ChallengENG Minds: Outwit – The Filter Exam

Set 1 (Easy)

Directions: For each item, shade the letter of your choice on the answer sheet. There should be only one
shaded answer per item, otherwise it will be considered invalid or incorrect. Erasures on the answer
sheet are strictly prohibited. You may write your scratch work on this questionnaire. Return all the
papers, including the scratch papers, to the proctor after the exam period.
Each item for this set is worth one (1) point.

1. What do you call the number system whose radix is equal to 15?
A. Quincimal
B. Quindenary
C. Quintary
D. Quintuodenary

2. What does the abbreviation VHDL mean?

A. Very High Definition Language
B. Very High Durability Line
C. Very High Speed Integrated Circuit High Definition Language
D. Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language

3. What institution regulates and manages telecommunications in the international level?

A. FCC
B. ITU
C. ICU
D. ITC

4. What type of fiber is characterized by a core which has a completely uniform distribution of the
index of refraction throughout its bulk?
A. Step-index fiber
B. Graded-index fiber
C. Multi-grade fiber
D. Meridional fiber

5. What is the wavelength for a frequency of 1 million Hertz?

A. 300 m
B. 3 km
C. 30 m
D. 30 km

6. In FM, what produces the sidebands?

A. Carrier signal
B. RF signal
C. Carrier and its harmonics

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 D. Modulating signal

7. As frequency increases, what happens to the energy carried by a wave?

A. Increases linearly
B. Decreases
C. Stays the same
D. Increases exponentially

8. A unit ‘Joules per Coulomb’ is equivalent to the unit _____.

A. Amperes
B. Volts
C. Watts
D. Tesla

9. The total reactive power of an unbalanced three-phase load is equal to:

A. The average of the reactive powers of the three phases
B. The vector sum of the reactive powers of the three phases
C. The algebraic sum of the reactive powers of the three phases
D. The highest value among the reactive powers of the three phases

10. The following are the different types of satellite orbits except:
A. Polar Orbit
B. Equatorial Orbit
C. Diagonal Orbit
D. Inclined Orbit

11. In converting resistances from wye to delta, which formula will lead to a correct result?

1
1

R1
R12
R3

R2 2 3
2 3

R1 R 2
A. R12=
R 1+ R 2 + R 3

R1 + R2
B. R12=
R1 R 2 R3

R1 R 2+ R 2 R3 + R3 R1
C. R12=
R3

R1 R 2+ R 2 R3 + R3 R1
D. R12=
R 1 R2
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12. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR)?
A. It is a unilateral device.
B. It requires a high amount of voltage across the anode and cathode for it to fire.
C. It turns off when the gate current reduces to zero.
D. It turns off when the current from the anode to the cathode is less than the value of the holding
current.

13. What states that the minimum sampling frequency should be twice the highest frequency of the
signal?
A. Fourier Transform
B. Wiener-Khintchine Theorem
C. Parseval’s Theorem
D. Nyquist Criterion

14. Which of the following statements does not describe an oscillator circuit?
A. It is a circuit which converts dc energy into an ac energy at a very low frequency.
B. It is an electronic source of alternating current or voltage having sine, square, sawtooth or any
pulse shape.
C. It is an unstable amplifier.
D. It is a circuit which generates an ac output signal without requiring any externally applied input
ac signal

15. Complete the analogy.

M.E. Hoff : Microprocessor = Lee de Forest : __________
A. Diode
B. Triode
C. Tetrode
D. Pentode

16. What digital modulation technique is not used in modern modems?

A. ASK
B. PSK
C. FSK
D. QUAM

17. It is best to use a ____ to connect coaxial line to a parallel-wire line.

A. Directional Coupler
B. Quarter-wave transformer
C. Balun
D. Slotted line

18. What isd ¿ ¿ where u = f(x)?

du
A. sec u
dx
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 du
B. −csc u sin u
dx
du
C. −csc u cot u
dx
2 du
D. −cot u
dx

19. What occurs when the mobile network automatically transfers a call from a radio channel in one
base station to another radio channel in an adjacent base station as the subscriber crosses into the
adjacent base station’s cell area?
A. Handoff
B. Cell Switching
C. Call Divert
D. Roaming

20. A noise has a power of 30dBm. What is its value in dBaO if the zero transmission level point is at -10
dBm?
A. 115 dBaO
B. 120 dBaO
C. 125 dBaO
D. 130 dBaO

21. If X is 10% greater than Y, and Y is 20% less than Z, then X in terms of percentage of Z is:
A. X = 114%Z
B. X = 88.9%Z
C. X = 112.5%Z
D. X = 88%Z

22. Convert into the binary equivalent: FACE 16

A. 1111010111001101
B. 1111101010111110
C. 1111110010111001
D. 1111101011001110

23. If Euclid is known as the father of Geometry, who is likewise known as the father of Internet?

A. Arthur Clarke
B. Bill Gates
C. Vint Cerf
D. Steve Jobs

24. Get the equivalent resistance across terminals a and b of the network given.

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 a
Yellow-Violet-Red-Gold Orange-Orange-Orange-Gold

Red-Red-Black-Gold Brown-Green-Brown-Silver

b
A. 4133.25 Ω
B. 4313.25 Ω
C. 4113.25 Ω
D. 4331.25 Ω

25. What is the carrier of information for optical communication system?

A. Sound
B. Light
C. Heat
D. Frequency

V1
26. If V1 and V2 differ by 2 Nepers, what is ?
V2
A. 2.72
B. 5.44
C. 7.39
D. 54.6

27. In what frequency band can you find 10,000MHz?

A. Ultra High Frequency
B. Extra High Frequency
C. Extremely High Frequency
D. Super High Frequency

28. How many bytes are there in a quadword?

A. 4
B. 8
C. 16
D. 32

29. If a silicon diode is in parallel with a germanium diode as shown in the figure, what will happen if the
switch S is closed?

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 Si
3V
S R

Ge

A. Both of the diodes will turn ON at once.

B. The Germanium diode will turn ON first, then the Silicon diode.
C. The Germanium diode will turn ON but the Silicon diode will remain off.
D. No current will flow through the resistor R.

30. Identify: It is known as “volatile memory” that temporarily holds data and instructions needed by
the processor as long as there is power. Once the power is turned off, all data and programs within
the memory will be erased.
A. Random Access Memory (RAM)
B. Read Only Memory (ROM)
C. Cache Memory
D. Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM)

Bonus Question:
This problem is worth 5 points. Write your answer on the blank provided in the answer sheet. Please
write legibly.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone at the age of 29. If he was born between the years 1840
and 1850, in what (exact) year was he able to invent the telephone?

a. ______________

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