MG I 2006

One Mark Question

Q16. The message m(t) = Sinc2 (1000t) modulates the carrier Cos (106t) to generate the
signal x(t) = m(t) Cos (2fct). The Upper side band frequencies are from
(A) 1000 KHz to 1001 KHz

(B) 1000 KHz to 1002 KHz

(C) 500 KHz to 501 KHz

(D) 500 KHz to 502 KHz

Two Marks Questions

01.

With regard to the signals

x(t) = 5 cos (2 x 103 t) cos (2 x 106 t) - 5 sin (2 x 103 t) sin (2 x 106 t)
Which of the following statements are correct?
1) The upper side band frequency is 1001000
2) The lower side band frequency is 999000
3) the carrier amplitude is 5
4) x (t) is a SSB signal
(A) 1 & 2

02.

(B) 1 & 3

(C) 1 & 4

(D) 2 & 4

The block diagram of an indirect FM modulator is shown in the figure. At the output
of the second multiplier, the carrier frequency should be 5MHz and modulation index,
10.
NBFM
modulator

Multiplier
X 10

fm = 5KHz

Mixer

Multiplier
X2

oscillator

f = 500Hz
fc = 1MHz
The modulation index and frequency deviation at the output of first multiplier is
(A) 2, 500Hz
03.

(B) 2, 5000Hz

(C) 20, 500Hz

(D) 2,10KHz

An FM signal is generated using a single tone sinusoidal signal of frequency fm. The
modulation index = 6. The fraction of total power contained in the frequency
range fc - 4fm to fc + 4fm is

( J0(6) = 0.1506 J1(6) = 0.2767 J2(6) = 0.2429, J3(6) = 0.1148, J4(6) = 0.3576)
(A) 99%
04.

(B) 45%

(C) 57.6%

(D) 77.6%

An amplitude modulated signal is represented in time domain as

s(t) = 10 m(t) cos (2 x 106 t)
where m(t) = [1 + 0.5 cos(210 3 t) + 0.4 cos 2 (10 10 3) t + 0.3 cos 2(2010 3) t]
With regard to this signal which of the following statement(s) is/are true?
1.
2.
3.
4.

the spectrum consists of 8 spectral components

the band width of the signal is 40KHz
the total modulation index is 0.707
the modulation efficiency is 1

(A) 1 and 2
05.

(B) 3 and 4

(C) 3 alone

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Consider the following statements about PCM

P.
Q.
R.
S.

Bandwidth depends on the quantization error

Bandwidth depends on the sampling rate
Bandwidth depends on the number of quantization levels
Bandwidth depends on the dynamic range of the quantizer

(A) Only Q is true

(B) Only R is not true

(C) Both P and S are not true

(D) Only P is not true

Statement for Linked answer 06 and 07 is given below.

A sampled signal that varies between 2 V and 2V is quantized using B
bits.
06.

The value of B which ensures an rms quantization error of less than 5mV is
(A) 5
(B) 6
(C)7
(D) 8

07.

The step size is

(A) 1/8

(B) 1/64

(C) 1/256

(D) 4/256

MG II 2006
One Mark Question
01.

In a PCM system with 64 quantization levels, the maximum error will be

(A) (1/16)th of the total amplitude range
(B) (1/32)th of the total amplitude range
(C) (1/64)th of the total amplitude range
(D) (1/128)th of the total amplitude range

Two Marks Questions

01.

In the spectrum of FM wave

(A) the carrier frequency cannot disappear
(B) the carrier frequency disappears when the modulation index is large
(C) the amplitude of any side band depends on the modulation index
(D) the separation between two successive spectral components depends on the
modulation index

02.

Without filtering, a broadcast station at 1600 KHz is heard together with another
station at 2500KHz on a superheterodyne receiver. The IF is
(A) 900 KHz

03.

