Republic of the Philippines

Manila
Macro Integrated Training and Review Center

PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION ELECTRONICS Engineering SETA

Date: __________________
Time: __________________

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by
shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 2 only

1. Electron flow assumes charge flow from

a. Negative to positive b. Negative to negative
c. Positive to negative d. Positive to positive

2. What is considered as the darkest horse that emerged in computer designs and sometimes dubbed as the ultimate
computer?
a. Power computer b. CRAY-1 computer
c. Quantum computer d. ABC computer

3. In a resonant circuit, if Q  10, resonant frequency ___ bandwidth.

a. Exceeds b. Is less than
c. Bisects d. Is equal to

4. A tank circuit is a
a. Parallel LC circuit b. Resonant circuit
c. Series LC circuit d. Non-resonant circuit

5. The open circuit voltage at the terminals of a load RL is 100 V. Under the condition of maximum power transfer, the
load voltage will be ___.
a. 100 V b. 70.7 V
c. 200 V d. 50 V

6. What term means the rate of measurement of how successful a user is when carrying out a research in a database?
a. bitrate b. ditrate
c. hitrate d. jetrate

7. The process by which an emf and hence current is generated or inducted in a conductor when there is a change in
the magnetic flux linking the conductor is called
a. Electromagnetic induction b. Mutual induction
c. Faraday’s Law d. Electromagnetic interference

8. Whenever a conductor cuts magnetic flux, an emf is induced in it. This is known as
a. Coulomb’s law b. Joule’s law
c. Faraday’s law c. Ohm’s law

9. Which of the following is a natural magnet?

a. Steel b. Magnesia
c. Lodestone d. Soft Iron

10. Approximately, how many transistors can be crammed in a chip in the year 2015 according to Moore’s law
prediction?
a. 1 million b. 1 billion
c. 10 billion d. 100 trillion

11. Which of the following materials has permeability slightly less than that of free space?
a. Paramagnetic b. Non-magnetic
c. Ferromagnetic d. Diamagnetic

12. What is one of the most indigenous ideas treating the double stranded molecule as a kind of biological computer
tape?
a. RNA computer b. Molecular computer
c. Cellular computer d. DNA computer

13. The amount of magnetizing force to counter balance the residual magnetism of a magnetic material is referred to as
a. Reluctivity b. Susceptivity
c. Coercivity d. Retentivity

14. The lagging effect between flux density of the material and the magnetizing force applied.
a. Permeance b. Eddy current
c. Hysteresis d. Reluctance

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15. What is the thin plastic card with a large amount of information on it.
a. micropist b. microplastic
c. microfiche d. External modem

16. The customary energy unit in atomic and nuclear physics is

a. Joule b. Volt-coulomb
c. Electron-volt d. Watt-second

17. The force between two magnetic poles is _____ their pole strength.
a. Equal to b. Directly proportional to
c. Inversely proportional to d. Directly proportional to the square root of

18. Which is the control element in an SCR?

a. Anode b. Cathode
c. Gate d. Cathode supply

19. A length of wire has a resistance of 10 . What is the resistance of a wire of the same material three times as long
and twice the cross-sectional area?
a. 30  b. 20 
c. 15  d. 7 

20. The electric potential at a point in air due to a charge is 21 V. If air is replaced by a medium of relative permittivity of
3, then electric potential at that point will be
a. 63 V b. 21 V
c. 7 V d. 42 V

21. What alloy of nickel used in thermostats with low or zero thermal expansions?
a. manganin b. constantan
c. invar d. nikolai

22. Essentially power electronics deals with the control of ac power at what frequencies?
a. 20 kHz b. 1000 kHz
c. Less than 10 Hz d. 60 Hz

23. A control system in which the output is related to the input by device parameters only.
a. Open loop control system b. Closed loop control system
c. Servomechanism d. Feedback control system

