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NOTIFICATION NO: 29/2018 (GENERAL RECRUITMENT)
INITIAL KEY

1. An open circuited coil has .

Infinite resistance and zero inductance
2. An RC network has a capacitor C = 2µF in series with a resistor R= 1MΩ. The time of 6 seconds
will be equal to .
three time constants
3. In a RLC series resonant circuit at the half power points .
The resistance equal to the resultant reactance
4. A two port network is reciprocal if and only if
BC-AD = -1
5. A step function voltage is applied to a RLC series circuit having R = 1Ω, L = 1H, and C = 1F. The
transient current response of the circuit would be .
under damped
6. A two terminal black box contains an element which can be R, L, C and M. As soon as the black
box is connected to a DC voltage source, a finite non zero current is observed to flow through the
element. The element is .
a resistor
7. The transfer function of an electrical lowpass RC network is .
1
1 RCs

5
8. The DC gain of a system represented by the transfer function (s  2)(s  3) is .
5/6
 9. A capacitor of 0.1F has a leakage resistance of 100kΩ across its terminals. Its quality factor at 10
rad/sec is .
105

10. The system is represented by the difference equation y  5y  6y  u . The state vector matrices A,
B, C, D are
0 1 0
A  ,B ,C  1 0,D  [0]
 6  5 1 
    
]

1

 (3t 1) (t)dt

2

11. The output of the integral function 1 is

1

12. A system has the input – output relation given by y(t)  T[x(t)]  x2 (t) , The system is
.

Non-linear, Time invariant

 2t t
13. The impulse responses of the systems are given by h1 (t)  e u(t) and h (t)  2e u(t) . These two
systems h1 (t) and h2 (t) are connected in cascade. The impulse response of the overall system is
.

2(et  e2t )u(t)

14. The Z-Transform of x[n]  a u[n 1] is

n
.
z
za

 1 
X (z)  log a
 1 
,z
15. The inverse Z transform of
 1 a z  , .

1

anu[n
1]
n
16. Fourier series coefficient of the
signal(t)  cos 4t sin 6t

is .
 1 1
a3   ,a 
2 j 2 2


17. The DFT of x [n] is .
X

[k] mod N

1 1
y[n]  y[n 1]  x[n]  x[n 1]
18. Consider a discrete time LTI system described by 2 2 . The
j
frequency response H (e ) of the system is .
1  j
1 e
2
1
1 e j
2
xa (t) is  s . The Nyquist rate for dt
19. If the Nyquist rate for is .

s
20. How many complex multiplications are necessary in a radix 3 decimation in frequency FFT
computation?

2N log3 N (
4
)
21. A Si sample is doped with 1017 As atoms/cm3. The equilibrium hole concentration at 300K is
.(𝑛𝑖 = 1.5 × 1010𝑐𝑚−3 )
2.25 x 103 cm-3
22. Consider two Si PN junction diodes, one long and one short (contacts within a diffusion length of
the depletion region) but otherwise identical. Under identical forward bias voltage, which diode
would have greater current flow?
Short
23. The is (desirably) high for voltage controlled field effect transistors and low for current
controlled bipolar junction transistors.
Input Impedance
output current
24. While increasing the device temperature, the subthreshold source to drain leakage current of
MOSFET will be .
Increased

25. The resistivity of the P region and N region of a Germanium diode are 6Ω-cm and 4Ω-cm
respectively. The contact potential and the potential energy barrier are and .
(The given details are q = 1.6 x 10-19C, ni = 2.5 x 1013/cm3, µp = 1800 cm2/V-s, µn = 3800 cm2/V-s,
and VT = 0.026V at 300oK).
0.1545V, 0.1545eV

26. If a bipolar junction transistor has β = 100 and the collector current is 40mA. The emitter current is
.
40.4mA
27. The reverse leakage current of the transistor when connected in common base (CB) configuration is
0.2µA and it is 20µA when the same transistor is connected in common emitter (CE) configuration.
The large signal dc current gain of the transistor in CE configuration is . (Assume IB =
30mA)
99
28. What is the value of RB and RC in the circuit given below? The data as follows: ICQ = 1mA, VCEQ =
16V, Vcc = 10V, VBE(ON) = 0.7 V and β = 100.

