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SUBJECTWISE WEIGHTAGE
One Mark Two Marks No. Of
S.No. Name of the Subject
Questions Questions Questions
1 Verbal Ability 2 - 2
2 Numerical Ability 3 5 8
3 Engineering Mathematics 3 4 7
4 Networks 3 2 5
5 Signals & Systems 2 4 6
6 Electronic Devices 2 5 7
7 Analog Circuits 3 3 6
8 Digital Circuits and Computer Organization 2+1 4 7
9 Control Systems 2 3 5
10 Communications 5 3 8
11 Electromagnetics 2 2 4
Total No. Of Questions 30 35 65
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(b) The ratio of the percentage of population If S and Q are single children, and the room
falling into obese category to the percentage allocations shown below are acceptable to all.
of population falling into normal category has
decreased in 20 years.
(c) The percentage of population falling into then, which one of the given options is the siblings?
normal category has decreased in 20 years. (a) P and T (b) T and Q
(d) The ratio of the percentage of population (c) P and S (d) T and R
falling into overweight category to the 08. Ans: (a)
percentage of population falling into normal
category has increased in 20 years. 09. The greatest prime factor of (3199 - 3196) is
06. Ans: (b) (a) 11 (b) 13 (c) 3 (d) 17
09. Ans: (b)
07. Four identical cylindrical chalk-sticks, each of
radius r = 0.5 cm and length l = 10 cm. are bound 10. Examples of mirror and water reflections are
tightly together using a duct tape as shown in the shown in the figures below:
following figure.
MIRROR WATER
REFLECTION REFLECTION
An object appears as the following image after
first reflecting in a mirror and then reflecting on
water.
The width of the duct tape is equal to the length of
the chalk-stick. The area (in cm2) of the duct tape
required to wrap the bundle of chalk-sticks once,
is
The original object is
(a) 20 (4 + π) (b) 10 (8 + π)
(a) (b)
(c) 20 (8 + π) (d) 10 (4 + π)
07. Ans: (d)
(c) (d)
08. P. Q, R, S, and T have launched a new startup.
Two of them are siblings. The office of the startup
has just three rooms. All of them agree that the
siblings should not share the same room. 10. Ans: (d)
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m =-3
T T m =-3
T
C1
(c) / m
Zin (jω) m =-3 m =-3
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11. A causal and stable LTI system with impulse 14. Ans: (a)
response h(t) produces an output y(t) for an input
signal x(t). A signal x(0.5t) is applied to another 15. In the feedback control system shown in the figure
6
causal and stable LTI system with impulse below G (s)
s (s 1) (s 2)
response h(0.5t). The resulting output is _____ .
R(s) + Y(s)
(a) 4y(0.5t) (b) 0.25y(2t) + E(s)
G(s)
(c) 0.25y(0.25t) (d) 2y(0.5t) −
11. Ans: (d)
R(s), Y(s) and E(s) are the Laplace transforms of
12. A source transmits symbols from an alphabet of r(t), y(t) and e(t), respectively.
size 16. The value of maximum achievable entropy If the input r(t) is a unit step function, then ___ .
(in bits) is _______ . (a) Lim e (t) = 0
t"3
12. Ans: 4
(b) Lim e (t) does not exist, e(t) is oscillatory
t"3
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2ρ D1
(a) # 2t dv = # 4 . (ρu) dv n:1
v v
2ρ
(b) # 2t dv = # ρu.n ds
o t
RL
∼
v s
vs(t) −
2 +
(c) # 2t dv = # u.n ds
o t VL(t)
v s
2
(d) # 2t dv =
# 4 . (u) dv
v v D2
17. Ans: (c & d)
(a) 12 (b) 4 (c) 16 (d) 8
19. Ans: (b)
18. As shown in the circuit, the initial voltage across
the capacitor is 10V, with the switch being open.
The switch is then closed at t = 0. The total energy 20. Let R and R3 denote the set of real numbers
dissipated in the ideal Zener diode (VZ = 5V) and the three dimensional vector space over it,
after the switch is closed (in mJ, rounded off to respectively. The value of α for which the set of
3 decimal places) is ________. vectors {[2 −3 α], [3 −1 3], [1 −5 7]}
t=0 does not form a basis of R3 is _______ .
