flattened lead
a) Suppressor grid d) It is nearest to the orange band
b) Control grid 291. What do call the flux that does not follow the intended patch
c) Cathode in magnetic circuit?
d) Screen grid a) Leakage factor
279. What is the cause of a minimum Q on a single-tuned LC circuit? b) Linked flux
a) Decreased capacitance c) Lost flux
b) Increased shunt resistor d) Leakage flux
c) Decreased shunt resistor 292. Range for power dissipation ratings of zener diodes.
d) Decreased series resistor a) 500mW to 50W
280. Digital ICs are mostly __________. b) 1mW to 1W
a) Thin-film c) 25mW to 1000W
b) Thick-film d) 1pW to 5W
c) Monolithic 293. How much power does an electronic equipment consume,
d) Hybrid assuming a 5.50 A current flowing and a 120 Volt power
281. In the electron tube construction, it is the electrode that source.
encloses other electrodes. a) 66 Watts
a) Grid b) 125.5 Watts
b) Cathode c) 60 Watts
c) Screen d) 660 Watts
d) Anode 294. General term for objects blocking the passage of light.
282. What happens to the output resistance of an amplifier a) Translucent
employing current-series feedback? b) Opaque
a) It is decreased c) Transparent
b) Equals infinity d) Trap
c) It remains the same 295. Color whose wavelength from 620 to 700 nm.
d) It is increased a) Violet
283. Special type of MOSFET designed to handle large amount of b) Black
drain currents. c) Red
a) NMOS d) White
b) VMOS 296. A crystal with its major flat surfaces cut so that they are
c) PMOS perpendicular to a mechanical axis of the original quartz crystal
d) CMOS is called __________.
284. The flow of electron in a NPN transistor when used in a) An X – cut crystal
electronic circuit is from _________. b) A Z – cut crystal
a) Collector to emitter c) A Y – cut crystal
b) Collector to base d) An XY – cut crystal
c) Emitter to collector 297. What material possesses permeability’s slightly less than that
d) Base to emitter of free space?
285. What is the grid voltage required to produce zero plate current a) Ferromagnetic
in a triode whose amplification factor is 25 and plate voltage is b) Paramagnetic
200 V. c) Diamagnetic
a) 500 V d) Non-magnetic
b) –8V 298. Is a layer of insulating medium that separates the plates of a
c) – 10 V capacitor.
d) 5000 V a) Diaelectric
286. A representation of a circuit that shows how that circuit looks b) Space
to an ac source. c) Core
a) Impedance d) Insulator
b) Model 299. Special type of comparator that compares a voltage in input
c) Reactance with a reference voltage?
d) Ac equivalent circuit a) Window comparator
287. Refers to a form of dc motor generator with common field coil b) Schmitt trigger
for both motor and generator. c) Voltage follower
a) Synchronous motor d) Level detector
b) Motor-generator 300. What do you call an electromagnet with its core in a form of
c) Dyna-motor magnetic ring?
d) Polyphase-motor a) Paraboloid
288. Electron tube from where the name thyristor was derived. b) Solenoid
a) Varistor c) Toroid
b) Triode d) Motor
c) Thyrector 301. Which of the following can be used as a square wave to
d) Thyratron triangular wave converter?
289. Which of the following refers to the gain of a circuit? a) Level detector
a) The difference between the input voltage b) Integrator
and the output voltage of a circuit. c) Schmitt trigger
b) Input quality of an amplifier divided by the d) Differentiator
output quantity.
302. It is a diode whose central material is made up of intrinsic c) P – type
silicon sandwiched by P and N type materials. d) Pure type
a) Tunnel 315. Type of the feedback employed in oscillator.
b) Schottky a) Negative
c) Zener b) Positive
d) PIN c) Zero
303. Which of the following best describes an intrinsic semi d) Capacitive
conductor? 316. It is the high initial current in a power supply which happens
a) It is monocrystalline because the filter capacitor is initially uncharged.
b) It is only composed of only one kind of a) Surge current
element b) Eddy current
c) The concentration of holes and free c) Trigger current
electrons are equal d) Leakage current
d) There is no hole and free electron 317. What happens to the conductivity of the semiconductor when
304. The type of bias used where only moderate changes in temperature increases?
ambient temperature are expected. a) Increases
a) Limited bias b) Remains the same
b) Self-bias c) Decreases
c) Combination bias d) Cannot be predicted
d) Fixed-bias 318. A circuit that protects a sensitive circuit from a sudden
305. Flow of carriers in response to an applied electric field. (0 increase in supply voltage.
correct answers) a) Varistor
a) Avalanche b) Snubber
b) Diffusion c) Eliminator
c) Breakdown d) Crowbar
d) Drift 319. Which is not an advantage of an integrated circuit rectifier?
306. Type of clipper that has an output when the diode is reverse a) It does not need any heat sink
biased. b) It is more compact thus space is save
a) Negative clipper c) Less cost
b) Rectifier d) Easier to trouble shoot
c) Reverse clipper 320. _________ is a gaseous tube which uses a pool of liquid
d) Shunt clipper mercury as its cathode.
307. What should be the characteristics of current limiting resistor a) Klystron
whose task is to limit the amount of surge current in a power b) Phanotron
supply? c) Thyratron
a) High resistance, low wattage d) Ignitron
b) Low resistance, high wattage 321. Amount of light per unit area received by a photodetector.
c) Low resistance, low wattage a) Steradian
d) High resistance, high wattage b) Conductivity
308. A diode rating that specifies the maximum possible power c) Efficiency
dissipation of the forward biased diode. d) Light intensity
a) Maximum power 322. ______________ is a type of linear regulator used in
b) Feasible power applications requiring efficient utilization of primary power
c) Forward power dissipation source.
d) Power rating a) A shunt current source
309. Which of the following does not refer to electric energy? b) A constant current source
a) Volt-Ampere c) A series regulator
b) Watt second d) A shunt regulator
c) Volt-Coulomb 323. What is the output voltage of the 7805 regulator?
d) Joule a) 15 volts
310. How many terminals does hexode have? b) 19 volts
a) 3 c) 5 volts
b) 6 d) 7 volts
c) 7 324. Another name for free – running multivibrator.
d) 8 a) Zerostable
311. At cutoff frequency, the voltage gain is equal to b) Bistable
a) ΔVmax / √2 c) Monostable
b) 0.707 V d) Astable
c) 0.707 ΔVmax 325. Which is not an advantage of IC over discrete components?
d) ΔVmax/2 a) It can handle excessive heat
312. Frequency wherein the power gain is one-half of the maximum b) Less weight
possible power gain for the given amplifier. c) Small size
a) Bandwidth d) Low power
b) Cutoff frequency 326. Find the ripple factor (kr) of sinusoidal signal with peak ripple
c) Center frequency of 4 volts on an average of 30.
d) Beamwidth a) 0.094
313. Which of the following is the least expensive? b) 0.013
a) Quartz c) 0.940
b) Rochelle salt d) 0.130
c) Tourmaline 327. The curve that illustrating the relationship between beta,
d) Diamond collector current and temperature.
314. The name of a pure semiconductor material that has an equal a) Base curve
number of electrons and holes. b) Thermal curve
a) Intrinsic c) Beta curve
b) N – type d) Collector curve
328. What determines the resonant frequency of a crystal? 341. It is the ability of a regulator to maintain a constant output
a) The size and thickness of the crystal voltage regardless of variation in the load current.
material a) Permittivity
b) The temperature of the crystal b) Loadline regulation
c) External components c) Line regulation
d) The hermitic seal d) Load regulation
329. Which of the following is not the characteristic of a power 342. The current in the secondary side o a step-up transformer is
rectifier diode? ___________the current on its primary side.
a) It has relatively high forward current ratings a) Smaller than
b) It can handle much higher non-repetitive b) Larger than
surge currents c) The same as
c) It has relatively high reverse current ratings d) Very large compared to
d) It has relatively low forward voltage drop 343. What do you call the quantity of magnetism retained by a
330. Another name for common collector. magnetic material after the withdrawal of a magnetizing force?
a) Emitter follower a) Residual magnetism
b) Collector follower b) Coercitivity
c) Collector divider c) Left over magnetism
d) Base follower d) Hysteresis
331. Which is not usually used as a plate of a vacuum tube diode? 344. It is a program written in a language understandable by
a) Molybdenum human.
b) Nickel a) Source program
c) Graphite b) Language
d) Thoriated tungsten c) Object program
332. A MOSFET amplifier circuit which is composed of a self-biased d) Database
CS amplifier in series with a voltage divider biased CG 345. What is the process by which AC is converted to pulsating DC?
amplifier. a) Clipping
a) Cascade b) Rectification
b) NMOS c) Charging
c) PMOS d) Filtering
d) CMOS 346. Which of the following is not a linear IC?
333. It is the fading of oscillation. a) Voltage regulator
a) Vanishing b) Op-amp
b) Lossing c) Flip-flop
c) Damping d) VCO
d) Lowering 347. For small signal operation of a VT diode which is the most
334. The band of frequencies in which the wavelength is too long to important resistance parameter?
be detected by the human eye. a) Intrinsic
a) Ultraviolet band b) Extrinsic
b) Visible band c) Static
c) C band d) Dynamic
d) Infrared band 348. How do you determine if a diode is defective?
335. In a PLL, it is the act of gain control of a signal. a) High current
a) Capture b) Very low current
b) Lock c) High voltage
c) Track d) Diode resistance is very low or very high on
d) Gain either direction
336. Intergrowth between two different semiconductor layers. 349. Process by which a magnetic substance becomes a magnet
a) Epitaxy when it is placed near a magnet.
b) Wafer a) Influx of density
c) Resistor b) Electromagnetic induction
d) Ingot c) Magnet induction
337. Which is not another name for schottky diode? d) Magnetic reflection
a) Hot carrier diode 350. The __________is an analog component that has two inputs,
b) Esaki diode one inverting and the other non-inverting, and a single output
c) Surface-barrier diode terminal.
d) Schottky barrier diode a) Flip-flop
338. The plate resistance of a tetrode is in the range of _________. b) Op amp
a) 100kΩ - 1MΩ c) Register
b) 50kΩ - 100kΩ d) Counter
c) 1kΩ 351. A motor that rotates in small angular steps that is obtained
d) 100Ω electromagnetically.