VCC

RB RC

0.93MΩ, 4kΩ
29. The stability factor is defined as
a. The rate of change of the IC with respect to ICO, keeping IB and β constant

30. An N channel JFET has IDSS = 8mA, and VP = -5V. The VDS(min) and IDS are and
for VGS = -2V in the pinch off region.
3V, 2.88mA

31. For reverse biased PN junction, the current through the junction increases abruptly at
0.2eV
Breakdown voltage

32. The LED light is emitted because

recombination of charge carriers take place
33. Find the correct match between Group A and Group B
Group A Group B
(i) Varactor diode (a) Voltage reference
(ii) PIN diode (b) High frequency switch
 (iii) Zener diode (c) Tuned circuit
(iv) Schottky diode (d) current controlled attenuator

(i) – c, (ii) – d, (iii) – a, (iv) – b

34. Match items in Group A with items Group B, most suitably

Group A Group B
(i) LED (a) Heavily doping
(ii) Avalanche diode (b) coherent radiation
(iii) Tunnel diode (c) spontaneous emission
(iv) LASER (d) current gain

(i) – c, (ii) – d, (iii) – a, (iv) – b

35. The process is to arrange the atom in single crystal fashion upon a single crystal substrate is
.
Epitaxial growth
36. Films with thickness greater than 100𝜇𝑚 are usually made by technology.
Thick
37. Buried layer is a heavily doped n+ layer sandwiched between the P type substrate and N type
epitaxial collector to the collector series resistance of the IC transistor.
reduce
38. Arrange the basic processes in order to use in the silicon planar technology.
Substrate preparation, epitaxial growth, SiO2 growth, photolithography, diffusion,
metallization

39. The film technology provides greater precision in manufacturer is .

thin
40. Voltage divider bias .

Can be essentially independent of βDC

41. Ideally, a dc load line is a straight line drawn on the collector characteristic curves between
a. the Q point and cut off (2) the Q point and saturation
(3) the VCE(cut off), and IC(sat) (4) the VCE = 0 and IB = IC/βDC
42. A MOSFET differs from a JFET mainly because
the JFET has a PN junction

43. A certain D-MOSFET is biased at VGS = 0V. Its data sheet specifies IDSS = 20mA and VGS(off) = -
5V. the value of the drain current is .
20mA
44. In a certain FET circuit, VGS =0V, VDD = 15V, IDSS = 15mA, and RD = 470Ω. If RD is decreased
330Ω, IDSS is .
15mA
45. A class C amplifier is driven by a 200kHz signal. The transistor is on for 1µs and the amplifier is
operating over 100% of its load line. If IC(sat) = 100mA and VCE(sat) = 0.2V. The average power
dissipation is .
4mW
46. The ideal maximum peak output voltage and current for the circuit shown below is
and .

+20V

R1
470Ω

VS Vo

RL
16Ω
R2
470Ω
- 20V

20V, 1.25A
47. A class A power amplifier delivers 5W to a load with an input signal power of 100mW. The power
gain is .
50
48. Both stages in a certain 2 stage amplifier have a lower critical frequency of 500Hz and an upper
critical frequency of 80kHz. The overall bandwidth is .
50.7kHz
49. A series regulator has an output voltage of 9V. If the opamp’s closed loop gain is 3, what is the value
of the reference voltage?
3V
50. A regulator has a no load output voltage of 10V and a full load output voltage of 9.9v. The percent
of load regulation is .
1.01
51. An inverting amplifier has a closed loop gain of 25. The opamp has an open loop gain of 10 5. If
another opamp with an open loop gain of 2x105 is substituted in the configuration, the closed loop
gain .
remains at 25
52. Which statement is wrong for ideal characteristics of opamp .

Slew rate is zero

53. What is the breakdown voltage of the precision diode made up of silicon material?
0.7V/AOL
54. The Notch filter is a .

filter to eliminate a single frequency in the input signal

55. How many opamp based voltage comparators are used in 555 timer IC?
2
56. In 555 timer astable mode operation, the fundamental frequency of the output waveform is .

