BIRD EXAM QUESTIONS

MATHEMATICS:
1. What type of equation is this? (hyperbolic, asymptotic, parabolic,
elliptic)
2 2
+
+
2 2
2. What type of equation is this? (hyperbolic, asymptotic, parabolic,
elliptic)
2

2
+6
+5 2
2

3. What type of equation is this? (cauchy, laplace, heat, wave
equation) note: laplace here refers to laplacian identity which is 2 .
4. If the cardinality of this series is n. Then what is the cardinality
of its power series?
5. In normal distribution, mean is equal to zero then what is the
value of its variance? Answer: 0.5 because it can only deviate by
half on both sides for a total of 1 which is the total area under the
curve.
6. Fourier series with given period (3 to 4 questions). T=period
2
=

cos
()
0

2
=

sin
()
0

7. Find the area of the given figure? Given the area of the shaded
region. Not the exact figure.

8. Imaginary numbers (3 to 4 questions)

ex. (1 + )1+
9. Power series. If the function f(x) =

X1
X+4

and f1=f(x) what is the

value of f(x)1022 if x=5. (example only)(not less than 4 questions)

10. Given two functions A and B and if they are not equal then it
exhibits? (disjunction, conjunction, surjection(onto), injection(oneon-one))
11. Find the area of the rectangle given only three points. ans.24
12. Find the missing point to complete the rectangle in #11?
13. Infinite geometric series
14. What is the order of the equation? Given is an ordinary
equation not a differential equation.

15. What type of differential equation it represents (two questions)

16. Names of vectors and matrices properties
17. Boolean Algebra. ans.xy+z
18. Find the angle between two vectors
=
19. Find the projection of A on B

=
Where: b is the unit vector of B
b=

B1i+B2j+B3k

20. Gradient () Divergence(V) and Curl(xV)

ELECTRONICS:
1. TTL, CMOS, Logic gates (reference digital electronics by tocci)
2. Half-wave and full-wave with highly inductive load. The firing
angle is 45.
3. RC circuit. Find the time constant no given?
4. Which is the first intel microprocessor with cache memory?
5. Find the determinant of the matrix (2x2)
6. Given two equations of current two unknowns what is the value
of A1 (ans.0.5A there is no negative current)
7. What do you call the potential when ionizing the sides of the
depletion region? (magulo yung question talaga) choices: barrier
voltage, forward bias,...)
8. What do you call the gate in the figure?

9. The primary source of torque in motors ans. prime mover

10. Which is the most popular bias? (emitter, base, collector,
voltage divider) (VD kapag most stable)

11. What type of amplifier gives exactly 50% efficient?

choices: A, B, AB1, C
12. Microcomputer/minicomputer?
13. Use to convert electrical to visible light ans.LED
14. Find the rise time and delay time. tr=10% to 90% and td=0 to
10%
15. Load regulation
16. Zener diode
=

1 +

17. Clamper
18. During cutoff the BE is in _______ and CB is in _______?
ans. RB
19. CascodE (Collector of Q1 connected to Emitter of Q2)
20. Gain at certain frequency
=

2
1+(
)

21. The low frequency response of a direct coupled the lower cut-off
is? ans. 0Hz (because there is no controlling element aside from
parasitic capacitances which controls the upper cutoff)

22. Miller capacitance present only if there is feedback

23. = 20

24. Voltage subractor. If R1=10k and R2=100k. V1=___ and

V2=____. What is the value of Vin? (hirap)
25. Calculate the resonant frequency of the tuned circuit (colpitts,
clap, hatley, armstrong, pierce)
26. What is a twin-t oscillator?
ans. bandstop or a notch (low pass followed by high pass)
27. Voltage variable capacitance is also known as?
ans. varactor
28. A circuit to protect the power supply?
ans. fuse (crowbar is to protect sensitive load from overvoltage)
29. SCS is like a SCR with?
ans. two gates
30. Emitter firing potential (UJT/PUT)
ans. Vp=VBB+0.7
31. Which is smaller? Valley or latching?

GENERAL ENGINEERING AND APPLIES SCIENCES:

1. What is the minimum angle that will keep the two sticks from
sliding assuming that the other stick is infinitely long and has a
coefficient of friction of 0.2?

2. If the coefficient of friction is 0.2 between the table and the block.
Describe the motion.

ans. acceleration decreases because tension

increases.
3. What is the maximum force that can be applied without m
slipping given __.

