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5 V has a resolution close to 14m V. Its bit size is A) 4 B) 8 C) 16 D) 32 Answer : (B) 2 A single-phase half-controlled rectifier is driving a separately excited dc mo tor. The dc motor has a back emf constant of 0.5 V/rpm. The armature current is 5 A without any ripple. The armature resistance is 2W. The converter is working from a 280 V, single phase ac source with a firing angle of 80. Under this operat ing condition, the speed of the motor will be A) 339 rpm B) 359 rpm C) 366 rpm D ) 386 rpm Answer : (C) 3 In relation to the synchronous machines, which one of the following statement s is false? A) In salient pole machines, the direct-axis synchronous reactance i s greater than the quadrature-axis synchronous reactance B) The damper bars help the synchronous motor self start C) Short circuit ratio is the ratio of the fie ld current required to produce the rated voltage on open circuit to the rated ar mature current D) The V-curve of a synchronous motor represents the variation in the armature current with field excitation, at a given output power Answer : (C ) 4 A parallel plate air-filled capacitor has plate area of l0-4 m2 and plate sepa ration of 10-3 m. It is connected to a 0.5 V, 3.6 GHz source. The magnitude of t he displacement current is (e0 = 1/36p x 10-9 F/m) A) 10 mA B) 100 mA C) 10 A D) 1.59 mA Answer : (A) 5 The 8085 assembly language instruction that stores the content of H and L reg isters into the memory locations 2050H and 2051H, respectively, is A) SPHL 2050H B) SPHL2051H C) SHLD 2050H D) STAX 2050H Answer : (C) 6 If E is the electric field intensity, ( x E ) is equal to A) E B) E C) null vector D) zero Answer : (D) 7 The insulation strength of an EHV transmission line is mainly governed by A) load power factor B) switching over-voltages C) harmonics D) corona Answer : (B) 8 The Q - meter works on the principle of A) mutual inductance B) self inductan ce C) series resonance D) parallel resonance Answer : (C) 9 A 800 kV transmission line is having per phase line inductance of 1.1 mH/km an d per phase line capacitance of 11.68 nF/km. Ignoring the length of the line, it s ideal power transfer capability in MW is A) 1204 MW B) 1504 MW C) 2085 MW D) 2 606 MW Answer : (C) 10 In a PCM system, if the code word length is increased from 6 to 8 bits, the s ignal to quantization noise ratio improves by the factor A) 8/6 B) 12 C) 16 D) 8 Answer : (C) 11 At an industrial sub-station with a 4 MW load, a capacitor of 2 MVAR is inst alled to maintain the load power factor at 0.97 lagging. If the capacitor goes o ut of serivce, the load power factor becomes A) 0.85 B) 1.00 C) 0.80 lag D) 0.90 lag Answer : (C) 12 The conduction loss versus device current characteristic of a power MOSFET i s best approximated by A) a parabola B) a straight line C) a rectangular hyperbo la D) an exponentially decaying function Answer : (A) 13 High Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission is mainly used for A) bulk power transmis sion over very long distances B) inter-connecting two systems with the same nomi nal frequency C) eliminating reactive power requirement in the operation D) mini mizing harmonics at the converter stations Answer : (A) 14 For the equation, s3 - 4s2+ s + 6 = 0 the number of roots in the left half of s-plane will be A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3 Answer : (C) 15 For the function f(x) = x2 e-x, the maximum occurs when x is equal to A) 2 B) 1 C) 0 D) -1 Answer : (B). 1. A system has poles at 0.01 Hz, 1 Hz and 80 Hz; zeros at 5 Hz, 100 Hz and 200 Hz. The approximate phase of the system-response at 20 Hz is A) - 90 B) 0 C) 90 D) - 180 Answer : (A)