339. One of the following amplifier characteristic refers to that of a a) Squirrel cage motor
common - base (CB) as compared to common - emitter (CE) b) Stepper motor
and common - collector (CC) amplifiers. c) Angular motor
a) Has larger voltage gain d) Three phase motor
b) Has large current gain 352. Ion is _________________?
c) Has higher input resistance a) Nucleus without protons
d) Has lower input resistance b) An atom with unbalanced charges
340. The polarity of induced emf is such that it produces a current c) Free electron
whose own magnetic field opposes the change in magnetic flux d) Proton
that caused the induced emf is a statement of ___________. 353. In order to have the best efficiency and stability, where on the
a) Fleming’s Rule loadline should a solid state power amplifier be operated?
b) Coulomb’s Law a) At 1.414 times the saturation point
c) Kirchhoff’s Law b) Just above the saturation point
d) Lenz’s Law c) At the saturation point
 d) Just power below the saturation point c) Electron
354. The starting current of a dc motor is larger than its full-load d) Tritium
current because the counter emf is ________________. 367. In half-wave rectifier, if a resistance equal to the load
a) Less than the applied voltage resistance is connected in parallel with the diode then
b) The same as the applied voltage __________________.
c) Larger than the applied voltage a) Output voltage would be halved
d) Zero b) Circuit will stop rectifying
355. The source of mechanical power to turn the rotors of c) Output voltage would be doubled
alternators, large and small, AC and DC. d) Output voltage will remain unchanged
a) Prime contractor 368. Which is not true regarding UJT?
b) Prime user a) It means unijunction transistor
c) Primer b) It has three terminals
d) Prime mover c) It exhibits negative resistance region
356. It is specialized test equipment that can be used easily to d) It is unipolar
obtain the hFE of a BJT. 369. Electric charge of neutron is the same as _________.
a) Oscilloscope a) Atom
b) Logic analyzer b) Proton
c) Transistor checker c) Current
d) Ohmmeter d) Electron
357. Is a data manipulated by a computer program 370. It is the condition in vacuum tube amplifiers wherein any
a) Source program further positive increase in the control grid voltage does not
b) Data base cause any increase in the plate current.
c) Object program a) Ohmic
d) Language b) Hyperactive
358. Which of the following is not a correct reason why glass is used c) Saturation
as envelope of most receiving tubes? d) Cutoff
a) Glass has longer tube life 371. What is the basic unit for measuring current flow?
b) Glass is cheap a) Volt
c) Glass is easy to form b) Coulomb
d) Glass is readily available c) Atomic weight
359. A positive-shunt positive-biased clipper has bias voltage of 3V. d) Ampere
If the input voltage is 5 Vpk sinusoid, what is the peak-to-peak 372. Equation referring to the thermal emission of electrons from
voltage out of this clipper. metals. (0 correct answers)
a) 3V a) Thermal equation
b) 5V b) Richardson – Dushman equation
c) 0V c) KVL
d) 8V d) Shockley’s equation
360. What do you call the maximum reverse bias voltage that a 373. Which of the following statements is false?
diode will be exposed to in a rectifier? a) Carbon resistors can be internally shorted
a) Peak Reverse Voltage b) Temperature has little effect on the
b) Breakdown voltage capacitance rating of most varactors
c) Peak Inverse Voltage c) Maximum voltage appears across an open
d) Paramount voltage circuit
361. A graph which shows the relationship between the armature d) A forward biased varactor diode has the
generated emf and the field excitation in terms of field same forward characteristics as a standard
current. rectifier diode
a) Magnetization curve 374. The fading of oscillation for an oscillator will happen when
b) Regulation curve _____________.
c) Hysteresis curve a) Aβ < 1
d) Load curve b) Aβ > 1
362. Thyratrons in industrial electronics refer to _______. c) Aβ = 2
a) A gas-filled triode d) Aβ = 1
b) A vacuum tube 375. FET is a unipolar device because ___________.
c) An electronic triode a) There is only one current direction
d) A gas-filled diode b) Its conduction is due only to one type of
363. What do you call a oscillator circuit that uses a tapped coil in charge carrier
the tuned circuit? c) It has only one terminal
a) Hartley d) It needs only one supply
b) Colpitts 376. A bias that needs a dual polarity power supply and the base
c) Ultraudion grounded.
d) Pierce a) Common base
364. Which are the three terminals of bipolar transistor? b) Base bias
a) Base, collector and emitter c) Voltage divider bias
b) Cathode, plate and grid d) Emitter bias
c) Input, output and ground 377. ______________ is a type of linear voltage used in application
d) Gate, source and sink where the load on the unregulated voltage source must be
365. At the present time, what types of electronic devices dominate kept constant.
the field of electronics? (0 correct answers) a) A constant current source
a) Vacuum tube b) A shunt current source
b) Semiconductor c) A series regulator
c) GaAs d) A shunt regulator
d) Plasma 378. Process of repairing the ruptured crystal structure caused by
366. Which of the following is the heaviest? ion implantation by heating.
a) Deuterium a) Annealing
b) Protium b) Photolithography
 c) Diffusion b) 12
d) Czochralski technique c) 3.5
379. What appropriate diode model is used for mathematical circuit d) 10
analysis? 392. When the ohmmeter is connected with its negative terminal to
a) Practical the base of an npn transistor and its negative terminal to the
b) First approximation emitter, what is the most probable value that will be
c) Ideal displayed?
d) Complete a) 10k Ω
380. A JFET biasing technique that uses a source resistance to b) 1k Ω
establish a reverse bias at the gate-source junction. c) 0Ω
a) Self - bias d) 100k Ω
b) Drain bias 393. Capacitor used to establish an ac ground at a specific point in a
c) Gate bias circuit.
d) Source bias a) Coupling
381. How many diodes will you use to have a basic half-wave b) Bypass
rectifier? c) Electrolytic
a) Two d) Choke
b) Four 394. Which is the advantage of using fast fuses rather than a
c) One crowbar in protecting electron tubes from arcing?
d) Three a) Lower cost
382. The following are some of the common applications of b) Highest cost
transformer on low-power electronics and control circuits c) Fast fuse should be replaced after each
except. fault
a) Isolation incompatible circuit d) Fast fuse is faster-acting than crowbar
b) Biasing 395. Among the common emitter h-parameters, which is the
c) Impedance matching smallest?
d) Maximum power transfer a) hfe
383. What are the minority carriers for a Si bar doped with gallium? b) hre
(0 correct answers) c) hce
a) Neutrons d) hie
b) Protons 396. Emission of electrons from a material by adding light energy.
c) Free electrons a) Thermionic emission
d) Holes b) High field emission
384. The lower and higher cutoff frequencies are 10 Hz and 1000 Hz c) Photoelectric emission
respectively. What is the value of the quality factor? d) Secondary emission
a) 10 397. It is the term for the phenomenon wherein the current and
b) 1.015 voltage are inversely proportional.
c) 1005 a) Inverse current voltage
d) 0.1 b) Negative resistance
385. Among the common emitter h-parameters, which is the c) Negative I-V
largest? d) Reverse ohm’s law phenomenon
a) hce 398. What term applies to the use of two or more generators to
b) hie supply a common load?
c) hre a) On-line operation
d) hfe b) Cascaded operation
386. It consists of a single coil rotated in a magnetic field and c) Series operation
produces an AC voltage. d) Parallel operation
a) Field winding 399. It is a capacitor placed in shunt with VCC to prevent its voltage
b) Elementary generator to vary in a common collector circuit.
c) Armature a) Source capacitor
d) Commutator b) Collector bypass capacitor
387. What is the typical efficiency of RC-Coupled class A amplifier? c) Coupling capacitor
a) 78.54% d) Varactor
b) 10% 400. A variation of Colpitts oscillator which employs a small
c) 25% capacitance in addition to the two capacitors to reduce the
d) 50% effect of stray capacitance.
388. What is the lagging effect between the magnetizing force a) Armstrong oscillator
applied and the flux density? b) Clap
a) Eddy Current c) Wien-bridge oscillator
b) Reluctance d) Hartley oscillator
c) Hysteresis 401. Which of the VT devices is secondary emission a major
d) Permeance problem?
389. The power dissipated across the resistance in an AC circuit a) Hexode
a) Real power b) Pentode
b) Apparent power c) Triode
c) Reactive power d) Tetrode
d) True power 402. Electron tube equivalent to solid state SCR.
390. A graph of all the possible combinations of VGS and ID of an a) Triode
FET. b) Thyratron
a) Transconductance curve c) CRT
b) Drain curve d) VTVM
c) Beta curve 403. A high-power MOSFET that has a short channel and heavily
d) Gate curve doped n-type region.
391. A good material conductor should have ________. a) NMOS
a) 1 b) PMOS
 c) LDMOS d) Ground
d) CMOS 417. How many op-amps does a window comparator require?
404. Which is the correct way to turn-on a Shockley diode? a) 4
a) Apply positive trigger b) 2
b) Exceed forward breakover voltage c) 1
c) Apply negative trigger d) 3
d) Apply pulses to the gate 418. A DIAC is equivalent to inverse parallel combination of
405. A two-terminal, bidirectional thyristor. ______________.
a) DIAC a) Shockley
b) Diode b) BJT
c) Shockley c) Schottky
d) TRIAC d) SCR
406. Solve for flux density (in gauss) for a magnetic flux of 5,000 Mx 419. Change in frequency by a factor of 2.
through a perpendicular area of 2 cm x 5 cm. a) Octave
a) 50 G b) Octane
b) 5,000 G c) Decade
c) 500 G d) Fascade
d) 10,000 G 420. What is the range of audio frequency?
407. Another name for trivalent atoms. a) 3 to 30 kHz
a) Acceptor b) 16 to 20,000 Hz
b) Intrinsic c) 10 to 2,000 Hz
c) Pentagon structure d) 10 to 10,000 Hz
d) Donor 421. What condition does resonance occurs in an electrical circuit?
408. Which of the following semiconductor device has nearly the a) When power factor is at minimum
same characteristics as the thyratron? b) When the square root of the product of the
a) Schottky capacitive and inductive reactances is equal
b) TRIAC to the resonant frequency
c) SCR c) When the inductive and capacitive
d) Schockley reactances are equal
409. Which is a common use for point contact diode? d) When the square root of the sum of the
a) As a constant current source capacitive and inductive reactances equal to
b) As a constant voltage source the resonant frequency
c) As an RF detector 422. The base SI unit of luminous intensity is ____________.
d) As a high voltage rectifier a) Lux
410. Which of the following biasing techniques is designed only for b) Lumen
certain tubes? c) Lambert
a) Fixed bias d) Candela
b) Grid-leak bias 423. One way to increase the amplification capability of a triode is
c) Emitter feedback ___________.
d) Self-bias a) To space widely the control grid wires
411. What is the ideal voltage regulation of a power supply? b) To connect it in common anode
a) 0% configuration
b) 50% c) To space closely the control grid wires
c) 1% d) To apply positive voltage to the grid
d) 100% 424. Another name for attenuation factor?
412. A point in the characteristic curve of a diode where the current a) dB
suddenly rises. b) Loss
a) Peak voltage c) Negative gain
b) Knee voltage d) feedback fraction
c) Valley voltage 425. Which of the following is the unit of electric field?
d) Trigger voltage a) Ampere/meter
413. This effect becomes significant when the operating frequency b) Newton/Coulomb
of the vacuum tube is increased. c) Volts
a) Ohm d) Gilbert
b) Edison 426. A coil placed on a wave wound armature for mechanical
c) Transmit time balance.
d) Seebeck a) Demagnetizing coil
414. Square-loop materials are called as such because of the shape b) Auxiliary coil
o their hysteresis loop. They are used in switching circuits and c) Compensating coil
as a storage element because of their bistable characteristics. d) Dummy coil
_____________ is one of the example of square loop material. 427. The definite discrete amount of energy required to move an
a) Steel electron from a lower shell to a higher shell.
b) Alnico a) Quantum
c) Perminvar b) Negative Energy
d) Ferrite c) Positive energy
415. Bias wherein there is a moderate flow of plate current. d) Quanta
a) Positive grid bias 428. Oscillator that employs a transformer in parallel with a
b) Cutoff bias capacitor.
c) More than cutoff bias a) Hartley oscillator
d) Less than cutoff bias b) Armstrong oscillator
416. The base of transistor serves as a purpose to what element of c) Colpitts oscillator
the FET? d) Clapp
a) Gate 429. A circuit whose output is proportional to the rate of change of
b) Substrate the input voltage.
c) Source a) Schmitt trigger
 b) Level detector 442. Calculate the output current of a Wilson current source given
c) Integrator that IREF=10mA and β is 50.
d) Differentiator a) 500mA
430. Which of the basic op-amp circuit require no feedback? b) 9.61mA
a) Comparator c) 2mA
b) Integrator d) 9.99mA
c) Differentiator 443. ____________is the term used to express the amount of
d) Summer electrical energy in an electrostatic field.
