TRISTAN LUTHER

ELECTRONICS QUIZ

Here's a little quiz about electronics and computers I made a while back. Remade in Javascript. Quiz yourself or your friends! Here's the link to the original copy in a printer friendly pdf version.

  1. What electrical component stores energy in an electric field?

    Resistor
    Capacitor
    Inductor
    Diode

  2. Which of the following battery types is not rechargable?

    Nickel-Cadmium
    Carbon-Zinc
    Lead-Acid
    Lithium-Ion

  3. How is the cathode lead of a semiconductor diode usually identified?

    With the word cathode
    With a stripe
    With the letter C
    All of the above

  4. What electrical component stores energy in a magnetic field?

    Resistor
    Capacitor
    Inductor
    Diode

  5. If the numbers 104 are on a ceramic capacitor what is its value?

    0.1uF
    1000pF
    1nF
    10uF

  6. What is the electrical term for the electromotive force(EMF) that causes electron flow?

    Voltage
    Ampere-Hour
    Capacitance
    Inductance

  7. Which of the following is used together with an inductor to make a tuned circuit?

    Resistor
    Zener Diode
    Potentiometer
    Capacitor

  8. If a resistor has the color blue, grey, orange(in that order) what is its value?

    690 Ohms
    68K Ohms
    5.7K Ohms
    570K Ohms

  9. What type electrical component consists of two or more conductive surfaces separated by an insulator?

    Resistor
    Potentiometer
    Oscillator
    Capacitor

  10. What is the output of this XOR gate?

    xor
    1
    0
    2
    -1

  11. What does this symbol represent?

    What is it?
    Darlington Transistor
    MOSFET
    2N2222 Transistor
    Diode++

  12. Who invented AC?

    Michael Faraday
    William Shockley
    Nikola Tesla
    Alessando Volta

  13. What is the output of this logic network?

    xor
    True
    False

  14. 15mA of current would be flowing through a 330ohm resistor with a 5 volt source.

    True
    False

  15. The first battery was dated back to 250 BCE and was suspected to be used to electroplate statues.

    True
    False

  16. High voltage won't kill you, only high current.

    True
    False

  17. The first LED produced was a blue LED.

    True
    False

  18. PWM is identical to an Analog signal.

    True
    False

  19. 1 Ampere is equivalent to 1 Coulomb/Second.

    True
    False

  20. The voltage required across a LED is always 2.2V(regardless of color).

    True
    False



This article was last edited: March 2018