1. Step by step instructions that run the computer D.

p-type
are________. 11. A series connected circuit consists of 3 loads and
A. hardware consume a total power of 50 Watts. It was reconfigured
B. CPU such that 2 are in parallel and the other load is in series
C. documents with the combination. What is the expected power to be
D. programs consumed then?
2. The valence electron of a copper atom experiences what A. 55 Watts
kind of attraction toward the nucleus? B. 50 Watts
A. None C. 45 watts
B. Weak D. 40 watts
C. Strong 12. In a silicon diode the reverse current is usually
D. Impossible to say A. Very small
3. Find the phase angle between the voltage across ant the B. Very large
current through the circuit when XC is 25 ohms, R is 100 C. Zero
ohms and XL is 50 ohms. D. In the breakdown region
A. 76 degrees with voltage leading the current 13. Which of the following has a negative-resistance region?
B. 14 degrees with the voltage lagging the current A. Tunnel diode
C. 14 degrees with the voltage leading the current B. Step-recovery diode
D. 76 degrees with the voltage lagging the current C. Schottky diode
4. A bus line consist of_______. D. Optocoupler
A. registers 14. The capacitance of a varactor diode increases when the
B. parallel data paths reverse voltage across it
C. accumulators A. Decreases
D. arithmetic operators B. Increases
5. At room temperature an intrinsic silicon crystal acts C. Breaks down
approximately like D. Stores charges
A. A battery 15. For normal operation of the transistor, the collector diode
B. A conductor has to be
C. An insulator A. Forward-biased
D. A piece of copper wire B. Reverse-biased
6. The speed of a _______motor is practically constant. C. Nonconducting
A. Cumulatively compounded D. Operating in the breakdown region
B. Series 16. If the current gain is 200 and the collector current is 100
C. Differentially compounded mA, the base current is
D. Shunt A. 0.5 mA
7. A simple method of increasing the voltage of a DC B. 2 mA
generator is ______ C. 2 A
A. Increase the length of the armature D. 20 A
B. Decrease the length of the armature 17. The expression AB + AB + AC + AC will be
C. Increase the speed of rotation A. 0
D. Decrease the speed of rotation B. A
8. The number of free electrons and holes in an intrinsic C. ABC
semiconductor increases when the temperature D. 1
A. Decreases 18. Suppose the base resistor is open. The Q point will be
B. Increases A. In the middle of the load line
C. Stays the same B. At the upper end of the load line
D. None of the above C. At the lower end of the load line
9. A donor atom has how many valence electrons? D. Off the load line
A. 1 19. Positive ions are atoms that have
B. 3 A. Gained protons
C. 4 B. Lost protons
D. 5 C. Gained electrons
10. Holes are the minority carriers in which type of D. Lost electrons
semiconductor? 20. What causes the depletion layer?
A. Extrinsic A. Doping
B. Intrinsic B. Recombination
C. n-type C. Barrier potential

