KALASALINGAM UNIVERSITY

(Kalasalingam Acedemy of Research and Education)

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
ECE305 - Digital Communication QUIZ
1. What form of modulation is shown here?

a. Phase shift keying.
b. Amplitude shift keying.
c. Frequency shift keying.
2. The modulation scheme is an example of _____________________.
a. Phase Shift Keying c. Frequency Shift Keying
b. Amplitude Shift Keying d. Continuous-Phase Frequency Shift Keying
3. ____________________ is a technique which transforms an analogue telephone circuit into a digital
signal, and involves three consecutive processes: sampling, quantization and encoding.
a. Frequency Modulation (FM) c. Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)
b. Amplitude Modulation (AM) d. Phase Modulation (PM)
4. The figure below shows an example of a modulation system used in digital communication.
What is that modulation system?
a. PCM Modulation. C. Delta Modulation.
b. Sigma Modulation. D . Differential Modulation.
5. Error signals associated with the sampling process are called
a. Foldover distortion c. Aliasing
b. Nyquist rate d. Foldover distortion and aliasing
6. The phase shift of QPSK when symbol change occurs
a. 2 b. c. /2 d. 3/2
7. Which of the following gives minimum probability error?
a. ASK b. FSK c. PSK d.DPSK
8. The impulse response of a matched filter to a data pulse tg(t) with 0 t T is
a.

(t) b. g

(t) c. g

(t T) d. g

(T t)
9. Which of the following gives maximum probability error?
a. ASK b. FSK c. PSK d. DPSK
10. The BER of BPSK is

11. The maximum length of a PN sequence that can be generated using a 4-stage shift register is
4
8
16 d. 15
12. A DSSS system transmitting a binary data at the rate of 10kilobits/sec has PN sequence
generators with 5 shift register stages and clock frequency of 1MHz. The processing gain of
the system is -------------
41dB
30 dB
20dB
50dB
13. The autocorrelation of the output of a PN sequence generator is
Random
Deterministic and periodic
Deterministic and nonperiodic
None of these
14. The acoustic channel is used for which of the following?
UHF communications
single-sideband communication
television communications
person-to-person voice communications
15. Digital signals
do not provide a continuous set of values
represent values as discrete steps
can utilize decimal or binary systems
all of the above
16. The Shannon-Hartley law
refers to distortion
defines bandwidth
describes signaling rates
refers to noise
17. The code which provides for parity checks is
Baudot
ASCII
EBCDIC
CCITT-2
18. Broadband long-distance communications were made possible by the advent
telegraph cables
repeater amplifiers
Geostationary satellites
19. Time-division multiplex
can be used with PCM only
combines five groups into a supergroup
stacks 24 channels in adjacent frequency slots
interleaves pulses belonging to different transmissions
20. The number of repeaters along a coaxial cable link depends on
whether separate tubes are used for the two directions of transmission
the bandwidth of the system
the number of coaxial cables in the tube
the separation of the equalizers
21. In order to separate channels in a TDM receiver, it is necessary to use
AND gates
bandpass filters
Differentiation
integration
22. Pulse-width modulation system used for telegraphy is
by differentiating pulse-position modulation
with a monostable
by integrating the signal
with a free-running multivibrator
23. Quantizing noise occurs in
time-division multiplex frequency division multiplex
pulse-code modulation pulse-width modulation
24. In order to reduce quantizing noise, one must
increase the number of standard amplitudes
send pulses whose sides are more nearly vertical
use an RF amplifier in the receiver
increase the number of samples per second
25. Companding is used
to overcome quantizing noise in PCM
in PCM transmitters, to allow amplitude limited in the rece ivers
to protect small signals in PCM from quantizing distortion
in PCM receivers, to overcome impulse noise
26. The aperture effect in flat top pulses is reduced by using an ---------------
27. The sampling rate (fs) of value 2w samples per second for a signal bandwidth of w.Hz is
often referred to as ------------------
28. Which of the following method is employed in telephony?
Time division multiplexing
Frequency division multiplexing
Both a & b
Only a
29. True /False
A Jammer is an interference signal which abstracts the signal transmission to the receiver
The extent of maximum eye opening in the vertical direction indicates Noise margin