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QUESTION BOOKLET Q.B. Number:

02 Post : Junior Engineer (Instrumentation)

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Section 1 - General Awareness

1) 'Wise And Otherwise', is the book written by which 5) Vienna is the capital city of which of the following
of the following personalities? countries located in European continent?
A) Indira Gandhi A) Italy

B) Sudha Murthy B) Greece

C) Ketan Desai C) Austria

D) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni D) Belgium

2) Which of the following Five Year Plan was based 6) Which of the following countries has been elected
on Harrod-Domar Model? as the Vice-President of Financial Action Task
A) Seventh Five Year Plan Force?

B) Fifth Five Year Plan A) India

C) Second Five Year Plan B) Australia

D) First Five Year Plan C) China

D) Pakistan

3) Which of the following plan was proposed to

achieve two main objectives: 'removal of poverty' 7) Funafuti is the capital city of which of the following
(Garibi Hatao) and 'attainment of self reliance'? countries?
A) Seventh Plan (1985 - 90) A) Vietnam

B) Fifth Plan (1974-79) B) Liechtenstein

C) Eighth Plan (1992 - 97) C) Tuvalu

D) Third Plan (1961 - 66) D) Senegal

4) Dr. Charles H. Townes who shared the 1964 Nobel 8) PyeongChang, the city in which Winter Olympics
Prize in Physics, is associated with the invention of: 2018 were held is located in which of the following
A) Jet Engine countries?

B) Trans-Atlantic Radio Telegraphy A) Japan

C) LASER B) Taiwan

D) Sewing Machine C) South Korea

D) China

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9) Which of the following nations has moved its capital 13) Which of the following five year plan was
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? approved by the National Development Council
A) Jordan (NDC) envisaging an 8 percent annual GDP growth
and aimed at reducing the Maternal mortality rate
B) Syria
(MMR) to two per thousand live births?
C) Israel
A) Eleventh Five Year Plan
D) Ethiopia
B) Tenth Five Year Plan

C) Ninth Five Year Plan

10) 'The Namesake' is a novel written by which of the
D) Thirteenth Five Year Plan
following Pulitzer Prize-winning authors?
A) Jhumpa Lahiri
14) In 1968, Sweden's central bank established the
B) Kiran Desai
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
C) Amish Tripati
Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize. Identify this
D) Rohinton Mistri
bank from the following options.
A) Sveriges Riksbank

11) In early 1880s, the first automobile gas pump was B) International Monetary Fund
invented by: C) Royal Bank of Scotland
A) Edwin Drake D) Deutsche Bank
B) Eugene Freyssinet

C) Edward Butler
15) What is the rank of India among the 86 nations in
D) Sylvanus Bowser
the Inclusive Internet Index 2018, which was released
by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in
February 2018?
12) Devendra who is a recipient of the
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2017 along A) 19th

with Sardar Singh, represents India in which of the B) 81st

following field of sports? C) 47th
A) Cricket D) 23rd
B) Hockey

C) Para Athletics

D) Badminton

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Section 2 - Analytical Ability

16) What is the next number of the given series? 20) What is the next number of the given series.

762, 712, 662, 612, ……. 568, 284, 142, 71, ………

A) 560 A) 52
B) 562
B) 35.5
C) 452
D) 450 C) 25

D) 25.5

17) To cover a distance of 360 kms, Martin takes

4 hours. If he reduces his speed by 30 kmph, then 21) The next symbol of the given sequence is
how much time will he take to cover the same Ͼ, Ï¿, ϵ, ϶, ᵬ, …….
distance? A) áµ
A) 6 hours
B) φ
B) 7 hours
C) π
C) 8 hours
D) b
D) 9 hours

22) The average age of a class of 15 students is

18) Marker took a car to go to his office. Marker drove 20 years. If the teacher is also included in the group,
for 4 hours and covered 100 miles. For the last then the average age increases by 1 year. What is the
60 miles, the driver, John drove. He took 1 hour to age of the teacher?
complete this leg of the trip. What was the average A) 36 years
speed (arithmetic mean), in miles per hour, for the
B) 32 years
journey?
C) 20 years
A) 32 miles per hour
D) 24 years
B) 30 miles per hour

C) 22 miles per hour

D) 20 miles per hour 23) The next symbol of the given sequence is
↑,↑↑,↑,↑↑↑, ……..

