Microwave Communications

7. Which of the following permits a microwave

1. Referred to as a ferrite device that can be signal to travel in one direction with
used in lieu of a duplexer to isolate a virtually no loss but severely attenuates any
microwave transmitter and receiver when signal attempting to travel in the reverse
both are connected to the same antenna. direction?
a. Isolator a. Isolator
b. Circulator b. Wave trap
c. Coupler c. Tunnel diode
d. Diode d. Circulator

2. What is the principal mode of a rectangular 8. A waveguide has a cut-off frequency of 17

waveguide? GHz. Which of the following signals will not
a. TEM pass thru the waveguide?
b. TE11 a. 15 GHz
c. TE10 b. 18 Ghz
d. TM11 c. 22 GHz
d. 255 GHz
3. What microwave device combines the
advantages of the klystron and the 9. When the electric field is perpendicular to
Traveling Wave Tube? the direction of propagation, the mode is
a. Stripline said to be
b. Microstrip a. Vertically polarized
c. Cfa b. Horizontally polarized
d. Twystron c. Transverse electric
d. Transverse magnetic
4. A microwave tube that uses a slow-wave
structure as an input section that is isolated 10. Which of the following is not a microwave
from another slow-wave section at its tube?
output. a. TWT
a. Klystron b. CRT
b. Magnetron c. Klystron
c. Twystron d. Magnetron
d. TWT
11. A measure of the reliability expressed as
5. A waveguide acts as a the average number of hours between
a. LPF successive failures.
b. HPF a. MTBF
c. BPF b. MTTR
d. Resonator c. Downtime
d. Outage time
6. Which of the following is a microwave 12. A microwave band of 18 to 27 GHz is
frequency? considered as the ______ band.
a. 1.7 MHz a. C
b. 750 MHz b. X
c. 0.98 GHz c. Q
d. 22 GHz d. K
13. The radius in the circular zone is in the first c. Iris
fresnel zone when the reflected path is d. Plunger
______ longer than the direct path.
a. Half wavelength 20. What microwave component can sample
b. Wavelength part of the power traveling thru the
c. Quarter wavelength waveguide?
d. 2wavelengths a. Directional coupler
b. Magic tee
14. The microwave path wherein the c. Circulator
microwave beam just barely touches the d. Isolator
obstruction.
a. LOS 21. A rectangular waveguide is 5.1 cm by 2.4
b. Grazing cm. The cut-off frequency for the dominant
c. Obstructed path mode is
d. Direct path a. 2.94 GHz
b. 6.25 GHz
15. A fade margin of 28 dB has a reliability of c. 664 MHz
a. 99% d. 57.7 GHz
b. 99.9%
c. 99.99% 22. If the MTBF of a communications circuit is
d. 99.999% 20,000 hours and its MTTR is 5 hours, what
is its unavailability?
16. The velocity of a resultant wave as it travels a. 0.00025
through the waveguide. b. 99.975%
a. Speed of light c. 0.25%
b. Group velocity d. 0.975%
c. Phase velocity
d. Incident velocity 23. What would be the ERP, in watts, if the
transmitter output is 30 dBm and the
17. The smallest free space wavelength that is waveguide loss is 20 dB and the antenna
just unable to propagate in the waveguide connected to it has a power gain of 60 dB?
under given conditions. a. 10000 watts
a. Guide b. 1000 watts
b. Phase c. 100 watts
c. Cut-off d. 10 watts
d. Group
24. A waveguide section used to couple a
18. Indicate which of the following cannot be circular to a rectangular waveguide.
followed by the word "waveguide". a. Taper
a. Elliptical b. Twist
b. Flexible c. Bend
c. Coaxial d. Tee
d. Ridge
25. A waveguide section used to change the
19. Which of the following waveguide tuning signal polarization
components is not easily adjustable? a. Taper
a. Screw b. Twist
b. Stub c. Bend
 d. Tee 32. Which of the following is unlikely to be used
as a pulse device?
26. A waveguide section used to combine two a. TWT
or more signals b. CFA
a. Taper c. BWO
b. Twist d. Multicavity Klystron
c. Bend
d. Tee 33. The wavelength of microwaves at 100 GHz?
a. 3 cm
27. A signal propagated in a waveguide has a b. 0.3 cm
full wave of electric field intensity change c. 0.03 cm
between two further walls and no d. 0.3 m
component of the electric field in the
direction of propagation. The mode is 34. The k factor under normal atmospheric
a. TE11 conditions in a microwave radio data profile
b. TE10 calculation is
c. TM22 a. 2/3
d. TE20 b. 0
c. 4/3
28. A microwave transmission line constructed d. 1
of a center conductor suspended between
parallel conductive ground planes is called 35. To install an antenna with an LOS
a. Microstrip transmission at a distance of 75 miles,
b. Coax determine the height of a receiving antenna
c. Stripline if the transmitting antenna is 250 ft.
d. Waveguide a. 1385 ft
b. 600 ft
29. The principal characteristic of tunnel diodes c. 400 ft
a. Negative resistance region d. 255 ft
b. High forward current rating
c. Very high piv 36. Determine the gain of a 6 ft parabolic dish
d. High forward resistance operating at 1800 MHz.
a. 30 dB
30. A metal wrapped around the parabolic b. 11.2 dB
antenna aperture to eliminate sidelobes c. 15.5 dB
interferin nearby stations. d. 28.17 dB
a. Radome
b. Shield 37. What is the free space loss, in dB, between
c. Shroud two microwave antennas 38 km apart
d. Bass drum operating at 7 GHz?
a. 145.6 dB
31. The region within the influence of the b. 138.5 dB
