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SUBJECT NAME: ANALOGY DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

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Write answers in your own words and avoid copying from the textbooks.
Only hand written assignments shall be accepted.

ATTEMPT ALL THE BELOW MENTIONED QUESTIONS:

1. The Bandwidth of an RC-coupled amplifier is

limited by:
A) coupling capacitors at the low frequency
end and bypass capacitors at the high
frequency end
B) coupling capacitors at the high frequency
end and bypass capacitors at the low
frequency end
C) bypass and coupling capacitors at the low
frequency end and shunt capacitors at the
high frequency end and
D) shunt capacitors at the low frequency end
and bypass as well as coupling capacitors at
the high frequency end.
2. The ideal characteristic of a voltage stablizer is
A) constant output voltage with low internal
resistance
B) constant output current with low internal
resistance
C) constant output voltage with high internal
resistance
D) constant internal resistance with variable
output voltage.
3. Which of the following is not true:
A) An oscillator is a circuit that converts DC to
AC
B) An oscillator is an amplifier that supplies its
own input signal
C) All oscillators generate sine waves
D) In phase feedback is called positive

Feedback
4. What conditions are required for an amplifier to
oscillate
A) There must be feedback
B) The feedback must be in phase
C) The gain must be greater than the loss
D) All the above are regd.
5. The major function of transistor. Q2 is
A) It provides voltage gain
B) It provides the feedback signal
C) It isolates the oscillator from loading effects
D) It provides a phase shift.
6. An oscillator that uses crystal control should be
A) Frequency stable
B) useful only at low frequencies
C) AVFO
D) none of the above.
7. Six (6) MHz crystal oscillator has a stability of 1
6
part in 10 . The largest frequency error expected
of this crystals
A) 0.06 Hz
B) 0.6 Hz
C) 6 Hz
D) 60 Hz.
8. A series mode crystal is marked 10.000 MHz., It
is used in a circuit that operates the crystal in its
parallel mode. The circuit can be expected to
A) Run below 10 MHz
B) Run at 10 MHz
C) Run above 10 MHz
D) Not oscillate.
9. What do phase shift oscillators, twin T
oscillators and Wien bridge oscillators have in
common
A) They use RC frequency control
B) They have a sinusoidal output
C) They use amplifier gain to overcome
feedback loss
D) All the above.
10. What waveform should appear across R3
A) Saw tooth
B) Pulse

C) Sinusoid
D) Square.
11. The relaxation oscillator (Astable
Multivibrators) circuit is shown below. What
waveform should be expected at the collector of
Q2
A) Saw tooth
B) Pulse
C) Sinusoid
D) Square.
12. What is the phase relationship of the signal at
the collector of Q2 to the signal at the collector of
Q,
A) 0
B) 90
C) 180
D) 360.
13. If C1 = C2 = 0.5 : F
R1 = R2 = 22 K
What is the frequency of oscillator
A) 16 Hz
B) 33 Hz
C) 66 Hz
D) 99 Hz.
14. Load regulation is a measure of a power
supplies ability keep a constant output under
conditions of changing
A) Line voltage
B) Current demand
C) Temperature
D) Oscillator frequency.
15. In general, MOV devices are used to protect
electronic equipment from dangerous operating
conditions such as
A) High temperatures
B) Line transients
C) Over current
D) All of the above.
16. Current limited power supplies can prevent
damage to
A) Rectifier diodes and power transformers.
B) Pass transistors
C) Other circuits in the system

D) All of the above.

17. A crow bar is a power supply circuit that
provides
A) Conventional current limiting
B) Foldback current. limiting
C) Temperature control
D) Voltage limiting.
18. Foldback current limiting has the advantage of
A) Better pass transistor protection for long
term overloads
B) A defined turn on point
C) Circuit simplicity
D) All of the above.
19. As compared to a CB amplifier, a CE amplifier
has
A) Lower current amplification
B) Higher current amplification
C) Higher input resistance.
D) Both (B) & (C)
20. Common base configuration is little used
because
A) It has low input impedance
B) It has high input impedance
C) It does not heat up
D) It has very high gain.
21. Which of the following circuit would be
preferred for a 455 kHz IF amplifier?
A) A resistance loaded
B) Double tuned transformer
C) Video amplifier
D) Class C
22. A FET has a gate source bias of - 2 V. The ac
input signal is 1.2 V. The class of operation will
be
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) AB
23. For a transistor the normal collector voltage is
12 V. If actually it is found to be 28 V, the trouble
could be
A) RL is open
B) RE is open

