CE/EE 3161 UTD Practice Test

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• Which description matches the Perceiving trait?
• In a voltage divider formed by impedances Z1 and Z2 in series, what is the expression for V_out across Z2?
• In a first-order RC circuit with a step input, what is the final value of v_C(t) as t approaches infinity?
• What are the general steps for performing mesh analysis on a circuit?
• In the data classification scheme, which category is described as 'Accessible to everyone'?
• Which statement best describes the standard arrangement of axes on a Bode magnitude plot?
• Which act prohibits polygraph testing of job applicants?
• Which of the following statements about software race conditions is true?
• Which statement correctly describes Ethical egoism?
• In complex power S = P + jQ, what do P and Q represent?
• For a first-order RC circuit with a step input of amplitude V0 at t=0, what is the expression for capacitor voltage v_C(t) for t ≥ 0?
• Which of the following is a right of a copyright holder?
• Which description correctly identifies the unit mismatch responsible for the Mars mission failure?
• When a court decides a copyright infringement case, which factor is not considered?
• In the given data classification scheme, which category corresponds to information that cannot be released without the owner's consent?
• A personal AI is defined as?
• With negative feedback and high open-loop gain, what happens to the differential input voltage?
• Which of the following components is NOT typically part of an integrated circuit?
• A self-contained program that spreads through a computer network by exploiting security holes is called?
• Which statement best contrasts Role Responsibility with Causal Responsibility?
• What is the impedance of a capacitor in the Laplace domain?
• Which term best describes government restriction of internet information access?
• Which option correctly defines Ethical Egoism as described in the material?
• Which conflict resolution technique focuses on the root cause and a joint solution?
• By replacing hardware safety features with software controls in the Therac-25 machine, AECL was able to
• For a causal system, what is the proper lower limit of integration in the convolution integral?
• Which pairing best represents measures to improve system availability?
• Which option illustrates maintaining data integrity through change detection and backups monitoring?
• To determine Thevenin resistance when dependent sources are present, which method is used?
• What are the conditions for underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped responses in a series RLC circuit?
• Which damping scenario yields a non-oscillatory response that is slower than the critically damped case?
• Which pair is associated with accountability in information systems?
• What is the impedance Z(ω) of a series RLC circuit as a function of angular frequency ω?
• Which statement best distinguishes a worm from a Trojan Horse?
• A benign capability that conceals another sinister purpose is called?
• In an ideal op-amp with negative feedback, the differential input voltage is driven toward zero. What is this condition commonly called?
• Which statement describes collaboration in conflict resolution?
• Which statement about copyrights is accurate?
• A Sting operation targets people who committed an offense.
• Licensing and registration involves?
• An association of people organized under a system of rules designed to advance the good of its members over time is called a
• Describe the natural response of a first-order RL circuit with initial inductor current I0 and zero input after t > 0.
• Which act primarily regulates health information privacy?
• Globalization is defined as which of the following?
• Extending the deadline for the decision is an example of which conflict-resolution technique?
• In the data classification scheme, which category is described as 'Not public but can be released without owner's consent'?
• Which statement best reflects professional ethics regarding involvement with fraudulent enterprises?
• Phishing can be described as which of the following?
• Which expression correctly relates Norton current In to Thevenin parameters?
• Which act gives students 18 years of age and older the right to request corrections to errors in their educational records?
• The AT&T long-distance network did not collapse completely because what condition was true?
• The output y(t) of a linear time-invariant system is given by y(t) = x(t) * h(t). Which integral expression correctly represents y(t) for a causal system?
• Social engineering is primarily used to do which of the following?
• Pre-publication review; which scenario is consistent?
• Pre-publication review refers to restricting publication before release, such as?
• Which controls support integrity?
• Which of the following statements best describes ethics?
• In the time domain, the current through a capacitor i_C is given by which expression?
• In a situation where a clear violation occurs repeatedly and internal channels have failed, which action aligns with professional ethics as the first resort?
• An opt-in policy requires what before sharing data?
• Which mechanisms ensure accountability?
• The Principles and Clauses in the Software Engineering/ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Practice are
• For maximum power transfer in AC circuits with complex impedances, which relation must the load impedance satisfy?
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act prohibits polygraph testing in employment.
• In a circuit with a sinusoidal source Vin = Vm cos(ωt) driving a purely resistive load R, what is the phase difference between the voltage across the load and the load current?
• Which statement about Copyright protection is accurate?
• What does legal responsibility entail?
• For a sinusoidal source driving a purely resistive load, what is the phase difference between the voltage and current?
• Which statement about Kantianism is consistent with the material?
• Which statement is true about freedom of expression in the United States?
• Which statement about trade secrets is accurate?
• Which statement about licensing is true?
• What is the DC behavior of capacitors and inductors in steady state?
• Which act gives students 18 years of age and older the right to review their educational records?
• In DC steady state, what is the effective impedance of a capacitor and an inductor?
• Which statement about patents is true?
• The digital divide describes?
• Which of the following is the transfer function for a first-order RC high-pass filter?
• What is the impedance of an inductor L at angular frequency ω?
