GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Qi- Ql Q2 Qs Q4 Qs Q. S carry one mark each. The strategies that the company {o sell its produets house-to-house marketing. (A) use, includes WS) uses, include (©) used, includes (D) uses, including ‘The boat arrived dawn, Ain en (© on (D) under It would take one machine 4 hours to complete a production order and another machine 2 hours to complete the same order. If both machines work simultaneously at their respective ‘constant rates, the time taken to complete the same order is hows (A273 3/4 3 @) 773 Five different books (P,Q, R, S, T) are to be arranged on a shelf. The books R and S are to be arranged first and second, respectively from the right side of the shelf. The mmber of different orders in which P, Qand T may be arranged is. 5k a2 oye or (©) 120 ‘When he did not come home, she hhim lying dead on the roadside somewhere. (A) concluded (B) looked (C) notice @F picturedGATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Q.6-Q.10 carry two marks each. Q6 Four people are standing in a line facing you. They are Rahul, Mathew, Seema and Lohit. One is an engineer, one is a doctor, one a teacher and another a dancer. You are told that: Mathew is not standing next to Seema 1 2. ‘There are two people standing between Lohit and the engineer 3. Rahul is not a doctor 4, ‘The teacher and the dancer are standing next to each other 5. Seema is turning to her right to speak to the doctor standing next to her ‘Who among them is an engineer? (A) Seema B) Lohit (© Rahul (D) MathewGATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Q7 The bar graph in Panel (a) shows the proportion of male and female illiterates in 2001 and 2011. The proportions of males and females in 2001 and 2011 are given in Panel (b) and (©), respectively. The total population did not change during this petiod. ‘The percentage increase in the total number of literates from 2001 to 2011 is__. Proportion o’iliterates (%) = 0 ‘0 50 4g 20 Fomale Male 2001 92011 Panel (@) 2001 zo1n Female 40% Panel (O) Panel (©) (A) 30.43 (B) 33.43 (©) 34.43 (D) 35.43GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Qs Qs “Indian history was written by British historians — extremely well documented and researched, but not always impartial. History had to serve its purpose: Everything was made subservient to the glory of the Union Jack. Latter-day Indian scholars presented a ‘contrary picture.” From the text above, we can infer that: Indian history waitten by British historians (A)was well documented and not researched but was always biased (B) yas not well documented and researched and was always biased 4OFrras well documented and researched but was sometimes biased (D)was not well documented and researched and was sometimes biased Two design consultants, P and Q, started working fiom 8 AM for a client. The client budgeted a total of USD 3000 for the consultants. P stopped working when the hour hand moved by 210 degrees on the clock. Q stopped working when the hour hand moved by 240 degrees. P took two tea breaks of 15 mimes each during her shift, but took no lunch break. Q took only one Iunch break for 20 minutes, but no tea breaks. The market rate for consultants is USD 200 per hour and breaks are not paid. After paying the consultants, the client shall have USD remaining ia the budget. (A) 000.00 (B) 166.67 (©) 300.00 (D) 433.33GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Q10 Five people P, Q. R, S and T work in a dank. P and Q don’t like each other but have to share an office fill T gets a promotion and moves to the big office next to the garden. R, who is curently sharing an office with T wants to move to the adjacent office with S, the handsome new intern. Given the floor plan, what is the current location of Q, R and T? (= Office, WR = Washroom) @ o WR OI 702 ]03 104 WR [OI Jo2 [03 ]o4 PQ R |s PQ RT |s “Manager Teller | Teller’ “Manager Teller | Teller T 1 [2 ~ 1 [2 Entry Entry Garden Ganien ®) oO) WR OI 02 03 Jom WR POT ]O2 103 JO RQ T [RS pep j@ R |s ‘Manager Teller [Teller | [Manager Teller | Teller 1 2 1 |2 Entry Entry Ganden Carden END OF THE QUESTION PAPERGATE 2019 ECA Q. 1-Q. 25 carry ONE mark each. Q1 Which one of the following functions is analytic over the entire complex plane? (A) In@) (el/z of ®) cos(z) Q2 The families of curves represented by the solution of the equation. z= -G forn = —1 and n = +1, respectively, are (A) Parabolas and Circles (B) Circles and Hyperbolas 4€yFlyperbolas and Circles (D) Hyperbolas and Parabolas Let H(z) be the z-transform of a real-valued discrete-time signal hf]. If P(z) = H(@)H (2) has a zero at 2 = 5 +37, and P(z) has a total of four zeros, which one of the following plots represents all the zeros correctly? (A) ®) zplane Imaginary] Zoplane Imaginary] axis. 5 ° axis 9 ° ° F Real axis ( Xed 2/ L 2. ° ©) z-plane Imaginary} eplane SS ol 6 os} 5, [05 TRealaxis OS TF Read axis oot oo ws g ss ° 2 rer aGATE 29 a4 Qs Consider the two-port resistive network shown in the figure. When an excitation of 5 V is applied across Port 1, and Port 2 is shorted, the current through the short circuit at Port 2 is measured to be 1 A (see (a) in the figure). Now, ifan excitation of 5 V is applied aeross Port 2, and Port 1 is shorted (see (b) in the figure), what is the current through the short circuit at Port 1? 19 — Ww Port I RQ Port? 19 20 19, 20 sv Ra a? Ra sv @ 6 (054 wria © 2a @) 254 Let ¥(s) be the unit-step response of a causal system having a transfer fimetion 3 G(s) ‘s +1)(s +3) that is, ¥(s) = "2 The forced response of the system is (A) u(t) — 2e7tu(t) + eFtu(r) (B) 2u(t) — 2e u(t) + e u(t) © 2ult) ©) ue)GATE 2019 ECA Q6 Foran LTE system, the Bode plot for its gein is as illustrated in the figure shown. The ‘number of system poles Np and the number of system zeros N, in the frequency range Hz < f = 107 His Gain (€B) 20 (A) Np =5,Np=2 BM, = 6,N,=3 (C)Np=7.Ne=4 (D) Np=4Ne=2 Q7 Allinear Hamming code is used to map 4-bit messages to 7-bit codewords. The encoder ‘mapping is linear. If the message 0001 is mapped to the codeword 0000111, and the ‘message 0011 is mapped to the codeword 1100110, then the message 0010 is mapped to (A) 0010011 (B) 1100001 (©) 1111000 () mnGATE 2019 ECA Q8__ Which one of the following options describes correctly the equilibrium band diagram at T-300 K of a Silicon pnn‘p** configuration shown in the figure? © ©)GATE 2019 ECA Q9 The conect circuit representation of the stricture shown in the figure is 8 E c “ ®) c c B 8 E E © ©) ic c 8 B E E aayGATE 2019 ECA Q10 The figure shows the high-frequency curve of aMOS capacitor (at T = 300 K) with ind, inversion, and accumulation conditions are ®q5= OV and no oxide charges. The Tl Tepresented, respectively, by the points “” ), R P © RP.Q ©) QPR qu What is the clectric flux (f E - d@) through a quarter-cylinder of height (as shown in the figure) due to an infinitely long line charge along the axis of the cylinder with a charge density of 0? ep 1 ! 1 i H 12 i 1 1 ' HQ HQ wz on Hey wit O79 eo = omGATE 2019 ECA Q.12 In the table shown, List I and List II, respectively, contain terms appearing on the left-hand side and the right-hand side of Maxwell’s equations (in their standard form). Match the lefi-hand side with the corresponding right-hand side. List List T VD P a VxE [Q 2 vB R ob a 4 vxH |S oD Ita (A)1-P.2-R,3-Q4-S VG) 1-Q.2-R,3-P.4-S (C)1-Q2-8,3-P.4-R (D)1-R.2-Q3-S.4-P Q13._A standard CMOS inverter is designed with equal rise and fall times (B,, = B). Ifthe ‘width of the pMOS transistor in the inverter is increased, what would be the effeet on the LOW noise margin (WM,) and the HIGH noise margin NM,,? GEN, increases and NMy decreases. (B) NM, decreases and NMy increases. (©) Both NM, and NMy increase (D) No change in the noise margins. Q14 Inthe circuit shown, what are the values of F for EN = 0 and EN = 1, respectively? Vdd EN [ >= (A) Oand D Hi-Z and D (©) Oand 1 (D) Hi-Z and D rer 7aGATE 2019 ECA Q15 Inthe circuit shown, A and B are the inputs and F is the output. What is the functionality of the cireuit? Vdd (A) Latch (B) XNOR (© SRAM Cell ©) XoR