1. An instrument designed to measure a frequency-weighted value of the sound pressure level.

a. Sound-level meter
b. Transducer
c. Sound pressure meter
d. Sound analyzer
2. A unit of noisiness related to the perceived noise level
a. Noy
b. Sone
c. dB
d. phone
3. An agreed set of empirical curves relating octave-band osund pressure level to the center frequency of
the octave bands
a. C-message weighting curves
b. Psophometric weighting curves
c. Noise rating curves
d. F1A weighting curves
4. The frequency of free vibration
a. Resonant frequency
b. Natural frequency
c. Center frequency
d. Normal frequency
5. The transmission of sound from one room to an adjacent room, via common walls, floors or ceilings.
a. Flanking transmission
b. Refraction
c. Reflection
d. Reverberation
6. A measure of threshold hearing, expressed in decibels relative to a specifoed standard of normal
hearing.
a. Hearing loss
b. Sensation level
c. Hearing level
d. Sound pressure level
7. A certain machine with a slightly out-of-balance motor rotating at 1800/min is fixed on a perfectly
elastic mount with a static compression of 2.50 mm. Calculate the resonant frequency of mount.
a. 10 Hz
b. 20 Hz
c. 30 Hz
d. 40 Hz
8. Calculate the lowest resonant frequency for a brick partition 120 mm thick, 4m by 2min area with
longitudinal wave velocity of 2350 m/s. (Assume that it is supported at its edges.)
a. 10 Hz
b. 20 Hz
c. 30 Hz
d. 40 Hz
9. Velocity of sound in air.
a. 300 m/s
b. 330 m/s
c. 1130 m/s
d. 344 m/s
10. What is the expected critical frequency for a 120 mm thick brick wall? Assume a longitudinal wave
velocity in brick of 2350 m/s and that the velocity of sound in air is 330 m/s.
a. 114.5 Hz
b. 214.5 Hz
c. 314.5 Hz
d. 414.5 Hz
11. The sound power level of a certain jet plane flying at a height of 1km is 160 dB (re10 -12W). Find the
maximum sound pressure level on the ground directly below the flight path assuming that the aircraft
radiates sound equally in all directions.
a. 59.1 dB
b. 69.1 dB
c. 79.1 dB
d. 89.1 dB
12. Speaker is a device that
a. Converts sound waves into current and voltage
b. Converts current variations into sound waves
c. Converts elctrical energy to mechanical energy
d. Converts elctrical energy to electromagnetic energy
13. Which type of microphone operates on the principle that the electrical resistance of carbon granules
varies as the pressure on the granules vary?
a. Dynamic
b. Crystal
c. Carbon
d. Ribbon-type
14. Bass response is
a. Maximum highfrequency response
b. Emphasizing the high audio frequency
c. Bypassing high audio frequencies
d. Bypassing low audio frequencies
15. Pure tone of sound used as standard on testing
a. 1 Hz
b. 10 Hz
c. 100 Hz
d. 1000 Hz
16. ___________ is early reflection of sound.
a. Echo
b. Reverberation
c. Pure sound
d. Intelligible sound
17. Noise reduction system used for film sound in movie.
a. Dolby
b. dBa
c. dBx
d. dBk
18. What is the sound energy per unit area at right angles to the propagation direction per unit time?
a. Loudness
b. Coherence
c. Sound pressure
d. Sound intensity
19. ________ is the unit of loudness level of a sound.
a. Sone
b. Decibel
c. Mel
d. Phon
20. ____________ is the average rate of transmission of sound energy in a given direction through a
cross-section area of 1 sqm at right angles to the direction.
a. Sound pressure
b. Loudness
c. Sound intensity
d. Pressure variation
21. What is the unit of pitch?
a. Sone
b. Phon
c. Decibel
d. Mel
22. A measure of the intensity of sound in comparison to another sound intensity.
a. Phon
b. Decibel
c. Pascal
d. Watts
23. Sound wave has two main characteristics which are
a. Highness and loudness
b. Tone and loudness
c. Pitch and loudness
d. Rarefraction and compression
24. Which type of microphone operated by electromagnetic induction that generates an output signal
voltage?
