VIVA QUESTIONS FOR ADVANCED COMMUNICATION LAB
1. State different types of Digital modulation techniques?
2. What is shift keying?
3. What is a binary modulation technique?
4. Define ASK?
5. Define FSK?
6. Define PSK?
7. Define QPSK and DPSK?
8. Why QPSK is called quadrature shift keying?
9. Define TDMA?
10. What are applications of shift keying?
11. Define FDM?
12. State the applications of multiplexing?
13. State the principle of PLL?
14. State coherent detection?
15. State non-coherent detection?
16. Differentiate between DPSK and QPSK?
17. What is an M-Array data transmission?
18. What is a standing wave?
19. Define reflection and transmission co-efficient?
20. State different types of losses in transmission lines?
21. Define modes?
22. What is the range of microwaves?
23. What is the advantage of waveguides?
24. Define VSWR?
25. Define Isolator?
26. What is the principle of Directional coupler?
27. State different types of Directional couplers?
28. What is a Klystron?
29. State the classification of microwave tubes?
30. What are O-type and M-type tubes?
31. State application of klystron?
32. State the mechanism of oscillation in klystron?
33. How modulation occurs in reflex klystron?
34. State two methods to find VSWR?
35. Define the principle of slotted line carriage?
36. Differentiate between normal and expanded SWR?
37. What type of frequency meter is used in Laboratory?
38. Define directivity, radiation efficiency, beam width and bandwidth of an antenna?
39. What are the radiation patterns for Horn antenna, parabolic antenna?
40. State the formula to find directivity for an antenna?
41. What are the advantages of using optical fibers?
42. What is the principle of operation of OFC?
43. State the difference between step-index and graded index fiber?
44. State the formula to find the numerical Aperture?
45. What are the different types of losses in OFCS?
46. 1.What are the properties of Magic tee?
47. What are the applications of magic tee? Why it is called “magic tee”?
48. Give the scattering matrix of magic tee
49. Give the scattering matrix of directional coupler
50. Define : Coupling coefficient, directivity, insertion loss, isolation
51. Give the applications of directional coupler
52. How does oscillations take place in reflex klystron?
53. Why can’t we use conventional vaccum tubes at microwave frequencies?
54. Give the applications of reflex klystron
55. What is meant by ETR, ETS?
56. Define gunn effect
57. What are the modes of operation of gunn diode
58. Define transit time modes.
59. Define LSA mode
60. What are the applications of gunn diode.
61. How does gunn diode oscillate?
62. What are the advantages of gunn diode?
63. Draw the J v/s E characteristics of gunn diode showing NDC region
64. How velocity modulation takes place in reflex klystron
65. Explain the modes of reflex klystron?
66. What is the difference between transmission lines and coaxial lines
67. Why cylindrical cavity resonators are not used with klystrons?
68. What are the advantages of directional couplers
69. What are waveguides?
70. What are cavity resonators? Mention its applications
71. By what method cavity resonators are tuned
72. What are the applications of circulators?
73. What is modulation? Mention different types of digital modulation techniques?
74. What is base band and band pass transmissions
75. Mention the two main resources available with communication channels
76. What are formatting blocks
77. What is sampling process?
78. State sampling theorem for low pass signals
79. Mention different types of sampling process?
80. What is aliasing ? Mention the conditions for aliasing to occur?
81. How can aliasing be reduced?
82. What is aperture effect? How it is reduced?
83. What is the minimum transmission bandwidth of transmission channel?
84. What are the requirements that a digital modulation scheme must satisfy
85. What is M-ary transmission?
86. What is demodulation and detection?
87. Define coherent and non-coherent detection?
88. What is the drawback of BPSK?
89. Mention the minimum transmission bandwidth of BPSK,DPSK,QPSK?
90. Mention the advantages of DPSK? Also what are its disadvantages?
91. What are the advantages and disadvantages of QPSK
92. Differentiate ASK, FSK, PSK
93. Explain flat top sampling?
94. What is antenna?
95. What is radiation pattern
96. What is directivity?
97. Define antenna gain?
98. Explain effective aperture of antenna
99. Define bandwidth and beamwidth of antenna
100. What is near field and far field of antenna
101. What is polarization of antenna?
102. Explain structure of optical fiber?
103. What is refractive index?
104. What is numerical aperture?
105. What are the advantages and disadvantages of OFC?
