Debre Berhan University

College of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Communication Stream Model Exit Eaxm-2

1. A given conductor carrying a current of 3A produces an amount of heat equal to 200 J. if

the current through the conductor is doubled, the amount of heat produced will be
A. 400 J
B. 600 J
C. 800 J
D. 1200 J
ANSWER: C

2. If an electrical system is compared to a fluid system, the electrical current corresponds to

the:

A. Pressure
B. Pump
C. Water wheel
D. Water flow
ANSWER: D
3. The equivalent current-source representation for a voltage-source with open circuit
voltage 12V and internal resistance 3 ohms is
A. a current-source of strength 4A in shunt with a resistance of 6Ω .
B. a current –source of strength 4A in series with a resistance of 3Ω .
C. a current-source of strength 4A in shunt with a resistance of 3 ohms.
D. a current-source of strength 4A in shunt with a resistance of 36 ohms.
ANSWER: B
4. In any network containing more than one sources of e.m.f. the current in any branch is
the algebraic sum of a number of individual fictitious currents, each of which is due to
separate action of each source of e.m.f. taken in order, when the remaining sources of
e.m.f. are replaced by conductors, the resistances of which are equal to the internal
resistances of the respective sources". The above statement is associated with
A. Thevenin’s theorem
B. Norton’s theorem
C. Superposition theorem
D. Reciprocity theorem
ANSWER: C
5. The series and parallel resonance on L-C circuit differs in that

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 A. Series resistance needs a low-resistance source for sharp rise in current
B. Series resonance needs a high-resistance source for sharp
increase in current
C. Parallel resonance needs a low-resistance source for a sharp
increase in impedance
D. Parallel resonance needs a low-resistance source for a sharp
rise in line current
ANSWER: A
6. The transient currents are associated with the
A. Changes in the stored energy in the inductors and capacitors
B. Impedance of the circuit
C. Applied voltage to the circuit
D. Resistance of the circuit
E. ANSWER: A
7. Consider the circuit shown in Fig.2. Assuming that the switch has been in position 1 for a
long time and at time t=0, the switch is moved to position 2. The value of current i(t) for t
> 0 is
4
(A) i(t) = 3 𝑒 −5𝑡 𝐴
1
(B) i(t) = 3 𝑒 −5𝑡 𝐴
4
(C) i(t) = 5 𝑒 −3𝑡 𝐴
3
(D) i(t) = 4 𝑒 −5𝑡 𝐴

Fig.2: RC circuit
ANSWER: A
8. In DC circuit theory, which term describes how elements are connected?
A. Path
B. Node
C. Branch
D. Loop
ANSWER: C
9. Which of the following circuit components are all active elements?
A. a resistor and an inductor.
B. a diode, a BJT and an FET.
C. a capacitor, and an inductor.
D. an Opamp, a BJT and thermionic triode.

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 ANSWER: B
10. Which one of the following is not true about digital system compared to analog system?
A. Digital data is stored in the form of bits.
B. In digital system hardware can be easily modulated.
C. Digital system uses continues signals with varying magnitude.
D. Accuracy and precision easier to maintain throughout the digital system.
ANSWER: C
11. Which one of the following is correct about the application of logic gates?
A. Logic gates can be used to build more complex devices like binary counters,
registers.
B. Logic gates can be applied in calculators and computers.
C. Logic gates can be used in musical instruments and digital measuring devices.
D. All
ANSWER: D

12. The NAND or NOR gates are referred to as “universal gates” because they:
A. can be found in almost all digital circuits
B. can be used to build all the other types of gates
C. are used in all countries of the world
D. were the first gates to be integrated
ANSWER: B
13. Which coding scheme is used in computer to represent data internally
A. Decimal B. Octal C. Binary D. Hexadecimal
ANSWER: C
14. For the given logical circuit diagram shown in figure 1 below, the Correct Boolean
expression for
the output Q is

Figure 1: logical circuit diagram

A. A (BC + B + C’ ) C. A (BC + C’ ) + AB
B. ABC + A (B’ + C’ ) D. ABC + AB’C’
ANSWER: B
15. One of the following is not true about sequential circuits compared to combinational
circuit.

