Electronics
1) In converting Thevenin to Norton:
Answer: Rth=Rn
2) Find the ID.
Answer: 3.11 mA
3) The capacitance of a capacitor is the ratio
Answer: charge to potential difference between plates
4) To forward bias a diode,
Answer: the anode must be positive with respect to its cathode
5) A VD bias amplifier has an R1=39kΩ, R2=3.9kΩ, RC=10kΩ, RE=1.5kΩ,
VCC=22V and a beta of 50. Find the IC.
Answer: 0.81 mA
6) Is a fundamental digital circuit whose output is either 0 or 1 and is called a
bistable multivibrator
Answer: flip-flop
7) Which of the following amplifier class has a conduction angle of less than 180
deg?
Answer: class C
8) A chip resistor is marked 394. Its resistance value is
Answer: 390 000
9) Which of the following flip-flops has an invalid output state?
Answer: S-R - FF
10)At a frequency below resonance, the voltage ________ the current.
Answer: Lags
11)The voltage across the branch is equal to the sum of all the branch currents over
the sum of all the branch conductance in parallel circuit.
Answer: Millman’s
12)A device consisting of two identical SUS structures arranged in antiparallel but
have only one gate used only for external synchronization or for proper biasing.
Answer: SBS
13)A device that is useful in circuits that uses a higher frequency of up to 100 kHz,
and it is used in place of a typical SCR that provides a greater degree of control
at the higher frequencies
Answer: GTO
14)Who among the following invented the transistor?
Answer: All of the choices
15)A fixed bias amplifier has an RB=240kΩ, RC=2.2kΩ, VCC=12V and a beta of 50.
Find the VC.
Answer: 6.83V
16)An ideal current source has
Answer: Zero internal resistance
17)A special inverter circuit that takes the dc voltage and converts it to a variety of
other dc voltages
Answer: Converter
18)With negative feedback in a closed loop control system, the system sensitivity to
parameter variation:
Answer: Decreases
19)The smaller the capacitance on a DC series RC circuit with the same value of the
charging and discharging resistance
Answer: the faster the capacitor discharges
20)In a N channel JFET, VGS must be:
Answer: A reverse bias voltage
21)Kirchoff’s Voltage Law states that:
Answer: the algebraic sum of the voltage sources and IR voltage drops in any
closed path must be total to zero
22)A free-running multivibrator
Answer: Astable
23)An amplifier with a gain of -500 and a feedback of β=-0.1 has a gain change of
15% due to temperature. Calculate the change in gain of the feedback amplifier.
Answer: 0.3%
24)A temperature sensing device that generates an electrical voltage when it is
heated.
Answer: Thermocouple
25)A logic gate with output equal to high when the two inputs are not the same
Answer: Exclusive OR
26)The condition where inductive and capacitive reactance are equal.
Answer: Resonance
27)At the 1st time constant charging of a capacitor that is initially uncharge, the
voltage across the capacitor is _______ of the maximum voltage.
Answer: 63.2%
28)Amplifier classes represent the amount of the output signal varies over one cycle
of operation for ________ of input signal.
Answer: full cycle
29)Find the phase of an AC wave where the peak of 8V reaches 6V the second time
starting from zero degrees.
Answer: 48.59 degrees
30)In a self-bias JFET, the VDD=20V RD=3.3kΩ, RG=1MΩ, RS=1kΩ, IDss=8mA and
a Vp=-6V. Find the VS.
Answer: 2.6V
31)Find the form factor of an AC sine wave with a maximum voltage of 5V
Answer: 1.11
32)How many bits are needed to represent a decimal number 111?
Answer: 7
33)In closed loop control system, what is the sensitivity of the gain of the overall
system, which M to the variation in G?
Answer: 1/1+GH
34)Ideally, an Op Amp has ________ input impedance,
Answer: Infinite ohms
35)Given the transfer function of a given system H(s)=(S+4)/(S2+4S+4), determine
the number of poles (P) and zero (Z)
Answer: P=2, Z=1
36)The strategy used by the control system designer to improve system dynamic
performance through the addition of dynamic elements in order to mitigate some
of the undesirable features of the control elements present in the system.
Answer: Control system compensation
37)Which of the following is exhibited by Root locus diagrams?
Answer: The poled of the transfer function for a set of parameter values
38)In root locus plot different roots have the same
Answer: Gain
39)In a temperature control system, what conversion in signal takes place?
Answer: Analog to Digital
40)If one branch of a parallel circuit opens, the total current, IT,
Answer: decreases
41)A P-type semiconductor has an overall _________ charge.
Answer: Neutral
42)123.456 is equivalent to
Answer: 303.3034
43)A simple way to make a High Pass Filter is to put a/n _______ in parallel with the
load.
Answer: Capacitor
44)Find the instantaneous value of an AC voltage having maximum value of 5V at
30 degrees
Answer: 3.8V
45)Which is an example of bistable multivibrator?
Answer: Flip-Flop
46)Which of the following has the smallest physical size?
Answer: Surface-mounted resistors
47)For a J-K flip-flops with a 1 input for both J and K, the output is _______ with
respect to the present state
Answer: not the same
48)The transfer function of a P-I controller is
Answer: Kp+Ki/s
49)The capacitor behave like a/n __________ in DC steady state.