19) A candle which is marked at Rs.40 is sold for A) ↑↑

Rs.30. The rate of discount is
B) ↑
A) 20%
C) ↑↑↑
B) 25%
D) ↑↑↑↑
C) 30%

D) 35%

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24) If CAT = 23, BAT = 22 then, what is equal to RAT? 28) Raghav runs D miles in T hours and then swims
A) 21 M miles in twice as many hours as consumed in
B) 32 running. What is his average speed for the entire
C) 38
distance covered?
D) 28
A) (D/2T) + (M/3T)

B) (D/3T) + (M/3T)
25) What is the next number of the given series?
C) (D/5T) + (M/3T)
456, 460, 464, 468, …….
D) (D/T) + (5M/3T)
A) 470

B) 469

C) 472 29) The difference between simple and compound

interests compounded annually on certain sum of
D) 476
money for 2 years at 10% per annum is Rs. 4. What
is the sum?
26) In a classical theater, 65% of audience are male. A) Rs.200
On a particular day 80% of female audience were
B) Rs.400
present. What was the fraction of males who were
C) Rs.410
present that day if the total number of audience
D) Rs.350
present that day was 70%?
A) 42/65

B) 55/42 30) @ is the mother of % and wife of #, who is the

C) 55/34 father of *. How is @ related to *?

D) 34/43 A) Sister

B) Aunt

C) Daughter
27) In the following question, there is a certain
D) Mother
relationship between two given words on one side of
: : and one word is given on another side of : : while
another word is to be found from the given
alternatives, having the same relation with this word
as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the
correct alternative
MBBS : Doctor :: LLM : ?
A) Scientist

B) Judge

C) Lawyer

D) Teacher

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Section 3 - Instrumentation Engineering

31) Which of the following is the application of closed- 35) In PCM, the amplitude levels are transmitted in a

loop control systems? 5-unit code. Sampling frequency is 12 kHz. What

would be the bandwidth?
A) Automatic washing machine
A) 35 kHz
B) Electric hand drier
B) 30 kHz
C) Traffic light control
C) 60 kHz
D) Voltage stabilizer
D) 24 kHz

32) Identify the causal system.

36) What will happen to the maximum radar system
A) y(n) = 5x[n] - 3x [n - 1]
range if the effective diameter of the antenna is
B) y(n) = 5x[n] + 3x [n + 1]
doubled?
C) y(n) = 5x [n + 1] + 3x [n - 1]
A) Range is doubled
D) y(n) = 5x [n + 1] 3x [n - 1] + x[n]
B) Range is halved

C) Range becomes four times

33) A galvanometer has a current range of 15 mA and D) Range is decreased to one fourth
a voltage range 600 mV. To convert this
galvanometer into an ammeter of range 25 amperes,
the shunt required is 37) Identify the first order system among the
following.
A) 0.02 ohm
A) Mercury in glass thermometer kept in boiling
B) 0.04 ohm
water
C) 2 ohm
B) Damped vibrator
D) 4 ohm
C) Interacting systems of two tanks in series

D) Distillation columns
34) A galvanometer has a resistance 'G' ohm. It is
shunted by a resistance 'S' ohm. How much
resistance should be added in series so that the main 38) Candela is the SI unit of

current in the circuit remains unchanged? A) Luminous intensity

A) G+S+R/(GS) B) Intensity of illumination

B) S2/(G+S) C) Thermodynamic temperature

C) GS/(G+S) D) Amount of substance

D) G2/(G+S)

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39) A wattmeter reads 25.34 watts. The absolute 43) In fuzzy logic controller, which of the following
error in the measurement is -0.11 watts. What is the contains a set of fuzzy if-then rules which defines the
true value of power ? actions of the controller in terms of linguistic variables
A) 25.23 W and membership functions of linguistic terms?