4. What will be the sum of your money in five years if every year you
deposited 15,000 at 5% compounded continuously?
ans. =

4
0.05
0 15,000

= 83,095.19

5. RA 9292 (8 articles, Section 4(practice), Section 5(sundry))

6. Compute the torque?

7. A swimmer in the boat jump and gain a velocity of 20m/s. find

the speed of the boat
8. A stone is thrown vertically upward from a cliff and at h below
the point of release it attains twice its initial velocity. What is the
maximum height it attains with respect to the point of release?
9. Three posts are spaced 360m apart. If it takes 10sec to travel
from the 1st to 2nd post and 6sec from 2nd to 3rd. If the car is initially
at rest and accelerated uniformly. from how far from the first post it
started?
10. If ice cube melts in a glass of water then the volume will_______.
ans. not change (the density of ice is less so when it melts the
volume decreases which is compensated by the additional volume it
contain during the process)
11. A car from rest and a car with constant velocity. How much
time is needed for the car initially at rest to overtake the car with

constant velocity? (in terms of variables yung pinakamaiksi yung

sagot)
12. An object fall from a certain height and falls to water. At the
time it falls to the water it continue to fall to the bottom at
contstant speed for 10sec. find the average velocity?
13. What is the resultant force and at what point from A

ans.90KN down, 3.33m from A

14. If a block is supported at both ends then the resultant force is
at?
ans.wl/2
15. A cable is supported uniformly 5m at the lower part and 10m
from the higher part and can lift a weight of____. What is the
equivalent force if it made to be uniformly distributed?
15. radio control law RA 3846 (two questions)
16. PD 1080 PD1081 _____ ______?
17. Period of geosynchronous satellite?

18. What type of acid is lacking one octet?

ans. Lewis acid
19. Which of the statements are true? nucleus is_____?
ans. made of neutrons and protons that comprises the major
percentage of its volume
20. Uncertainty principle
21. Equal sharing of electrons
ans. non-polar covalent
22. Conversion of e to coulombs
23. What is the intensity of the electric field at the point (x,y,z)
24. Find the resultant A+B given the F1 at 60 north of east and F2
60 south of east.
25. Which is not a vector quantity
ans. mass
25. Electric Bill in one year
ex. The cost of electricity is Php 2/KWhr if you use it for 8hrs a day
in one year. what will be your bill?
26. If you lend a friend ____pesos compounded weekly then after a
year you money becomes? (use 52weeks in a year)
27. The ratio of the velocity of an object to the velocity of air is?

ans. mach number

28. Speed of sound in gas
29. Length contraction
30. Decay (kakaibang definition)
choices: alpha, beta, gamma
31. Translational equilibrium
32. Maximum value of static friction is?
ans. starting friction
33. Summation of forces (dalembert ata)
34. Rectilinear motion( answer in terms of variables)
35. If a fire retarding mixture is to be drop to the burning forest
from the helicopter which moves 200m/s horizontally. From what
distance from the burning forest it needs to be drop to hit it
exactly?
36. =

2
202 ( )2

37. Moment of inertia cylinder

38. Thin walled cylinder
39. Find the modulus of elasticity (two questions)

=
= 4

40. Find the poisons ratio? (D=diameter)

=
=

41. a rod is placed between two walls. Find the stress (thermal
stress particularly)
42. =

43. Find the diameter, given the torsion and the angle of twist per
meter (mahirap answer should not be based on torsion)
44. Helical Spring (direct substitution)
45. Bernoulli
1 2
=
1 2
46. Which is correct cp is ______ than cv?
ans. greater
47. Find the change in entropy at constant pressure? (not the usual
entropy)

48. What is the mass of air inside the room with dimensions of
4cmx5cmx6cm
ans. 0.000168kg ( I use dair=1.4kg/m3)
49. Kelvin-Planck statement
50. Claussius statement
51. Gas laws
52. Transmittance
53. Thermosetting/thermoplastic
54. Vickers hardness test
(BVaRaKo)(Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell, Knoops)
55. Find the number of products needed to break-even (walang cost
per product)
56. The process of paying equal sum of money to lessen a debt or to
own something?
ans. amortization (may annuity pero di iyon)
57. Imaginary fund invested yearly?
ans. sinking fund
58. Double declining balance method (mode 3-6)

59. You wanted to buy a car which costs 1million pesos. You
decided to deposit equal sum of money for five years. The bank
interest rate suddenly increased. What will happen to the sum of
money you will deposit_____?
ans. remains the same ( the interest rate increases but there is also
inflation which neutralizes the effect of the increase)
60. Compulsory interconnection of authorized telecommunications
carriers?
ans. PD 59

ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

1. What will you do to vitiate the RX? (vitiate is to make it faulty)
choices: A.____
xB.make your RX less noisy
xC. Increase the transmit power
D.______
2. What do you call the property of transmission line comparable to
its wavelength? (characteristics constant, impedance constants,
distributed constants, lump constants)
3. Shannon limit of information capacity (madami)
4. Hartley limit for info (relationship of info to BW)
5. Angle between earth station and antenna to satellite
ans. Angle of elevation
6. What is the first Fresnel zone radius if an obstruction of 35ft at
5mi from an antenna and the distance between the antennas is
20mi which transmits at 2.4GHz?
ans. 1 = 72.1

12
(1+2)

