ANALOG COMMUNICATION

1. Which of the following method is used to generate amplitude modulated signal____ [b ]

(a) Indirect method (b) Square-law modulator (c) Hartley oscillator (d) none

2. Double Side Band suppressed carrier (DSB-SC) modulated signal contain______ [b ]
(a) Two Lower Side bands (b) One lower sideband and one upper side band
(c) Two upper side bands (d) None

3. In commercial Television Broad casting, the vestigial side band (VSB) occupies a width of about
_______ [ c]
(a) of Full sideband (b) 1/8 of full side band
(c) 1/6 of full side band (d) None

4. According to Carsons Rule, the bandwidth of frequency modulated (FM) signal is ___ [ a ]
(a) B
T
=2(f+fm) (b) B
T
=2f (c) B
T
= fm /f (d) None
{B
T
= Transmission bandwidth, f=frequency device, fm= message signal frequency}

5. Limiter is not required in following FM demodulator. [ c ]
(a) Foster-Seelay Discriminator (b) Balanced modulator
(c) Ratio Detector (d) None

6. In DSB-SC system, the figure of merit is _____ [ c ]
(a) 0 (b) (c) 1 (d) None

7. In AM transmitter, the Broad cast frequency range is _____ [ a ]
(a) 550 -1650KHz (b) 300-3000MHz (c) 30-300MHz (d) None

8. The Pulse width modulation (PWM) is defined as ___. [c ]
(a) Amplitude of the carrier pulse changing. (b) Position of the Carrier pulse
(c) Width of the carrier pulse changing (d) none

9. An AM signal and a narrowband FM signal with identical carriers, modulating signals and modulation indices
of 0.1 are added .The resultant signal can be closely approximated by ______ [b ]

(a) broadband FM (b) SSB with carrier (c) DSB-SC (d) SSB without carrier

10. For a message signal () (

) and carrier of frequency fc, which of the following represents a

single side band (SSB) signal? _______ [ c]

(a) (

) (

) (b) (

) (c) ((

)) (d)
, (

)- (

)

11. Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis are used in ______ [a ]

(a)FM transmitter, FM receiver respectively (b) FM receiver, FM transmitter respectively
(c) Both used in FM transmitter (d) both used in FM receiver

12. A super-heterodyne radio receiver with an intermediate frequency of 455 KHz is tuned to a station operating
at 1200KHz.The associated image frequency is _______KHz. [ b]
(a) 2855 (b) 2110 (c) 745 (d) 1655

13. Armstrongs method is used to generate a ______signal [ d ]
(a) AM (b) DSB-SC (c) NBFM (d) WBFM

14. Transmission bandwidth of the DSB-SC modulated signal is _______ [ c]
(a) same as FM (b) same as SSB-SC (c) same as AM (d) same as VSB-SC

15. Figure of Merit of a DSB-SC coherent demodulation system is__________ [ c ]
(a)

(b) 0 (c) 1 (d)

16. In FM modulation, when the modulation index increases, transmitted power is_____ [a ]
(a) Constant (b) increased (c) decreased (d) none of these
17. Sound signals in TV are____________ [c ]
(a) Amplitude modulated (b) dc modulated (c) frequency modulated (d) a and c
18. The maximum power in AM, when modulation index is____________ [ d]
(a) 0 (b) 0.5 (c) 0.7 (d) 1
19. FM signal is less affected by_______________________________ [d ]
(a) Loss (b) temperature (c) frequency (d) noise
20. In frequency modulation, frequency is____________________________ [c ]
(a) Constant (b) zero (c) variable (d) one
21. Modulating signal has______________ [a ]
(a) low frequency (b)low modulation (c) high frequency (d)none of these
22. ________ is the set of techniques that allows the simultaneous transmission of multiple signals
across a single data link. [b ]
(a) Demodulating (b) Multiplexing (c) Compressing (d) None
23. The signal S (t) = 5[cos (106 t) sin (103 t) sin (106 t)] represents_______ [ ]
(a) AM-DSB-SC (b) AM-DSB-TC (c) AM-SSB-USB (d) NBFM
24. A 3500 Hz audio tone amplitude modulates a 800 kHz carrier resulting in modulated signal having a
percentage modulation of 85%. The highest frequency that appears in the spectra of the modulated
signal is____________ [d ]
(a) 3500Hz (b) 796500Hz (c) 800000Hz (d) 803500Hz
25. A 96 KHz bandwidth is required to accommodate eight AM broadcasts simultaneously. The
maximum modulating frequency of each station must be limit___________ [d ]
(a) 12khz (b) 10khz (c) 8khz (d) 6khz

