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Section 1 - Lect Electronics Engg

No. of Questions: 100
Duration in Minutes: 120
1) What is the steady state error of type-0 system for ramp input?
A)
B)
C)
D)

A/(1+K)
A/K

2) An energy signal has G(f) = 20. Its energy density spectrum is

A)
B)
C)
D)

100
20
400
800

3) What is the channel capacity of a noisy channel with conditional probability of error p = 1/2?
A)
B)
C)
D)

0
2
1
Infinity

4) How is the GTO turned off?

A)
B)
C)
D)

By reverse anode current pulse

By applying reverse gate pulse
By using a commutation circuit
By using a latch-up circuit

5) In thermo-couple instruments, in which of the following is an emf caused if the junction of two
wires of dissimilar metals is heated and the free or cold ends are connected to a milli-voltmeter?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Kelvin effect
Hot wire effect
Faraday effect
Seebeck effect

6) What is the Fourier transform of a Gaussian time pulse?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Pulse
Uniform
Impulses
Gaussian

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7) Which one of the following logic circuit has the highest speed as compared to the currently
available logic circuits?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Resistance-transistor logic
Integrated-injection logic
Diode-transistor logic
Emitter-coupled logic

8) In a 16-bit microprocessor, a single word is

A)
B)
C)
D)

64 bit data
16 bit data
8 bit data
32 bit data

9) If a signal band limited to fm is sampled at a rate less than 2fm, then the constructed signal will
be
A)
B)
C)
D)

Distorted
Distortion less
Small in amplitude
Large in amplitude

10) What is the Power Supply specification for 8085AH microprocessor?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Dual +5V supply with 10% voltage margins

Single +5V supply with 10% voltage margins
Single +10V supply with 5% voltage margins
Dual +5V supply with 5% voltage margins

11) Which of the following transducers can be used for non-contact temperature measurement?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Thermistor
Sensistor
Pyrometer
Resistance temperature detector

12) As per Shannons channel capacity theorem, if samples are transmitted in T seconds over a
noisy channel which is bandlimited to B Hz. The number of samples n is given by
(symbols/notations carry their usual meaning)
A)
B)
C)
D)

T/B
BT/2
B/T
2BT

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13) Consider silicon at T = 300 K doped with phosphorus at a concentration of Nd = 1016 cm3. The
intrinsic concentration is given as ni = 1.5 1010 cm3. Calculate the thermal equilibrium hole
concentrations.
A)
B)
C)
D)

2104 cm3
25104 cm3
5104 cm3
2.25104 cm3

14) Which of the following is NOT a non-linear resistor?

A)
B)
C)
D)

PTC thermistor
Precision resistor
NTC thermistor
Varistor

15) The contents of EPROM can be erased by exposing it to

A)
B)
C)
D)

Ultraviolet rays
Intense heat radiations
Burst of microwaves
Infrared rays

16) The colour band on the extreme left in general purpose fixed resistors represents:
A)
B)
C)
D)

Tolerance
Wattage Rating
Voltage Rating
First significant digit

17) Calculate the size of memory address space for a 16 bit data and 20 bit address bus.
A)
B)
C)
D)

1 MB
4 MB
3 MB
2 MB

18) Which of the following instruments can be used for measurement of very high value resistances
such as insulation resistance in industries?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Wheatstone bridge
Resistive potentiometer
Megger
Ohm-meter

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19) What is the value of susceptibility in case of vacuum?

A)
B)
C)
D)

0
0.5

20) The number of loop equations required to completely analysing a network comprising of 8
independent branches and 6 nodes including the reference node shall be
A)
B)
C)
D)

4
5
2
3

21) Which of the following is a non-recursive system?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Y (n) + 2 Y (n+2)
Y (n-1) + 2 Y (n-2)
5Y (n-3)
Y (n-3)

22) The sampling rate to avoid aliasing for the signal m(t) = 100 cos 200t will be
A)
B)
C)
D)

1/25 sec
1/25 sec
1/50 sec
1/50 sec

23) Which of the following is a negative-resistance microwave device for oscillator applications?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Gunn Diode
IMPATT Diode
Snap diode
Schottky Diode

24) The largest change of input quantity for which there is no output of the instrument is called as
A)
B)
C)
D)

Discrimination of that instrument

Dead zone of that instrument
Dead time of that instrument
Live zone of that instrument

25) Then number of T-states of the instruction STA in 8085 microprocessor is

A)
B)
C)
D)

13
16
12
10

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26) According to divergence theorem

A)

B)
C)

