Review Questions

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Direction: Write the correct letter on the space before the number. ( Use capital
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Any form of erasures on your answer will be wrong.
1. Which of the following is a midband cable TV channel?
A. 6
B. 7
C. A or 14
D. J or 23
2. Coaxial cable for distribution system has an impedance of
A. 50
B. 75
C. 150
D. 300
3. The cable converter output for the TV receiver is usually on channel
A. 3
B. 6
C. 7
D. 9
4. The VSWR for a line terminated in its Zo is
A. 0
B. 1
C. 1.5
D. 2
5. How many dBmV units correspond to a 1 mV signal level?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 3
D. 20
6. A tap for the subscriber loop drop line ha a
A. high insertion loss
B. high tap loss
C. low tap loss
D. 300- impedance
7. The most popular plug for RG-59U coaxial cable is the
A. RCA phonograph plug
B. 4-pin DIN connector
C. F connector
D. banana pin
8. Which of the following is true?
A. excessive signal causes snow in the picture
B. A weak signal causes cross-over modulation distortion
C. A weak signal causes snow in the picture
D. A scramble signal has excessive sync amplitude.
9. The upstream signal in two-way cable systems has the frequency of
A. 5 to 30 MHz
B. 3 to 300 MHz C. 500 MHz
D. 13 GHz
10. A typical value for the IF signal, in megahertz, for up-down converters is
A. 45.75
B. 300
C. 500
D.
612.75
11. Frequency synthesis is used for
A. VCO in the up converter
B. the trunk amplifier
C. fiber-optic cable
D. microwave links
12. For in-band descramblers, the decoding pulses are sent on the
A. color subscriber
B. sound-carrier
C. picture-carrier
D. H
sync pulses
13. A trunk cable run has a loss 20 dB mV. To make up for this loss, the voltage
gain of the next amplifier should be atleast
A. 10
B. 100
C. 200
D. 300
14. which of the following is not true?
A. microwave links can use FM
B. Fiber optic cable have very high losses
C. super trunk lines use large cable for low losses.
D. The value 13 GHz is in the microwave band.
15. Brightness variations of the picture information are in which signals?
A. I
B. Q
C. Y
D. R-Y

16. Which signal has a color information for 1.3 MHz bandwidth?
A. I
B. Y
C. R-Y
D. B-Y
17. If the 3.58 MHz C amplifier in the receiver does not operate, the result will be
A. no color
B. too much yellow
C. too much blue D. no red
18. The color with the most luminance is
A. red
B. green
C. yellow
D. blue
19. The hue of color sync phase is
A. red
B. cyan
C. yellow-green
D. blue
20. To identify the color information of a TV signal a color burst is transmitted.
How many cycles is a 3.58 MHz color burst?
A. 8 to11
B. 15 t0 20
C. 0 to 3.58
D. 2 to
4.5
21. A picture has 400 horizontal and 300 vertical picture elements. Calculate the
total number of details in the picture.
A. 525,000
B. 120000
C. 500000
D. 300000
22. The assigned band for channel-5 is ______ MHz.
A. 72-78
B. 66-72
C. 76-82
D. 78-84
23. Retraces are not visible during TV scanning process because of _____ pulses.
A. Sync
B. Blanking
C. color burst
D. pixel
24. The color subcarrier frequency is approximately ______ MHz.
A. 3.59
B. 3.58
C. 4.2
D. 4.5
25. What type of scrambler used in Cable TV?
A. Sync suppression B. signal distortion
C. signal compression
D.
sync hiding
26. Calculate the number of active pixel in line in an NTSC TV system if 42 lines
out of every 525 lines are blanked out to leave time for the vertical retraces.
A. 644
B. 464
C. 642
D. 720
27. Calculate the amount of time to scan 20 pixels .
A. 53.5 s
B. 2.5 s
C. 3.5 s
D. 62.5 s
28. Compression standards that used for editing of still images or picture.
A. MPEG 1
B. JPEG
C. MPEG 4
D. GIF
29. An MPEG standard for VHS quality at 1.544 Mbps and its compatible with
single-speed CD ROM technology.
A. MPEG 1
B. MPEG 7
C. MPEG 4
D. MPEG 3
30. A low bit rate MPEG standard intended for application in videophone and
other small-screen devices.
A. MPEG 1
B. MPEG 7
C. MPEG 4
D. MPEG 3