26. Equalizer filter is used to avoid ________ [ a ]

(a) Aperture effect (b) aliasing effect (c) ISI effect (d) thermal noise

27. Companding is used in PCM to [ ]
(a) Reduce B.W (b) Reduce power
(c) Increase S/N ratio (d) Get almost uniform S/N ratio

28. The main advantage of DM over PCM is [ ]
(a) Less bandwidth (b) Less power
(c) Better S/N ratio (d) Simple Circuitry

29. Which of the following gives minimum probability of error [ ]
(a) ASK (b) FSK (c) PSK (d) DPSK

30. Entropy gives_______ [ ]

(a) Amount of information (b) Rate of information
(c) Measure of uncertainty (d) Probability of message

31. Channel capacity, if B=4 KHz, SNR =20db.______ [ ]

(a) 2.663kbps (b) 0.2663kbps (c) 26.63kbps (d) 2663kbps

32. Slope overload distortion occurs in _________modulation system [ ]
(a) Delta modulation (b) PAM (c) PCM (d) FSK

33. Convolutional codes are easily generated with a ________ [ ]
(a) Shift Register (b) Cyclic codes (c) Tree (d) Trellis
1. The inverse Fourier transform of (f) is_________________ [ ]
(a) u(t) (b) 1 (c) (t) (d) ej2t

2. The response of a linear, time-invariant discrete-time system to a unit step input u(n) is the unit impulse (n).
The system response to a ramp input n u(n) would be_______________ [ ]
(a)(b)(c)(d)

3. Two sequences x1 (n) and x2 (n) are related by x2 (n) = x1 (- n),. In the z- domain, their ROCs are__ [ b ]
(a) The same (b) Reciprocal of each other. (c) Negative of each other. (d) Complements of each other.

4. The auto-correlation function of a rectangular pulse of duration T is__________ [ d ]
(a) a rectangular pulse of duration T. (b) a rectangular pulse of duration 2T.
(c) a triangular pulse of duration T. (d) a triangular pulse of duration 2T.

5. The impulse response of a system is ( ) ( )
n
h n a u n = The condition for the system to be BIBO stable is____[ ]
(a) a is real and positive. (b) a is real and negative (c) a > 1. (d) a < 1.

6. A band pass signal extends from 1 KHz to 2 KHz. The minimum sampling frequency needed to retain all
information in the sampled signal is______________ [ ]
(a) 1 KHz. (b) 2 KHz (c) 3 KHz. (d) 4 KHz.


7. The value of integral
}

dt Cost t) ( o
is equal to ____ [ b ]

(a) Zero (b) One (c) Infinity (d) Un defined

8. The SinC (x) is defined as ___ [ ]
(a) Sin(x)/x (b) Cos(x)/x (c) Sin ( x)/x (d) None

9. If f(t) is periodic function and it possess even symmetry, then its Fourier series contains__ [ ]
(a) Only Cosine terms (b) Only Sine terms
(c) Both Cosine and Sine terms (d) None

10. The sampling of a function f (t) = Sin2 f
m
starts from a zero crossing.
The signal can be detected if Sampling time is ____ (where f
m
=message signal frequency) [ ]
(a)
fm
T
s
2
1
=
(b)
fm
T
s
2
1
>
(c)
fm
T
s
2
1
<
(d) None

11. Fourier Transform of Signum function is [ ]

(a) F[Sgn(t)]= -2j/w (b) F[Sgn(t)]= -2j (c) F[Sgn(t)]= 1/w (d) None

12. Fourier Transform of Impulse function is [ ]

(a) Infinity (b) Zero (c) One (d) None

13. If a rectangular pulse is passed through a Low pass filter, then its response is a ___ [ ]

(a)Triangular function (b) Trapezoidal function

(c) Sampling function (d) None

14. The units for Power spectral density is ___ [ ]

(a) Joules/Hz (b) Joules x Hz (c) Watts/Hz (d) None

15. The convolution of f
1
(t)*f
2
(t) is ____ [ ]

(a)
t t t
o
d t f f ) ( ) (
2 1

}

(b) t t
o
d t f ) (
2

}

(c)
t
t
t
o
d
t f
f
}

) (
) (
2
1
(d) None

Two discrete time systems with impulse responses h1[n] = [n -1] and h2[n] = [n 2] are
connected in cascade. The overall impulse response of the cascaded system is
(A) [n - 1] + [n - 2] (B) [n - 4] (C) [n - 3] (D) [n - 1] [n - 2]
16. The auto correlation of a Rectangular Pulse is a _____ [ ]