D)

27) What is the Nyquist rate for the signal

A)
B)
C)
D)
28) The nodal method of circuit analysis is based on
A)
B)
C)
D)

KCL, KVL and Ohms law

KVL and KCL
KVL and Ohms law
KCL and Ohms law

29) Which one of the following is equivalent to

A)
B)
C)
D)

x X-OR 0
x AND x
1 NOR x
x X-NOR 0

30) An AC supply of 230 V is applied to a half-wave rectifier circuit through a transformer having
primary to secondary turns ratio 12:1. The peak inverse voltage is
A)
B)
C)
D)

8.62 V
19.17 V
12 V
27.11 V

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31) An inductor is connected in series with SCR to protect it from

A)
B)
C)
D)

Excessive high dv/dt

Excessive high voltage
Excessive large forward current
Excessive high di/dt

32) A 50 transmission line is terminated in an impedance of 20-j50. What will be the reflection
coefficient?
A)
B)
C)
D)

16.9
1.69
0.69
6.9

33) Which waves are demodulated by Costas loop?

A)
B)
C)
D)

SSB
DSBSC
VSB
MSK

34) A pulse radar has a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 3 KHz. If the radar is emitting at 10
GHz, what is the maximum unambiguous range for this radar?
A)
B)
C)
D)

50 Km
5m
5 Km
15 m

35) A connected graph has 5 number of branches and 4 number of nodes. It's rank is
A)
B)
C)
D)

1
4
3
2

36) Which of the following circuits converts any arbitrary waveform into square waveform?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Schmitt trigger
Hartley oscillator
Differentiator
RC phase shift oscillator

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37) The Z-matrix of a two port network is given by

parameter)?
A)
B)
C)
D)

. What will be the value of (admittance

1.8
1.7
0.85
0.9

38) What is the efficiency of Class-B amplifier?

A)
B)
C)
D)

68.50%
88.50%
98.50%
78.50%

39) The unity gain bandwidth of an inverting amplifier is 10 MHz What would be the bandwidth if the
gain is increased to 10 V/V?
A)
B)
C)
D)

100 MHz
1 kHz
10 MHz
1 MHz

40) The total power of an AM transmitter having a carrier power of 50 W and the percentage of
modulation at 80% is
A)
B)
C)
D)

66 W
50 W
68 W
70 W

41) Which of the following materials is used in the construction of thermistors?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Pure metal
Pure semiconductor
Pure insulator
Sintered mixture of metal oxides

42) The current mode logic (CML) is same as

A)
B)
C)
D)

ECL
TTL
LSI
CMOS

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43) If the base current of a BJT is 250 A and emitter current is 15 mA, then the common base
current gain will be
A)
B)
C)
D)

59
55
0.98
0.41

44) Which one of the following is another name for common-collector amplifier?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Base follower
Collector follower
Source follower
Emitter follower

45) What is the time response of a system whose poles lie on the right hand side of s-plane?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Step response
Exponentially increasing
Sinusoidal oscillations
Exponentially decreasing

46) For a NAND gate, when one or more inputs are low then the output will be
A)
B)
C)
D)

Low
Alternately high and low
High
High or low depending on relative magnitude of inputs

47) A differential amplifier has a differential gain of 28000 and CMRR is 60 dB. What will be the
value of common mode gain?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Ac = 28
Ac = 0.125
Ac = 0.33
Ac = 3

48) The following switching functions are to be implemented using a Decoder.

The minimum configuration of the decoder should be

A)
B)
C)
D)

2 to 4 line
4 to 16 line
5 to 32 line
3 to 8 line

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49) A zener voltage regulator has load requirements of 12 V and 2 A. The zener diode minimum
current requirement is 0.2 A. The minimum voltage at input is 24 V. What is the required value of
series resistance with source?
A)
B)
C)
D)

6.38
6
7.2
5.45

50) What is the frequency range of VHF electromagnetic waves?

