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General Aptitude
Q. No. 1 - 5 Carry One Mark Each

1. Although the food in the hostel mess was barely __________, after six months, the residents of
the hostel had become ___________ to it.
(A) Edible, immune (B) Edible, inured
(C) Palatable, immune (D) Palatable, inured

2. In 1980, Uttar Pradesh earned Rs. 17 million in tourist revenue. By 1990, tourist revenue doubled
and in 2000, it reached the sum of Rs.132 million. Each of the following, if true, may explain the
trend in tourist revenue except:
(A) The number of tourists has increased from 1940 to 1980
(B) Average expenditure per tourist has increased
(C) Average stay per tourist has increased
(D) The number of total hotel rooms has increased

3. The digits of a two-digit number are in the ratio 2:3 and the number obtained by interchanging the
digits is bigger than the original number by 27. What was the original number?
(A) 64 (B) 46 (C) 96 (D) 69

4. In how many ways a selection can be made by taking some or all of the 20 TV programmes
consisting of 12 serials, 4 news, 3 cartoons and 1 movie?

1 1 1
5. The value of   is _______ where x > 1
log  p / q  x log  q / r  x log  r / p  x

(A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 0

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Q. No. 6- 10 Carry Two Marks Each

6. The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hours hand at intervals of 64 minutes of correct time.
How much a day does the clock gain or lose?
8 8
(A) 32 minutes lose (B) 32 minutes gain
11 11
2 2
(C) 30 minutes lose (D) 30 minutes gain
11 11

7. Units manufactured by two companies over the years (number in thousands) is shown below.

35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Company A Company B

What is the difference in the total units manufactured by the two companies for the given years?
(A) 20,000 (B) 12,000 (C) 7,500 (D) 10,000

8. If log a  b  c   loga logb logc and log a  b   loga logb then the value of 'C' in terms

of 'a' is ______.
a a2 a a2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a  a 1
2
a2  a 1 a  a 1
2
a2  a 1

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9. In a birthday party there is a cake of negligible thickness, which is to be cut into different pieces.
How many maximum pieces are possible if five cuts are made?
(A) 20 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 15

10. The cost of housing in many urban parts of India has become so excessive that many young
couples, with above-average salaries, can only afford small apartments. EMI and rent
commitments are so huge that they cannot consider the possibility of starting a family since a new
baby would probably mean either the mother or father giving up a well paid position-something
they can ill afford. The lack of or greater cost of child-care facilities further precludes the return of
both parents to work.
Which of the following adjustments could practically be made to the situation described above
which would allow young couples to improve their housing prospects?
(A) Encourage couples to remain childless
(B) Encourage couples to have one child only
(C) Encourage young couples to move to cheaper areas for living
(D) None of these is likely to have an impact on the current situation

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Electronics and Communication Engineering

Q. No. 1 –25 Carry One Mark Each

1. A p-n step junction diode with a contact potential of 0.75V has a depletion width of 1 m at
equilibrium. The forward voltage (in volts) at which the width reduces to 0.6 m will be ______.

dy
2. The solution of the differential equation  2y  12, y(0)  10is _________ .
dt
(A) 6  4e2t (B) 6  4e2t (C) 6  4e2t (D) 6  4e2t

3. A function f(x) is shown by the graph below:

y  f x

3k

2k

x
0 1 2 3

For f(x) to be a valid probability density function, the value of k is _______.

1 1 1
(A) 1 (B) (C) (D)
2 3 4

4. A lossy transmission line has resistance R  0.05  m and the line is distortion less with

Zo  50 , then the attenuation constant is ________.