(a)Square function (b)Signum function (c) Triangular function (d) Gate function

17. The sampling frequency of a signal m(t)=1/t Sin 400 t is ____ [ ]

(a) 200 sample /sec (b) 300 samples /sec (c) 400 samples /sec (d) None

18. The following technique is used to convert the continuous time signal into
discrete time signal is ___ [ ]

(a)Ideal sampling (b) Natural sampling (c) Flat-top sampling (d) All

19. Laplace transform of e
-at

u(t) is _____ (a>0) [ ]

(a)1/(S-a) (b)1/(s+a) (c) (S+a) (d) (s-a)

20. Laplace Transform of -t f(t) is ____ [ ]

(a) d F(s)/ds (b) F(s) (c) F2(s) (d) None


21. Z-transform of a signal Z
n
0
x[n] is ____ [ ]

(a) X[Z
0
] (b) X[Z.Z
0
] (c) X[Z/Z
0
] (d) None


22. Z-transform of a signal u

[n] is ____ [ ]

(a) 1/(1-Z
-1
) (b) 1/(1-Z) (c) (1-Z) (d) None




23. A System is defined as Y(n)=x(-n).Is the given system time-variant or time-invariant?_________ [ ]
(a)time-variant (b) time-invariant (c) Dynamic (d) None of these.

24. A system is causal__________________ [ ]
(a) If the output at any time depends only on the values of present input.
(b) If the output at any time depends only on the values of the future input.
(c) If the output at any time depends only on the values of the present and past input.
(d) If the output at any time depends only on the values of the past output.

25. A system is said to be linear if it satisfies______________________[ ]
(a) Homogeneity property. (b) Additivity property (c) Only (a). (d) Both (a) and (b).


26. An LTI system is causal if and only if its impulse response is ___ for negative values of n. [d ]
(a) Infinite (b) Unity (c) Finite (d) Zero



27. Major advantage of the FIR System [ c ]
(a) Good stability (b) Linear phase is achieved (c) both A & B (d) None


The Hilbert transform of cose1 t + sine2 t is ______________________ [ ]
(a) sine1 t cose2 t (b) sine1 t + cose2 t (c) cose1 t sine2 t (d) sine1 t + sine2 t


A message m(t) band-limited to the frequency m f has a power of . m P The power of the output signal in the below
figure is
(a) (

) (b)

(c) (

)/4 (d) (

)/4






The amplitude modulated wave form

()-

is fed to an ideal envelope detector. The maximum

magnitude of

() is less than 1.Which of the following could be the detector output?________ [c ]

(a)

m(t) (b)

()-

(c)

()- (d)

()-

A signal has frequency components from 300 Hz to 1.8 KHz. The minimum possible rate at which the signal has to be
sampled is _______.

c(t) and m(t) are used to generate an AM signal. The modulation index of the generated AM signal is 0.5. Then the
quantity Total sideband power Carrier power is________________________ [ ]
(a)1/2 (b)1/4 (c) 1/3 (d)1/8


Choose the correct one from among the alternatives A, B, C, D after matching an item in Group 1 with the most
appropriate item in Group 2._______________________________________________________________[b ]
Group 1 Group 2
P Ring modulator 1 Clock recovery
Q VCO 2 Demodulation of FM
R Foster-Seely discriminator 3 Frequency conversion
S Mixer 4 Summing the two inputs
5 Generation of FM
6 Generation of DSB-Sc
(a) P 1 Q 3 R 2 S 4 (b) P 6 Q 5 R 2 S 3
(c) P 6 Q 1 R 3 S 2 (d) P 5 Q 6 R 1 S 3

Find the correct match between group 1 and group 2._________________________[ d ]
P -, ()-(

) W Phase modulation
Q - ()(

) X Frequency modulation
R - (

()) Y Amplitude modulation

S - *

)+ Z DSB-SC modulation
(a) P - Z Q - Y R X S - W (b) P W Q X R Y S Z (c) P - X Q W R Z S - Y (d) P Y Q Z R W S X

The Column-I lists the attributes and the Column-II lists the modulation systems. Match the attribute to the
modulation system that best meets it
Column-I Column-II
P- Power efficient transmission of signals 1- Conventional AM
Q- Most bandwidth efficient transmission of voice signals 2- FM
R- Simplest receiver structure 3 -VSB
S- Bandwidth efficient transmission of signals with Significant dc component 4 -SSB-SC

(a) P-4; Q-2; R-1; S-3 (b) P-2; Q-4; R-1; S-3 (c) P-3; Q-2; R-1; S-4 (d) P-2; Q-4; R-3; S-1


Which of the following analog modulation scheme requires the minimum transmitted power and minimum channel
bandwidth?____________________[ ]
(a)VSB (b) DSB-SC (c) SSB (d) AM

