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Q.1 to Q.25 carry one mark each

 2 2 3
Q.1 The matrix M   2 1 6  has eigenvalues 3, 3,5 . An eigenvector corresponding to the eigenvalue 5 is
 1 2 0 

1 2 1 . One of the eigenvectors of the matrix M3 is

T

(A) 1 8 1 (B) 1 2 1 (D) 1 1 1

T
(C) 1 1
T T 3 T
2

Q.2 The contour integral

e
1/ z
dz
C

With C as the counter-clockwise unit circle in the z-plane is equal to

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 2 1 (D) 

Q.3 Consider the signals

e  t , t  0
x(t )  
0, t  0

Let X () denote the Fourier transform of this signal. The integral

1
 X ()d is
2 

(A) 0 (B) ½ (C) 1 (D) 

Q.4 The continuous signal x  t   sin 0t is a periodic signal. However, for its discrete-time counterpart x  n  sin 0 n to
be periodic, the necessary condition is

(A) 0  0  2 (B) 2 to be an integer

0

(C) 2 to be a ratio of integers (D) none

0

Q.5 Consider a periodic signal x  t  as shown below


It has a Fourier series representation x  t   ae
k 
k
j 2  / T  kt

Which one of the following statements is TRUE?

(A) ak  0 for k odd integer and T = 3 (B) ak  0 , for k even integer and T= 3

(C) ak  0 for k even integer and T= 6 (D) ak  0 , for k odd integer and T= 6
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Q.6 The integral


1
t e
2 t 2 / 2
 1  2t  dt is equal to
2 

1 1
(A) e 1/8 (B) e 1/8
8 2 4 2

1
(C) e 1/ 2 (D) 1
2

Q.7 Shown below is the pole-zero plot of a digital filter

Which one of the following statement is TRUE?

(A) This is a low pass filter (B) This is a high pass filter

(C) This is an IIR filter (D) This is an FIR filter

Q.8 The continuous time signal x  t   cos 100t   sin  300t  is sampled at the rate 100 Hz to get the signal

xs  t    x  nT   t  nT  ,
n 
s s Ts  sampling period

The signal xs  t  is passed through an ideal low pass filter with cutoff frequency 100 Hz. The output of the filter is
proportional to

(A) cos 100t  (B) cos 100t   sin 100t 

(C) cos 100t   sin 100t  (D) sin 100t 

Q.9 Consider a system with input x  t  and output y  t  related as follows

y t  
dt
e x  t 
d t

Which one of the following statements is TRUE ?

(A) The system is nonlinear (B) The system is time-invariant

(C) The system is stable (D) The system has memory

Q.10 The first two rows of Routh’s table of a third –order characteristic equation are

s3 3 3

s2 4 4

It can be inferred that the system has

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(A) one real pole in the right-half of s-plane

(B) a pair of complex conjugate poles in the right-half of s-plane

(C) a pair of real poles symmetrically placed around s = 0

(D) a pair of complex conjugate poles on the imaginary axis of the s-plane

Q.11 The amplifier shown below has a voltage gain of –2.5, an input resistance of 10 k and a lower 3-dB cut–off
frequency of 20 Hz. Which one of the following statements is TRUE when the emitter resistance R E is doubled?

(A) Magnitude of voltage gain will decrease (B) Input resistance will decrease

(C) Collector bias current will increase (D) Lower 3-dB cut-off frequency will increase

Q.12 Figure below shows a circuit for implementing an 8-bit Digital-to-Analog converter (DAC) using two identical 4-bit
DACs with equal reference voltages. Assume that b0 represents LSB, b, MSB and the opamp is ideal. To obtain
correct analog values corresponding to an 8-bit DAC at the output V0 , the value of resistor R is

(A) 0.25 k (B) 0.5 k (C) 1 k (D) 8 k

Q.13 In the circuit shown below, the switch, initially at position 1 for a long time, is changed to position 2 at t  0

The current i through the inductor for t  0 is

(A) 1  e20t A (B) 1  e20t A (C) 1  2e20t A (D) 2  e20t A
Q.14 The current I shown in the circuit given below is equal to
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(A) 3 A (B) 3.67 A (C) 6 A (D) 9 A

Q.15 The signal flow graph of a system is given below.

