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Q.1 to Q.25 carry one mark each

x3 x5 x 7
Q.1 The infinite series f ( x)  x    ......  converges to
3! 5! 7!

(A) cos ( x) (B) sin ( x) (C) sinh ( x) (D) e x

Q.2 The diameters of 10000 ball bearings were measured. The mean diameter and standard deviation were
found to be 10mm and 0.05mm respectively. Assuming Gaussian distribution of measurements, it can be
expected that the number of measurements more than 10.15mm will be :
(A) 230 (B) 115 (C) 15 (D) 2
Q.3 A person weighing 60 kg receives radiation energy of 0.3J over the entire body. The dose of radiation
absorbed (in rad) is :
(A) 0.005 rad (B) 0.1 rad (C) 0.3 rad (D) 0.5 rad
Q.4 u(t) represents the unit step function. The Laplace transform of u (t  ) is :
e  s
(A) 1 (B) 1 (C) (D) e s
s s s

Q.5 A measurement system with input x(t) and output y(t) is described by the differential equation
dy
3  5 y  8x . The static sensitivity of the system is :
dt

(A) 0.60 (B) 1.60 (C) 1.67 (D) 2.67

Q.6 Poisson’s ratio for a metal is 0.35. Neglecting piezo-resistance effect, the gage factor of a strain gage
made of this metal is :
(A) 0.65 (B) 1 (C) 1.35 (D) 1.70
Q.7 Match the Following
P. Radiation Pyrometer W. Angular velocity measurement
Q. Dall tube X. Vacuum pressure measurement
R. Pirani gauge Y. Flow measurement
S. Gyroscope Z. Temperature measurement

(A) P-Z, Q-W, R-X, S-Y (B) P-Z, Q-Y, R-X, S-W
(C) P-W, Q-X, R-Y, S-Z (D) P-Z, Q-X, R-W, S-Y
Q.8 In a pulse code modulated (PCM) signal sampled at f s and encoded into an n-bit code, the minimum
bandwidth required for faithful reconstruction is :
(A) 2nf s (B) nf s (C) nf s / 2 (D) f s

Q.9 A beam of unpolarized light is first passed through a linear polarizer and then through a quarter-wave
plate. The emergent beam is :
(A) unpolarized (B) linearly polarized
(C) circularly polarized (D) elliptically polarized
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Q.10 f ( x) , shown in the adjoining figure is represented by


f ( x)  a0   {an cos(nx)  bn sin( nx)} . The value of a0 is :
n 1

(A) 0 (B)  / 2 (C)  (D) 2

Q.11 The PMMC ammeter A in the adjoining figure has a range of 0 to 3mA. When switch S1 is opened, the
pointer of the ammeter swings to the 1mA mark, returns and settles at 0.9mA. The meter is :

(A) critically damped and has a coil resistance of 100

(B) critically damped and has a coil resistance of 200

(C) under damped and has a coil resistance of 100

(D) under damped and has a coil resistance of 200

Q.12 The open loop transfer function of a unity gain feedback system is given by :
k ( s  3)
G(s) 
( s  1)( s  2)

The range of positive values of k for which the closed loop system will remain stable is :
(A) 1  k  3 (B) 0  k  10 (C) 5  k   (D) 0  k  
Q.13 A real n  n matrix A  aij  is defined as follows :

aij  i  0, , if
i  j , otherwise

The summation of all n Eigen values of A is :

(A) n(n  1) / 2 (B) n(n  1) / 2 (C) n(n  1)(2n  1) (D) n2

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Q.14 The contour C in the adjoining figure is described by x 2  y 2  16 .

