ELEX (MASTERY EXAM 3)

Answer: The junction resistance decreases

1. In a basic transistor circuit, the most significant factor which (Note: Semiconductors are NTC)
determines whether the transistor perform as a switch or an
amplifier is: 8. The class B amplifier output is present for what portion of the
input cycle?
a. The transistor package
b. The type of transistor Answer: 180 degrees
c. The control circuit which provides the input signal to the
transistor 9. What are the three general groupings of filters?
d. The working circuit
Answer: High pass, low pass and band-pass
Answer: The control circuit which provides the input signal to the
transistor 10. Permeability is defined as:

2. What is an astable multivibrator? a. The ratio of magnetic flux density in a substance to the
magnetizing force that produces it.
Answer: A circuit that alternates between two unstable states b. Polarized molecular alignment in a ferromagnetic material
while under the influence of a magnetizing force
3. When induced currents produce expanding magnetic fields c. The magnetic field created by a conductor wound on a
around conductors in a direction that opposes the original laminated core and carrying current
magnetic field, this is known as: d. None of the choices

Answer: Lenz’s law Answer: The ratio of magnetic flux density in a substance to the
magnetizing force that produces it.
4. What is a truth table?
11. What is the meaning of the term “time constant of an RL
a. A table of logic symbols that indicates the low logic states of an circuit”? The time required for the:
op-amp
b. A list of input combinations and their corresponding outputs Answer: Current in the circuit to build up to 63.2% of the
that characterizes a digital device’s function maximum value.
c. A table of logic symbols that indicate the high logic states of an
op-amp 12. How could voltage be greater across reactances in series than
d. A diagram showing logic states when the digital device’s output the applied voltage?
is true
a. Capacitance
Answer: A list of input combinations and their corresponding b. Conductance
outputs that characterizes a digital device’s function c. Resistance
d. Resonance
5. What factors determine the capacitance of a capacitor?
Answer: Resonance
a. Voltage on the plates and the dielectric constant of the material
between the plates 13. What is the resistance of a 100-ft length of copper wire with a
b. Distance between the plates and the dielectric constant of the diameter of 0.020 in. at 20°C?
material between the plates
c. Amount of charge on the plates and the dielectric constant of a. 2.59 ohms
the material between the plates b. 3.39 ohms
d. Voltage on the plates and distance between the plates c. 2.05 ohms
d. 1.51 ohms
Answer: Distance between the plates and the dielectric constant
of the material between the plates Answer: 2.59 ohms

6. The Q of a coil is affected by:

a. Frequency
b. The resistance of the coil
c. Skin effect
d. All of the choices

Answer: All of the choices

7. What happens to the conductivity of a photosensitive

semiconductor junction when it is illuminated?
14. What is the total cost of using all of the following at 9¢ per
a. The junction resistance becomes temperature dependent kilowatt hour?
b. The junction resistance decreases A 1200-W toaster for 30 min
c. The junction resistance increases Six 50-W bulbs for 4 h
d. The junction resistance is unchanged A 400-W washing machine for 45 min
 A 4800-W electric c. Triac
clothes dryer for 20 d. SCR
min
Answer: Triac

21. What is the output in horsepower of a motor with an

efficiency of 80% and an input current of 8 A at 120 V?

Answer: 1.029 hp

Answer: 33.3 ¢

15. In a negative-logic circuit, what level is used to represent a

logic 0?

a. High level
b. Positive-transition level
c. Low level
d. Negative-transition level
22. A transformer used to step up its input voltage must have:
Answer: Low level
(Since it is negative logic, 0 is High 1 is Low) a. None of the above statements are correct
b. More turns of wire on its secondary than on its primary
16. What is meant by the term “back EMF”? c. More turns of wire on its primary than on its secondary
d. Equal number of primary and secondary turns of wire
a. A current equal to the applied EMF
b. A voltage that opposes the applied EMF Answer: More turns of wire on its secondary than on its primary
c. A current that opposes the applied EMF
d. An opposing EMF equal to R times C (RC) percent of the applied 23. What are the two most commonly-used specifications for a
EMF junction diode?

Answer: A voltage that opposes the applied EMF a. Maximum reverse current and PIV (peak inverse voltage)
b. Maximum forward current and capacitance
17. What is a common use of a hot-carrier diode? c. Maximum forward current and PIV (peak inverse voltage)
d. Maximum reverses current and capacitance
a. Constant voltage reference in a power supply
b. Balanced inputs in SSB generation Answer: Maximum forward current and PIV (peak inverse voltage)
c. VHF and UHF mixers and detectors
d. Variable capacitance in an automatic frequency control circuit 24. What type of semiconductor diode varies its internal
capacitance as the voltage applied to its terminals varies?
Answer: VHF and UHF mixers and detectors
a. Zener diode
18. What is the characteristic of the current flow within the b. Silicon-controlled rectifier
parallel elements in a parallel R-L-C circuit at resonance? c. Tunnel diode
d. Varactor diode
Answer: Minimum
Answer: Varactor diode
19. TTL inputs left open develop what logic state? (Since variation of capacitance)

a. Open inputs on a TTL device are ignored 25. What are the three terminals of a TRIAC?
b. A high-logic state
c. A low-logic state a. Gate, source, and sink
d. Random high and low logic states b. Gate, anode 1, and anode 2
c. Emitter, base 1 and base 2
Answer: A high-logic state d. Base, emitter and collector