431. A process of constant loses of free electrons and then a) Joules
regaining them is called _______. b) Coulomb
a) Induction c) Watts
b) Polarization d) Volts
c) Electron gaining 444. Which is the usual way to turn on as SCR?
d) Ionization a) Applying positive gate current
432. Electrical classification of materials having 5 to 8 valence b) Exceeding forward breakover voltage
electrons. c) Applying negative gate current
a) Conductor d) Applying base current
b) Insulator 445. Which of the following semiconductor devices has nearly the
c) Compound same characteristics as the VR tube?
d) Semiconductor a) Zener diode
433. Steel is hard to magnetize because of its b) Tunnel
__________________. c) DIAC
a) High retentivity d) SCR
b) Low permeability 446. What does an integrated digital circuit generally made of?
c) High permeability a) Thin-film
d) High density b) Plastic film
434. It describes the dc operating characteristics of the BJT in either c) Hybrid
saturation or active. d) Monolithic
a) Active mode characteristics 447. The first quadrant of the diode characteristic curve is where
b) On characteristics the diode appears as
c) Off characteristics a) High resistance
d) Saturation characteristics b) Open switch
435. What is the resonant frequency of a circuit when L=2 µH and c) High voltage
C=30 pF are in series? d) Close switch
a) 20.5 MHz 448. Meaning of the term transition region with regard to a
b) 20.5 kHz transistor.
c) 2.65 MHz a) The area of maximum N-type charge
d) 2.65 kHz b) An area of low charge density around the P-
436. DC operating point of a BJT when there is no signal. N junction
a) Quiet point c) The area of maximum P-type charge
b) Midpoint d) The point where wire leads are connected
c) Dc point to the P-or-N type material
d) Q-point 449. Which is the most commonly used BJT amplifier configuration?
437. In a system with MOS devices, the main bus loading factor is a) CC
likely to be ________. b) CB
a) Resistive c) CE
b) Capacitive d) CS
c) Current 450. The term cut-off for a transistor refers to _________.
d) static charge a) Maximum current flow from emitter to
438. It is defined as the opposition of a material to being collector
magnetized b) The transistor is at its operating point
a) Resistance c) There is no base current
b) Permeability d) No current flow from emitter to collector
c) Capacitance 451. Which will increase with an increase in reverse bias? (0 correct
d) Reluctance answers)
439. Kind of AC-motor, light load high speed or high speed or high a) Doping level
load low speed. b) Surface-leakage current
a) Split case motor c) Temperature
b) Universal motor d) Saturation current
c) Squirrel cage motor 452. What happens to the resistance of copper wire when its
d) Synchronous motor temperature is raised?
440. Find the flux density in gauss having a flux of 20,000 Mx a) Decrease
through a perpendicular area of 2 cm squared. b) Zero
a) 22,000 G c) Steady
b) 40,000 G d) Increase
c) 10,000 G 453. Line representing all the dc operating points of the BJT.
d) 20,000 G a) Operating line
441. The terminal voltage of a shunt-wound generator drops due to b) AC loadline
the following reasons except c) Collector curve
a) Voltage drop due to armature reaction d) DC loadline
b) Voltage drop due to shunt-field resistance 454. IC production method to prevent unwanted interaction
c) Voltage drop due to weakened shunt-field between elements within a chip.
d) Voltage drop due to armature circuit a) Evaporation
resistance b) Diffusion
c) Cathode sputtering
 d) Isolation 467. ____________ is the term used to express the ratio of change
455. What is the circuit fusing rating of the 2N682-92 series of SCR? in the DC collector current to a change in base current in a
a) 56 A bipolar transistor.
b) 1A2s a) Alpha
c) 10 A b) Gamma
d) 93 A2s c) Delta
456. An encoder is an MSI (medium scale integration) circuit that d) Beta
a) Provides a storage of a certain number of 468. For UJT, it is the region between the peak and valley points.
binary bits a) Active region
b) Provides for delivery one of two more b) Saturation
inputs to an output c) Negative resistance region
c) Selects a given output based on binary d) Trigger region
input code 469. Calculate the output current of a three-transistor current
d) Provides an output that corresponds to source given that IREF=10mA and β is 50.
which of a set of input line is true a) 2mA
457. What is the voltage regulation when the full load voltage is the b) 9.99mA
same as no-load voltage assuming a perfect voltage source? c) 500mA
a) 0% d) 9.61mA
b) 10% 470. What is the rotor angle movement per step if there are 48
c) 100% steps per revolution for a given stepper motor?
d) 1% a) 1.50
458. A TRIAC is equivalent to inverse parallel combination of b) 300
a) SCR c) 50
b) BJT d) 7.50
c) Shockley 471. What is the typical slew rate of Fairchild 741 op-amp?
d) Schottky a) 10V/µs
459. A __________network is a two-port circuit made up of a b) 1 V/µs
repeated L, T, Pi or H networks. c) 0.5 V/µs
a) Ladder d) 3.333V/µs
b) Hybrid 472. To determine the constant losses of a dynamo, it must be run
c) Hierarchy as a motor at _____ and rated speed.
d) Lattice a) Half-load
460. ___________ is the voltage applied in direct current circuit b) Twice of full load
having a power of 36 watts and a total resistance of 4 Ω. c) No load
a) 12 V d) Full-load
b) 9V 473. Find the current that flows through the filament of a 400 watts
c) 24 V flat iron connected to a 220 volt power line.
d) 6V a) 5 mA
461. Type of clipper that has an output when the diode is forward b) 50 mA
biased. c) 500 mA
a) Positive clipper d) 5A
b) Forward clipper 474. It is a type of diode limiter that converts an AC input varying in
c) Rectifier amplitude to a varying dc level.
d) Series clipper a) Limiter
462. What is the atomic number of silicon? b) AM detector
a) 4 c) Varistor
b) 6 d) FM detector
c) 32 475. What is the oscillator of a radar receiver?
d) 14 a) Hartley oscillator
463. One of the electronic semiconductor devices known as diac, b) Klystron oscillator
function as c) Product detector
a) Three terminal bi-directional switch d) Detector
b) Four terminal multi-directional switch 476. It is the ability of a voltage regulator to maintain a constant dc
c) Two terminal bi-directional switch output voltage regardless of variations in rectifier output.
d) Two terminal unidirectional switch a) Line regulation
464. Unit of energy equal to the energy acquired by an electron in b) Efficiency
passing through a potential difference of 1V. c) Load regulation
a) Conduction band energy d) Regulation constant
b) Energy gap 477. Grain-oriented steel is used in this type of core construction.
c) Electronvolt a) Core type
d) Joule b) Shell type
465. How much is the resistance of germanium slag 10 cm long and c) Wound-core type
cross sectional area of 1 squared cm? d) Distributed type
a) 55 kohm 478. How can electrical current be induced with a coil and magnet.
b) 550 ohm a) Placing the coil at right angles with the
c) 550 kohm magnetic field
d) 5.5 kohm b) Moving either the magnet or the coil
466. Calculate the CMRR of a voltage follower whose common c) Holding the coil and the magnet perfectly
mode gain is 0.005. stationary
a) 200 d) Placing the coil parallel to the magnet field
b) 0.005 479. It is the voltage lying on the horizontal axis of the collector
c) 1 curve at which the base currents will intersect if they are
d) -45dB projected to the left.
a) Thermal voltage
b) Cut-off voltage
 c) Early voltage a) It would double
d) Saturation voltage b) It would remain the same
480. The ability of a tuned circuit to maintain oscillation. c) It would be reduced by ½
a) Tuned effect d) It would increase four times
b) Flywheel effect 492. Common - base (CB) amplifier has ___________ compared to
c) Barkhausen effect common - emitter (CE) and common - collector (CC) amplifier.
d) Edison effect a) A larger current gain
481. The base resistance RE as seen by the emitter circuit is b) A higher input resistance
a) RB /(β+1) c) A lower input resistance
b) αRB d) A larger voltage gain
c) β/ RB 493. A dc voltage supply is measured at 50 volts and drops to 45 V
d) (β+1) RB when the load is connected. What is the value of “voltage
482. The filter in the output of a power supply is a ________. regulation”?
a) Band reject filter a) 11.11%
b) Band pass filter b) 50%
c) Low pass filter c) 5%
d) High pass filter d) 50%
483. The lagging of the magnetic flux density to the variation in the 494. Color whose wavelength from 455 to 490 nm.
magnetizing force applied is called ___________. a) Orange
a) Thevenin’s b) Red
b) KCL c) Blue
c) Magnetization d) Violet
d) Hysteresis 495. What are the advantages in using an LED?
484. What do you call the phenomenon whereby substance attracts a) High lumens per cm per cm and low voltage
pieces of iron? requirements
a) Electromagnetism b) Low power consumption and long life
b) Magnetism c) High lumens per cm per cm and low power
c) Naturalism consumption
d) Permeability d) A current flows when he device is exposed
485. A transistor acts as __________ when saturated. to a light source
a) Very low resistance 496. Emission of electrons from a material by application of a very
b) Very high resistance high voltage.
c) Variable resistance a) Photoelectric emission
d) Open circuit b) Secondary emission
486. Which scheme in identifying the terminals of the LED is c) High field emission
incorrect? d) Thermionic emission
a) One lead may be electroplated and the 497. IC’s whose components are passive elements either resistors
plated side is usually the cathode. or capacitors.
b) One of the leads maybe flattened and the a) Film IC
flattened lead is usually the cathode b) Hybrid IC
c) One side of the case may be flattened and c) Substrate
the lead closest to the flattened side is d) Monolithic IC
usually the cathode. 498. Tetrodes and pentodes are usually rated by their
d) The leads may have different lengths and ___________.
the longer of the two leads is usually the a) voltage gain
anode b) gm
487. The power dissipated in the winding due to their resistance is c) rp
called __________. d) µ
a) Eddy-current loss 499. When you demagnetize properly by applying an AC field and
b) Iron loss then gradually reduced it to zero, it is called
c) Hysteresis loss a) Decaying
d) Copper loss b) Damping
488. The minimum VGS that turns an E-MOSFET. c) Gaussing
a) 0V d) Degaussing
b) 26mV 500. What is the voltage across a reverse biased diode in series with
c) Trigger a 10 V dc source and 1 kΩ resistor?
d) Threshold voltage a) 10V
489. Ohms law refers to ________________. b) 0.3V
a) Power is directly proportional to resistance c) 0V
and inversely as the current squared d) 0.7V
b) Current varies directly as the voltage and 501. When the power supply is first turned on, the output is all right
inversely as the resistance but after a few minutes, the dc output voltage drops to 0 and
c) Power is directly proportional to both then the fuse blows. Which of the following could be the
voltage squared and the resistance probable reason for this?
d) Current is directly proportional to both a) Leaky filter capacitor
voltage and resistance b) Shorted secondary winding of the
490. Find the magnetomotive force of a circuit having 10 V across a transformer
relay, 50 turns of 2.5 Ω resistance. c) Shorted primary winding of the transformer
a) 200At d) Open load resistance
b) 2000 At 502. The maximum value of ID for JFET.
c) 20 At a) 10mA
d) 20,000 At b) 100 A
491. Other factors remaining constant, what would be the effect on c) IDSS
the current flow in the current flow in a given circuit if the d) Imax
applied potential were doubled?
503. What phenomenon in electronics does an avalanche b) Schottky
breakdown primarily dependent? c) Germanium diode
a) Ionization d) Tunnel
b) Collision 516. What happens to the input resistance of an amplifier
c) Recombination employing current-shunt feedback?
d) Doping a) It is decreased
504. What happens to the input resistance of an amplifier b) It is increased
employing voltage - shunt feedback? c) Equals infinity
a) It is increased d) It remains the same
b) It remains the same 517. Which of the following is not a use as a cathode for vacuum
c) Equals infinity tube electronic devices?
d) It is decreased a) Tungsten
505. A type of multivibrator that has no stable state. b) Thoriated tungsten
a) Monostable c) Carbon
b) Zerostable d) Oxide coated nickel
c) Bistable 518. What is the rotor angle movement per step if there are 240
d) Astable steps per revolution for a given stepper rotor.
