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Information Theory And Coding — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Electronics & Communications Engineering MCQs on Information Theory And Coding — Part 2 with worked academic solutions for FPSC, PPSC, PTA, PAEC, NTS.

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40
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FPSC, PPSC, PTA...
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Question 1 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

For the 4 states of an encoder on vertical axis of Trellis diagram, what do/does the solid line indicate/s?

Question 2 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

The minimum distance of linear block code (d min ) is equal to minimum number of rows or columns of H T , whose . . . . . . . . is equal to zero vector.

Question 3 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

For a Gaussian channel of 1 MHz bandwidth with the signal power to noise spectral density ratio of about 104 Hz, what would be the maximum information rate?

Question 4 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Which is more efficient method?

Question 5 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In minimal polynomial, . . . . . . . . degree polynomial is present with coefficients in the basefield along with the zeros in extension field.

Question 6 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Basically, Galois field consists of . . . . . . . . number of elements.

Question 7 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Which among the following is used to construct the binary code that satisfies the prefix condition?

Question 8 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

If the channel is bandlimited to 6 kHz & signal to noise ratio is 16, what would be the capacity of channel?

Question 9 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In digital communication system, if both power and bandwidth are limited, then which mechanism/choice is preferred?

Question 10 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Which type of channel does not represent any correlation between input and output symbols?

Question 11 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Coded system are inherently capable of better transmission efficiency than the uncoded system.

Question 12 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In Trellis diagram, what do/does the horizontal axis represent/s?

Question 13 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In Viterbi's algorithm, which metric is adopted for decision making?

Question 14 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

At any given time, the output of an encoder depends on . . . . . . . .

Question 15 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In coding gain & bandwidth of TCM, if the signal energy is kept constant, the . . . . . . . . of constellation reduces the noise margin and results into the degradation of performance.

Question 16 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

On which factor/s do/does the channel capacity depend/s in the communication system?

Question 17 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Entropy of a random variable is

Question 18 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

With respect to power-bandwidth trade-off, for reducing the transmit power requirement, the bandwidth needs to be . . . . . . . .

Question 19 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In digital communication system, smaller the code rate, . . . . . . . . are the redundant bits.

Question 20 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

For a baseband system with transmission rate 'r s ' symbols/sec, what would be the required bandwidth?

Question 21 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

What is significance of D-frames in video coding

Question 22 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Which type of ARQ system introduces the transmission delay between the transmitter and receiver before the reception of frame at receiver for the purpose of error detection?

Question 23 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Which amount the following is capable of correcting any combination of three or fewer errors random errors in a block of 23 bits?

Question 24 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In dictionary techniques for data compaction, which approach of building dictionary is used for the prior knowledge of probability of the frequently occurring patterns?

Question 25 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In Repetition Code, how many information bit/s is/are present in addition to n-1 parity bits?

Question 26 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

According to linearity property, the. . . . . . . . of two code words in a cyclic code is also a valid code word.

Question 27 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

A linear Hamming code is used to map 4-bit messages to 7-bit codewords. The encoder mapping is linear. If the message 0001 is mapped to the codeword 0000111, and the message 0011 is mapped to the codeword 1100110, then the message 0010 is mapped to

Question 28 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

The unit of average mutual information is

Question 29 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

The method of converting a word to stream of bits is called as

Question 30 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

A memoryless source emits n symbols each with a probability p. The entropy of the source as a function of n

Question 31 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Generally, a primitive polynomial of degree 'm' is an irreducible polynomial in such a way that it is a factor of x n + 1, where 'n' = . . . . . . . .

Question 32 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Which coding technique/s exhibit/s the usability of fixed length codes?

Question 33 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

The capacity of a band-limited additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is given by $$C = W\,{\log _2}\left( {1 + \frac{P}{{{\sigma ^2}W}}} \right)$$ bits per second (bps), where W is the channel bandwidth, P is the average power received and σ 2 is the one-sided power spectral density of the AWGN. For a fixed $$\frac{P}{{{\sigma ^2}}} = 1000,$$ the channel capacity (in kbps) with infinite bandwidth (W → ∞) is approximately

Question 34 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In channel coding theorem, channel capacity decides the . . . . . . . . permissible rate at which error free transmission is possible.

Question 35 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

When the base of the logarithm is e, the unit of measure of information is

Question 36 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

For fixed symbol rate, increase in bits/symbol ultimately improves rb/B bits/s/Hz & hence, regarded as . . . . . . . .

Question 37 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In Viterbi's algorithm, the selected paths are regarded as . . . . . . . .

Question 38 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

In a linear code, the minimum Hamming distance between any two code words is . . . . . . . . minimum weight of any non-zero code word.

Question 39 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Which bitmap file format/s support/s the Run Length Encoding (RLE)?

Question 40 of 40
★ FPSC ★ PPSC

Self information should be

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