Q.16 The value of the contour integral 1 1 oT f (2+4) ae evaluated over the unit circle |z| = 1 is QI7 The number of distinct eigenvalues of the matrix, 2 2 A cunw Nene on o0 00 isequaltoGATE 29 Quis Que Q20 Q21 Q22 IfX and Y are random variables such that E[2X + Y] = 0 and E[X + 2Y] = 33, then B[xX] + B[Y]=__\* The value of the integral {¢° ("= dx dy. is equal to. . ys Let Z be an exponential random variable with mean 1. That is, the cumulative distribution fimetion of Z is given by ufl-e* ifx 20 neo ={) "Greco Then Pr(Z > 2 |Z > 1), rounded off to two decimal places, is equal to 3 + Consider the signal f(t) = 1+ 2cos(nt) + 3sin (Zt) + 4cos (Zt +2 seconds. Its fundamental time period, in seconds, is += The baseband signal m(t) shown in the figure is phase-modulated to generate the PM signal p(t) = cos(2zfet + k m(t)). The time ¢ on the x-axis inthe figure isin milliseconds. If the carrier frequency is f = 50 kHz and k = 10m, then the ratio of the minimum instantaneous frequency (in kHz) to the maximum instantaneous frequency (in KHz) is (counded off to 2 decimal places). ma 1- 7 (inms)GATE 2019 ECA Q23. Radiation resistance cf'a small dipole current element of length / at a frequency of 3 GHz is 3 ohms. If the length is changed by 1%, then the percentage change in the radiation resistance, rounded off to two decimal places, is %, Q24 Inthe circuit shown, Vz is a square wave of period T with maximum and minimum values of 8 V and -10 V, respectively. Assume that the diode is ideal and Ry = Ry = 50 0. The average value of V, is volts (rounded off to 1 decimal place). Q25. In the circuit shown, the clock frequency, .e., the frequency of the Clik signal, is 12 kHz. The frequency of the signal at Qy is kHz — [yeas iti Clk Qi fr Clk _Q:GATE 2019 ECA Q26- Q26 Qu Q.55 carry TWO marks each. Consider a differentiable function f(x) on the set of real numbers such that f(—1) = 0 and |f’GOI < 2. Given these conditions, which one of the following inequalities is necessarily true for all x € [-2, 2]? (A f@) = $e + 1] B) f@) = 2x +4] Ose < tial () f@ = 2ixl Consider the line integral [ow — ydx) ct ‘the integral being taken in a counterclockwise direction over the closed curve C that forms the boundary of the region R shown in the figure below. The region R is the area enclosed by the union of a 2 x 3 rectangle and a semi-circle of radius 1. The line integral evaluates to 3 C 2 I o ne (A) 6 4+2/2 (B) 840 (© 124+0 (D) 16 +20 TarGATE 2019 ECA Q28 Q29 ‘Consider a six-point decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, for which the signal-flow graph corresponding to X[1] is shown in the figure. Let We = exp (—). In the figure, what should be the values of the coefficients a,,a2,a3 in terms of W so that X[1] is obtained correetly? oe oan x[3] als] 15] > (A) ay = —1,a2 = Wes = W2 (Ca = Laz =We,a3 = WE It is desired to find a three-tap causal filter which gives zero signal as an output to an input of the form im a inl=c.e(-4) tere), where c; and c, are arbitrary real numbers. The desired three-tap filter is given by nio)=1, ht] =a, hf} =b and A{n] =0 for n<0 orn>2. ‘What are the values of the filter taps a and D if the output is y[n] is as given above? 0 for all n, when x[n] yin] =0 -—> x[] 7 —| ' An) = {l, a,b} 1 © a=-Lb=1 ()a=0,b=1 (a=, B)a=0,b TarGATE 2019 ECA Q30 Qa Q32 In the circuit shown, if v(t) = 2 sin(1000 t) volts, R = 1kO and C = 1 pF, then the steady-state current i(t), in milliamperes (mA), is iW 4 w(t) OY Rg R R (A) sin(1000 t) + cos(1000 t) (B) 2 sin(1000 t) + 2 cos(1000 t) (C) 3sin(1000 t) + cos(1000 t) (D) sin(1000 t) + 3 cos(1000 t) ‘Consider a causal second-order system with the transfer function 1 {= TasaF with a unit-step R(s) = 4.as an input. Let 2(s) be the corresponding output, The time taken by the system output c(t) to reach 94% of its steady-state value lim c(t), rounded off to two decimal places, is (A) 5.25 (B) 450 (C) 3.89 @) 281 ‘The block diagram of a system is illustrated in the figure shown, where X(s) is the input and ¥(s) is the output. The transfer function