Draft of October 2015 Electronics Engineering Board Exam Questions and Concepts

DRAFT OF OCTOBER 2015 ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING BOARD EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CONCEPTS

*Items enclosed in parentheses refer to the choices.
MATHEMATICS
EXACT QUESTIONS:
1. It shows the truth or falsity of a proposition. (truth table/truth sentence)
2. Find the length of AB.
3. The population of Nicosia (Cyprus) is 75% Greek and 25% Turkish. 20% of the
Greeks and 10% of the Turks speak English. A visitor of the town meets someone
who speaks English. What is the probability that he is a Greek?
(Source: Exercises in Probability by T. Cacoullos)
SIGNIFICANT CONCEPTS:
4. Differential Equations
5. Indefinite integrals (e^ix), and properties of imaginary exponents
6. Boolean algebra
7. Probability
8. Recursion
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
EXACT QUESTIONS:
1. A small electric vehicle is powered by a 96 V battery and uses a series wound
motor. It has a step-down chopper for forward drive and a step-up chopper for
regenerative braking. The total armature resistance is 0.1 ohm, and the armature
voltage constant is 10m V/A-rad/s. Descending a hill in regeneration mode the
motor speed is 1000 rev/min and the armature current is a constant average value
of 80A. Calculate the value of the duty cycle required and the available braking
power.
(Source: Introduction to Power Electronics by D. Fewson)
2. What is this circuit? Totem pole.
3. What is this circuit? Differential Amplifier.
4. He hypothesized that a current carrying conductor produces a magnetic field.

(Faraday/Ampere)
5. BJT problem Find Vc. All values of resistances and voltage sources are given.
6. What does the right symbol represent? P-channel, E-MOSFET
7. To ensure no distortion (Q-point biased at the middle of the characteristic curve)

8. Does not detect conductive material without touching it. (inductive sensor,
proximity sensor, electronic proximity sensor)
9. Power factor of a half-wave rectifier.
10. Characteristic curve is presented, find the ideal power output. BJT problem.
11. Find the power drawn from the sources (op-amp), input voltage pk-pk is given,
current drawn from the sources, value of voltage source, output voltage pk-pk, input
current.)
GENERAL ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
EXACT QUESTIONS:
1. The mass of a bullet is 2 grams and its velocity is 30,000 centimeters per second
(approximately true for a .22 caliber bullet). What is its kinetic energy? (units in the
choices are in gm-cm)
2. The theorem states that the moment of a resultant of two concurrent forces
about any point is equal to the algebraic sum of the moments of its components
about the same point. (Varignons theorem)
3. Nucleophiles donates electrons
4. Electrophiles accepts electrons
5. A sunk cost is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered.
6. Pappus' centroid theorem is either of two related theorems dealing with the
surface areas and volumes of surfaces and solids of revolution.
7. How does a sodium ion differ from a sodium atom? (Sodium ion has an extra
electron)
8. Mechanics (moment, sum of forces), concepts, and applications
9. Rotational kinetic energy
10. Compound interest
11. RA 9292 (sections and articles), other Laws related to ECE
12. Find the unknown force that will make the system in equilibrium.
13. Given the current flowing on a conductor, distance between the conductors, find
the electric field intensity between them.
ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
EXACT QUESTIONS:
1. Forward and reverse channel used in AMPS.
2. Interoperability - is the ability of different information technology systems and
software applications to communicate
3. How does an FM broadcaster provide additional services (such as background
music, etc.)?
4. A parallel plate capacitor is made from 9 plates, each 70 mm by 120 mm,
interleaved with mica of relative permittivity 5. If the capacitance of the capacitor is
3000 pF determine the thickness of the mica.
5. A technique used by engineers to determine the total error, by calculating the
total number of errored bits as a function of the total bits transmitted. (error
detection/error sampling/error coding)
6. A type of error-correcting code where bits are interleaved continuously.
(convolutional code/Manchester code/block coding/correlation coding)
7. Roaming helps ensure that a traveling wireless device (typically a cell phone) is
kept connected to a network without breaking the connection.
8. The radiation pattern is a graphical depiction of the relative field strength
transmitted from or received by the antenna.
9. Information capacity calculations
10. OSI Layers
11. Aperture antenna calculations
12. Parabolic reflector calculations
13. Fresnel Zone calculations/analysis
14. HDTV (given pixels, frames per second, etc.) dimensional analysis
OBSERVATIONS/SUGGESTIONS: (relative to Oct. 2015 ECE Board Exam)
1. MATH: Calcutech is key. (There were so many DEs). It might be important to
imitate the way the questions are presented in the board exam, i.e. one-liner
display, because it is somehow confusing on the way the equations are presented.
And be ready for typographical errors and misplaced marks; hence, the need for
troubleshooting of questions.
2. ELEX: Learn the basics and concepts. Practice a lot of Q&As, because there are
many objective-type questions per se (not only concepts-type of questions); hence,
familiarize notable people in the field of electronics, significant terminologies, etc.
Also, power electronics, digital electronics, and industrial electronics questions are
still booming.
3. GEAS: Make a mnemonic regarding RA 9292, and other significant laws.

Calcutech is of big help in this subject as well. There were a few errored questions.
And majority of the questions came from basic statics (equilibrium of forces), and
strength of materials. Learn the concepts, so you can answer even the advanced
questions. There were some electromag topics not discussed during the review.
4. ESAT: Understanding the concepts is essential. Read and understand. Majority of
the problems given are relative to getting the information capacity. Microwave
problems are still numerous. And concepts-based questions, plus familiarizing on
significant terminologies in this subject are a must.

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DRAFT OF OCTOBER 2015 ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING BOARD EXAM

QUESTIONS AND CONCEPTS

3. What is this circuit? Differential Amplifier.

4. He hypothesized that a current carrying conductor produces a magnetic field.

6. What does the right symbol represent? P-channel, E-MOSFET

7. To ensure no distortion (Q-point biased at the middle of the characteristic curve)

ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

3. GEAS: Make a mnemonic regarding RA 9292, and other significant laws.

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