NG 24 (GROUP A)

PART I — ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

(Common to all Candidates)

(Answer ALL questions)

1. If A is a 3 × 3 matrix and determinant of 4. The shortest and longest distance from the
A is 6, then find the value of the determinant point (1, 2, − 1) to the sphere
−1
of the matrix (2 A )
x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = 24 is
1
a.
12 a. ( 14 , 46 )
1 b. (14, 46 )
b.
24
c. ( 24 , 56 )
1
c.
36 d. (24, 56 )

1
d.
48

5. The solution of the given ordinary differential

d 2 y dy
2. If 3x + 2 y + z = 0 , x + 4y + z = 0 , equation x + = 0 is
dx 2 dx
2x + y + 4 z = 0 , be a system of equations, then
a. y = A log x + B
a. it is inconsistent
b. y = Ae log x + Bx + C
b. it has only the trivial solution
x = 0, y = 0, z = 0 c. y = Ae x + B log x + C

c. it can be reduced to a single equation d. y = Ae x + Bx 2 + C

and so a solution does not exist

d. the determinant of the matrix of

coefficients is zero
6. The complete integral of the partial

differential equation pz 2 sin 2 x + qz 2 cos2 y = 1

1 1 1
  is
3. Let M =  0 1 1  . The maximum number of
 0 0 1 a. z = 3a cot x + (1 − a ) tan y + b
 
linearly independent eigen vectors of M is
b. z 2 = 3a 2 cot x + 3(1 + a ) tan y + b
a. 0
c. z 3 = −3a cot x + 3(1 − a ) tan y + b
b. 1
d. z 4 = 2a 2 cot x + (1 + a )(1 − a ) tan y + b
c. 2

d. 3
7. The area between the parabolas y 2 = 4 − x 10. The only function from the following that is
analytic is
and y 2 = x is given by
a. F (z ) = Re(z )

3 2 b. F (z ) = Im(z )
a.
16
c. F (z ) = z

16 3
b. d. F (z ) = sin z
5

5 3
c.
16
11. The value of m so that 2x − x 2 + my 2 may be

16 2 harmonic is
d.
3
a. 0

a b c b. 1

e
x + y+z
8. The value of the integral dz dy dx
c. 2
0 0 0

d. 3
is

a. e a +b + c

1
b. e a + eb + e c 12. The value of  z dz , where
C
C is the circle

c. (e a − 1)(eb − 1)(e c − 1) z = e iθ , 0 ≤ θ ≤ π is,

a. πi
d. e abc
b. −πi

c. 2πi

→ → →
d. 0
9. If ∇φ = 2xyz 3 i + x 2 z 3 j + 3x 2 yz 2 k , then

φ ( x , y, z ) =

13. The Region of convergence of the signal

a. φ = xyz 2 + c
x (n ) = δ (n − k ), k > 0 is

b. φ = x 3 yz 2 + c
a. z=∞

c. φ = x 2 yz 3 + c b. z=0

c. Entire z -plane, except at z = 0

d. φ = x 3 yz + c
d. Entire z -plane, except at z = ∞

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14. The Laplace transform of a signal X (t ) is 17. Which of the following formula is used to fit a
polynomial for interpolation with equally
4s + 1 spaced data?
2
. The initial value X (0 ) is
s + 6s + 3
a. Newton’s divided difference
a. 0 interpolation formula

b. Lagrange’s interpolation formula

b. 4
c. Newton’s forward interpolation formula
c. 1/6
d. Least- square formula
d. 4/3

