Computer Engineering Correlation 1 (Electronics 1 and 2)

Note: Questions that are in Red are worth 5 points.

1. Power amplifiers handle _______signals.
Select one:
a. very small
b. very large
c. small
d. large

2. Minimum interference with frequency response can be given by
Select one:
a. RC coupling
b. direct coupling
c. Instrumentation and control
d. Transformer coupling

3. Suppose a JFET has IDSS = 7 mA and VGS(off) = -3 V. Calculate the drain current for a gate-source
voltage of -1V.
Select one:
a. 4.45 mA
b. 31.2 mA
c. 0.445 A
d. 3.1 mA

4. Avalanche breakdown in a semiconductor takes place
Select one:
a. when forward bias exceeds a certain value
b. when potential barrier is reduced to zero
c. when reverse bias exceeds a certain value
d. when forward current exceeds a certain value

5. A data sheet gives these JFET valus: IDSS = 20 mA and pinch-off voltage is 5 volts. What is the gate-
source cut-off voltage?
Select one:
a. 15 volts
b. -5 volts
c. 5 volts
d. 10 volts

6. An electronic transfer from one stage to the next is termed as _______.
Select one:
a. coupling
b. mixing
c. doping
d. connecting

7. Which of the item below is not a good conductor?
Select one:
a. Ionized gases
b. Silicon
c. Silver
d. Electrolytes

8. Why is it that the size of a power transistor is made considerably large?
Select one:
a. To provide easy handling.
b. To dissipate more heat.
c. To facilitate connections.
d. To simplify construction.

9. A _______ is a light-sensitive device whose number of free electrons generated is proportional to the
intensity of the incident light.
Select one:
a. varicap
b. photodiode
c. Schottky diode
d. LED

10. An amplifier with efficiency of 85 % is likely to be
Select one:
a. Class B
b. Class C
c. Class AB
d. Class A

11. An effect that occurs within the entire bulk of a semiconductor material rather than in a localized
region or junction.
Select one:
a. Dember effect
b. Destriau effect
c. Bulk effect
d. Silicon effect

12. What is the purpose of capacitor in a transistor amplifier?
Select one:
a. To couple or bypass ac component
b. To cool the transistor.
c. To protect the transistor.
d. To provide biasing.

13. The driver transformer has center-tapped secondary to provide
Select one:
a. ompedance matching
b. two signals in phase with each other
c. two signals 180o out of phase to transistorsof push-pull circuit
d. forward bias to transistors of push-pull circuit

14. What factor is shown on a datasheet that tells how much you have to reduce the power of a device?
Select one:
a. Power factor
b. Reduction factor
c. Reactive factor
d. Derating factor

15. An emitter resistor is used for _______ in most amplifier circuits.
Select one:
a. temperature stabilization
b. voltage amplification
c. biasing a bipolar junction resistor
d. current limitation

16. If a transistor is operated in such a way that output current flows for 160o of the input signal, then it
is _______ operation.
Select one:
a. Class A
b. Class AB
c. Class B
d. Class C

17. At room temperature, a silicon crystal acts approximately like a/an
Select one:
a. conductor
b. insulator
c. semiconductor
d. superconductor

18. The common base (CB) amplifier has a _______ compared to CE and CC amplifier.
Select one:
a. higher input resistance
b. larger voltage gain
c. larger current gain
d. lower input resistance

19. What silicon npntetrode serves as a bistable negative-resistance device?
Select one:
a. Thermistor
b. Binistor
c. FET
d. BJT

20. What class of operation is used where a portion of a signal only is required, such as the
synchronizing pulse separator of a television receiver?
Select one:
a. Class A
b. Class AB
c. Class C
d. Class B

21. What happens if the input capacitorof a transistor ampifier is short-circuited?
Select one:
a. Signal will not reach the base
b. Biasing conditions will change
c. Transistor will be destroyed
d. Biasing will stabilize

22. The average dc voltage of a half wave rectifier circuit is _______ of the value of the peak input
voltage.
Select one:
a. 0.318
b. 0.062
c. 0.048
d. 0.636

23. The operating point in a transistoramplifier moves along ______ when an ac signal is applied.
Select one:
a. ac load line
b. both dc and ac load lines
c. cut off
d. dc load line

24. An amplifier configuration where the input signal is fed to the emitter terminal and the output from
the collector terminal is called
Select one:
a. common base
b. common emitter
c. clipper
d. common collector

25. An acceptor atom is also called
Select one:
a. trivalent atom
b. minority carrier
c. majority carrier
d. pentavalent atom

26. The ipnut resistance of a common emitter amplifier is affected by
Select one:
a. Re, re and &
b. &
c. &
d. Rc and re

27. When both the emitter and collector junction are forward biased, the transistor is said to be at
_______ region.
Select one:
a. active
b. saturation
c. cut-off
d. breakdown

28. The time taken by the diode to operate in the reverse condition from forward conduction.
Select one:
a. Time allocation
b. Maximum power time
c. Lifetime
d. Reverse recovery time

29. The frequency response of transformer coupling is
Select one:
a. poor
b. very good
c. excellent
d. good

30. When the gain versus frequency curve of a transistor amplifier is not flat, _______ distortion is
present.
Select one:
a. phase
b. amplitude
c. intermodulation
d. frequency

31. Varactor diode's transition capacitance is directly proportional to the product of the permittivity of
the semiconductor material and the PN junction area but inversely proportional to its
Select one:
a. depletion width
b. threshold voltage
c. resistance
d. voltage

32. What is the typical value of coupling capacitor Cc in RC coupling?
Select one:
a. About 10 F
b. About 0.01 F
c. About 0.1 F
d. About 100 pF

33. Lifetime is the amount of time between the creation and disappearance of a/an
Select one:
a. proton
b. free electron
c. ion
d. neutron

34. What is the charge of a hole?
Select one:
a. Equal to that of a proton.
b. Equal to zero.
c. Equal to that of neutron.
d. Equal to that of an electron.

