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				This section includes 152 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. | Due to transmission scheme bits are needed for overhead in FDMA systems. | 
| A. | continuous, few | 
| B. | discontinuous, few | 
| C. | continuous, many | 
| D. | discontinuous, many | 
| Answer» B. discontinuous, few | |
| 2. | Performance of BFSK signal is than BPSK. | 
| A. | 3db worse | 
| B. | 3db better | 
| C. | 6db worse | 
| D. | 6db better | 
| Answer» B. 3db better | |
| 3. | Power spectrum describes distribution of under frequency domain. | 
| A. | mean | 
| B. | variance | 
| C. | gaussian | 
| D. | none of the mentioned | 
| Answer» C. gaussian | |
| 4. | symbols. | 
| A. | 2m | 
| B. | m | 
| C. | 2m | 
| D. | 2m-1 | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. | In Binary Phase Shift Keying system, the binary symbols 1 and 0 arerepresented by carrier with phase shift of | 
| A. | Π/2 | 
| B. | Π | 
| C. | 2Π | 
| Answer» C. 2Π | |
| 6. | The non coherent FSK needs Eb/N0 than coherent FSK. | 
| A. | 1db more | 
| B. | 1db less | 
| C. | 3db more | 
| D. | 3db less | 
| Answer» B. 1db less | |
| 7. | Autocorrelation is maximum at | 
| A. | unity | 
| B. | origin | 
| C. | infinite point | 
| D. | none of the mentioned | 
| Answer» C. infinite point | |
| 8. | In Random Variable we have | 
| A. | sample space | 
| B. | sample points | 
| C. | sample space & sample points | 
| D. | none of above | 
| Answer» D. none of above | |
| 9. | In On-Off keying, the carrier signal is transmitted with signal value‘1’ and ‘0’ indicates | 
| A. | no carrier | 
| B. | half the carrier amplitude | 
| C. | amplitude of modulating signal | 
| D. | none of the above | 
| Answer» B. half the carrier amplitude | |
| 10. | The digital modulation technique in which the step size is varied according to the variation in the slope of the input is called | 
| A. | delta modulation | 
| B. | pcm | 
| C. | adaptive delta modulation | 
| D. | pam | 
| Answer» D. pam | |
| 11. | The time interval over which the received signal may be sampledwithout error may be explained by | 
| A. | width of eye opening of eye pattern | 
| B. | rate of closure of eye of eye pattern | 
| C. | height of the eye opening of eye pattern | 
| D. | all of the above | 
| Answer» B. rate of closure of eye of eye pattern | |
| 12. | In the frequency of the carrier signal is varied based on the information in an a digital signal | 
| A. | ask | 
| B. | psk | 
| C. | fsk | 
| D. | qam | 
| Answer» D. qam | |
| 13. | Zero forced equalizers are used for | 
| A. | reducing isi to zero | 
| B. | sampling | 
| C. | quantization | 
| D. | none of the abov | 
| Answer» B. sampling | |
| 14. | Nyquist Rate is given by | 
| A. | 2w | 
| B. | 2fmin | 
| Answer» B. 2fmin | |
| 15. | In FH-SS which of the following Modulation Demodulation Technique has been used | 
| A. | bpsk | 
| B. | fsk | 
| C. | ask | 
| D. | qam | 
| Answer» C. ask | |
| 16. | What is the set of possible carrier frequencies in FH-SS? | 
| A. | hopset | 
| B. | hop | 
| C. | chips | 
| D. | symbols | 
| Answer» B. hop | |
| 17. | The number of bits of data transmitted per second is called | 
| A. | data signaling rate | 
| B. | modulation rate | 
| C. | coding | 
| D. | none of the above | 
| Answer» B. modulation rate | |
| 18. | White noise has power spectral density. | 
| A. | constant | 
| B. | variable | 
| C. | constant & variable | 
| D. | none of the mentioned | 
| Answer» B. variable | |
| 19. | The bandwidth of the channel used in the hopset is called | 
| A. | hopping bandwidth | 
| B. | total hopping bandwidth | 
| C. | instantaneous bandwidth | 
| D. | 3 db bandwidth | 
| Answer» D. 3 db bandwidth | |
| 20. | The advantage of using Manchester format of coding is | 
| A. | power saving | 
| B. | polarity sense at the receiver | 
| C. | noise immunity | 
| D. | none of the above | 
| Answer» B. polarity sense at the receiver | |
| 21. | In Differential Pulse Code Modulation techniques, the decoding is performed by | 
| A. | accumulator | 
| B. | sampler | 
| C. | pll | 
| D. | quantizer | 
| Answer» B. sampler | |
| 22. | In modulation , the bit rate is 8 times the baud rate | 
| A. | 8-qam | 
| B. | 64-qam | 
| C. | 256-qam | 
| D. | none of above | 
| Answer» D. none of above | |
| 23. | Eye pattern is | 
| A. | is used to study isi | 
| B. | may be seen on cro | 
| C. | resembles the shape of human eye | 
| D. | all of the above | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. | One of the disadvantages of PCM is | 
| A. | it requires large bandwidth | 
| B. | very high noise | 
| C. | cannot be decoded easily | 
| D. | all of the above | 
| Answer» B. very high noise | |
| 25. | Frequency division multiple access (FDMA) assigns channels to users. | 
| A. | individual, individual | 
| B. | many, individual | 
| C. | individual, many | 
| D. | many, many | 
| Answer» B. many, individual | |
