Digital Communications Questions and Answers Part-17

1. Application of phase encoded binary signals are
a) Optical communication
b) Magnetic recording
c) Satellite telemetry
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d
Explanation: Some of the fields where phase encoded waveforms is being used are optical communication, magnetic tape recording, satellite telemetry etc

2. In which waveform one is represented by half bit wide pulse positioned during the first half and zero is represented by half bit wide pulse positioned in the second half?
a) Bi-p-L
b) Bi-p-M
c) Bi-p-S
d) Delay modulation

Answer: a
Explanation: In bi-phase-level one is represented by half bit wide pulse positioned during the first half and zero is represented by half bit wide pulse positioned in the second half.

3. Which binary waveform uses three levels?
a) Bipolar RZ
b) RZ-AMI
c) Bipolar RZ & RZ-AMI
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c
Explanation: In PCM waveforms signals generally use two levels. But few signals use three levels such as bipolar RZ, RZ-AMI, dicode, duobinary etc

4. Which waveform type has the feature of clocking?
a) Manchester coding
b) Bbi-p-M
c) Delay modulation
d) NRZ-L

Answer: a
Explanation: In manchester coding transition occurs in the middle of every bit interval. Thus it has a feature of clocking

5. Which waveform has the feature of error detection?
a) NRZ-L
b) RZ-AMI
c) Manchester coding
d) Duobinary

Answer: d
Explanation: Duobinary scheme does error detection without introducing any additional error bits into the data sequence

6. Which waveform scheme introduces bandwidth compression?
a) Duobinary
b) Manchester coding
c) Phase encoded waveform
d) Multilevel codes

Answer: d
Explanation: Multilevel codes increases the bandwidth efficiency by reducing the bandwidth utilization for the given data rate

7. Which waveform type has better noise immunity?
a) NRZ
b) RZ
c) Phase encoded
d) Multilevel codes

Answer: a
Explanation: NRZ waveforms has better error performance than RZ signal waveforms

8. In pulse modulation, reciprocal of T(time) is
a) Bandwidth
b) Symbol rate
c) Signal voltage
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b
Explanation: T is the time period of the signal. In pulse modulation, the symbol rate Rs can be given as reciprocal of T

9. PCM word size can be described by
a) Time period
b) Symbol rate
c) Number of quantization levels
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: c
Explanation: Each analog sample is transformed into PCM word made up of a group of bits. The PCM word size can be described by number of quantization levels allowed for each sample.

10. Some of the M-ary waveforms are
a) PAM
b) PPM
c) PDM
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d
Explanation: When we pulse modulate non binary signals we get M-ary waveform. Some of the examples of M-ary waveforms are PAM, PPM, PDM