The transfer function (C/R) of the system is

(A)  G1G2  G1G3  / 1  G1G2 H 2  (B) G1G2  G1G3  / 1  G1H1  G1G2 H2 

(C)  G1G2  G1G3  / 1  G1 H1  G1G2 H 2  G1G3 H 2  (D)  G1G2  G1G3  / 1  G1 H1  G1G2 H 2  G1G3 H 2  G1G2G3 H1 

Q.16 For the Boolean expression f  abc  abc  abc  abc  abc the minimized Product of sum (PoS) expression is

 
(A) f  b  c . a  c   
(B) f  b  c . a  c 
 
(C) f  b  c . a  c  (D) f  c  abc

Q.17 The base of the number system for the addition operation 24 + 14 = 41 to be true is
(A) 8 (B) 7 (C) 6 (D) 5
Q.18 An 8K  8 bit RAM is interfaced to an 8085 microprocessor. In a fully decoded scheme If the address of the last
memory location of this RAM is 4FFFH, the address of the fist memory location of the RAM will be
(A) 1000H (B) 2000H (C) 3000H (D) 4000H
Q.19 The Treadmill Test is used to diagnose
(A) the balancing style during walk of the patient
(B) the auditory activity of the patient
(C) the visual activity of the patient
(D) the cardiac activity of the patient
dTi
Q.20 The characteristic of a thermometer measuring ambient temperature is 2  Ti  Ta  0 , where Ti and Ta are the
dt
indicated and ambient temperatures, respectively both in 0 C and time is in seconds. The –3 dB cut – off frequency
in the frequency response of the thermometer is
1 1
(A) Hz (B) Hz (C) 1Hz (D) 2 Hz
4 2

Q.21 For a copper-constantan (Type T ) thermocouple, the junction potential E  in  V  at  0 C is given by

E  38.74  3.3  102 2  2.07  104 3  2.2  106 4 + higher order terms, assuming the cold junction compensation.
The sensitivity of thermocouple at 1000 C is approximately
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(A) 45.34 V/ 0 C (B) 42.75 V/ 0 C (C) 38.74 V/ 0 C (D) 0.06 V/ 0 C

Q.22 The temperature of a furnace is monitored at a distance of 50 m away. The temperature transmitter has a range of
0  5000 C and provides 4–20 mA current output. The measurement temperature and the output current have a
straight line relationship with positive slope. The temperature is determined from the voltage measured across a
resistance of 500 in the current loop. If the voltage measured across the resistance is 4 V, the temperature of the
furnace is

(A) 1000 C (B) 1250 C (C) 1500 C (D) 2000 C

Q.23 The core/cladding index difference of a single-mode optical fiber cable is 0.01. The refractive index of the material of
the core is 1.5. the maximum angle of acceptance of the fiber is approximately equal to

(A) 17.50 (B) 12.10 (C) 8.60 (D) 2.00

Q.24 The conventional way or expressing vibration is in terms of

(A) Richter scale (B) acceleration due to gravity

(C) speed of sound (D) atmospheric pressure

Q.25 The primary and secondary of a LVDT (stroke length  50 mm) are connected to a 3 kHz sinusoidal source and
ideal semiconductor diode bridge based phase sensitive demodulator circuit . The core of the LVDT remains static
at 15 mm above the ideal null position. The frequency of the voltage observed at the input of the low-pass filter is

(A) 1 kHz (B) 1.5 kHz (C) 3 kHz (D) 6 kHz

Q.26 to Q.55 carry two mark each


1
 4  x  1
2m
Q.26 The series m
converges for
m0

(A) –2 < x < 2 (B) – 1< x < 3 (C) – 3 < x < 1 (D) x < 3

Q.27 Consider the differential equation y  2 y  y  0 with boundary conditions y(0) = 1, y(1) = 0. The value of y(2) is

(A) –1 (B) e1 (C) e2 (D) e2

Q.28 The box 1 contains chips numbered 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15. The box 2 contains chips numbered 6, 11, 16, 21 and 26. Two
chips, one form each box, are drawn at random. The numbers written on these chips are multiplied. The probability
for the product to be an even number is

