1.

 ECE Board Exam November 1995 A very high resistance connected in parallel
What is an electronic measuring equipment with smoothing capacitors in a high voltage DC
used in navigation operating in 1GHz band system is called a
which provides bearing and distance A. dropping resistor
indication? B. shunt
A. TACAN C. divider
B. ODR D. bleeder
C. ILS View Answer:
D. DME 8. ECE Board Exam November 1995
View Answer: What is the smallest part of a computer
2. ECE Board Exam November 1995 language?
Find the output of four (4) lead acid cells. A. Binary
A. 3.2 V B. Byte
B. 8.4 V C. Bit
C. 5.8 V D. Word
D. 1.6 V View Answer:
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3. ECE Board Exam November 1995 A user-program that has the ability to move a
The reciprocal of capacitance is called robot axis to any position within its range
A. elastance A. Point-to-point
B. permittivity B. Continuous path
C. conductance C. Positive stop
D. permeability D. Pick-and-place
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An advantage of full-wave rectifier over half- What level is used to represent logic-1 in a
wave rectifier. negative logic circuit?
A. Each diode can cool-off during half of each A. Negative transition level
input cycle. B. Low level
B. The ripple frequency is lower. C. Positive transmission level
C. The tube will conduct during both halves of D. High level
the cycle. View Answer:
D. Output voltage is lower with more ripples. 11. ECE Board Exam November 1995
View Answer: What law in electronics where an induced
5. ECE Board Exam November 1995 current will be in such a direction that its own
What composes all matter whether a liquid, magnetic field will oppose the magnetic field
solid or gas? that produces the same?
A. Atoms A. Electromagnetic law
B. Electrons B. Nortons law
C. Protons C. Lenz law
D. Neutrons D. Maxwells law
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What is the majority carrier in an N material? What is the reason why robot actuators have
A. Holes lesser capabilities than electric or hydraulic
robot actuators?
B. Neutrons
A. It has quick response
C. Electrons
B. It always has oil leaks
D. Protons
C. It always has all or nothing motion
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D. It has high initial cost
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13. ECE Board Exam November 1995 Term used to describe sudden reverse
_______ has the unit of electron volt. conduction of an electronic component caused
A. Charge by excess reverse voltage across the device.
B. Potential difference A. Cut-off
C. Energy B. Saturation
D. Current C. Avalanche
View Answer: D. Revertion
14. ECE Board Exam November 1995 View Answer:
What is the unit of magnetic flux in SI system? 20. ECE Board Exam November 1995
A. Weber Given the two voltages:
B. Maxwell S(t)=10cos(ωt+30 degrees) volts
C. Tesla Q(t)=15cos(ωt+45 degrees) volts
D. Gauss Find V(t)=S(t) + Q(t)
View Answer: A. V(t) = 5.9cos(ωt + 71 degrees) volts
15. ECE Board Exam November 1995 B. V(t) = 24.8cos(ωt +3 9 degrees) volts
What element possesses four valence C. V(t) = 25cos(ωt + 75 degrees) volts
electrons? D. V(t) = 13.6cos(ωt + 75 degrees) volts
A. Insulator View Answer:
B. Semi-insulator 21. ECE Board Exam November 1995
C. Semiconductor What type of materials formed when trivalent
D. Conductor material is doped with silicon or germanium?
View Answer: A. N type
16. ECE Board Exam November 1995 B. N and P type
What level is used to represent logic-0 in a C. PN type
negative logic circuit? D. P type
A. High level View Answer:
B. Low level 22. ECE Board Exam November 1995
C. Negative transition level What is the degree of exactness of
D. Positive transition level measurement when compared to the expected
value of the variable being measured?
View Answer:
A. Accuracy
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B. Error
In an Amplitude-Modulated (AM) radio
transmitter, the modulator is _________. C. Deviation
A. How amplification can be thought of as a D. Precision
decision making process View Answer:
B. How semiconductor replace vacuum 23. ECE Board Exam November 1995
C. A digital decision The overall gain of an amplifier in cascade is
D. How to adapt a radio transmitter to make it A. the sum
useful as multiplier circuit. B. the average of each
View Answer: C. the product
18. ECE Board Exam November 1995 D. 100 % the sum
Which of the following is the probable output if View Answer:
all inputs of a TTL gate are binary 1? 24. ECE Board Exam November 1995
A. Determinable _________ is a byte of data stored in a
B. Binary 0 memory location.
C. Binary 1 A. 8 bits
D. Indeterminate B. Character
View Answer: C. 4 bits
19. ECE Board Exam November 1995 D. Memory word
25. ECE Board Exam November 1995
An instrument used to measure one location in B. 1900 kHz, 2100 kHz
terms of coordinates. C. 1990 kHz, 2010 kHz
A. Global Positioning System D. 1980 kHz, 2020 kHz
B. Hydrometer View Answer:
C. Altimeter 32. ECE Board Exam November 1995
D. Increductometer Find the ripple factor (Kr) of a sinusoidal signal
View Answer: with peak ripple of 4 volts and an average of
26. ECE Board Exam November 1995 30.
How do you measure the current in a circuit A. 0.094
without an ammeter? B. 0.013
A. By computing the values of resistance C. 0.130
B. Measure voltage drop across tube D. 0.94
C. Measure voltage drop across known resistor View Answer:
D. Divide total circuit resistance by the total 33. ECE Board Exam November 1995
circuit load The term “Fully Saturated” for a transistor
View Answer: refers to:
27. ECE Board Exam November 1995 A. the collector current at its maximum value
_________ is retrieving data from memory. B. the collector current at its minimum value
A. Accessing C. the transistor’s beta at its maximum value
B. Getting D. the transistor’s alpha at its maximum value
C. Encoding View Answer:
D. Reading 34. ECE Board Exam November 1995
View Answer: The _________ grid in an electron tube is
28. ECE Board Exam November 1995 where the input signal is usually applied.
Materials with permeabilities slightly less than A. screen
that of free space are referred to as B. control
A. diamagnetic C. bias
B. ferromagnetic D. supression
C. non-magnetic View Answer:
D. paramagnetic 35. ECE Board Exam November 1995
View Answer: If three amplifiers with a gain of 8 each are in
29. ECE Board Exam November 1995 cascade, how much is the overall gain?
________ can erase EPROMS. A. 72
A. Applying a 21-volt pulse B. 24
B. Applying ultraviolet rays C. 512
C. Turning off the power D. 8
D. Blowing fuse View Answer:
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30. ECE Board Exam November 1995 _______ is a pn junction semiconductor device
What materials possess permeabilities slightly that emits noncoherent optical radiation when
less than that of free space? biased in the forward direction, as a result of a
recombination effect.
A. Non-magnetic
A. LASER
B. Diamagnetic
B. JUGFET
C. Paramagnetic
C. LED
D. Ferromagnetic
D. Optical cavity
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37. ECE Board Exam November 1995
An LC circuit resonates at 2000 kHz and has a
Q of 100. Find the lower and upper cut-off What do you call the force which sets up or
frequencies. tends to set up magnetic flux in a magnetic
circuit?
A. 1950 kHz, 2050 kHz
A. Electromotive force 43. ECE Board Exam November 1995
B. Potential difference The difference in energy between the valence
C. Magnetomotive force and conduction bands of a semiconductor is
D. Dynamic force called
View Answer: A. band gap
38. ECE Board Exam November 1995 B. extrinsic photoeffect
Silicon diodes are used in a two-diode full- C. conductivity
wave rectifier circuit to supply a load of 12 D. energy-density
volts DC. Assuming ideal diodes and the load View Answer:
resistance is 12 ohms, compute the efficiency 44. ECE Board Exam November 1995
of the rectifier in percentage. ________ is a segment register which
A. 5.8 normally accesses variables in the program.
B. 75 A. Extra
C. 95.7 B. Stack
D. 81.2 C. Data
View Answer: D. Code
39. ECE Board Exam November 1995 View Answer:
In order to match the load to the generator 45. ECE Board Exam November 1995
means making load resistance _________. What is the range of audio frequency?
A. increased to more of generator’s internal A. 10 to 10,000 Hz
resistance
B. 16 to 20,000 Hz
B. equal to generator’s internal resistance
C. 3 to 2,000 kHz
C. decreased
D. 10 to 2,000 Hz
D. lowered than generator’s internal resistance
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40. ECE Board Exam November 1995
A __________ is a storage device used to
The purpose of installing thyrectors across the accommodate a difference in rate of flow of
incoming power lines to speed the control data or time of occurrence of events when
system is to ______. transmitting from one device to another.
A. cause the motor to caution A. Accumulator
B. protect drive circuits from high voltage B. Buffer
transient surges
C. Modem
C. increase counter-emf
D. Register
D. allow the field winding current to continue
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flowing
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View Answer:
Solve the collector current if base current is
41. ECE Board Exam November 1995
200 mA and the current gain is 20.