20. Which of the following is best suited for controlling power in Answer: Gate, anode 1, and anode 2
ac circuits?
26. The three basic elements of all electrical systems are:
a. None of the choices
b. An ordinary rectifier diode a. Sense, decide, act
b. Input, act, output a. Diffused junction
c. Sense, detail, act b. Grown junction and Alloyed junction
d. Sense, decode, act c. Alloyed junction
d. Grown junction
Answer: Sense, decide, act
Answer: Diffused junction
27. In an RL high-pass filter, the output is taken across the ____.
34. How many R-S flip-flops would be required to construct an 8-
a. Inductor bit storage register?
b. Resistor
c. Capacitor a. 16
d. Load b. 8
c. 4
Answer: Inductor d. 2

28. In shift registers are made up of several flip-flops, the clock Answer: 8
signal:
35. Which class of amplifier has the highest linearity and least
a. Is a bit of information stored in the flip-flop distortion?
b. None of the choices
c. Indicates when to shift a bit of data from the input of the flip- a. Class AB
flop to the output. b. Class B
d. Tells what time it is c. Class A
d. Class C
Answer: Indicates when to shift a bit of data from the input of the
flip-flop to the output. Answer: Class A
(Class A has the highest linearity, take note that linearity and
29. Which network provides the greatest harmonic suppression? efficiency are not the same)

a. Pi network 36. What is the diameter, in inches, of a #12 copper wire?

b. Pi-L network
c. Inverse L network Answer: 0.0808
d. L network

Answer: Pi-L network

30. Analog and digital refer to the two ways electricity can:

a. Carry information
b. Be regulated
c. Be switched
d. Flow like water

Answer: Carry information

31. For a steady dc current, the X_L of an inductor is ______. 37. When dividing complex numbers in polar form,

a. infinite Answer: divide the magnitudes and subtract the phase angles.
b. extreme high
c. usually about 10kΩ 38. What is the characteristic of the current flow in a series R-L-C
d. 0Ω circuit at resonance?

Answer: 0Ω Answer: Maximum

32. The basic material in the manufacture of most of the 39. For electricity to do work the electrons must:
semiconductor products presently being manufactured is:
a. Alternate in direction
a. N-and P-type aluminum hydroxide b. Be of very good quality
b. Monocrystalline silicon c. Be switched
c. Grown-junction d. Flow from a higher to a lower electron voltage
d. Gaseous boron
Answer: Flow from a higher to a lower electron voltage
Answer: Monocrystalline silicon
40. What is the name of the random-accessed semiconductor
33. The very commonly used processes called “planar” and memory IC that must be refreshed periodically to maintain
“mesa” are sub-categories of which method of producing P-type reliable data storage in its memory matrix?
and N-type regions in semiconductor material?
Answer: DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory
41. For either an RC low-pass or high pass filter, Answer: 24.88 ohms

a. Xc = is infinite at the cut-off frequency

b. None of the choices
c. Xc = 0 ohm at the cutoff frequency
d. Xc = R at the cutoff frequency

Answer: Xc = R at the cutoff frequency

48. “Building Blocks” in an
42. What is the voltage range considered to be valid logic low electric system refer to:
input in a TTL device operating at 5 volts?
a. A way of assembling circuits in packages that are plugged
a. Zero to 0.8 volts together like a child stacks toy blocks
b. 5.2 to 34.8 volts b. Portions of the system that for purposes of systems analysis can
c. 2.0 to 5.5 volts be thought of as boxes with inputs, outputs, and power supply
d. -2.0 to 05.5 volts connections, without studying circuit details inside
c. Circuits that are as simple as toy blocks
Answer: Zero to 0.8 volts d. None of the choices
(Logic low - Zero to 0.8 volts
Logic high - 2.0 to 5.5 volts) Answer: Portions of the system that for purposes of systems
analysis can be thought of as boxes with inputs, outputs, and
43. The average fully-charged voltage of a lead-acid storage cell is power supply connections, without studying circuit details inside
_____.
49. An electrical relay is a:
a. 1 volt
b. 1.56 volts a. Current limiting device
c. 2.06 volts b. Device used for supplying 3 or more voltages to a circuit
d. 1.2 volts c. Remotely controlled switching device
d. Component used mainly with HF audio amplifiers
Answer: 2.06 volts
Answer: Remotely controlled switching device
44. Which of the following is the best way bias a class B push-pull
amplifier? 50. Between the source of power and the point of use, all that can
happen to electricity is:
a. Voltage divider bias
b. Zero bias a. It can alternate in direction
c. Diode bias b. It can manipulate information
d. None of the choices c. Its voltage can change
D. It can be switched and regulated
Answer: Diode bias
Answer: It can be switched and regulated
45. A differentiator is a circuit whose:

a. Output combines its original voltage with the new change in

voltage
b. Output is always one-half of Vin
c. Output is proportional to the change in applied voltage
d. Time constant is long with output across C

Answer: Output is proportional to the change in applied voltage

46. A big advantage of the diffusion process is that:

a. It takes no more labor or time to produce a whole slice full of

hundreds of semiconductor elements that it does to produce only
one transistor on a slice
b. Individual hand-crafting of each separate semiconductor
element is possible. Thus, achieving high quality
c. It is short, one-step process
d. It doesn’t require intricate, precise techniques

Answer: It takes no more labor or time to produce a whole slice

full of hundreds of semiconductor elements that it does to
produce only one transistor on a slice

47. If the resistance of a copper wire at freezing (0°C) is 30 Ω,

what is its resistance at -40°C?