• Role Responsibility is defined as
• Determining that a person is who he or she claims to be on a computer is called
• Which term describes a semiconductor device containing transistors, capacitors, and resistors?
• What are the essential steps to perform nodal analysis on a circuit with N nodes?
• Which statement describes the importance of a fair agreement regarding IP ownership contributed by a software engineer?
• In an ideal operational amplifier, what are the input and output impedances?
• NOT a requirement for PE licensure?
• The Patriot missile system is associated with which type of software fault?
• What is the Laplace transform of the unit step function u(t)?
• Act Utilitarianism is best described as:
• The process of giving someone the legal right to practice a profession is called
• Conflict of interest is an ethical problem, if not disclosed, because it
• According to the passive sign convention, where does the current enter for an element to absorb power?
• What does a Bode plot show and what are its two main components?
• The AT&T Long-Distance Network issue was attributed to which problem?
• In Aristotle's virtue ethics, deriving pleasure from a virtuous act indicates which of the following?
• Which statement about SPAM is NOT true?
• Your company policy allows gift exchanges with customers up to a certain limit. By mistake, you have given a gift beyond the limit mentioned in your company policy to a customer's representative. What is the most ethical action to take first?
• Which statement best describes the superposition principle?
• The quantity RC in the RC low-pass impulse response represents what concept?
• To determine Vth for a Thevenin equivalent, the terminal should be left open and Vth is measured as the open-circuit voltage.
• A meeting where one party focuses on their own point of view and aims to win is which technique?
• What is the impedance of a resistor R in the phasor domain?
• For a non-inverting op-amp configuration with feedback resistors R_f and R_g, what is the closed-loop gain?
• In an inverting amplifier, if R_in is doubled while R_f remains the same, how does the magnitude of the closed-loop gain change?
• Licensing and registration measures often result in which outcome?
• In a series RL circuit with a step input and zero initial current, what is i(0)?
• Ethics is best described as which of the following?
• In a series RLC circuit, what is the resonance condition for ω0?
• The privacy right is best described as which type of right?
• Which statement about employee monitoring is true?
• Which clause in the Software Engineering/ACM Code of Ethics are upheld by a whistleblower
• For a first-order RL circuit with a step input V0 at t=0 and initially zero current, what is the current i(t)?
• Endorsement signatures are required from how many licensed PEs?
• For a sinusoidal quantity with peak value V_peak, which expression gives its RMS value?
• Which of the following actions is consistent with ethical contract negotiation in PMI ethics?
• If a source impedance has a nonzero reactance, the load impedance for maximum power transfer should be:
• Define a transfer function H(s) and what it represents in circuit analysis.
• For a series RLC circuit, which expression represents the quality factor Q?
• Which statement is most accurate about ethics?
• What is the impedance of a capacitor C at angular frequency ω?
• What is the Laplace-domain expression for the current through a capacitor with initial voltage v(0-)?
• Which statement about the REAL ID Act is NOT true?
• Which of the following is an example of something that could be copyrighted?
• Under an opt-in information-sharing policy, what must a consumer do before sharing information?
• If a project is likely to fail or violate IP law, what should you do?
• Which statement best defines a software race condition?
• Which source of law is used in cases of intellectual property disputes?
• Which term best matches 'an association of people organized under a system of rules designed to advance the good of its members over time'?
• Which statement about consent is true?
• What software issue caused the Therac-25 accident?
• After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which U.S. governmental agency collected telephone call records of tens of millions of Americans without a court order?
• Which statement best describes government monopolization of information access?
• What is the formula for the energy stored in an inductor with current i through it?
• What caused the Mars Climate Orbiter failure?
• Define the steady-state phasor representation for a sinusoidal signal of amplitude A and phase φ.
• Which statement about IP recognition is true?
• If a conflict of interest exists in a job opportunity, an engineer may accept such employment if
• Intellectual Property rights are a natural right.
• Which statement correctly describes an ideal op-amp’s input and output impedances?
• The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Practice is described as
• In a conflict of interest scenario, which action is recommended?
• Thevenin's theorem states that a linear circuit viewed from two terminals is equivalent to:
• Which act prohibits discrimination based on genetic information in health insurance and employment?
• Whistleblowers
• According to the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, which organization cannot administer lie detector tests to job applicants?
• The two principal catalysts for the Information Age are?
• The time constant τ has units of what?
• Self-censorship can be exemplified by which practice?
• Which of the following is one of the four high level principles of the PMI Code of Ethics?
• Which statement describes appropriate professional signatures on plans or documents?
• Employers protect themselves against lawsuits by their employees for privacy violations by:
• The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects which right?
• Self-censorship can be illustrated by which of the following?
• Which action by patent trolls may threaten innovation and startups?
• Which scenario best illustrates a potential conflict of interest?
• Which statement correctly reflects professional truthfulness?
• Which action demonstrates withdrawal in conflict resolution?
• The Therac-25 incidents were attributed to which combination?
• Which statement is NOT described as a description of IP protection?
• Entrapment is defined as inducing someone to commit an offense.
• Which statement best describes the role of a whistleblower in ethics?
