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In amplitude modulation, the modulation envelope has a peak value which is double the unmodulated carrier value. What is the value of the modulation index? Answer: D

A) 25%

B) C) D)

50 % 75% 100% Report Question

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= 100 % 2 The original spectrum of a message contains 100 Hz, 200 Hz frequency components. It is amplitude modulated by a carrier of 0.9 kHz. Which frequency components are contained in the amplitude modulated signal spectrum? Answer: C A) 900, 1000 and 1100 Hz

B)

700, 800 and 900 Hz

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C) D)

700, 800, 900, 1000 and 1100 Hz 100, 200 and 900 Hz Report Question

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3 The autocorrelation function of white noise is Answer: A A) B) C) D) a delta function a constant Gaussian exp( )with usual notation Report Question Answer Explanation :

The minimum sampling frequency (in samples/sec) required to reconstruct the following signal from its samples without distortion

would be Answer: C A) 2 x 103

B)

4 x 103

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C) D)

6 x 103 8 x 103 Report Question

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5 Which of the following pulse modulation is analog? Answer: C A) B) C) D) PCM Differential PCM PWM Delta Report Question Answer Explanation : PCM ,DPCM delta modulation are signal modulations .Only PWM is analog modulation technique . 6 In a certain 12 channel TDM system it is found that channel No. 3 and channel No. 8 are connected to the same input signal. The technique Answer: B A) B) C) D) wastes the channel capacity takes care of different sampling rates Is required when different bandwidth signals are to be transmitted reduces noise Report Question

Answer Explanation : It is done at different sampling rates . 7 Bits of duration Tb are to be transmitted using a BPSK modulation with a carrier of frequency fc Hz. The power spectral density of the transmitted signal has the first null at the normalized frequency . Answer: C
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A) B) C) D)

|f-fc |Tb =0 |f-fc |Tb =1 |f-fc |Tb =2 |f-fc |Tb =4 Report Question

8 A telephone channel has bandwidth B of 3kHz and SNR (S/ B) of 30dB . It is connected to a teletype machine having 32 different symbols. the symbol rate required for errorless transmission is nearly Answer: D A) 1800 symbols/sec B) C) D) 3000symbols/sec 5000symbols/sec 6000symbols/sec Report Question Answer Explanation : B log( 1 + SNR ) = 30 kbps per symbol ----> 6 k symbols /sec ( 5 bits ---> symbol ) 9 The intermediate frequency of a super- heterodyne receiver is 450 KHz . If it is turned to 1200 KHz , the image frequency will be Answer: D A) 750 KHz B) 900 KHz C) D) 1600 KHz 2100 KHz Report Question Answer Explanation : IF = 450 KHz = [ 1200 + 2 ( 450 ) ] KHz = 2100 KHz 10 Match List-I section with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:L
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List-I A. IF amplifier B. Mixer C. Detector D. Automatic gain control

List-II 1. Demodulator 2. Narrow band tuned amplifier 3. Variable gain amplifier 4. Frequency conversion Answer: D

A) A-1 B-4 C-2 D-3

B) C) A- 1

A- 2

B-3

C- 1

D-4

B- 3

C-2

D-4

D)

A-2

B- 4

C-1

D-3 Report Question

Answer Explanation : A. IF amplifier B. Mixer C. Detector D. Automatic gain control 11 Narrow band tuned amplifier Frequency conversion Demodulator Variable gain amplifier , (where is the carrier power) is

In an AM signal when the modulation index is one, the maximum power equal to

Answer: B A)

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B) C) D)

1.5 2 2.5 Report Question Answer Explanation :

12 A DSB-SC signal is generated using the carrier signal envelope detector output of this DSB-SC signal ? and modulating signal m(t). What is the Answer: B A) m(t) cos

B)

|m (t)|

C) D)

m(t) tan m(t) sin Report Question

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13 A carrier voltage ls simultaneously amplitude modulated by two sine waves causing modulation indices of 0.1 and 0.3. The overall rms value of modulation index is Answer: B A) 0.10 B) C) D) 0.35 0.50 0.70 Report Question

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Answer Explanation :

Overall rms value of modulation index= =

= =3.464x0.1 =0.35 14 Consider the following statements : P. In FM the band width varies with carrier amplitude . Q. In FM , the number of side bands having significant amplitudes varies with carrier amplitude . R. In AM , the number of side bands depends on message spectrum . S. In AM , the band width varies with carrier amplitude Of these statements Answer: B A) P & Q are correct B) C) D) only R is correct P, Q & R are correct P, Q , R & S are correct Report Question Answer Explanation : Only statement 'R' is correct 15 A carrier wave of frequency 100 MHz is frequency modulated by a sinusoidal signal of amplitude of 20 V and frequency 100 KHz . The band width of the FM signal is 1.2 MHz. The frequency sensitivity of the modulator is Answer: C A) 10 KHz / Volt B) C) D) 15 KHz / volt 25 KHz/ Volt 30 KHz/ Volt Report Question
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Answer Explanation : Bandwidth = 1.2 MHz

