This is the Multiple Choice Questions in Chapter 13: Pulse Communications from the book Electronic Communication Systems by George Kennedy. If you are looking for a reviewer in Communications Engineering this will definitely help. I can assure you that this will be a great help in reviewing the book in preparation for your Board Exam. Make sure to familiarize each and every questions to increase the chance of passing the ECE Board Exam.
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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
1. Indicate which of the following is nota binary code
- a. Morse
- b. Baudot
- c. CCITT-2
- d. ARQ
2. To permit the selection of 1 out of 16 equi-probable events, the number of bits required is
- a. 2
- b. log1016
- c. 8
- d. 4
3. A signaling system in which each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different symbol is not used because
- a. it would be too difficult for an operator to memorize
- b. it is redundant
- c. noise would introduce too many errors
- d. too many pulses per letter are required
4. The Hartley states that
- a. the maximum rate of information transmission depends on the channel bandwidth
- b. the maximum rate of information transmission depends on the depth of modulation
- c. redundancy is essential
- d. only binary codes may be used
5. Indicate the false statement. In order to combat noise,
- a. the channel bandwidth may be increased
- b. redundancy may be used
- c. the transmitted power may be increased
- d. the signaling rate may be reduced
6. The most common modulation system used for telegraphy is
- a. frequency-shift keying
- b. two-tone modulation
- c. pulse-code modulation
- d. single-tone modulation
7. Pulse-width modulation system used for telegraphy is
- a. by differentiating pulse-position modulation
- b. with a monostable
- c. by integrating the signal
- d. with a free-running multivibrator
8. Indicate which of the following system is digital.
- a. Pulse-position modulation
- b. Pulse-code modulation
- c. Pulse-width modulation
- d. Pulse-frequency modulation
9. Quantizing noise occurs in
- a. time-division multiplex
- b. frequency division multiplex
- c. pulse-code modulation
- d. pulse-width modulation
10. The modulation system inherently most noise-resistant is
- a. SSB, suppressed-carrier
- b. Frequency modulation
- c. pulse-position modulation
- d. pulse-code modulation
11. In order to reduce quantizing noise, one must
- a. increase the number of standard amplitudes
- b. send pulses whose sides are more nearly vertical
- c. use an RF amplifier in the receiver
- d. increase the number of samples per second
12. The Hartley-Shannon theorem sets a limit on the
- a. highest frequency that may be sent over a given channel
- b. maximum capacity of a channel with a given noise level
- c. maximum number of coding levels in a channel with a given noise level
- d. maximum number of quantizing levels in a channel of a given bandwidth
13. Indicate which of the following pulse modulation systems is analog
- a. PCM
- b. Differential PCM
- c. PWM
- d. Delta
14. Companding is used
- a. to overcome quantizing noise in PCM
- b. in PCM transmitters, to allow amplitude limited in the receivers
- c. to protect small signals in PCM from quantizing distortion
- d. in PCM receivers, to overcome impulse noise
15. The biggest disadvantage of PCM is
- a. its inability to handle analog signals
- b. the high error rate which its quantizing noise introduces
- c. its incompatibility with TDM
- d. the large bandwidths that are required for it
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