2. In an abrupt p-n junction, the doping concentrations on the p-side and n -side are NA = 9x 1016/cm3 and ND = 1 x 1016/cm3 respectively. The p-n junction is reverse biased and the total depletion width is 3 m m. The depletion width on the p-side is A) 2.7 mm B) 0.3 mm. C) 2.25 mm D) 0.75 mm Answer : (B) 3. A master-slave flip-flop has the characteristic that A) change in the input immediately reflected in the output B) change in the output occurs when th e state of the master is affected C) change in the output occurs when the state of the slave is affected D) both the master and the slave states are affected at the same time Answer : (C) 4. A parallel plate air-filled capacitor has plate area of l0-4 m2 and plat e separation of 10-3 m. It is connected to a 0.5 V, 3.6 GHz source. The magnitud e of the displacement current is (e0 = 1/36p x 10-9 F/m) A) 10 mA B) 100 mA C) 1 0 A D) 1.59 mA Answer : (A) 5. The phase velocity of an electromagnetic wave propagating in a hollow m etallic rectangular waveguide in the TE10 mode is A)equal to its group velocity B) less than the velocity of light in free space C) equal to the velocity of lig ht in free space D) greater than the velocity of light in free space Answer : (D ) 6. Noise with uniform power spectral density of N0W/Hz is passed through a filter H (w) = 2 exp(-jwtd) followed by an ideal low pass filter of bandwidth BH z. The output noise power in Watts is A) 2N0B B) 4N0B C) eN0B D) 16 N0B Answer : (B) 7. The cascade amplifier is a multistage configuration of A) CC-CB B) CE-CB C) CB-CC D) CE-CC Answer : (B) 8. Consider a lossless antenna with a directive gain of +6dB. If 1 mW of po wer is fed to it the total power radiated by the antenna will be A) 4 mW B) 1 mW C) 7 mW D) 1/4 mW Answer : (A) 9. The bandgap of Silicon at room temperature is A) 1.3 eV B) 0.7 eV C) 1.1 eV D) 1.4 eV Answer : (C) 10. In a PCM system, if the code word length is increased from 6 to 8 bits, the signal to quantization noise ratio improves by the factor A) 8/6 B) 12 C) 1 6 D) 8 Answer : (C) 11. A device with input x(t) and output y(t) is characterized by: y(t) = x2 (t). An FM signal with frequency deviation of 90 kHz and modulating signal bandw idth of 5 kHz is applied to this device. The bandwidth of the output signal is A ) 370 kHz B) 190 kHz C) 380kHz D) 95kHz Answer : (C) 12. For the polynomial P(s) = s5 + s4 + 2s3 + 2s2 + 3s + 15, the number of roots which lie in the right half of the s-plane is A) 4 B) 2 C) 3 D) 1 Answer : (B) 13. An AM signal is detected using an envelope detector The carrier frequenc y and modulating signal frequency are 1 MHz and 2 kHz respectively. An appropria te value for the time constant of the envelope detector is A) 500 msec B) 20 mse c C) 0.2 msec D) 1 msec Answer : (B) 14. In a PCM system, if the code word length is increased from 6 to 8 bits, the signal to quantization noise ratio improves by the factor A) 8/6 B) 12 C) 1 6 D) 8 Answer : (C) 15. Consider the following statements S1 and S2. S1: The b of a bipolar tra nsistor reduces if the base width is increased. S2: The b of a bipolar transisto r increases if the doping concentration in the base is increased. Which one of t he following is correct? A) S1 is FALSE and S2 is TRUE B) Both S1 and S2 are TRU E C) Both S1 and S2 are FALSE D) S1 is TRUE and S2 is FALSE Answer : (D). 1. The drain of an n-channel MOSFET is shorted to the gate so that VGS = VD S. The threshold voltage (VT) of MOSFET is 1 V. If the drain current (ID) is 1 m A for VGS = 2V, then for VGS = 3V, ID is A) 2 mA B) 3 mA C) 9 mA D) 4 mA Answer : (D) 2. The first and the last critical frequency of an RC-driving point impeda nce function must respectively be A) a zero and a pole B) a zero and a zero C) a pole and a pole D) a pole and a zero Answer : (D) 3. In what range should Re(s) remain so that the Laplace transform of the