506. The load resistance should be ______ the plate resistance for a) 5o
the least distorted output voltage of a triode. b) 7.5o
a) 2/3 of c) 1.5o
b) Ten times d) 30o
c) Equal to 519. This type of winding connection is formed by taking the leads
d) Twice or thrice of of the first coil and connecting them to commutator bars
507. This type of magnetic core is usually made up anL-shaped a) Lap winding
laminations. b) Wave winding
a) Wound-core type c) Series winding
b) Shell type d) Frog-leg winding
c) Cylindrical type 520. A hole is electrically _________.
d) Core type a) Neutral
508. An external voltage applied to a junction reduces its barrier b) Negative
and aid current to flow through the junction. c) Positive
a) External bias d) Proton
b) Forward bias 521. The minimum value of VGS that will cause the drain current to
c) Reverse bias drop to zero.
d) Junction bias a) 0V
509. Listing of all the significant parameters and operating b) Thermal voltage
characteristics of a device. c) Gate-source cutoff voltage
a) Specification sheet d) 26 mV
b) Devices listing 522. What is the pi-network?
c) Menu bar a) A network consisting of one inductor and
d) Parameter list two capacitors or two inductor and one
510. A VT triode having an amplification factor of 100 is considered capacitor
to be b) An antenna matching network that is
a) Low power isolated form ground
b) Mid - µ c) A network consisting entirely of four
c) High - µ inductors or four capacitors
d) Low - µ d) A power incidence network.
511. Which of the following is not an essential parts of an 523. Power source that converts desired electricity to the other.
oscillator? a) Power collectors
a) A resistor IC combination circuit. b) Motor set
b) Source of energy that supply the losses in c) Motor-generators set
tank circuit. d) Voltage regulators
c) Regenerative feedback circuit. 524. A varactor diode with a high capacitance ratio can be used in
d) Resonant circuit consists of inductance and _________.
capacitance. a) Tuning fork
512. It is the maximum permissible value of dc forward current for a b) Coarse tuning
diode. c) Fine tuning
a) Average forward current d) Phase tuning
b) Peak current 525. The current needed to operate a soldering iron which has a
c) Allowable current rating of 600 watts at 110 volts is
d) Dc current a) 5.455 A
513. Voltage that is present at the output of an operational b) 0.182 A
amplifier with its two inputs grounded. c) 18,200 A
a) Ground voltage d) 66,000 A
b) Output offset voltage 526. When a voltage of 100 V at 50 Hz is applied to a choking coil A,
c) Input offset voltage the current taken is 8A and the power is 120 W, when applied
d) Common mode signal to coil B, the current is 10A and the power is 120 W. What will
514. _________ for a transistor to be cut-off. be taken when 100 V is applied to the two coils connected in
a) There is no base current series?
b) Maximum current flows from emitter to a) 1454 W
collector b) 70 W
c) The transistor is at its operating point c) 140 W
d) No current flows from emitter to collector d) 4737 W
515. A high-speed diode with very small junction capacitance. 527. The forward current rating of LED is in what typical range?
a) Silicon diode a) 2mA to 50mA
 b) 100µA to 100mA 540. Electromotive force can be induced in a coil using the following
c) 1mA to 100mA method except
d) 200µA to 50mA a) Moving the magnetic field source and coil
528. The reverse current flowing through a photodiode with no light with the same velocity
input. b) Varying the magnitude of the magnetic field
a) Saturation current c) Moving the magnetic field source towards
b) Dark current the coil
c) Leakage current d) Moving the magnetic field source away
d) Light current from the coil
529. This armature construction is made by tightly rolling a thin 541. An MV209 varactor has nominal capacitance of 1 pf. What will
strip of iron sheet into a spiral coil. be its capacitance at 75 oC?
a) Drum type a) 1pf
b) Gramme-ring type b) 1.015pf
c) Shell type c) 2pf
d) Disk type d) 1.025pf
530. The plate is said to be space charge limited under which of the 542. Find the Thevenin’s impedance equivalent across R2 of a linear
following conditions? close circuit having 10 volt supply in series with two resistors
a) Low temperature (R1=50 Ω and R2=200 Ω)
b) High plate current a) 4Ω
c) Low plate voltage b) 4kΩ
d) High plate voltage c) 40 Ω
531. How many turns are needed to produce a magnetizing force of d) 400 Ω
5000 A.t. for a coil of 50 amperes? 543. What is the peak reverse voltage of 1N4007?
a) 5,000 turns a) 50V
b) 500 turns b) 1000V
c) 100 turns c) 600V
d) 1,000 turns d) 400V
532. Reducing the plate and screen-grid voltages of an amplifier will 544. Where do you classify hydrogen as a material?
______ the control - grid cut-off voltage. a) Diamagnetic
a) Stay stable b) Non-magnetic
b) Unstable c) Ferromagnetic
c) Decrease d) Paramagnetic
d) Increase 545. When the ohmmeter is connected with its positive terminal to
533. The forward resistance of a practical thermionic diode is the base of an npn transistor and its negative terminal to the
typically in what range? emitter, what is the most probable value that will be
a) 1KΩ to 10KΩ displayed?
b) 1Ω to 100Ω a) 0Ω
c) 100Ω to 1000Ω b) 10k Ω
d) 10KΩ to 100KΩ c) 1k Ω
534. Find the filter capacitor that will provide 2.5% ripple filtered d) 100k Ω
voltage having a load of 120 mA, full-wave rectified voltage of 546. A three-terminal, bidirectional thyristor.
36V dc and 60Hz supply. a) Diode
a) 320.7 microfarads b) Shockley
b) 3117 microfarads c) DIAC
c) 3207 microfarads d) TRIAC
d) 311.7 microfarads 547. The small value of direct current that flows when a
535. Color whose wavelength ranges from 400 to 455 nm. semiconductor device has a reverse bias.
a) White a) Bias current
b) Red b) Surge current
c) Violet c) Reverse current
d) Black d) Current limit
536. A program that translates instructions written in assembly 548. The arrow in the symbol of a transistor indicates the direction
language into machine code. of ____________.
a) Translator a) Electron current in the emitter
b) Compiler b) Donor ion current
c) Assembler c) Hole current in the emitter
d) Interpreter d) Electron current in the collector
537. Find the value of voltage regulation having a dc voltage of 67 V 549. What is rotor angle movement per step if there are 72 steps
without load with full load current drawn the output drops to per revolution for a given stepper motor?
42 V. a) 30o
a) 62.6% b) 5o
b) 59.5% c) 1.5o
c) 32.5% d) 7.5o
d) 15.9% 550. A given silicon diode has a saturation current of 1µA at 25 oC.
538. Portion of an FET which serves as the path for current. What is the value of the saturation current at 50 oC?
a) Drain a) 2.83 µA
b) Source b) 5.66 µA
c) Channel c) 0 µA
d) Gate d) 1 µA
539. A varactor diode has Ct of 50 pf at 5V and a Cr of 2 for a Vr of 5 551. The metal most often used in metallization process in IC
to 15 V. What will be its capacitance at 15V? fabrication.
a) 48 pf a) Gold
b) 100 pf b) Platinum
c) 52 pf c) Silver
d) 24 pf d) Aluminum
552. How many neutrons does a Uranium 238 have? 565. Term for the phenomena which occur in an electrical circuit
a) 146 when the inductive reactance balances with the capacitive
b) 148 reactance.
c) 149 a) High Q
d) 147 b) Reactive quiescence
553. It is the voltage applied to a pn junction to obtain a desired c) Reactive equilibrium
mode of operation d) Resonance
a) Bias 566. Which is not a trivalent atom?
b) Signal a) In
c) Battery b) Al
d) Electric field c) Bi
554. The resonant circuit of a tuned – collector transistor oscillator d) B
has a resonant frequency of 5 MHz. If the value of capacitance 567. Balancing inputs used to balance an op-amp.
is increased by 50%, calculate the new resonant frequency. a) Offset null
a) 11.25 MHz b) Non- inverting inputs
b) 3.33 MHz c) Inverting inputs
c) 4.08 MHz d) Supply
d) 2.6 MHz 568. The induced emf in a single loop of wire is directly proportional
555. A transistor in which n-type and p-type materials are used is to ___________.
called ________. a) dФ/dt
a) Bipolar b) Magnetic flux (Ф)
b) Unijunction c) dФ(t)dt
c) TTL d) –dФ/dt
d) FET 569. Why are tetrodes and pentodes rated in gm and not in µ?
556. Triodes are usually rated by their __________. (0 correct a) The dc voltage applied to the screen grid
answers) can control their amplification factor thus µ
a) gm is varying
b) rp b) They have no µ
c) µ c) No, they are rated in µ
d) voltage gain d) Their inventors rated them in gm
557. Specification of an Op-amp which describe how fast the output 570. ___________ is the property of magnetic materials which
voltage of an Op-Amp changes no matter how fast the input retain magnetism after magnetizing force is withdrawn.
voltage changes. a) Resistivity
a) Frequency response b) Conductivity
b) Input bias current c) Reluctivity
c) Bias rate d) Retentivity
d) Slew rate 571. An n-type semiconductor layer has a sheet resistance of 100
558. Which is the principal characteristic of a tunnel diode? Ω/square and conductivity of 3000 S/m. What is the thickness
a) A negative resistance region of the layer?
b) A high forward current rating a) 30 µm
c) A very high PIV b) 3.3µm
d) A high forward resistance c) 10 µm
559. Emission of electrons from a material by bombardment of high d) 1µm
speed particles. 572. Why is the resistance of a conductor different for RF current
a) Secondary emission than DC?
b) Thermionic emission a) Current at radio frequency
c) Photoelectric emission b) Because of the Heisenberg effect
d) High field emission c) Because of the insulation conducts
560. Which of the following is a one way conductor? d) Because of skin effect
a) Semiconductor 573. Which is the best way to test if a zener diode is properly
b) Silicon working?
c) Triac a) Both in circuit and out of circuit tests
d) Diode b) Out of circuit test
561. Which of the following is not a valid expression of ohm’s law? c) In circuit test
a) R=E/R d) NSAT
b) I=E/R 574. What does Si magnetic flux refers?
c) R=E/I a) Weber
d) R=PI b) Maxwell
562. Minimum anode current to hold a thyristor at conduction. c) Flux
a) Trigger d) Lines
b) Threshold voltage 575. What JFET operating region corresponds to Saturation of BJT?
c) Holding current a) Cutoff
d) Maintaining current b) Saturation
563. It is the rating indicating the maximum collector current when c) Breakdown
the BJT is in cutoff. d) Ohmic
a) Saturated cutoff current 576. Find the voltage regulation of a generator when full-load
b) Collector cutoff current voltage is 110V and no - load voltage is 120V.
c) Leakage current a) 10%
d) Saturation collector current b) 9.09%
564. When a logic circuit rejects an unwanted signal, this is termed c) 1%
as _________. d) 90.9%
a) Logic levels 577. Which of the following does not have a base terminal?
b) Noise margin a) Npn
c) Power consumption b) Pnp
d) Propagation delay c) UJT
 d) SCR a) C
578. When an SCR is triggered or on conduction, its electrical b) A
characteristics are similar to what other solid-state device (as c) B
measured between its cathode and anode)? (0 correct d) AB
answers) 590. What physical will a two parallel wires and with the same
a) The hot-carrier diode direction of current flowing over them?
b) The junction diode a) Repel each other
c) The varactor diode b) No physical effect
d) The tunnel diode c) Maintain position
579. Which of the following integrated circuits contains the most d) Attract each other
gates? 591. An amplifier that uses an incompletely bypassed emitter
a) MSI resistance to stabilize the gain of the amplifier with
b) LSI temperature variation.
c) SSI a) Voltage divider
d) VLSI b) Unbypassed amplifier
580. Another name for constant current diode. c) Swamped amplifier
a) Current regulator diode d) Class A
b) Zener current diode 592. For how much time can 2N682 handle a surge current of 50 A?
c) Line regulator a) 93 ms
d) Load regulator b) 5 ms
581. __________is the characteristics of an oscillator that enables it c) 37.2 ms
to sustain oscillation after removal of the control stimulus. d) 1.86 ms
a) Forced oscillation 593. The PIV is across a diode when it is ______________.
b) Damping a) On
c) Fly-wheel effect b) Reverse biased
d) Momentum c) Unbiased
582. Which of the principal characteristic of a varactor diode? d) Forward biased
a) It has a negative region 594. Signal generators are classified according to frequency which
b) It has a very high PIV are either a – f or r – f generators, a – f generators are referred
c) It has a constant voltage under conditions to as ___________.
