PAST & POSSIBLE BOARD EXAM QUESTIONS

1. Let x, y, and z all exceed 1, and let w be a positive number such that
logxw = 24, logyw = 40, and logxyzw = 12. Find logzw.
Ans: 60

2. A form of amplitude modulation in which the carrier and one complete

sideband are transmitted but only part of the second sideband is
transmitted.
Ans: Vestigial Sideband

3. In electromagnetic induction, this states that an induced electromagnetic

force (emf) always gives rise to a current whose magnetic field opposes
the original change in magnetic flux.
Ans: Lenz’s Law

4. Date of approval of RA 9292.

Ans: April 17 2004

5. In cellular telephone system, co-channel interference can be decreased by

replacing a single omnidirectional antenna with several directional
antenna referred as:
Ans: Sectoral Antenna

6. Telemetry may be defined as ______ metering.

Ans: Remote

7. Suppose you want to store 1.00 J of electric potential energy in a volume

of 1.00 m3 in vacuum. What is the magnitude of the required electric
field?
Ans: 0.475 MV/m

8. If tanx – tany = 25 and cotx – coty = 30, what is tan(x-y)?

Ans: 150

9. If a surface leakage current is 2nA for a reverse voltage of 25V, what is

the surface leakage current for a reverse voltage of 35V?
Ans: 2.8 nA

10. What is the voltage gain (in dB) of LM741C operational amplifier?
Ans: 100 db

11. Simplify: ei+1

Ans: 1.46 + 2.29i

12. A given function is said to be a/an __________ if and only if every

element y in Y has a corresponding element x in X such that f(x) = y.
Ans: Onto function

13. In satellite communications, what is the orbital height of LEO satellites?

Ans: 100-300 mi

14. Bluetooth radio employs which of the following techniques?

Ans: Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)

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15. The merging of a free electron and a hole is called
Ans: Recombination

16. Which of the following is not a web browser:

Ans: Bing

17. There are ______ articles and ______ sections in the RA 9292.
Ans: 8 Articles, 43 Sections

18. On the day his grandson was born, a man deposited to a trust company a
sufficient amount of money so that the boy could receive five annual
payments of P20000 each for his college tuition fee, starting with his
18th birthday. Interest at the rate of 12% per annum was to be paid on all
amounts on deposit. There was also a provision that the grandson could
elect to withdraw no annual payments and receive a single lump amount on
his 25th birthday. The grandson chose this option. How much did the
grandfather deposit?
Ans: P10500

19. Pre-emphasis in FM modulator can be classified as what type of filter?

Ans: High-pass filter

20. A steel rod having a cross-sectional area of 300 sq. mm and a length of
150m is suspended vertically from one end. It supports a tensile load of
20kN at the lower end. If the unit mass of steel is 7850 kg/m3 and E =
200 x 103 MN/m2, find the total elongation of the rod.
Ans: 54.33 mm

21. Given the function f(x) = x2, determine the coefficient a0, in its Fourier
series expansion in the interval of –π < x < π, given a period of 2π.
Ans: π2/3 or 3.2899

22. Given the function f(x) = x2, determine the coefficient a3, in its Fourier
series expansion in the interval of –π < x < π, given a period of 2π.
Ans: -4/9

23. Given the function f(x) = x2, determine the coefficient b2, in its Fourier
series expansion in the interval of –π < x < π, given a period of 2π.
Ans: 0

24. An LF157A is a
Ans: BiFET OP AMP

25. Using Boolean algebra, simplify A + AB

Ans: A

26. What is the energy gap of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor?

Ans: 1.43 eV

27. In a small conductance

Ans: Energy is stored and released quickly

28. In digital communications, this term is commonly mistaken as bit rate.

Ans: Baud

29. What can you say about the graph of y = bx, where 0 < b < 1?
Ans: It falls from left to right

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30. Simplify: √[x^(4n + 1)] + x^n*√[x^(2n + 1)]
Ans: 2x^(2n)*√x

31. It states that two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if both have the
same temperature reading, even if they are not in contact.
Ans: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

32. The AT&T T1 lines

Ans: use 8-bit PCM code and include 24 voice channels

33. Who invented the Ethernet?

Ans: Robert Metcalfe

34. It states that energy can neither be destroyed nor created, it can only
change forms.
Ans: First Law of Thermodynamics

35. How many four-digit number beginning with 1 has exactly two identical
digits?
Ans: 432

36. A short-circuited transmission line would have a reflection coefficient

of ______.
Ans: -1

37. Aurora (sun cycle) happens at what layer of the ionosphere?

Ans: E Layer

38. Three inductors are connected in series without mutual inductances. Their
values are 4 nH, 140 uH, and 5 H. For practical purposes, the net
inductance will be very close to:
Ans: 5 H

