1. NEC 602 Digital Communication
MCQ for unit 5
1. The cyclic codes are designed using
a) Shift registers with feedback
b) Shift registers without feedback
c) Flipflops
d) None of the mentioned
2. A cyclic code can be generated using
a) Generator polynomial
b) Generator matrix
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
3. The feedback shift register circuit is called as
a) Multiplying circuit
b) Dividing circuit
c) Feedback circuit
d) Shifting circuit
4. In the dividing circuit, the parity polynomial is obtained by the
a) Quotient
b) Remainder
c) Dividend
d) Divisor
5. The received code contains error if the syndrome vector is
a) Zero
b) Non zero
c) Infinity
d) None of the mentioned
6. Block codes are generated using
a) Generator polynomial
b) Generator matrix
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
2. 7. Extended go-lay code is formed by
a) Adding overall parity bit to perfect go-lay code
b) Ex-oaring overall parity bit with perfect go-lay code
c) Ex-oaring each bit of go-lay code
d) Dividing the overall parity bit with perfect go-lay code
8. Block length is the _____________ in the code word.
a) Number of elements
b) Distance between elements
c) Number of parity bits
d) None of the mentioned
9. The rate of a block code is the ration of
a) Block length to message length
b) Message length to block length
c) Message weight to block length
d) None of the mentioned
10. Linear codes are used for
a) Forward error correction
b) Backward error correction
c) Forward error detection
d) Backward error detection
11. The k-bit message forms ____ distinct messages which is referred to as k-tuples.
a) 2k
b) K2
c) 2k
d) 21/k
12. The sum of any two vectors in subset S is also in S. This is called as
a) Addition property
b) Subset property
c) Closure property
d) Similarity property
13. To avoid corruption during transmission, the code-word should be
a) Near
b) Far apart
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
14. In a standard matrix set code-word there are _______ cosset.
a) 2k
b) 2n+k
c) 2n-k
d) 2n
3. 15. Syndrome is calculated by
a) HT/r
b) rHT
c) rH
d) None of the mentioned
16. The _____ of the code-word is the number of non zero elements.
a) Size
b) Weight
c) Distance
d) Subspace
17. Some examples of linear codes
a) Hamming code
b) Reed-Solomon code
c) Parity code
d) All of the mentioned
18. Adding improvement to the signal subset choice by starting with the densest possible lattice for the
space is called as
a) Optimum signal constellation boundaries
b) Higher density lattice structures
c) Trellis coded modulation
d) None of the mentioned
19. Choosing a closely packed signal subset from any regular lattice or array of candidate points is called
as
a) Optimum signal constellation boundaries
b) Higher density lattice structures
c) Trellis coded modulation
d) None of the mentioned
20. Trellis coded modulation uses
a) Non binary method
b) Uses redundant bits
c) No expansion of bandwidth
d) All of the mentioned
21. In finite state machines, output is predicted using
a) Past output
b) Present input
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
22. In TCM the signals are decoded using
a) Soft decision decoders
b) Hard decision decoders
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
4. 23. Trellis coded modulation scheme
a) Has memory
b) Is memory-less
c) Needs more bandwidth
d) None of the mentioned
24. In TCM channel capacity can be increased.
a) True
b) False
25. Transmission bandwidth depends on
a) Rate of signalling
b) Density of signal points
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
26. Which determines the error performance in TCM?
a) Reduced distance
b) Free distance
c) Bandwidth
d) None of the mentioned
27. The TCM decoder uses
a) Minimum likelihood detector
b) Maximum likelihood detector
c) Does not use redundant bits
d) None of the mentioned
28. While recovering signal, which gets attenuated more?
a) Low frequency component
b) High frequency component
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
29. Mutual information should be
a) Positive
b) Negative
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
30. ASCII code is a
a) Fixed length code
b) Variable length code
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
31. Which reduces the size of the data?
a) Source coding
b) Channel coding
5. c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
32. In digital image coding which image must be smaller in size?
a) Input image
b) Output image
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
33. Which coding method uses entropy coding?
a) Lossless coding
b) Lossy coding
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
34. Which achieves greater compression?
a) Lossless coding
b) Lossy coding
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
35. A code is a mapping from
a) Binary sequence to dicrete set of symbols
b) Discrete set of symbols to binary sequence
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
36. Which are uniquely decodable codes?
a) Fixed length codes
b) Variable length codes
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
37. A rate distortion function is a
a) Concave function
b) Convex function
c) Increasing function
d) None of the mentioned
38. Hamming distance can be given by the number of elements in which
a) They are same
b) They differ
c) Which are non zero
d) None of the mentioned
39. Code strength is characterized by its
a) Minimum distance
b) Maximum distance
c) Code weight
6. d) Code size
40. The distance between two code-words is equal to the _____ of the third code-word which is the sum
of the first two code-words.
a) Size
b) Weight
c) Minimum distance
d) None of the mentioned
41. Error detecting capability is given as
a) Dmin + 1
b) Dmin -1
c) Dmin
d) Dmin/2
42. The minimum distance Dmin can also be given as
a) Dmin >= α + β + 1
b) Dmin <= α + β + 1
c) Dmin >= α + β – 1
d) Dmin <= α + β + 1
43. The number of errors that can be corrected without erasure information is
a) Dmin+1
b) Dmin – 1
c) (Dmin+1)/2
d) (Dmin – 1)/2
44. For better efficiency and simplicity, n should be
a) Maximum
b) Minimum
c) Zero
d) Infinity
45. Nyquist frequency is given by
a) fs
b) 2fs
c) fs/2
d) None of the mentioned
46. Some various types of distortion are
a) Jitter
b) Noise
c) Aperture error
d) All of the mentioned
47. Noise which can affect sampling are
a) Thermal sensor noise
b) Analog circuit noise
7. c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
48. Oversampling can completely eliminate
a) Aperture error
b) Non linearity
c) Quantization error
d) All of the mentioned
49. Sampling can be used in
a) Audio
b) Speech
c) Video
d) All of the mentioned
50. What is the bit depth used for audio recording?
a) 8 bit
b) 16 bit
c) 24 bit
d) All of the mentioned
51. Which factors are measured using the units of lines per picture height?
a) Resolution
b) Sampling rate
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
52. Sampling of simultaneously two different but related wave-forms is called as
a) Over sampling
b) Complex sampling
c) Inter sampling
d) None of the mentioned
53. Sampling can be done for functions varying in
a) Space
b) Time
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
54. Reconstruction of continuous signals is done using
a) Decimation algorithm
b) Interpolation algorithm
c) Both of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned