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151.

From the following given tree, what is the computed codeword for ‘c’?

A. 111
B. 101
C. 110
D. 011
Answer» D. 011
152.

From the following given tree, what is the code word for the character ‘a’?

A. 011
B. 010
C. 100
D. 101
Answer» B. 010
153.

The code length does not depend on the frequency of occurrence of characters.

A. true
B. false
Answer» C.
154.

Which bit is reserved as a parity bit in an ASCII set?

A. first
B. seventh
C. eighth
D. tenth
Answer» D. tenth
155.

How many bits are needed for standard encoding if the size of the character set is X?

A. log x
B. x+1
C. 2x
D. x2
Answer» B. x+1
156.

How many printable characters does the ASCII character set consists of?

A. 120
B. 128
C. 100
D. 98
Answer» D. 98
157.

Which of the following algorithms is the best approach for solving Huffman codes?

A. exhaustive search
B. greedy algorithm
C. brute force algorithm
D. divide and conquer algorithm
Answer» C. brute force algorithm
158.

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
159.

A rate distortion function is a

A. concave function
B. convex function
C. increasing function
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. increasing function
160.

Which achieves greater compression?

A. lossless coding
B. lossy coding
C. lossless & lossy coding
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. lossless & lossy coding
161.

Which coding method uses entropy coding?

A. lossless coding
B. lossy coding
C. lossless & lossy coding
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. lossless & lossy coding
162.

Which reduces the size of the data?

A. source coding
B. channel coding
C. source & channel coding
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. channel coding
163.

ASCII code is a

A. fixed length code
B. variable length code
C. fixed & variable length code
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. variable length code
164.

Mutual information should be

A. positive
B. negative
C. positive & negative
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
165.

In digital image coding which image must be smaller in size?

A. input image
B. output image
C. input & output image
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. input & output image
166.

While recovering signal, which gets attenuated more?

A. low frequency component
B. high frequency component
C. low & high frequency component
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. low & high frequency component
167.

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
168.

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
169.

Entropy of a random variable is

A. 0
B. 1
C. infinite
D. cannot be determined
Answer» D. cannot be determined
170.

The self information of random variable is

A. 0
B. 1
C. infinite
D. cannot be determined
Answer» D. cannot be determined
171.

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
172.

When the base of the logarithm is 2, then the unit of measure of information is

A. bits
B. bytes
C. nats
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. bytes
173.

The method of converting a word to stream of bits is called as

A. binary coding
B. source coding
C. bit coding
D. cipher coding
Answer» C. bit coding
174.

The event with minimum probability has least number of bits.

A. true
B. false
Answer» C.
175.

When probability of error during transmission is 0.5, it indicates that

A. channel is very noisy
B. no information is received
C. channel is very noisy & no information is received
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
176.

Which is the main system consideration?

A. probability of error
B. system complexity
C. random fading channel
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» E.
177.

The unit of average mutual information is

A. bits
B. bytes
C. bits per symbol
D. bytes per symbol
Answer» B. bytes
178.

Self information should be

A. positive
B. negative
C. positive & negative
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. negative
179.

Which is easier to implement and is preferred?

A. coherent system
B. non coherent system
C. coherent & non coherent system
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. coherent & non coherent system
180.

Coherent PSK and non coherent orthogonal FSK have a difference of               in PB.

A. 1db
B. 3db
C. 4db
D. 6db
Answer» D. 6db
181.

The DPSK needs                  Eb/N0 than BPSK.

A. 1db more
B. 1db less
C. 3db more
D. 3db less
Answer» B. 1db less
182.

A Gaussian distribution into the non linear envelope detector yields

A. rayleigh distribution
B. normal distribution
C. poisson distribution
D. binary distribution
Answer» B. normal distribution
183.

For AWGN, the noise variance is

A. n0
B. n0/2
C. 2n0
D. n0/4
Answer» C. 2n0
184.

The disadvantage of preset equalizer is that

A. it doesnot requires initial training pulse
B. time varying channel degrades the performance of the system
C. all of the mentioned
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. all of the mentioned
185.

Preamble is used for

A. detect start of transmission
B. to set automatic gain control
C. to align internal clocks
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» E.
186.

Equalization method which is done by tracking a slowly time varying channel response is

A. preset equalization
B. adaptive equalization
C. variable equalization
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. variable equalization
187.

If the filter’s tap weight remains fixed during transmission of data, then the equalization is called as

A. preset equalization
B. adaptive equalization
C. fixed equalization
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. adaptive equalization
188.

The over-determined set of equations can be solved using

A. zero forcing
B. minimum mean square error
C. zero forcing & minimum mean square error
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
189.

As the eye opens, ISI

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. remains the same
190.

The range of amplitude difference gives the value of

A. width
B. distortion
C. timing jitter
D. noise margin
Answer» C. timing jitter
191.

Source encoding procedure does

A. sampling
B. quantization
C. compression
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» E.
192.

The primary advantage of this method is

A. redistribution of spectral density
B. to favor low frequencies
C. redistribution of spectral density & to favor low frequencies
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
193.

The index value n, in transversal filter can be used as.

A. time offset
B. filter coefficient identifier
C. time offset & filter coefficient identifier
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
194.

In polybinary signalling method the present bit of binary sequence is algebraically added with              number of previous bits.

A. j
B. 2j
C. j+2
D. j-2
Answer» E.
195.

The method which has greater bandwidth efficiency is called as

A. duobinary signalling
B. polybinary signalling
C. correlative coding
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» C. correlative coding
196.

The duobinary filter, He (f) is called as

A. sine filter
B. cosine filter
C. raised cosine filter
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. raised cosine filter
197.

The method using which the error propagation in dubinary signalling can be avoided is

A. filtering
B. precoding
C. postcoding
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. postcoding
198.

In precoding technique, the binary sequence is            with the previous precoded bit.

A. and-ed
B. or-ed
C. exor-ed
D. added
Answer» D. added
199.

In duobinary signalling method, for M-ary transmission, the number of output obtained is

A. 2m
B. 2m+1
C. 2m-1
D. m2
Answer» D. m2
200.

Which of the following is true for a Gaussian filter?

A. large bandwidth
B. minimum isi
C. high overshoot
D. sharp cut off
Answer» E.