1
5. What is Hilbert transform of ?
t
(A)   t  (B) 2  t  (C) 2  t  (D)   t 

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6. VDD

Equivalent
PMOS Circuit

X X

Y Y

In the above logic circuit X=1, then F becomes

(A) Y (B) X  Y (C) Y (D) 0

7. Which of the following 7-point signals have their DFT as purely imaginary?
(A) {0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2} (B) {0, 2, 1, 0, 0, –2, –1}
(C) {0, 2, 1, 0, 0, –1, –2} (D) {2, 1, 0, 0, 0, –1, –2}

8s
8. The open loop transfer function of a unity negative feedback system is , then the
 s  1 s  2 
nyquist plot of the system encircles, (–1, 0j) point ________ number of times.

9. Which of the following can be used for demodulating the signal

x  t   5 1  2cos 2000t  cos 2 106 t

(A) Envelope detector (B) Square law detector

(C) Synchronous detector (D) None of the above

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1 1 1 1
10. A source produces 4 symbols with probabilities , , , . For this source a practical coding
3 4 4 6
scheme has an average code used length of 2 bits/symbols. The % of efficiency of code will be
__________.

11. Consider the circuit shown below. Assume the OP-amp is ideal.
R
Vi 
Vo


C C
R

The circuit represents

(A) Low pass filter (B) Band pass filter
(C) All pass filter (D) High pass filter

12. Which of the following Boolean expression is false?

(A) AB  BC  CA  AB  BC  CA (B)  A  B A  C  A  BC
(C) AB  B  1  1 (D) None of these

13. The state diagram of a state machine is shown below.

00 00
10
A B

11 10

D C
00 10 00

The minimum number of flip flops needed to design the state machine is _________.

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14. The root locus diagram of a unity negative feedback system having transfer function
ka
G s  is shown below.
  s  3
s  1
j

  
3 1

1
If a = 2 and   for some value of k, then the value of k is ________.
2

15. The speed improvement factor in complex multiplications while calculating 64-point DFT of a
sequence using FFT algorithm compared to direct computation is ____________.

16. The second approximation of the root by Newton-Raphson method for x 4  2x3  3x 2  x  1  0
between 0 and 1 is (upto two decimal places) ________________.

17. An antenna has a loss resistance of 25 and power gain of 30. If the directive gain of the antenna
is 42, then the radiation resistance of the antenna is _______  .

18. Nyquist plot of a certain stable system is given below. The possible acceleration error coefficient is

img

G s  H s 
real

(A) 0 (B)  (C)  (D) 102

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19. For the periodic signal x (t) shown below, the power in 12th harmonic is _________ watts.

6 3 0 3 6
 t  sec 

2

20. Will a 10Ampere fuse blow for a steady charge flow of 45000 c/ hour?
(A) It will blow (B) It won’t blow
(C) May (or) may not blow (D) Can't say

21. A Si pn junction ideal diode has NA  2 106 cm7 , N D = 4 × 1016 cm–3. If either NA or NB
increases by order of 10, then the change in built in potential is ________ mV.
(Assume volt equivalent of temperature is 26mV).

22. In the following diode circuit, find the current (I in mA) through diode D2

D1 1k

2mA
D2 2k
I

23. If we subtract narrow band frequency modulation from amplitude modulation, then lower side band
magnitude is increased by __________ dB.

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24. The expression for output Y will be___________

C
I0
I1
4 1
I2 Y
MUX
I3
S1 S0
A half SUM
Carry
B adder

(A)  A  B C  ABC (B) ABC   A  B C

(C) AB  A  B (D) A  B  C

25. In given block codes, which one is hamming code?

(A) (6, 3) (B) (7, 7) (C) (12, 10) (D) (15, 11)

Q. No. 26 to 55 Carry Two Marks Each

 8 2
26. The Eigen vectors of A T    are
 4 2 
1 1  2 2
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)  
 2  1 1  1 

27. MOSFET is acting like a voltage controller resistance as shown in the figure.

Vo
D
G 4k
Vg

S
Vin

When Vg = 5V, Vin = 4V and VTh = 1V then the value of output voltage V0 is ________V.
W
(Given n Cox  1mA/ V 2 ).
L
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28. A square wave of time period T with duty cycle 50% , another waveform of same time period with
T
same duty cycle but with a time delay   are applied to EX-NOR logic gate, then the average
4
value of output waveform is ________ V. (Assume 5V for logic1, 0V for logic 0)

29. A R in photo detector has an active area of 15mm2 and responsivity is 0.4 A/W. It is illuminated by

a light of intensity 1.5 mW cm2 .