35. The reverse bias diode capacitance is termed as
Select one:
a. diffusion capacitance
b. reverse capacitance
c. transition region capacitance
d. storage capacitance

36. When the collector resistor in a common emitter amplifier is increased in value the voltage gain
Select one:
a. remain the same
b. becomes erratic
c. decreases
d. increases

37. Which power amplifier has the highest collector efficiency?
Select one:
a. Class AB
b. Class B
c. Class C
d. Class A

38. An AF transformer is shielded to
Select one:
a. keep the amplifier cool
b. protect from rusting
c. prevent induction due to stray magnetic fields
d. prevent electric shock

39. What is the ideal value of stability factor?
Select one:
a. infinite
b. 100
c. 1
d. 0.5

40. The value of collector load resistance in a transistor amplifier is ______ the output impedance of the
transistor.
Select one:
a. not related to
b. more than
c. equal to
d. less than

41. Clamper is also known as
Select one:
a. DC restorer
b. charger
c. clipper
d. rectifier

42. The holding of one extreme amplitude of the input waveform to a certain amount of potential is
called
Select one:
a. rectifying
b. clamping
c. limiting
d. slicing

43. If the line frequency is 60 Hz, the output frequency of a bridge rectifier is
Select one:
a. 30 Hz
b. 240 Hz
c. 120 Hz
d. 60 Hz

44. The voltage gain over mid-frequency range in an RC coupled amplifier
Select one:
a. changes instantly with frequency
b. is constant
c. is maximum
d. is independent of the coupling

45. A manufacturer quotes in his specifications that a germanium diode conducts 50 mA at 1 volt.
Determine its bulk resistance
Select one:
a. 100 ohms
b. 60 ohms
c. 20 ohms
d. 14 ohms

46. A _______ is considered a voltage controlled device.
Select one:
a. transistor
b. FET
c. capacitor
d. diode

47. What is the principal characteristic of a zener diode?
Select one:
a. A constant current under conditions of varying voltage
b. A very high PIV
c. A high forward current rating
d. A constant voltage under conditions of varying current

48. A measure of the ability of an LED to produce the desired number of lumens generated per applied
watt of electrical energy.
Select one:
a. Luminous ability
b. Luminous efficacy
c. Luminous efficiency
d. Luminous intensity

49. What is the typical vaue of the emitter bypass capacitor CE in a multistage amplifier?
Select one:
a. About 0.01 &
b. About 50 &
c. About 100 pF
d. About 0.1&

50. At zero signal condition, a transistor sees _____ load.
Select one:
a. ac
b. resistive
c. dc
d. both dc and ac

51. Increasing the overall Beta is an advantage of
Select one:
a. CE amplifier
b. Darlington pair
c. crystal oscillator
d. clap oscillator

52. The bandwidth of an amplifier _________ when negative feedback is applied.
Select one:
a. remains unchanged
b. becomes infinite
c. increases
d. decreases

53. Under standards conditions, pure germanium has a resistivity of
Select one:
a. 60 x 10-4 -cm
b. 60 -cm
c. 60 -m
d. 60 -mm

54. What is the barrier potential of germanium at 25oC?
Select one:
a. 0.7 V
b. 0.3 V
c. 0.5 V
d. 0.4 V

55. Two pn silicon diodes are connected in series opposing. A 5 V voltages is impressed upon them. Find
the voltage across each junction at room temperature when nVT= 0.052 V.
Select one:
a. 4.764 V, 0.236 V
b. 0.236 V, 3.2 V
c. 3.21 V, 1.79 V
d. 0.036 V, 4.964 V

56. Each pair of positive and negative ions at the function is called n/an
Select one:
a. anion
b. dipole
c. positron
d. cation

57. The input impedance of which amplifier depends strongly on load resistance?
Select one:
a. CD
b. CE
c. CB
d. CC

58. A silicon crystal is a/an _______ of semiconductor if every atom in the crystal is a silicon atom.
Select one:
a. p-type
b. extrinsic
c. intrinsic
d. n-type

59. The time it takes to turn off a forward-biased diode is called the
Select one:
a. turn-off time
b. reverse recovery time
c. recombination
d. forward recovery time

60. The final stage of an amplifier uses _______coupling.
Select one:
a. direct
b. RC
c. transformer
d. impedance

61. What calss of operation has little use in general purpose amplifiers, but is used in high frequency
oscillators?
Select one:
a. Class A
b. Class C
c. Class B
d. Class AB

62. A MOSFET is sometimes called ________ FET.
Select one:
a. metallic gate
b. open gate
c. shorted gate
d. insulated gate

63. The gain of an amplifier with feedback is known as _____gain.
Select one:
a. open loop
b. closed loop
c. resonant
d. unity

64. A multiple-terminal solid-state device similar to a tansistor that generates frequencies up to about
10,000 MHz by injecting electrons or holes into a space-charge layer which rapidly forces these carriers
to a collecting electrode.
Select one:
a. Klystron
b. Spacistor
c. Magnetron
d. IMPATT

65. What semiconductor material is used in the construction of LED?
Select one:
a. Silicon
b. Germanium
c. Gallium arsenide
d. Gallium

66. In a common emitter amplifier, the capacitor from emitter to ground is called the
Select one:
a. decoupling capacitor
b. bypass capacitor
c. tuning capacitor
d. coupling capacitor

67. What is the reason why a common collector is used for impadance matching?
Select one:
a. Its output impedance is very low.
b. Its input impedance is very low.
c. Its output impedance is very high.
d. Its input impedance is very high

68. Diffusion or storage capacitance is the term used to refer to
Select one:
a. the breakdown capacitance of a zener diode
b. the reverse bias capacitance of a diode
c. the forward bias capacitance of a diode
d. the effective capacitance of the rectifier

69. What represents common-emitter small signal input resistance?
Select one:
a. hib
b. hie
c. hfe
d. hob

70. What the approximate mass of a neutron at rest?
Select one:
a. 9.1096 x 10-31 kg
b. 1.6022 x10-19 kg
c. No mass
d. 1.6726 x 10-27 kg

71. To sustaij oscillations, the power gain of the amplifier may be
Select one:
a. equal to or greater than 1
b. any value form 0.5 upward
c. between 0.1 and 0.5
d. infinite

72. Another name for saturation current in a diode, which arises from the fact that it is directly
proportional to the cross-sectional area of the diode.
Select one:
a. Constant current
b. Thermal current
c. Steady-state current
d. Scale current

73. When a transistor is cut off
Select one:
a. maximum current flows.
b. maximum voltage appears across transistor.
c. minimum current flows.
d. maximum voltage appears across load.

