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8. Sound that vibrates at frequency too high for the human ear to hear (over 20 kHz)
a. Subsonic
b. Ultrasonic
c. Transonic
d. Stereo
10. A 16 KHz sound is how many octaves higher than a 500 Hz sound
a. 2
b. 5
c. 4
d. 8
13. When waves bend away from straight lines of travel, it is called
a. Reflection
b. Diffraction
c. Rarefaction
d. Refraction
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14. The amplitude of sound waves, the maximum displacement of each air particle, is the property which
perceive as _____ of a sound
a. Pitch
b. Intensity
c. Loudness
d. Harmonics
15. It is the weakest sound that average human hearing can detect.
a. SPL = 0 dB
b. Threshold of hearing
c. Reference pressure = 2 x 10-5N/m2
d. A, b, c
16. What is a device that is used to measure the hearing sensitivity of a person?
a. Audiometer
b. OTDR
c. SLM
d. Spectrum analyzer
17. What is the device used in measuring sound pressure levels incorporating a microphone, amplification,
filtering and a display.
a. Audiometer
b. OTDR
c. SLM
d. Spectrum analyzer
18. What weighted scale in a sound level meter gives a reading that is most closely to the response of the
human ear?
a. Weighted scale A
b. Weighted scale B
c. Weighted scale C
d. Weighted scale D
19. For aircraft noise measurements, the weighting scale that is used is _____.
a. Weighted scale A
b. Weighted scale B
c. Weighted scale C
d. Weighted scale D
21. _____ is the sound power measured over the area upon which is received.
a. Sound pressure
b. Sound energy
c. Sound intensity
d. Sound pressure level
23. Calculate the sound intensity level in dB of a sound whose intensity is 0.007 W/m2.
a. 95 dB
b. 91 dB
c. 98 dB
d. 101 dB
24. What is the sound pressure level for a given sound whose RMS pressure is 200/m2?
a. 200 dB
b. 20 dB
c. 140 dB
d. 14 dB
25. What is the sound intensity for an RMS pressure of 200 Pascal?
a. 90 W/m2
b. 98 W/m2
c. 108 W/m2
d. 88 W/m2
26. The sound pressure level is increased by _____ dB if the pressure is doubled.
a. 3
b. 4
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c. 5
d. 6
27. The sound pressure level is increased by _____ dB if the intensity is doubled.
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
28. If four identical sounds are added what is the increase in level in dB?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
29. The transmission of sound from one room to an adjacent room, via common walls, floors or ceilings.
a. Flanking transmission
b. Reflection
c. Refraction
d. Reverberation
30. _____ is the continuing presence of an audible sound after the sound source has stop.
a. Flutter echo
b. Sound concentration
c. Sound shadow
d. Reverberation
33. A room in which the walls offer essentially 100% absorption, therefore simulating free field conditions.
a. Dead room
b. Anechoic room
c. Live room
d. Closed room
34. Calculate the reverberation time of the room, which has a volume of 8700 ft3 and total sound absorption
140 sabins.
a. 0.3 sec
b. 3.5 sec
c. 3 sec
d. 0.53 sec
35. It is an audio transducer that converts acoustic pressure in air into its equivalent electrical impulses
a. Loudspeaker
b. Amplifier
c. Baffle
d. Microphone
36. _____ is a pressure type microphone with permanent coil as a transducing element.
a. Dynamic
b. Condenser
c. Magnetic
d. Carbon
39. _____ is a type of loudspeaker driver with an effective diameter of 5 inches used at midrange audio
frequency.
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a. Tweeter
b. Woofer
c. Mid-range
d. A or C
40. _____ is measure of how much sound is produced from the electrical signal.
a. Sensitivity
b. Distortion
c. Efficiency
d. Frequency response
42. A loudspeaker radiates an acoustic power of 1 mW if the electrical input is 10 W. What is its rated
efficiency?
a. -10 dB
b. -20 dB
c. -30 dB
d. -40 dB
43. An amplifier can deliver 100 W to a loudspeaker. If the rated efficiency of the loudspeaker is -60 dB.
What is the maximum intensity 300 ft from it?
a. 10 dB
b. 20 dB
c. 30 dB
d. 40 dB
45. The impedance of most drivers is about _____ ohms at their resonant frequency.
a. 4
b. 6
c. 8
d. 10
48. A circuit that divides the frequency components into separate bands in order to have individual feeds to
the different drivers.
a. Suspension system
b. Dividing network
c. Magnet assembly
d. Panel board
51. Using a microphone at less than the recommended working distance will create a _____ which greatly
increases the low frequency signals.
a. Roll-off
b. Proximity effect
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c. Drop out
d. None of the choices
54. What is the loudness level of a 1KHz tone if its intensity is 1 x 10-5W/cm2?
a. 100 phons
b. 105 phons
c. 110 phons
d. 100 phons
55. What is the process of sending voice, speech, music or image intended for reception by the general
public?
