Basic Electronics Quiz.
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This tests basic knowledge of electronics that would be necessary to be a hobbyist.
- 1.An electronic component that resists changes in current by inducing voltage to maintain that current is an example of what component?
- A.
A Capacitor
- B.
A Resistor
- C.
An Inductor
- D.
A transistor
- E.
A Diode
- 2.A diode that has 5 volts connected to the Anode and 0 volts or a ground connection to the cathode is an example of a reverse biased diode.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.In a diode or BJT (bipolar junction transistor) a large depletion region is associated with a reverse biased diode or reverse biased junction.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.CMOS stands for.
- A.
Complementary Metal Optical System
- B.
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
- C.
Capacitive Metal On Semiconductor
- D.
Capacitive Memory Oriented Semiconductor
- 5.Zener Diodes have a negative breakdown voltage that will allow current to pass through the reverse biased diode when it reaches the breakdown voltage.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.A small ceramic capacitor with the marking 104 would indicate what capacitance value.
- A.
.01uF
- B.
10nF
- C.
27uF
- D.
0.1uF
- 7.A quarter watt resister that is 100 ohms in value would have ______ dc volts max voltage across it to not burn up the resistor.
- 8.Check all that apply with respect to a circuit where the input is AC that goes to a resistor that connects to a capacitor which is the circuit output and the other end of the capacitor is tied to ground.
- A.
The circuit represents a low pass filter from input to output
- B.
The phase relationship between the output to input is that the output phase voltage leads the input voltage phase.
- C.
The phase relationship between the output to input is that the output phase voltage lags the input voltage phase.
- D.
The output is a half-wave rectified input.
- 9.A resistor with color bands 'brown' 'black' 'oranage' 'gold' represents what values of resistance and tolerance.
- A.
100 ohm +- 10%
- B.
1K ohm +- 10%
- C.
10k ohm +- 5 %
- D.
100k ohm +- 10%
- 10.
- A.
A ceramic disk capacitor
- B.
A resistor
- C.
A diode
- D.
An electrolytic capacitor
- E.
A tantalum capacitor
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