39. A 12-V auto battery is rated at 36 Ah. If a 100-W, 12-V bulb is connected
across this battery, about how long will the bulb stay lit, if the battery
has been fully charge?
Ans: 4 hrs and 20 minutes

40. Determine the y-intercept of the function f(x) = tanx

Ans: (0,0)

41. What is the effective rate of interest if P1000 is invested at a nominal

rate of 15% compounded quarterly?
Ans: 15.86%

42. What is the corresponding gain reduction if the power is reduced by 50%?
Ans: -3 dB

43. What is the input bias current of an LM741C operational amplifier?

Ans: 80 nA

44. What is the probability of getting the third head on the fifth try if a
fair coin is flipped?
Ans: 3/16

45. What is the title of the section 4 of RA 9292?

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 Ans: Categories of Practice

46. A fair coin is to be tossed 10 times. Find the probability that heads
never occur on consecutive tosses.
Ans: 9/64

47. A pipe carrying steam at 3.5 MPa has an outside diameter of 450 mm and a
wall thickness of 10 mm. A gasket is inserted between the flange at one
end of the pipe and a flat plate use to cap the end. How many 40-mm
diameter must be used to hold the cap on if the allowable stress in the
bolts is 80 MPa, of which 55 MPa is the initial stress?
Ans: 17

48. Given an RS NAND flip-flop, which of the following conditions are correct?
Ans: S = 0 and R = 0 invalid; S = 1 and R = 1 no change

49. This refers to the portion of a half wave, expressed in degrees, during
which a silicon-controlled rectifier is conducting.
Ans: Conduction Angle

50. Which of the following is not a search engine?

Ans: Chrome

51. In traffic engineering, this refers to a dimensionless unit of traffic

intensity.
Ans: Erlang

52. Determine the channel capacity for a cellular telephone area comprised of
seven macrocells with 10 channels per cell if each macrocell is split
into four minicells.
Ans: 280 channels/area

53. The solid shown has a square base of side length s. The upper edge is
parallel to the base and has length 2s. All edges have length s. Given
that s = 6√𝟐, what is the volume of the solid?

Ans: 288

54. In computer networks, the IP address 129.0.0.0 can be classified as?

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 Ans: Class B

55. Given an RS NOR flip-flop, which of the following conditions are correct?
Ans: S = 0 and R = 0 no change; S = 1 and R = 1 invalid

56. It is the maximum safe stress that a material can carry.

Ans: Working Stress

57. PPM and PWM are superior to PAM systems in

Ans: Noise characteristics

58. T1 carrier systems were designed to combine PCM and TCM techniques for
short-haul transmission of channels capable of carrying digitally encoded
voice band telephone signals of data. Determine the transmission bit rate
line speed of T1 carrier.
Ans: 1.544 Mbps

59. A telecommunication company purchased an equipment for P53000 and paid

P1500 for freight and delivery charges to the job site. The equipment has
a normal life of 10 years with a trade-in value of P5000 against the
purchase of a new equipment at the end of the life. Determine the annual
depreciation cost by the sinking fund method. Assume interest at 6.5%
compounded annually
Ans: P3668

60. Determine 3x4 + 2x5 if x1, x2, x3, x4 and x5 satisfy the systems of equations
below:
2x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 = 6
x1 + 2x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 = 12
x1 + x2 + 2x3 + x4 + x5 = 24
x1 + x2 + x3 + 2x4 + x5 = 48
x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + 2x5 = 96
Ans: 181

61. Find the filter capacitor that will provide 3% ripple voltage having a
load of 150 mA, full wave rectifier voltage of 45 Vdc and 60 Hz supply.
Ans: 267 uF

62. What is the frequency of oscillation of a Colpitts oscillator with C 1 =

0.001 uF and C2 = 0.01 uF and L = 25 mH.
Ans: 33.385 kHz

63. Determine the Wronskian of the set [ex, e-x]

Ans: -2

64. Determine the Laplace transform of the following functions f(t) =

(1/2k3)(sinkt – ktcoskt)where k is a positive integer.
Ans: 1/(s2 + k2)2

65. In satellite communications, what do you call the point in which the
satellite is nearest to the earth?
Ans: Perigee

66. The bandwidth of a certain channel is 200 Hz. If the center frequency of
the channel is 150 Hz, determine the lower cut-off frequency?
Ans: 50 Hz

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67. Determine the drain-to-source current for an n-channel JFET with gate-
to-source voltage at -4 V and a pinch-off voltage of -4 V. Assume a drain-
to-source saturation current of 8 mA.
Ans: 0 mA

68. In satellite communications, what is the uplink frequency for a satellite

operating at Ku-band?
Ans: 14 GHz

69. A plant bought a machine for P200000 and used for 10 years, the life span
of the equipment. What is the book value of the machine after 5years of
use? Assume a scrap value of P20000. Use double declining balance method.
Ans: P65536