H(s) = Por is Ys) Xs) 1 eu tee eH Faget ot Rae eH 2H (A) H(s) = BH) = OHO = (D) H(s) = TarGATE 2019 ECA Q33 Q34 Q35 Let the state-space representation of an LTT system be x(t) = A x(©) + B u(t), yO = Cx(t) + du(t) where A,B,C are matrices, d is a scalar, w(t) is the input to the system, and y(t) is its output. Let B =[0 0 1]? and d = 0. Which one of the following cptions for Aan € will ensue thatthe transfer aeton of this IL sytem is NO) =Syar yea a) ()A=]0 0 tfewe= 1 a oj So 2 @(2), is used for the tansmission, along with an optimal receiver that ninimizes the bit-ertor probability. Let 3(t), y(t) form an orthonormal signal set. If we choose p(t) = g(t) and q(t) = —9,(t), we would obtain a certain bit-error probability P, Ii we keep p(t) = g(t), but take q(0) = VE g(t), for what value of £ would we ‘obtain the same bit-error probability P,? (A) 0 Bl © 2 @) 3 ‘The quantum efficiency (1) and responsivity (R) at a wavelength 2 (in jum) in a p-i-n photodetector are related by 1.24xa 24 OR=G R= ® R= Tam TarGATE 2019 ECA Q36 Qa7 Q38 Two identical copper wires W1 and W2, placed in parallel as shown in the figure, carry ‘currents J and 2/, respectively, in opposite directions. Ifthe two wires are separated by a distance of 4r, then the magnitude of the magnetic field B between the wires at a distance r from W1 is tr wi The dispersion equation of a waveguide, which relates the wavenumber & to the frequency k(w) = (A/a — 08 ‘where the speed of light c = 3 x 10° m/s, and ois a constant. If the group velocity is 2. 10° mys, then the phase velocity is (A)15x 10%m/s (B)2Xx10%m/s (©) 3X 10%m/s — (D) 4.5 10° ms In the circuit shown, the breakdown voltage and the maximum current of the Zener diode are 20 V and 60 mA. respectively. The values of Ry and R,, are 200 2 and 1k, respectively. What is the range of V; that will maintain the Zener diode in the ‘on’ state? Ry i RL (A) 2VtoMV (B) 24-V to 36V. © 18Vto24Vv @) WVt028V TarGATE 2019 ECA Q39 The state transition diagram for the circuit shown is —_ Nout wv av av av a _ av (A) 18and12 — (B) 24and24 (©) 18and24 —(D) 24. and 12 Q41_ The RC circuit shown below has a variable resistance R(t) given by the following expression: t RW) = Ro(1-F) foro — WW TarGATE 2019 ECA Qa QB Qt Consider a unity feedback system, as in the figure shown, with an integral compensator “ and open-loop transfer function 1 GO) = By 3s42 ‘where K > 0. The positive value of K for which there are exactly two poles of the unity feedback system on the ja axis is equal to (rounded off to two decimal places). M4 Gol) [| Consider the homogeneous ordinary differential equation 2 vs Bisyao, x>0 with y(x) as a general solution. Given that y@)=1 and y(2)=14 the value of y(1.5), rounded off to two decimal places, is Let h{n] be a length-7 discrete-time finite impulse response filter, given by nfo)=4, n=3, heey hI3] = 1, hL-l] = -3, h[-2] = -2, h[-3] = — and h[n] is zero for |n| > 4. A length-3 fiaite impulse response approximation g[n] of inf has to be obtained such that £0.9) = J" #(el)— Ge!) ['da is minimized, where H(e/) and G(e/) are the discrete-time Fourier transforms of h[n] and g{n], respectively. For the filter that minimizes E(h, g), the value of 10g[—1] + g[1), rounded off to 2 decimal places, is TeaGATE 2019 ECA Q4s Q46 Qu7 Let a random process ¥(t) be described as ¥(t) = h(t) + X(t) + Z(t), where X(t) isa white noise process with power spectral density Sy(f) = 5 W/Hz. The filter h(t) has a ‘magnitude response given by |H(f)| = 0.5 for —5 = f < 5, and zero elsewhere. Z(t) is a stationary random process, uncorrelated with X(t), with power spectral density as shown in the figure. The power in Y(t), in watts, is equal to W (rounded off to two decimal places). 