Answer: open
50)A two-input OR gate can be represented by how many NAND gates?
Answer: 3
51)A flip-flop whose output changes state every time a clock pulse occurs.
Answer: T flip-flop
52)Compensator is an electrical network which produces phase lag at one frequency
region and phase lead at other frequency region.
Answer: Lag-lead
53)Determine IE.
Answer:?
54)An effect that reduces the possibility of accidental triggering of the SCS.
Answer: Rate effect
55)Which of the following in a four-layer-diode with an anode gate and a cathode
gate?
Answer: SCR
56)In a series RLC circuit with an AC source, the current _______ the voltage.
Answer: any of the above
57)A control system with capacitive noise, is likely to suffer from which of the
following?
Answer: Saturation in amplifying stages
58)Direct pressure of tools such as drill bits or infilling cutters and indicate when
they are rusting or broken.
Answer:?
59)Which of the following is the mean of all instantaneous values for one alternation
of an AC wave?
Answer: Average value
60)How many 3-input AND gate are there in a 14-pin IC?
Answer:3
61)In a series RC circuit with an AC source, the maximum difference between
current and voltage is:
Answer: close to 90 degrees but cannot be 90 degrees
62) At cut-off, so increase in the reverse voltage at the BE junction will ______ IC.
Answer: not affect
63)A D-MOSFET has the following characteristics: IDSS=10mA and VGS(off)=-4V.
Calculate the drain current, ID, for VGS=-2V.
Answer: 22.5mA
64)To apply the superposition theorem, all components must be
Answer: Both linear and bilateral
65)A diode is a
Answer: both “unidirectional device” and “non linear device”
66)An Amplifier feedback used to decrease the gain
Answer: negative feedback
67)In general, a capacitor is a component that is
Answer: store an electric charge
68)If A=0, B=0, C=1, D=1, and E=1; what is X if X = [D+(A+B)C]E
Answer:1
69)At cut-off, Ic is equal to:
Answer:0A
70)A VD amplifier has an R1=39kΩ, R2=3.9kΩ, RC=10kΩ, RE=1.5kΩ, VCC=22V and
a beta of 50. Find IC if beta is increased to 100.
Answer: 0.84 mA
71)At saturation, an increase in IB will _______ IC.
Answer: not affect
72)An ideal voltage source and an internal resistance is an example of the
Answer: Ideal approximation
73)Norton’s theorem replaces a complicated circuit facing a load by an
Answer: ideal current source and parallel resistor
74)Laws are proved by
Answer: Experiment
75)A control system has G(s)H(s)=K/[s(s+4)(s2+4s+20)(0<K)< ]. What is the
number of breakaway points in the root locus diagram?
Answer: three
76)Sampling is necessary ________
Answer: where high accuracy is required
77)Which of the following is a unit of energy?
Answer: watt-hour
78)Solve for the voltage drop across 30 ohm as shown in the figure:
Answer:5.18V
79)In an N-channel D-MOSFET, if the VGS is positive, IG.
Answer:zero
80)A p-type semiconductor is a semiconductor doped with
Answer: trivalent impurity atoms
81)Determine VC.
Answer:?
82)A voltage of 120 V is applied across two resistors, R1 and R2, in series. If the
voltage R2 equals 90 V, how much is the voltage across R1?
Answer:30 V
83)A depletion-type MOSFET is a
Answer: Normally ON device
84)Given the transfer function of a given system H(s)=(s+4)/(s2+4s+4), determine
the value of pole (P) and zero (Z).
Answer: P: -2, Z: -4
85)In voltage-shunt feedback, the Zif and Zof:
Answer: increases, decreases
86)Given the transfer function of a given system H(s)=(s+4)/(s2+4s+4), the status
of the damping factor is?
Answer: critically dumped
87)A machine-readable with a symbol that may contain letters, numbers, or symbols
to identify the product.
Answer: Barcode
88)To avoid damaging MOSFETs a during handling,
Answer: all of the choices
89)If the voltage at the collector is 0V and the VB is 0.7V, the NPN transistor’s BC
junction is:
Answer: forward biased
90)A coil of inductance 0.12H and resistance 3kΩ is connected in parallel with
0.02µF capacitor and is supplied at 40V at a frequency of 5kHz. Determine the
source power.
Answer: 206.7 mW
91)The equivalent series resistance of a capacitor should ideally be
Answer: zero
92)The light that travels through the fiber optic system must be sent from a
transmitter which is a ________ device that can send an optical signal up to
distances of 10000 m at data rates of 1000 Mbaud.
Answer: Ga Al As
93)The first time a P-type is joined with the N-type in a PN junction diode, a
depletion region is formed near the PN junction. Why is it called the depletion
region?
Answer: A P-type is depleted with holes near the junction
94)A feedback connection where the output is Io and the feedback is signal is Vf.
Answer: voltage series
95)In a D-MOSFET, ID is ________ at VGS=0V,
Answer: IDSS
96)The sum of two quinary numbers 342.43 and 421.13 is
Answer: 1314.11
97)The greater the value of R in a series with L, the ________ will the current rise
to DC steady state after the closing of the switch.
Answer: slower
98)A transformer cannot be used to
Answer: step up or down a dc voltage
99)Which of the following is directly proportional to capacitance?
Answer: Area of the plates
100) Find ID.
Answer: 3.8 mA
