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22 multiple-choice questions and 11 flashcards on Electronics Information, about 7% of the ASVAB bank. Every one carries a written rationale.
Electronics Information is one of 11 chapters in CoStudy's ASVAB bank, and it holds 22 of the bank's 300 multiple-choice questions — roughly 7% of the total. That proportion is not arbitrary: chapters follow the certifying body's published exam outline, and the number of questions in each is set by that domain's published weight, so the share of your practice time this chapter takes matches the share of the real exam it accounts for.
Studying by chapter is worth doing once you have a diagnostic score. A single overall percentage tells you whether you are close; it does not tell you which domain is dragging. Working a weak chapter in isolation, and re-testing it in isolation, is the fastest way to move a score that has stalled — and it is why the mock exams in CoStudy report by domain rather than as one number.
10 questions drawn from this chapter, with the full rationale shown — the controlling principle behind the right answer, and why each wrong option tempts and fails.
Three 6-Ω resistors in parallel have a total resistance of:
Answer: A — 2 Ω
Parallel: 1/R = 3/6 → R = 2 Ω. A) Correct. B) Single resistor. C/D) Series confusion.
A capacitor primarily stores energy in:
Answer: B — An electric field
A) That's an inductor. B) Capacitors store energy in an electric field between plates. C/D) Not energy storage modes here.
Ohm's Law is:
Answer: A — V = IR
A) Correct — Ohm's Law: voltage = current × resistance. B) That's power (P = IV). C) Newton's 2nd law. D) Einstein's mass-energy.
A 12-volt source is connected across a single 4-ohm resistor. The current in the circuit is which of the following?
Answer: D — 3 amperes, found by dividing volts by resistance
D) Correct — Ohm's law gives I = V/R = 12/4 = 3 amperes. A) tempts because it is the reciprocal, R divided by V. B) tempts by multiplying instead of dividing, which yields power-style arithmetic, not current. C) tempts by subtracting the two numbers, which has no basis in the law.
In a series circuit, the current through each component is:
Answer: D — The same throughout
A) That's parallel for voltage. D) Series shares current. C) Wrong. B) Mixes units.
The schematic symbol of two parallel lines (one shorter, broken) represents a:
Answer: A — Battery
A) Battery cells are drawn as long/short parallel lines. B) Resistor is a zigzag or rectangle. C) Capacitor uses two equal straight lines. D) Inductor uses coils.
AC differs from DC in that:
Answer: D — DC flows in one direction; AC alternates
A) Reversed. D) DC is unidirectional; AC alternates. C/B) Wrong.
Resistance is measured in:
Answer: C — Ohms
A) Current. B) Voltage. C) Resistance. D) Power.
A component that stores energy in an electric field and opposes sudden changes in voltage is which of the following?
Answer: B — A capacitor, which stores charge on facing plates
B) Correct — a capacitor stores charge on plates separated by a dielectric, so voltage across it cannot jump instantly. A) tempts because resistors are the most familiar passive part, but they dissipate rather than store. C) tempts as a common part, yet a diode's job is one-way conduction. D) tempts because transformers also handle energy, but they couple AC magnetically.
DC current means:
Answer: B — The current flows in only one direction
A) That's AC. B) Correct — DC = direct current; one-direction flow, like a battery. C) Both AC and DC can be variable. D) DC can have any non-zero value.
4 cards from the 11 in this chapter.
What do a resistor, a capacitor, and an inductor each do in a circuit?
A resistor opposes current and dissipates energy as heat • a capacitor stores energy in an electric field and blocks DC • an inductor stores energy in a magnetic field and opposes changes in current.
Unit of current?
Ampere (amp, A).
Ohm's Law?
V = IR. Voltage = current × resistance.
In a series circuit and in a parallel circuit, what stays the same across all components?
Series: current is the same everywhere and voltage divides among components. • Parallel: voltage is the same across every branch and current divides.
These are a sample. The full Electronics Information chapter runs 33 items with per-chapter progress tracking, on the web and in the iOS app.