function e(a+2)t+5 exits? A) Re (s) > a + 2 B) Re (s) > a + 7 C) Re (s) < 2 D) R e (s) > a + 5 Answer : (A) 4. A parallel plate air-filled capacitor has plate area of l0-4 m2 and pla te separation of 10-3 m. It is connected to a 0.5 V, 3.6 GHz source. The magnitu de of the displacement current is (e0 = 1/36p x 10-9 F/m) A) 10 mA B) 100 mA C) 10 A D) 1.59 mA Answer : (A) 5. For the polynomial P(s) = s5 + s4 + 2s3 + 2s2 + 3s + 15, the number of r oots which lie in the right half of the s-plane is A) 4 B) 2 C) 3 D) 1 Answer : (B) 6. The phase velocity of an electromagnetic wave propagating in a hollow me tallic rectangular waveguide in the TE10 mode is A) equal to its group velocity B) less than the velocity of light in free space C) equal to the velocity of lig ht in free space D) greater than the velocity of light in free space Answer : (D ) 7. A device with input x(t) and output y(t) is characterized by: y(t) = x2( t). An FM signal with frequency deviation of 90 kHz and modulating signal bandwi dth of 5 kHz is applied to this device. The bandwidth of the output signal is A) 370 kHz B) 190 kHz C) 380kHz D) 95kHz Answer : (C) 8. The Q - meter works on the principle of A) mutual inductance B) self ind uctance C) series resonance D) parallel resonance Answer : (C) 9. The Fourier transform of a conjugate symmetric function is always A) ima ginary B) conjugate anti-symmetric C) real D) conjugate symmetric Answer : (C) 10. An ideal op-amp is an ideal A) voltage controlled current source B) volt age controlled voltage source C) current controlled current source D) current co ntrolled voltage source Answer : (B). 1 A 1 kHz sinusoidal signal is ideally sampled at 1500 samples/sec and the sampl ed signal is passed through an, ideal low-pass filter with cut-off frequency 800 Hz. The output signal has the frequency Options A) zero Hz B) 0.75 kHz C) 0.5 k Hz D) 0.25 kHz Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer C. 2 The minimum number of 2-to -1 multiplexers required to realize a 4-to 1 multi plexer is Options A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answe r B. 3 Choose the correct one front among the alternatives A, B, C, D after matching an item from Group 1 with the most appropriate item, in Group 2. Group 1 Group 2 P: Shift register 1:Frequency division Q: Counter 2: Addressingin memory chips R: Decoder 3: Serial to parallel data conversion Options A) P-3, Q- 2, R-1 B) P3, Q-1, R-2 C) P-2, Q-1, R-3 D) P-1, Q- 2, R-2 Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Corr ect Answer B. 4 A random variable X with uniform density in the interval 0 to 1 is quantized as follows: If 0 X 0.3, x q = 0 If 0.3 X 1, x q = 0.7 where x q is the quantized value of X. The root-mean square value of the quantization noise is Options A) 0.573 B) 0.198 C) 2.205 D) 0.266 Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer A. 5 In a full-wave rectifier using two ideal diodes, V dc and V m are the dc and peak values of the voltage respectively across a resistive load. If PIV is the p eak inverse voltage of the diode, then the appropriate relationships for this re ctifier are Options A) V dc = V m p , PIV = 2V m B) V dc = 2 V m p , PIV = 2V m C) V dc = 2 V m p , PIV = V m D) V dc = V m p , PIV = V m Your Answer ( Not Answ ered ) Correct Answer B. 6 The Fourier transform of a conjugate symmetric function is always Options A) imaginary B) conjugate anti-symmetric C) real D) conjugate symmetric Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer C. 7 It is desired to multiply the numbers 0AH by 0BH and store the result in the accumulator. The numbers are available in registers B and C respectively. A Part of the 8085 program for this purpose is given below: MVI A, 00H Loop;- - - - - - - - -------------------- ------------------- HLT END The sequence of instruc tion to the complete the program would be Options A) JNZ LOOP, ADD B, DCR C B) A DD S, JNZ LOOP, DCR C C) DCR C, JNZ LOOP, ADD B D) ADD B, DCR C, JNZ LOOP Your A nswer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer D. 8 A solution of the following differential equation is given by d 2 y dx 2 - dy