20V

2k

The value of  of transistor is _________. [Assume VBE = 0.7V, VCE =2V].

30. Two Symbols m1 and m2 are transmitted as S1(t) and S2(t) passband data transmission purpose.
Given that the two symbols are equally probable, then the probability of error is

S1  t  S2  t 

A A

T
T

A A

4A 2 T 2A 2 T A2T 2T
(A) Q (B) Q (C) Q (D) Q
No No No 2N o

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31. In a P-N junction diode, the electron concentration in n-region under thermal equilibrium is 5×1015
cm–3. If a forward bias voltage of 0.5V is applied, then the minority hole concentration at the edge
of depletion region on n-side is _________. (Assume ni  1010 cm3 , VT  0.025V )

(A) 9.7 1012 cm3 (B) 5.2 1012 cm3

(C) 19.4 1012 cm3 (D) 1012 cm3

32. Consider the two diode circuit as shown in figure below.

Iin R

 D1 D2
Vin 
I D2

The diode D1 and D2 are identical except for the fact that the area of Diode D1 is A1 and Diode D2 is
A2. If the input current supplied by voltage source Vm is equal to Iin, then the current passing

through diode D 2 is

Iin Iin Iin Iin

(A) I D2  (B) I D2  (C) I D2  (D) I D2 
A A A A2
1 2 1 2 1 1 1
A1 A1 A2 A1

  j

33. The electric field of a plane wave is given by E   2a x  1  j e 4 a y  sin  t  z  V m. The
 
polarization of wave will be
(A) linear (B) circular (C) right elliptical (D) left elliptical

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34. Rs

 
50 z0  100
R L  50

10V

Vi VL
 

The internal voltage (Vi at t = 0+) and the final voltage (VL at t   ) are respectively
20 20 20 20V
(A) V, V (B) V,5V (C) 5V, 5V (D) 5V,
3 3 3 3

1
35. Consider a single-tone AM signal as s  t   1   cos m t  cos c t. If   and the USB
2
component is attenuated by a factor of 2, then expression of respecting modulating signal will be
73 3
(A) 1   cos m t (B)  cos m t
64 4
2 2 2 2
 3  1   3  1 
(C) 1  cos m t    cos m t  (D) 1  cos m t    sin m t 
 8  8   8  8 

36. It is known that the below two port network is reciprocal.

V3

I1 I2
 
  
2 1
2I 2

V1 V3 1 V2

  

Then the value of  is ________.

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sin mx
37. lim ?
m  x

(A)   x  (B) x (C)  '  x  (D) 1
2

38. The overall voltage gain for the circuit given below is ______.

10k Vi 10k 10k

 
Vi
10k 10k
10k
Vi 
Vo


(A) –8 (B) –6 (C) –4 (D) –2

39. The value of L cos h 2 2t  is ________.

s2  8 s2  8 s2  8 s2  8
(A) (B) (C) (D)
s  s 2  16  s  s 2  16  s  s 2  16  s 2  16

0 3 5 7 
 3 0 9 11
40. Rank of the matrix  is ________.
5 9 0 13
 
 7 11 13 0 

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41. A periodic signal x(t) is as follows

 24   36 
x(t)  8  6cos  t  60o   9sin  t  40 
 5   7 
Then the Fourier series contains
(A) Infinite number of harmonic components
(B) Only 0th, 20th, and 29th harmonic
(C) Only 0th, 14th and 15th harmonic
(D) Only 0th, 24th and 25th harmonic

42. If current density in a certain region is expressed as J  105 V A m2 , where V  10e x sin y
volts then .J is _________.