(A) 6/25 (B) 2/5 (C) 3/5 (D) 19/25

f  x
Q.29 The extremum (minimum or maximum) point of a function f  t  is to be determined by solving d = 0 using
dx
the Newton-Raphson method. Let f  x   x  6 x and x0  1 be the initial guess of x. The value of x after two
3

iterations  x2  is

(A) 0.0141 (B) 1.4142 (C) 1.4167 (D) 1.5000

Q.30 The unit-step response of a negative unity feedback system with the open-loop transfer function

6
G s  is
s5
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6 6 5t 6 6 11t
(A) 1  e5t (B) 6  6e5t (C)  e (D)  e
5 5 11 11

Q.31 The transfer function of the system described by the state-space equations

 x1   4 1  x1  1 x 
 x    3 1  x   1 u , y 1 0  1 
 2   2    x2 

is

s 2s 3s 4s
(A) (B) (C) (D)
s  5s  1
2
s  5s  1
2
s  5s  1
2
s  5s  1
2

Q.32 Consider the second-order system with the characteristic equation s  s  3  K  s  5  0 . Based on the properties of
the root loci, it can be shown that the complex portion of the root loci of the given system for 0 < K <  is described
by a circle, and the two breakaway points on the real axis are

(A)  5  5 / 2 (B)  5  5 (C)  5  10 (D)  5  2 5

Q.33 In a flapper-nozzle displacement transducer, the value of the following parameter are given:

Diameter of the orifice = 0.2 mm, Diameter of the nozzle = 0.8 mm,

Supply pressure = 1.4  102 kpa (gauge), Ambient pressure = 0 (gauge).

The miximum value of the sensitivity is

(A) 4.0 MPa/mm (B) 5.6 MPa/mm (C) 6.4 MPa/mm (D) 7.3 MPa/mm

Q.34 A differential push-pull type capacitive displacement sensor (nominal capacitance C0  0.01F ) is connected in two
adjacent arms of an ac bridge in such a way that the output voltage of the bridge is independent of the frequency of
the supply voltage. Supply to the bridge is 1V and 1 kHz, and two equal resistance  R  3.9 k  are placed in the
other two arms of the bridge. The bridge sensitivity is

(A) 0.001 mV/pF (B) 0.05 mV/pF (C) 0.1 mV/pF (D) 0.5 mV/pF

Q.35 A turbine fowmeter is rotating at 72 rpm. The flux  linked to the nearby magnet and coil assembly is given by
    3  cos  4 mWb, where  is the angular position (in radian). The amplitude and frequency of the output
voltage signal, respectively, are

(A) 4 mV and 45.8 Hz (B) 30.2 mV and 4.8 Hz

(C) 30.2 mV and 30.2 Hz (D) 288 mV and 45.8 Hz

Q.36 Assuming base-emitter voltage of 0.7 V and  99 of transistor Q1 the output voltage V0 in the ideal opamp circuit
shown below is
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(A) –1V (B) –1/3.3 V (C) 0 V (D) 2 V

Q.37 Assuming zener diode D1 has current-voltage characteristic as shown on the right and forward voltage drop of
diode D 2 is 0.7 V, the voltage V0 in the circuit shown below is

(A) 3.7 V (B) 2.7 V (C) 2.2 V (D) 0 V

Q.38 The transfer characteristic of the circuit drawn below is observed on an oscilloscope used in XY mode. The display
on the oscilloscope is shown on the right hand side. Vi is connected to the X input with a setting of 0.5 V/div, and V0
is connected to the Y input with a setting of 2 V/div. The beam is positioned at the origin when Vi is zero.

Assuming that is the opamp is ideal an the zener diodes have forward biased voltage drop of 0.7V, the values of
reverse break-down voltages of Z1 and Z2 are, respectively,

(A) 3.3 V and 5.3 V (B) 4.7 V and 6.7 V (C) 6.7 V and 4.7 V (D) 5.3 V and 3.3 V

Q.39 Power in a three phase star connected balanced inductive load is measured by two wattmeter method. The phase
voltage and phase current are 230 V and 5 A, respectively. The power factor of the load is 0.707. the readings P1 and
P2 of the two watt meters are