70. Lightning rods must be mounted a top structure not less than _______ above
the highest point
Ans: 30 cm

71. A cylinder pressure vessel is fabricated from plates which have a

thickness of 25 mm. The diameter of the pressure vessel is 450 mm and its
length is 2.0 m. Determine the maximum internal pressure which can be
applied if the longitudinal stress in the steel is limited to 150 MPa.
Ans: 16.67 MPa

72. Determine the coefficient an in the Fourier series expansion of a function

over the interval -2 < x < 2 if the function is defined as:
F(x) = 2, -2 < x < 0
= x, 0 < x < 2

73. Determine the drain-to-source (IDS) for an n-channel D-MOSFET with gate-
to-source voltage (VGS) of 1V and pinch-off voltage (VP) of -4 V. Assume
a drain-to-source saturation of 8 mA.
Ans: 12.5 mA

74. Which of the following devices has nearly the same turn-on time as turn-
off time?
Ans: GTO

75. Convert the following binary number to decimal: 1001010111010011.

Ans: 38355

76. What determines the speed of an integrated circuit?

Ans: Propagation Delay

77. What is the value of the standing wave ratio when the load impedance
matches the characteristic impedance of a transmission line?
Ans: 1

78. Ten points are marked on a circle. How many distinct convex polygons of
three or more sides can be drawn using some (or all) of the ten points as
vertices?
Ans: 968

79. A trough filled with water is 2 m long and has a cross section in the
shape of an isosceles trapezoid 30 cm wide at the bottom, 60 cm wide at
the top, and a height of 50 cm. If the trough leaks water at the rate of

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 2000 cm3/min, how fast is the water level falling when the water is 20 cm
deep?
Ans: 5/21 cm/min

80. The center conductor of a coaxial transmission line consists of copper

tubing 0.05 in. thick, with an outer diameter of 1.8 in. The diameter of
the inner conductor is 0.55 in. What is the attenuation in dB per 100 ft.
of the line at 4 MHz?
Ans: 0.058 dB/100 ft

81. A transmission line has attenuation constant of 2.0 db/100 ft. What is
the loss of a transmission line at 3m in Neper equivalent?
Ans: 0.01886 Neper

82. It is a vibration of crystal from corner to corner.

Ans: shear

83. If the fan out of a logic gate is not enough, a/an __________ should be
used.
Ans: buffer

84. From the following specifications, determine the fan-out for the logic
family:
I(OL) = 32 mA
I(IL) = 2 mA
I(OH) = 20 µA
I(IH) = 2.5 µA
Ans: high state is 8, low state is 16

85. How many 7432 OR gate can a single 7432 OR gate drive?
Ans: 10

86. An undesirable condition which may exist in a system wherein two or more
inputs change simultaneously.
Ans: race condition

87. How many J-K flip-flops would be required to construct a MOD-16 ripple
counter?
Ans: 4

88. How many D flip-flops would be required to construct a MOD-16 ring

counter?
Ans: 16

89. A register that temporarily store a word during processing.

Ans: buffer register

90. The density of ice is 920 kg/m 3 and that of seawater is 1030 kg/m3. What
percentage of the volume of an iceberg is submerged?
Ans: 89.3% (Pag exposed ang tanong, 1-.893 = 10.7%)

91. A thin, square steel plate, 10 cm on a side, is heated in a blacksmith’s

forge to 800ºC. If the emissivity is 0.60, what is the total rate of
radiation of energy from the plate?
Ans: 900 W

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92. The Concorde is flying at Mach 1.75 at an altitude of 8000 m, where the
speed of sound is 320 m/s. How long after the plane passes directly
overhead will you hear the sonic boom?
Ans: 20.5 s

93. The bridge method commonly used for finding mutual inductance is ________.
Ans: Heaviside Campbell Bridge

94. An ideal voltage source will charge an ideal capacitor ______________.

Ans: Instantaneously

95. A practical current source is usually represented by

Ans: A resistance in parallel with an ideal current source

96. Energy stored in a capacitor over a cycle, when excited by an ac source

is
Ans: Zero

97. A major advantage of the active filters is that they can be realized
without using
Ans: Inductors

98. The computer program which converts statements written in high level
language to object code is known as
Ans: Assembler

99. Transformer and emitter follower can both be used for impedance matching
at the output of an audio amplifier. The basic relationship between the
input power Pin and the output power Pout in both cases is
Ans: Pin = Pout for transformer and Pin < Pout for emitter follower

100. Which of the following is an example of wave equation?

Ans: δ2u/δt2 = c2δ2u/δx2

101. Which of the following is an example of heat equation?

Ans: δu/δt = c2δ2u/δx2

102. Which of the following is an example of Laplace equation?

Ans: δ2u/δx2 + δ2u/δy2 = 0

103. Which of the following is an example of Poisson equation?

Ans: δ2u/δx2 + δ2u/δy2 = f(x,y)

104. If every element of the codomain is mapped to by at most one element of

the domain.
Ans: injective (one-to-one) function

105. If every element of the codomain is mapped to by at least one element of

the domain.
Ans: surjective (onto) function

106. If every element of the codomain is mapped to by exactly one element of

the domain.
Ans: bijective (one-to-one and onto or one-to-one correspondence)
function
107. Given the general form: dy/dx + P(x)y = Q(x)y n. Determine the type of
differential equation when n = 0.