(1) T  0.693RA  2RB C

57. A lowpass Butterworth filter to band pass Butterworth filter transformation function will be
.
s2  2
s  0

(  l )s
h
 0

58. An amplifier has a power gain of 23dB. If the input is 1mW, what is the output?
199.5mW

59. The advantage of linear regulator is

accuracy of control
60. The switching regulator has efficiency
high
61. Which statement is wrong for the general rules that should be considered when using heat sinks?
Give excessive torque on the mounting hardware

62. How might square wave be generated from a triangular source?

Pass the output of the triangular wave generator into a comparator

63. Binary equivalent of gray code number 10110101 is .

11011001
64. The Boolean expression of the figure shown below is .

XY .Z
W
65. The Consensus theorem says that .

( XY  XZ   XY 
YZ XZ
 66. Given that IC7483 is a 4 bit parallel adder chip, how do you build a 16 bit parallel adder circuit?

by a cascaded arrangement of 4 IC7483s

67. Identify the incorrect statement

D flip flop is same as
D latch

68. An 8 bit binary ripple up counter with a modulus of 256 is holding the count 01111111.what will be
the count after 135 clock pulses?
00000110

69. A binary ripple counter is capable of counting the number of items passing on a conveyer belt. Each
time an item passes a given point, a pulse is generated that can be used to as a clock input. If the
maximum number of items to be counted is 8000, number of flip flops required.
13
70. A 4 bit ring counter is in turn clocked by a 10MHz clock signal. The frequency and duty cycle of
the output flip flop are and .
2.5MHz, 25%
71. A 100 stage serial in serial out shift register is clocked at 100kHz. How long will be the data be
delayed in passing through this register?
(1) 5ms 1ms
72. Minterm and Maxterm Boolean functions of
.

f ( A, B,C)  (0,3,7)
is ,
AB  BC  BC ,(A  B  C)(B C)

73. A dynamic RAM consists of .

1 transistor and 1 capacitor

74. The access time of ROM using bipolar transistor is about .

1µsec
75. Which is known as flash converter .
parallel ADC
76. A 10 bit DAC given a maximum output of 10.23V. The resolution is
(1) 10mV
77. An 8 bit successive approximation ADC has full scale reading of 2.55V and its conversion time for
an analog input of 1V is 20µs. the conversion time for a 2V input will be
20µs
78. A 6 bit ladder DAC has input 101001. For 1=10V and 0 = 0V, the output is
6.51
79. In an 8085 microprocessor, the shift registers which store the result of an addition and the overflow
bit are respectively.
A and F
80. In an 8085 microprocessor, which one of the following instructions changes the content of the
accumulator?
SBI BEH
81. A transfer function has two zeros at infinity. Then the relation between the numerator degree
(M) and the denominator degree (N) of the transfer function is
(M = N-2
 1
d 2 y  dy  10 y  5 du
 dt  3u
82. The differential equation of the SISO system is given by dt 2 dt ,
y u
where denotes output and represents input. For an input u(t) with zero initial conditions the
above system produces the same output as with no input and with initial conditions
y(0)  4, y(0)  1. Input u(t)
 1 7 3 t
 (t)  e 5 u(t)
(1) 5 25
83. A control system is defined by the following differential equation

 6  10x  121e2t 

d x  dx 
2

. The response of the system as t   is

2
dt dt
x2.4

84. In the feedback system shown in figure below, the time constant of the closed loop system will be

 

1  A
85. Despite the presence of negative feedback control system still have problems of instability because
the

components used have non-linearity

86. The pole zero plot of open loop transfer function system shown below and the steady state gain is 2,
the transfer function of the system will be given by
 10(s  1)
s 2  4s  5
 87. Consider the following single loop feedback structure illustrating the return difference

The return difference of A is

1  A
 

88. Consider the following statements regarding advantages of closed loop negative feedback control
systems over open loop systems.
a. The overall reliability of the closed loop system is more than that of open loop system
b. The transient response in a closed loop system decays more quickly than open loop system
c. In an open loop system, closing of the loop increases the overall gain of the system
d. In the closed loop system, the effect of variation of component parameters on its performance is
reduced.
(i) and (ii)

