Explore topic-wise MCQs in Digital Communications.

This section includes 86 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Digital Communications knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

Separating the symbols makes the channel memory-less.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
2.

Which has a limited resolution?

A. Hard decision decoder
B. Soft decision decoder
C. Hard & Soft decision decoder
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Hard & Soft decision decoder
3.

Transorthogonal code is obtained by

A. Deleting last digit of each orthogonal codeword
B. Deleting first digit of each orthogonal codeword
C. Doubling each digit of orthogonal codeword
D. Taking negative of each digit of orthogonal codeword
Answer» C. Doubling each digit of orthogonal codeword
4.

A primitive element are those which yield ______ when raised to higher order exponents.

A. All zero elements
B. Non zero elements
C. Unity elements
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Unity elements
5.

Nyquist frequency is given by

A. fs
B. 2fs
C. fs/2
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
6.

For better efficiency and simplicity, n should be

A. Maximum
B. Minimum
C. Zero
D. Infinity
Answer» C. Zero
7.

In symmetric key cryptosystem, who knows the key?

A. Sender
B. Receiver
C. Sender & Receiver
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
8.

A feedback decoder makes hard decision.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
9.

In a real time communication system addition of redundant bits leads to

A. More bandwidth requirement
B. Faster rate of transmission
C. More bandwidth requirement & Faster rate of transmission
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
10.

Sampling can be done for functions varying in

A. Space
B. Time
C. Space & Time
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
11.

Which is more efficient method?

A. Encoding each symbol of a block
B. Encoding block of symbols
C. Encoding each symbol of a block & Encoding block of symbols
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Encoding each symbol of a block & Encoding block of symbols
12.

Which has better minimum distance?

A. Check sum
B. Cyclic redundancy check
C. Check sum & Cyclic redundancy check
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Check sum & Cyclic redundancy check
13.

Reconstruction of continuous signals is done using

A. Decimation algorithm
B. Interpolation algorithm
C. Decimation & Interpolation algorithm
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Decimation & Interpolation algorithm
14.

The inter leaver connected between the two decoders is used to

A. Remove error bursts
B. Scatter error bursts
C. Add error bursts
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Add error bursts
15.

Coding gain is defined as

A. Reduction in Eb/N0
B. Increase in Eb/N0
C. Same as Eb/N0
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Increase in Eb/N0
16.

The look ahead length L is given by

A. m+1
B. m-1
C. (m+1)/2
D. 1-m
Answer» B. m-1
17.

R-S codes have

A. High code rate
B. Low redundancy
C. High code rate & Low redundancy
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
18.

Reed Solomon codes are

A. Non binary
B. Cyclic
C. Non binary & Cyclic
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
19.

Oversampling can completely eliminate

A. Aperture error
B. Non linearity
C. Quantization error
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» B. Non linearity
20.

A rate distortion function is a

A. Concave function
B. Convex function
C. Increasing function
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Increasing function
21.

Hamming distance can be given by the number of elements in which

A. They are same
B. They differ
C. Which are non zero
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Which are non zero
22.

CRC uses

A. Multiplication
B. Binary division
C. Multiplication & Binary division
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
23.

Block length is the _____________ in the code word.

A. Number of elements
B. Distance between elements
C. Number of parity bits
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Distance between elements
24.

Which are uniquely decodable codes?

A. Fixed length codes
B. Variable length codes
C. Fixed & Variable length codes
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Variable length codes
25.

Components used for generation of turbo codes are

A. Inter leavers
B. Punching pattern
C. Inter leavers & Punching pattern
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
26.

On increasing L

A. Coding gain increases
B. Complexity increases
C. Coding gain & Complexity increases
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
27.

Which factors are measured using the units of lines per picture height?

A. Resolution
B. Sampling rate
C. Resolution & Sampling rate
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
28.

A catastrophic error is an event whereby ______ number of code symbol error causes _______ number of decoded data error bits.

A. Finite, finite
B. Finite, infinite
C. Infinite, finite
D. Infinite, infinite
Answer» C. Infinite, finite
29.

Sampling can be used in

A. Audio
B. Speech
C. Video
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
30.

The rate of a block code is the ration of

A. Block length to message length
B. Message length to block length
C. Message weight to block length
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Message weight to block length
31.

The minimum end to end delay in block interleaving is

A. 2MN+2M+2
B. 2MN-2M+2
C. 2MN-2M-2
D. 2MN+2M-2
Answer» C. 2MN-2M-2
32.

Which is used to protect privacy of the information?

A. Compression coding
B. Source coding
C. Cipher coding
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
33.

The probability of message error is written as

A. Block error
B. Word error
C. Block & Word error
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
34.

The capacity per cell is ______ Eb/N0.

A. Directly proportional
B. Inversely proportional
C. Double the
D. Half the
Answer» C. Double the
35.

Lempel-Ziv algorithm is

A. Variable to fixed length algorithm
B. Fixed to variable length algorithm
C. Fixed to fixed length algorithm
D. Variable to variable length algorithm
Answer» B. Fixed to variable length algorithm
36.

Sampling of simultaneously two different but related wave-forms is called as

A. Over sampling
B. Complex sampling
C. Inter sampling
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Inter sampling
37.

The smaller the cross correlation, the ______ is the distance between the signal vectors.

A. More
B. Less
C. Double
D. Half
Answer» B. Less
38.

In maximum likelihood detector the error probability is

A. Maximum
B. Minimum
C. Zero
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» C. Zero
39.

Example for convolution encoder state diagram is

A. Tree diagram
B. Trellis diagram
C. Tree & Trellis diagram
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
40.

If the inversion was performed correctly, then the multiplication of the original matrix with the inverted matrix should yield identity matrix. This is known as

A. Identity theorem
B. Safety theorem
C. Multiplication theorem
D. Inversion theorem
Answer» C. Multiplication theorem
41.

Soft decision results in

A. Increase in complexity
B. Decrease in storage
C. Increase in complexity & Decrease in storage
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Decrease in storage
42.

Which needs more check bits?

A. Error correction
B. Error detection
C. Error correction & detection
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Error detection
43.

Turbo codes are

A. Forward error correction codes
B. Backward error correction codes
C. Error detection codes
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Backward error correction codes
44.

Error detecting capability is given as

A. Dmin + 1
B. Dmin -1
C. Dmin
D. Dmin/2
Answer» C. Dmin
45.

What is the bit depth used for audio recording?

A. 8 bit
B. 16 bit
C. 24 bit
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
46.

Biorthogonal codes needs ________ bandwidth as orthogonal codes.

A. Equal
B. Double
C. Half
D. Triple
Answer» D. Triple
47.

A code should be selected such that it should

A. Not have catastrophic error propagation
B. Have minimum free distance
C. All of the mentioned
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» B. Have minimum free distance
48.

Noise which can affect sampling are

A. Thermal sensor noise
B. Analog circuit noise
C. Thermal sensor & Analog circuit noise
D. None of the mentioned
Answer» D. None of the mentioned
49.

Which code requires minimum Eb/N0?

A. Orthogonal
B. Biorthogonal
C. Simplex
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» D. All of the mentioned
50.

When X and Y are statistically independent, then I (x,y) is

A. 1
B. 0
C. Ln 2
D. Cannot be determined
Answer» C. Ln 2