of varying current a) Hartley oscillators
d) Its internal capacitance varies with the b) Signal oscillators
applied voltage c) Frequency oscillators
583. Which of the following statements regarding the closed-loop d) Audio oscillators
gain of an op-amp is false? 595. A term that is used to describe a component that is partly
a) It is always less than the open-loop gain shorted.
b) It can be greater than the open-loop gain a) Partially shorted
c) It is equal to one if the feedback path is a b) Leaky
short circuit c) Semisaturated
d) It depends upon the feedback component d) Active
584. The reason for the thin layer of varnish over the copper coil 596. An LC circuit resonates at 2000 kHz
pattern is to prevent a) 1950 kHz, 2050 kHz
a) Flux b) 1990 kHz, 2010 kHz
b) Corrosion c) 1980 kHz, 2020 kHz
c) Oxidation d) 1900 kHz, 2100 kHz
d) Dioxide 597. What do you call the natural resistance of the forward-biased
585. ___________refers to a function of a decade counter digital IC. diode?
a) Adding two decimal numbers a) Intrinsic resistance
b) Decoding a decimal number for display on b) Equivalent resistance
seven-segment c) Bulk resistance
c) Producing 10 output pulses for every 1 d) Bias resistance
input pulse 598. Silicon diodes are used in a two-diode full-wave rectifier circuit
d) Producing one output for every 10 input to supply a load of 12 volts DC. Assuming ideal diodes and the
pulses load resistance is 12 ohms; compute the efficiency of the
586. It is the measure of effectiveness of the control grid in the rectifier in percentage.
controlling the plate current. a) 5.8
a) Gain b) 95.7
b) Plate resistance c) 75
c) Amplification factor d) 81.2
d) Transconductance 599. What are the only ratings that differentiate the diodes in the
587. The maximum zener voltage of 1N980 and 1N980A 1N400X series from each other?
respectively are _______ and ________ if both have rated VZ a) Operating temperature range
of 62V. b) Reverse voltage ratings
a) 61.5V, 62.8V c) Average rectified forward current
b) 62.8V, 61.5V d) Maximum instantaneous forward voltage
c) 68.2V, 65.1V drop
d) 63V, 64V 600. Loop currents should be assumed to flow in which direction?
588. It includes the guaranteed operating characteristics of the a) Either C or D arbitrarily selected
device. b) Straight
a) Electrical characteristics c) Clockwise
b) Maximum rating d) Counter-clockwise
c) Quiescent point 601. It is the representation of a system that contains one or more
d) Q point of the characteristics of that system.
589. An amplifier class in which a transistor is conducting for half of a) H parameters
the input cycle. b) Ideal
 c) Representative b) The tube will conduct during both halves of
d) Model the input cycle
602. Minimum anode to cathode voltage to the Shockley on. c) Each diode can cool-off during half of each
a) Forward breakover voltage input cycle
b) Trigger d) The ripple frequency is lower
c) Breakdown voltage 616. The suppressor grid suppresses ____________.
d) Holding voltage a) Secondary emission
603. What happens to the input resistance of an amplifier b) Resistance
employing current - series feedback? c) Inductance
a) It is decreased d) Transconductance
b) It is increased 617. The loss of electrical energy in counter balancing the residual
c) It remains the same magnetism in each cycle is called _______________.
d) Equals infinity a) Eddy current loss
604. Which is not the common cause of the diode failure? b) Leakage loss
a) Excessive input frequency c) Hysteresis loss
b) Excessive current d) Copper loss
c) Surpassing the peak reverse voltage 618. is a thin polished slice of a semiconductor crystal on which
d) Component age integrated circuit can be fabricated often in duplicate, for
605. Brushes in a dynamo are commonly made up of cutting into individual dice.
______________. a) Wafer
a) copper b) Gallium
b) graphite c) Silicon
c) Tin d) Indium
d) Steel 619. A vacuum tube that has a high gas content is called _________.
606. The emitter resistance RE as seen by the base circuit is a) VT
______________. b) Hard tube
a) RE c) LT
b) β / RE d) Soft tube
c) αRE 620. An IC constructed entirely on a single silicon chip.
d) ( β+1 ) RE a) Thin-film
607. ___________ is the property of the material which opposes b) Monolithic
creation of magnetic flux. c) Thick-film
a) Resistance d) Hybrid
b) Permeance 621. What is polarity of the 7905 regulator?
c) Conductance a) Neutral
d) Reluctance b) Zero
608. What do you expect when you use two 20 Ω, 1 watt resistor in c) Negative
parallel instead of 10 k Ω, 1 watt? d) Positive
a) Provide lighter current 622. Ratio of the voltage gain of an op-amp for differential signals
b) Provide more power to its voltage gain for common mode signals.
c) Provide less current a) Differential gain
d) Provide wider tolerance b) Common mode rejection ratio
609. What FET terminal corresponds to Collector of BJT? c) Closed loop gain
a) anode d) Common mode gain
b) gate 623. A 33 k Ω resistor connected in series with a parallel
c) Source combination made up of a 56 k Ω resistor and a 7.8 k Ω
d) Drain resistor. What is the total combined resistance of these three
610. _________ has a unit of electronvolt (eV). (0 correct answers) resistors?
a) Energy a) 39,067 Ω
b) Charge b) 63,769 Ω
c) Potential difference c) 49,069 Ω
d) Current d) 95,800 Ω
611. Which is not an advantage of CMOS over TTL logic family? 624. Material used as cathode in early thermionic electron tubes
a) Lower propagation delay because of its high melting point.
b) Greater packing density a) Tungsten
c) Greater fan out b) Silicon
d) Lower power dissipation c) Gold
612. General term for objects allowing the passage of light. d) Carbon
a) Translucent 625. Another name for crowbar.
b) Opaque a) C bar
c) Transparent b) Energy diverter
d) Trap c) Ace bar
613. A heptode tube has how many grids? d) Scare bar
a) 1 626. This breakdown occurs due to the intense electric field at the
b) 5 junction as a result of heavily doped sides of the pn junction.
c) 7 a) Surge
d) 3 b) Avalanche
614. It is a sudden current and voltage spike that has a small c) Zener
duration. d) Overvoltage
a) Peak voltage 627. Group of magnetically aligned atoms.
b) Vdc a) Crystal
c) Transient b) Range
d) Vrms c) Domain
615. An advantage of full-wave rectifier over half-wave rectifier. d) Lattice
a) Output voltage is lower with more ripple 628. Which statement is wrong regarding a class B amplifier?
 a) placed at the input stage 641. Filter that exhibits an extremely fast roll-off rate. Filter that is
b) Two transistors alternately conducting at characterized by a relatively flat passband and slow roll-off
different alternations rate.
c) crossover distortion a) Chebyshev
d) ηMAX = 78.54% b) Butterworth
629. Given that the lower cutoff frequency is 10 Hz and the higher c) Notch
cutoff frequency is 1 kHz. Calculate the center frequency f0. d) Elliptic
a) 1005 Hz 642. Pin 6 of 555 timers.
b) 1.5 kHz a) Threshold
c) 100 Hz b) discharge
d) 1 kHz c) Vcc
630. Which is not true for a schottky diode? d) control voltage
a) Low junction capacitance 643. For the same peak secondary winding voltage, which will differ
b) It uses a metal instead of the p-type for half-wave and full-wave center - tapped rectifiers?
material a) Peak output voltage
c) It has only one pn junction b) Output average voltage
d) High switching speed c) The condition angle of each diode
631. Another name for pentavalent atoms. d) PIV
a) Intrinsic 644. A program that converts an instruments written in a high-level
b) Acceptor language into machine code.
c) Donor a) Interpreter
d) Pentagon structure b) Translator
632. Term used for an out-of-phase, non-productive power c) Assembler
associated with inductors and capacitors. d) Compiler
a) True power 645. An FET can act as an excellent buffer amplifier because
b) Peak envelope power __________.
c) Reactive power a) It has a very high voltage gain and a low
d) Effective power noise level
633. Which of the following refers to the point where the intensity b) It has a high input impedance and a low
of magic lines of force is maximum? output impedance
a) Weak pole c) Smaller size, longer life, and lower
b) Magnetic pole efficiency
c) North pole d) It has a low input impedance and a high
d) Great circle output impedance
634. In electricity, positive electric charge refers to ___________. 646. ------------------_____________ is a major characteristic of an IC.
a) Atoms a) Complication
b) Electrons b) Size
c) Protons c) Speed
d) Neutrons d) Power consumption
635. What is the diode capacitance temperature coefficient of 647. In MOS devices, the oxide is usually _________.
MV209 series varactors? a) MnO
a) 100ppm/oC b) H2O
b) 200ppm/oC c) SiO2
c) 157ppm/oC d) SiO
d) 300ppm/oC 648. How do you describe materials whose permeabilities are a
636. In semiconductor technology, the characteristic of a transistor little greater than that of free space?
in cut-off refers to a condition when __________. a) Paramagnetic
a) The transistor is at its operating point b) Non-magnetic
b) There is no base current c) Ferromagnetic
c) No current flows from emitter to collector d) Diamagnetic
d) Maximum current flows from emitter to 649. The overall gain of an amplifier in cascade is _________.
collector a) The sum
637. Which of the following statements is correct? b) 100% the sum
a) Transistor has two terminals c) The average of each
b) Typical power rating of a carbon- d) The product
composition resistor range from 0.125 W to 650. The two chief elements of an electron tube.
2W a) Plate and anode
c) Open resistor ha small resistance b) Gate and anode
d) Potentiometer has two terminals. c) Anode and cathode
638. The following losses are called variable losses except. d) Gate and base
a) Series field loss 651. How do you call an eight – element vacuum tube?
b) Iron loss a) Hexode
c) Interpole winding loss b) Octode
d) Armature copper loss c) Septode
639. The natural magnet refers to d) Pentode
a) Lodestone 652. A mode of operation for Depletion-type MOSFET to increase
b) Steel the size of the channel.
c) Magnesia a) Depletion mode
d) Soft iron b) Enhancement mode
640. Which is the main advantage of a power supply over a battery? c) Positive mode
a) Less current d) On mode
b) More portable 653. A triac is a/an _________ equivalent of two SCRs.
c) Cheaper a) Parallel-series
d) Less ripple b) Series
c) Parallel
 d) Inverse-parallel 667. Another name for voltage amplifier.
654. A three-terminal, unidirectional thyristor. a) Preamp
a) DIAC b) Power amp
b) Shockley c) CE
c) TRIAC d) CB
d) SCR 668. One of the following characteristics of a resistive material
655. What is the average forward current of 1N4001? which do not change its resistive value with respect to time is
a) 1A its ____________.
b) 3A a) Fidelity
c) 2A b) Stability
d) 4A c) Selectivity
656. The force between two magnetic poles in relation to their pole d) Sensitivity
strength is __________. 669. An electronic semiconductor behaves as _________ at
a) Not related absolute zero temperature.
b) Inversely proportional a) An insulator
c) Independent b) A variable resistor
d) Directly proportional c) A super conductor
657. The term “fully saturated” for a transistor refers to d) A conductor
__________. 670. The input terminal when a VT is used as an amplifier. (0 correct
a) The transistor beta at its maximum value answers)
b) The collector current at its minimum value a) Suppressor grid
c) The collector current at its maximum value b) Screen grid
d) The transistor alpha at its maximum value c) Gate
658. Given that IB = 10µA, hFE(max) = 200, and hFE(min) = 100. d) Control grid
Calculate the probable value of the collector current. 671. __________ refers to circuits with 10 to 100 integrated
a) 1mA circuits.
b) 1.5mA a) MSI
c) 1.41mA b) IC
d) 2mA c) Monolithic
659. Which of the following results to the highest plate current? (0 d) SSI
correct answers) 672. Which of the transistor configuration is used in the output
a) Less than cutoff bias circuit of the op-amp to provide a low output impedance?
b) Positive grid bias a) CB
c) Cutoff bias b) CE
d) More than cutoff bias c) CC
660. Capacitor usually placed at eh base circuit to enable the BJT to d) CG
switch rapidly between cutoff and saturation. 673. What is the residual magnetism?
a) Coupling capacitor a) The flux density when the magnetic core is
b) Source capacitor saturated.
c) Speed-up capacitor b) The external magnetic field when the
d) Bypass capacitor current is flowing through the exciting coil.