A forcing function (t  2t)u(t 1)

2
89. is applied to a linear system. The Laplace transform of the
forcing function is


2  s 2 s


3 e
(1) s
90. Compensator which adds negative phase to system over specified frequency range is called
Lag
91. In control systems, when maximum value is subtracted from step value and result is divided by step
value, result is called as
Percentage undershoot

92. Lead compensator has a pole to the

left of zero

93. A first order dynamic system is represented by the differential equation The 5x (t)  x(t)  u(t) .
corresponding transfer function and state space representation are

H (s)  1
(1) 1  5s and x  0.2x  0.5u, y  0.4x




(
 

A B

0 
51

94. Consider the system represented by x Ax  Bu , where 0 0 and  
  0 . The
associated state transition matrix is

 1 5t
 (t,0)  

  
0 1 

s 3  Ks2  (1 K)s  6  0 . The range of K for a
95. A system has a characteristic equation stable
system is .
K>2
96. Use of Routh array to assist in computing the roots of the polynomial function,
P(s)  2s3  2s2  s 1  0 .

1
S1  1, S 2,3   j
2
97. A system has a characteristic equation s 10s  2s  30  0 . The system is
3 2
.
unstable

98. The amplitude of the closed loop response is reduced approximately to one fourth of the maximum
value in one oscillatory period. This definition belongs to
Asymptote
99. A method of selecting one or two parameters using the root locus method is called as .
Angle of departure

100. All zeros of a transfer function lies in the left hand side of the S –plane, then the system
is .
Minimum phase
101. The relationship between autocorrelation function(ACF) and power spectral density (PSD) is
Fourier transform of ACF is equal to PSD

102. For a particular case of amplitude modulation (AM) using sinusoidal modulating wave, the
percentage modulation is 20%. The average power in the carrier signal is .
98%
103. In AM, spectral overlap is said to occur if the lower sideband for positive frequencies overlaps
with its image for negative frequencies. What condition must the modulated wave satisfy if you are
to avoid spectral overlap? Hint: the message signal bandwidth is W.

Carrier frequency
fc  W

104. Which statement is correct for envelope detector

The carrier frequency is large compared to the message bandwidth
105. To minimize the granular noise, the step size must be .
small

106. In PCM for Q quantity levels, the number of pulses P in a code group is given by
log2(Q)
107. Pulse width modulation involves
Varying width of pulses in the pulse train according to instantaneous variations of message
signal
x(t)  m(t)cos 2fct  m̂(t)cos 2fct where m̂(t)
108. Consider the signal denotes the Hilbert
m(t) m(t) f c . The signal x(t) is a
transform of and the bandwidth of is very small compared to
.

band pass signal

109. The modulation scheme commonly used for transmission from GSM mobile terminal is
.

Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying

110. A zero mean white noise is passed through an ideal low pass filter of bandwidth 10kHz. The
output is the uniformly sampled with sampling period ts = 0.03m/sample. The samples so obtained
would be .
statistically independent

111. In what type of multiplexing does each signal occupy the article entire bandwidth of the
channel?
TDM
112. The ability of the receiver to select the wanted signals among the various incoming signals is
termed as .
Selectivity
113. A 400W carrier is amplitude modulated with m = 0.75. The total power in AM is .
512W
114. Non-coherent detection is not possible for
PSK
115. A telephone exchange has 9000 subscribers. If the number of calls originating at peak time is
10000 in one hour, the calling rate is .
1.11

116. If C is the noise channel capacity bits/s, f is bandwidth in Hz and S/N is signal to noise ratio,
then


C  f log 2 1 S N  

117. Consider the following statements

a. The amplitude of an FM wave is constant
b. FM is more immune to noise than AM
c. FM broadcasts operate in upper VHF and UHF frequency ranges
d. FM transmitting and receiving equipment are simpler as compared to AM transmitting and
receiving equipment.
Which of the above are correct?
(i), (ii), (iii)

