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1. In an ultrasound instrument, the number of pulses produced by an

instrument in a given period of time is known as the:
a. Pulse length of the instrument
b. Pulse recovery time
c. Frequency
d. Pulse repetition rate

2. In ultrasonic testing, the time duration of the transmitted pulses is

referred to as:
a. The pulse length or width
b. The pulse amplitude
c. The pulse shape
d. None of the above

3. An ultrasonic testing instrument that displays pulses representation the

magnitude of reflected ultrasound as a function of times or depth of
metal is said to contain:
a. Continuous display
b. ‘A’ scan presentation
c. ‘B’ scan presentation
d. ‘C’ scan presentation

4. Which of the following controls the voltage supplied to the vertical

deflection plates of the CRT on ultrasonic instrument with A-scan
display?
a. Sweep generator
b. Transmitter
c. Amplifier
d. Clock

5. The pulse repetition rate will be higher for thicker materials and lower
for thinner materials:
a. True
b. False

6. The echoes should be always read from

a. Trailing part touching base line
b. Height of the peak
c. Foot of the leading echo
d. None of a, b, or c

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7. In case you have calibrated your instrument from 0 to 50 mm, which

control you should use to calibrate from 150 to 200 mm?
a. Gain
b. Sweep range
c. Sweep length
d. Sweep delay

8. In a basic pulse echo instrument, the component that produces a visible

signal on the CRT which are used to measure distance are:
a. Sweep circuit
b. Marker circuit
c. Receiver
d. Synchronizer

9. In a basic pulse echo instrument, the component that produces the

voltage that activates the search unit is called:
a. Amplifier
b. Receiver
c. Pulse
d. Synchronizer

10. The component that coordinates the action and timing of other
components is called is:
a. Display unit
b. Receiver
c. Marker
d. Synchronizer, clock or timer

11. The component that produces a time base line is:

a. Synchronizer
b. Pulsar
c. Receiver
d. Sweep circuit

12. In the basic pulse-echo instrument, the synchronizer, clock or timer

circuit will determine the instrument’s
a. Pulse length
b. Gain
c. Pulse repetition rate
d. Sweep length

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13. Which of the following controls the voltage supplied to the vertical
deflection plates of the CRT in A-scan?
a. Sweep generator
b. Pulser
c. Amplifier circuit
d. Clock/timer

14. The maximum scanning speed possible is primarily determined by:

a. The frequency of probe
b. Viscous drag problems
c. Pulse repetition rate of UT
d. Persistency of CRT screen

15. In UT instruments, ‘Suppression or Rejection’ has following effect,

a. Reduction of noise level, leaving all other signals present
b. Reduction of noise level and small signals
c. Increase in the gain
d. Improving the sharpness of signal

16. In case you have calibrated your instrument from 0 to 40 mm, which
control you should use to calibrate the range from 90 to 145 mm?
a. Gain
b. Sweep delay
c. Sweep length
d. Both ‘b’ & ‘c’

17. AVG (or DGS in English) diagrams compare flaw signal amplitudes to
a. side drilled holes
b. flat bottomed holes
c. a theoretical maximum
d. DAC's

18. As the pulse length of the excitation voltage is shortened the

transmitted pulse
a. frequency spectrum broadens
b. frequency spectrum shortens
c. increases energy output
d. increases penetration ability

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19. In general, the frequency content of an ultrasound beam has a larger

proportion of high frequencies in its spectrum
a. on axis
b. off axis
c. in the far zone
d. in the free zone
20. If a signal is dropped from 100% FSH to 32% FSH, the number of dB
gain removed from the receiver is
a. 14
b. 10
c. 6
d. 4

21. A typical voltage range for driving (exciting) piezoelectric crystals would
be
a. 50 to 100 mV
b. 50 to 100 V
c. 50 to 100 kV
d. 500 to 1000 V

22. When an ultrasonic machine is equipped with this option, the pulse
energy and pulse length can be adjusted
a. receiver fine grain control
b. swept gain
c. time corrected gain
d. damping

23. The main disadvantage of a broadband receiver in a ultrasonic machine

is
a. non-linear response to amplification
b. amplifier noise limits possible amplification
c. RF display cannot be used
d. rectified display cannot be used

24. The repeated reflections of ultrasonic pulses from between surfaces or

discontinuities within a body are
a. ghost echoes
b. sing-around
c. multiple echoes
d. wrap-around

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25. Electronic gates on the trace of a UT machine can be used to

a. determine the presence of flaws
b. determine the amplitude of flaws
c. both a and b
d. none of the above