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 A. The output of sequential circuits depends on both present inputs and previous
outputs.
B. There is feedback path in sequential circuits for purpose of memory element.
C. Encoder, decoder, multiplexer and DeMultiplexer are sequential logic circuits.
D. Sequential circuits contain combinational circuits and memory storage elements
A. None
ANSWER: C
16. The binary number 10001101010001101111 can be written in hexadecimal as
A 𝐴𝐷46716 B. 8𝐶46𝐹16 C. 8𝐷46𝐹16 𝐷. 𝐴𝐸46𝐹16
ANSWER: C
17. An Asynchronous counter differs from synchronous counter in
A. The number of states in its sequence C. The type of flip-flops used
B. The method of clocking D. The number of flip-flops used
ANSWER: B
18. Which one of the following is correct about series connection of two-port network?

A. All individual z-parameters of overall connections are the sum

of individual respective z-parameters
B. All individual y-parameters of overall connections are the sum
of individual respective y-parameters
C. All individual h-parameters of overall connections are the sum
of individual respective h-parameters
D. All individual ABCD-parameters of overall connections are the
sum of individual respective ABCD-parameters
ANSWER: A

19. In the circuit of figure, the switch is closed at t = 0. At t = 0+ the current through C is

A. 4A B. 2.5 A

C. 3.1A D. 0
ANSWER: A

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20. A series R LC network has a bandwidth of 300 rad / sec at a resonant frequency of
3000 rad / sec when excited by a voltage source of 100V . The inductance of the coil is
0.1H . The value of R and the voltage across C respectively are

A. 10 W, 100V B. 30 W, 100V

C. 30 W, 1000V D. 300 W, 1000V

ANSWER: C
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21. If the transfer function of the following network is = , The value of the
V i (s ) 2 + sCR
load resistor R L is

R R
A. 4 B. 2

C. R D. 2R

ANSWER: C
22. If the driving point impedance Z (s ) has a pole at the origin, the realization leads to

A. A resistance in series
B. An inductance in series
C. A capacitance in series
D. A resistance and capacitance in series
ANSWER: C
23. Which of the following best defines the concept of a signal in the context of signals and
systems?

A. A mathematical function representing physical phenomena or data.

B. The process of converting analog signals to digital signals.
C. The study of communication systems.
D. The transformation of signals in the frequency domain

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 ANSWER: A
24. If x (-t) = x (t) then the signal is said to be _____________
A. Even signal
B. Odd signal
C. Periodic signal
D. Non periodic signal
ANSWER: A
25. In the context of systems, what does "causal" mean?
A. The system's output depends only on past and present inputs.
B. The system's output depends only on future inputs.
C. The system's output depends on both past and future inputs.
D. The system's output is not affected by the input.
ANSWER: A
26. What is the Fourier series representation used for in signal processing?
A. To represent a periodic signal as a sum of harmonically related sinusoids
B. To represent a non-periodic signal as a sum of harmonically related sinusoids
C. To represent a signal as a sum of exponential functions
D. To represent a signal as a sum of polynomials

ANSWER: A
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27. consider the system transfer function G ( s )  , which of the following property
s s2 2

show the system become neither casual nor stable

A. Re(s)  1
B. Re(s)  2
C. 2  Re(s)  1
D. None

ANSWER: B

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28. What is the inverse Laplace transform of 𝑠2 𝑎2 +𝑏2 ?
1 𝑎
a. cos(𝑏)𝑡
𝑎2
1 𝑏
b. cos(𝑎)𝑡
𝑎2
1 𝑏
c. sin(𝑎)𝑡
𝑎2
1 𝑎
d. sin(𝑏)𝑡
𝑎2