(B) 450 KHz

(C) 300 KHz

(D) 225 KHz

A carrier signal of frequency fc is frequency modulated by a signal

2 cos 2 f1t + 4 cos2 f2t .
Which of the following frequency components are contained in the spectrum of the
modulated signal?
1. fc + f1 + f2
2. fc - f1 - f2
3. fc + 2 f1 - f2
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(A) 1 and 2

04.

(B) 3 and 4

(C) 3 alone

4. fc 2 f1 + f2

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

A TDM link has 20 signal channels and each channel is sampled at 8000 times /s.
Each sample is represented by seven binary bits and synchronization requires an
additional bit per frame. The total bit rate for the TDM link is
(A) 1128 k bits / sec

(B) 1280 k bits /sec

(C) 1180 M bits/sec

(D) 1280 M bits /sec

05.

A noisy transmission channel has a per digit error probability = 0.01. Then the
probability of more than one error in received digits is
(A) 0.9953

(B) 1 + [10 x (0.01)10]

(C) 1 10 (0.99)9

(D) 0.0047

Statement for Linked answer Q 06 and Q 07 is given below.

The message signal m(t) = 4 + 4 Cos (2t) + 2Cos (4t) modulates the carrier
Cos (40 t) to generate the AM signal s(t) = [ 20 + m(t) ] Cos 40 (t) .
06.

The modulation index is

(A) 0.5

07.

(B) 0.8

(C) 1

(D) 0.18

(C) 210W

(D) 292W

The power of the AM signal is

(A) 300W

(B) 202W

MG I 2007
One Mark Question
01. Which of the following Modulation is non linear ?
(A) AM
(B) DSB
(C) SSB

(D) FM

02. The closed loop poles of a system are located at -2 j2, -2 j2. The system is
(A) stable

(B) unstable

(C) Marginally stable

(D) conditionally stable

Two Marks Questions

01. In PCM, using 128 Quantization levels, the maximum error will be
(A) (1 / 64) of the total amplitude range
(B) (1 / 128) of the total amplitude range
(C) (1 / 256) of the total amplitude range
(D) (1 / 512) of the total amplitude range
02. In a Delta modulation, the step height is 75 mV, and the step width is 1.5 mS.
The maximum slope that the staircase can track is
(A) 50 V/Sec

(B) 55 V/Sec

(C) 60 V/Sec

(D) 65 V/ Sec

03. In a diode detector the time constant is 5 sec. The message frequency for
which diagonal clipping will not occur is
(A) 100 KHz

(B) 0.2 KHz

(C) 0.2 MHz

(D) 500 KHz

04. An AM broadcast receiver has an IF of 465 KHz and is tuned to 500 KHz with
a Q of 30 at that frequency. The image rejection ratio is
(A) 42 dB
05. Let

(B) 52 dB

m(t) =

signal.

(C) 62 dB

(D) 72 dB

1
. Let s(t) be an SSB signal with m(t) as the message
1 + t2

s(t) = m(t) cos 2fCt + m(t) sin 2fCt.

Assuming that s(t) is the input to an ideal Envelope Detector, the output is
(A)

1
1 + t2

(B)

1
1 + t2

(C)

1
1 + t

(D)

1
1+t

Statement for Linked answer Q06 and Q07 is given below.

A sinusoidal signal with a frequency of 5 KHz is transmitted through a channel

after modulation. The peak amplitude of the unmodulated carrier is 2 V. The
modulation index is 0.5. The two sided power spectral density of noise is 10 -8 W/Hz.
06. The signal to Noise ratio at the output of the receiver is
(A) 16 dB

(B) 56 dB

(C) 46 dB

(D) 36 dB

07. The signal to noise ratio at the input of the receiver is

(A) 25.54 dB

(B) 65.54 dB

(C) 55.54 dB

(D) 45.54 dB

MG II 2007
One Mark Questions
01. In a commercial broadcasting system the FM signal has a centre frequency of
105 MHz and the highest frequency of 105.03 MHz. The message frequency
is 5 kHz, The frequency deviation and modulation index are, respectively
(A) 0.3 kHz, 6
(B) 0.03 kHz, 60
(C) 300 kHz, 60
(D) 30 kHz, 6