A)
B)
C)
D)

30-3000 kHz
30-3000 MHz
30-300 MHz
30-300 kHz

51) In the 8085A Microprocessor, arithmetic and logical operations are performed through which of
the following?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Stack
I/O
Register
ALU

52) If X (k) = {4,-j2, 0, j2} is the 4-point DFT of x (n), what will be the DFT of x{(n - 2)4}?
A)
B)
C)
D)

{4, j2, 0, -j2}

{4,-j2, 0, j}
{-j2, 4, 0, j2}
{4, 0, 0, j2}

53) The second harmonic distortion is defined as the

A)
B)
C)
D)

Ratio of amplitude of second harmonic component in the output to that of the fundamental
frequency
Ratio of amplitude of fundamental component in the output to that of second harmonic
component at the input
Sum of distortion of first and second harmonic components in the output
Harmonic distortion due to only second harmonic component

54) Which code is used in constructing k-maps?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Gray code
Hamming code
2 out of 5 code
BCD code

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55) Converting (10110110)2 to base 16 will result in

A)
B)
C)
D)

C616
A616
B616
D616

56) The command line interpreter that enables the users to interact with operating system is called
the
A)
B)
C)
D)

Process
Kernel
Shell
Window

57) What is the 2's complement of 01101?

A)
B)
C)
D)

10010
10011
1001
1100

58) In a single crystal of an intrinsic semiconductor, the number of free carriers at the Fermi level at
room temperature is:
A)
B)
C)
D)

Half the number of atoms in the crystal

Half the total number of electrons in the crystal
Zero
Half the number of free electrons in the crystal

59) What is the Laplace transform of step signal of 5 units magnitude?

A)
B)
C)
D)

s/5
1/s
5s
5/s

60) The effect of negative feedback on distortion and bandwidth is

A)
B)
C)
D)

Both distortion and bandwidth get decreased

Both distortion and bandwidth get increased
Distortion is reduced and bandwidth is increased
Distortion is increased and bandwidth is decreased

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61) An SSB transmitter produces a peak-to-peak voltage of 200 V across a 100 antenna load.
What is the Peak Envelope Power?
A)
B)
C)
D)

49.98 W
99.96 W
199.93 W
79.98 W

62) What is a Schmitt trigger?

A)
B)
C)
D)

Amplifier
A comparator with Hysteresis
A trigger circuit
A comparator without Hysteresis

63) A certain power MOSFET has a maximum junction temperature specification of 1500o C, a
junction-to-case thermal resistance of 1.00 C/W, and a junction-to ambient thermal resistance of
600 C/W. If the ambient temperature is 300o C, then the maximum allowable power dissipation in
the device will be
A)
B)
C)
D)

1.92W
2.00 W
1.52 W
1.72 W

64) In 8085 microprocessor, how many T-states does OPCODE FETCH machine cycle normally
require (i.e., when HOLD and WAIT signals are NOT forced)?
A)
B)
C)
D)

8 to 12
3 to 8
2 to 3
4 to 6

65) The SCR would be turned OFF by voltage reversal of applied anode-cathode ac supply
frequency of
A)
B)
C)
D)

10 kHz
10 Hz
5 Hz
5 kHz

66) Which of the following device is used for coupling microwave energy?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Resonator
Loop
Waveguide
Antenna

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67) The output of a JK flip-flop with asynchronous preset and clear inputs is 1. The output can be
changed to 0 with one of the following conditions by applying
A)
B)
C)
D)

J = 1, K = 1 and using the clock

Asynchronous preset input
J = 0, K = 0 and using a clock
J = 1, K = 0 and using the clock

68) An AM wave has Vmax = 12 V, and Vmin = 4 V. Calculate the modulation index assuming single
tone modulation.
(symbols/notations carry their usual meaning)
A)
B)
C)
D)

1/2
2
1
1/4

69) Which of the following thyristors can be used for high frequency of operation?
A)
B)
C)
D)

SCR
TRIAC
DIAC
GTO

70) In 8085, whenever a signal is received at TRAP terminal, its program execution is transferred to
a subroutine on address
A)
B)
C)
D)

0004 H
0024 H
0000 H
002C H

71) What are the components of system bus?

A)
B)
C)
D)

CPU Bus, Address Bus, Data Bus

Memory, Control Unit, ALU
Register, PC, IR
Data Bus, Address Bus, Control Bus

72) The clock frequency of an 8085 microprocessor based system is 3 MHz. What should be the
minimum pulse width of the INTR signal so that it is recognized successfully?
A)
B)
C)
D)

5.7 s
5.8 s
5.9 s
5.6 s

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73) A diode in which the change in reverse bias voltage varies the capacitance is called as
A)
B)
C)
D)

Zener-diode
Switching diode
Tunnel diode
Varactor diode

74) When does the Body bias effect occur in an n-channel MOSFET?
A)
B)
C)
D)

When the Source voltage is less the Bulk voltage

When the Source voltage is equal to or greater the Bulk voltage
When the Drain voltage is equal to the Bulk voltage
When the Gate voltage is equal to the Bulk Voltage

75) What is the size of memory which can be accessed by direct accessing in 8085
microprocessor?
A)
B)
C)
D)

128 kB
64 kB
128 MB
4 kB

76) How does the cut-in voltage of diode vary with temperature?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Decreases by
Increases by
Doubles for every
Doubles for every

drop in temperature
rise in temperature

77) TWT is basically a(n)

A)
B)
C)
D)

Amplifier
An oscillator
Wideband amplifier
Tuned amplifier

78) What is the size of SP register in 8085 microprocessor?