24. What is the sensing element of acceleration transducer?

a. Damper b. Spring
c. Seismic mass d. Crystal

25. The most widely used 7-bit alphanumeric code is

a. ASCII b. EBCDIC
c. Straight binary code d. Gray code

26. What is the approximate duration of a transient period

a. 1 time constant b. 2 time constant
c. 3 time conbstant d. 5 time constant

27. The reason why electrical appliances are connected in parallel.

a. It is a simple circuit.
b. This makes the operation of appliances independent with each other.
c. This results in reduced power consumption.
d. All of the above

28. A 0.09 μF capacitor is charged to 220 V. How long in milliseconds will it discharge to a level of 110 V if the discharge
resistor has a resistance of 20, 000 ?
a. 1.5 b. 2.5
c. 1.25 d. 0.5

29. The resonance curve is a plot of frequency versus ____ for a series RLC circuit.
a. Current b. Voltage
c. Gain d. Impedance

30. “Any resistance R in a branch of a network in which a current I is flowing can be replaced by a voltage equal to IR”.
This states
a. Compensation theorem b. Reciprocity theorem
c. Millman’s theorem d. Superposition theorem

31. In what computer design in which the silicon transistor is replaced with a single molecule and a single electron
a. Biological computers b. DNA computers
c. Molecular and dot computers d. Electron computers

32. The Q-factor of a parallel resonant circuit is also known as

a. Current magnification factor b. Voltage magnification factor
c. Load factor d. Leakage factor

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33. What op-amp is considered as the industry standard?
a. LM741C b. LM741A
c. LM722C d. TO225C

34. An inductive circuit of resistance 16.5  and inductance of 0.14 H takes a current of 2.5A. If the frequency is 50 Hz,
find the supply voltage.
a. 45 V b. 117.4 V
c. 120 V d. 448 V

35. The second strip of an electronic resistor color code represents

a. The multiplier b. The second digit of the value
c. The temperature d. The tolerance

36. A three-by-three, series-parallel matrix of resistors, all having the same ohmic value, would have a net resistance of
a. 1/3 the value of a single resistor b. Three times the value of a single resistor
c. The same value as a single resistor d. Nine times the value of a single resistor

37. What is the value of a carbon composition resistor with the following color code: Brown, White, Orange, Red
a. 190 ; 10% b. 19 k; 2%
c. 19 k; 20% d. 1.8 k; 2%

38. The power factor of a certain circuit in which the voltage lags behind the current is 80%. To increase the power
factor to 100%, it is necessary to add __________ to the circuit.
a. Inductance b. Capacitance
c. Resistance d. Impedance

39. An inductor carries 2A dc. If its inductance is 100 mH, then what is its inductive reactance?
a. Zero b. 37.7 
c. 6  d. Cannot determine due to lack of data

40. Another term for superconductor.

a. Generic conductor b. Ultraconductor
c. Cryotron d. Cryogenic conductor

41. What is the small fuse containing a spring which upon release by the fuse wire completes an auxiliary circuit to
operate an alarm?
a. Grasshopper fuse b. Beefuse
c. Butterfly fuse d. snakefuse

42. What computer design in which the idea is in direct laser or radio beam on a carefully arrange connection of atomic
nuclei each of which is spinning line on top
a. Nuclear computer b. ASG computer
c. DNA computer d. Quantum computer

43. The most important application of Schottky diodes is in

a. Digital computers b. Power supplies
c. Amplifier circuits d. Voltage regulators

44. When the emitter junction is forward biased while the collector junction is reverse biased, the transistor is at ______
region.
a. cut-off b. saturation
c. active d. breakdown

45. What is the mechanism used for reading and writing data on a disk?
a. Access arm b. pit
c. Access feet d. leptons

46. Which of the following has the highest input impedance?

a. FET b. BJT
c. MOSFET d. Crystal diode

47. The removal by electronic means of one extremity of an input waveform is called ___________.
a. filtering b. clamping
c. amplifying d. clipping

4 8 . A varistor is used for line filtering to eliminate spikes and dips and is also called a ___.
a. transient regulator b. transient limiter
c. transient filter d. transient suppressor