1
18. For applying Simpson’s rule, the given
15. Given the inverse Fourier transform of 3
2 interval must be divided into how many
a − s , s ≤a a2  sin ax  number of sub-intervals?
f (s ) =  is 2
 ax  . The
 0, s >a 2π  2 
a. odd
∞ 2
 sin x  b. two
value of 
0
 2  dx is
c. even

a. π d. three

2π
b.
3
19. A discrete random variable X has the
π probability mass function given by
c. p(x ) = cx , x = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 . The value of the
2
constant ‘c’ is
π a. 1/5
d.
4
b. 1/10

c. 1/15

16. If A = [aij ] is the coefficient matrix for a d. 1/20

system of algebraic equations, then a

sufficient condition for convergence of
Gauss-Seidel iteration method is 20. For a Binomial distribution with mean 4 and
variance 2, the value of ‘n’ is
a. A is strictly diagonally dominant a. 2

b. |aii |= 1 b. 4

c. 6
c. det( A ) ≠ 0
d. 8
d. det( A ) > 0

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 PART II — BASIC ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES

(Common to all candidates)

(Answer ALL questions)

21. Speed of the processor chip is measured in 26. Which one of the following flows in the
a. Mbps internal circuit of a galvanic cell?

b. GHz a. atoms
b. electrons
c. Bits per second
c. electricity
d. Bytes per second
d. ions
22. A program that converts Source Code into
machine code is called
27. Which one of the following is not a primary
a. Assembler fuel?
b. Loader a. petroleum
c. Compiler b. natural gas
d. Converter c. kerosene
d. coal
23. What is the full form of URL?
a. Uniform Resource Locator
28. Which of the following molecules will not
b. Unicode Random Locator display an infrared spectrum?
c. Unified Real Locator a. CO2
d. Uniform Read Locator b. N2
c. Benzene
24. Which of the following can adsorb larger
d. HCCH
volume of hydrogen gas?
a. Finely divided platinum
b. Colloidal solution of palladium 29. Which one of the following behaves like an
intrinsic semiconductor, at the absolute zero
c. Small pieces of palladium
temperature?
d. A single metal surface of platinum
a. Superconductor
b. Insulator
25. What are the factors that determine an
effective collision? c. n-type semiconductor

a. Collision frequency, threshold energy d. p-type semiconductor

and proper orientation

b. Translational collision and energy of 30. The energy gap (eV) at 300K of the material
activation GaAs is
c. Proper orientation and steric bulk of a. 0.36
the molecule b. 0.85
d. Threshold energy and proper c. 1.20
orientation d. 1.42

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31. Which of the following ceramic materials will 36. Which one of the following represents open
be used for spark plug insulator? thermodynamic system?
a. SnO2 a. Manual ice cream freezer
b. Centrifugal pump
b. α -Al2O3
c. Pressure cooker
c. TiN d. Bomb calorimeter
d. YBaCuO7

37. In a new temperature scale say ° ρ , the

32. In unconventional super-conductivity, the boiling and freezing points of water at one
pairing interaction is atmosphere are 100° ρ and 300° ρ
a. non-phononic respectively. Correlate this scale with the
Centigrade scale. The reading of 0° ρ on the
b. phononic
Centigrade scale is:
c. photonic
a. 0°C
d. non-excitonic b. 50°C
c. 100°C
33. What is the magnetic susceptibility of an d. 150°C
ideal super conductor?
a. 1
38. Which of the cross-section of the beam
b. –1 subjected to bending moment is more
economical?
c. 0
a. Rectangular cross-section
d. infinite
b. I - cross-section
c. Circular cross-section
34. The Rayleigh scattering loss, which varies as d. Triangular cross-section
___________ in a silica fiber.

a. λ0 39. The velocity of a particle is given by

−2 V = 4t3 – 5t2. When does the acceleration of
b. λ the particle becomes zero?
c. λ−4 a. 8.33 s
b. 0.833 s
d. λ−6
c. 0.0833 s
d. 1s
35. What is the near field length N that can be
calculated from the relation (if D is the
40. What will happen if the frequency of power
diameter of the transducer and λ is the
supply in a pure capacitor is doubled?
wavelength of sound in the material)?
a. The current will also be doubled
a. D 2 / 2λ b. The current will reduce to half
c. The current will remain the same
b. D 2 / 4λ
d. The current will increase to four-fold
c. 2D 2 / λ

d. 4 D2 / λ

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 PART III

03 – ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

(Answer ALL questions)