a. Navigation
b. Telephony
c. Broadcasting
d. Mixing
56. What is the frequency tolerance for the RF carrier in the standard AM radio broadcast band?
a. Zero
b. 20 Hz
c. 10 Hz
d. 20 KHz
57. The transmitting antenna for an AM broadcast station should have a _____ polarization.
a. Vertical
b. Horizontal
c. Circular
d. Elliptical
58. The part of a broadcast day from 6 PM to 6 AM local time
a. Daytime
b. Nighttime
c. Bed time
d. Experimental period
59. The service area where the signal is neither subject to fading nor co-channel interference.
a. Primary Service Area
b. Secondary Service Area
c. Intermittent Service Area
d. Quarternary Service Area
60. It is a resistive load used in place of an antenna to test a transmitter under normal loaded condition
without actually radiating the transmitter’s output signal.
a. Auxiliary Tx
b. Main Tx
c. Secondary Tx
d. Artificial Antenna
61. The operating power of the auxiliary transmitter shall not be less than _____% or never greater than the
authorized operating power of the main transmitter.
a. 5
b. 10
c. 15
d. 20
63. The center to center spacing between two adjacent stations in the Phil. AM BC band is ____.
a. 9 kHz
b. 200 kHz
c. 36 kHz
d. 800 kHz
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64. How many AM stations can be accommodated in a 150-kHz bandwidth if the highest modulating
frequency is 10 kHz?
a. 10
b. 15
c. 7
d. 14
67. One of the main considerations in the selection of antenna site is (AM)
a. Conductivity of the soil
b. Height of the terrain
c. Elevation of the site
d. Accessibility
69. What is the spacing between any two adjacent channels in the FM broadcast band?
a. 20 KHz
b. 36 KHz
c. 200 KHz
d. 800 KHz
71. What is the radio transmission of two separate signals, left, and right, used to create a multidimensional
effect on the receiver?
a. SCA
b. Stereo system
c. Pilot transmission
d. Monophonic transmission
72. The carrier frequency tolerance for FM broadcasting is _____.
a. 25 kHz
b. 2 kHz
c. 20 kHz
d. 30 kHz
75. With stereo FM transmission, does a monaural receiver produce all the sounds that a stereo does?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Either a or b
d. Neither a or b
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79. A monaural FM receiver receives only the _____ signal of a stereo multiplex transmission.
a. L+R
b. L–R
c. Both a & b
d. 67 KHz
80. When fed to the stereo FM modulator, in what form are the L – R signals?
a. AF
b. DSBSC
c. 19 kHz
d. 38 kHz
81. An additional channel of multiplex information that is authorized by the FCC for stereo FM radio stations
to feed services such as commercial-free programming to selected customers.
a. STL
b. EBS
c. EIA
d. SCA
82. The class of FM station, which has an authorized radiated power not exceeding 125 KW:
a. Class C
b. Class A
c. Class D
d. Class B
83. An FM broadcast station, which has an authorized transmitter power not exceeding 10 KW and ERP not
exceeding 30 KW:
a. Class D
b. Class C
c. Class A
d. Class B
84. A class of FM station which is limited in antenna height of 500 ft. above average terrain
a. Class D
b. Class C
c. Class A
d. Class B
85. What type of broadcast service might have their antennas on top of hills?
a. FM
b. AM
c. TV
d. A&C
87. How many commercial FM broadcast channels can fit into the bandwidth occupied by a commercial TV
station?
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40
88. How many international commercial AM broadcast channels can fit into the bandwidth occupied by a
commercial TV station?
a. 100
b. 200
c. 125
d. 600
89. What kind of modulation is used for the sound portion of a commercial broadcast TV transmission?
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a. PM
b. FM
c. C3F
d. AM
90. Estimate the bandwidth occupied by the sound portion of a TV transmission in US.
a. 25 kHz
b. 800 kHz
c. 80 kHz
d. 200 kHz
91. What is the main reason why television picture signal uses amplitude modulation, while voice is
frequency modulated?
a. Better efficiency
b. Eliminate attenuation of both video and audio
c. Maintain synchronized scanning between transmit and received video
d. To minimize interference between signals at received end
92. The picture and sound carrier frequencies in a TV receiver are _____ respectively.
a. 41.25 MHz, 45.75 MHz
b. 45.25 MHz, 41.75 MHz
c. 41.75 MHz, 45.25 MHz
d. 45.75 MHz, 41.25 MHz
93. What is the separation between visual and aural carrier in TV broadcasting?
a. 1.25 MHz
b. 4.5 MHz
c. 5.75 MHz
d. 0.25 MHz
94. What is the separation between the lower limit of a channel and the aural carrier?
a. 1.25 MHz
b. 4.5 MHz
c. 5.75 MHz
d. 0.25 MHz
98. If the sound carrier for UHF channel 23 is 529.75 MHz, what is the frequency of the tuner’s local
oscillator, when turned to this channel?