74. Varactor diodes are commonly used
Select one:
a. as a voltage controlled capacitance
b. as a constant voltage source
c. as voltage multiplier
d. as a constant current source

75. Transformer coupling is used for ______ amplification.
Select one:
a. power
b. signal
c. current
d. voltage

76. In a push-pull power amplifier, an input transformer can be used as a _______ providing equal
amplitude input signals opposite in polarity.
Select one:
a. discriminator
b. phase-splitter
c. limiter
d. phase reversal

77. The general characteristics of a common base amplifier are
Select one:
a. high voltage, high current gain, high power gain and low input resistance
b. low voltage gain, high current gain, very high power gain and low input resistance
c. high voltage gain, low current gain, high power gain and very low input resistance
d. none of the choices

78. The varactor diode is also called as
Select one:
a. varicap
b. voltage-variable capacitance
c. all of the above
d. epicap

79. The coupling capacitor Cc must be large enough to _______ in an RC coupling scheme.
Select one:
a. pass dc between the stages
b. dissipate high power
c. prevent attenuation of low frequency
d. prevent attenuation of high frequency

80. Pure silicon crystal atoms contain how many valence electrons as a result of covalent bonding?
Select one:
a. 16
b. 1
c. 4
d. 8

81. The barrier of potential for a silicon diode at 25oC is approxiamtely
Select one:
a. 0.7 V
b. 0.3 V
c. 0.5 V
d. 0.4 V

82. Optocoupler is otherwise known as
Select one:
a. laser
b. optoisolator
c. photodiodes
d. photoconductive cell

83. Which of the following is not a FET amplifier configuration?
Select one:
a. Common gate amplifier
b. Common source amplifier
c. Common base amplifier
d. Common drain amplifier

84. What is the resistivity of an extrinsic semiconductor?
Select one:
a. 1 &
b. 3 &
c. 4 &
d. 2 &

85. If the capacitor from emitter to ground in a common emitter amplifier is removed, the voltage gain
Select one:
a. becomes erratic
b. increases
c. remains the same
d. decreases

86. Which of the items below describes an RF amplifier which will amplify a weak signal voltage in
relatively the same proportion as it will amplify a stronger signal voltage?
Select one:
a. Inverting amplifier
b. Non-linear amplifier
c. Class A amplifier
d. Linear amplifier

87. When the transistors are used in video amplifiers, its main limitation is
Select one:
a. loe peak current
b. loe peak voltage
c. poor filtering of signals
d. poor frequency response

88. In an n-type semiconductor, free electrons are called
Select one:
a. minority carrires
b. majority carriers
c. charge carriers
d. valence electrons

89. The simplest variable-freuqency sinusoidal oscillator is the
Select one:
a. complicated Colpitts circuit
b. phase shift circuit
c. crystal circuit
d. Armstrong circuit

90. When a FET with a lower transconductance is substituted into a FET amplifier circuit, what happens?
Select one:
a. The input resistance decreases
b. The voltage gain decreases
c. The circuit disamplifies
d. The current gain does not change

91. AC load line has a/an ______ slope compared to that of dc load line.
Select one:
a. bigger
b. smaller
c. zero
d. infinite

92. When CE configuration is used for an oscillator, the voltage fed back must
Select one:
a. be taken from a capacitor
b. have a 0o phase shift
c. be inverted by 180o
d. taken from an inductor

93. What is tha point of intersection between a diode characteristic and a load line?
Select one:
a. Quiescent point
b. Q point
c. Operating point
d. All of the above

94. When a factor of a junction transistor is 0.98, the factor sould be equivalent to _______ value of
transistor's beta.
Select one:
a. 49
b. 20
c. 60
d. 38

95. When a transistor amplifier feeds a load resistance, its voltage gain will be
Select one:
a. high
b. low
c. moderate
d. very high

96. The frequency of the ripple voltage at the output of a full-wave rectifier at 60 cycles.
Select one:
a. 120 cycles
b. 60 cycles
c. 240 cycles
d. 480 cycles

97. What is the purpose of the bypass capacitor in a common-emitter amplifier?
Select one:
a. It provides AC grounding.
b. It decreases voltage gain.
c. It increases voltage gain.
d. No effect in the circuit.

98. What is the net charge if a certain semiconductor gains one valence electron?
Select one:
a. -1
b. +1
c. +4
d. -4

99. A type of filter which is having a single continuous transmission band with neither the upper nor the
lower cut-off frequencies being zero or infinite is called
Select one:
a. band stop filter
b. high pass filter
c. low pass filter
d. band pass filter

100. The ratio of output rms power in watts to the input dc power in watts in the different amplifier
class is called _______.
Select one:
a. efficiency
b. amplification factor
c. phase power
d. gain

101. The output power of a transistor amplifier is more than the input power due to additional power
supplied by
Select one:
a. collector supply
b. emitter supply
c. base supply
d. transistor

102. The number of tansistor in a single stage amplifier is
Select one:
a. four
b. three
c. one
d. two

103. Which of the choices is an advantage of a MOSFET over a BJT in an RF amplifier circuit?
Select one:
a. Low amplification of signals
b. Low noise
c. Compatibility
d. Low voltage operation

104. Comparatively, power amplifier has _______ .
Select one:
a. large
b. very small
c. very large
d. small

105. Atomic weight of silicon at 300 K is
Select one:
a. 5.32
b. 28.09
c. 72.6
d. 16

106. Which of the following describes a common collector amplifier?
Select one:
a. Low voltage gain
b. Low current gain
c. Low power gain
d. Low input resistance