The base SI unit of luminous intensity is
A. 10 A
A. lux
B. 4 A
B. lumen
C. 1 A
C. candela
D. 40 A
D. lambert
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42. ECE Board Exam November 1995
_____ is the specific gravity reading for a good
The portion of the weld interval during which lead-acid cell.
welding current is flowing
A. 1170
A. Heat subinterval
B. 1270
B. Release interval
C. 1070
C. Cool interval
D. 1370
D. Squeeze interval
View Answer:
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___________ refers to BCD counter A. Type C
A. Decade counter B. Type AA
B. Shift relay C. Type AAA
C. Frequency divider D. Type D
D. Binary counter View Answer:
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50. ECE Board Exam November 1995 _________ is an output applied to Read Only
The typical number of bits per dynamic Memory (ROM).
memory location is A. Multiplexer
A. 1 B. Address
B. 8 C. Input code
C. 2 D. Data
D. 16 View Answer:
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51. ECE Board Exam November 1995 ________ is a kind of memory where only
Find voltage regulation of a generator when manufacturer can store program and has a
full-load voltage is 110 V and no-load voltage group of memory locations each permanently
is 120. storing a word.
A. 1 % A. ROM
B. 9.09 % B. SOS memory
C. 90.0 % C. RAM
D. 10 % D. Hard Memory
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52. ECE Board Exam November 1995 58. ECE Board Exam November 1995
In a system with MOS devices, the main bus _________ is an excess property of P-type
loading factor is likely to be semiconductor.
A. resistive A. Neutron
B. current B. Proton
C. capacitive C. Electron
D. static charge D. Hole
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The first recipient in E-mail communication. The best way to control speed of an AC
A. Host induction motor is by varying the ________
B. Mail box A. supply frequency
C. Computer` B. both supply voltage and frequency
simultaneously
D. Disk
C. supply voltage
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D. series resistance of the field
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View Answer:
When a power supply is constructed to operate
from either 240V or 120V ac lines such that it 60. ECE Board Exam November 1995
will have same secondary output, its primary There are _________ identical cells in parallel
when connected from 240V must be needed to double the current reading of each
A. split into halves and connected in parallel cells.
B. connected in series A. 3
C. connected in parallel B. 4
D. split into halves and connected in series C. 2
View Answer: D. 1
55. ECE Board Exam November 1995 View Answer:
Which has the largest diameter of the following 61. ECE Board Exam November 1995
dry cells?
Two heaters A and B are in parallel across 67. ECE Board Exam November 1995
supply voltage V. Heater A produces 500 kcal If the gain of an amplifier without feedback is
in 20 minutes and B produces 1000 kcal in 10 10 and with negative feedback is 8, then the
minutes. The resistance of A is 10 ohms. What feedback fraction is
is the resistance of B, if the same heaters are A. 0.025
connected in series voltage V?
B. 0.9
A. 0.14 ohms
C. 0.8
B. 4.5 ohms
D. 0.225
C. 2.5 ohms
View Answer:
D. 4.5 ohms
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View Answer:
The ________ is an analog component that
62. ECE Board Exam November 1995 has two inputs, one inverting and the other
________is a low frequency oscillation which non-inverting, and a single output terminal.
sometimes occurs under fault condition in A. counter
electron tube circuits.
B. op amp
A. Ping pong
C. register
B. Jitter
D. flip-flop
C. Glitch
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D. Motor boating
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View Answer:
What do you call the duration within it takes to
63. ECE Board Exam November 1995 read the content of a memory location after it
The longer the diameter of a wire, the has been addressed
__________ is its resistance. A. Execution time
A. unstable B. Data rate
B. higher C. Cycle time
C. stable D. Access time
D. lesser View Answer:
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64. ECE Board Exam November 1995 What term in electronics is used to express
When an atom gains an additional ______, it how fast energy is consumed?
results to a negative ion. A. Load
A. neutron B. Power
B. proton C. Conductance
C. electron D. Volt
D. atom View Answer:
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65. ECE Board Exam November 1995 If a sine wave voltage varies from 0-200 V,
_______ refers to circuits with 10 to 100 how much is its instant voltage at 90%?
integrated circuits. A. 200 V
A. IC B. Half of its maximum voltage
B. Monolithic C. 100 V
C. MSI D. Minimum voltage
D. SSI View Answer:
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66. ECE Board Exam November 1995 Device that increases power content from an
What is the most stable type of biasing? input signal.
A. Current feedback A. Attenuator
B. Fixed bias B. Amplifier
C. Voltage divider C. Oscillator
D. Voltage feedback D. Transformer
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73. ECE Board Exam November 1995 Circuit that transforms dc from one voltage
What is the lagging effect between the level to another or from one frequency to
magnetizing force applied and the flux density? another
A. Hysteresis A. Coupler
B. Permeance B. Clipper
C. Reluctance C. Comparator
D. Eddy Currents D. Converter
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A solid-state device which only gives a “1” ______ is an orderly pattern of combined
output if all its inputs are also “1” is called silicon atoms.
