Multiple Choice Questions in Electronics Engineering Part 6

Multiple Choice Questions in Electronics Engineering Part 6

1.      What is a precision piece of test equipment used to compare an unknown voltage with an internal reference voltage and to indicate the difference in their values?

A.    Integral voltmeter

B.     Digital voltmeter

C.     Differential voltmeter

D.    Comparator

2.      What is the primary advantage of power-amplifier transmitters over keyed-oscillator transmitter?

A.    Frequency stability

B.     Practicality

C.     Power capability

D.    Availability

3.      What is the name given to a variety of rotary electromechanical, position sensing devices?

A.    Sychros

B.     Servos

C.     Gyros

D.    Rotors

4.      What is a system in which the precise movement of large load is controlled by a relatively weak control signal?

A.    Sychro

B.     Servo

C.     Gyro

D.    Rotor

5.      What type of capacitor with a usual range in values from 1 picofarad to 0.01 microfarad and may be used with voltages as high as 30,000 volts?

A.    Mylar

B.     Paper capacitor

C.    Ceramic capacitor

D.    Electrolytic capacitor

6.      A material that removes oxides from surfaces to be joined by soldering or welding

A.    Sandpaper

B.     Rust converter

C.     Acid

D.    Flux

7.      What type of radar transmitter power is measured over a period of time?

A.    Average power

B.     Peak envelope power (PEP)

C.     RMS power

D.    Apparent power

8.      What is a mechanical device containing a spinning mass that is universally mounted?

A.    Sychro

B.     Servo

C.    Gyroscope

D.    Rotor

9.      What type of tube best meets the requirements of a modulator switching element?

A.    Thyratron

B.     Klystron

C.     Magnetron

D.    TWT

10.  In what manner are current-measuring instruments connected to a circuit?

A.    Series-parallel

B.     Series

C.     Parallel-series

D.    Parallel

11.  What refers to the ability of a gyro to keep its axis fixed in space?

A.    Precession

B.     Stability

C.    Rigidity

D.    Flexibility

12.  Most meggers you will use are rated at what voltage?

A.    1000

B.     100

C.     300

D.    500

13.  Power transformer normally operates at ___ alternating current.

A.    60 Hz or 400 Hz

B.     30 Hz or 60 Hz

C.     60 Hz or 50 Hz

D.    60 Hz or 120 Hz

14.  What type of maintenance is used to isolate troubles by means of test techniques and practices that realign or readjust equipment or otherwise bring the equipment back up to proper performance?

A.    Maintenance

B.     Preventive maintenance

C.     Corrective and preventive

D.    Corrective maintenance

15.  The magnesium-manganese dioxide cell has a voltage of approximately how many volts?

A.    2 V

B.     1.5 V

C.     1.2 V

D.    1.35 V

16.  In a gyro, a vector representing the rotary motion applied to change the direction of the rotor axis is called ___.

A.    Torque vector

B.     Rotary vector

C.     Horizontal vector

D.    Torque gyro

17.  The strength of the magnetic field of the coils is dependent upon

a.       The number of turns of the wire in the coil

b.      The amount of current in the coil

c.       The ratio of the coil length to the coil width

d.      The type of material in the core

A.    A, B and C

B.     A,B,C and D

C.     B,C and D

D.    D, A and C

18.  What is the frequency range of magnetron oscillator?

A.    600 to 30 GHz

B.     600 to 30 THz

C.     600 to 30 MHz

D.    600 to 30 PHz

19.  Which of the basic timing circuits produces sharp trigger pulses directly?

A.    555 timer

B.     Pulsed oscillator

C.    Blocking oscillator

D.    Keyed oscillator

20.  When taking resistance reading with a VOM, you will obtain the most accurate readings at or near what part of the scale?

A.    Midscale

B.     End scale

C.     Full scale

D.    Quarter scale

Multiple Choice Questions in Electronics Engineering Part 5

Multiple Choice Questions in Electronics Engineering Part 5

1.      What is the maximum number of electrons in a subshell?

A. 2

B. 6

C. 10

D. 14

2.      The repeatability of a servo-controlled robot is within _____ mm rather than a fraction of a mm.

A. 2

B. 4

C. 3

D. 5

3.      What is the principal quantum number of a Q shell?

A. 6

B. 5

C. 4

D. 7

4.      What time when the voltage across L will be equal to the voltage across R in a series RL transient circuit where E = 24 V, R = 10 Ω and L = 1 H?

A. 69.3 ms

B. 69.3 s

C. 6.93 ms

D. 6.93 s

5.      What is the hysteresis loss at a frequency of 60 cycles per second of an audio transformer magnetic core which has a maximum flux density of 10,000 gausses? The volume of solid iron of this core is 66.8 cubic cm and the hysteresis coefficient (a constant that depends upon grade and quality of iron) id 5.35 x 10^-4.