107. The voltage gain of an emitter follower circuit is
Select one:
a. very high
b. low
c. high
d. moderate

108. The way in which the gain of an amplifier varies with the frequency is called
Select one:
a. voltage response
b. logarithmic response
c. phase response
d. frequency response

109. Which of the following is considered an amplifier figure of merit?
Select one:
a. Gain-bandwidth product
b. Temperature
c. Alpha (&
d. Beta (&

110. What are the two possible braekdown mechanism in pn junction diodes?
Select one:
a. Reverse and breakdown effects
b. Zener and avalanche effects
c. Avalnche and forward effects
d. Threshold and knee effects

111. The three amplifiers are connected in a multistage arrangement, each with the voltage gain of 30.
Compute for the overall voltage gain.
Select one:
a. 30
b. 10
c. 90
d. 27000

112. Find the voltage drop developed across a D'Arsonval meter movement having an internal resistance
of 1 k and a full deflection current of 150 A.
Select one:
a. 150 &
b. 150 mV
c. 200 mV
d. 150 V

113. CC configuration is used for impedance matching because its
Select one:
a. output impedance is very low
b. output impedance is zero
c. input impedance is very high
d. input impedance is very low

114. The voltage gain of a common collector configuration is
Select one:
a. unity
b. moderate
c. very high
d. zero

115. Class B operation has a maximum possible efficiency of ______ percent.
Select one:
a. 0.785
b. 0.75
c. 0.022
d. 1

116. When both of the emitter and collector junctions are reversed biased, the transistor is said to be at
_______ region.
Select one:
a. saturation
b. amplifying
c. cut-off
d. active

117. The use of _______ coupling is particularly desirable in low level, low noise audio amplifier stages
to minimize hum pick up from stray magnetic fields.
Select one:
a. transformer
b. direct
c. RC
d. LC

118. In a multistage amplifier, if the stages have R and C component only, _______ operation is
apparent.
Select one:
a. Class A
b. Class B
c. Class AB
d. Class C

119. The impedance of a load must match the impedance of the amplifier so that
Select one:
a. the signal-to-noise is maximized.
b. maximum power is transferred to the load
c. the efficiency can be maintained at a low level.
d. minimum power is transferred to the load.

120. For a full-wave rectifier, the output frequency
Select one:
a. equals one-half the input frequency
b. equals two times the input frequency
c. is three times the line frequency
d. equals the line frequency

121. A tuned amplifier is used in what application?
Select one:
a. Intermediate frequency
b. Audio frequency
c. Radio frequency
d. Low frequency

122. How much voltage would you measure across the base-emitter junction of a silicon transistor at
class A?
Select one:
a. 0 V
b. 3.6 V
c. 0.7 V
d. 0.3 V

123. An LED and a phototransistor is equivalent to a/an
Select one:
a. FET
b. regulator
c. optocoupler
d. thermocouple

124. Which of the following is provided by a CB transistor amplifier?
Select one:
a. Gain stability
b. Current gain
c. Voltage gain
d. Power gain

125. An emitter follower is equivalent to
Select one:
a. common base amplifier
b. hybrid connection
c. common amitter amplifier
d. common collector amplifier

126. The most important application of Schottky diodes is in
Select one:
a. digital computers
b. amplifier circuits
c. power supplies
d. voltages regulators

127. At absolute zero temperature, a semiconductor behaves as a/an
Select one:
a. insulator
b. superconductor
c. good conductor
d. variable resistor

128. A silicon diode has a maximum allowable junction temperature of 150oC. Find the maximum
allowable power dissipation at 25oC ambient temperature if the diodes thermal resistance is 0.4oC/mW.
Select one:
a. 600 mW
b. 238 mW
c. 117 mW
d. 313 mW

129. What temperature is inside the diode, right at the junction of the p and n-type materials?
Select one:
a. Internal temperature
b. Ambient tempereture
c. Absolute temperature
d. Junction temperature

130. How many electrons are there in the fourth orbit of a copper atom?
Select one:
a. 4
b. 2
c. 3
d. 1

131. What is the usually employed at the output stage of an amplifier?
Select one:
a. Pre-amplifier
b. Push-pull amplifier
c. Differential amplifier
d. Class A power amplifier

132. What is associated with random motion due to thermal agitation in the movement of holes and
electrons in a silicon crystal?
Select one:
a. Diffusion
b. Doping
c. Recombination
d. Drift

133. What device whose internal capacitance varies with the applied voltage?
Select one:
a. Varactor diode
b. Tunnel diode
c. Zener diode
d. Photodiode

134. As a general rule, _______ are found only in semiconductors.
Select one:
a. bulk resistances
b. electrons
c. holes
d. increases

135. Approximately, the atomic weight of germanium is
Select one:
a. 32
b. 28.09
c. 16
d. 72.6

136. What electronic circuit converts AC to DC where the DC output peak value can be greater than the
AC input peak value?
Select one:
a. Voltage multiplier
b. Rectifier
c. Clamper
d. Clipper

137. Which of the following is NOT one of the three distinct regions in the characteristic curve of a
diode?
Select one:
a. Reverse bias region
b. Breakdown region
c. Forward bias region
d. Saturation region

138. Reducing the number of free electrons in a doped semiconductor forms a/an semiconductor.
Select one:
a. np type
b. n type
c. p type
d. pn type

139. Which frequency produces the highest noise factor?
Select one:
a. 10 kHz
b. 1 kHz
c. 500 Hz
d. 100 Hz

140. What is the net charge if a certain semiconductor losses all 4 valence electrons?
Select one:
a. +8
b. -4
c. +4
d. -8

141. A diode modeling circuit which considers, the threshold voltage, average resistance and switch as
the diode's equivalent circuit.
Select one:
a. Ideal model
b. Real model
c. Piecewise linear model
d. Simplified model

142. A class _______ amplifier stage operates with a small forward bias on the transistor so that some
collector current flows at all times.
Select one:
a. A
b. B
c. AB
d. C

143. Pure semiconductor atoms contain how many valence electrons?
Select one:
a. 2
b. 1
c. 4
d. 8

144. To amplify dc signals, multistage amplifier uses what coupling?
Select one:
a. Transformer
b. Resistor
c. RC
d. Direct

145. A transistor amplifier has high output impedance because
Select one:
a. collector has reverse bias
b. collector is wider than emitter or base
c. emitter has forward bias
d. emitter is heavily doped

146. What is the approximate gain of an amplifier with negative feedback?
Select one:
a. The reciprocal of feedback factor.
b. The feedback factor.
c. The feedback factor plus one.
d. The reciprocal of feedback factor plus one.