| 26. | The maximum bandwidth is occupied by | 
| A. | ask | 
| B. | bpsk | 
| C. | fsk | 
| D. | none of the above | 
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 27. | Random process is a function of | 
| A. | random event and time | 
| B. | random event and frequency | 
| C. | random event and real number | 
| D. | none of the mentioned | 
| Answer» B. random event and frequency | |
| 28. | The process of coding multiplexer output into electrical pulses orwaveforms for transmission is called | 
| A. | line coding | 
| B. | amplitude modulation | 
| C. | fsk | 
| D. | filtering | 
| Answer» B. amplitude modulation | |
| 29. | The modulation techniques used to convert analog signal into digitalsignal are | 
| A. | pulse code modulation | 
| B. | delta modulation | 
| C. | adaptive delta modulation | 
| D. | all of the above | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. | The probability of error of DPSK is ______________ than that ofBPSK. | 
| A. | higher | 
| B. | lower | 
| C. | same | 
| D. | not predictable | 
| Answer» B. lower | |
| 31. | Pseudorandom signal predicted. | 
| A. | can be | 
| B. | cannot be | 
| C. | maybe | 
| D. | none of the mentioned | 
| Answer» B. cannot be | |
| 32. | ISI may be removed by using | 
| A. | differential coding | 
| B. | manchester coding | 
| C. | polar nrz | 
| D. | none of the above | 
| Answer» B. manchester coding | |
| 33. | QPSK system uses a phase shift of | 
| A. | Π | 
| B. | Π/2 | 
| C. | Π/4 | 
| D. | 2Π | 
| Answer» C. Π/4 | |
| 34. | For a noise to be white Gaussian noise, the optimum filter is known as | 
| A. | low pass filter | 
| B. | base band filter | 
| C. | matched filter | 
| D. | bessel filter | 
| Answer» D. bessel filter | |
| 35. | Advantages of using AMI | 
| A. | needs least power as due to opposite polarity | 
| B. | prevents build-up of dc | 
| C. | may be used for longer distance | 
| D. | all of the above | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. | In DS-SS which of the following Modulation Demodulation Technique has been used | 
| A. | bpsk | 
| B. | fsk | 
| C. | ask | 
| D. | qam | 
| Answer» B. fsk | |
| 37. | Impulse noise is caused due to | 
| A. | switching transients | 
| B. | lightening strikes | 
| C. | power line load switching | 
| D. | all of the above | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. | The BPSK signal has +V volts and -V volts respectively to represent | 
| A. | 1 and 0 logic levels | 
| B. | 11 and 00 logic levels | 
| C. | 10 and 01 logic levels | 
| D. | 00 and 11 logic levels | 
| Answer» B. 11 and 00 logic levels | |
| 39. | The noise that affects PCM | 
| A. | transmission noise | 
| B. | quantizing noise | 
| C. | transit noise | 
| D. | both a and b are correct | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. | Which of the following technique used in CDMA | 
| A. | qam | 
| B. | gmsk | 
| C. | ds-ss bpsk | 
| D. | fh-ss fsk | 
| Answer» D. fh-ss fsk | |
| 41. | The digital modulation technique in which the step size is variedaccording to the variation in the slope of the input is called | 
| A. | delta modulation | 
| B. | pcm | 
| C. | adaptive delta modulation | 
| D. | pam | 
| Answer» D. pam | |
| 42. | The sequence of operations in which PCM is done is | 
| A. | sampling, quantizing, encoding | 
| B. | quantizing, encoding, sampling | 
| C. | quantizing, sampling, encoding | 
| D. | none of the above | 
| Answer» B. quantizing, encoding, sampling | |
| 43. | The FDMA channel carries phone circuit at a time. | 
| A. | ten | 
| B. | two | 
| C. | one | 
| D. | several | 
| Answer» D. several | |
| 44. | PN sequence can be generated using . | 
| A. | sequential logic circuits | 
| B. | op-amp | 
| C. | timer ic | 
| D. | mosfet | 
| Answer» B. op-amp | |
| 45. | Minimum shift keying is similar to | 
| A. | continuous phase frequency shift keying | 
| B. | binary phase shift keying | 
| C. | binary frequency shift keying | 
| D. | qpsk | 
| Answer» B. binary phase shift keying | |
| 46. | The binary waveform used to generate BPSK signal is encoded in | 
| A. | bipolar nrz format | 
| B. | manchester coding | 
| C. | differential coding | 
| D. | none of the above | 
| Answer» B. manchester coding | |
| 47. | Impulse sampling is also called as | 
| A. | delta sampling | 
| B. | ideal sampling | 
| C. | natural sampling | 
| D. | both a & b | 
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. | The number of voice channels that can be accommodated for transmission in T1 carrier system is | 
| A. | 24 | 
| B. | 32 | 
| C. | 56 | 
| D. | 64 | 
| Answer» B. 32 | |
| 49. | In the amplitude of the carrier signal is varied based on the information in an a digital signal | 
| A. | ask | 
| B. | psk | 
| C. | fsk | 
| D. | qam | 
| Answer» B. psk | |
| 50. | Because of transmissions in TDMA, the handoff process in | 
| A. | continuous, complex | 
| B. | continuous, simple | 
| C. | discontinuous, complex | 
| D. | discontinuous, simple | 
| Answer» E. | |