B) 25.45 W A) Fuzzifier

C) 230.3 W B) Fuzzy Inference Engine

D) 2.7 W C) Fuzzy Rule Base

D) Defuzzifier

40) Which code is used in labelling the cells in the K-

map? 44) Calculate the power required in the above circuit.
A) Decimal

B) Octal

C) Gray

D) Hexadecimal

A) 32 W
41) If the physical separation of two cells is sufficiently
B) 16 W
high so that same subset can be used in both cells,
then this concept is called C) 80 W

A) Crosstalk D) 500 W

B) Frequency Reuse

C) Co-channel interference 45) Mesh analysis is one of the important techniques

D) Adjacent channel interference used in finding solutions for a network. This is
applicable for
A) Planar networks
42) A graphic recording of the electrical activity of the
B) Non-planar networks
brain is termed as
C) Both planar and non-planar networks
A) Electromyography
D) Neither planar nor non-planar networks
B) Electrocardiography

C) Electroencephalography

D) Electroretinography

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46) If 3 kohm and 2 kohm resistors are connected in 50) If the maximum deviation allowed is 75 KHz and
parallel across a 12V supply, then what is the value the modulating signal has a frequency of 10 KHz,
of the current received by 2 kohm resistor? what will be the bandwidth of a FM wave?
A) 4 mA A) 20 KHz

B) 6 mA B) 7.5 KHz

C) 8 mA C) 170 KHz

D) 12 mA D) 75 KHz

47) An Operational Amplifier is used in following 51) What will be the output of an op-amp integrator if
modes with R1 = 1 KΩ and Rf = 100 KΩ, Vi = 10 mV the input is a constant voltage?
and Vcc = . Find Vo for non-inverting mode. A) A constant voltage

A) 101 V B) Ac voltage

B) -99 V C) Sawtooth wave

C) -1 V D) Ramp wave

D) 1.01 V

52) In a common emitter configuration, the input V-I

48) What is the main advantage of Proportional- characteristics are drawn by taking

Integral control mode (PI Mode) over Proportional A) VCE versus IC at constant value of IE
control mode (P Mode)? B) VBE versus IB for various levels of output voltage
A) Changes set point VCE

B) Eliminates steady state error C) VBE versus IB at constant value of IC

C) Steady state error approaches infinity D) VCE versus IE for various levels of output voltage

D) Increases offset VBE

49) Which of the following static characteristics 53) Which type of transducer is LVDT?

indicate the smallest change in measurable input to A) Resistive

which the instrument will respond? B) Inductive
A) Accuracy C) Capacitive
B) Precision D) Piezoelectric
C) Resolution

D) Threshold

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54) What is the refractive index of cladding if the 58) What is the Boolean expression for 3-input AND
numerical aperture of an optical fiber is 0.5 and core gate with inputs as A, B, C and output as Y.
refractive index is 1.54 ? A) Y= ABC
A) 3.08
B) Y=A+B+C
B) 0.77
C) 1.456 C) Y=AB+C
D) 2.316 D) Y= A+BC

55) A potential of 7.5 V is applied to a silicon diode

59) Suppose a thermometer has a calibration of -40ºC
with a resistance of 2 kΩ is connected in series. If the
to 400ºC, find the Span of a measuring instrument.
diode is forward biased, find the current in the circuit
A) 40ºC
(Consider potential barrier of Si = 0.7V).
A) 3.4 mA B) 440ºC
B) 6.8 mA C) 400ºC
C) 0 mA
D) 360ºC
D) 7 mA

56) The main function of program counter (PC) in a 60) What is the z-transform of a finite duration

microprocessor is to signal
A) count the number of programs being executed
A) 3z 5 + z 2 + 8 – z -1 + 4z -2
B) count the number of instructions being executed
B) 3z -5 + z -2 + 8 – z 1 + 4z 2
C) keep the count of interrupts handled by the
C) -3z -5 + -z -2 + 8 + z 1 + 4z 2
microprocessor
D) -3z -5 + -z -2 + 8 + z- 1 + 4z -2
D) keep the address of the next instruction to be
fetched

61) In N-P-N transistor, if the Emitter-Base junction is

57) What should be the gain margin and phase forward biased and Collector-Base junction is reverse

margin for a stable system? biased, in which region will the transistor operate?