(A) P1 = 298 W and P2 = 1111 W (B) P1 = 516 W and P2 = 1924 W

(C) P1 = 1220 W and P2 = 1220 W (D) P1 = 1111 W and P2 = –516 W

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Q.40 In the Wheatstone bridge shown below, when three resistance R1 increases by 1 , the current through the
galvanometer is

(Consider the Thevenin equivalent resistance of the bridge in the calculations)

(A) 1.25 A (B) 2.5 A (C) 12.5 A (D) 25 A

Q.41 The value of V0 of the series regulator shown below is

(A) 24 V (B) 28 V (C) 30 V (D) 32 V

Q.42 The ideal opamp based circuit shown below acts as a

(A) low-pass filter (B) high-pass filter (C) band-pass filter (D) band-reject filter

Q.43 A 4-bit successive approximation type of A/D converter has an input range of 0 to 15 volts. The output bit b1 next to
the LSB has a stuck at-zero fault. The pair of input voltages that produces the same output code word is

(A) 2 V and 4 V (B) 4 V and 6 V (C) 1 V and 5 V (D) 8 V and 9 V

Q.44 The number of objects crossing a window sequentially at variable speed is to be counted using an interrupt in the
8085 microprocessor. The objects are sensed by an optical source and a detector with associated signal conditioning
circuit. The circuit produces a logic high output as long as the object is in front of the window, and this output is
used to interrupt the processor . The duration of an object being in front of the window is in the range of 100 ms to
2s . The processor takes 1 ms to process the input after an interrupt. The best choice of interrupt for an error free
counting is

(A) RST 5.5 (B) RST 6.5

(C) RST 7.5 (D) INTR

Q.45 The circuit below shows an up/down counter working with a decoder and a flip-flop. Present and Clear of the flip-
flop are asynchronous active-low inputs.
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Assuming that the initial value of counter output ( Q2 Q1 Q0 ) as zero the counter outputs in decimal for 12 click
cycles are

(A) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4 (B) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0

(C) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1 (D) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2

Q.46 A square wave (amplitude 10 mV , frequency 5 kHz, duty cycle 50%) is passed through an ideal low-pass filter
with pass-band gain and cut-off frequency of 0 dB and 10 kHz respectively. The filtered signal is subsequently
“buried” additively into zero-mean noise process of one–sided power-spectral density (PSD) of 25 pW Hz 1 up to a
frequency of 2 MHz. The PSD of the noise is assumed to be zero beyond 2 MHz. The signal –to-noise ratio of the
output is

(A) 0 dB (B) 0.1 dB (C) 1.0 dB (D) 3 dB

n
1
Q.47 Consider the difference equations y  n   y  n  1  x  n  and suppose that x  n     u  n  .
1
3 2

Assuming the conditions of initial rest, the solution of y  n , n  0 is

n n n n n n n n
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 21
(A) 3    2   (B) 2    3   (C) 2      (D)     
3 2 3 2  3 3 2 33 3 2

Common Data Question 48 & 49

Consider the circuit shown below.

Q.48 the current i  t  the capacitor is

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(A) sin 5  t  A (B) cos5  t  A (C) sin  5t  450  A (D) 1 A

Q.49 The average total power delivered by the two sources is

(A) 0 W (B) 0.5 W (C) 2 W (D) 4 W

Common Data Question 50 & 51

The open-loop transfer functions of a unity negative feedback control system is given by

K
G s 
 s  5
3

Q.50 The value of K for the phase margin of the system to be 450 is

(A) 250 5 (B) 250 2 (C) 125 5 (D) 125 2

Q.51 The value of K for the damping ratio  to be 0.5, corresponding to the dominant closed–loop complex conjugate
pole pair is

(A) 250 (B) 125 (C) 75 (D) 50

Statement For Linked Answer Questions 52 & 53

The level of water, stored in a truncated conical bath, is measured by a gamma-ray radiation sensor. The initial level
of water is 1m, and the level is increasing due to water inflow at the constant rate of 0.125 m3 / s . Assume mass
absorption coefficient of water is 77 104 m 2 /kg and density of water is 1000 kg/ m3 .

(Figure is not to scale.)