a. 571 MHz
b. 511 MHz
c. 498 MHz
d. 500 MHz
100. What is the exact picture carrier frequency for frequency for channel 7 offset by – 10 KHz?
a 175.25 MHz
b 175.26 MHz
c 174 MHz
d 175.24 MHz
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103. What percentage of the primary colors used in color TV are needed to produce the brightest white?
a. 30% red, 59% green, 11% blue
b. 33% red, 33% green, 33% blue
c. 50% red, 28% green, 22% blue
d. 58% red, 20% green, 22% blue
105. Suppose the signal from a color camera has R=0.8, G=0.4 and B=0.2, where 1 represents the maximum
signal possible. Determine the value at the luminance signal
a. 0.498
b. 0.254
c. 0.1325
d. 1.4
108. When the colors Magenta and Yellow are mixed the resultant color is:
a. Red
b. White
c. Blue
d. Green
109. Which of the following consist of two of the three primary colors in television signal? a) red, b) violet, c)
yellow, and d) blue
a. A and B
b. B and C
c. C and D
d. A and D
110. The studio camera produces a luminance signal that contains information about
a. The musical content
b. The speech content
c. The brightness of the scene
d. The color content of the scene
112. Which of the following is the color video signal transmitted as amplitude modulation of the 3.58 MHz C
signal with bandwidth of 0 to 1.3 MHz?
a. I signal
b. Q signal
c. Y signal
d. X signal
113. Which of the following is the color video signal transmitted as amplitude modulation of the 3.58 MHz C
signal in quadrature with bandwidth of 0 to 0.5 MHz?
a. I signal
b. Q signal
c. Y signal
d. Z signal
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114. The _____ affects the difference between black and white on the picture tube and controls the gain of the
video amplifier
a. Brightness control
b. Volume control
c. Power control
d. Contrast control
116. How many electron beams actually leave the electron gun of a single-gun color CRT?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 1/3
117. What is the difference between the sound carrier and color subcarrier frequencies?
a. 1.25 MHz
b. 3.58 MHz
c. 4.5 MHz
d. 0.92 MHz
120. The signal that will give the exact color wavelength is _____.
a. Hue
b. Saturation
c. Carrier
d. Monochrome
122. The _____ ensures that the electron beam will strike the correct phosphor dot on the TV screen.
a. Coating
b. Aperture Mask
c. Diplexer
d. Duplexer
123. In a TV receiver, what is the horizontal signal frequency?
a. 30 Hz
b. 60 Hz
c. 15750 Hz
d. 157625 Hz
124. In a TV receiver, what is the vertical signal frequency?
a. 30 Hz
b. 60 Hz
c. 15750 Hz
d. 157625 Hz
125. What scheme is employed to cause the electron beam in the TV receiver and the electron beam in the
studio camera to track identically?
a. Interlacing
b. NTSC
c. Interleaving
d. Transmission of sync pulses
126. Equalizing pulses in TV are sent during
a. Horizontal blanking
b. Vertical blanking
c. The serrations
d. Equalizing intervals
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127. What is the return of the electron beam in a CRT from right to left or from bottom to top?
a. Relay
b. Flyback
c. Utilization
d. Resolution
129. What is the maximum allowable frequency deviation in the audio section of a TV signal for PAL/SECAM?
a. 25 kHz
b. 50 kHz
c. 75 kHz
d. 100 kHz
131. What is the highest video frequency set by the FCC for commercial TV?
a. 4.2 MHz
b. 15 MHz
c. 6 MHz
d. 5.5 MHz
135. It is the popular TV camera designed with much smaller package and lower cost than its earlier designs
a. Image orthicon
b. Iconoscope
c. Vidicon
d. Plumbicon
136. In a composite video signal, what is the relationship between the amplitude of the signal and the
intensity of the electron beam in the receiver picture tube?
a. The greater the amplitude the darker the picture
b. The lower the amplitude the darker the picture
c. The greater the amplitude the lighter the picture
d. No effect
137. If there are 625 lines per TV picture then the number of lines per field are:
a. 1250
b. 312.5
c. 625
d. 2500
138. What is the process of placing the chrominance signal in the band space between portions of the
luminance signal?
a. Interlacing
b. Fitting
c. Sneaking
d. Interleaving
139. How much time elapses between the start of one horizontal sync pulse and the next?
a. 10.2 μs
b. 63.5 μs
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c. 16.67 μs
d. 100 μs
141. The camera tube that uses selenium, arsenic and tellurium
a. Plumbicon
b. Vidicon
c. Saticon
d. Silicon Vidicon
143. What is the smallest amount of information that can be displayed on a television screen?
a. Blip
b. Burst
c. Pixel
d. Bits
145. What section of a TV receiver determines the bandwidth and produces the most signal gain?
a. RF amplifier
b. Audio amplifier
c. IF amplifier
d. Tuned circuit
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