1. Progressive decrease in signal strength 11.

This occurs when the LOS beam is at a

with increase in distance. point of grazing over a knife edge
obstacle.
B. Attenuation
B. Diffraction
2. Radio communication in the Philippines
is regulated by _____. 12. Atmospheric condition is not controlled
by _____.
C. NTC
D. Frequency
3. Which is not a common microwave
application. 13. When the clearance above the
obstruction is equal to the radius of the
B. Mobile Radio
Fresnel zone, RSL (or MRS) _____.
4. The most widely used microwave
C .Decreased
antenna.
14. A measure of traffic intensity.
B. Axial Feed Parabolic
A. Erlang
5. Microwaves from 10.9 GHz to 36 GHz is
considered as _____ band. 15. Descending pass from a
communications satellite means a pass
D. K
from _____.
6. A waveguide is also a _____.
A. North to South
B. High Pass Filter
16. The dielectric material of an optical
7. Method of diversity reception where fiber surrounding the core.
the signal is transmitted on 2 different
A. Cladding
frequencies over the same path.
17. DWDM with 40 microwave lengths is at
C. Frequency
STM-64 results to what bit rate in Gbps.
8. When the value of k increases from a
B. 400
value less than 1, the effective result is
a _____ of the equivalent curvature. 18. What is the FSL in dB of a satellite
communications system operating at
A. Flattening
36,000 km above the earth at 400 GHz.
9. Space diversity transmission means
C. 196
receiving on 2 or more _____.
19. At 10pps and fastest speed,
C. Antennas operating on the same
approximately how many seconds will it
frequency
take to dial 2475000 using a telephone
10. It is the progressive increase in the set with the traditional decadic rotary
width of the pulse bit with increase in dial plate.
distance.
C. 10
C. Dispersion
1. An antenna which is not resonant at a
particular frequency and so can be used
over a wide band of frequencies is
called _____.
B. Aperiodic
2. The capture area of an antenna is
directly proportional to _____.
C. Gain of the Antenna
3. Consists of a number of dipoles of equal
size, equally spaced along a straight line
with all dipoles
D. Broadside
4. When a transmission line uses ground
return.
C. Unbalanced
5. What quarterwave transformer will
match a 100 ohm line to an antenna
whose value is 175 ohm?
A. 132.29 ohm
6. What is the velocity factor for a non-
foam dielectric 50 ohm or 75 ohm
flexible coaxial cable such as RG 8, 11,
58 and 59?
C. 0.66
7. What is the free space loss in dB,
between two microwave parabolic
antennas 38.0 km apart operating at 7.0
GHz?
D. 140.89 dB
8. Top loading is used in antenna in order
to increase its _____.
C. Effective Height
10. Electomagnetic radiation theory was
profounded by _____.
D. James Clerk Maxwell
11. Impedance inversion may be obtained
with _____.
B. A quarter-wave line
12. As a wave propagates down a
transmission line, _____.
D. its amplitude remains the same
13. Indicate the three types of transmission
line energy losses
C. Radiation, I^2R, and dielectric
heating
14. If the distance from a transmit antenna
is doubled, the power density is _____.
D. decreased by a factor of 4
15. The characteristic impedance at radio
frequency of a coaxial cable with
L=0.118H/ft and C=21pF/ft is
B. 75 ohms
16. The SWR for a 75 ohms line that is
terminated with a 50 ohms load is
D. 1.5
17. Which of the following statements are
true?
C. All of the choices
18. Indicate which one of the following
terms applies to troposcatter
propagation
C. Fading
19. An antenna is to be installed to receive
a line-of-sight wave transmitted from
an antenna located at a distance of 50
mi from the installation and which is
750 ft in height. The minimum
necessary height of the receiving
antenna is
B. 63.5 ft
20. The maximum usable frequency for a 29. Calculate the luminance of a signal, if
critical frequency of 12 MHz and an the television receives 1V of red, 1V of
angle of incidence of 70 degrees is blue and 2V of green.

C. 35 MHz B. 1.59 V

21. The video signal amplitude determines
the quality of the picture otherwise
known as
D. Contrast
30. The amplitude of the chrominance
determines the _____ of the picture
A. Saturation

22. Which of the following is not a low-

impedance microphone?

D. Crystal

23. It is a wave motion consisting of a series

or rarefactions and compressions
produced by a vibrating body in a
medium

C. Sound

24. It is the unit of pitch

A. Mels

25. What is the minimum sound pressure

needed to evoke auditory sensation?

B. Threshold of audibility

26. Calculate the horizontal resolution

possible if the modulating signal
bandwidth is equal to 5 MHz.