 1 
cos 2t sin 2t  1
43. Given state transition matrix   t    2 , y  0 1 x  t  , x  0    
  1
 2sin 2t cos 2t 
Find the output for the above system matrix.

(A) 2sin 2t  cos 2t (B) 2sin 2t  cos 2t

1
(C) cos 2t  sin 2t (D) None of these
2

44. Find approximate value of RB to get VCE2  6V (Assume VBE  0.7V ) .

RB
Q1
1  9 12V

Q2
2  9
I B1

1k

(A) 9 k (B) 99 k (C) 75 k (D) 76.66 k

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45. The value of a line integral  F.d r, where F  x, y, z   xziˆ  yzjˆ where C is a straight line joining
C

(-1, 2, 0) to (3, 0, 1) is_________.

46. Output of a MOD-112 asynchronous down counter are connected to input of a 7 segment display as
shown in figure. (a is connected to MSB and g is connected to LSB of counter). (For 9, both d, e
should be in OFF state).

a
f
MOD112 g b
Asychnrous e
Down counter c
d

The highest decimal number from 0 – 9 that can be displayed at 7 – segment display is ________.

47. A memory chip is to be interfaced with 8085 microprocessor. The chip select logic circuit for this
purpose is shown below. The valid address range of the chip will be _________.
A12
A13
CS

A14
A15

(A) E000-FFFF (B) 6000 – 6FFF (C) 7000 – 7FFF (D) F000-FFFF

48. Energy per bit of ASK signal is E b with the same AC and Tb, the energy per bit of FSK and PSK
are respectively
(A) Eb , Eb (B) 2Eb , 2Eb (C) 2Eb , 4Eb (D) 4Eb , 2Eb

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49. Match the following

List-I List-II

(a) Im

k
1.
   0 Re (1  sT1 )(1  sT2 )

(b) Im

0 2.
k
 Re (1+sT1 )(1+sT2 )(1+sT3 )

(c) Im k
3.
(1+sT1 )


k
0 Re 4.
(1-sT1 )

(d)
Im

 k
5.
Re s(1+sT1 )

0

(A) a-3, b-1, c-2, d-5 (B) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-5
(C) a-4, b-1, c-2, d-5 (D) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-5

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50. 1F 3

3

1 6

12 4A
For the circuit shown in figure, the energy stored in capacitor at steady state is ______ J.

1  e j
51. Which of the following represents magnitude plot of the transfer function H  j  ?
2
(A) (B)
H  j H  j
1 1
… … …
  …
   

1 1
(C) (D)
H  j 1 H  j 1
… …
… …
   
  0  
2 2

52. Consider the circuit shown below. The current through the 2 resistor is ______A.

2H 2F


10V 2
~ 10cos10t

(A) 5  5cos(10t  1.5o ) (B) 5  5cos(10t  1.5o )

(C) 5  5cos(t  1.5o ) (D) 5cos(10t  1.5o )

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53. A network contains 5 elements, whose voltages and currents are provided in the table. It is given
that element ‘2’ and element ‘4’ are connected in parallel. Find the values of ‘x’ and ‘y’.

Elements V V IA

1 1 1
2 x -5
3 2 2
4 y 4
5 3 3

(A) -5, 4 (B) 14, 14 (C) 25, 25 (D) Data insufficient

54. The rectangle waveguide of 4cm×3cm cross section filled with dielectric permittivity of ‘9’, carries
the dominant mode at 6GHz. The maximum peak electric field measured inside the waveguide is 50
V/m. The power carried by the waveguide is _________mW.

55. The Bode plot of certain Transfer function is given below. The magnitude at   200 rad sec is

GH in dB

20dB decade
20dB
40dB decade

 rad sec 
10 20 200

(A) –14dB (B) –20dB (C) –26dB (D) –40dB

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