• Which of the following is a requirement for PE licensure?
• Intellectual Property protection is described as which of the following?
• Describe the natural response of a first-order RC circuit with initial capacitor voltage V0 and zero input after t > 0.
• Which expression correctly represents the convolution integral describing the time-domain output y(t)?
• Which expression correctly represents the impedance of a capacitor in the phasor domain?
• Social engineering is commonly used by hackers as a first step to gain access to a system.
• The Software Engineering/ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Practice was developed by
• What is the time constant for an RC series circuit, and what are its units?
• Which description matches the Introvert personality trait?
• Causal Responsibility means
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects privacy of what?
• What is the time constant τ for a series RL circuit, and what are its units?
• Which is a listed responsibility of a project manager?
• Which controls contribute to confidentiality?
• Which statement about Thevenin and Norton equivalents is true?
• Which pairing is listed as likely to have difficulty communicating?
• Which of the following statements about licensing is correct?
• What is the transfer function of a first-order RC low-pass filter?
• Sting operations are described as which type of practices?
• In a series RLC circuit driven by a voltage source v_in(t), which equation relates the capacitor charge q(t) to v_in(t)?
• Which description matches the Intuition trait?
• Which act protects the privacy of student education records?
• The divine command theory is a form of which philosophy?
• A right that another can guarantee by leaving you alone to exercise the right is called a
• If i_C = C dv/dt, what is the Laplace transform relationship between I_C(s) and V(s) given initial capacitor voltage v(0−) = V0?
• Which statement best explains the routing-switch upgrades related to the 1990 outage?
• Which concept is about preventing unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information?
• Mars Climate Orbiter failure illustrates the importance of
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) prohibits discrimination based on genetic information in which contexts?
• What is the formula for the energy stored in a capacitor with voltage v across it?
• The term 'negative right' is defined as
• Which FERPA-related right concerns consent before releasing educational records, with certain exceptions?
• Which topic is commonly associated with professional engineering licensure in the United States?
• If the initial capacitor voltage V0 is zero, what is the Laplace-domain relation between I_C(s) and V(s) for a capacitor with i_C = C dv/dt?
• Which statement best defines legal responsibility?
• What is the impulse response of a first-order RC low-pass filter?
• Which term describes a tactic where law enforcement induces someone to commit a crime?
• What is the Laplace-domain expression for the voltage across an inductor with initial current i(0-)?
• Define the damping ratio ζ for a series RLC circuit and the expression in terms of R, L, and C.
• In the series RLC circuit differential equation, what does q(t) physically represent?
• For an ideal op-amp in negative feedback configured as an inverting amplifier with input resistor R_in and feedback resistor R_f, what is the closed-loop gain?
• In Social Contract theory, adopted rules are enforced to protect rights of the members of society. Which option best reflects this statement?
• AI focuses on giving machines the ability to exhibit?
• For a sinusoidal source driving a purely capacitive load, what is the phase relationship between the current and the voltage?
• The Social Contract concept, as presented, is associated with which philosophical framework?
• Where is the value of intellectual property recognized?
• Which two ethical theories are described as rule-based in the material?
• In some states, engineers with a PhD may not have to take the FE exam because
• Under FERPA, students have the right to prevent educational records from being released without their permission, except under certain circumstances.
• Which action demonstrates forcing in conflict resolution?
• Which statement about IP protection is consistent with the material?
• FE stands for
• Which measures ensure availability?
• What is the process of confirming identity on a computer called?
• All Web browsers enable everyone to?
• The time constant of an RC low-pass filter is RC. What is the proper SI unit for RC?
• What caused the Mars Climate Orbiter crash?
• The idea that social and economic inequalities must be to the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society is called which principle?
• Which description matches the Sensing trait?
• Which expression correctly defines the resistor current i_R in terms of the voltage across it v_R and its resistance?
• Which statement about SPAM addresses is accurate according to the material?
• Under an opt-out information-sharing policy, information may be shared unless the individual explicitly what?
• Norton’s theorem states the equivalent is a current source In in parallel with Rth, with In = Vth/Rth; Thevenin and Norton equivalents are interchangeable. Which option correctly expresses In and its relation?
• Which PMI ethical cornerstone is represented by the clause "We do not deceive or mislead"?
• When you have a conflict of interest in a situation, the most ethical way to handle it is
• At resonance in a series RLC circuit, which statement is true?
• In the context of social contract theory, rights are derived from mutual agreement among individuals.
• Which expression gives the energy stored in an inductor in terms of current?
• Rule Utilitarianism determines whether a proposed rule is acceptable by considering which of the following?
• In nodal analysis, how do you handle an ideal voltage source connected between a node and ground?
• Consent to one type of activity may not imply consent to other activities.
• Which statement about the REAL ID Act’s scope is true?
• What is moral responsibility?
• Which statement about the difference principle is correct?
• In social contract theory, which statement is true?
• What is the transfer function of a first-order RC high-pass filter?
• Which statement about globalization is NOT a characteristic?
• At resonance, the current through a series RLC circuit with a fixed input voltage V_in is what?
• Which approach best improves data availability during a disruption?