A)
B)
C)
D)

48 bits
8 bits
64 bits
16 bits

79) The average time required to reach a storage location in the memory to read or retrieve the
contents of memory is called as
A)
B)
C)
D)

Response time
Turnaround time
Access time
Latency time

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80) The number of terminals present in IGBT is

A)
B)
C)
D)

5
4
2
3

81) An inverting operational amplifier has

. Its scale factor is

(symbols/notations carry their usual meaning)

A)
B)
C)
D)

-1000
100
-100
1000

82) If the drift velocity of electrons is 2x107 cm/s, through the active region of length 10x10-4cm,
then the natural frequency of the diode will be
A)
B)
C)
D)

30 GHz
50 GHz
20 GHz
40 GHz

83) The term

A)
B)
C)
D)

has the dimension of

Inductance
Resistance
Time
Capacitance

84) What does double integration of a unit step function lead to?
A)
B)
C)
D)

A doublet
A ramp
An impulse
A parabola

85) RADAR is an acronym for:

A)
B)
C)
D)

Radio Detection and Repulsion

Ranging Detection and Retrieve
Radio Device and Ranging
Radio Detection and Ranging

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86) As per information capacity theorem, what is the capacity of channel of bandwidth B Hz,
perturbed by AWGN of PSD N0/2, limited in bandwidth to B and transmitted power of P?
(symbols/notations carry their usual meaning)
A)
B)
C)
D)

C = 2*B
C = B log2(1+P/N0B)
C = log2(P+B)
C = B log2(P/N0B)+1

87) A waveguide termination having VSWR of 1.1 is used to dissipate 100 watts of power. The
reflected power will be
A)
B)
C)
D)

0.2268 W
0.4568 W
0.5868 W
0.3468 W

88) The 8085 Microprocessor has

A)
B)
C)
D)

32-bits Data bus and 8-bits Address bus

8-bits Data bus and 8-bits Address bus
8-bits Data bus and 16-bits Address bus
16-bits Data bus and 16-bits Address bus

89) If the system transfer function of a discrete time system

A)
B)
C)
D)

then system is

Unstable
Stable
Stable at z=1
Unstable at z=1

90) The ratio of the width to the height of the picture frame is called as
A)
B)
C)
D)

Aspect Ratio
Rastar
Length Ratio
Efficiency

91) If it takes a transmitted signal 1m sec to go up to the target and come back after reflection, how
far is the transmitter from the target?
A)
B)
C)
D)

15 Km
1500 m
150 Km
150 m

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92) A discrete LTI system is non-causal if its impulse response is

A)
B)
C)
D)

an + 2U(n)
an - 2U(n)
anU(n +2)
anU(n - 2)

93) A pulse compression radar transmits an encoded pulse having a frequency chirp from 990 MHz
to 1010 MHz centred around 1 GHz. The range resolution capability of this radar is
A)
B)
C)
D)

750 m
7.5 Km
75 m
7.5 m

94) What will happen to the gain margin if the gain of the open loop system is doubled?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Is not affected
Becomes half
Becomes one-fourth
Doubled

95) Which of the following memory is a volatile memory?

A)
B)
C)
D)

PROM
RAM
EEPROM
ROM

96) The Poynting vector is the rate of energy flow having SI Unit
A)
B)

C)

D)

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97) A charged particle of mass 2Kg and charge 3C starts at point (1,-2,0) with velocity
in an electric field
acceleration of the particle?

. At time t=1ms what will be the

A)
B)
C)
D)

98) A resistor in which the resistance changes exponentially with change in temperature is called as
A)
B)
C)
D)

Thermistor
Phototransistor
Varactor
Potentiometer

99) The magnetic susceptibility of paramagnetic material is:

A)
B)
C)
D)

Equal to zero
Greater than one
Less than one but positive
Less than zero

100) An independent voltage source in series with an impedance ZS=R+jXS delivers a maximum
average power to a load impedance ZL when
A)
B)
C)
D)

ZL = R
ZL = R-jXS
ZL = jXS
ZL = R+jXS

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