41. The resultant magnetic flux generated in the 47. 200 V, 50 Hz inductive circuit takes a current
closed surface will be of 10 A lagging the voltage by 30o. Calculate
inductance of the circuit
a. Zero
b. Continuous a. 31.85 mH
c. Constant b. 51.85 mH
d. Unity c. 21.85 mH
d. 11.85 mH
42. The motion of electrons in a CRTs is due to
a. Charge density
b. Columbic Force
c. Lorentz Force 48. Which of the following motors is expected to
d. Electron Gun have maximum full-load efficiency
a. 1 kW
43. H in the region 0 ≤ l ≤ a for an infinitely long
b. 5 kW
co-axial transmission line is
c. 30 kW
a. H = Il / 2πa 2
d. 100 kW
b. H = I / πa 2
c. H =0
d. H = Il 3 / πa 2
49. Dynamic braking is very effective for
44. The direction of current flow in the circuit is a. DC series motor
such that the induced magnetic field
b. DC shunt motor
produced by the induced current will oppose
the original magnetic field. This is c. Separately excited DC motor
a. Faraday’s Law d. Cumulatively compound DC motor
b. Lenz’s Law
c. Biot - Savart Law
d. Gauss Law
50. A transformer steps up the voltage by a factor
of 100. The ratio of current in the primary to
45. The electromagnetic wave propagates in free that in the secondary is
space with a speed of
a. 1.9 × 106 m/s a. 1
b. 3 × 108 m/s b. 100
c. 2.12 × 102 m/s c. 0.01
d. 3.8 × 104 m/s d. 0.1

46. Energy stored in the capacitor is

1
a. CI 3
2 51. Power factor of a power transformer on no
1 load will be about
b. CV 3
2 a. 1
1 b. 0.75
c. CV 2
2
c. 0.5
1
d. CI 2 d. 0.35
2

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52. To eliminate 5th harmonic voltage from the 57. Which of the following matrices reveals the
phase voltage of and alternator, the coils topology of the power system network?
should be short pitched by an electrical angle a. Bus incidence matrix
of
b. Primitive impedance matrix
a. 30 degree c. Primitive admittance matrix
b. 36 degree d. Bus admittance matrix
c. 72 degree
58. Four identical alternators each rated for
d. 18 degree 20 MVA, 11 kV having a sub-transient
reactance of 16% are working in parallel. The
short circuit level at the bus bars is

53. The flux set up by the armature current, a. 700 MVA

which does not cross the air gap and takes a b. 500 MVA
different path is called as c. 300 MVA
a. Leakage flux d. 200 MVA

b. Main flux
c. Cross-magnetizing flux 59. Magnetizing inrush current is rich in
d. Demagnetizing flux a. 3rd harmonics
b. 5th harmonics
c. 7th harmonics
54. AC machines should have proper –––––––––– d. 2nd harmonics
in order to limit the operating temperature
a. Voltage rating 60. Negative phase sequence current in an
b. Current rating alternator produces
a. Over speed
c. Speed b. Over voltage
d. kW rating c. Rotor heating
d. Under frequency

55. The nuclear plants are suitable for 61. SVC is basically
a. Peak load a. A FACTS controller connected to
transmission line by series insertion
b. Intermediate loads transformer only
c. Base load b. A compensator used to exchange real
d. Both base and peak loads power at fundamental frequency
c. A series connected FACTS controller
d. A shunt connected FACTS controller

56. Corona loss increases with

62. The Impulse Response of an initially relaxed
a. Decrease in conductor size and increase
in supply frequency linear system is e −2tu(t ) . To produce a

b. Increase in conductor size and decrease response of te −2t u(t ) , the input should be
in supply frequency a. 2e −t u(t )
c. Increase in both conductor size and b. 0.5 e −2t u(t )
supply frequency
c. e −2tu(t )
d. Decrease in both conductor size and
supply frequency d. e −tu(t )