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 Ans: Linear

108. Given the general form: dy/dx + P(x)y = Q(x)yn. Determine the type of
differential equation when n = 1.
Ans: Variable Separable

109. Given the general form: dy/dx + P(x)y = Q(x)y n. Determine the type of
differential equation when n = 2.
Ans: Bernoulli

110. Let f(x) = |x - p| + |x – 15| + |x – p – 15|, where p ≤ x ≤ 15. Determine

the minimum value taken by f(x) by x in the interval 0 ≤ x ≤ 15.
Ans: 15

111. What is the product of the real roots of the equation X2 + 18x + 30 =
2√(x2 + 18x + 45)?
Ans: 20

9𝑥 2 𝑠𝑖𝑛2 𝑥+4
112. Find the minimum value of for 0 < x < π.
𝑥𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑥
Ans: 12

113. The length of diameter AB is a two digit integer. Reversing the digits
gives the length of a perpendicular chord CD. The distance from their
intersection point H to the center O is a positive rational number.
Determine the length of AB.

Ans: 65 (pag si CD ang hinahanap, 56)

114. Twenty five of King Arthur's knights are seated at their customary round
table. Three of them are chosen - all choices being equally likely - and
are sent off to slay a troublesome dragon. What is the probability that
at least two of the three had been sitting next to each other?
Ans: 11/46

115. Determine the value of ab if log8a + log4b2 = 5 and log8b + log4a2 = 7.

Ans: 512

116. The equation z6 + z3 + 1 has complex roots with argument θ between 90º and
180º in the complex plane. Determine the degree measure of θ.
Ans: 160º

117. A gardener plants three maple trees, four oaks, and five birch trees in
a row. He plants them in random order, each arrangement being equally

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 likely. What is the probability that no two birch trees are next to one
another?
Ans: 7/99

118. An ellipse has foci at (9,20) and (49,55) in the xy-plane and is tangent
to the x-axis. What is the length of the major axis?
Ans: 85

119. A 240V, 50Hz supply feeds a highly inductive load of 50 ohm resistance
through a half controlled thyristor bridge. When the firing angle α=45°,
the load power is.
Ans: 512 W

120. A dc to dc chopper operates from a 48V battery source into a resistive

load of 24 ohms. The frequency of the chopper is set to 250 Hz. When the
chopper on-time is 1 ms, the load power is.
Ans: 24 W

121. For the circuit given below, the Thevenin resistance across the terminals
A and B is.
Ans: 0.2 kΩ (letter B to. Kapag wala to sa choices, 1kΩ ang sagot)

122. For the circuit given above (no. 122), the thevenin voltage across A and
B is.
Ans: 0.5 V

123. The current through the 2 kΩ resistance in the circuit shown is

Ans: 0 mA

124. How many 200W/220V incandescent lamps connected in series would consume
the same total power as a single 100W/220V incandescent lamp?
Ans: 2

125. In a series RLC circuit, which of these quality factors has the steepest
curve at resosnance?

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 Ans: Q = 20

For 127 & 128:

In the 3-phase inverter circuit shown, the load is balanced and the gating
scheme is 180º-conduction mode. All the switching devices are ideal.

126. The rms value of the load phase voltage is.

Ans: 141.4 V

127. If the DC bus voltage Vd = 300V, the power consumed by the 3-phase load
is.
Ans: 3.0 kW

128. The typical ratio of latching current to holding current in a 20A

thyristor is.
Ans: 2.0

129. A half-controlled single-phase bridge rectifier is supplying an R-L load.

It is operated at a firing angle α and the load current is continuous.
The fraction of cycle that the freewheeling diode conducts is.
Ans: α/π

130. Calculate the intrinsic carrier concentration in silicon at T = 300K. Let

coefficient related to the specific semiconductor material = 5.23 x 1015
cm-3K-3/2.
Ans: 1.5 x 1010 cm-3

131. Calculate the built-in potential barrier of a pn junction. Consider a

silicon pn junction at T = 300 K, doped at Na = 1016 cm−3 in the p-region
and Nd =1017 cm−3 in the n-region.
Ans: 0.757 V

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