147. What refers to annihilation of a hole and electron?
Select one:
a. Recombination
b. Bonding
c. Doping
d. Diffusion

148. The output transformer used in a power amplifier is a/an _______ transformer.
Select one:
a. 1:1 ratio
b. step-down
c. isolation
d. step-up

149. The bandwidth of a single stage amplifier is _______ that of multistage amplifier.
Select one:
a. less than
b. independent
c. equal to
d. more than

150. The forward resistance of a crystal diode is in the order of
Select one:
a. -cm
b.
c. m
d. k

151. Termed as unwanted oscillation that may occur in almost any type of circuits, oscillator, amplifier,
power supply, receiver and transmitters.
Select one:
a. White noise
b. Pulsating dc signal
c. Ripples
d. Parasitic oscillations

152. What is the reason why FET has a high input impedance?
Select one:
a. Because its input is reverse biased.
b. Because its input is a forward biased.
c. Because of the impurity atoms.
d. Because it is made of semiconductor material.

153. What is the ratio of output to input impedance of a CE amplifier?
Select one:
a. Approximately 1
b. Moderate
c. Very high
d. Very low

154. The input capacitor in an amplifier is called _______ capacitor.
Select one:
a. bypass
b. coupling
c. stray
d. electrolytic

155. Zener effect depends only on the
Select one:
a. high-speed minority carriers
b. intensity of the magnetic field
c. high-speed majority carriers
d. intensity of the electric field

156. In an n-type semiconductor, holes are called
Select one:
a. majority carriers
b. charge carriers
c. minority carriers
d. protons

157. Which of the choices below is another name for photoconductive cell?
Select one:
a. Photodiode
b. Varicap
c. Photoresistive device
d. Varistor

158. What is the principal characteristic of a zener diode?
Select one:
a. A constant voltage under conditions of varying current
b. A very high PIV
c. A high forward current rating
d. A constant current under conditions of varying voltage

159. The sum of the resistance of the p-region and the n-region is called
Select one:
a. extrinsic resistance
b. bulk resistance
c. junction resistance
d. intrinsic resistance

160. What is the point of intersection of dc and ac load lines called?
Select one:
a. Cut off point
b. Saturation point
c. Operating point
d. Breakdown

161. What is the reason why RC coupling is not used to amplify extremely low frequencies?
Select one:
a. There is hum in the output
b. Electrical size of coupling capacitor becomes very large
c. Electrical size of coupling capacitor becomes very small
d. There is considerable power loss

162. A heavily doped semiconductor has
Select one:
a. low resistance
b. no effect on the semiconductor characteristics
c. more heat dissipation
d. high resistance

163. What is the approximate voltage drop of LED?
Select one:
a. 3.8 V
b. 0.7 V
c. 0.3 V
d. 1.5 V

164. Gallium arsenide, aluminum arsenide and gallium phosphide are classified as
Select one:
a. elementary semiconductors
b. insulators
c. intrinsic material made by doping
d. compound semiconductor

165. What type of diode is used for tuning receivers and is normaly operated with reverse bias and
derived its name from voltage variable capacitor?
Select one:
a. Zener diode
b. Varactor diode
c. Hot-carrier diode
d. Tunnel diode

166. When the number of free electronsis increased in doped semiconductor, it becomes a/an ______
semiconductor.
Select one:
a. p type
b. np type
c. n type
d. pn type

167. What class of operation is used either where the signal needs to be cut in half, such as in pulse
detector or noise detectors or where push-pull operation of two stages is required?
Select one:
a. Class B
b. Class C
c. Class A
d. Class AB

168. What is another name for a pn crystal?
Select one:
a. Lattice
b. Junction diode
c. Diode
d. PN junction

169. The creation of a voltage in a conductor or semiconductor by illumination of one surface.
Select one:
a. Destriau effect
b. Night effect
c. Dember effect
d. Skin effect

170. What is the phase difference between voltage across collector load and signal voltage in a
commonemitter amplifier?
Select one:
a. 90o
b. 270o
c. 0o
d. 180o

171. Photoconductive effect means
Select one:
a. the conversion of an electromagnetic energy to photonic energy
b. the decreases conductivity of an illuminated semiconductor junction
c. the increased conductivity of an illuminated semiconductor junction
d. the conversion of photonic energy to electromagnetic energy

172. Which of the following amplifier below is a choice when higher power gain is a requirement?
Select one:
a. Common base
b. Common collector
c. Hybrid connection
d. Common emitter

173. When amplifiers are cascaded
Select one:
a. a lower supply voltage is required
b. each amplifier has to work less
c. the overall gain is increased
d. the gain of each amplifier is increased

174. The charge of proton has the same value to that of an electron but
Select one:
a. opposite in sign
b. lesser than in some cases
c. greater in some cases
d. usually not important

175. The resistance of a forward biased pn junction is in the order of
Select one:
a. &
b. &
c. m&
d. k&

176. For either germanium or silicon diodes, the barrier potential decreases _____ for each Celsius
degree rise.
Select one:
a. 4 mV
b. 3 mV
c. 2 mV
d. 1 mV

177. Class C operation can have ______ percent efficiency.
Select one:
a. 0.785
b. 0.5
c. 1
d. 0.7

178. What is the maximum collector efficiency of a transformer coupled class A power amplifier?
Select one:
a. 0.3
b. 0.5
c. 0.45
d. 0.8

179. When a FET with a lower transconductance is substituted into a FET amplifier circuit, what
happens?
Select one:
a. The current gain does not change
b. The input resistance decreases
c. The voltage gain decreases
d. The circuit disamplifies

