DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

QUIZ 1
1. The process of conversion of data along with its formatting is called:
a. Modulation
b. Formatting
c. Amplifying
d. Source Coding
Answer: (d) Source Coding
2. In the case of down-conversion, the multiplication with cosine wave would be followed by which of these filters?
a. Bandstop
b. Low pass
c. High pass
d. Bandpass
Answer: (b) Low pass
3. Which of these values of μ would correspond to the linear amplification?
a. =0
b. =1
c. >0
d. <0
Answer: (a) =0
4. From a digital filter, we would get an output pulse as _______ of our current pulse and previous pulse.
a. Ratio
b. Product
c. Summation
d. Difference
Answer: (c) Summation
5. The noise variance for AWGN is:
a. N0/2
b. N0
c. N0/4
d. 2N0
Answer: (a) N0/2
6. A bit stream would be portioned into an even stream and an odd stream in which of these systems?
a. FSK
b. QPSK
c. MSK
d. BPSK
Answer: (b) QPSK
7. How many transitions can we make at every bit of time?
a. Half
b. Three
c. Two
d. One
Answer: (c) Two
8. The Ls path loss depends on:
a. Effective area
b. Signal power
c. Antenna size
d. Wavelength
Answer: (d) Wavelength
9. Between two users of any given ideal TDM system, the cross-correlation present is:
a. 0
b. 1
c. -1
d. Infinity
Answer: (a) 0
10. A cycle slip would occur whenever the original phase error’s magnitude exceeds:
a. π2 radians
b. π radians
c. 2π radians
d. π/2 radians
Answer: (c) 2π radians
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QUIZ 2

1. In the case of CDMA, ______ frequency reuse is totally possible.

a. 90%
b. 100%
c. 50%
d. No
Answer: (b) 100%
2. An Etherbnet’s maximum packet size is:
a. 1256 bytes
b. 1426 bytes
c. 1626 bytes
d. 1526 bytes
Answer: (d) 1526 bytes
3. The three ciphers can easily operate ______ bit blocks of plaintext as well as cipher text.
a. 64
b. 128
c. 156
d. 256
Answer: (a) 64
4. The total key size allowed in PGP is:
a. 1024-4056
b. 1024-4096
c. 1024-2048
d. 1024-1056
Answer: (b) 1024-4096
5. _______ fading occurs if the coherence bandwidth happens to be smaller than that of the bandwidth of the given
signal.
a. Time selective
b. Fast fading
c. Frequency selective
d. Flat
Answer: (c) Frequency selective
6. Which of these tells us about a low-level transmission and also framing?
a. X series
b. V series
c. Q series
d. G series
Answer: (d) G series
7. __________ is the unit of average mutual information.
a. Bytes per symbol
b. Bits per symbol
c. Bytes
d. Bits
Answer: (d) Bits
8. The processing gain is given as:
a. R/Wss
b. R/2Wss
c. Wss/R
d. Wss/2R
Answer: (c) Wss/R
9. ____________ is a type of noise that would interfere much with the high frequency transmission.
a. Shot
b. Transit time
c. Flicker
d. White
Answer: (b) Transit time
10. __________ is a mechanism used to break down the problem.
a. Abstraction
b. Entity sharing
c. Dividing
d. Layering
Answer: (a) Abstraction