C) CE is shorted
D) CE is open.
24. Emitter region in NPN transistor is more
heavily doped than base region so that
A) Flow across the base region will be mainly
of holes
B) Flow across the base region will be mainly
of electrons
C) Base current is low
D) Base current is high.
25. Which class of amplifiers operates with least
distortion?
A) Class A
B) Class B
C) Class C
D) Class D.
26. In an RC coupled amplifier for improving the
low frequency response
A) Lower RL is provided
B) More bias is used
C) Less gain is provided
D) Higher Cc is used.
27. A quiescent state of a transistor implies
A) Zero bias
B) No output
C) No distortion
D) No input signal.
28. Which of the following plot can be used to
show the input volt ampere characteristics of a
common emitter configuration?
A) VBE versus iB for constant values of VcE
B) VCE versus ic for constant values of IB
C) VCB versus ic for constant values of 1E
D) None of the above.
29. Which of the following represents class B
amplifier
A) With a tube, cut off is - 4 V, the grid bias is
- 2 V, and the ac signal is 1 V
B) With a silicon NPN transistor, cut-off
voltage is 0.5 V, the bias is 0.6 V and the ac
signal is 50 mV
C) Output current flows for 120 of the input
cycle

D) None of the above.

30. The Darlington pair consists of the following
two stages
A) CE and CC
B) Both
C) Both CC
D) CE and CB
31. Which of the following combinations has no
phase inversion of the signal?
A) Two CE stages
B) CE and CC stages
C) Three CE stages
D) CE stage and emitter follower.
32. If the operating point of an NPN transistor
amplifier is selected in saturation region, it is likely
to result in
A) Thermal runaway of transistor
B) Clipping of output in the positive half of the
input signal
C) Need for high dc collector supply
D) Clipping of output in the negative half of
the input signal.
33. The input signal to an amplifiers having a gain
of 400 is given as 0.5 cos (313 t) which of the
following represents the output signal?
A) 400 cos 313 t
B) 400 cos (313 t + 90*)
C) 20 cos (403 t)
D) 20 sin (403 t).
34. A class A amplifier is the one in which
A) Base is biased to cut off
B) Ic flows most of the time
C) IE flows all the time
D) None of the above.
35. In a resistance loaded, RC coupled amplifier
the dc component is blocked by
A) Load resistance RL
B) Coupling capacitor, CC
C) RB
D) The transistor.
36. An FET has a gate source bias of 2 V. The ac
input signal is 1.2 V. The class of operation is

A) A
B) B
C) C
D) AB
37. A IGFET is a
A) Linear device
B) Square law device
C) Half power device
D) 3/2 power law device.
38. An ideal voltage amplifier should have
A) Ri = 0, R0 = 0
B) Ri = 0, R0 =
C) Ri = , R0 = 0
D) Ri = , R0 = .
39. In a resistance loaded amplifier, the gain
decreases a high frequencies because
A) Of decreasing reactance of the stray CT
B) Increasing reactance of the stray CT
C) Increasing reactance of CC
D) Decreasing reactance of CC.
40. In an amplifier the collector voltage equals the
full V+ of 28 V instead of the normal 12 V which of
the following can be the trouble?
A) RL is open
B) Cc is open
C) RE is open
D) CE is shorted.
41. Which of the following contributes to
harmonics distortion in amplifiers?
A) Positive feedback
B) Presence of noise
C) Defective active device
D) Non linearity in active device.
42. Which amplifier will be preferred for highest
gain?
A) Darlington's pair
B) Cascade amplifier
C) Cascode amplifier
D) Depends on the circuitry
43. A push pull amplifier balances out
A) Odd harmonics
B) Even harmonics

C) Both odd as well as even harmonics

D) Neither odd nor even harmonics.
44. Which distortion is least objectionable in case
of audio amplifers?
A) Phase distortion
B) Frequency distortion
C) Harmonic distortion
D) Inter modulation distortion.
45. Which of the following methods cannot be
used to increase the bandwidth for cascaded RF
amplifier stages?
A) Wave traps in each stage
B) Stagger tuning
C) A shunt damping resistor across each tuned
circuit
D) Doubled tuned transformers with tighter
coupling
46. In an amplifier if conductor during the cycle is
from 0 to 90 and again from 180 to 270, the
amplifier will be termed as
A) Class A
B) Class B
C) Class C
D) Class AB.
47. The change in base current will be
A) 0.66 micro ampere
B) 6.6 micro amperes
C) 66 micro amperes
D) 660 micro amperes.