ANSWER: B

29. Which of the following is the equation for forward Fourier Transform?
∞
A. X(𝜔) = ∫−∞ 𝑥(𝑡)𝑒 𝑗𝜔𝑡 𝑑𝑡
∞
B. X(𝜔) = ∫0 𝑥(𝑡)𝑒 −𝑗𝜔𝑡 𝑑𝑡

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 ∞
C. X(𝜔) = ∫0 𝑥(𝑡)𝑒 𝑗𝜔𝑡 𝑑𝑡
∞
D. X(𝜔) = ∫−∞ 𝑥(𝑡)𝑒 −𝑗𝜔𝑡 𝑑𝑡

ANSWER: D

30. One is not the application of semiconductor diodes?

A. Rectifier in power supplies
B. Filter circuit
C. Voltage regulator
D. Voltage multiplier circuits
ANSWER: B
31. Assume you wants to buy different diodes for some application that is to do BSC project
so how can you test a good diode with a digital voltmeter (DMM)?
A. high resistance when forward or reverse biased
B. low resistance when forward or reverse biased
C. high resistance when reverse biased and low resistance when forward biased
D. high resistance when forward biased and low resistance when reverse biased
ANSWER: C
32. When the input junction (EB) of a transistor is reverse biased and the output junction (CB)
is reverse biased the operation region of a transistor is?
A. Saturation region
B. Cut-off region
C. Inverse Active region
D. Active region
ANSWER: B

33. What is the purpose of adding trivalent or pentavalent materials to a pure semiconductor
material?
A. To increase the resistivity of the semiconductor material
B. To stop conduction
C. To alter its insulating property
D. To increase the conductivity of the semiconductor material
ANSWER: D
34. Which one of the following is the highest region of a transistor terminal based on doping
concentration?
A. Collector
B. Base
C. Gate
D. Emitter
ANSWER: D
35. Which of the following has the highest input impedance?
A. BJT
B. FET

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 C. Crystal diode
D. MOSFET
ANSWER: D
36. Equivalent of transistor at saturation in JFETs is____________?
A. Breakdown
B. Constant current
C. Pinch-off
D. Ohmic
ANSWER: D
37. An n-channel D-MOSFET with a positive VGS is operating in__________
A. The depletion-mode
B. The enhancement-mode
C. Cut off
D. Saturation
ANSWER: B

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38. What is machine code?
A. The serial number of a computer
B. A programming language that a computer understands
C. The make and model of a computer
ANSWER: B

39. A set of logically sequenced instructions that allows to find the solution to a problem is:
A. Algorithm
B. Pseudocode
C. Programming
D. Program
ANSWER: A
40. The six stages of program development in logical order are:
A. Define, Analyze, Write, Test, Document, Debug
B. Define, Analyze, Develop, Write, Test and Debug, Document
C. Define, Write, Develop, Analyze, Test, Document
D. Define, Develop, Write, Test, Document, Debug
ANSWER: B
41. What will be the output of the following C++ code?
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int a = 5;
float b;
cout << sizeof(++a + b);
cout << a;
return 0;
}

A. 25
B. 45
C. 46
D. 26
ANSWER: B
42. What will be the output of the following C++ code snippet?
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int operate (int a, int b)
{

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 return (a * b);
}
float operate (float a, float b)
{
return (a / b);
}
int main()
{
int x = 5, y = 2;
float n = 5.0, m = 2.0;
cout << operate(x, y) <<"\t";
cout << operate (n, m);
return 0;
}

A. 10.0 5
B. 10 2.5
C. 10.0 5.0
D. 5.0 2.5

ANSWER: B

43. Which of the following is not responsible for radiation of electromagnetic waves into the
surrounding by an antenna?
A. Discontinuous current carrying wire
B. Accelerated or decelerated charge
C. Bent current carrying wire
D. Moving charge with uniform velocity along infinitely long straight wire
ANSWER: D
44. The characteristics of the electromagnetic field region immediately surrounding radiating
antenna is more of
A. Resistive field
B. Diffractive field
C. Reactive field
D. Reflective field
ANSWER: C
45. One of the following antenna characterizations describes how well the antenna converts input
power into radio waves headed in a specified direction.
A. Beamwidth
B. Bandwidth
C. Antenna gain

