Topic: Signals, Spectra, and Signal Processing

1.Which characteristic of a signal provides a measure of the

extent of significant spectral content of the signal for positive
frequencies?

Ans: bandwidth

2. A ______ is a frequency-selective device that is used to

limit the spectrum of a signal to some specified band of
frequencies

Ans: filter

3. Which is not a method of data compression?

Ans: Winzip

4. All of these are IIR Filter design techniques except

Ans: Frequency sampling

5. A ______ is a function that is defined for all time t

contained in some interval on the real line

Ans: continuous-time (CT) signal

6. Convolution relates three signals: the input signal, the

output signal, and the ______.

Ans: impulse response

7. What are the FIR Filter advantages?

 They can have exactly linear phase

 They are always stable
 Startup transients are finite in duration
 All of these (Correct Answer)
8. A ______ is any process that produces an output signal in
response to an input signal

Ans: system

9. ______ defines the distribution of energy or power per unit

bandwidth as a function of frequency.

Ans: spectral density

10. An impulse signal in the time domain is represented as a

_______ in the frequency domain

Ans: dc signal

11. This is a requirement for linearity

 homogeneity
 additivity
 shift invariance
 all of these (Correct Answer)

12. What are the IIR Filter advantages?

 Lower order for same specs

 Lower group delay
 Less arithmetic involved
 All of these (Correct Answer)

13. All of these are FIR Filter design techniques except:

 Windowing
 Modeling of desired impulse response (Correct Answer)
 Equiripple or Minimax Design
 Least squares

14. ______ is a compression standard for digital video

sequences, such as used in computer video and digital
television networks
Ans: MPEG

15. This Fourier Transform property states that if a function

v(t) is shifted in the positive direction by an amount t0, the
effect is equivalent to multiplying its Fourier transform V(f) by
the factor exp(-j2 * pi * ft0).

Ans: Time shifting

16. A ______ is a signal about which there is no uncertainty

with respect to its value at any time.

Ans: deterministic signal

17. The representation of a signal as consisting of components

at various frequency in the frequency domain is called

Ans: spectrum

18. The sinc function is defined by

Ans: sinc(a) = [sin (pi * a)] / (pi * a)

19. If the sampling does not satisfy the Nyquist criterion, the
adjacent periods of the analog spectrum will overlap, causing a
distorted spectrum. This effect is called ______.

Ans: aliasing distortion

20. What does FIR stand for?

Ans: Finite Impulse Response