The cutoff frequency, fc of a filter is the frequency at which the gain

Correct Answer: is reduced to 70.7% of its maximum

A type of filter that allows only low frequency signals

Correct Answer: LPF

A type of filter that has a flat passband and stopband response but slow transition

Correct Answer: Butterworth

A band reject filter is also known as

Correct Answer: wien bridge

Which of the following statements is not true about bandpass filters?

Correct Answer: none of the choices

Which of the following statements is true about reactance?

Correct Answer: Inductive reactance is open at very high frequencies

A signal transmission line which has a source impedance of 75Ω is to be connected to a signal strength
meter of impedance 50Ω which has a maximum display of -12dB. Calculate the values of resistors
required in an L-pad attenuator circuit to operate the meter at maximum power.

Correct Answer: 59.6Ω and 22.2Ω

An H-pad has an insertion loss of 50 dB, what is its current ratio if the input impedance is equal to its
terminating impedance?

Correct Answer: 316

A parallel LC circuit has a resonant frequency of 3.75MHz and a Q of 125. What is the bandwidth?

Correct Answer: none of the choices

A higher Q for a resonant circuit provides

Correct Answer: narrower bandwidth

A figure of merit that determines the sharpness of the frequency response curves in filters.

Correct Answer: Quality factor

The phase angle of an LC circuit at resonance is

Correct Answer: 0

On logarithmic graph paper, a 10 to 1 range of frequencies is called a (n)

Correct Answer: decade

The capacitor in an LC circuit has R equal to 50Ω and XC value of 500Ω at its resonant frequency. How
much is the net reactance?

Correct Answer: 0Ω

The decibel attenuation of a passive filter at the cut-off frequency is

Correct Answer: -3dB

What is the loss of the circuit in dB if the power ratio of output to input is 0.01?

Correct Answer: 20

Convert 5W to dBm

Correct Answer: 36.99

A filter in which the signal passes through an inductor, or in which a capacitor provides a path to ground,
presents less attenuation to low-frequency signals than high-frequency signals.

Correct Answer: Low pass filter

What is the resonant frequency of an LC circuit with values L=100 uH and C=63.3 pF?

Correct Answer: 2 MHz

Determine the input impedance of a T-pad with a series arm of 100Ω and shunt arm of 1750Ω and a
terminating impedance of 450Ω.

Correct Answer: 518.478Ω

Which of the following is true about parallel resonant circuit?

Correct Answer: current IL and IC are equal

The input power to a filter is 100mW, and the output power is 5mW. Calculate the attenuation in
decibels offered by the filter.

Correct Answer: 13dB

One of Mapua’s mission statement is

Correct Answer: The Institute shall engage in economically viable research, development and innovation

Which of the following is best used as AF amplifier?

Correct Answer: Class A

Which of the following is true about series resonant circuit?

Correct Answer: The net reactance is equal to a minimum

To increase the cutoff frequency of an RL high-pass filter, you can

Correct Answer: increase the value of R

What is the total power in dBm of a three circuits having 6dBm, 3dBm and 8dBm respectively

Correct Answer: 10.891 dBm

Above resonance, a parallel LC circuit appears

Correct Answer: capacitive

Which of the following will provide a more selective filtering?

Correct Answer: all of the choices

Without resonant circuits there would be no radio communication. Resonant circuit is not an essential
part of ___.

Correct Answer: Channel

A Pi-pad attenuator circuit is required to reduce the level of an audio signal by 10dB while matching the
impedance of a 75Ω network. Calculate the values of the three resistors required

Correct Answer: 144.4Ω, 106.7Ω and 144.4Ω

Mapua’s vision statement

Correct Answer: Mapua shall be among the best universities in the world

The capacitor in an RC coupling circuit

Correct Answer: blocks the steady dc component of the input voltage

The doubling or halving of frequencies is called a(n)

Correct Answer: octave

A type of power amplifier whose output conducts load current during less the one-half cycle of an input
sine wave.

Correct Answer: Class C

For an RC circuit,

Correct Answer: Xc = R at the cutoff frequency

In a series resonant circuit, do the values of XL and XC, affect the value of I at fR?

Correct Answer: No

What is the effect of loading a resistor across a tuned circuit?

Correct Answer: It lowers the Q and broadens the frequency response.

A parallel LC circuit has a resonant frequency of 3.75 MHz and a Q of 125. What is the bandwidth?

Correct Answer: 30 kHz

A bridged-T attenuator is required to reduce the level of an 8Ω audio signal line by 4dB. Calculate the
values of the resistors required.

Correct Answer: 8Ω,4.7Ω and 13.78Ω

In an RC low-pass filter, the output is taken across the

Correct Answer: capacitor

A type of filter that has a faster transition but has variations on the passband.

Correct Answer: Chebyshev

Below resonance, a series LC circuit appears

Correct Answer: capacitive

A filter that passes most frequencies unaltered, but attenuates those in a specific range to very low
levels.

Correct Answer: Band-stop filter

This is the minimum range of frequencies required propagating the source information through the
system.

Correct Answer: Bandwidth

Which network is considered symmetric and unbalanced?

Correct Answer: Bridged- T

A type of power amplifier with the least amount of distortion.

Correct Answer: Class A

An H-type attenuator is required to provide a 6-dB insertion loss and to match 50-Ω input and output.
What must be the value of the series resistance?

Correct Answer: 8.33Ω

The cut-off frequency, fc, of a filter is the frequency at which the output is

Correct Answer: exactly equal to the input voltage

What is the decibel (dB) attenuation of a filter with a 100-mV input and a 1-mV output at a given
frequency?

Correct Answer: -40 dB