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 D. Polarization
ANSWER: C
46. Which of the following antenna type has omnidirectional radiation?
A. Wire antennas
B. Lens antenna
C. Aperture antenna
D. Reflector antennas
ANSWER: A
47. Which of the following radio wave propagation mode is convenient for low frequency ranges?
A. Line-of-sight propagation
B. Ground wave propagation
C. Ionospheric propagation
D. Tropospheric propagation
ANSWER: B
48. If the distance between the antenna and the observation point is smaller than the physical size
of the antenna, the field region is classified as
A. Induced
B. Reflected
C. Radiated
D. Far-field
ANSWER: A
49. What is the reason that a binomial non-uniform array with a large number of elements is not
usually used for practical design?
A. Large half-power beamwidth
B. Low sidelobe level
C. Large amplitude tapering between the center element(s) and those at the edges
D. None of the above
ANSWER: C
50. A communication engineer designs a symmetrically located 6 - elements Binomial antenna
array. If the antenna array elements are equally spaced along z-axis, which of the following
can be the excitation amplitude of the array elements?
A. a1=10; a2 = 5; a3 = 1
B. c) a1=6; a2 = 4; a3 = 1
C. a1=15; a2 = 6; a3 = 1
D. . d) a1=4; a2 = 3; a3 = 1
ANSWER: A
51. For a normal mode EM wave propagating in a hollow rectangular wave guide
A. the phase velocity is greater than the group velocity
B. the phase velocity is equal to velocity of light in free space
C. the phase velocity is less than the velocity of light in free space

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 D. the phase velocity may be either greater than or less than the group velocity.
ANSWER: A
52. Standard air filled rectangular waveguides of dimensions a = 2.29cm and b = 1.02cm are
designed for radar applications. It is desired that these waveguides operate only in the
dominant TE10 mode with the operating frequency at least 25% above the cut-off frequency
of the TE10 mode but not higher than 95% of the next higher cutoff frequency. The range of
the allowable operating frequency f is
A. 8.19GHZ ≤ f ≤ 13.1 GHZ
B. 8.19 GHZ ≤ f ≤ 12.45 GHZ
C. 6.55 GHZ ≤ f ≤ 13.1 GHZ
D. 1.64 GHZ ≤ f ≤ 10.24 GHZ
ANSWER: B
53. The main function of helix structure in a Travelling Wave Tube (TWT) is:
A. To reduce axial velocity of RF field
B. To reduce noise figure of TWT
C. To properly focus Electron beam
D. To reduce axial velocity of electron
ANSWER: A
54. When a load is matched to a transmission line, the condition that is satisfied when matched
is:
a. ZL=Z0
b. ZL=2Z00
c. ZL=Zin
d. ZL=2Zin
ANSWER: A
55. Any passively realizable reflection coefficient can be plotted as a unique point on the smith
chart. This statement implies that:
A. Reflection co-efficient less than or equal to 1 can be plotted
B. Reflection co-efficient greater than or equal to 1 can be plotted
C. Transmission co-efficient has to be less than or equal to one for the point
to be located
D. T=Г+1
ANSWER: A
56. The fringe effect can be neglected in a parallel plate waveguide is because of:
A. The dielectric material used
B. Width of the plates is greater than the distance between the plates
C. Material of the parallel plate waveguide used
D. Material of the parallel plate transmission used
ANSWER: B
57. A cylindrical cavity resonator can be constructed using a circular waveguide by:

