1.

When a diode is used in large ac voltages, the

resistance that is to be considered is
A. dc resistance
C. dynamic resistance
B. static resistance
D. average resistance

14. What is the most critical step in replacing an

imbedded TO?
A. Seating the leads
B. Forming the leads
C. Soldering the leads
2. What is the difference between the given binary
D. Seating the body of the TO
numbers, 110.1101 and 11.01?
A. 110.0000
C. 11.1010
15. For the removal of imbedded TOs in which all the
B. 111.1010
D. 11.1001
leads are free, which of the following methods
is recommended?
3. The binary equivalent of the hexadecimal number
A. Push out gently
ECE.A
B. Pull out with pliers
A. 1110 1100 1110.0101 C. 1101 1100 1101.101
C. Pull out with fingers
B. 1110 1100 1110.101
D. 1101 1100 1101.0101
D. Tap out with soft mallet
4. SCARA Robots are designed for what applications? 16. Plug-in DIPs are susceptible to loosening
A. Machining
C. Assembling
because of which of the following causes?
B. Welding
D. Handling heavy loads
A. Heat
C. Warpage
B. Stress
D. Vibration
5. After the squeeze interval, what comes next in
an automatic welding system?
17. What is the most efficient soldering
A. squeeze interval
C. hold interval
temperature?
B. weld interval
D. standby interval
A. 360 F
C. 550 F
B. 440 F
D. 800 F
6. An active integrator uses an op-amp, what is its
feedback element?
18. What type of heat source is a soldering iron?
A. Resistor
C. inductor
A. Radiant
C. Conductive
B. capacitor
D. RC network
B. Resistive
D. Convective
7. Error in ammeter reading is due to
A. insertion
C. battery aging
B. loading
D. conversion

19. The motorized solder extractor may be operated

in three different modes. Which of the following
is NOT one of those modes?
A. Hot-air jet
C. Heat and vacuum
B. One-shot vacuum D. Heat and pressure

8. Electrostatic charges may develop as high as

which of the following voltages?
A. 3,000 volts
C. 20,000 volts
B. 15,000 volts
D. 35,000 volts
9. Damage to some electronic components can occur
at what minimum electrostatic potential?
A. 14 volts
C. 350 volts
B. 35 volts
D. 3,500 volts
10. Breaks, holes, and cracks in pcbs are repaired
by using a mixture of
A. fiberglass and rosin
B. epoxy and powdered carbon
C. conformal coating and RTV
D. epoxy and powdered fiberglass

20. When removing solder with a solder wick, where

should the wick be placed in relation to the
solder joint and the iron?
A. Below both the joint and the iron
B. Between the joint and the iron
C. Above the joint and the iron
D. None of the above
21. Turret, fork, and hook terminals are examples of
what type of termination?
A. Off-set
C. Above-the-board
B. On-the-board
D. Through-the-board

22. During assembly, component stability is provided

by which of the following types of lead
11. To ensure a good mechanical bond between the
termination?
board and replacement pad and to provide good
A. Hook terminal
C. Turret terminal
electrical contact for components, which of the
B. Clinched lead
D. On-the-board (lap-flow)
following procedures is used?
A. Epoxying the pad to the run
23. Reinforcement for circuit pads on both sides of
B. Electroplating the repair area
the board is provided by which of the following
C. Installing an eyelet in the pad
types of eyelets?
D. Lap-flow soldering the repair area
A. Flat-set
C. Funnel-set
B. Roll-set
D. Toggle-set
12. Heating the leads and lifting them free with
tweezers is the preferred method of removing
24. A typical silicon wafer has approximately (a)
which of the following components?
what diameter and (b) what thickness?
A. TOs
C. Flat packs
A. (a) 2 inches (b) 0.01 to 0.02 inches
B. DIPs
D. Transistors
B. (a) 2 inches (b) 0.21 to 0.40 inches
C. (a) 3 inches (b) 0.21 to 0.40 inches
13. What type of termination is used in the
D. (a) 3 inches (b) 0.01 to 0.20 inches
replacement of a flat pack?
A. Lap flow
C. Solder plug
25. Give the true complements of (1101.1100)2.
B. Solder cup
D. Full fillet
A. 0010.0011
C. 10.01
B. 10.0011
D. 0010.0100

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26. The rapidly flashing logic probe tip tells you

that the logic node being probe
A. Has rapidly changing logic activity
B. Is struck
C. Is at an illegal logic level
D. Has an unstable logic activity

40. Actuator that requires the highest initial cost:

A. electric
C. pneumatic
B. hydraulic
D. magnetic
41. The technology for automations
A. avionics
C. cryotronics
B. cryogenics
D. robotics