A) Gain margin must be positive and phase margin A) Active region

must be negative B) Cut-off region

B) Both gain margin and phase margin must be C) Saturation region

positive D) Inverted region
C) Gain margin must be negative and phase margin
must be positive

D) Both gain margin and phase margin must be

negative

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62) Optical fiber works on the principle of 66) What is the Nyquist sampling rate for the analog
A) Total internal reflection signal x(t) =4 sin 100 πt + 8 cos 200 πt + sin 300 πt ?

B) Refraction A) 200 Hz

C) Tyndall effect B) 1/300 Hz

D) Photoelectric effect C) 300 Hz

D) 150 Hz

63) Ballistic galvanometers are used to measure the

total quantity of 67) A dual slope ADC with R = 1 KΩ and C = 0.33 nF
A) Current has charging and discharging time as 8 ns and 2 ns
respectively. If the reference voltage is 3.3 V, what is
B) Voltage
the peak voltage reached by triangular wave during
C) Power
charging?
D) Electric charge
A) 20 mV

B) 40 mV
64) How many digits in a binary number can be C) 90 mV
represented with a single hexadecimal digit?
D) 200 mV
A) 1

B) 2
68) Which of the following errors are caused due to
C) 4
imperfect calibration of measurement instruments
D) 8
and interference of the environment with the
measurement process?

65) In a 4-bit parallel out shift register that is initially A) Systematic errors

clear, the bit sequence 0100 is serially entered (right- B) Gross errors
most bit first). What are the Q outputs after three clock C) Random errors
pulses?
D) Precision errors
A) 0000

B) 0010
69) Which property describes the process of physical
C) 0100
deformation on application of electric field?
D) 1000
A) Electromagnetic property

B) Electromechanical property

C) Electrostriction property

D) Magnetostriction property

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70) The Fourier series of an odd periodic 74) The dc voltage on plate modulated class C
function contains only amplifier is 6 kV. If the peak modulating voltage is 3
A) Odd harmonics kV, the peak RF voltage delivered to load is

B) Even harmonics A) 18 kV

C) Sine harmonics B) 9 kV

D) Cosine harmonics C) 0.18 kV

D) 15 kV

71) What is the modulation index in FM modulation,

if fm = 400 Hz, and Δf = 3.24 kHz. 75) What is the Hilbert transform of cos ω1t + sin ω2t ?
A) 8.1 A) sin ω1t + cos ω2t

B) 16.2 B) sin ω1t - cos ω2t

C) 0.81 C) cos ω1t - cos ω2t

D) 81 D) -sin ω1t + cos ω2t

72) Which of the following is a characteristic of Ideal 76) Snell's law or law of refraction is expressed by
Operational Amplifier? which of the following equations in optical
A) Zero input impedance communication?

B) Infinite output impedance A)

C) Infinite slew rate
B)
D) Zero voltage gain

C)

73) How many select lines are required for 8- to-1 line D)
multiplexer?
A) 2
77) Which of the channel access methods allows
B) 3
several users to share the same frequency channel
C) 4
by dividing the signal into different time slots?
D) 8
A) SDMA

B) TDMA

C) FDMA

D) CDMA

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78) A superheterodyne receiver is to operate in the 81) What will be the number of channels available in
frequency range 550 kHz - 1650 kHz with the MF band (300 kHz - 3000 kHz) for AM modulating
intermediate frequency (IF) of 450 kHz. The receiver signal of 25 kHz ?
is tuned to 600 kHz. What is the image frequency? A) 54
B) 65
A) 1500 kHz
C) 25
B) 1100 kHz D) 37
C) 2100 kHz

D) 600 kHz
82) Which of the following memories uses one
transistor and one capacitor as basic memory unit?

79) Read the following statements S1 and S2 and A) SRAM

identify the correct choice. B) DRAM

S1: Ready signal of microprocessor is used to detect C) PROM
whether a peripheral is ready for the data transfer or D) EPROM
not.
S2: In the microprocessor during data transfer
operations, the wait states are added by forcing the 83) What is the transfer function for the signal flow
ready signal low. graph?