induction field of an antenna. c. 135.5 dB
a. Far field d. 140.89 dB
b. Near field
c. Radiation field 38. How many receiving antenna(s) are used
d. Radiation pattern with frequency diversity?
a. 1
 b. 2 d. Propagation
c. 3
d. 4 45. A magnetic field is introduced into the
waveguide by a
39. A type of diversity reception, where the a. probe
output of the transmitter is fed to two or b. dipole
more antennas that are physically c. stripline
separated by an appreciable number of d. capacitor
wavelengths.
a. Frequency 46. Varactor and step recovery diodes are
b. Space widely used in what type of circuit?
c. Angle a. Amplifier
d. Polarization b. Oscillator
c. Frequency multiplier
40. Which of the following is used as a high d. Mixer
power microwave oscillator?
a. Thyratron 47. The optimum clearance from an obstacle in
b. Magnetron a microwave system is accepted as
c. Klystron ________ of the first fresnel zone radius.
d. Twystron a. 0.6
b. 0.5
41. A microwave communications system space c. 0.9
loss calculation formula d. 1.5
a. 94.2 + 20 log F + 20 log D
b. 92.4 + 20 log F + 20 log D 48. A range of microwave frequencies more
c. 94.2 + 10 log F + 20 log D easily passed by the atmosphere than the
d. 92.3 + 10 log F + 20 log D others
42. Which of the following frequency bands fall a. Window
under the microwave band? b. Critical frequency
a. UHF and SHF c. Gyro frequency
b. SHF and EHF d. Resonant
c. UHF, SHF and EHF
d. VLF, LF and MF 49. When microwave signals follow the
curvature of the earth, this is known as
43. Find the cut-off frequency for a waveguide a. Faraday effect
in the TE21 mode if the dimensions of the b. Ducting
guide are 3 by 1.5 cm with wall thickness of c. Troposcatter
0.08 cm. d. Ionospheric reflection
a. 14.14 GHz
b. 5 GHz 50. A waveguide mode in which there is no
c. 5.28 GHz component of electric field in the direction
d. 15.39 GHz of propagation given in the British European
standards
44. The progressive decrease of signal strength a. H mode
with increasing distance b. E mode
a. Radiation c. TE mode
b. Attenuation d. TM mode
c. Modulation
51. The subscript which indicates the number
of half wavelengths along the waveguide 57. A cross between the TWT and the
height magnetron in its operation
a. m a. CFA
b. n b. BWO
c. a c. EIA
d. b d. Twystron
52. Which of the following microwave tubes
uses the principle of velocity modulation? 58. Diodes designed to store energy in their
a. TWT capacitance during forward bias and
b. CFA generates harmonics in the reverse bias
c. Magnetron a. Step recovery
d. klystron b. Gunn
c. APD
53. An X band radar operates in which d. IMPATT
frequency band?
a. 1 - 2 GHz 59. Topographical maps are maps used for
b. 2 - 4 GHz microwave communications systems design
c. 4 - 8 GHz because _________ are shown, thereby
d. 8 - 12 GHz elevations are known.
a. Latitudes
54. Calculate the cut-off wavelength, the guide b. Longitudes
wavelength and the characteristic c. Contour lines
impedance of a circular waveguide whose d. Scales
internal diameter is 4 cm for a 10 GHz signal
propagated in it in the dominant mode. (kr 60. Surface Acoustic Waves propagate in
= 1.84) a. GaAs
a. 6.83 cm, 3 cm, 420 ohms b. Indium Phosphide
b. 3 cm, 6.83 cm, 420 ohms c. Stripline
c. 6.83 cm, 3.34 cm, 420 ohms d. Quartz crystal
d. 6.83 cm, 3.34 cm, 338 ohms
61. What do you call the process of speeding up
55. A wave is propagated in a parallel plane and slowing down the beam of electrons in
waveguide. The frequency is 6 GHz and the the vacuum tube?
plane separation is 3 cm. The cut-off a. Velocity modulation
wavelength for the dominant mode, the b. Logitudinal velocity
group and phase velocities are c. Gyrofrequency
a. 5 cm, 166 Mm/sec, 543 Mm/sec d. Group frequency
b. 6 cm, 166 Mm/sec, 543 Mm/sec
c. 6 cm, 543 Mm/sec, 166 Mm/sec 62. What is the name of the microwave
d. 5 cm, 543 Mm/sec, 166 Mm/sec transmission line that is used with printed
circuits?
56. The following are negative resistance a. Ferrite loop
amplifiers except b. Coax
a. Tunnel c. Waveguide
b. Gunn d. Microstrip
c. IMPATT
d. PIN diode
63. The output of a LASER is monochromatic;
this means that it is 70. Which of the following uses buncher and
a. Infrared catcher cavities?
b. Narrow beam a. magnetron
c. Polarized b. klystron
d. Single frequency c. TWT
d. Stripline
64. The attenuator is used in the TWT to
a. Help bunching
b. Prevent oscillation
c. Prevent saturation
d. Increase gain

65. The angle between electric and magnetic

fields in a waveguide is
a. 90 degrees
b. 0 degrees
c. 180 degrees
d. 360 degrees

66. Materials generally preferred for

waveguides are
a. Brass and aluminum
b. Cast iron and steel
c. Non-metallic solids
d. High carbon steel and vanadian steel

67. Waveguide feeders are pressurized to

a. Reduce loss
b. Reduce noise
c. Detect faults
d. Prevent ingress of moisture

68. In order to reduce cross-sectional

dimension, which of the following
waveguides is preferred?
a. Flexible
b. Rectangular
c. Circular
d. Ridged

69. A low noise, low power, narrow band

microwave amplifier utilizing a varactor to
achieve gain
a. Parametric amplifier
b. LNA
c. SAW
d. CFA