118. When the channel is noisy. Producing a conditional probability of error   0.5 ; the channel
capacity and entropy function will be and .
0 and 1
119. If transmission bandwidth is doubled in FM, SNR is .
decreased four times
120. The bandwidth of DSB suppressed carrier modulation system when the modulating frequency
varies between 500Hz and 5kHz is
9kHz
121 A super heterodyne receiver I s to operate in the frequency range 550kHz – 1650kHz, with the
Cmin
R
Cmax
intermediate frequency of 450kHz. Let denote the required capacitance ratio of the local
I
oscillator and f represents the image frequency in (kHz) of the incoming signal. If the receiver is
I
tuned to 700kHz, then R and f will be .
If  1600
R = 4.41,

A  2ax  4ay  3az B  ax  ay A B is

and . The .
122. Given
 3ax  3ay  6az
123. Gauss’s law states that .
The total flux out of a closed surface is equal to the net charge within the surface
124. Divergence of the vector field A at the point P is defined by .

Lim 
A.dS
v0 v
125. Five equal point charges, Q  20nC are located at x  2,3,4,5,6m . The potential at the origin
is .
261V
126. The intrinsic impedance for partially medium is .

j
   j
 127. The skin depth at a frequency of 1.6MHz in aluminum is , where
  38.2 MS m r  1
, .
64.4µm
128. The voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is calculated by .
1  R
1  R

129. The major difference between the rectangular and cylindrical waveguides as power transmitters
when each operates in its dominant mode.

Geometrical factor
130. A loss-less air dielectric cylindrical waveguide of inside diameter 3cm, is operated at 14GHz.
For the TM11 mode propagating in the +Z direction, the wave impedance is .
185Ω
131. An air filled rectangular wave guide has dimensions a = 2 cm, b = 1 cm. The range of
frequencies over which the guide will operate single mode (TE10) .
7.5 – 15 GHz
132. A 50Ω lossless transmission line is terminated by a load impedance, ZL = 50 – j75Ω. If the
incident power is 100mW, the power dissipated by the load is .
64 mW
133. The directivity of an antenna is the value of its directive gain.
maximum
134. A conductor of a length normal to an infinite conducting plane forms a monopole
antenna.
L/2
135. A Hertizian dipole of length L=2m operates at 1MHz. If the copper conductor has
 c  57 MS m r  1 , and radius a  1mm, then the radiation efficiency is
, .
29.4%
136. A 1cm radius circular loop antenna has N turns and operates at 100MHz. If radiation resistance
is 10Ω, then N will be .
515
137. Identify the drawbacks of RADAR.

It has very narrow coverage

138. The RADAR acronym is .
Radio detection and ranging

139. Identify the wrong components in an optical transmitter

photo detector
140. The single mode fibers support only the mode.
HE11
141. In graded index fiber, the refractive index inside the core.

decreases gradually
142. Signal transmission in fiber optic communication systems takes place through the
modes only.
Guided mode
143. Many circles are drawn in a Smith chart used for transmission line calculations. The circle
shown in the figure represent .

Constant resistance circles

144. A transmission line is distortion less if .

LG = RC

145. In the logic circuit shown in the figure, 𝑌 is given by

𝒀 = 𝑨𝑩 + 𝑪𝑫
 146. The transmitted signal in a GSM system is of 200 kHz bandwidth and 8 users share a
common bandwidth using TDMA. If at a given time 12 users are talking in a cell, the total
bandwidth of the signal received by the base station of the cell will be at least (in kHz)
_______
400 kHz

147. An air-filled rectangular waveguide has inner dimensions of 3 cm X 2 cm. The wave
impedance of the TE20 mode of propagation in the waveguide at a frequency of 30 GHz is
(free space impedance 0 =377 Ω)
400 Ω

148 .A two-port network is known to have the following scattering matrix.If port 2 is
terminated with a matched load, what is the return loss seen at port 1
0.15∠0° 0.85∠ − 45°
𝑠 =
0.85∠45° 0.2∠0°
16.5dB

149. A magnetic field strength of 5 µ𝐴/m is required at a point on θ= π/2, 2 km from an antenna
in air. Neglecting ohmic loss, how much power must the antenna transmit if it is a half-wave
dipole?
144 mW

150.For a plastic fiber, refractive index of core is 1.6 and refractive index of cladding is 1.49,
thenumerical aperture is equal to
0.58