180. What diode has no depletion layer?
Select one:
a. Varistor
b. Varactor
c. Shockley diode
d. Schottky diode

181. In an amplifier, the emitter junction is
Select one:
a. forward biased
b. reverse biased
c. shorted
d. grounded

182. An amplifier has an output power of 3 watts. Determine the power output level with reference to 1
mW.
Select one:
a. -30 dBm
b. 40 dBm
c. -40.1 dBm
d. 34.77 dBm

183. One of the important diode parameters which gives the magnitude of current the diode can handle
without burning.
Select one:
a. Forward breakdown current
b. Reverse current
c. Reverse saturation current
d. Forward current

184. In the practice, what is normally varied in order to change the frequency of oscillation?
Select one:
a. Inductance
b. Impedance
c. Resistance
d. Capacitance

185. A common emitter circuit is also called _______ circuit.
Select one:
a. grounded base
b. emitter follower
c. grounded collector
d. grounded emitter

186. What is also called as the conventional amplifier?
Select one:
a. Common-collector circuit
b. Emitter follower circuit
c. Common emitter circuit
d. Common base circuit

187. What in a semiconductor is defined as the incomplete part of an electron pair bond?
Select one:
a. Valence electron
b. Impurity
c. Hole
d. Ion

188. Which of the choices below does not describe a clipper circuit?
Select one:
a. Baseline stabilizer
b. amplitude selector
c. Limiter
d. Slicer

189. A pulsating dc applied to power amplifiers causes
Select one:
a. hum in the circuit
b. excessive foreward voltage
c. excessive reverse voltage
d. burning of transistor

190. Emitter follower employs _______ negative feedback.
Select one:
a. 0.5
b. 1
c. 0.75
d. 0.25

191. The efficiency of class AB operation has a maximum of between _______ percent.
Select one:
a. 50 to 78.5 %
b. 40.5 to 60 %
c. 60 to 80 %
d. 90 to 100 %

192. Transformer coupling introduces what type of distortion?
Select one:
a. Phase
b. Amplitude
c. Frequency
d. Intermodulaton

193. Varistors are used for line filtering to eliminate spikes and dips and is also called
Select one:
a. transient suppressor
b. transient filter
c. transient limiter
d. transient regulator

194. The _______ of a common collector configuration is unity.
Select one:
a. power gain
b. voltage gain
c. current gain
d. input impedance

195. A _______ is considered a current controlled device.
Select one:
a. transistor
b. diode
c. field-effect transistor
d. resistor

196. Which of the following is equivalent circuit of a diode for third approximation?
Select one:
a. A switch only
b. A switch in series with a battery in series with a resistance
c. A switch in series with a resistance
d. A switch in series with a battery

197. A dc voltage supply provides 60V when the output is unloaded . When connected to a load the
output drops to 56V. Calculate the value of the voltage regulation.
Select one:
a. 0.12
b. 0.071
c. 0.05
d. 0.081

198. Which of the following has the least noise level?
Select one:
a. Tetrode
b. BJT
c. Triode
d. FET

199. What is the disadvantage of impedance matching?
Select one:
a. It gives low power output
b. It gives distorted output
c. It requires a transformer
d. It is expensive

200. The peak inverse voltage of a half wave rectifier circuit is approximately equal to the _______ of
the input signal.
Select one:
a. peak amplitude
b. current
c. frequency
d. voltage sinusoidal

201. Which of the item below is not a description of the two-stage amplifier?
Select one:
a. The output resistance is equal to the output resistance of the first stage unless feedback is applied.
b. Its output resistance is equal to the output resistance of the final stage unless feedback is apllied.
c. The input resistance is equal to the input resistance of the first stage unless feedback is applied.
d. Its noise level is equal to the accumulated noise of the two stages, either by multiplying the noise
voltage amplitudes together or by adding the noise decible levels together.

202. For highest power gain, what configuration is used?
Select one:
a. CE
b. CS
c. CB
d. CC

203. Percentage ripple can be calculated by getting the _______ and multiplying the result by 100%.
Select one:
a. ratio of the ac voltage to dc voltage
b. product of the ac current to dc current
c. addition of the ac and dc component of the given signal
d. ratio of the input resistance and input voltage

204. A transistor configuration with the lowest current game.
Select one:
a. Common emitter
b. Common base
c. Emitter-follower
d. Common collector

205. Why is the transformer coupling provides high frequency?
Select one:
a. DC resistance is low
b. Collector voltage is stepped down
c. AC resistance is high
d. Collector voltage is stepped up

206. What is the number of protons in the nucleus or the number of electrons in an atom?
Select one:
a. Atomic number
b. Free electrons
c. Atomic mass
d. Atomic weight

207. What capacitor are used in transistor amplifiers?
Select one:
a. Paper
b. Electrolytic
c. Mica
d. Mylar

208. FET has a pinch-off voltage of about
Select one:
a. 0.5 V
b. 20 V
c. 10 V
d. 5 V

209. What is the maximum collector efficiency of class B?
Select one:
a. 0.5
b. 0.9
c. 0.605
d. 0.785

210. In power supplies, circuits that are employed in separating the ac and dc components and bypass
the ac components around the load, or prevent their generation are called
Select one:
a. filters
b. diode circuits
c. series capacitors
d. limiters

211. What occurs in pn diodes when the lectric field in the depletion layer increases to the point where
it can break covalent bonds and generate electron hole pairs?
Select one:
a. Avalnche effect
b. Covalent breakdown
c. Zener breakdown
d. Diffusion

212. A full-wave signal has a period of
Select one:
a. 8.3 &
b. 16.7 ms
c. 16.7 &
d. 8.3 ms

213. The operating point is generally located at _______ of dc load line in class A operation.
Select one:
a. end point
b. cut off point
c. saturation point
d. the middle

214. Approximate mass at rest of a proton is ______ to that of a neutron.
Select one:
a. comparable
b. less than
c. equal
d. greater than

215. A two-transistor class B power amplifier is commonly called
Select one:
a. dual amplifier
b. push-pull amplifier
c. symmetrical amplifier
d. differential amplifier