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 A. shorted at both the ends
B. open at both the ends
C. matched at both the ends
D. Shorted the input and open output ends
ANSWER: A
58. The reason for nonexistence of magnetic monopoles is
A. The magnetic field cannot be split
B. Due to permeability
C. Due to magnetization
D. Due to magneto statics
ANSWER: A
59. Scattering matrix for a reciprocal network is:
A. Symmetric
B. Unitary
C. Skew symmetric
D. Identity matrix
ANSWER: A
60. What is Mobile communication?
A. Allows to communicate from different locations without the use of physical medium
B. Allows to communicate from different locations with the use of physical medium
C. Allows to communicate from same locations without the use of physical medium
D. Allows to communicate from same locations with the use of physical medium
ANSWER: A
61. Which type of antenna is used for edge excited cells?
A. Omnidirectional antenna
B. Grid antenna
C. Sectored directional antenna
D. Dipole antenna
ANSWER: C
62. What is the condition for intersystem interference?
A. Mobile moves from one cell to another cell
B. Mobile remains in the same cell
C. Mobile moves from one cellular system to another cellular system
D. Mobile remains in the same cluster
ANSWER: C
63. In a micro cell zone concept, when a mobile travels from one zone to another within the cell,
it retains the same _________
A. Power level
B. Base station
C. Channel

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 D. Receiver
ANSWER: C
64. What is the dimension of object as compared to wavelength of propagating wave when
reflection occurs?
A. Large
B. Small
C. Same
D. Very small
ANSWER: A
65. Diffraction occurs when radio path between Tx. And Rx. Is obstructed by ____________
A. Surface having sharp irregularities
B. Smooth irregularities
C. Rough surface
D. All types of surfaces
ANSWER: A
66. Which of the following is an advantage of AM systems in comparison to FM sytems?
A. Occupy less bandwidth
B. Superior performance in fading
C. Better noise immunity
D. Not susceptible to impulse noise
ANSWER: A
67. The propagation model that estimates radio coverage of a transmitter is called
___________
A. Large scale propagation model
B. Small scale propagation model
C. Fading model
D. Okumura mode
ANSWER: A
68. For telegraphy the most commonly used modulation system
A. FSK
B. Two tone modulation
C. PCM
D. Single tone modulation
ANSWER: A
69. As per Shannon-Hartley theorem, noise is less Gaussian channel has
A. Zero capacity
B. Infinity capacity
C. Small capacity
D. None of the above
ANSWER: B

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70. FM transmitting and receiving equipment’s as compared to Am equipment’s
A. Costly
B. Cheaper
C. Almost equally costly
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A
71. Which of the following is analog?
A. PCM
B. PWM
C. Delta modulation
D. Differential modulation
ANSWER: B
72. The modulation index of an FM is changed from 0 to 1. How does the transmitted power
change?
A. Get halved
B. Gets doubled
C. Get increased by 50 percent
D. Remains unchanged
ANSWER: C
73. VSB Preferred in TV transmission because
A. It reduces the bandwidth requirement to half
B. It avoids phase distortion at low frequency
C. It results in batter reception
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A
74. Which occurs due to equilibrium fluctuations?
A. Thermal noise
B. Johnson noise
C. Thermal and Johnson noise
D. None
ANSWER: C
75. The noise due to random behavior of charge carriers is
A. Shot noise
B. Partition noise
C. Industrial noise
D. Flicker noise
ANSWER: A

76. What is the challenge if transmission in wireless communication is performed in baseband

form?
A. Mobility is difficult due extremely large antenna size.