27. To cause a three-state buffer to output 0-1

levels, the following must be true:
42. What is (are) being considered in Proportional
A. The output enable must be false
plus Integral plus Derivative (PID) mode of
B. The output enable must be true
control?
C. The information must have been stored in the
A. error signal magnitude
buffer
B. error signal period of occurrence
D. The signal OE must be at logic 1
C. error signal rate of change
28. _____________ refers to the class of logic
D. all are considered
circuit containing flip-flops.
A. Combinational
C. Linear
43. In motors of the same rating, which has the
B. Sequential
D. Feedback
least starting torque?
A. dc shunt
C. differentially compounded
29. _____________ is called the time sharing of one
B. dc series
D. cumulatively compounded
line with multiplex signals.
A. Simultaneous transmission
C. Relay
44. Proportional mode of control wherein the
B. Bi-directional
D. Multiplexing
controller is not only considering the magnitude
of the error signal but as well as the time that
30. In a system with MOS devices, the main bus
is has persisted.
loading factor is likely to be
A. On-Off
C. Proportional plus integral
A. Resistive
C. Capacitive
B. Proportional D. Proportional plus derivative
B. Current
D. Static charge
45. The small error signal or system deviation where
31. What is a multi-wire connection between digital
the system cannot correct anymore
circuits?
A. threshold
C. offset
A. Bus
C. Multiplexed cable
B. holding
D. bias
B. Wire wrap
D. Cable ribbon
46. The system is ____________ if a position servo
32. What is the process used to describe analog-tosystem does not respond to small changes in the
digital conversion?
input.
A. Binarize
C. Digitize
A. under stabilized
C. stabilized
B. Linearize
D. Analogize
B. underdamped
D. overdamped
33. Logic gate that gives a HIGH output when the
input has an even number of 1s.
A. NOR
B. NAND
C. XOR
D. XNOR
34. If the fan out of a logic gate is not enough,
a/an ___________ should be used.
A. Inverter
C. Buffer
B. Amplifier
D. Isolator
35. Is considered as a controlled inverter.
A. XOR B. NOR
C. NAND
D. AND

47. A thyristor that is very similar to an SCR

except that it has low voltage and current
ratings. It is very temperature stable, and is
therefore suitable to be used as triggering
device.
A. UJT
B. GTO
C. SBS
D. SUS
48. A three terminal device that behaves roughly
like SCR, except that it can conduct current in
either direction when at ON.
A. thyristor
B. SUS
C. SBS D. GTO

36. How many NAND-gates are needed to have an AND

function?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

49. A device or instrument, which delivers signals

of pre3cise frequency and amplitude, usually
over a wide range.
A. synthesizer
C. signal generators
37. Which of the following is the probable output if
B. frequency generators
D. modulators
all inputs of a TTL gate are binary 1?
A. Determinable
C. Binary 1
50. Generally, oscilloscope uses what type of
B. Binary 0
D. Indeterminate
deflection?
A. magnetic deflection
38. A logic circuit family with a supply voltage of
B. electromagnetic deflection
25 V, and are generally used in industry where
C. static deflection
machinery causes electrical noise and large
D. electrostatic deflection
power line transients to occur.
A. HLDTL
B. 74HXX
C. NMOS
D. CMOS
51. An instrument that is capable of displaying
waveforms by means of fluorescence in a CRT.
39. Which of the bipolar logic circuits is the
A. oscilloscope
C. spectrum analyzer
fastest?
B. wave analyzer
D. distortion analyzer
A. TTL
B. STTL
C. SCTL
D. ECL

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52. Bridge used to measure both inductive and

capacitive impedances at higher frequencies.
A. Hay bridge
C. Wein bridge
B. Schering bridge D. radio-frequency bridge
53. What do you call of
bridge in which two
resistances and the
combinations?
A. Hay bridge
B. Wein bridge

65. The output offset voltage of an op-amp is due to

the input offset current and voltage. If 1 mV is
due to the input offset current and 22 mV due to
the input offset voltage, what is the total
output offset voltage of the op-amp?
A. 11.5 mV
C. 23 mV
B. 22 mV
D. 45 mV

that frequency-sensitive
adjacent arms are
other two arms are RC

66. The output offset voltage of an op-amp is (are)

due to
A. input offset current
B. input offset voltage
C. voltage and current drift
D. A and B above

C. Maxwell bridge
D. Schering bridge

54. Where can we use the dynamometer?

A. dc only
C. dc and ac
B. ac only
D. peak measurement
55. A meter has a full-scale current of 50A, what
is its sensitivity?
A. 20k/V
C. 50k/V
B. 20V/
D. 50A/V

67. The change in input offset current due to

temperature change
A. delta input offset current
B. slew rate
C. input offset current drift
D. PSRR