661. The four basic circuit blocks that make up a power supply are c) The flux density, which exist in the iron core
___________. when the magnetic field intensity is at its
a) Transformer, clipper, filter, regulator maximum value.
b) Transformer, rectifier, inverter, regulator d) The flux density, which exist in the iron core
c) Transformer, rectifier, filter, regulator when the magnetic field intensity reduced
d) Rectifier, clamper, filter, regulator to zero.
662. To determine the equivalent winding resistance and reactance, 674. A program written in machine language
__________ is commonly performed on a transformer. a) Object program
a) Open-circuit test b) Source program
b) Blocked rotor test c) Language
c) Paraffin test d) Database
d) Short-circuit test 675. The power dissipated in the core due to hysteresis and eddy
663. It is a dc supply that offers both positive and negative dc current losses.
output voltages. a) Friction loss
a) AF generator b) Copper loss
b) Positive-Negative supply c) Iron loss
c) Dual-polarity power supply d) Winding loss
d) Inverse parallel battery 676. It is the component that is used to provide a discharge path for
664. The process of inducing an emf in a loop of wire is the capacitor in a voltage multiplier if the load opens.
called________. a) Tuned circuit
a) Conduction b) Inductive path
b) Photoelectric effect c) Bleeder resistor
c) Electrostatic charging d) Discharging path
d) Electromagnetic induction 677. What is the most stable type of biasing?
665. Diamonds are made of _________. a) Voltage feedback
a) Carbon b) Fixed bias
b) Silicon c) Voltage divider
c) Germanium d) Current feedback
d) Gold 678. Find, which type network, provides the greatest harmonic
666. Which top shape of the LED gives the widest radiation pattern? suppression.
a) Diffused dome a) L-network
b) Aspherical dome b) Pi-L-network
c) Shallow chip spherical dome c) Pi-network
d) Deep chip spherical dome d) Inverse Pi-network
679. What is the peak-to-peak voltage out of the positive series d) Acceleration due to gravity
clipper if the peak of the sinusoidal input voltage is 5V? (0 692. Find the total force producing magnetic flux of a circuit having
correct answers) 40 V applied across a relay coil with 80 turns on a 2Ω
a) 8V resistance.
b) 0V a) 16.0 At
c) 5V b) 16,000 At
d) 3V c) 160.0 At
680. In order to simplify a circuit, in analysis and computation the d) 1600 At
diode is normally assumed as ________. 693. Pin 3 of 555 timers.
a) Infinity a) trigger
b) Imaginary b) Output
c) Zero c) Reset
d) Ideal d) Ground
681. A line representing all the possible values of Ic and Vce. 694. Which of the following is a characteristic of cascaded
a) AC loadline amplifier?
b) Collector curve a) Increased overall gain
c) Small load line b) Total gain is decreased
d) DC loadline c) Double each amplifiers gain
682. The current of an electric circuit is analogous to d) Each amplifiers gain is increased
____________parameter of a magnetic circuit. 695. The minimum emitter to base 1 voltage to trigger the UJT.
a) Mmf a) Peak voltage
b) Reluctivity b) Breakdown voltage
c) Flux density c) Forward breakdown voltage
d) Flux d) Trigger
683. What are the minority carriers for a Si bar doped with 696. The suppressor grid is usually connected to the _________.
antimony? a) screen grid
a) Holes b) anode
b) Free electrons c) positive voltage
c) Neutrons d) cathode
d) Protons 697. The impedance in the study of electronics is represented by
684. Oxide coated emitters uses what method of heating? resistance and ____________.
a) Microwave a) Reactance
b) Directly b) Inductance
c) Indirectly c) Inductance and capacitance
d) Secondary d) Capacitance
685. Another name for vacuum tube diode. 698. A term for a directly heated cathode of thermionic vacuum
a) Thyratron tubes.
b) Fleming valve a) Soft cathode
c) Audion b) Cold cathode
d) Detector c) Filamentary
686. Flow of carriers due to uneven concentration. d) Straight cathode
a) Avalanche 699. A diode is normally chosen that is capable of handling at least
b) Diffusion _______ over the maximum calculated reverse voltage.
c) Breakdown a) 3%
d) Drift b) 5%
687. Find the power across the resistor of 5 Ω delivered from a c) 20%
battery of an internal resistance of 3 Ω and a constant emf of 4 d) 10%
V. 700. A circuit that is used to connect a low – current output to a
a) 1.25 W relatively high current device.
b) 60 W a) Buffer
c) 120 W b) Router
d) 100 W c) Follower
688. The most widely employed electron emission in electron d) Driver
tubes. 701. Indicates the amount of surge power that the transient
a) Secondary suppressor can dissipate.
b) Thermionic a) Peak inverse voltage
c) High field b) Peak suppressor power
d) Photoelectric c) Surge power
689. The ratio of the feedback voltage to the output voltage. d) Peak power dissipation rating
a) Feedback voltage 702. What is the controlling parameter for JFET?
b) Attenuation factor a) VGS
c) Feed fraction b) IB
d) Gain c) IG
690. The term use to describe sudden reverse conduction of an d) ID
electronic component cause by excess reverse voltage across 703. It is a curve showing the relationship between IB and VBE.
the device. a) Collector curve
a) Saturation b) Base curve
b) Revertion c) Beta curve
c) Avalanche d) Emitter curve
d) Cut – off 704. The area of a conductor whose diameter is 0.001 in. is equal to
691. Which of the following constants is needed to calculate the a) One angstrong
wavelength of and electron when is treated as a wave? b) One steradian
a) Faraday’s constant c) One micron
b) Plank’s constant d) One circular mil
c) Boltzmann’s constant
705. The plate is said to be emission limited under which of the c) MOSFET
following conditions? d) CE
a) High plate voltage 718. How many nodes are needed to completely analyze a circuit
b) Low temperature according to kirchoff’s law?
c) Low plate voltage a) One
d) High plate current b) All nodes in the circuit
706. Determine the equivalent work of 166 watt-second. c) One less than the total number of nodes in
a) 166 Joules the circuit
b) 100 Joules d) Two
c) 16.6 Joules 719. The speed of a dc-shunt motor can be slowed down under one
d) 10 Joules of the conditions below.
707. What FET terminal corresponds to Emitter of BJT? a) Increase armature voltage
a) Source b) Decreased field voltage
b) Anode c) Increased field voltage
c) Drain d) Increased armature resistance
d) Gate 720. Relative to an ordinary rectifier diode, which is the correct
708. It is a type of transformer whose secondary voltage is equal to statement regarding an LED?
the primary voltage and used to isolate electrically the power a) It has a higher forward voltage and higher
supply from the AC power line thus protecting the power reverse breakdown voltage
supply and the technician who is working on it. b) It has a lower forward voltage and lower
a) Step-down transformer reverse breakdown voltage
b) Step-up transformer c) It has a lower forward voltage and a higher
c) Isolation transformer reverse breakdown voltage
d) Autotransformer d) It has higher forward voltage and lower
709. An audible tone generated by combining two different reverse breakdown voltage
frequencies in a nonlinear circuit or as sound waves in air is 721. General term for devices made from semiconductor materials.
called _____________. a) Solid state devices
a) Side tone b) Gaseous tube devices
b) Heterodyne c) Vacuum tube devices
c) Beat tone d) Silicon devices
d) Dead beat 722. Find the value of resistor with the following color codes :
710. It is composed of a series of energy levels containing the brown, white, orange, red.
valence electrons. a) 1.9 k Ω 10%
a) Side band b) 19 k Ω 2%
b) Conduction band c) 190 k Ω 10 %
c) Forbidden band d) 19 k Ω 20 %
d) Valence band 723. What FET terminal corresponds to base of BJT?
711. In this type of armature core arrangement, the conductors are a) Source
placed in the slots on the surface of the core. b) Anode
a) Shell type c) Drain
b) Disk type d) Gate
c) Gramme-ring type 724. What is the critical rise rating of 2N682 series SCRs?
d) Drum type a) 40 V / µs
712. If you need to have a zener voltage that is as close to the rated b) 3 V / µs
zener voltage as possible, you need to design the circuit to c) 30 V / µs
have a zener current value equal to this. d) 300 V / µ
a) Regulated current 725. Which is also called one – shot multivibrator?
b) Maximum zener current a) Zerostable
c) Zener test current b) Monostable
d) Minimum zener current c) Astable
713. How many pins do a 555 timer have? d) Bistable
a) 6 726. Which f the following is the probable output if all inputs of a
b) 12 TTL gate are binary one?
c) 8 a) Binary one
d) 10 b) Binary zero
714. Parallel cells have the same voltage as one cell but have c) Determinable
___________. d) Indeterminate
a) Unstable resistance 727. Find the half-power bandwidth of a resonant circuit which has
b) More current capacity a resonant circuit which has a resonant frequency of 1.8 MHz
c) Less current capacity and a Q of 95.
d) Fluctuating power output a) 1.89 kHz
715. Rate of transition from pass band to stop band or vice versa. b) 18.9 kHz
a) Band rate c) 189 Hz
b) Decay rate d) 58.7 kHz
c) Transition rate 728. What is the feedback component of an RC op-amp
d) Roll-off rate differentiator?
716. The op-amp operation where similar signal appear at both a) Inductor
inverting and non inverting inputs? b) Capacitor
a) Double ended c) Resistor
b) Single ended d) Conductor
c) Common mode 729. The only producer of carriers in an intrinsic semiconductor.
d) Differential mode a) Thermal energy
717. Which of the amplifiers has the highest input impedance? b) Doping
a) CC c) Trivalent atom
b) JFET d) Pentavalent atom
730. Which of the following diodes are used in the manufacture of d) 4
ICs to decrease the propagation delay time? 743. What is the peak-to-peak voltage out of the positive clamper
a) Schottky whose input is a 10V peak-to-peak sinusoidal voltage?
b) Tunnel a) 0V
c) Fast switching diode regulator b) 3V
d) Zener c) 5V
731. If the gain of an amplifier without feedback is 10 and with d) 10V
negative feedback is 8, then the feedback fraction is 744. A discrete particle of light.
a) 0.025 a) Phon
b) 0.8 b) Son
c) 0.9 c) Photon
d) 0.225 d) Font
732. How many Maxwells is 4000 lines of magnetic force? 745. What is the most important specification for semiconductor
a) 4000 diode?
b) 400 a) Forward resistance
c) 200 b) Peak inverse voltage
d) 2000 c) Current capacity
733. In a high-fidelity system, the pair of filter, which separate d) Reverse resistance
audio frequency band signals into two separate groups, one of 746. Which is not true regarding a CMOS inverter?
which is fed to the tweeter and the other to the woofer, is a) Increasing the input frequency, decreases
called the power dissipation
a) Bridge network b) Full logical zero and one levels are
b) Matching transformer presented at the output
c) Crossover network c) Essentially no current flows for logic zero or
d) Equalizer logic one input
734. A BJT that has an hfe of 100 has an hfc of ____________. d) For devices of similar dimensions PMOS is
a) Infinity lower than NMOS
b) -101 747. What two elements widely used in semiconductor devices that
c) 100 exhibit both metallic and non-metallic characteristics?
d) Zero a) Silicon and Germanium
735. Which is not an application of clipper? b) Galena and Germanium
a) Circuit transient protection c) Silicon and Gold
b) Oscillator d) Galena and Bismuth
c) Changing the shape of the waveform 748. The development of monocrystalline structure by controlled
d) Detection cooling of a molten material.