A. 0.5386 W

B. 53.86 W

C. 5.386 W

D. 5386 W

6.      When two coils of equal inductances are connected in series with coefficient of coupling and their fields in phase, find the total inductance of two coils.

A. 2L_A

B. 2L_A (1+k)

C. 2kL_A

D. L_A (2 + k)

7.      A 2 μF capacitor with initial charge q₀ = 100 μC, is connected across a 100 Ω resistor at

t = 0. Calculate the time in which the transient voltage across the resistor drops from 40 to 10 V.

A. 2.77 s

B. 0.277 ms

C. 2.77 ms

C. 0.277 s

8.      What do you call a small D.C generator built into alternators to provide excitation current to field windings?

A. prime mover

B. excitor

C. commutator

D. load

9.   What is the condition of the diode in a parallel-limiter when the output is developed?

      A.  Shunted

      B. Conducting

      C. Cut-off

      D. Shorted

10. What is the payload of the industrial robot AEA IRb-60?

      A. 60kg

      B. 80kg

      C. 50kg

      D.70kg

11. Which of the following robot is primarily used for machining processes?

      A. Cincinatti T1

      B. Cincinatti T3

      C. Cincinatti T2

      D. Cincinatti T4

12. The Kuka spot welding robot has how many degrees of freedom?

      A. 4

      B. 6

      C. 5

      D.7

13. What system in industrial electronics has the ability to monitor certain variable in the industrial processes, the same can perform self-correcting action?

      A. Coal-slurry system

      B. Closed-loop system

      C. Open-loop system

      D. Feed forward control system

14. What is the property of a gyro so that the axis of rotation or spin axis tends to remain in a fixed direction in space if no force is applied to it?

      A. Selectivity

      B. Precession

      C. Rigidity

      D. Sensitivity

15. In a series RLC circuit with R= 200Ω L= 0.1 H and C= 5µF, find the transient current after the switch is closed at t=0 applying a 200V source.

      A. 2^e-1000tsin 1000t

      B. 2^e-1000tcos 1000t

      C. 2^e-100tsin 100t

      D. 2^e-100tcos 100t

16. A 0.09 µF capacitor is charged to 220V. How long in milliseconds will it discharge to a level of 110V if the discharge resistor has a resistance of 20kΩ?

      A. 1.25

      B. 12.5

      C. 125

      D. 0.125

17. What are the heavy particles that include the proton and the neutron?

      A. Mesons

      B. Baryons

      C. Leptons

      D. Quarks

18. What particles have rest masses ranging down to about 0.1amu?

      A. Leptons

      B. Baryons

      C. Quarks

      D. Mesons

19. By definition, what is the individual angular momentum of the neutron proton and electron?

      A. h/4π           

      B. h/2π

      C. h/π

      D. 4πh

20.  In the hysteresis loop, what do you call the product of the residual magnetic flux and coercive field strength?

A. Effectivity product

B.  Hysteresis coefficient

C.  Residual-coercive product

D. Steinmetz’s product

21.  Programming of a continuous-path robot is normally carried out by a method called ______ through.

A. See

B.  Walk

C.  Pull

D. Push

22.  What do you call the strong magnetism that occurs in certain ceramic compounds such as ferrites?

A. Ferromagnetism

B.  Ferrimagnetism

C.  Diamagnetism

D. Paramagnetism

23.   What characteristic is determined by the time required for a voltage wave to travel from the input end of an electrical transmission line to the output end and back again?

A. Pulse position

B.  Pulse line

C. Pulse width

D. Pulse code

24.  A disturbance similar to brownout but of shorter duration that occurs when the line voltage drops below 80-85% of its rated voltage by one or more cycles.

A. Sag or dip

B.  Chronic overvoltage

C.  Spike

D. Transient

25.  What term is given to the positions of the rotors of a synchro transmitter and the synchro receiver when both rotors are on a 0 degree displaced from 0 degree by the same angle?

A.    Correspondence

B.     Overlap

C.     Fine tune

D.    Stability

26.  What ac voltage defect refers to a high voltage (up to 6000V or more) peak lasting approximately 100µs to one-half cycle?

A.    Sag or dip

B.     Spike

C.     Chronic overvoltage

D.    Transient

27.  The largest computers commonly use a word size of ______ bits.

A.    32

B.     128

C.    64

D.    256

28.  What do you call the ratio of the safe load to the nameplate load of an electrical motor?

A.    Service factor

B.     Load factor

C.     Efficiency

D.    Service life

29.  Covalent bond energy in germanium is about ____ eV.

A.    1.5

B.     7.4

C.     3.0

D.    4.7

30.  The service factors of motors vary from ____ to _____.

A. 2.5 to 2.9

B. 1.15 to 1.4

C. 1.1 to 1.3

D. 3.1 to 5.5