Consider an angle modulated signal x(t) = 6cos[2x106t+2sin(8000t) +4cos(8000pt)] V. The average power of x(t)
is.
(a) 10W (b) 18W (c) 20W (d) 28W


The input to a linear delta modulator having a step-size _ = 0.628 is a sine wave with frequency fm and peak
amplitude Em. If the sampling frequency fs = 40 kHz, the combination of the sine-wave frequency and the peak
amplitude, where slope overload will take place is
Em fm
(a) 0.3 V 8 kHz (b) 1.5 V 4 kHz (c) 1.5 V 2 kHz (d) 3.0 V 1 kHz

In a PCM system, if the code word length is increased from 6 to 8 bits, the signal to quantization noise ratio improves
by the factor
(a) 8/6 (b) 12 (c) 16 (d) 8


In the output of a DM speech encoder, the consecutive pulses are of opposite polarity during time interval t1stst2. This
indicates that during this interval___________________________[ ]
(a) the input to the modulator is essentially constant (b) the modulator is going through slope overload
(c) the accumulator is in saturation (d) the speech signal is being sampled at the Nyquist rate


Match Group 1 with Group 2___________________[ ]

1. FM P. Slope overload
2. DM Q. -law
3. PSK R. Envelope detector
4. PCM S. Capture effect
T. Hilbert transform
U. Matched filter

(a) 1 T 2 P 3 U 4 - S (b) 1 S 2 U 3 P 4 - T
(c) 1 S 2 P 3 U 4 - Q (d) 1 U 2 R 3 S 4 Q

Three analog signals, having bandwidths 1200 Hz, 600 Hz and 600 Hz, are sampled at their respective Nyquist rates,
encoded with 12 bit words, and time division multiplexed. The bit rate for the multiplexed signal is__________[ ]
(a) 115.2 kbps (b) 28.8 kbps (c) 57.6 kbps (d) 38.4 kbps


Noise with double-sided power spectral density of K over all frequencies is passed through a RC low pass filter with
3dB cut-off frequency of fc. The noise power at the filter output is
(a) K (b) Kfc (c) Ktfc (d)

If R (t ) is the autocorrelation function of a real, wide-sense stationary random process, then which of the following is
NOT true?
(a) R (t ) = R (t ) (b) R(t ) s R (0) (c) R (t ) = R(t ) (d) The mean square value of the process is R (0)

A device with input x(t) and output y(t) is characterized by ()

(). An FM signal with frequency deviation of

90kHz and modulating signal bandwidth of 5 kHz is applied to this device. The bandwidth of the output signal is
(a)370 kHz (b) 190 kHz (c) 380 kHz (d) 95 kHz

Under sampling of the Discrete Fourier transform of sequence x(n) of length L occurs if we choose DFT length N as
______________ [ a ]
(a) N<L (b) N=L (c) N>L (d) N=2L

Which of the following statement is true for the twiddle factor

________________ [ a]
(a) periodic, &symmetric(b)aperiodic &symmetric (c) aperiodic & asymmetric (d)periodic &asymmetric

Zero padding to a time domain sequence improves_____________ [ b]
(a) Power of the signal (b) resolution of the spectrum (c) ISI (d) none of these

____________ [ c ]
(a) j (b)

(c) -j (d)

Assume x(n) and h(n) are two finite duration sequences both of length N with DFT s X(k) and H(k) respectively.if
Y(k)=X(k)H(k) the y(n) is computed with ________ [ b]
(a) Linear convolution of x(n)and h(n) (b) circular convolution of x(n)and h(n)
(c) Multiplication of x(n)and h(n) (d) correlation of x(n) and h(n)

For a sequence x(n)={1, 2, -3 , 0, 1, -1, 4, 2} N-DFT points X(0),X(4) respectively are___________ [ a ]
(a) 6, 0 (b) 6, 6 (c) 0, 0 (d) 6, 2

256-DFT consists ______________number of frequency samples in the spectrum [ c]
(a)128 (b)512 (c)256 (d)

DTFT of a sequence is ____________________ [c ]
(a)Discrete periodic with N (b) discrete aperiodic (c) continuous and periodic with 2 (d)continuous
aperiodic

DFT of a sequence gives_______________ [ d]
(a) Always imaginary spectrm (b) continuous and discrete (c) continuous spectrum (d) discrete
spectrum


If x(n) and h(n) are sequences of lengths L,N respectively, then what are the resultant sequences lengths
respectively, if they linearly convolved and circularly convolved____________ [a ]
(a) L+M-1, max(L,M) (b) max(L,M) , L+M (c) min(L,M) , L+M-1 (d) L+M-1, min(L,M)