20. Ans: 5
S
19. In the circuit shown, the n : 1 step down transformer
and the diodes are ideal. The diodes have no 2Ω 4Ω 4Ω
5A
voltage drop in forward biased condition. If the
input voltage (in Volts) is Vs(t) = 10sinωt and the
average value of load voltage VL(t) (in volts) is
2.5/π, the value of n is ________ . 21. Ans: 0.75
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22. Ans: 11
1 −1 1 −1
(K ) (K )
T T
23. Consider a lossless transmission line terminated
with a short circuit as shown in the figure below. 24. Ans: (b)
As one moves towards the generator from the
load, the normalized impedances z inA , z inB , z inC 25. In the given circuit, the current Ix (in mA) is ____.
and z inD (indicated in the figure) are ______ . 1000 I0
1 kΩ 1 kΩ
5 mA 1 kΩ
zinD zinC zinB zinA 2 mA
I0 Ix
25. Ans: 2
−l 0 z
(a) z inA 1j, z inB 0, z inC 1j, z inD 3
Questions-26 to 55 Carry TWO marks each.
(b) z inA 3, z inB 0.4j, z inC 0, z inD 0.4j
(c) z inA 1j, z inB 3, z inC 1j, z inD 0 26. Which of the following statements is/are true for a
(d) z inA 0.4j, z inB 3, z inC 0.4j, z inD 0 BJT with respect to its DC current gain β?
23. Ans: (c) (a) Under low-level injection condition in forward
active mode, where the current at the emitter-
24. For non-degenerating doped n-type silicon, base junction is dominated by recombination-
which of the following plot represents the generation process, β will decrease with
temperature (T) dependence of free electron increase in the magnitude of collector current.
concentration (n)? (b) β will be lower when the BJT is in saturation
region compared to when it is in active region.
(a) (b) (c) Under high-level injection condition in forward
log(n) active mode, β will decrease with increase in
log(n)
(cm−3)
(cm−3) the magnitude of collector current.
(d) A higher value of β will lead to a lower value
1 −1
of the collector-to-emitter breakdown voltage.
(K ) 1 −1
(K )
T T 26. Ans: (b, c & d)
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27. A satellite altitude control system, as shown below, the oxide is 4 and the absolute permittivity of free
1
has a plant with transfer function G (s) = 2 space is 8.85×10-14 F/cm. If the flatband voltage is
s
K (s ) 0 V, the work function of the p-type silicon (in eV,
cascaded with a compensator C (s) , rounded off to two decimal places) is _____ .
s4
where K and α are positive real constants. 30. Ans: 4.32
R(s) + Y(s)
+ C(s) G(s)
31. A continuous time signal x (t) 2 cos b8t 3 l is
−
sampled at a rate of 15 Hz. The sampled signal
In order for the closed-loop system to have poles at xs(t) when passed through an LTI system with
- 1 ! 3 , the value of α must be ______ . impulse response
h (t) b sin2t t l cos b38t 2 l
(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 2 (d) 3
27. Ans: (a)
produces an output x0(t). The expression for x0(t)
is ____ .
28. The photocurrent of a PN - junction diode solar
(a) 15 sin b38t 3 l (b) 15 cos b38t 6 l
cell is 1mA. The voltage corresponding to its
maximum power point is 0.3V. If the thermal
(c) 15 sin b38t 3 l (d) 15 cos b38t 6 l
voltage is 30mV, the reverse saturation current
of the diode (in NA, rounded off to two decimal 31. Ans: (d)
places) is ______ .
28. Ans: (*) Data insufficient 32. A source transmits a symbol s, taken from
{-4,0,4} with equal probability, over an additive
29. A non-degenerate n-type semiconductor has 5% white Gaussian noise channel. The received noisy
neutral dopant atoms. Its Fermi level is located symbol r is given by r = s+w, where the noise w is
at 0.25 eV below the conduction band (EC) and zero mean with variance 4 and is independent of s.
