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ECECMM7 SECOND GRADING EXAMINATIONS

Name: __________________________ Date: _____________________

Schedule: _______________________ Instructor: Demy F. Gabriel

I. A. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read each of the statements carefully and choose the
letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space provided. Use
CAPITAL LETTERS only. (2 points each)

_____ 1. It consists of sounds, music, or voices that are recorded magnetically

or digitally with the ability to be replayed at a later time and is
called. A. Recording C. Digital Recording
B. Sound Recording
D. Audio Recording
_____ 2. When the industry focused on the standardization and
implementation of digital
recording techniques using magnetic and optical media?
A.20th Century C. 1990s & 2000s
B. 1990s D. 1970s
_____ 3. Amplification and broadcasting could be developed only with the
harness and
Commercial use of.
A. audio recorders C. electricity
B. Magnetic tapes D. Communication
_____ 4. When was, the earliest audio recorded?
A. 1787 C. 1877
B. 1878 D. 1887
_____ 5. This device used pole pieces located on each side of the wire.
A. Gramaphone C. Phonograph
B. Telegraphone D. Magnetophone
_____ 6. What simple network time constants describes the break frequencies
of the
filters used in sound recording formats?
A. RC high pass networks C.LC high pass networks
B. RC low pass networks D. LC low
pass networks
_____ 7. For a storage temperature of 50 degrees Celsius, what is the
maximum relative
humidity?
A. 39% C. 59%
B. 49% D. 69%
_____ 8. Waveform with infinite number of amplitude is called.
A. Digital wave form C. Analog signal
B. Digital Signal D. Analog waveform
_____ 9. What suppresses quantization error?
A. Filter C. RC network
B. Dither D. Sampling
_____ 10. Digital audio can be recorded using a wide variety of media, except:
A. Digital C. magnetic
B. Optical D. Magneto-optical
_____ 11. Compact Disc were developed to store up to how many minutes of
stereo digital audio program material?
A. 64 C. 80
B. 85 D. 74

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_____ 12. The Compact Disc Physical Design has a diameter of

A. 20mm C. 120mm
B. 55mm D. 130mm
_____ 13. All audio compact discs and players must be manufactured
according to the
A. Red Book C. Yellow Book
B. Green Book D. Blue Book
_____ 14. It is the process of placing audio and other data in a frame format
suitable for storage on the disc.
A. CD recording C. Audio recording
B. CD Enconding D. Audion Enconding
_____ 15. How many parity bits are contained in a CD frame prior to
modulation?
A. 8 C. 192
B. 27 D. 64
_____ 16. In the CD system, it employs two error correction techniques. This
technique is
use to distribute error.
A. Parity C. Interleaving
B. Checksum D. CRC
_____ 17. These are all included in the 8-bit subcode symbol added to each
frame in a
CD, except:
A. P C. G
B. R D. Q
_____ 18. This contains a flag bit that can be used to identify disc data areas.
A. Q channel C. G channel
B. R channel D. P channel
_____ 19. What is used to buffer the effect of disc rotational wow and flutter?
A. Decoder C. CD
B. Memory D. Cassette
_____ 20. What is used to generate the values of intermediate sample points?
A. Resampling C. Integration
B. Interpolation D. Quantization
_____ 21. Source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using
fewer bits than the original representation is called
A. Data quantization C. Data compression
B. Sampling D. Adaptive compresion
_____ 22. The automatic correction of errors that arise from the incorrect
transmission of digital data is called
A. Error Correction C. TV Studios
B. Private Project Studios D. Radio Stations
_____ 23. A method by which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into
one signal over a shared medium
A. Sampling C. Mixing
B. Multiplexing D. Control Room
_____ 24. An equalizer that automatically adapts to time-varying properties of the
communication channel
A. Adaptive equalizer C. Band equalizer
B. Full equalizer D. Control equalizer
_____ 25. In psychoacoustics and acoustics, is the persistence of sound after a sound
is produced is called
A. Intensity C. Reverberation
B. Volume D. Pitch
_____ 26 Sound in the acoustic domain, either deliberate is called
A. Distortion C. Attenuation

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B. Acoustic NoiseD.
Interference
_____ 27. A method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional
audible perspective is called
A. Acoustic sound C. Interference sound
B. Stereophonic sound D.
Ultrasound
_____ 28. It is better to install one or more large systems supplying all the critical
loads of the facility which is the
A. Transformer C. AVR
B. UPS D. Battery
_____ 29. Methods for doing one of the following: Estimating the precision of sample
statistics
by using subsets of available data or drawing randomly with replacement
from a set
of data points.
A. Transformer C. AVR
B. Radio Engineers D. Broadcast Engineer
_____ 30. The system in a studio complex are important to a successful operation
and this area of design is usually best left to a specialist which is the
A. Quantization C.
Amplification B. Resampling
D. Sampling
_____ 31. A system that performs mathematical operations on a sampled, discrete-
time signal to reduce or enhance certain aspects of that signal is called.
A. Analog Filter C. RC
Filter B. Digital
Filter D. LC Filter
_____ 32. A condition created by the deterioration of the binders in a magnetic tape,
which
hold the iron oxide magnetizable coating to its plastic carrier, or which
hold the
thinner back-coating on the outside of the tape.
A. Sticky-shed syndrome C. Fresh Air Syndrome
B. Toxic Home Syndrome D.
Aspergers Syndrome
_____ 33. A general category of storage mechanisms where data are recorded by
various
electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of
one or
more rotating disks is called
A. Compact disk C. Disk Storage
B. Magnetic Tape D. Flash storage
_____ 34. The process of mapping a large set of input values to a (countable) smaller
set is called
A. Sampling C. Attenuation
B. Amplification D. Quantization
_____ 35. The opposite process of the conversion of an encoded format back into the
original
sequence of characters is called
A. Encryption C. Detection
B. Decryption D. Decoding
_____ 36. Circular disc which encodes binary data (bits) in the form of pits (binary
value of 0 or off, due to lack of reflection when read) and lands (binary
value of 1 or on, due to a reflection when read) on a special material is
called
A. USB C. Hard disk
B. Magnetic tape D. Optical disk

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_____ 37. A development of the existing WAV format, used on many digital audio
workstations
and computers is called
A. Broadcast Form C. WAVE
B. Broadcast Wave Form D. EURO wave
_____ 38. A small plastic disc on which music or other digital information is stored,
and from
which the information can be read using reflected laser light.
A. Compact Disk C. Hard Disk
B. Optical Disk D. Flash Disk
_____ 39. Technique in which the amplitude of an analog signal is converted to a
binary value represented as a series of pulses is called
A. Frequency Modulation C. Phase Modulation
B. Pulse-code modulation D. Pulse width Modulation
_____ 40. A principle that engineers follow in the digitization of analog signals is
called A. Nyquist theorem C.
Quantization Theorem B. Blaze theorem
D. Crisostomo Therorem

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