4 9 . A class ________ amplifier stage operates with a small forward bias on the transistor so that some collector current
flows at all times.
a. A b. B
c. AB d. C

5 0 . An emitter resistor is used for ______ in most amplifier circuits.

a. temperature stabilization b. biasing a bipolar junction transistor
c. current limitation d. voltage amplification

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51. The purpose of DC conditions in a transistor is to ___
a. Reverse bias emitter b. Set up the operating point
c. Forward bias emitter d. None of the above

52. In practice, the voltage gain of an amplifier is expressed _____

a. As volts b. In dB
c. As a number d. None of the above

53. IC consisting of 200 logic gates of greater than 64000 bits of memory is_________
a. LSI b. VLSI
c. SSI d. ULSI

54. If the input capacitor of a transistor amplifier is short circuited, the _____
a. Biasing conditions will change b. Transistor will be destroyed
c. Signal will not reach the base d. None of the above

55. In obtaining the frequency response curve of the amplifier, the _____.
a. Generator output level is kept constant b. Amplifier output is kept constant
c. Generator frequency is held constant d. Amplifier is frequency is held constant

56. What refers to a method in which charger and a battery are always connected to each other
for supply current to the load?
a. Fast charge b. F l o a t c h a r g e
c. S l o w c h a r g e d. F l y c h a r g e

57. What is the gain of a buffer amplifier

a. Less than 1 b. unity
c. Greater than 1 d. zero

58. The final stage of the amplifier uses

a. Direct coupling b. RC coupling
c. Transformer coupling d. Impedance coupling

59. The total gain of the multistage amplifier is less than the product of the gains of individual
stages due to _____
a. Loading effect of the next stage b. The use of many transistors
c. Power loss in the coupling device d. The use of many capacitors

60. A class A power amplifier uses______

a. Two transistors b. One transistors
c. Three transistors d. None to the above

61. What is the ratio of the ion current in a tube to the electron current produces it?
a. S o l i d r a t i o b. L i q u i d r a t i o
c. Gas ratio d. P l a s m a r a t i o

62. A 2 transistor class b power amplifier is commonly called _____

a. Push pull amplifier b. Dual amplifier
c. Symmetrical amplifier d. Differential amplifier

63. When a transistor is cut-off _____

a. Maximum current flows b. Maximum voltage appears across the
load
c. Maximum voltage flows d. Maximum voltage appears across the
transistor

64. When two frequencies are mixed in a non-linear circuit, then _____ distortion results
a. Frequency b. Amplitude
c. Intermodulation d. None of the above

65. When the voltage feedback (negative) is applied to an amplifier, it input impedance _____
a. Is decreased b. Becomes zero
c. Is increased d. Remains the same

66. Emitter follower is used for _____

a. Impedance matching b. Current gain
c. Voltage gain d. None of the above

67. What is the gas inside the inner discharge of tube of a sodium vapor lamp?
a. a r g o n b. neon
c. k r y p t o n d. o x y g e n

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68. The output impedance of an emitter follower is _____
a. Low b. High
c. Very high d. Almost zero

69. The basic purpose of applying negative feedback to an amplifier is to

a. Reduce distortion b. Increase the gain
c. Keep the temperature within limits d. None of the above

70. An oscillator converts ______

a. AC power into DC power b. DC power into AC power
c. Mechanical power into AC power d. Electrical power into power

71. The oscillator produces _____ oscillations

a. Damped b. Undamped
c. Modulated d. None of the above

72. What’s the typical voltage drop of a selenium semiconductor?

a. 1 V b. 2 V
c. 3 V d. 4 V

73. In a Colpitt’s oscillator, feedback is obtained ________

a. The magnetic induction b. From the center of the split capacitors
c. By a tickler coil d. None of the above

74. Quartz crystal is most commonly used in crystal oscillators because _______
a. It is easily available b. It has superior electrical properties
c. It is quite inexpensive d. None of the above