216. There are two mechanisms by which holes and electrons move through a silicon crystal. They are
Select one:
a. covalent bond and recombination
b. diffusion and drift
c. free and charge particles
d. forward and reverse bias

217. What class of operation is used for general amplification where no distortion can be tolerated?
Select one:
a. Class C
b. Class B
c. Class AB
d. Class A

218. The creation of free electrons through zener effect is also known as
Select one:
a. low-field emision
b. avalanche emission
c. thermionic emission
d. high-field emission

219. The maximum permissible number of electrons in the third orbit is
Select one:
a. 8
b. 2
c. 32
d. 18

220. A cold-cathode glow-discharge diode having a copper anode and a large cathode of sodium or
other material.
Select one:
a. Tunnel diode
b. READ diode
c. Anotron
d. BARITT diode

221. Which transistor configuration offers no phase reversal at the output?
Select one:
a. Common-emitter
b. Common-base
c. Both A and B
d. Common-collector

222. The _______ transistor configurarion has the highest value of input resistance.
Select one:
a. emitter-stabilized
b. common collector
c. common base
d. common emitter

223. What is the most commonly used color for an LED?
Select one:
a. Blue
b. Green
c. Orange
d. Red

224. The value of coupling capacitor, Cc in RC coupling is about
Select one:
a. 10 &
b. 0.01 &
c. 0.1 &
d. 100 &

225. The amount of additional energy required to emit an electron from the surface of a metal is called
Select one:
a. potential barrier
b. work function
c. knee voltage
d. junction voltage

226. What capacitors are used in transistor amplifiers?
Select one:
a. Air
b. Paper
c. Mica
d. Electrolytic

227. An equivalent circuit of a diode in which it is represented as a switch in series with a barrier
potential.
Select one:
a. Fourth approximation
b. Third approximation
c. Second approximation
d. First approximation

228. When doping increases, _______ of a semiconductor decreases.
Select one:
a. minority carrier
b. bulk resistance
c. impurity
d. conductivity

229. The largest theoretical voltage gain obtained with a common collector amplifier is
Select one:
a. 100
b. 10
c. infinite
d. unity

230. The average dc voltage of a full wave rectifier circuit is _______ of the value of the peak input
voltage.
Select one:
a. 0.636
b. 0.01
c. 0.318
d. 0.481

231. Typical leakage current in a pn junction is in the order of
Select one:
a. &
b. pA
c. mA
d. nA

232. If Av is 50 and Ai is 200, what is the power gain of a common emitter amplifier?
Select one:
a. 10000
b. 1000
c. 100
d. 100000

233. A photodiode which conducts current only when forward biased and is exposed to light.
Select one:
a. Photoconductor
b. PIN
c. LAD
d. LED

234. RC coupling is used for ______ amplification.
Select one:
a. current
b. signal
c. power
d. voltage

235. One of the items below is a charateristic of cascaded amplifiers?
Select one:
a. Doubled transconductance
b. Total gain is lessen
c. Increased overall gain
d. Increased overall amplifiacation ratio

236. Charge of an electron is approximately equal to
Select one:
a. 1.6726 x 10-27 C
b. -1.6022 x10-19 C
c. 1.6022 x10-19 C
d. No charge

237. Mass of proton or neutron is ______ times that an electron.
Select one:
a. 2000
b. 1836
c. 1836
d. 10

238. A semiconductor is an element with a valence of
Select one:
a. one
b. eight
c. two
d. four

239. The driver stage usually employs _______ amplifier.
Select one:
a. push-pull
b. class A power
c. class C
d. class AB

240. Which is a donor atom?
Select one:
a. Pentavalent atom
b. Trivalent atom
c. Aluminum
d. Boron

241. The reason why electrons are not pulled into the nucleus of an atom.
Select one:
a. Because they are not being attracted by the positive nucleus.
b. Because of the force of attraction between them and the nucleus is weak.
c. Because of the centrifugal or outward force created by their orbital motion.
d. Because of the strong bonding between them that resists any force pulling them towards the nucleus.

242. Transformer coupling can be used in _______ amplifiers.
Select one:
a. either power or voltage
b. only voltage
c. neither power nor voltage
d. only power

243. What is the input control parameter of a FET?
Select one:
a. Drain voltage
b. Gate voltage
c. Gate current
d. Source voltage

244. What is considered as the key to electrical conductivity?
Select one:
a. The number of neutrons in the nucleus
b. The number of electrons in the valence orbit
c. The number of protons plus the number of electrons in the atom
d. The number of protons in the nucleus

245. Which of the following has the highest input impedance?
Select one:
a. FET
b. Crystal diode
c. BJT
d. MOSFET

246. A class A power amplifier is otherwise known as
Select one:
a. symmetrical amplifier
b. differential amplifier
c. Darlington amplifier
d. single ended amplifier

247. Valence orbit is the other term for
Select one:
a. 3rd orbit
b. 2nd orbit
c. 4th orbit
d. outer orbit

248. What device uses a metal catwhisker as its anode and is classified as a hot-carrier diode?
Select one:
a. Shockley diode
b. PIN
c. Point-contact diode
d. Crystal diode

249. When temperature increases, barrier potential __________.
Select one:
a. increases
b. remains the same
c. decreases
d. either increases or decreases depending on the semiconductor material used

250. Emitter follower is used for
Select one:
a. power gain
b. voltage gain
c. current gain
d. impedance matching

251. The output signal of a common collector amplifier is always
Select one:
a. larger than the input signal
b. exactly equal to the input signal
c. out of phase with the input signal
d. in phase with the input signal

252. When the collector supply is 5 V then collector cut off voltage under dc conditions is
Select one:
a. 10 V
b. 5 V
c. 2.5 V
d. 20 V

253. What is the other name of Esaki diode?
Select one:
a. Diac
b. Shockley diode
c. Hot-carrier diode
d. Tunnel diode

254. The removal by electronic means of one axtremity of an input waveform is called _______.
Select one:
a. clipping
b. filtering
c. clamping
d. amplifying

