1. What is modulation index ?

2. Are you aware of any transmission method which uses single side band ?
3. Why is the Vestigial Side Band(VSB) technique used for TV broadcasting ?
4. How is distortion avoided when we consider only one side band ?
5. Given a phase (Angle) modulated signal how would you convert it into a frequency modulated
signal ?
6. What is a laminator ?
7. How do you convert a silicon wafer into a solar cell ?
8. What is the surge impedance of a cable ?
9. What is the highest impedance that a cable can have ?
10. How would you demodulate a frequency modulated signal ?
11. What is the capacity of 1 solar cell ?
12. How would you connect from one solar cell to another ?
13. What is Software Defined Radio(SDR) ?
14. Draw the diagram of an instrumentation amplifier ?
15. What are the differences between FET and BJT ?
16. How would you measure the frequency of a signal using Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO) ?
17. Draw the diagram of phase shift oscillator using a transistor ?
18. Are you aware of any analog chip that uses SR Flip Flop ?
19. How would you convert an RS flip flop to a T flip flop ?
20. How would you convert RS flip flop into a D dlip flop ?
21. What is Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) ?
22. What are the differences between a Decade and a Binary Counter ?
23. In 555 IC what is the application of SR flip flop ? How does it measure time using SR flip flop ?
24. Draw the diagram of RS Flip Flop using universal gates
25. Draw the diagram of a phase shift oscillator using transistor
26. How would you generate the 2's complement of a number using gates ?
27. What is frequency at which GSM operates ? Uplink and Downlink frequencies
28. What is the mechanism by which frequencies are divided ?
29. What are the differences between Wi-Fi and Wi-Max ?
30. What is the difference between Accuracy & Precision ?
31. What is the difference between a Voltmeter and a Galvanometer ?
32. How would you convert a galvanometer into a voltmeter ?
33. What are the different interpolation techniques in Image Processing ?
34. What is the inverse FT of an all-pass filter ?
35. Draw the diagram of a D flip flop using logic gates ?
36. How would you multiply 2 binary numbers ?
37. What are min-tems ? Given a circuit how would you find the min-terms ?
38. Provide the truth table of XOR gates
39. Gien a delta network with 3 resistors ? How would you convert into an equivalent star network ?
40. What is a Shift Register ?
41. Can we do filtering in the frequency domain ? What would be the shape of a low-pass filter in
frequency domain ?
