Question Paper to be answered by the candidates for the Selection

of R&D Staff.

Instructions: each question carries 1 mark and each wrong answer carries penalty of 0.25 Marks.

Put your answers (A, B, C or D) to the question numbers in the score sheet in the last page
of this question paper.
Time: 30 minutes
A. Name of Candidate
B. Mobile number
C. Email id
D. Highest Technical qualification

1. Ohms Law is not applicable to

A. Carbon resistors B. semiconductors
C. AC circuits D. None of the above.
2. L/R and RC (where L, C and R stand for inductance, capacitance and resistance, respectively) have the
same dimensions as those of
A. Velocity B. Acceleration C. Time D. Force

3. A square waveform in a CRO appears as shown in the figure. What does it indicate?

A. low frequency attenuation

B. high frequency attenuation
C. low voltage sensitivity
D. No mistake of CRO

4. When current through a Zener diode is increased by a factor of 2, the voltage across the Zener diode is
A. halved B. doubled
C. is practically unchanged D. None

5. When a step voltage is applied across a pure inductance, initially the inductance acts as:
A An open circuit B Voltage source
C A current source D Short circuit

6. The circuit given below works as:

C
Vi
R A Oscillator
B Inverter
Vo C Schmitt Trigger
D None of the above

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7. The Letter “H” in H-bridge stands for

A Half C Typical circuit configuration

B High D None of the above

8. For a class-A amplifier, the transistor conduction angle is:

A Slightly less than 360 o C Slightly less than 180 o
B 180 o D Equal to 360 o

9. Maximum number of inputs possible for a NAND gate is

A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Any

10. If the current through an inductor is linearly increasing, then

A Voltage is decreasing
B The voltage across the inductor is constant.
C Voltage is increasing
D None the above is true

11. If two Zener diodes with voltage rating of 6 volts and 8 volts are connected in parallel, then the effective
voltage across the combination is
A. 6 Volt B. 8 Volts C. 14 Volts D. 4 Volts

12. For the circuit as shown below,

A LED will be damaged B. LED will not light up

1.2V White LED
C Battery will be short circuited D. None

13. Number ‘ten’ is equivalent to

A 1010b C Both A & B
B AH D None

14. In Boolean Algebra, (A+ACD)(B+BCD) is equivalent to

A ACD+BCD C ABCD
B (A+B)CD D AB

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15. Steady state voltage across R1 in the circuit shown below is
C1 1u D1 1N4007
230/6-0-6V C4
R1 A 0 volts
+ 1k
230v N1
N2 10u B 6 Volts
C2 1u D2 1N4007 -
N3 C 8.49 Volts
D Unable to determine

16. The circuit that works as a NOT gate is

U1 SN74136 U1 SN74136 IN U1 SN74136 U1 SN74136

IN IN IN
A 5V
OUT B OUT C OUT D OUT

17. The strongest ripple frequency at the output of full wave rectifier is
A Same as the input AC supply frequency
B Twice the Supply frequency
C Ripple will be negligible
D None of the above
18. Most accurate statement about the power transistor is
A Size will be bigger C Handle more current
B Handle more voltage D Dissipates more power

19. An eight-bit processor has

A 8-bit wide instruction set C 4 data line and 4 address line
B 8 bit data and 8 bit address lines. D 8-bit ALUs

20. A square wave can be converted to a triangular wave by means of

A High pass filter C Schmitt trigger
B Integrator D Band pass filter

21. SCR can be switched OFF by:

A Removing the gate voltage C Both A and B

B Reverse biasing the gate cathode junction D None of the above

22. In RC phase shift oscillator as shown in figure is designed for a particular frequency with R1 = R2 =R3
and C1 = C2 =C3. What happens of one capacitor say, capacitance of C2 used is different than the
designed value?
A. Oscillator will fail to oscillate
B. Results in damped oscillation.
C. Oscillator output will not be stable
D. Oscillator will oscillate on a different frequency.

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23. Which of the following in a control system increases the steady state accuracy?
A Differentiator C Phase lead compensator
B Integrator D Phase lag compensator
24. For real time operating systems, interrupt latency should be ____________
A) minimal
B) maximum
C) zero
D) dependent on the scheduling

25. Stack in a microcontroller is configured as

A First in First out memory
B Last in Last out
C Last in first out
D Any type that depends on the type of CPU

26. +1 volt DC signal is applied to a rail to rail OP-AMP in inverting configuration with a feedback
resistor of 100K  and an input resistor of 5 K. If the power supply voltage is 12 volts, what is the
output voltage?
A +20 Volts C -12V
B -20 Volts D 0.05 Volts

27. Correct procedure for converting an analogue signal to digital signal is:

A LPF Quantizer S/H ADC

B BPF S/H ADC

C Quantizer LPF S/H ADC

D Quantizer S/H ADC

28. The circuit shown below is:

+9V
C2 R1 L1
R2 C1 1u
.1u 1k 1k 10p
C4 10p 4
T1 NPN Out
C3 10p
R2
In
4.7
 A RF amplifier in common emitter configuration
B Radio frequency amplifier in common base configuration
C Audio amplifier in common collector configuration
D RF amplifier in common base configuraion

29. In data communications, “8 N 1” stands for

A 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit
B 7 data bits, no stop bit 1 parity bit,
C 8 data bits, no parity, 1 start bit
D 7 data bits, no start bit, 1 stop bit

30. Output of the C program shown below is:

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int a = 2,b = 5;
a = a^b; b = b^a;
printf("%d %d",a,b);
return 0;
}
A 52 B 25 C 72 D Syntax error

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 1. Mathematical representation of a linear system model is
A 1
y(n) = x(n) +
x(n − 1)
B y(n) = nx(n)
C y (n) = ax(n 2 ) + bx(n)
D None of the above
1. A carrier frequency of 1MHz is modulated with a signal x(t) where, x(t) = 2 sin500t. The bandwidth of the
modulated signal is

A 1.002 MHz C 2kHz

B 2080 Hz D Depends upon the modulation
index.

1. In the real world, to retrieve the original signal from its samples, the sampling rate Fs is related to Fm by
the relation (where Fm is the maximum frequency in the signal)
A Fs = B Fs>2Fm
2Fm
C Fs<2Fm D Unable to determine as the signal bandwidth is not
known

47. From among the applications given below, find out the one that cannot employ a PLL (phase locked loop)
A Tone decoder C Frequency multiplier
B FM demodulator D AM demodulator

Input/output relationship of a digital circuit is as shown. The circuit is a

A 3 bit binary counter

B 1 to 3 de-multiplexer
C Multiplexer
D None of the above

Answer Key

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 24 15
B C B C A D C D D A D B C D A

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
A B D D B D A A C C A B A B C

ANSWER KEY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 24 15
B C B C A D C D D A D B C D A
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A B D D B D A A C C A B A B C

ANSWER KEY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 24 15
B C B C A D C D D A D B C D A
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
A B D D B D A A C C A B A B C

ANSWER KEY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 24 15
B C B C A D C D D A D B C D A

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
A B D D B D A A C C A B A B C
ANSWER KEY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 24 15
B C B C A D C D D A D B C D A

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
A B D D B D A A C C A B A B C

ANSWER KEY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 24 15
B C B C A D C D D A D B C D A

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
A B D D B D A A C C A B A B C