Rizal Technological University

College of Engineering and Industrial Technology

Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Principles of Communication
QUIZ No. ______________
Name: ___________________________

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Indicate the noise whose source is in a category

different from that of the other three
a. Solar
b. Cosmic
c. Atmospheric
d. Galactic
In an FM receiver, which circuit removes amplitude
variations?
a. Exciter
b. Mixer
c. Discriminator
d. Limiter
In an FM receiver, the circuit that keeps the receiver
tuned exactly to the desired station is __
a. AFC
b. AGC
c. Limiter
d. Discriminator
What connects the front-end circuit of a VHF TV
superheterodyne receiver?
a. Mixer, RF amplifier and AFC
b. RF amplifier, Band pass filter and mixer
c. Local oscillator, mixer and RF amplifier
d. Local oscillator, AGC and antenna
A portion in a communications system, which
processes the information so that it will become
suitable to the characteristic of the transmission
medium
a. Encoder
b. Modulation
c. Transmitter
d. Multiplexer
Signal whose physical quantity varies continuously
with time
a. Digital
b. Analog
c. Discrete
d. Information

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c. Digital counter

d. Frequency counter

13. AM transmission power increases with _____

a. Frequency
b. Source
c. Load
d. Modulation
14. What is the carrier swing of an FM transmitter when
modulated by 75%?
a. 53.2 kHz
b. 48 kHz
c. 56.25 kHz
d. 112.5 kHz
15. _____ is the function which tends to maintain the
sound volume level of a voice receiver nearly constant
for a large signal strength range
a. Squelch
b. Muting
c. AGC
d. AFC
16. Which of the following is not a source of external
noise?
a. Thermal agitation
b. Auto ignition
c. The sun
d. Fluorescent lights
17. If bandwidth is doubled, the signal power is ____
a. Not changed
b. Quadrupled
c. Tripled
d. Doubled
18. In an FM transmitter, what is the result of over
modulation?
a. Lower frequency
b. Distortion
c. Higher power
d. Excessive bandwidth
19. What are the basic elements of communications
system?
a. Source, transmission channel, transmitter
b. Transmitter, receiver, transmission channel
c. Information, transmission channel, receiver
d. Sender and receiver

7.

Digital information is processed with a specified

degree of
a. Fidelity
b. Accuracy
c. Sensitivity
d. Correctness

8.

Is the reduction of signal amplitude as it passed over

the transmission medium?
a. Noise
b. Distortion
c. Attenuation
d. Interface

20. Subcarriers that are arranged so that the channels

occupying adjacent frequency band with some
frequency space between them is known as
a. Guard bands
b. AM bands
c. Band gap
d. Void band

9.

In a low-level AM system, amplifier following the

modulated stage must be
a. Linear devices
b. Harmonic devices
c. Class C amplifier
d. Nonlinear devices

21. An AM signal with a maximum modulating signal

frequency of 4.5 kHz as a total bandwidth of
a. 4.5 kHz
b. 6.75 kHz
c. 9 kHz
d. 18 kHz

10. If the carrier of a 100 percent modulated AM wave is

suppressed, the percentage power saving will be
a. 50
b. 150
c. 100
d. 66.66
11. A pre-emphasis circuit provides extra noise immunity
by
a. Boosting the bass frequencies
b. Amplifying the higher audio frequencies
c. Pre-amplifying the whole audio band
d. Converting the phase modulation to FM
12. _____ is an electronic instrument used to show both
the carrier and the sidebands of a modulated signal in
the frequency domain
a. Spectrum analyzer
b. Oscilloscope

22. An input signal of 1.8 MHz mixed with a local oscillator

of 5 MHz. A filter selects the difference signal. The
output is
a. 1.8 MHz
b. 3.2 MHz
c. 5 MHz
d. 6.8 MHz
23. What is produced by over modulation in AM?
a. Sidebands
b. Splatter
c. Envelope
d. Deviation
24. The letter-number designation B8E is a form of
modulation also known as
a. Pilot-carrier system
b. Independent sideband emission
c. Lincompex

d.

Vestigial sideband transmission

25. The inputs to a balanced modulator are 1 MHz and a

carrier of 1.5 MHz. The outputs are
a. 500 kHz
b. 2.5 Mhz
c. 1.5 MHz
d. Both a and b
26. A 100-MHz carrier is deviated 50 kHz by a 4-kHz
signal the modulation index is
a. 5
b. 8
c. 12.5
d. 20
27. The maximum deviation of an FM carrier is 2 kHz by a
maximum modulating signal of 400 Hz. The deviation
ratio is
a. 0.2
b. 5
c. 8
d. 40
28. The phenomenon of a strong FM signal dominating a
weaker signal on a common frequency is referred to as
the
a. Capture effect
b. Blot out
c. Quieting factor
d. Dominating syndrome
29. Which of the following is not true about AM?
a. The carrier amplitude varies.
b. The carrier frequency remains constant.
c. The carrier frequency changes.
d. The information signal amplitude changes the
carrier amplitude.
30.

Modulator circuit performs what mathematical

operation on its two inputs?
a. Addition
b. Multiplication
c. Division
d. Square root

31. If m is greater than 1, what happens?

a. Normal operation
b. Carrier drops to zero
c. Carrier frequency shifts
d. Information signal is distorted
32. The outline of the peaks of a carrier has the shape of
the modulating signal and is called the
a. Trace
b. Waveshape
c. Envelope
d. Carrier variation
33. The values of Vmax and Vmin as read from an AM wave
on an oscilloscope are 2.8 and 0.3. The percentage of
the modulation is
a. 10.7 percent
b. 41.4 percent
c. 80.6 percent
d. 93.3 percent
34. An AM signal has a carrier power of 5W. The
percentage of modulation is 80 percent. The total
sideband power is
a. 0.8 W
b. 1.6 W
c. 2.5 W
d. 4.0 W
35. The typical audio modulating frequency range used in
radio and telephone communications is
a. 50 Hz to 5 kHz
b. 50 Hz to 15 kHz
c. 100 Hz t 10 kHz
d. 300 Hz to 3 kHz