a. Carbon
b. Dynamic
c. Crystal
d. Condenser
25. The exciter lamp in the optical sound part of a film projector draws 5 A at 10 V. How much power in
watts is this light consuming?
a. 10 watts
b. 20 watts
c. 40 watts
d. 50 watts
26. Assume the speed of sound is 1,130 ft/s. What frequency has a wavelength of 1 foot, 1.5 inches?
a. 500 Hz
b. 1000 Hz
c. 1500 Hz
d. 2000 Hz
27. The wire must bring 100 average watts to a 4 ohms loudspeaker must safely carry what rms current?
a. 2 A
b. 4 A
c. 5 A
d. 6 A
28. A church has an internalvolume of 90.05 ft 3 (2550 m3). When it contains customary sabine sof
absorption (186 metric sabines), what will be its reverberation time in seconds.
a. 2.0
b. 2.2
c. 2.5
d. 3.0
29. If the RMs sound pressure is 5lb/ft 2, what is the sound presure level?
a. 7.6 dB
b. 108 dB
c. 88 dB
d. 10 dB
30. Speed that is faster than speed of sound.
a. Ultrasonic
b. Supersonic
c. Subsonic
d. Transonic
31. Sound waves travel faster in water at a ______ speed.
a. 12.4 miles/sec
b. 5000 ft/sec
c. 186,000 ft/sec
d. 3141 ft/sec
32. What is the sound power from a motor car whose SPL at a distance of 7.5 m is 87 dB assuming that it
radiates sound unifomly?
a. 0.15 W
b. 0.21 W
c. 0.24 W
d. 0.18 W
33. Crest-to-crest distance along the direction to wave travel.
a. Compression
b. Wavelength
c. Period
d. Sound wave
34. Sound intensity level is _________.
a. 10 log I/Iref
b. 10 log P/Pref
c. 20 log I/Iref
d. 30 log P/Pref
35. Sound pressure level is _________.
a. 20 log P/ Pref
b. 30 log P/ Pref
c. 10 log P/ Pref
d. 20 log I/Iref
36. The most important specification of loudspeakers and microphones.
a. Frequency response
b. Field strength
c. Power density
d. Gain
37. Lowest fequency produced by a musical instrument.
a. Midrange
b. Harmonic
c. Reflection
d. Refraction
38. Tendency of a sound energy to spread.
a. Diffraction
b. Rarefraction
c. Reflection
d. Refraction
39. Whenwaves bend away from straight lines of travel, it is called _________.
a. Reflection
b. Diffraction
c. Rarefraction
d. Refraction
40. Required time for any sound to decay to 60 dB.
a. Echo time
b. Delay time
c. Reverberation time
d. Transient time
41. The intensity needed to produce an audible sound varies with __________.
a. Frequency
b. Noise
c. Amplitude
d. Tone
42. Sound that vibrates too high for the human ear to hear (over 20 kHz).
a. Subsonic
b. Transonic
c. Ultrasonic
d. Stereo
43. Which microphone will be damaged if exposed to high temperature above 52C?
a. Dynamic
b. Crystal
c. Ribbon
d. Capacitor
44. A thin springy sheet of bakelite or metal that permits the voice coil in a dynamic loudspeaker to move
back and forth salong the core of its magnet.
a. Vibrator
b. Diaphragm
c. Hypex
d. Spider
45. One hundred twenty bars of pressure variation is equal to
a. 120 dB SPL
b. 57.78 dB SPL
c. 115.56 dB SPL
d. 41.58 dB SPL
46. The reverberation time of a 184.2 cubic meters broadcast studio is 0.84 sec. Find the absorption
effect of the materials used in metric sabines.
a. 35.3
b. 10.96
c. 379.8
d. 109.6
47. What is the microphone characteristic that results in a boost in bassfrequencies for close microphone
spacing?