A) S1 is true and S2 is false

B) S1 is false and S2 is true

C) Both S1 and S2 are true and S2 is the

correct explanation for S1 A)

D) Both S1 and S2 are false and S2 is not the

B)
correct explanation for S1
C)

80) Which of the following is an instrument used for D)

measuring humidity in air?
A) Hygrometer

B) Hydrometer 84) Using SSB modulation, 32 telephone channels

are frequency division multiplexed. Assuming 4 kHz
C) pH meter
per channel, calculate the required bandwidth.
D) Tachometer
A) 8 kHz

B) 32 kHz

C) 128 kHz

D) 256 kHz

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85) The measured value of a capacitor is 205.3 μF, 89) Which instrument is used to provide oxygen
whereas its true value is 201.4 μF. What is the relative enriched, medicated air to a patient at a controlled
error ? temperature?
A) 0.0194 A) Defibrillator

B) 3.9 * 10-6 F B) Pacemaker

C) 0.0189 C) Ventilator

D) 3.9 F D) Audiometer

86) The unit impulse response of a certain system is 90) Which of the following converts Discrete-time
found to be e-4t . What is its transfer function? Continuous-amplitude signal into Discrete-time
Discrete-amplitude?
A) 1/(s-4)
A) Encoder
B) 1/(s+4)
B) Decoder
C) (s+1)/(s+4)
C) Sampler
D) s2/(s-4)
D) Quantizer

87) If the base currents for the emitter coupled

transistors of a differential amplifier are 18 μA and 91) Which bridge is used for measurement of

22 μA. Determine Input bias current (Ib) and Input unknown capacitance, dielectric loss, relative

offset current (Iios) for an op-amp. permittivity and dissipation factor of a capacitor?
A) Wheatstone Bridge

A) Ib = 40 μA and Iios = 20 μA B) Hay's Bridge

B) Ib = 40 μA and Iios = - 4 μA C) Kelvin double Bridge

C) Ib = 20 μA and Iios = 4 μA D) Schering Bridge

D) Ib = 20 μA and Iios = - 4 μA

92) What is the relation between Dissipation factor (D)

88) The z transform of a signal is given below as and Quality factor (Q) of a coil?
1 1 1 1 1 A) D = 1/Q
+ ⋯ + 𝑧 3 + 𝑧 2 + 𝑧 + + 2 + 3 + ⋯ 𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 (𝑛 → ∞)
𝑧 −𝑛 𝑧 𝑧 𝑧 𝑧
B) D = Q2
What will be the response?
C) D = Q
A) IIR
D) D = 2Q
B) FIR

C) Depends on n

D) Cannot be determined

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93) If the response to input and behaviour to external 97) Which of the following is the ability to uniquely
disturbances of a control system are predictable and determine the state of a system from observations of
repetitive, the control system is known as linear combinations of the output of the system in
A) Distributed-Parameter Control Systems finite time?

B) Stochastic Control Systems A) Controllability

C) Lumped Control Systems B) Observability

D) Deterministic Control Systems C) Adaptability

D) Differentiability

94) In a common base configuration, the current

amplification factor is 0.95. If the emitter current is 98) Ideally, an op-amp has zero common-voltage
1.5 mA, determine the value of base current. gain and hence the CMRR is
A) 1.425 mA A) Zero

B) 0.075 mA B) High

C) 0.5 mA C) Infinite

D) 0.02 mA D) Low

95) The technique which allows a number of
independent signals to be combined into a composite
signal suitable for transmission over a common
channel is
A) Modulation
99) In a wheat stone bridge, a change of 4 Ω in the
unknown arm of the bridge is required to produce a
change in deflection of 2.0 mm of the galvanometer.
What is the sensitivity.
A) 0.25 mm/Ω

B) Multiplexing B) 0.5 mm/Ω

C) Demodulation C) 0.4 mm/Ω

D) Demultiplexing D) 1 mm/Ω

96) A CRO measures a sinusoidal signal in which the 100) Which type of controller has maximum offset?
scale is set at 2 mV/cm. If vertical distance between A) Proportional
positive and negative peaks is 10 cm, the peak value
B) Proportional Integral
of ac signal is
C) Proportional Derivative
A) 10 mV
D) Proportional Integral Derivative
B) 20 mV

C) 5 mV

D) 12 mV

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