42. Given voltage and current which is the independent variable ? And why ?
43. What is a thyrister ?
44. Draw the equivalent circuit of a thyrister ?
45. What is an IGBT ?
46. Draw the equivalent circuit of an N-channel IGBT ?
47. An IGBT is like an FET ? How ?
48. Given a MOSFET how will you find it is an enhancement type or depletion type ?
49. How does an FET work ? Explain with the help of a diagram
50. What is proportional controller ?
51. What is the advantage of using BODE plot ?
52. What is a pole in a transfer functions ?
53. What is the use of factorization of a polynomial ?
54. Given the number of poles and the number of zeroes how would you plot the root locus ?
55. Why is FT also called Harmonic analysis ?
56. Can you design a monoshot multivibrator using analog IC ?
57. How many op-amps are required to build an instrumentation amplifier ?
58. How can we measure time electronically ?
59. Design a decoder that converts BCD to 7-Segment display
60. What is sampling frequency ?
61. What is the FT of a rectangular function ?
62. What are the characteristics of a digital signal ?
63. What kind of an antenna is found in the nose of an airplane ?
64. What is a Binary counter ? How does it work ? Why is it called so ?
65. Diff between Comm. & Transmission -
66. What are the possible ways of data exchange. Simplex/Half Duplex/Duplex
67. What is meant by Beacon – Fault
68. Bandwidth – Frequency range between lower and upper limit.
69. What are the two types of transmission media – wire (guided )/wireless(unguided)
70. Why wires are twisted in the twisted pair-
71. Diff between a timer and a counter –
72. Why 50Hz is used as a std in Indian Power line-
73. Diff between dielectric and insulator –
74. Diff between a cell and a battery –
75. Why diode is called a diode?
76. Diff between BJT and FET -
77. Where do you use a polarized capacitor ?.
78. RS 232 – recommended standard
79. Diff between a latch and flip flop –
80. Diff between zener diode and avalanche breakdown.
81. 8085 which interrupt is highest priority- TRAP(
82. Compare SCR and diode rectifier –
83. What is biasing – Connect a DC voltage to setup the operating region.
84. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8 bit Mem- 127
85. Number of faces /vertices/edges of a cube -6,8&12
86. Why -48V is used in telephone switches
87. GSM 48 connection/CDMA theoretically 131.
88. CDMA is more secure due to unique code being used for spread spectrum(Interim Stand 95)
89. Why cellular represented by hexagonal-
90. Typical speech is 40% time and 60% time is silence.
91. GPS – 24 satellite- At a time three are monitoring the point ( Earth acts as a 4 th circle)
92. GEO – 36000km – Roll-X/Pitch-Y/Yaw-Z
93. HDTV – 1920x1080 with aspect ratio of 16:9
94. Tele density in India – 43.5
95. What is a Broadband – > 256kbps
96. Wifi (wireless Fidelity ) -802.11 and Wimax(World wide interoperability microwave access)
802.16
97. CD-DVD -à Blue ray Disc- 25MB/50MB data with a speed of 1x/2x-36/72 mbps read. Uses blue
violet Laser (405 nm instead of 650nm red ). HD Video of 9 hours in double density.
98. What is FSO – Free space Optics –speed terraHz/few km/10-2000mbps/
99. What is the channel BW in GSM- 200khz (124 RF carries) 890-915(uplink) 935-960(dn link)
100. GPRS- general packet radio service – 144kbps
101. EDGE(enhanced data rates for GSM Evolution) -384kbps
102. 3G – 2mbps in office /384 for pedestrian /144kbps for moving vehicle.1920-80
uplink2110-70 dn
103. HSDPA –(High speed downlink packet access)14mbps
104. What is MIMO (smart antenna)- spatial multiplexing to increases data throughput w/o
additional power or bandwidth. Used in ofdma
105. What is ISI(Inter symbol Interference)-
106. What are the FEC(forward error correction)-block code/convolution code/interleaving
107. Hamming distance – disagreement between two words
108. Hamming weight – largest number of 1 s in a valid codeword.
109. What is modulation –converting an information so that it can be sent through a medium
110. What is EDFA- erbium doped fiber amp- optical Amp
111. What is IMEI- international Mobile eqpt Identity.
112. What is IMSI- International Mobile sub Identity
113. ISDN- Integrated service digital services
114. OSI-Physical-data-network-transport-session-presentation-application
115. What is a fuel cell- Hydrogen
116. ISDN- integrated services digital network- BRI 2B+D=144Kbps and PRI 30B+D=2048
117. What is the difference between CCS and CAS
118. Logical progression of steps for resolution of FQDN,- ARP, DNS, DHCP, Ping, tcp tunnel
119. What are Routing protocols
120. Difference between VLAN AND InterVLAN communication
121. Explain ISL and DOT1Q trunk protocol
122. Explain ISP Working
123. What are the different Switching methods
124. Explain OS working---- What do you know about Arista’s EOS……
125. What is SMTP
126. What is SNMP
127. Explain Logical interfaces on network device
128. Explain EIGRP
129. Explain Multilayer switch VSI & Router on a stick
130. Explain MAC TABLE
131. What did you learn from data communication and networking paper?
132. Explain the OSI and TCP/IP layers.
133. What would be the norm if sender and receiver window/buffer is different in TCP/IP
protocol?
134. An array is given in ascending order. Develop a logic to find the missing elements.
135. Write code for generating Fibonacci no’s.
136. Difference between C and C++.
137. What do you expect the job of a network engineer is? (Job profile of Network Engineer)
138. Do you have a plan for higher studies?
139. Explain Wireless access points (CCNA CH-21)
140. Capacitor opposes change of what?
141. Difference between scalability and elasticity?