736. What is the exact overall β of a Darlington amplifier composed a) Conversion
of 2 BJTs with βs of 100 and 200? b) Molding
a) 300 c) Crystal growth
b) 20,300 d) Crystallization
c) 200 749. Which of the following does not result into high amplification
d) 20,000 factor for triode?
737. What is the peak reverse voltage of 1N4001? a) Grid wires closer to the cathode
a) 50V b) Closely spaced grid wires
b) 200V c) High transconductance
c) 100V d) Low plate resistance
d) 25V 750. The bigger the diameter of a wire, the ________is its
738. How do zener diodes widely used? resistance.
a) Current limiter a) Stable
b) Variable resistors b) Lesser
c) Power collectors c) Unstable
d) Voltage regulators d) Higher
739. Which of the following is not a characteristic of an indirectly 751. Another name for second approximation model
heated cathode? a) Two component
a) It is more efficient than its directly heated b) Complete
counterpart because no heat is lost in the c) Ideal
transfer d) Practical
b) Prevents the unwanted ac from getting into 752. The duration of time between electron-hole pair generation
the anode circuit and recombination.
c) The filament and the cathode are a) Propagation delay
electrically isolated b) Generation time
d) Longer warm up time c) Accessing time
740. The h - parameter hi is a ________. d) Lifetime
a) Forward current gain 753. It is a constant current regulator which is used to maintain a
b) Resistance constant input current to a circuit.
c) Conductance a) Power supply
d) Reverse voltage gain b) Series current regulator
741. Which is not true regarding a MOSFET? c) Voltage regulator
a) Drain current can be greater than IDSS d) Shunt current regulator
b) Also called IGFET 754. The transformer is called a __________ if the primary voltage
c) It is a special kind of JFET is greater than the secondary voltage
d) Gate current is always zero a) Autotransformer
742. A two-pole, one-phase motor has __________field poles. b) Step-up transformer
a) 8 c) Isolation transformer
b) 6 d) Step-down transformer
c) 2 755. Which statement is wrong regarding screen grid?
 a) Reduces plate resistance b) Maximum voltage swing will increase
b) Increases amplification c) Open-loop voltage gain will increase
c) Increases plate current d) Large variation in the input offset current
d) Reduces the control grid to plate 768. What is the most positive voltage out of a negative clamper
capacitance whose input is 10 peak - to - peak sinusoidal voltages?
756. What happens to the output resistance of an amplifier a) 3V
employing voltage-shunt feedback? b) 10V
a) Equals infinity c) 0V
b) It is increased d) 5V
c) It remains the same 769. PNP transistor has the following arrangement ____________.
d) It is decreased a) P-type base, N-type emitter, P-type
757. What is the law whereby the force of attraction and repulsion collector
between proportional to the square of the distance between b) P-type collector, N-type base, P-type
them? emitter
a) Norton’s law c) P-type emitter, N-type collector, P-type
b) Newton’s First Law base
c) Newton’s Second Law d) P-type emitter, N-type base, P-type
d) Coulomb’s Second Law collector
758. Comparator with hysteresis. 770. An inductor opposes
a) Voltage follower a) An increase in current
b) Schmitt trigger b) A decrease in current
c) Level detector c) An increase in voltage
d) Window comparator d) Both increase and decrease in current
759. Pin 1 of 555b timer. 771. Which of the following is not a popular biasing technique for
a) Output vacuum tubes?
b) Reset a) Fixed bias
c) Ground b) Self bias
d) trigger c) Grid-leak bias
760. When an atom gains an additional __________, it results to a d) VDB
negative ion. 772. Pin 2 of 555 timers.
a) Neutron a) Output
b) Proton b) trigger
c) Atom c) Ground
d) Electron d) Reset
761. Process of liberating electrons from a material by adding heat 773. _________ is an orderly pattern of combined silicon atoms.
energy. a) Semiconductor
a) Thermionic emission b) Valence orbit
b) Secondary emission c) Covalent bond
c) Photoelectric emission d) Crystal
d) High field emission 774. The magnetic flux through the loop of wire is maximum when
762. Bias that causes a pn junction to have a high resistance. the angle between the magnetic lines of force and the normal
a) Reverse line drawn perpendicular to the area inside the loop is
b) Forward ___________apart.
c) Cutoff a) 0o
d) Maximum resistance b) 90o
763. Which of the following company was first to develop an op- c) 60o
amp. d) 45o
a) Intel 775. It is a type of Rom the contents of which can be erased by
b) ROHM exposure to UV radiation.
c) Fairchild a) EEPROM
d) Texas instrument b) EPROM
764. To limit the current during starting, a __________ is inserted c) PROM
with the armature circuit. d) EAPROM
a) Resistor in series 776. The region in an electronic transistor that is lightly doped and
b) Resistor in parallel very thin is referred to the __________.
c) Capacitor in series a) Base
d) Inductor in parallel b) Collector
765. A filter having a single continuous transmission band with c) Emitter
neither the upper nor the lower cut-off frequencies being zero d) Collector-base
or infinite is called 777. The conductance of a circuit having three 10 Ω resistors in
a) Band-rejection filter parallel is
b) Longitudinal suppression filter a) 0.30
c) Band-pass filter b) 0.333 S
d) High-pass filter c) 30 S
766. A fuse in series with the primary winding of the transformer d) 3.33 S
limits the primary current to 3A. If the transformer turns ratio 778. A biasing technique wherein the emitter voltage will directly
1:5, what is the maximum permissible value of secondary effect the base voltage
current? a) Emitter bias
a) 3A b) VDB
b) 600mA c) Collector bias
c) 5A d) Emitter feedback bias
d) 15A 779. Which is not true for both complementary-symmetry amplifier
767. Which statement is wrong regarding µA741 when its supply and standard push - poll amplifier?
voltage is increases? a) Usually operating in Class B
a) Increase power consumption b) One npn and one pnp used
 c) Uses two transistors c) 30
d) The emitters of the two transistors are d) 40
connected together 792. The power dissipation factor of a zener diode is 500mW and
780. What elements possess four valence electrons? the derating factor is 3.33mW / 0C above 50 0C. What is
a) Conductors maximum dc power dissipation for the device at 80 0C?
b) Semi conductors a) 600mW
c) Insulators b) 300mW
d) Semi-insulators c) 400mW
781. ________ is the physical motion resulting from the forces of d) 500mW
magnetic fields. 793. What is the feedback element of a differentiator?
a) Repulsion a) Inductor
b) Rotation b) Resistor
c) Motor action c) RC network
d) Torque action d) Capacitor
782. It is the biasing technique that is primarily used in switching 794. Happens when the plate is sufficiently positive to attract all the
circuits space charge electrons.
a) Collector feedback bias a) Hi–fi amplication
b) Base bias b) Plate current saturation
c) VDB c) Grid leak
d) Emitter feedback bias d) Cutoff
783. It is the factor by which the capacitance of the varactor 795. Diode characteristic curve relates _____________.
changes from one specified value of reverse voltage to a) IC and VCE
another. b) ID and VD
a) Capacitance factor c) VD and time
b) Variance factor d) ID and time
c) Reactance factor 796. Which of the following is a good practice in replacing
d) Capacitance ratio capacitors in voltage multipliers?
784. Distortion at the lower end of the load line. a) The replacement capacitors must have the
a) Saturation clipping same or higher voltage ratings than the
b) Cutoff clipping originals
c) Compliance clipping b) Reversing the capacitor polarity
d) Lower end noise c) Using a smaller value capacitor but with
785. What do you call the force that sets up for tends to set up higher voltage rating
magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit? d) Using a smaller value capacitor but with
a) Electromotive force lower voltage rating
b) Magnetomotive force 797. What special type of diode is capable of both amplification and
c) Dynamic force oscillation?
d) Potential difference a) Junction diode
786. In the BJT schematic symbol, the arrow b) Point contact diode
____________________________. c) Zener diode
a) Points from north to south d) Tunnel diode
b) Points from p-type to n-type 798. If three amplifiers with a gain of 8 each are in cascade, how
c) Points from n-type to p-type much is the overall gain?
d) Points from south to north a) 72
787. It is a measure of the ability of an oscillator to maintain a b) 8
constant frequency and amplitude. c) 512
a) Stability d) 24
b) Figure of merit 799. It lowers the undesirable affect in VT operation caused by
c) Quality factor energy fed from the output of a tube into the input circuit.
d) Sensitivity a) Control grid
788. Why is it that there is always no gate current for JFET? b) Anode
a) The gate source junction should always be c) Suppressor grid
reverse biased for proper operation d) Screen grid
b) The current is transformed to light 800. What type of material is formed when trivalent material is
c) The gate is insulated with SiO2 doped with silicon or germanium?
d) The gate is always shorted to ground a) N & P type
789. By Mass Action Law, in an extrinsic semiconductor as the b) P type
concentration of the free concentration of holes? c) N type
a) Cannot be determined d) PN type
b) Decreases 801. __________ is the term used to express the ratio change in dc
c) Increases collector to a change in base current in a bipolar transistor.
d) Remains the same a) Beta
790. What is the maximum frequency that can be inputted to a b) Delta
µA741 op-amp without distortion if the peak output voltage is c) Alpha
5 V? d) Gamma
a) 1mHz 802. How much is the equivalent power in watts can a 3 horse
b) 1000kHz power provide?
c) 12.45 kHz a) 1492 watts
d) 15.915 kHz b) 248.66 watts
791. What is the gain of the vacuum tube having the following c) 2238 watts
parameters; amplification factor is 80, external plate - load d) 300 watts
resistance of 30, 000 ohms and the tube internal plate 803. When a switch is closed it has a total resistance of
resistance is 10, 000 ohms? a) Zero
a) 20 b) Unstable
b) 60 c) 1000 Ω at room temperature
 d) Infinity a) 3.5 Ω
804. What is the property of the magnetic circuit that resists the b) 0.14 Ω
establishment of flux? c) 4.5 Ω
a) Reluctance d) 2.5 Ω
b) Permeance 817. The basic difference between feedbacks in biasing amplifier
c) Mutual inductance circuit is _________.
d) Inductance a) Biasing circuit have high input impedance
805. The primary and secondary winding of ______________ are while amplifier circuits have low output
both electrically and magnetically connected. impedance
a) Autotransformer b) Biasing circuit may employ positive
b) Distribution transformer feedback while amplifier circuits use
c) Current transformer negative feedback.
d) Potential transformer c) In biasing circuits AC negative feedback is
806. An NPN and PNP equivalent circuit of Shockley diode. provided while amplifiers employ DC
a) Latch negative feedback
b) Giacolleto d) In biasing circuits DC negative feedback is
c) Push-pull provided while amplifiers employ AC
d) Hybrid pi negative feedback
807. _____________ is the region in a transistor that is heavily 818. What is the maximum efficiency of a half-wave rectifier?
doped. a) 40.6%
a) Collector b) 81.2%
b) Ground c) 50%
c) Emitter d) 10%
d) Base 819. _________ is commonly used as a core material because of its
808. A capacitor opposes high permeability
a) A decrease in voltage a) Permalloy
b) In increase in current b) Ferrite
c) An increase in voltage c) Steel
d) Both increase and decrease in voltage d) Alnico
809. What is the resonant frequency of a circuit when L =1 µH and C 820. It is the energy of the highest energy electron of a metal at 0 K.
is picoFarads are in series? a) 1 eV
a) 50.3 MHz b) Fermi characteristic energy
b) 15.9 MHz c) Work function
c) 50.3 MHz d) 1 joule
d) 15.9 MHz 821. The h- parameter ho is a ________.