1| Szif) (W/Hz) ‘A voice signal m/(t) is in the frequency range 5 kHz to 15 kHz. The signal is amplitude- modulated to generate an AM signal f(t) = A(1 + m(t)) cos 2nfet, where f; = 600 kHz. ‘The AM signal f(£) is to be digitized and archived. This is done by first sampling f(t) at 1.2 times the Nyquist frequency, and then quantizing each sample using a 256-level ‘quantizer. Finally, each quantized sample is binary coded using K bits, where K is the ‘minimum number of hits required for the encoding. The rate, in Megabits per second (rounded off to 2 decimal places), of the resulting stream of coded bits is ‘Mbps. ‘Arandom variable X takes values —1 and +1 with probabilities 0.2 and 0.8, respectively. Itis transmitted across a channel which adds noise N, so that the random variable at the ‘channel output is ¥ = X +N. The noise lV is independent of X, and is uniformly distributed over the interval [-2 2]. The receiver makes a decision t fh ifY 50 “U4 ify> 6 where the threshold 9 € [1,1] is chosen so as to minimize the probability of error Pr # X]. The mininmm probability of eor, rounded off to 1 decimal place, is TaGATE 2019 ECA Qas Qsl A Germanium sample of dimensions 1 em x 1 cms illuminated with a 20 mW, 6600 um laser light source as shown in the “igure. The illuminated sample surface has a 100 nm of loss-less Silicon dioxide layer that reflects one-fourth of the incident light. From the remaining light, one-third of the power is reflected from the Silicon dioxide~ Germanium interface, one-third is absorbed in the Germanium layer, and one-third is transmitted through the other side of the sample. If the absorption coefficient of Germanium at 600 nm is 3 x 10 car? and the bandgap is 0.66 eV, the thickness of the Germanium layer, rounded off to 3 decimal places, is ym. = = 60am _——____, Jn an ideal pm junetion with an ideality factor of 1 at T=300 K, the magnitude of the reverse-bias voltage required to reach 75% of its reverse saturation current, rounded off to 2 decimal places, is___ mV. [k = 1.38 x 10-3 JK, h = 6.625 x 10-%*J-s, q = 1.602 x 107°C] ‘Consider a Jong-channel MOSFET with a channel length 1 jum and width 10 jim. The device parameters are acceptor concentration Na= 5 x 101° em, electron mobility 1,800 cuP/V-s, oxide capacitance/area Cox= 3.45 x 10~? Flom: threshold voltage ‘Vi-0.7 V. The drain saturation current (Ips) for a gate voltage of SV is__mA (rounded off to two decimal places). [& = 8.854 x 10™*F/cm, ¢5; = 11.9] A rectangular waveguide of width w and height / has cut-off frequencies for TEy9 and ‘TE, modes in the ratio 1: 2. The aspect ratio wih, rounded off to two decimal places, is EyGATE 2019 ECA Q52_ In the circuit shown, Vg is a 10 V square wave of period, T= 4 ms with R= 500 @ and C= 10 AF. The capacitor is initially uncharged at 0, and the diode is assumed to be ideal The voliage across the capacitor (V,) at 3 ms is equal to volts (rounded off to one decimal place). “ALA O__ SE" atc Q53. A CMOS inverter, designed to have a mid-point voltage V, equal to half of Vjg. as shown in the figure, has the following parameters: Vea =3V HnGox ~ 100 wA/V? ; Vin ~ 0.7 V for nMOS HpCox = 40 WA/V?: |Vep| = 0.9 V for pMOS. The ratio of () t0(Z) is equal to (rounded off to 3 decimal places). ne Ty Vout , Voss VeVi Vas vin rer aTGATE 2019 ECA Q54 In the circuit shown, the threshold voltages of the pMOS (|Vjp[) and nMOS (Vin) transistors are both equal to 1 V. All the transistors have the same output resistance ry, of 6 MO. The other parameters are listed below: - 2 HnCox = 60 wA/V? ; anos “5 a m = Holo = 30 uA/V2: (7) |, = 10 Mm and pL, are the carrier mobilities, and C;, is the oxide capacitance per unit area. Ignoring ‘the effect of channel length modulation and body bias, the gain of the circuit is (rounded off to 1 decimal place). Vui-av Vout Th BsGATE 2019 ECA Q55_ In the circuit shown, Vy = 0 and V2 = Vga. The other relevant parameters are mentioned in ‘the figure. Ignoring the effect of channel length modulation and the body effect, the value Of lou is___mA_ (rounded off to 1 decimal place). Tou Yaa })!ma-0.0001 to 0.0001 3to3 0.36 to 0.38 11.99 to 12.01 -3.1t0-2.9 4t040.23 to 0.27 5.99 to 6.01 5.24 to 5.26 -27.01 to -26.99 2 17.40 to 17.60 11.80 to 11.82 0.1t00.1 0.230 to 0.232 34,00 to 38.00 2 25.40 to 25.60 171 to 1.75 EC 3.2to3.4 EC 0.210 to 0.230 [ «| -905.0 to -895.0 OR 895.0 to 905.0 = 5.9to6.1