a. Field effect
b. P.A. effect
c. Proximity effect
d. Reverberation
48. What is the audio frequency range?
a. 20 kHz to 20 MHz
b. 0 Hz to 20 kHz
c. 300 Hz to 400 Hz
d. 20 Hz to 20 kHz
49. What is the bass frequency range?
a. 2500 Hz to 5000 Hz
b. 5000 Hz to 10 kHz
c. 40 kHz to 160 kHz
d. 10 Hz to 20 kHz
50. High frequency range of audio signals.
a. 2500 Hz to 5000 Hz
b. 5000 Hz to 10 kHz
c. 10 kHz to 20 kHz
d. 20000 Hz to 30 kHz
51. What is the dB SPL of a voice paging in an office?
a. 90
b. 65
c. 55-60
d. 80-85
52. What is the dB SPL of an auditorium with contemporary music?
a. 80-95
b. 85-90
c. 95-100
d. 100-105
53. What is the church dB SPL with speech reinforcement only?
a. 90
b. 80-85
c. 85-90
d. 90-95
54. Intensity can also be called as
a. Volume
b. Loudness
c. Sharpness
d. Strength
55. Tje loudness of a sound depends upon the energy of motion imparted to ________ molecules of the
medium transmitting the sound.
a. Transmitting
b. Running
c. Moving
d. Vibrating
56. _________ is affected by the distance between the listener and the source of the sound and its
intensityvaries inversely with the square of its distance.
a. Volume
b. Bass
c. Treble
d. Loudness
57. If the distance between the listener and the source of the sound is doubled, the intensity is reduced to
a.
b. 1/3
c. 2/3
d. 1/4
58. If the distance between the listener and the source of the sound is decreased to tye original amount,
the intensity of the sound would be
a. 2 times as great
b. 3 times as great
c. 4 times as great
d. 5 times as great
59. At a sensation level of 40 dB, 1000 Hz tone is
a. 1000 mels
b. 500 mels
c. 2000 mels
d. 100 mels
60. If the sound waves are converted to electrical waves by a microphone, what is the frequency of the
electric current?
a. 3 - 30 MHz
b. 25 8000 Hz
c. 4 40 Hz
d. 30 3000 Hz
61. For a music lover concert A is 440 Hz. If a musical note one octave higher were played, it would
be _______ that frequency.
a. One half
b. One-fourth
c. Double
d. Triple
62. In a 220 Hz, if a note was played one octave lower, it would be ______.
a. 22 Hz
b. 27.5 Hz
c. 440 Hz
d. 110 Hz
63. Much of music is generally reffered to in
a. Harmonics
b. Good hearing
c. Fidelity
d. Octaves
64. _________ is an undesired change in wave form as the signal passes through a device.
a. Noise
b. Vibration
c. Distortion
d. Harmonics
65. Distortion enhances intelligibly when an ________ is added.
a. Equalizer
b. Igniter
c. Exciter
d. Emulsifier
66. A class of signal processors.
a. Amplifiers
b. Equalizers
c. Microprocessors
d. Exciters
67. Half construction and internal finishes affect the final sound quality ________.
a. poorly
b. mildly
c. significantly
d. badly
68. Positioning a loudspeaker near a wall can dramatically alter its frequency response in two distinct
ways namely;
a. Gump and dump
b. Hump and notch
c. Fade and gone
d. Bad and worst
69. The acoustics of most auditoria are very ________ when the room is full compared to the empty
condition.
a. Different
b. Similar
c. Good
d. Bad
70. A _________ converts acoustical energy.
a. Electro-acoustic
b. Microphone transducer
c. Microphone
d. Electric Microphone
71. All microphone have two basic components namely, ___________.
a. Wired and body
b. Ceramic and crystal
c. Diaphragm and generating element
d. Coil and magnet
72. The kinds of generating elements are __________.
a. Expense and fidelity
b. Complexity and ruggedness
c. Longevity
d. All of these
73. When the average absorption is greater than 0.2, __________ formula is used to compute the actual
reverberation time.