255. Silicon that has been doped with a trivalent impurity is called a/an
Select one:
a. n-type semiconductor
b. extrinsic semiconductor
c. p-type semiconductor
d. intrinsic semiconductor

256. What is the maximum collector efficiency of a resistance loaded class A power amplifier?
Select one:
a. 0.3
b. 0.25
c. 0.5
d. 0.785

257. A complementary-symmetry amplifier has
Select one:
a. two NPN transistors
b. one PNP and one NPN transistor
c. two PNP and two NPN transistor
d. two PNP transistors

258. The current in any branch of a transistor amplifier that is operating is
Select one:
a. the sum of ac and dc
b. dc only
c. ac only
d. the difference of ac and dc

259. A diode is a nonlinear device because
Select one:
a. it has a built-in barrier potential
b. it can rectify alternating current
c. its current is not directly proportional to its voltage
d. it produces a nonlinear graph

260. What type of coupling is generally used in power amplifiers?
Select one:
a. Transformer
b. Inductive
c. Direct
d. RC

261. What is the typical bulk resistance of rectifier diodes?
Select one:
a. It depends on the doping level
b. Equal to 1 &
c. Less than 1 &
d. Greater than 1 &

262. A nuclei with common number of protons, but with different number of neutrons.
Select one:
a. Core
b. Isotope
c. Fission
d. Atom

263. Which configuration has the lowest current gain?
Select one:
a. Emitter follower
b. Common-base
c. Common-emitter
d. Common-collector

264. What is the most costly coupling?
Select one:
a. Direct
b. RC coupling
c. Transformer
d. Inductive

265. Which coupling has the best frequency response?
Select one:
a. RC
b. Direct
c. Transformer
d. Transistor

266. Withpnp voltage divider bias, you must use
Select one:
a. negative power supplies
b. resistors
c. positive power supplies
d. ground

267. What is also known as photodiffusion effect?
Select one:
a. Night effect
b. Destriau effect
c. Dember effect
d. Skin effect

268. Which operation gives the maximum distortion?
Select one:
a. Class C
b. Class AB
c. Class B
d. Class A

269. The power input to a power amplifier is _______ quantity.
Select one:
a. pulsating dc
b. sinusoidal
c. ac
d. dc

270. What happens to photoconductive material when light strikes on it?
Select one:
a. Nothing important happens
b. The conductivity of the material increases
c. The conductivity of the material stays the same
d. The cnductivity of the material decreases

271. The frequency of a half-wave signal is
Select one:
a. one-fourth the line frequency
b. twice the line frequency
c. one-half the line frequency
d. equal to the line frequency

272. Which of the following amplifiers is considered linear?
Select one:
a. Either A or B
b. Class A
c. Class B
d. Class C

273. A method of connecting amplifier in cascade.
Select one:
a. Stages
b. Configuration
c. Link
d. Coupling

274. The temperature coefficient of resistance of a semiconductor is
Select one:
a. negative
b. infinity
c. zero
d. positive

275. What is the purpose of dc conditions in a transistor?
Select one:
a. To turn on the transistor
b. To forward bias the emitter
c. To reverse bias the emitter
d. To set up operating point

276. In a class A amplifier, the output signal is
Select one:
a. distorted
b. the same as the input
c. clipped
d. smaller in amplitude than the input

277. The number of stages that can be directly coupled is limited because
Select one:
a. it becomes difficult to bias the circuit
b. circuits resistance becomes too large
c. change in temperature can cause thermal instability
d. circuit becomes heavy and costly

278. An acceptor atom contains how many valence electrons?
Select one:
a. 1
b. 4
c. 3
d. 2

279. An acceptor atom contains how many valence electrons?
Select one:
a. 1
b. 4
c. 3
d. 2

280. What line is drawn between the open-circuit voltage and the short-circuit current on a JFET
characteristic curve?
Select one:
a. Operating line
b. Load line
c. Quiscent line
d. Tangent line

281. If the temperature of a semiconductor material increases, the number of free electrons
Select one:
a. decreases
b. remains the same
c. increases
d. becomes zero

282. Low efficiency of a power amplifier results in
Select one:
a. more battery consumption
b. less battery consumption
c. low forward bias
d. low power output

283. Cascaded amplifier total decibel gain is equal to
Select one:
a. the sum of the individual gains
b. the product of the individual gains
c. the quotient of the individual gains
d. the difference of the individual gains

284. _________ is a substance that contains atoms with several bands of electrons but with only one
valence electron.
Select one:
a. Insulator
b. Resistor
c. Conductor
d. Semiconductor

285. A semiconductor in its purest form is called
Select one:
a. pure semiconductor
b. extrinsic semiconductor
c. intrinsic semiconductor
d. doped semiconductor

286. A multistage amplifier uses at least how many transistors?
Select one:
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four

287. What is the most important characteristic of a common collector amplifier?
Select one:
a. High input voltage
b. Its being an amplifier circuit
c. High input resistance
d. High output resistance

288. The output signal of a CE amplifier is always
Select one:
a. equal to the input signal
b. larger than the input signal
c. in phse with the input signal
d. out of phase with the input signal

289. An extrinsic semiconductor is a
Select one:
a. pure semiconductor
b. doped semiconductor
c. good conductor
d. good insulator

290. What is the advantage of RC coupling scheme?
Select one:
a. High efficiency
b. Simplicity
c. Economy
d. Good impedance matching

291. Practically, the voltage gain of an amplifier is expressed
Select one:
a. in volts unit
b. as a whole number
c. as an absolute value
d. in dB unit

292. K shell means
Select one:
a. 3rd orbit
b. first orbit
c. 4th orbit
d. 2nd orbit

293. A transistor converts
Select one:
a. ac power into dc power
b. low resistance into high resistance
c. high resistance into low resistance
d. dc power into ac power

294. A microwave diode in which the carriers that transverse the drift region are generated by minority
carrier injection from a foreard biased junction instead of being extracted from the plasma of an
avalanche region.
Select one:
a. IMPATT
b. Esaki diode
c. TRAPAT
d. BARITT diode