75. The essential feature of a non-servo controlled robot is that

a. It requires a programmable logic controller b. It is used for heavy loads
c. It is small d. Its each axis can move only between hardware
stops

76. Unit of elastance

a. daraf b. farad
c. jam d. torr

77. What do you call the standard message used for testing teletypewriter circuits and machines
because it includes alphanumeric?
a. T e x t m e s s a g e b. D o g m e s s a g e
c. F o x m e s s a g e d. C a t m e s s a g e

78. Which of the following dry cells has the largest height?
a. D b. C
c. AAA d. AA

79. Speed of a logic circuit is normally expressed as _____

a. Logic levels b. Speed immunity
c. Propagation delay d. Power consumption

80. The name given to that property of a material which opposes the creation of magnetic flux in it.
a. Resistance b. Reluctance
c. Conductance d. Permeance

81. A logic gate is an electronic circuit which

a. Makes decisions b. Alternates between 0 and 1 values
c. Works on binary algebra d. Allows electron to flow in one direction

82. A two-pole, three-phase motor has _____ field poles.

a. 2 b. 4
c. 6 d. 8

83. What user programs that has the ability to move a robot axis to any position within its range?
a. Point-to-point b. Positive stop
c. Continuous path d. Pick and place

84. Which of the following describes a relay?

a. It is a mechanical switch b. It is a magnetic switch
c. It is an electronic switch d. It is an electromechanical switch

85. Cell commonly used in emergency systems.

a. D r y c e l l b. Silver-cadmium
c. S i l v e r - z i n c d. Carbon-zinc

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86. Term for the phenomenon, which occurs in electrical circuits when the inductive reactance
equals the capacitive reactance.
a. High Q b. Reactive Quiescent
c. Reactive Equilibrium d. Resonance

87. What serves as cathodes for dry cells

a. carbon b. Zinc container
c. Silver container d. electrode

88. The most widely used digital logic family is

a. DTL b. TTL
c. ECL d. RTL

89. It is the reciprocal of reluctance and implies the case or readiness with which magnetic flux is
developed.
a. Resistance b. Remanence
c. Conductance d. Permeance

90. __________ is that force which sets up or tends to set-up magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit.
a. Electromotive force b. Potential difference
c. Magnetomotive force d. Dynamic force

91. What refers to the time for a disk to spin a particular place under the head reading?
a. S p i n d l e t i m e b. D i s k t i m e
c. L a t e n c y t i m e d. H e a d - r e a d i n g t i m e

92. A circuit which provides a means of isolating an input from a load using a stage having unity
voltage gain and with no phase in polarity inversion is called _________.
a. Voltage buffer b. Inverting op-amp
c. Voltage summing d. Non-inverting op-amp

93. The charge on a capacitor

a. Is measured in coulombs per square meter
b. Is equal to the source voltage divided by the value of the capacitance
c. May be disregarded while carrying out maintenance procedures
d. Lasts indefinitely unless it is deliberately bled off

94. What is the property of the magnetic circuit that resists the establishment of flux?
a. Reluctance b. Permeance
c. Inductance d. Mutual inductance

95. What is the weakest signal that produces a usable signal at the output of a receiver?
a. Max Discernible Signal b. Minimum Discernible Signal
c. Tolerable Discernible Signal d. Sensitivity

96. How do you describe materials whose permeability’s are a little greater than that of free space?
a. Paramagnetic b. Ferromagnetic
c. Diamagnetic d. Non-magnetic

97. Which of the following is not used in hexadecimal digital symbols?

a. A b. C
c. H d. F

98. What is the Curie temperature of an iron magnet in degree C?

a. 1000 b. 100
c. 770 d. 890

99. What welding type allows two metal plates to be weld provide sufficient surface contact
resistance when passing current from the welding electrodes?
a. S p o t w e l d i n g b. s o l d e r i n g
c. D o m i n o w e l d i n g d. B a c k s t r o b e w e l d i n g

100. What do hydrometer measures in batteries?

a. Specific gravity b. Specific weight
c. Acidity and voltage d. Charging rate

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