810. Term used for resonance in an electrical circuit. a) Conductance
a) The lowest frequency that will pass current b) Reverse voltage gain
b) The frequency at which capacitive c) Resistance
reactance equals inductive reactance d) Forward current gain
c) The highest frequency that will pass current 822. A series RC that is connected in parallel with an SCR to
d) The frequency at which power factor is at a eliminate false triggering.
minimum a) Varistor
811. What is the term called magnetic field? b) Eliminator
a) A force set up when current flows through a c) Crowbar
conductor d) Snubber
b) The force that drives current through a 823. A two-pole, three-phase motor has _______field poles.
resistor a) 6
c) Current flow through space around a b) 2
permanent magnet c) 4
d) The force between the plates of charge d) 8
capacitor 824. A rotating machine for converting mechanical energy into
812. Another name of sacrifice factor. electrical energy or vice versa
a) Loss factor a) Generator
b) Multiplier b) Transformer
c) Feedback fraction c) Motor
d) Feedback factor d) Dynamo
813. Filter that is characterized by ripple at the passband and fast 825. The minimum negative VGK to force the plate current to be
roll-off rate. zero in vacuum tubes.
a) Chebyshev a) Threshold voltage
b) Notch b) Cutoff bias
c) Butterworth c) Pinch – off voltage
d) Elliptic d) 0V
814. Which material has more free electrons? 826. It states that the plate current is proportional to the plate
a) Insulators voltage raise to three-halves.
b) Conductor a) Vacuum law
c) Mica b) Octet rule
d) Dielectric c) Three-halves law
815. The prefix SN refers to what IC manufacturer? d) Child’s law
a) National Semiconductor 827. It’s the range of frequency a circuit allows to pass through
b) Texas Instrument a) Pass band
c) Signetics b) Stop band
d) Silicon General c) Band pass
816. Two heaters A and B are in parallel across a supply voltage V. d) Band stop
heater A produces 500 kcal in 10 min., the resistance of A is 10 828. _________ is the output of a half-wave rectifier.
Ω, what is the resistance of B? a) Sinusoidal signal
 b) Square wave signal 842. What does “O” in the VCBO, VCEO and VBEO ratings indicates?
c) 100% AC signal a) Open
d) Half-wave rectified signal b) Output
829. Solve the collector current, if the base current is 200mA and c) Oscillator
the current gain is 20. d) Overload
a) 4A 843. Current carried by each of two long parallel conductors is
b) 1A doubled, if their separation is also doubled, the force between
c) 40 A them would
d) 10 A a) Increase two-fold
830. A four-element solid state device that combines the b) Increase four-fold
characteristics of a both diodes and transistors. c) Remain the same
a) Tunnel diode d) Become half
b) Varactor 844. Thyratron is a ________.
c) SCR a) An semicon triode
d) Zener diode b) A gas-filled triode
831. It is the time required for a BJT to come out of saturation. c) A vacuum tube
a) Saturation time d) A gas filled diode
b) Storage time 845. Which coupling method is usually used in IC?
c) Rise time a) Inductive coupling
d) Fall time b) RC Coupling
832. An electron tube having a high degree of vacuum. c) Transformer coupling
a) Hard tube d) Direct Coupling
b) Soft tube 846. Which is not an invention by Lee De Forest? (0 correct
c) Gaseous tube answers)
d) TWT a) Triode
833. Which statement is wrong regarding a class C amplifier? b) Alternating current transmitter
a) ηMAX = 100% c) Photocopier
b) Minimal noise d) Electrolytic radio detector
c) Biased way below cutoff 847. The most popular crystal growth process used in IC.
d) Conduction angle less than 180o a) Photolithography
834. Color whose wavelength from 490 to 550 nm. b) Czochralski technique
a) Green c) Crystallization
b) Yellow d) Metallization
c) Orange 848. Bias used to reduce the resistance of the pn junction.
d) Blue a) Reverse bias
835. Electrical classification of materials having 4 valence electrons. b) Reduction bias
a) Insulator c) Forward bias
b) Compound d) Emitter feedback bias
c) Semiconductor 849. Which of the following is not the most likely application of
d) Conductor tunnel diode?
836. He devised the phasor analysis and derived an empirical a) Rectifiers
formula for hysteresis loss. b) Electronics Engineering
a) Nikola Tesla c) Modulators and demodulator
b) Heinrich Hertz d) Amplifier
c) Michael Faraday 850. _____________is the unit of reluctance.
d) Charles Proteus Steinmetz a) Maxwells
837. Separately excited motors have similar torque and speed b) Gauss
regulation characteristics as that of __________motors. c) At/Wb
a) Shunt-wound d) Weber
b) Permanent-magnet 851. The region between the peak and valley voltage of the
c) Series-wound characteristic curve of a tunnel diode.
d) Compound-wound a) Steep slope region
838. Another name for vacuum tube triode. b) Active region
a) Thyratron c) constant current region
b) Fleming valve d) Negative resistance region
c) Audion 852. When you increase the resistance in a circuit the flow of
d) Detector electrons will ___________.
839. A filter that allows frequencies in between the two cutoff a) Be constant
frequencies to pass through and reach the output. b) Be decreased
a) LPF c) Flow faster
b) BPF d) Be stopped
c) HPF 853. Resistors with high value usually have lower wattage ratings
d) BRP because of ____________.
840. At what aspect do standard zener and transient suppressor a) Lower current
differs? b) Bigger size
a) Surge handling capability c) Varying current
b) Connection on the circuit d) Hugh current
c) Region of operation 854. The energy of an oscillator can be sourced by __________.
d) Electronic symbol a) Connecting capacitors across the supply
841. What is the approximate value of thermal voltage at room b) Capacitive or inductive coupling from tuned
temperature? circuit
a) 1V c) Inserting a resistor in the grid circuit
b) 18.97 mV d) Coupling a small coil close to the tube
c) 26 mV 855. Which should be the first step taken in diode circuit analysis?
d) 0V a) Replace the diode with its equivalent circuit
 b) Calculate the current through the diode 868. ____________is used to determine the amount of core loss in
c) Determine the voltage polarity across the a transformer. It is also known as no-load test
diode a) Short-circuit test
d) Determine the state of the diode b) Paraffin test
856. What is the value of a resistor with colors from left : orange, c) Open-circuit test
blue, gold and silver? d) Blocked-rotor test
a) 3.4 Ω ± % 869. It consists of elements inseparably associated and formed on
b) 36 Ω ± 10 % or within a single substrate.
c) 3.6 Ω ± 10 % a) Microsoft
d) 34 Ω ± 10 % b) Module
857. ___________is the progressive decay with time in the c) Integrated circuit
amplitude of the free oscillation in a circuit. d) Micro circuit
a) Decrement 870. _________is the dc motor control senses.
b) Damping a) Armature
c) Dancing b) Resistance
d) Pulse decay time c) Counter emf
858. For BJT, the BE junction is reverse biased and the BC forward d) Field voltage
biased. The BJT is in what operating mode? 871. What is the maximum efficiency of a full-wave center-tapped
a) Cut-off rectifier
b) Forward active a) 50%
c) Reverse active b) 10%
d) Saturation c) 81.2%
859. The voltage across the collector terminal of a BJT is equal to d) 40.6%
the summation of the dc voltage supply around the collector- 872. High Audio frequencies usually handled by a tweeter in a
emitter loop. The BJT what mode of operation? sound system.
a) Common emitter a) Bass
b) Cut-off b) Alto
c) Saturation c) Tone
d) Common base d) Treble
860. How does an ohmmeter behave if its positive lead is connected 873. Which of the following circuit converts an input wave form to
to the cathode of a diode while negative to anode? rectangular wave?
a) Has infinite high resistance a) Integrator
b) Has decreasing resistance b) Schmitt trigger
c) Has very low resistance c) Amplifier
d) Has unstable resistance d) Differentiator
861. What is the range of voltage rating available in zener diode? 874. ___________is the air space between poles of magnet.
a) 3 volts to 2000 volts a) Vacuum
b) 1.2 volts to 7 volts b) Free space
c) 2.4 volts to 200 volts c) Air gap
d) 1.2 volts to 5.6 volts d) Free zone
862. Which of the BJT amplifier configuration can be used as a 875. What is the law whereby the attraction or repulsion between
buffer? two magnetic poles is directly proportional to their strength?
a) CS a) Newton’s Law
b) CB b) Coulomb’s Law
c) CC c) Norton’s Law
d) CE d) Coulombs First Law
863. Which device can be modelled by a diode and two resistors? 876. Find the dielectric constant of air.
a) SCR a) Approximately 2
b) UJT b) Approximately 4
c) DIAC c) Approximately 0
d) BJT d) Approximately 1
864. A BJT configuration that has no voltage gain but has current 877. The time required for a signal to pass from one point to
and power gains. another.
a) CS a) Propagation delay
b) CC b) Wave delay
c) CB c) Accessing time
d) CE d) Duration
865. A circuit that receives a single input signal and produces two 878. Which of the BJT amplifier configuration has the highest power
signals that are 180o out of phase with each other. gain?
a) CE a) CB
b) Inverter b) Emitter follower
c) Totem pole c) CE
d) Phase splitter d) CC
866. It is the same as βdc. 879. What is the flux density in gauss (G) having a flux of 12,000 Mx
a) hfe through a perpendicular area of 6cm2?
b) hFE a) 72 G
c) α b) 200 G
d) βac c) 72000 G
867. An oscillator that uses the charge / discharge characteristics of d) 2000 G
a capacitor or inductor to produce an oscillating output. 880. What happens if the grid is made more positive than the
a) Crystal saturation point?
b) Phase shift a) The tube elements might be damaged
c) Relaxation oscillator b) The tube stops conducting
d) Bistable c) Electrons are drawn to the grid and do not
reach the plate
 d) No other amplification takes place 894. What is the peak-to-peak voltage out of the positive series
881. A ______________winding is made by advancing the next coil clipper if the peak of the positive series clipper if the peak of
from the first bar to the second bar. the sinusoidal input voltage is 5V?
a) Chorded a) 5V
b) Random-wound b) 8V
c) Retrogressive c) 3V
d) Progressive d) 0V
882. Which is not proper reason why silicon is preferred over 895. Which transistor configuration has the highest input
germanium? resistance?
a) Germanium produces more leakage current a) Common emitter
than does silicon for a given temperature b) Common base
b) Silicon is more tolerant of heat c) Common collector
c) Germanium oxide is water soluble, making d) Common transistor
it more difficult to process than silicon. 896. It is the maximum rate of change of the output voltage in
d) Germanium is bulky than silicon response to an input signal.
883. The screen grid is usually connected to a) Common mode rate
a) – 5V b) Slew rate
b) Static positive voltage c) Differential rate
c) Ground d) Roll off rate
d) Control grid 897. _________ is a device used to store electrical energy in an
884. The plate resistance of a pentode is in the range of electrostatic field.
___________. a) Inductor
a) 100Ω b) Battery
b) 50kΩ-100kΩ c) Transformer
c) 100kΩ-1MΩ d) Capacitor
d) 1kΩ
885. What are the two terminals of a DIAC?
a) Anode1 and anode2
b) MT1 and MT2
c) Collector and emitter
d) Anode and cathode
886. A _________ is a junction field effect transistor with a schottky
barrier instead of a normal semiconductor junction.
a) Mesfet
b) Jugfet
c) Bifet
d) Mosfet
887. Calculate the output current of a two-transistor current source
given that IREF=10mA and β is 50.
a) 500mA
b) 2mA
c) 9.1mA
d) 10mA
888. Which of the following cannot be used to make a magnet?
a) Lodestone
b) Cobalt
c) Carbon
d) Iron
889. What is the majority in an N channel?
a) Neutrons
b) Holes
c) Protons
d) Electrons
890. Which one is the paramagnetic material?
a) Oxygen
b) Bismuth
c) Copper
d) Carbon
891. Which of the statement is not true about the emitter bias?
a) It needs a dual polarity power supply
b) VCEQ and ICEQ are not affected by variation
in β
c) The base is grounded
d) It has no base current
892. What is the process of designing more than 100 gates on a
single chip?
a) SSI
b) SLSI
c) LSI
d) MSI
893. Another name for TRIAC.
a) Bi-directional DIAC
b) Solid state triode
c) Bi-directional SCR
d) Bi-directional triode thyristor