16 The bandwidth of a N bit binary coded PCM signal for modulating a signal having bandwidth of f Hz is Answer: C A) B) C) D) Nf Hz

Report Question Answer Explanation : If is the samplily rate of signal ,

then the bandwidth is given by

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Assertion (A): AM stereo broadcasting uses quadrature carrier multiplexing (QAM). Reason (R): QAM involves more stringent synchronization than an FDM system with SSB subcarrier modulation. Answer: B

A) Both A and R are true R is the correct explanation of A

B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

C)
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A is true but R is false

D)

A is false but R is true Report Question

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Assertion (A): Slope overload is a problem D.P.C.M. Reason (R): D.P.C.M. makes use of adjacent sample correlations. Answer: D

A) B)

Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

C) D)

A is true but R is false A is false but R is true Report Question

Answer Explanation : Slope overload is not an issue in DPCM. 19 A speech signal occupying the band width of 300 Hz to 3 kHz is converted into PCM format for use in digital communication. If the sampling frequency is 8 kHz and each sample is quantized into 256 levels, than the output bit rate will be Answer: C A) 3 kb/s B) C) D) 8 kb/s 64 kb/s 256 kb/s Report Question Answer Explanation :
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20 The bit stream 01001 is differentially encoded using Delay and Ex OR scheme for DPSK transmission. Assuming the reference bit as a 1 and assigning phases of 0 and for 1s and 0s respectively, in the encoded sequence, the transmitted phase sequence becomes Answer: D A) B) C) D) Report Question Answer Explanation :

21 In a digital communication system employing Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) , the 0 and 1 bit are represented by sine waves of 10 KHz and 25 KHz respectively . These waveforms will be orthogonal for a bit interval of Answer: B A) 45 sec B) C) D) 200 sec 50 sec 250 sec Report Question Answer Explanation : In FSK modulation , should be integer multiples of Among the options , only option (B) , i.e , 10 K , 25 K are integer multiples of 5K 22 Consider a matched filter with input signal = 0 otherwise The output of the filter is Answer: D
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A) B) C) D)

cosh t sinh t Report Question

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Matched filters impulse response

O/P matched filter = S(t) * S ( T - t) = 23 Assertion (A): Coherent FSK system is preferred over non-coherent FSK. Reason (R): Coherent FSK requires less power than non-coherent FSK. Answer: C A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

B)
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Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

C) A is true but R is false

D)

A is false but R is true Report Question

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Coherent FSK :

Non - coherent Fsk : Where , is bit energy is number of variance (ANGN) 24 For a given data rate, the bandwidth related as A) B) C) D) Report Question Answer Explanation : OOK = ON-OF-Keying (ASK) 25 A source has two symbols with probabilities and respectively. If a new source , with four symbols is generated from the above source, then the new symbol probabilities will be ( is a number such that 0 < < 1) Answer: C A) , , , B) , , ,
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of the OOK signal are Answer: C

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C) D) Report Question Answer Explanation : The probabilities are , 26 If H(x) is the entropy of a source code, what is the nth order extension of a discrete memory-less source Answer: D A) B) C) D) nH(x) Report Question Answer Explanation : N times the entropy of X Common Data for Q27 and Q28 is given below Let X be the Gaussian random variable obtainedby sampling the process

Att= t1 and let Q(a)= Autocorrelation function Rxx and mean =0

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The probability that [x 1] is Answer: D

A) 1-Q (0.5)

B) C)

Q (0.5)

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D) Report Question Answer Explanation : Given density is standard Gaussian ,

Given that , = 4 (1 + 1 ) = 8

28 Let Y and Z be the random variables obtained by sampling X(t)at t = 2 and t = 4 respectively. Let W = Y-Z. The variance of W is Answer: C A) 13.36 B) 9.36 C) D) 2.64 8.00 Report Question Answer Explanation : Since the process is zero mean random process , Variance = Mean square value ,

Data for Linked answer Q29 and Q30 is given below 29 Consider a Gaussian channel with a bandwidth of 1 MHz and a S/N ratio of 30 dB. The channel capacity is Answer: D A) 6.97 Mbps B) 7.97 Mbps C) D) 8.97 Mbps 9.97 Mbps Report Question
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Answer Explanation : BW = 1 MHz S / N = 30 dB =

= 9.97 Mbps 30 Assume that one million ASCII characters are transmitted over the channel . Each character is coded as 8-bit binary word . The time taken to transmit the above character is Answer: C A) 0.734 sec B) C) D) 7.87 sec 0.8026 sec 0.785 sec Report Question

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