3
the donor energy level (ED) has a degeneracy of 1 # 2t 2
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33. A uniform plane wave with electric field 36. The propagation delay of the 2×1 MUX shown in
j 2rx the circuit is 10ns. Consider the propagation delay
E (x) A y at y e 3 V/m is travelling in the
air (relative permittivity, r = 1 and relative of the inverter as 0ns.
permeability, r = 1) in the +x direction (Ay is
a positive constant, ây is the unit vector along
the y axis). It is incident normally on an ideal 0
2 u1
Y
electric conductor (conductivity, σ = ∞) at x = 0. MUX
1
The position of the first null of the total magnetic
field in the air (measured from x = 0, in metres) is
S
_____. If S is set to 1, then output of Y is
3 3
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 6 (a) Square wave frequency is 50 MHz
33. Ans: (c) (b) Square wave frequency is 100 MHz
(c) constant at 1
34. The radian frequency value (s) for which the (d) constant at 0
discrete time sinusoidal signal 36. Ans: (a)
S
x [n] A cos b :n 3 l has a period of 40 is /are
37. Consider the Earth to be a perfect sphere of
_____ .
radius R. Then the surface area of the region,
(a) 0.225 (b) 0.15
enclosed by the 60oN latitude circle, that contains
(c) 0.3 (d) 0.45
the north pole in its interior is ___________.
34. Ans: (b & d)
2SR 2 (2 3 ) SR 2
(a) 3 (b)
8 2
35. The sequence of states (Q1 Q0) of the given
( 2 1) SR 2
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(a) j b 2 l
1
(b) -p2j
39. In the circuit shown below, the transistors M1 and
(d) j b 2 l
1
M2 are biased in saturation. Their small signal (c) p2j
transconductances are gm1 and gm2 respectively. 40. Ans: (b)
Neglect body effect, channel length modulation
and intrinsic device capacitances. 41. A lossless transmission line with characteristic
impedance Z0 = 50Ω is terminated with an
VDD
unknown load. The magnitude of the reflection
Iref co-efficient is |Γ| = 0.6. As one moves towards the
generator from the load, the maximum value of the
VDD
M1 input impedance magnitude looking towards the
RD load (in Ω) is ________
RB Vout 41. Ans: 200
M2
RS C1 42. Let F1, F2, and F3 be functions of (x, y, z). Suppose
Vin ∼
that for every given pair of points A and B in space,
the line integral ∫C(F1dx + F2dy + F3dz) evaluates to
Assuming that capacitor C1 is a short circuit for the same value along any path C that starts at A and
AC analysis, the exact magnitude of small signal ends at B. Then which of the following is/are true?
V = 2F 2=F2 2F1 2F3 2F2 = 2F1
voltage gain Vout is_______. (a) 2y3 2z , 2z 2x , 2x 2y
in
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R(s) + Y(s)
44. For the two port network shown below, the value + G(s)
−
of the Y21 parameter (in Siemens) is _______.
I1 I2 The impulse response of the closed-loop system
1
+ +2
2Ω decays faster than e-t if ________.
4Ω
(a) 7 ≤ K ≤ 21 (b) -4 ≤ K ≤ -1
V1 V2
− (c) 1 ≤ K ≤ 5 (d) -24 ≤ K ≤ -6
8V1
+ 47. Ans: (c)
− −
1′ 2′
48. In the network shown below, maximum power is to
44. Ans: 1.5 be transferred to the load RL.
2Ω 3Ω
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- 4 X b 4 l e (b) - 4 X b 4 l e -j4rf
1 f -j r f 1 f
(a)
If the circuit is to show sustained oscillations, the
(c) - 4X (4f) e -j4rf (d) - 4X (4f) e -jrf
respective values of R1 and the corresponding
50. Ans: (c)
frequency of oscillations are
(a) 29R and 1/(2pRC)
51. A 4-bit priority encoder has inputs D3, D2, D1,
and D0 in descending order of priority. The two- (b) 2R and 1/(2pRC)
bit output AB is generated as 00, 01, 10 and 11 (c) 29R and 1/ ^2 6 RC h
(d) 2R and 1/ ^2 6 RC h
corresponding to inputs D3, D2, D1, and D0,
respectively. The Boolean expression of the output
bit B is ______. 53. Ans: (b)
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(c) dt = G x = G r, y 60 2@ x
dx 0 1 1
2 3 0
(d) dt = G x = G r, y 61 2@ x
dx 0 1 0
2 3 1
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