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 D. Ions B. 2 percent
21. The power dissipated by a transistor approximately C. 3 percent
equals the collector current times D. 20 percent
A. Base-emitter voltage 32. A Darlington transistor has
B. Collector-emitter voltage A. A very low input impedance
C. Base supply voltage B. Three transistors
D. 0.7 V C. A very high current gain
22. A circuit with a fixed emitter current is called D. One VBE drop
A. Base bias 33. The ac load line of an emitter follower is usually
B. Emitter bias A. The same as the dc load line
C. Transistor bias B. More horizontal than the dc load line
D. Two-supply bias C. Steeper than the dc load line
23. If the emitter resistance decreases, the collector voltage D. Vertical
A. Decreases 34. The pinchoff voltage has the same magnitude as the
B. Stays the same A. Gate voltage
C. Increases B. Drain-source voltage
D. Breaks down the transistor C. Gate-source voltage
24. First step in analyzing emitter-based circuits is to find the D. Gate-source cutoff voltage
A. Base current 35. The transconductance increases when the drain current
B. Emitter voltage approaches
C. Emitter current A. 0
D. Collector current B. ID(sat)
25. Voltage Divider Biased is noted for its C. IDSS
A. Unstable collector voltage D. IS
B. Varying emitter current 36. When slew-rate distortion of a sine wave occurs, the
C. Large base current output
D. Stable Q point A. Is larger
26. If the collector resistance increases in a Voltage Divider B. Appears triangular
Biased circuit, the collector voltage will C. Is normal
A. Decrease D. Has no offset
B. Stay the same 37. The relation of the voltage across an inductor to its
C. Increase current is described as
D. Double A. leading the current by 90 degrees
27. A coupling capacitor is B. lagging the current by 90 degrees
A. A dc short C. leading the current by 180 degrees
B. An ac open D. in phase with the current
C. A dc open and an ac short 38. In an op-amp integrator, the current through the input
D. A dc short and an ac open resistor flows into the
28. For class B operation, the collector current flows A. Inverting input
A. The whole cycle B. Non-inverting input
B. Half the cycle C. Bypass capacitor
C. Less than half a cycle D. Feedback capacitor
D. Less than a quarter of a cycle 39. Which is the largest current in a pnp transistor?
29. The input signal of a class C amplifier A. Base current
A. Is negatively clamped at the base B. Emitter current
B. Is amplified and inverted C. Collector current
C. Produces brief pulses of collector current D. Anode current
D. All of the above 40. When the ac base voltage is too large, the ac emitter
30. For a Q point near the center of the dc load line, clipping current is
is more likely to occur on the A. Sinusoidal
A. Positive peak of input voltage B. Constant
B. Negative peak of output voltage C. Distorted
C. Positive peak of output voltage D. Alternating
D. Negative peak of emitter voltage 41. The output voltage of a common emitter amplifier is
31. If the load power is 3 mW and the dc power is 150 mW, A. Amplified
the efficiency is B. Inverted
A. 0 C. 180 degrees out of phase with the input
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 D. All of the above C. 40 dB
42. A cascode amplifier has the advantage of D. 60 dB
A. Large voltage gain 53. The stray-wiring capacitance has an effect on the
B. Low input capacitance A. Lower cutoff frequency
C. Low input impedance B. Midband voltage gain
D. Higher gm C. Upper cutoff frequency
43. If a JFET has IDSS = 10 mA and VP = 2 V, then RDS equals D. Input resistance
A. 200 ohm 54. Which of the following cannot be included in a loop of
B. 400 ohm Kirrchhoffs Voltage law
C. 1 kohm A. Resistance
D. 5 kohm B. Reactance
44. A source follower has a voltage gain of C. Current sources
A. gmrd D. Voltage sources
B. gmrs 55. A common-mode signal is applied to
C. gmrs / (l + gmrs) A. The noninverting input
D. gmrd / (l + gmrd) B. The inverting input
45. The voltage that turns on an EMOS device is the C. Both inputs
A. Gate-source cutoff voltage D. Top of the tail resistor
B. Pinchoff voltage 56. The input offset current is usually
C. Threshold voltage A. Less than the input bias current
D. Knee voltage B. Equal to zero
46. The minimum anode current that keeps a thyristor turned C. Less than the input offset voltage
on is called the D. Unimportant when a base resistor is used
A. Holding current 57. The common-mode rejection ratio is
B. Trigger current A. Very low
C. Breakover current B. Often expressed in decibels
D. Low-current drop out C. Equal to the voltage gain
47. A SCR is usually turned on by D. Equal to the common-mode voltage gain
A. Breakover 58. The input stage of an op amp is usually a
B. A gate trigger A. Differential amplifier
C. Breakdown B. Class B push-pull amplifier
D. Holding current C. Common Emitter amplifier
48. Any thyristor can be turned off with D. Swamped amplifier
A. Breakover 59. The node voltage at the top of the tail resistor of
B. Forward-bias triggering differential amplifier is closest to
C. Low-current drop out A. Collector supply voltage
D. Reverse-bias triggering B. Zero
49. Frequency response is a graph of voltage gain versus C. Emitter supply voltage
A. Frequency D. Tail current times base resistance
B. Power gain 60. The cutoff frequency of an op amp equals the unity-gain
C. Input voltage frequency divided by
D. Output voltage A. the cutoff frequency
50. A Schmitt trigger uses B. Closed-loop voltage gain
A. Positive feedback C. Unity
B. Negative feedback D. Common-mode voltage gain
C. Compensating capacitors 61. What is the law whereby the attraction or repulsion
D. Pullup resistors between two magnetic poles is directly proportional to
51. The difference between the charges in the conductor is their strength?
equal to the difference in potential. This voltage caused in A. Coulombs law
the moving magnetic field is called B. Newtons law
A. Electromagnetic force C. Coulombs first law
B. Induced voltage D. Nortons law
C. Electromotive force 62. The efficiency of a voltage regulator is high when
D. Counter-electromotive force A. Input power is low
52. If the voltage gain is 100, the decibel voltage gain is B. Output power is high
A. 6 dB C. Little power is wasted
B. 20 dB D. Input power is high
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63. The voltage follower has a A. At low frequencies
A. Closed-loop voltage gain of unity B. At high frequencies
B. Small open-loop voltage gain C. With LC tank circuits
C. Closed-loop bandwidth of zero D. At small input signals
D. Large closed-loop output impedance 75. The most widely used LC oscillator is the
64. The power bandwidth increases when A. Armstrong
A. Frequency decreases B. Clapp
B. Peak value decreases C. Colpitts
C. Initial slope decreases D. Hartley
D. Voltage gain increases 76. The pulse width out of a one-shot multivibrator increases
65. A summing amplifier can have when the
A. No more than two input signals A. Supply voltage increases
B. Two or more input signals B. Timing resistor decreases
C. A closed-loop input impedance of infinity C. UTP decreases
D. A small open-loop voltage gain D. Timing capacitance increases
66. In a current-to-voltage converter, the input current flows 77. Of the following, the one with the most stable frequency