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63. The steady state error due to unit 68. The state variable description of a system is
acceleration input for a type 2 system is ⋅ 0 3
a. Zero
X = AX + BU ; A =   . The poles of the
3 0
b. Infinity system are located at
c. 1/Ka a. s=±2

d. 1/Kv b. s = ± j2
c. s = ± j3
d. s = ±3
64. A system has two zeros and four poles. Then
two asymptotes in the root loci plane move
towards infinity along
a. ± 60 degree 69. In a single phase semi-converter without
b. ± 90 degree freewheeling diode, for discontinuous
c. ± 45 degree conduction and extinction angle β > π , each
d. ± 30 degree SCR conducts for the period
a. π −α
b. β −α
65. A closed loop system has the characteristic
equation given by s3 + ks2 + (k + 2) s + 3 = 0. c. α
For the system to be stable the value of k is
d. β
a. k>1
b. 0.5 < k < 1
c. 0<k<1 70. For a single phase full wave uncontrolled
d. 0 < k < 0.5 rectifier with purely R load, the form factor is

2 2
a.
π
66. Loop transfer function of a feedback system is
10 2
G( s ) H ( s) = . Assume the Nyquist b.
(s − 2) π
contour in the clockwise direction. Then the π
Nyquist plot of G(s) encircles –1 + j0 c.
2 2
a. once in clockwise direction
π
b. twice in clockwise direction d.
2
c. once in anti-clockwise direction
d. twice in anti-clockwise direction
71. A single-phase inverter has square wave
output voltage. The percentage of the fifth
67. The transfer function of a first order harmonic component in relation to the
controller is given as Gc(s) = K (s + a) / (s + b), fundamental component is
where K, a, b are positive real numbers. The
condition for this controller to act as a phase a. 10
lag compensator is
a. a<b b. 20
b. a>b c. 30
c. K< ab
d. 40
d. K > ab

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72. The RMS output voltage at fundamental 76. Assuming 3 MHz clock frequency, the
execution time taken by the delay subroutine
frequency of a single phase, full bridge
is :
inverter with input voltage of 48V DC,
Delay : MVI C, 9Ah
feeding a load of 2.4 Ω is Loop : DCR C
JNZ Loop
4 × 48 RET
a. V
2π
a. 0.723 msec
48 b. 7.23 msec
b. V
2 2π
c. 0.07231 msec
2 × 48 d. 72.34 μsec.
c. V
π

4 × 48 77. The output of the following program is :

d. V
π LXI H, 1234h
MVI C, 05h
MVI B, 67h
DCR C
73. When the MOSFET is in the ON state, the DAD B
SHLD Result
channel of the device behaves like HLT.

a. Constant resistance a. 1234 h

b. Inductance b. 7938 h
c. Capacitance c. 7939 h
d. Resistance and Inductance d. 129 Bh

78. On execution of the program segment,

74. The duty cycle value of buck converter when MVI A, 0Ah
SIM
the switching frequency is 250 kHz and the
….
ON time is 2µs is a. RST 6.5 is disabled, but other
interrupts are enabled
a. 0.4
b. RST 7.5 is disabled, but other
b. 0.8 interrupts are enabled.
c. 0.5 c. RST 5.5 is disabled, but other
interrupts are enabled.
d. 0.2
d. Both RST 5.5 and RST 6.5 are
disabled, but other interrupts are
enabled.

75. Which load torque will be used in

79. The 8051 program segment, which performs
regenerative braking? ‘software polling’ to check if the timer-0
counting has completed, is:
a. Fan hype load torque
a. JNB TF0, 0FEh
b. Frictional load torque
b. JB TF0, 0FEh
c. Passive load torque
c. JB TF1, 0FEh
d. Archive load torque
d. JNB TF1, 0FEh

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80. The output of the following 8051 Assembly 85. What is the width of the main lobe of the
code is, frequency response of a rectangular window
MOV A, #10 of length M-1?