56. A device that is used to measure current without

opening the circuit
68. The A741 op-amp has a CMRR of 90dB and a
A. megger test
C. ammeter
differential-mode voltage amplification of
B. clamp probe
D. multi-meter
200,000.What is the op-amps common-mode voltage
gain?
57. How alternators rated?
A. 31,622.778
C. 6.324
A. in Watts
C. in kVar
B. 632.40
D. 0.158
B. in kW
D. in kVA
69. In op-amps, which gain is the highest?
58. In applications where an almost constant speed
A. common-mode gain
C. closed-loop gain
is required, a _______ motor is a good choice.
B. differential gain
D. open-loop gain
A. dc shunt
C. cumulatively compounded
B. dc series
D. differentially compounded 70. A series RL network is supplied with a 200-volt,
60-cycle source. If the voltage across the
59. Considered as a variable speed motor
resistor R is 100 V, what is the voltage across
A. compounded
the inductor L?
B. differentially compounded
A. 0 V
B. 100 V
C. 173.2 V D. 200 V
C. shunt
D. series
71. The stage followed by the output complementary
in op-amps functional block diagram.
60. In electrical power distributions, what
A. level shifter
C. current mirror
insulator is generally used?
B. phase shifter
D. polarizer
A. rubber
C. plastic
B. wood
D. porcelain
72. Ideally, op-amps have infinite input resistance
and ________ output resistance.
61. Description used for generators trying to selfA. infinite
C. variable
adjust its parameters before paralleling with on
B. zero
D. a highly stabilized
line generators.
A. synchronizing
C. jogging
73. An operational amplifier must have at least how
B. sequencing
D. alighning
many usable terminals?
A. 3 terminals
C. 8 terminals
62. Find the frequency in kilocycles per second in
B. 5 terminals
D. 14 terminals
the armature of a 10 pole, 1,200 rpm generator.
A. 100
B. 1000
C. 10
D. 0.1
74. The overall gain of an amplifier in cascade is
A. the sum
C. the product
63. In dc generator, what converts the alternating
B. the average of each D. 100% the sum
emf to DC?
A. armature
C. diode
75. What phenomenon in electronics does an avalanche
B. commutator
D. alternator
breakdown primarily dependent?
A. Doping
C. Ionization
64. In op-amp analysis, the input offset voltage is
B. Recombination
D. Collision
represented by
A. a battery
76. The resistance of the diode that is significant
B. a signal generator
when operating with a small ac signal
C. Thevenins voltage source
A. dc resistance
C. dynamic resistance
D. Nortons current source
B. static resistance
D. average resistance

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77. In every increase of 10C in the operating

temperature of a diode will cause its reverse
saturation current to
A. decrease
C. triple
B. double
D. quadruple

B. capacitive

D. purely inductive

89. What is the frequency of an alternating current,

if it reaches 90 within 4.167 ms?
A. 20 Hz
B. 30 Hz
C. 50 HZ
D. 60 Hz

78. The small value of direct current that flows

when a semiconductor device has reverse bias
A. surge current
C. reverse current
B. bias current
D. current limit

90. A common connection between circuit elements or

conductors from different branches.
A. node
C. ground
79. The area in the semiconductor diode where there
B. junction
D. mesh
are no charge carriers
A. depletion layer
C. depletion mode
91. An electronic/electrical component/device used
B. depletion region
D. depletion area
to store electrical energy.
A. Capacitor
C. Resistor
80. Cathode in a semiconductor junction diode is
B. Inductor
D. lightning arrester
referred to the
A. positive terminal
C. p-type terminal
92. The greater the diameter of a wire, the _______
B. junction
D. n-type terminal
is the resistance.
A. greater
C. harder
81. A device containing an anode and a cathode or a
B. lesser
D. bigger
pn junction of a semiconductor as the principal
elements and provides unidirectional conduction. 93. The longer the wire the ________ is the
A. diode
C. triode
resistance
B. diac
D. triac
A. higher
C. harder
B. lesser
D. smaller
82. Which of the following semiconductors has the
smallest energy gap?
94. The unit of current.
A. ZnS
B. Si
C. Ge
D. InSb
A. Ampere
C. Ampere-sec.
B. Ampere/sec.
D. Ampere-hr.
83. When an electron at the conduction band falls
back to the valence band it will recombine with 95. The net movement of charged particles in one
the hole. This is known as
direction or another.
A. regeneration
C. combination
A. flow
C. drift current
B. reunion
D. recombination
B. current
D. diffusion current
84. A network has a true power and a reactive power 96. Coulomb is the SI unit of charge, how about in
of 2400 W and 3200 W respectively. What is its
cgs?
apparent power?
A. Statcoulomb
C. electron unit
A. 800 W
C. 4000 W
B. electron volt
D. static unit
B. 1600 W
D. 5600 W
97. Gases with charged particles.
85. What is the total impedance of a series circuit
A. inert
C. conductive
consisting of R = 6, XC = 8, and XL = 16?
B. plasma
D. reactive
A. 10
B. 14
C. 24.73
D. 30
86. A 200 resistor if connected in series with a
98. What do you call a negatively charged ion?
capacitive reactance of 100 will give a total
A. electron
C. cation
circuit impedance of
B. anion
D. domain
A. 173.2
C. 250.6
B. 223.6
D. 300.0
99. When all atoms of a molecule are the same, the
substance is called
87. The power factor (pf) of a series LC circuit is
A. a crystal
C. a compound
A. 0
B. 0.5
C. 0.75
D. 1.0
B. an element
D. an ion
88. If the current in an ac-circuit leads the
voltage by 90, the circuit is
A. resistive
C. inductive

100. A good conductor has how many valence

electrons?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8

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