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 B. Multiplexing become a little complex.
C. Interference become high due to large coverage distance.
D. The quality of the communication is degraded.
ANSWER: A
77. Assume that after graduation you will join to a company as communication engineer. Your
company wants to buy FM modulator for repairing system but only PM modulator, differentiator
and integrator are available in local market. What is the immediate and best solution as
communication engineer?
A. Buying differentiator and integrator and assemble them to use as FM modulator.
B. Buying integrator and PM modulator then integrating the input of FM then feed to PM
modulator.
C. Buying differentiator and PM modulator then differentiating the input of FM then feed to
PM modulator.
D. Importing FM modulator from abroad market.
ANSWER: B
78. Which one of the following statements is wrong stated?
A. Modulation is a signal processing technique carried out at the transmitter.
B. Demodulation is carried out at the receiver to extract the original message signal.
C. Amplification may have carried out both at the transmitter and receiver to boost signal to
desired level.
D. Channel coding can be implemented for both analog and digital communication systems.
ANSWER: D
79. The usefulness of preemphasis and deemphasis is to improve the performance of modulation
system in the presence of noise by
A. Emphasizing high frequency amplitude values
of modulating signal
B. Emphasizing low frequency amplitude values of modulating signal
C. Emphasizing carrier frequency amplitude values
D. Emphasizing carrier frequency itself
ANSWER: B
80. Debre Berhan university wants to build a local FM broadcasting station to introduce and share
useful information for the community in different issues. The university intended to use
equipments present different laboratories of the university. If narrow band FM modulator is
available in the ECE laboratory. How to use this FM modulator to the desired wideband FM
broadcasting station?
A. By integrating the output narrow band FM modulator and feed to the bandpass filter.
B. By feeding the output of narrow band FM modulator to 𝑛𝑡ℎ order frequency multiplier
and use BPF centered at 𝑛𝑓𝑐 .
C. There is no way to change narrowband FM to wideband FM.
D. No need to modification, both have equivalent performance.

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 ANSWER: B
81. Amplitude limiter in FM receivers are used to
A. Remove amplitude variations due to noise.
B. Filtering
C. Demodulation
D. Amplification
ANSWER: A
82. The effect of keeping modulating frequency constant and increasing frequency deviation on
the resulting FM wave is
A. Increase in the modulation index but not bandwidth and side band components.
B. Increase in the modulation index, bandwidth and side band components.
C. Increase in bandwidth but not the modulation index and side band components
D. Increase in modulation index and bandwidth, but not the side band components
ANSWER: B
83. Advantage of using direct method for generation of FM signal is
A. It gives high stability to FM signal frequency.
B. Distortion free FM signal is generated.
C. High power FM generation is possible.
High stability
ANSWER: C
84. Which one of the following is component of data communication?
A. Receiver
B. Channel
C. Protocol
D. Transmitter
E. All
ANSWER: E
85. Which one of the following organizations is not closer to internet standardization?
A. IETF
B. ICANN
C. IEE
D. ITU
ANSWER: D
86. The ________ create a connection between computers around the world.
A. Intranet
B. Extranet
C. Internet
D. Internet
ANSWER: C
87. Identify most commonly use network topology in Ethernet.

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 A. Bus
B. Tree
C. Star
D. Ring
ANSWER: C
88. Which one is deferent?
A. IP address
B. NAT
C. ICMP
D. HTTP
ANSWER: D
89. Dialogues between applications is governed by _____ of OSI model?
A. Application
B. Presentation
C. Session
D. Transport
ANSWER: C
90. Identify the best error correcting method from the following.
A. Parity checking
B. Hamming distant
C. Checksum
D. Cyclic redundancy code
ANSWER: D
91. Which media access protocol is implemented in wired and wireless Ethernet?
A. ALOHA
B. CSMA/CD
C. CSMA/CA
D. B and C
ANSWER: D
92. Based on question number 12 which one is not a valid host address for the given subnet?
A. 192.168.10.2
B. 192.168.10.27
C. 192.168.10.32
D. 192.168.10.126
ANSWER: D
93. Three-way hand shaking for data transmission is ______ layer method.
A. Network layer
B. Transport layer
C. Data link layer
D. Application layer

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94. The number of the next byte the receiving party expected to receive is called _____?
A. Sequence Number
B. Byte number
C. Segment number
D. Acknowledgment number
ANSWER: D

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