Two Marks Questions

01. An analog voltage signal, whose highest significant frequency is 1 kHz, is to
be encoded using PCM. The amplitude varies from 0 to 10 V. The maximum
quantization error should be 0.01 percent of the peak signal amplitude. The
minimum sampling frequency and the number of bits / sample are, respectively
(A) 1 kHz & 12

(B) 2 kHz & 13

(C) 2 kHz & 14

(D) 2 kHz & 15

02. For an AM wave having a power of 800 W at its carrier frequency and a
modulation index of 90%, the power content of each side band is
(A) 81 W

(B) 162 W

(C) 200 W

(D) 400 W

03. A PCM system uses a uniform quantizer followed a 5 bit binary encoder.
The bit rate is 50 Mbps. The maximum message bandwidth for which the
system operates satisfactorily is
(a) 5 kHz
(B) 5 MHz
(C) 10 kHz
(D) 10 MHz
04. A source generates 5 symbols with probabilities 0.2, 0.15, 0.05, 0.1 and 0.5
at a rate of 10,000 symbols / sec. The bit rate is
(A) 192 kbps

(B) 19.2 kbps

(C) 192 Mbps

(D) 19.2 Mbps

05. Five earth stations share one transponder of a 6/4 GHz satellite. All the
stations operate in a TDMA mode. The original speech signals are sampled at
8 kHz, using 8 bits/sample. The speech signals are multiplexed into 40 Mbps
stream at each earth station. The number of voice channels that can be
transmitted at each earth station is

(A) 250

(B) 125

(C) 500

(D) 64

Statement for Linked answer Q06 and Q07 is given below.

Let s(t) be a general angle modulated signal given by
s(t) = AC cos [i (t)]
= AC cos [Ct + (t)]
The modulated signal m(t) = cos (m t). s(t) has the instantaneous frequency given
by
fi(t) = fC + 2 K(fm)2 cos (m t), where K is a constant.
06. The expression for i (t) is
(A) 2 fCt + K cos (m t)

(B) 2 fCt + K sin (m t)

(C) 2 fCt + m K sin ( m t)

(D) 2 fCt m K sin (m t)

07. If m(t) is other than cos (mt), the expression for s(t) is
(A) AC cos [2 fCt + K (dm(t) / dt)]

(B) AC cos [2 fCt + Km (t)]

(C) AC cos [2 fCt + K m(t) dt ]

(D) none

MG I 2008
One Mark Questions
01. A low pass signal having a BW of 10KHz is multiplied by a carrier Cos2f ct.
The value of fc, so that the bandwidth of the modulated signal is 2 % of the
fc, is
(A) 1MHz

(B) 2MHz

(C) 20 KHz

(D) 2GHz

Two Marks Questions

01. Two signals m1(t) and m2(t) are band limited to 5KHz and 10KHz
respectively. Consider a signal y(t) = m1(t) + 2 m2(t) Cos 2fct,
where fc = 20 KHz. The bandwidth of y(t) is
(A) 20KHz

(B) 15KHz

(C) 25KHz

(D)30 KHz

02. A signal m(t) = 2 Cos 1000t + Cos 2000t is multiplied by a carrier

10 Cos 105 t. The mathematical expression for upper side band terms is
(A)10 Cos 2( 105 + 1000)t + 5 Cos 2( 105 + 2000)t
(B) 20 Cos 2( 105 + 1000)t + 10 Cos 2( 105 + 2000)t
(C)10 Cos ( 105 + 1000)t + 5 Cos ( 105 + 2000)t
(D) 20 Cos ( 105 + 1000)t + 10 Cos ( 105 + 2000)t

03. A signal m(t) has the Fourier Transform

M(f) = 1 f1 | f | f2 , f1 = 1KHz and f2 = 10KHz,
= 0

elsewhere

Let y(t) = m(t) Cos 2 106t .