A. Through the input impedance of the op amp is the
B. Through the feedback resistor A. Armstrong
C. To ground B. Clapp
D. Through the load resistor C. Colpitts
67. The input impedance of a current-to-voltage converter is D. Hartley
A. Small 78. A voltage regulator has a ripple rejection of -60 dB. If the
B. Large input ripple is 1 V, the output ripple is
C. Ideally zero A. -60 mV
D. Ideally infinite B. 1 mV
68. An input transducer converts C. 10 mV
A. Voltage to current D. 1000 V
B. Current to voltage 79. A 33-kohm resistor is connected in series with a parallel
C. An electrical quantity to a nonelectrical quantity combination made up of 56-kohm resistor and a 7.8-
D. A nonelectrical quantity to an electrical quantity kohm resistor. What is the total combined resistance of
69. A thermistor converts the three resistors?
A. Light to resistance A. 49069 ohms
B. Temperature to resistance B. 63769 ohms
C. Voltage to sound C. 95000 ohms
D. Current to voltage D. 39067 ohms
70. In a linear op-amp circuit, the 80. A series regulator is an example of a
A. Signals are always sine waves A. Linear regulator
B. Op amp does not go into saturation B. Switching regulator
C. Input impedance is ideally infinite C. Shunt regulator
D. Gain-bandwidth product is constant D. Dc-to-dc converter
71. What are the basic categories of industrial robot? 81. What kind of device is a resistor?
A. fast and slow A. Unilateral
B. mechanical and electrical B. Linear
C. autobots and deceptions C. Nonlinear
D. pick and place manipulator and intelligent robot D. Bipolar
72. A bandstop filter is sometimes called a 82. An increase of line voltage into a power supply usually
A. Snubber produces
B. Phase shifter A. A decrease in load resistance
C. Notch filter B. An increase in load voltage
D. Time-delay circuit C. A decrease in efficiency
73. To detect when the input is greater than a particular D. Less power dissipation in the rectifier diodes
value, use a 83. Where do you classify hydrogen as a material?
A. Comparator A. Diamagnetic
B. Clamper B. Paramagnetic
C. Limiter C. Non-magnetic
D. Relaxation oscillator D. Ferromagnetic
74. The Wien-bridge oscillator is useful
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84. A flipflop whose output is the same as its input. This is B. Full-wave signal
sometimes used as a delay element. C. Bridge-rectified signal
A. RS flipflop D. Sine wave
B. D flipflop 93. If the filter capacitance is increased, the ripple will
C. T flipflop A. Decrease
D. JK flipflop B. Stay the same
85. If you need an LC circuit to resonate at 2500 Hz and used C. Increase
a 150mH coil, what should the capacitance value be? D. None of these
A. 0.15F 94. If the load current is 5 mA and the filter capacitance is
B. 27F 1000uF, what is the peak-to-peak ripple out of a bridge
C. 0.015F rectifier?
D. 0.027F A. 21.3 pV
86. What is the 7s complement of 10357? B. 56.3 nV
A. 67427 C. 21.3 mV
B. 56317 D. 41.7 mV
C. 56327 95. The unit of magnetic flux
D. 67437 A. Tesla
87. Diffusion of free electrons across the junction of an B. Weber
unbiased diode produces C. Lumens
A. Forward bias D. Turns
B. Reverse bias 96. The voltage where avalanche occurs is called the
C. Breakdown A. Barrier potential
D. The depletion layer B. Depletion layer
88. Registers that collect the results of computations C. Knee voltage
are________. D. Breakdown voltage
A. general purpose 97. If line frequency is 60 Hz, the output frequency of a bridge
B. storage registers rectifier is
C. main storage A. 30 Hz
D. accumulators B. 60 Hz
89. When the reverse voltage increases from 5 to 10 V, the C. 120 Hz
depletion layer D. 240 Hz
A. Becomes smaller 98. Which of these is the best description of a zener diode?
B. Becomes larger A. It is a rectifier diode.
C. Is unaffected B. It is a constant-voltage device.
D. Breaks down C. It is a constant-current device.
90. When the diode current is large, the bias is D. It works in the forward region.
A. Forward 99. A photodiode is normally
B. Inverse A. Forward-biased
C. Poor B. Reverse-biased
D. Reverse C. Neither forward- nor reverse-biased
91. If N1/N2 = 2, and the primary voltage is 120 V, what is the D. Emitting light
secondary voltage? 100. Assume the valence electron is removed from a copper
A. 0 V atom. The net charge of the atom becomes
B. 36 V A. 0
C. 60 V B. + 1
D. 240 V C. -1
92. The voltage out of a bridge rectifier is a D. +4
A. Half-wave signal

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