MOV 01H, A
a. π M
b. 2π M
MOV A, #20
c. 4π M
MOV @R1, A
d. 8π M
a. A = 10
b. [01] = 20 86. With reference to the Fast Fourier Transform
c. [10] = 20 if W41 = Wx2 , then what is the value of x ?
d. [20] = 10 a. 2
b. 4
81. What is the operation carried out by the 8051 c. 8
instruction: ‘SETB 0D3’? d. 16
a. It disables all of the interrupts
87. Which of the following defines the FIR filter
temporarily for length M, input x(n) and output y(n)?
b. It doubles the baud rate of the serial
 bk x (n − k )
M
communication a. y(n ) =
K =0

y(n ) =  bk x (n + k )
M +1
c. It switches to bank1 from the default b.
K =0
bank0
y(n ) =  bk x (n − k )
M −1
d. It makes the timer-0 run in mode-3 c.
K =0

y(n ) =  bk x (n + k )
M
d.
K =0
82. If all the poles of H(z) are outside the unit
circle, then the system is said to be
a. Only causal 88. Surge impedance of loss less transmission
b. Only BIBO stable line is (if L =inductance/m C = capacitance/m)
c. BIBO stable and causal a. C L
d. None of the above b. LC
c. 1 LC
83. Which of the following is true regarding the
LC
number of computations required to compute d.
N-point DFT
89. Time lag for breakdown is
a. N2 complex multiplications and N(N–1)
complex additions a. time required for gas to breakdown
under pulse application
b. N2 Complex additions and N(N–1)
complex multiplications b. time taken for the voltage to rise before
breakdown occurs
c. N2 complex multiplications and N(n+1)
c. time difference between instant of
complex additions
applied voltage and occurrence of
d. N2 complex additions and N(N+1) breakdown
complex multiplications
d. time required for ionization

90. In impulse testing of transformers fault

84. Which of the following justifies the linearity
location is usually done by
property of z-transform? [x(n) ↔ X(z)].
a. neutral current oscillogram
a. x(n) + y(n) ↔ X(z)Y(z)
b. x(n) + y(n) ↔ X(z) + Y(z) b. chopped wave oscillogram
c. x(n) y(n) ↔ X(z) + Y(z) c. observing for noise or smoke
d. x(n) y(n) ↔ X(z)Y(z) d. scanning method

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91. The breakdown strength of air for small gaps 95. Electric traction uses power supply of
(1 mm) under uniform field condition and a. 25 kV, AC, 50Hz
standard atmospheric conditions will be
b. 25kV, DC
a. 50 kV/cm
c. 50kV, AC, 50Hz
b. 43.45 kV/cm d. 50kV, DC
c. 25.58 kV/cm
96. Filament lamps operate normally at a power
d. 40.59 kV/cm
factor of
a. 0.6 lagging
b. 0.6 leading
92. Optimum number of stages for Cockcroft
c. Zero power factor
Walton voltage multiplier circuit are
d. Unity power factor
a. Vmax If C

97. Candela is the unit of

b. If C Vmax a. Luminous flux
b. Luminous intensity
c. Vmax f IC c. Light
d. Brightness
d. Vmax fC I
98. A slab of insulating material 130 cm2 in area
and 1 cm thick is to be heated by dielectric
heating. The power required is 380 W at
93. The most important test to assert the proper 30 MHz. The material has a relative
functions of a surge diverter is permittivity of 5 and power factor of 0.05.
a. 100% impulse withstand test Determine the necessary voltage
a. 837 kV
b. Front of wave spark over and residual
b. 837 V
voltage tests
c. 652 V
c. Impulse current test d. 552 V
d. Pollution tests
99. Spot welding is used for
a. Thin metal sheets
94. An R-C voltage divider has an HV arm b. Thick metal rods
capacitance, C1 = 600 pf, resistance = 400 Ω c. Thick Square sections
and equivalent ground capacitance
d. Rough and irregular surfaces
Cg = 240 pF. The effective time constant of
the divider in nanoseconds is
a. 32 100. Material used for solar cell is
a. Germanium
b. 100
b. Silicon
c. 67 c. Silica gel
d. 25 d. Mercury
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