A. an AND gate A. Covalent bond
B. a NAND gate B. Valence orbit
C. a NOR gate C. Semiconductor
D. an OR gate D. Crystal
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75. ECE Board Exam November 1995 81. ECE Board Exam November 1995
How much is the resistance of Germanium slag A crystal with its major flat surfaces cut so that
10 cm long and cross sectional area of 1 they are perpendicular to a mechanical axis of
squared cm? the original quartz crystal is called
A. 5.5 kilo ohm A. a Y-cut crystal
B. 550 kilo ohm B. a Z-cut crystal
C. 55 kilo ohm C. an XY-cut crystal
D. 550 ohm D. an X-cut crystal
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A _______ is a device which can test all pins of A good material conductor should have
an IC at the same time. _______ valence electrons.
A. logic probe A. 21
B. current tracer B. 1
C. logic clip C. 3.5
D. pulser D. 10
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Current carried by each of two long parallel The objective of a capacitor is to
conductors is doubled if their separation is also A. block AC and passes DC current
doubled, the force between them would B. block DC and passes AC current
A. increase four-fold C. stores AC current
B. become half D. blocks AC current
C. increase two-fold View Answer:
D. remain the same 84. ECE Board Exam November 1995
View Answer: ________ is the characteristic of an oscillator
78. ECE Board Exam November 1995 that enables it to sustain oscillation after
What is the first stage in electronic removal of the control stimulus.
troubleshooting? A. Momentum
A. Statistical analysis B. Fly-wheel effect
B. Symptom analysis C. Damping
C. Diagnostics D. Forced oscillations
D. Initiate plate testing View Answer:
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__________ is the term used to express the View Answer:
amount of electrical energy in an electrostatic 91. ECE Board Exam November 1995
field. __________ is the major characteristics of an
A. Coulombs IC
B. Watts A. Complication
C. Volts B. Size
D. Joules C. Power consumption
View Answer: D. Speed
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______ is a device that stays on once 92. ECE Board Exam November 1995
triggered and stores one of two conditions as a Find the sum of binary number 1010 and 0011.
digital circuit.
a) 1021
A. Gate
b) 1101
B. Latch
c) 1011
C. Integrator
d) 1111
D. Oscillator
View Answer:
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87. ECE Board Exam November 1995
The loss of electrical energy in counter
When the cells are in series, voltages add, balancing the residual magnetism in each cycle
while current capacity is ______. is called
A. the same as one cell A. Eddy current loss
B. zero B. Hysteresis loss
C. infinite C. Copper loss
D. the sum of each cell D. Leakage loss
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In shift registers made up of several flip-flops, In order to simplify a circuit, in analysis and
the clock signal indicates ________. computation the diode is normally assumed as
A. a bit of information stored in the flip-flop _________
B. information of time A. zero
C. what time is it B. ideal
D. when to shift a bit of data from input of the C. imaginary
flip-flop to the output D. infinite
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89. ECE Board Exam November 1995 95. ECE Board Exam November 1995
A dc voltage supply is measured at 50 V and Files in an E-mail communication are send thru
drops to 45 V when the load is connected. _________
What is the value of “voltage regulation”?
A. disk
A. 5 %
B. mailbox
B. 50 %
C. wires
C. 8.33 %
D. attachment
D. 11.11 %
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90. ECE Board Exam November 1995
An audible tone generated by combining two
Which of the following statements is correct? different frequencies in a non-linear circuit or
A. Transistor has two terminals as sound waves in air is called
B. Open resistor has small resistance A. side tone
C. Typical power rating of a carbon- B. beat tone
composition resistor ranged from 0.125 W to 2 C. heterodyne
W
D. deadbeat
D. Potentiometer has two terminals
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__________ are electrons at the outer shell.
A. Inside shell electrons
B. Conductor electrons
C. Outside shell electrons
D. Valence electrons
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98. ECE Board Exam November 1995
Solve for flux density (in gauss) from a
magnetic flux of 5,000 Mx through a
perpendicular are of 2 cm x 5 cm.
A. 5000 G
B. 500 G
C. 10,000 G
D. 50 G
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Refers to the increased used of data
conversion circuits as a result of increased
application.
A. OP AMPS
B. Linear circuits
C. Computers
D. Digital equipment
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100. ECE Board Exam November 1995
The decibel gain of cascaded amplifiers equals
the
A. sum of voltage and current gains
B. product of individual gains
C. difference of individual gains
D. sum of individual gains