The range of the frequencies, for which y(t) has non-zero spectral
components, is
(A) 990KHz to 999KHz

(B) 1001KHz to 1010KHz

(C) 990 to 1010KHz

(D) Both A & B

04. A received NRZ signal assumes the voltage levels 1mV for Tb sec.
The signal is corrupted by white noise of two sided spectral density of
10-10 W/Hz . The threshold value is 0 V. The bitrate required, such that
the Pe = 10-4, is
(A) 630bps

( Q(x) = 10-4 only when x = 3.7)

(B) 730bps

(C) 630Kbps

(D) 730Kbps

05. An analog signal has a bandwidth of 4KHz. The signal is sampled at 2.5
times the Nyquist rate and each sample is Quantized into one of 256 equally
likely levels. The SNR is 10 dB. The band width of the channel required for
error free transmission is
(A) 36250Hz

(B) 46250Hz

(C) 56250Hz

(D) 16250Hz

Statement for Linked answer Q06 and Q07 is given below.

The probability density function of the sampled values of an analog signal is
f(x) = 1 + x

-1 x 0

= 1- x

0 x1

= 0

elsewhere

A four level quantizer is to be designed.

f(x)
1

-1

06. The signal power is

(A) 1.875 W

(B) 0.875 W

(C) 0.1875 W

(D) 0.01875 W

07. The signal to quantization noise power is

(A) 6.5 dB

(B) 7.5 dB

(C) 8.5 dB

(D) 9.5 dB

MG II 2008
One Mark Questions
Two Marks Questions
01. The message signal m(t) = 10 Sinc(400t) frequency modulates the carrier
c(t) = 10Cos(2fct). The modulation index is 6. The bandwidth of the
modulated signal is
(A) 1200Hz
(B) 1100Hz
(C) 1400
(D) 2800Hz
02. A black and white TV picture consists of 525 lines of picture information.
Assume that each line consists of 525 picture elements and that each
element can have 256 brightness levels. Pictures are repeated at the rate of
30 per sec. The average rate of information conveyed is
(A) 56.15 Mbps
(B) 66.15Mbps (C) 56.65Mbps (D) 66.65Mbps
03. An AM modulator develops an unmodulated power output of 400W across a
50 resistive load. The carrier is modulated by a single tone with a modulation
index of 0.8.
When AM signal is transmitted, the power developed across the load is
(A) 428W
(B) 418W
(C) 528W
(D) 432W
04. The signal 2[ 1 + 0.4 Cos(6000t)]Cos(10 6t) is applied to a square law
device described by Y = (X+4) 2, where Y is the output and X is the input.
The output of the square law device is filtered by an ideal low pass filter with
a cutoff frequency of 8KHz. The spectral components at the output of the
LPF are
(A) 5 KHz & 600 KHz
(B) 5 KHz & 3 KHz
(C) 3KHz & 600KHz
(D) 3KHz & 6KHz
05. The bit stream 110111001 is to be transmitted using DPSK. The reference bit is
1. The transmitted phase sequence is
(A) 000000
(C) 0000

(B) 000
(D) 0000

Statement for Linked answer Q06 and Q07 is given below.

A CRT terminal is used to enter alphanumerical data into a computer. The CRT is
connected to the computer through a voice grade telephone line having a BW of
3KHz and an output SNR of 10dB . Assume that the terminal has 128 characters
and that the data sent from the terminal consists of independent sequences of
equiprobable characteristics.
06. The channel capacity is
(A) 10328bps

(B) 10378bps

(C) 15642bps

(D) 11369bps

07. The maximum number of characteristics per sec that can be transmitted from
the terminal to computer without errors is
(A) 1242

(B) 1482

(C) 1382

(D) 1842