= 90.125

7. If an obstruction of 35ft located at 5mi from one of the antenna

with Fresnel radius of 90.125ft. what is the minimum height of the
antenna?

ans. (0.6F1+35ft=89.075ft kapag wala sa choices F1+35ft=125.125ft

ito nasa choices)
8. What is the characteristic impedance of air?
ans.377
9. If an information is 100kbps and its BW=10khz. What is the S/N
in dB?
ans. 13dB
10. If a power of 100 watts is radiated what is the required gain if
the input power is only 50 watts?
ans.20
11. Find the modulation index. If the unmodulated power is 1000
watts and the modulated power is 1200watts?
ans. = +

2
2

(m=63.25%)

12. a spread spectrum with wide bandwith...

ans. DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread spectrum) pag wide BW matic
na DSSS
13. Pseudorandom noise (PSN)
ans. Chip Code (one bit time for PSN code)
14. Stablishes communications between TX/RX?
ans. handshaking

15. Which is the odd one? (fiber, wireless, satellite, laser)

16. How to digitize?
ans. convert to PAM and then to PCM
17. In order to transmit a digital data it needs to be converted to
analog first before it can be propagated. What do you call this
digital to digital process? (digital to digital talaga nakalagay baka
typo)
18. If BW is_____ and the highest frequency is _____ then what is
the lowest frequency?
=

+
2

19. The three important parameters of a TX/RX?

ans. sensitivity, selectivity, and stability
20. What is the best type of resistor is to be used in a stereo voice....
ans. stereo taper
21. The process of modifying some characteristic of the carrier
ans. modulation
22. a minimum rate of twice the highest frequency but not
necessary twice is called?
ans. nyquist criterion

23. What is the maximum number of symbols that can be achieved

using EBCIDIC?
ans. 256 (2^8bits)
24. An open transmission line has maximum voltage at the end.
Maximum voltage happens every?
ans. /2
25. Maximum values of voltage happens at what part of an dipole
antenna?
ans. both ends (dipole is half wave length0
26. It is the measure of how good a transmission line
ans. SWR
27. Gain of a parabolic antenna (computation)
28. Compute the combine gain of an antenna given the losses
distance fade margin. (compute the path loss first then add
paglaruan lang yung signs at masasagot din ito)
29. If the electric field is parallel to the ground then it is ____
polarized?
ans. horizontally
30. Radio horizon is longer than visible horizon because?
ans. radio waves tend to move towards the surface of the earth

31. What is the purpose of an unmodulated carrier in a digital TV/

FM stereo?
32. Crystal equivalent circuit?
ans. both series and parallel
33. What do you call the device that establishes connection between
LANs with common protocol
ans. bridge (choices bridge, router, gateway, switch)
34. According to the Barkhaussen criterion it need a gain of?
ans. 1 at 180
35. What do you call the change in frequency from the center
frequency?
ans. frequency deviation
36. Which of the following gives a BW of more than twice the
information? (NBWFM, WBWFM, Bessel, carsons)
37. Half wave antenna are placed parallel with each other. What will
happen to the impedance?
ans. decrease
38. The output power of antennas are all the same. What is the
reason why some antenna beams are directed in one direction?
39. What protocol uses SOH and SOT

40. Given a CKT what value of L/c will give the first overtone of
____Hz?
41.Which layer of the ionosphere is divided into two at daytime and
combines at night?
ans. F
42. Allocation of the radio spectrum is handled by?
ans. FCC
43. A fiber core has greater index compare to its cladding. If light
passes near the separation, what will happen to the beam of light?
44. A satellite is used for .... and is located at one of the focus of an
ellipse. The highest point of the satellite is called?
ans. apogee
45. What do you call the interference made by a Tx/Rx if they uses
the same frequency?
ans. co-channel
46. What do you call the wired service with video and audio?
ans. cable TV (CCTV video only)
47. What is the maximum channel capacity if B is bandwidth?
ans.2B
48. ... 0 is also called?

ans. space
49. How many bits are needed to encode 16 levels?
ans. 4
50. What do you call the property of a device with different
manufacturer but can be connected easily?
ans. interoperability
51. If BER is 1 out of ______. What is the probability taht no error in
receiving 1000 bits?
ans. 99.99%
52. What happens to BER if S/N is increased?
ans. decreased
53. An error correction and detection scheme?
ans FEC
54. Transmitting info without modulation?
ans. baseband
55. Today there is an increasing demand in fiber. What is the main
cause of not using a multimode cable in long distance
communications?
ans. Nodal dispersion (ayan yung nasa choices)

56. The three popular operating window of fiber are 850nm,

1310nm, and 1550nm. 850nm is _____ loss compare to 1350nm?
ans. less (1310 is the most popular)
57. Most common RADAR readout?
ans. PPI (plan position indicator)
58. Transmission in which part of one unnecessary sideband is
clipped off?
ans. vestigial SB