26. When flaw echo signals are recorded so as to display a plan view of the
test piece the presentation is called
a. A-scan
b. B-scan
c. C-scan
d. D-scan
27. Increasing the pulse repetition frequency will result in
a. decreasing sensitivity
b. increased resolution
c. altering the probes' frequency output
d. brightening the baseline

28. For the purposes of ultrasonic testing, signal-to-noise ratio is a function

of
a. the probe
b. the oscilloscope
c. a combination of probe and scope
d. none of the above

29. When calibrating an ultrasonic instrument for range, the maximum

distance of interest should not be less than
a. 100 mm
b. 200 mm
c. one half the horizontal scale
d. two thirds the horizontal scale

30. In the DGS (AVG German) system of defect sizing, the diagram relates
to sound path distance to the _________ to obtain the relative distance.
a. probe size
b. near-field length
c. stand-off distance
d. depth of defect

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31. If you are drawing a DAC for an inspection range of 200mm and your
response from the 3/8 node reference hole at 125mm has already
dropped to 10% FSH you will have to use
a. a new calibration block
b. larger reference holes
c. the DGS (AVG) system
d. a split DAC

32. Signal averaging, correlation, and filtering are techniques used in

ultrasonic systems to
a. extract weak signals from incoherent noise
b. improve resolution
c. characterize defects for type
d. none of these techniques are used in ultrasonic testing

33. The process where by a re-curring signal is extracted from incoherent

noise is called
a. amplitude modulation
b. frequency modulation
c. signal averaging
d. filtering

34. Receiver noise must often be filtered out of a test system. Receiver
amplifier noise increases proportionally to
a. the square root of the bandwidth
b. the inverse square of the bandwidth
c. attenuation
d. temperature

35. Which is not used as an acoustic imaging method?

a. deconvolution
b. sequenced array
c. liquid-surface levitation
d. holography

36. When determining signal-to-noise ratio the suppression control is set at

a. maximum
b. minimum
c. 50%
d. suppression setting is not important

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37. When determining signal-to-noise ratio, the noise is attributable to

a. electrical noise from machine, cable and probe
b. metal grain structure
c. both a and b
d. inability for focus the baseline

38. A response or evidence of a response in non-destructive testing that

requires interpretation is called
a. an indication
b. a defect
c. a flaw
d. signal-to-noise ratio

39. An ultrasonic display in rectangular coordinates where distance or time

of flight is represented in one direction and probe displacement
represented on the other and reflected pulses as bright marks on a dark
background (or vise versa) is called a(n)
a. A-scan
b. B-scan
c. C-scan
d. tomograph
40. The time interval between the initial pulse and the initiation of the time
base sweep is termed
a. range
b. time of flight
c. programmed off-set
d. delay

41. The frequency at which the overall response of an ultrasonic pulse-echo

flaw detection system is maximum is the
a. dominant frequency
b. resonance frequency
c. nominal frequency
d. anti-resonance frequency

42. The repeated reflections of ultrasonic pulses from between surfaces or

discontinuities within a body are
a. ghost echoes
b. sing-around
c. multiple echoes
d. wrap-around

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43. Instrument settings which relate a reference echo of reproducible

amplitude with which other instrument settings relating to a
discontinuity echo are compared is the
a. scanning level
b. threshold level
c. reference sensitivity
d. overall system gain

44. Addition of suppression or reject to a display effectively

a. filters out unwanted noise
b. reduces dynamic range
c. increases sensitivity
d. none of the above

45. The relationship between amplitudes of an indication in A-scan

presentation and the magnitude of the corresponding received signals
is used to determine
a. vertical linearity
b. manual scanning speed
c. longitudinal/shear mode energy ratios
d. none of the above

46. When information is presented as a B-scan on an oscilloscope, intensity

(or amplitude) of a signal is indicated by
a. strobe effects for signals over a threshold amplitude
b. digital readout on the corner of the screen
c. brightness of the spot on the scope
d. none of the above

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EQUIPMENT – QUESTIONNAIRE
Q.NO ANS Q.NO ANS Q.NO ANS
1 D 21 D 41 B
2 A 22 D 42 C
3 B 23 B 43 C
4 C 24 C 44 B
5 B 25 C 45 A
6 C 26 C 46 C
7 D 27 D
8 B 28 C
9 C 29 D
10 D 30 D
11 D 31 D
12 C 32 A
13 C 33 C
14 C 34 A
15 B 35 A
16 D 36 B
17 C 37 C
18 A 38 A
19 A 39 B
20 B 40 D

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