C. 535 lines

27. The horizontal synchronization pulse is

_____% of the total horizontal trace
and retrace interval.

C. 8

28. The video intermediate frequency is

equal to _____

B. 45.75 MHz
1. Spacing in DWDM is by _____ while
CWDM is by _____.
C. frequency, wavelength
2. _____ is a composite signal with an
infinite bandwidth.
D. digital signal
3. In FHSS, the pseudorandom code is
applied to
B. the carrier frequency
4. CDMA utilizes what type of wideband
technology?
C. Spread Spectrum
5. The maximum value of quantization
error is always _____.
B. equal to half the resolution
6. Non linear coding is a solution to
minimizing quantization error by
making the resolution _____ at low
amplitude signals and _____ at high
amplitude signals.
A. Smaller, larger
7. Which encoding method attempts to
solve the loss of synchronization in long
strings of 0s?
D. B8ZS
8. What is the frame rate of 5 device
synchronous TDM system, when the bit
rate of each channel is 1000 kbps, no
synchronization bits are added and bit
interleaving is used?
B. 1000 frames per second
9. The bandwidth necessary to send 8
QAM signal is _____ when the input bit
rate is 24 kbps.
C. 8 kHz
10. Which digital modulation technique is
appropriate for a transmission media
that has a bandwidth of 40 kHz and an
input data rate to the modulator is
equal to 4 kbps?
B. 1024 QAM
11. Calculate the minimum number of bits
of information which must be given to
permit the correct selection of one
event out of 32 equiprobable events.
C. 5 bits
12. A binary source sends a binary 1 with a
probability of 0.3. Evaluate the average
information for the source.
D. 0.881 bit
13. A broadcast television channel has a
bandwidth of 6MHz. Calculate the
maximum data rate that could be
carried in a TV channel using a 16
level code. Ignore noise.
C. 48 Mbps
14. Sixteen different levels (symbols) are
used to encode binary data. The
channel bandwidth is 36 MHz. The
maximum channel capacity is
A. 288 Mbps
15. An analog telephone line has a SNR of
45 dB and passes audio frequencies
over the range of 300 kHz to 3300 kHz.
A modem is to be designed to transmit
and receive data simultaneously over
this line without errors. If the frequency
range 300 kHz to 12000 kHz is used for
the transmitted signal, what is the
maximum transmitted data rate?
A. 13.4538 Mbps
16. In synchronous TDM, the number of
timeslots in a frame is
A. equal to the number of sending
devices
25. A PCM code word was obtained using a
30 kHz sampling frequency. What is the
maximum input frequency?
C. 15 kHz

17. If the ASCII character L (42h) is sent and 26. _____ is the measurement of how fast
the character A (41h) is received, what data can pass through an entity.
type of error is this?
D. Throughput
C. Burst error
27. Logical topologies can only be
18. Entropy of two equiprobable messages
B. Bus and ring
is
28. _____ is the data link sub layer that is
C. one
closest to the physical layer
19. In CRC, there is no error if the
B. Media Access Control
remainder at the receiver is _____.
29. The access method of Ethernet
D. zero
technologies is
20. If the data unit is 11011001, the divisor
C. CSMA/CD
1010, and the remainder 110, what is
the dividend at the receiver? 30. A Fast Ethernet technology that uses
CAT3 UTP
C. 11011001110
A. 100BaseTX
21. Entropy is basically a measure of

B. average information

22. DS 1, an application of TDM, has how

many voice channels?

B. 24

23. A measure of how much information

can be transferred through a
communication system in a given
period of time

D. information capacity

24. Characteristic if sinewaves that describe

the position of the waveform relative to
time zero.

B. phase
1. What produces the sidebands in power gain is 15. What is the overall
noise figure if the second circuit has a
C. Baseband frequency
noise figure of 11 dB?
2. Which one of the following emission
C. 10.79 dB
transmit the lower sideband and half of
the upper sideband.

D. A3H

3. The process of impressing the

intelligence on the carrier is called

B. modulation

4. The modulated peak value of a signal is

125 V and the unmodulated carrier
value is 85V. What is the modulation
index

A. 0.47

5. An 891 kHz carrier having an amplitude

of 80 V is modulated by a 4.5 kHz audio
signal having an amplitude of 45 V. The
modulation factor is

A. 0.56

6. What is the decibel attenuation of a

filter with 100 mV input and a 1 mV
output at a given frequency?

A. 40 dB

7. Determine the input impedance of a T

pad with a series arm of 100 ohm and
shunt arm of 1750 ohm and a
terminating impedance of 450 ohm

C. 518.478 ohm

8. Three identical circuits having 10 dB

signal to noise ratio each are
connected in tandem with each other.
What is overall S/N

A. 5.23 dB

9. The noise figure of the first circuit in

tandem connection is 10.5 dB while its