Q.52 When the intensity of radiation received by the floating detector is half of the intensity detected initially, the level of
water is

(A) 1.09 m (B) 1.5 m (C) 1.8 m (D) 1.9 m

Q.53 When the floating detector is at the level calculated in Q.52, the time elapsed is

(A) 4.1 s (B) 5.23 s (C) 10.52 s (D) 50.63 s

Statement For Linked Answer Questions 54 & 55

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M1, M2 and M3 in the circuit shown below are matched N-channel enhancement mode MOSFETs operating in
saturation mode, forward voltage drop of each diode is 0.7V, reverse leakage current of each diode in negligible
and the opamp is ideal.

Q.54 The current Is in the circuit is

(A) –1 mA (B) 0.5 mA (C) 1 mA (D) 2 mA

Q.55 For the computed current value of current Is , the output voltage v o is

(A) 1.2 V (B) 0.7 V (C) 0.2 V (D) –0.7 V

Q.56 to Q.60 carry one mark each

General Aptitude (GA) Questions

Q.56 There are two candidates P and Q in an election. During the campaign, 40% of the voters promised to vote for P,
and rest for Q. However, on the day of election 15% of the voters went back on their promise to vote for P and
instead voted for Q.25% of the voters went back on their promise to vote for Q and instead voted for P. suppose, P
Suppose, P lost by 2 votes, then what was the total number of voters ?

(A) 100 (B) 110 (C) 90 (D) 95

Q.57 The question below consists of a pair of related words followed by four pairs of words. Select the pair the best
expresses the relation in the original pair :

Gladiator : Arena

(A) dancer : stage (B) commuter : train (C) teacher : classroom (D) lawyer : courtroom

Q.58 Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence :

Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the Indian Medical Association, human genes are to be
manipulated only to correct diseases for which _______________ treatments are unsatisfactory.

(A) similar (B) most (C) uncommon (D) available

Q.59 Choose the word from the options given below that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Frequency

(A) periodicity (B) rarity (C) gradualness (D) persistency

Q.60 Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence :
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It was her view that the country’s problem had been ________________ by foreign technocrats, so that to invite
them to come back would be counter-productive.

(A) identified (B) ascertained (C) exacerbated (D) analysed

Q.61 to Q.65 carry two marks each

Q.61 The fuel consumed by a motorcycle during a journey while traveling at various speeds in indicated in the graph
below.

The distances covered during four laps of the journey are listed in the table below

Distance Average Speed

Lap
(Kilometres) (Kilometres per hour)

P 15 15

Q 75 45

R 40 75

S 10 10

From the given data, we can conclude that the fuel consumed per kilometers was least during the lap

(A) P (B) Q (C) R (D) S

Q.62 The horse has played a little known but very important role in the field of medicine. Horses were injected with
toxins of diseases until their blood built up immunities. Then a serum was made from their blood. Serums to
fight with diphtheria and tetanus were developed this way.

It can be inferred from the passage, that horses were

(A) given immunity to diseases

(B) generally quite immune to diseases

(C) given medicines to fight toxins

(D) given diphtheria and tetanus serums

Q.63 The sum of n terms of the series 4+44+444+…… is

(A)  4 / 81 10n+1  9n 1 (B)  4 / 81 10n 1  9n  1

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(C)  4 / 81 10n 1  9n 10 (D)  4 / 81 10n  9n  10 

Q.64 Given that f  y   y / y , and q is any non-zero real number, the value of f  q   f  -q  is

(A) 0 (B) – 1 (C) 1 (D) 2

Q.65 Three friends R, S and T shares toffee form a bowl. R took 1/3 rd of the toffees, but returned four to the bowl. S took
1/4th of what was left but turned three toffees to the bowl. T took half of the remained but the bowl. If the bowl had
17 toffees left, how many toffees were originally there in the bowl ?
(A) 38 (B) 31 (C) 48 (D) 41

END OF THE QUESTION PAPER

ANSWERS

1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. B

9. C 10. D 11. A 12. B 13. D 14. A 15. C 16. A

17. B 18. C 19. D 20 A 21. A 22. B 23. B 24. B

25. C 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. C 30. C 31. A 32. C

33. B 34. * 35. * 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. B 40. A

41. C 42. A 43. B 44. C 45. D 46. * 47. B 48. A

49. D 50. B 51. B 52. A 53. A 54. B 55. D 56. A

57. D 58. D 59. B 60. C 61. A 62. B 63. C 64. D

65. B