a. Sabine
b. Stephen and Bate
c. Norris-Eyring
d. Notch
74. At room temperature, what is the velocity of sound in meters/seconds?
a. 348.03 cm/s
b. 980 cm/s
c. 980 m/s
d. 341.8 m/s
75. Calculate the velocity of sound in ft./sec. if the temperature is 149 0C?
a. 1530.03 ft/sec
b. 1320 ft/sec
c. 1357.03 ft/sec
d. 1920.345 ft/sec
76. The wavelength of a sound of 20 kHz frequency is
a. 16.5 m
b. 16.5 cm
c. 16.5 mm
d. 16.5 um
77. The radio of frequencies is termed
a. Octave
b. Interval
c. Harmonics
d. Masking
78. What is the increase in sound pressure level in dB, if the pressure is doubled?
a. 2 dB
b. 3 dB
c. 6 dB
d. 4 dB
79. A term which is subjected but dependent mainly on frequency and also affected by intensity,
a. Timbre
b. Quality
c. Frequency
d. Pitch
80. An effect that occurs in the ear where a louder sound can reduce or even stop the nerve voltage
generated by a weaker sound.
a. Piezoelectric effect
b. Skin effect
c. Lasing
d. Masking
81. For computation of ideal reverberation time, which formula is applicable?
a. Sabine
b. Stephen and Bate
c. Norris-Eyring
d. Notch
82. The __________ of the sound is a subjective effect which is a function of the ear and brain.
a. Pitch
b. Frequency
c. Timbre
d. Loudness
83. Define as the time taken from the intensity of sound energy in the room to drop to one millionth of its
initial value.
a. Reverberation time
b. Transit time
c. Decaying time
d. Response time
84. __________ is the sound energy per unit area at right angles of the propagation direction, per unit
time.
a. Loudness
b. Coherence
c. Sound stress
d. Sound intensity
85. One octave above 600 Hz is
a. 601 Hz
b. 800 Hz
c. 1400 Hz
d. 1200 Hz
86. A car horn outdoors produces a sound intensity level of 90 dB at 10 m away. At this distance, what is
the sound power in watt?
a. 0.63
b. 1.26
c. 0.315
d. 0.56 x 10-6
87. The unit of loudness level
a. Sone
b. dB
c. Mel
d. Phon
88. Consist of a rapid succession of noticeable echoes.
a. Rarefaction
b. Refraction
c. Reflection
d. Flutter echo
89. Laid the foundations of acoustic theory of buildings.
a. Charles H. Townes
b. W.C Sabine
c. A. Javin
d. Stephen and Bate
90. An aural sensation by pressure variations in the air which are always produced by some source of
vibrations.
a. Music
b. Sound
c. Disturbance
d. Speech
91. Considered to be the threshold of hearing.
a. 10-12 W/cm2
b. 10-16 W/m2
c. 10-13 W/m2
d. 10-12 W/m2
92. The average absorption for a person is
a. 5.7 units
b. 4.7 units
c. 6.7 units
d. 3.7 units
93. The number of vibration or pressure fluctuations per seconds.
a. Frequency
b. Timbre
c. Quality
d. Pitch
94. Defined as the average rate of transmission of sound energy in a given direction through a cross-
sectional area of 1 m2 at right angles to the direction.
a. Sound pressure
b. Loudness
c. Sound intensity
d. Pressure variation
95. What is the sound pressure level (SPL) of a sound having a RMS pressure of 200 N/m 2?
a. 150 dB
b. 140 dB
c. 170 dB
d. 160 dB
96. The minimum sound intensity that can be heard is termed
a. Threshold of feeling
b. Threshold of pain
c. Threshold of sensation
d. Threshold of hearing
97. What is the intensity of the sound whose RMS pressure is 200 N/m 2?
a. 96.9 W/m2
b. 97.9 W/m2
c. 95.9 W/m2
d. 94.9 W/m2
98. The unit of pitch.
a. sone
b. pitch
c. dB
d. Mel
99. What is the increase in sound pressure level in dB, if the intensity is doubled?
a. 2 dB
b. 3 dB
c. 4 dB
d. 6 dB
100. The velocity of sound is considered to be constant at ________ for the purpose of acoustics.
a. 300 m/s
b. 330 mm/s
c. 330 m/s
d. 330 cm/s