dx + 6y = 0 Options A) y = e 2x + e -3x B) y = e 2x + e 3x C) y = e -2x + e 3x D) y = e -2x + e -3x Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer B. 9 Consider the following statements S1 and S2. S1: The threshold voltage (V T ) of a MOS capacitor decreases with increase in gate oxide thickness S2: The thre shold voltage (V T ) of a MOS capacitor decreases with increase in substrate dop ing concentration Which one of the following is correct? Options A) S1 is FALSE and S2 is TRUE B) Both S1 and S2 are TRUE C) Both S1 and S2 are FALSE D) S1 is T RUE and S2 is FALSE Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer A. 10 Consider an abrupt p-junction. Let V bi be the built-in potential of this ju nction and V R be the applied reverse bias. If the junction capacitance (C j ) i s 1 pF for V bi + V R = 1V, then for V bi + V R - 4V, C j will be Options A) 4 p F B) 2 pF C) 0.25 pF D) 0.5 pF Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer D. 11 The impurity commonly used for realizing the base region of a silicon n-p-n transistor is Options A) Gallium B) Indium C) Boron D) Phosphorus Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer C. 12 Despite the presence of negative feedback, control system still have problem s of instability because the Options A) components used have nonlinearities. B) dynamic equations of the subsystems are not known exactly. C) mathematical analy sis involves approximations. D) system has large negative phase angle at high fr equencies. Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer A. 13 The drain of an n-channel MOSFET is shorted to the gate so that V GS = V DS . The threshold voltage (V T ) of MOSFET is 1 V. If the drain current (I D ) is 1 mA for V GS = 2V, then for V GS = 3V, I D is Options A) 2 mA B) 3 mA C) 9 mA D ) 4 mA Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer D. 14 Let x(n) = ( 1 2 ) n u(n), y(n)=x 2 (n) and Y(e j w ) be the Fourier transfo rm of y(n). Then Y(e j0 ) is Options A) 1 4 B) 2 C) 4 D) 4 3 Your Answer ( Not A nswered ) Correct Answer A. 15 Noise with uniform power spectral density of N 0 W/Hz is passed through a fi lter H ( w ) = 2 exp(-j w t d ) followed by an ideal low pass filter of bandwidt h BHz. The output noise power in Watts is Options A) 2N 0 B B) 4N 0 B C) e N 0 B D) 16 N 0 B Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer B. 16 Consider the following statements S1 and S2 S1: At the resonant frequency th e impedance of a series R-L-C circuit is zero. S2: In a parallel G-L-C circuit, increasing the conductance G results in increase in its Q factor. Which one of t he following is correct? Options A) S1 is FALSE and S2 is TRUE B) Both S1 and S2 are TRUE C) S1 is TRUE and S2 is FALSE D) Both S1 and S2 are FALSE Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer D.\ 17 A signal x(n) = sin( w 0 n + f ) is the input to a linear time-invariant sys tem having a frequency response H(e (j w ) . If the output of the system Ax(n n 0 ), then the most general form of H(ejw) will be Options A) - n 0 w 0 + b for an y arbitrary real b . B) - n 0 w 0 + 2 p k for any arbitrary integer k. C) n 0 w 0 + 2 p k for any arbitrary integer k. D) -n 0 w 0 f . Your Answer ( Not Answere d ) Correct Answer B. 18 Consider a lossless antenna with a directive gain of +6dB. If 1 mW of power is fed to it the total power radiated by the antenna will be Options A) 4 mW B) 1 mW C) 7 mW D) 1/4 mW Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer A. 19 A MOS capacitor made using p type substrate is in the accumulation mode. The dominant charge in the channel is due to the presence of Options A) holes B) el ectrons C) positively charged ions D) negatively charged ions Your Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer B. 20 Choose the correct one from among the alternatives A, B, C, D after matching an item from Group 1 with the most appropriate item in Group 2. Group1 Group 2 1 : FM 2 : DM 3 : PSK 4 : PCM P : Slope overload Q : m -law R : Envelope detecto r S : Capture effect T : Hilbert transform U : Matched filter Options A) 1-T, 2P, 3-U, 4-S B) 1-S, 2-U, 3-P, 4-T C) 1-S, 2-P, 3-U, 4-Q D) 1-U, 2-R, 3-S, 4-Q Yo ur Answer ( Not Answered ) Correct Answer C.