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z2  8
The value of 
C
0.5 z  1.5 j
dz is :

Note : j  1
(A) 2 j (B) 2 j (C) 4 j (D)  4 pj
Q.15 In the dc circuit shown in the adjoining figure, the node voltage V2 at steady state is :

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

Q.16 A 100 , 1W resistor and a 800 , 2W resistor are connected in series. The maximum dc voltage that can
be applied continuously to the series circuit without exceeding the power limit of any of the resistors is :
(A) 90V (B) 50 V (C) 45 V (D) 40V
Q.17 The seismic mass of an accelerometer oscillates sinusoidally at 100Hz with a maximum displacement of
10mm from its mean position. The peak acceleration of the seismic mass is :
(A) 3947.84 m / s 2 (B) 3141.50 m / s 2 (C) 314.15 m / s 2 (D) 100.00 m / s 2

Q.18 In the ideal op-amp circuit given in the adjoining figure, the value of R f is varied from 1k to 100 k . The
gain G  (v0 / vi ) will

(A) remain constant at + 1 (B) remain constant at – 1

(C) vary as ( R f / 10, 000) (D) vary as (1  R f / 10, 000)

Q.19 A signal with frequency components 50Hz, 100Hz and 200Hz only is sampled at 150samples/s. The
ideally reconstructed signal will have frequency component(s) of
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(A) 50Hz only (B) 75Hz only

(C) 50Hz and 75Hz (D) 50Hz, 75Hz and 100Hz
Q.20 The subroutine SBX given below is executed by an 8085 processor. The value in the accumulator
immediately after the execution of the subroutine will be :
SBX : MVI A, 99h
ADI 11h
MOV C,A
RET
(A) 00h (B) 11h (C) 99h (D) AAh

Q.21 The Integral 
(t   / 6) 6sin(t ) dt evaluates to

(A) 6 (B) 3 (C) 1.5 (D) 0

Q.22 The deflection angle of the pointer of an ideal moving iron ammeter is 200 for 1.0 ampere dc current. If a
current of 3sin (314 t) amperes is passed through the ammeter then the deflection angle is :
(A) 00 (B) 420 (C) 600 (D) 900
Q.23 A 8-bit DAC is interfaced with a microprocessor having 16 address lines ( A0 ... A15 ) as shown in the
adjoining figure. A possible valid address for this DAC is :

(A) 3000h (B) 4FFFh (C) AFFFh (D) C000h

Q.24 H(z) is a discrete rational transfer function. To ensure that both H(z) and its inverse are stable its
(A) poles must be inside the unit circle and zeros must be outside the unit circle
(B) poles and zeros must be inside the unit circle
(C) poles and zeros must be outside the unit circle
(D) poles must be outside the unit circle and zeros should be inside the unit circle
Q.25 The output voltage of a transducer with an output resistance of 10kΩ is connected to an amplifier. The
minimum input resistance of the amplifier so that the error in recording the transducer output does not
exceed 2% is :
(A) 10 k (B) 49 k (C) 490 k (D) 1.2M

Q.26 to Q.55 carry two marks each

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Q.26 X and Y are non-zero square matrices of size n  n . If XY  0nn then

(A) | X |  0 and | Y |  0 (B) | X |  0 and | Y |  0

(C) | X |  0 and | Y |  0 (D) | X |  0 and | Y |  0

Q.27 Consider the differential equation dy  y  e x with y(0) = 1. The value of y(1) is :
dx

(A) e  e1 (B) 1 (e  e1 ) (C) 1 (e  e1 ) (D) 2(e  e1 )

2 2

Q.28 The electric charge density in the region R : x 2  y 2  1, y  0 is given as ( x, y)  1C / m 2 , where x and y are in
meters. The total charge (in coulomb) contained in the region R is :
(A) 4 (B) 2 (C)  / 2 (D) 0
5t
Q.29 The input x(t) and the corresponding output y(t) of a system are related by y(t )   x() d  . The system is :

(A) time invariant and causal (B) time invariant and no causal
(C) time variant and no causal (D) time variant and causal
p0  p1 z 1  p3 z 3
Q.30 A digital filter having a transfer function H ( z )  is implemented using Direct Form – I and
1  d 3 z 3
Direct Form – II realizations of IIR structure. The number of delay units required in Direct Form – I and
Direct Form – II realizations are, respectively

(A) 6 and 6 (B) 6 and 3 (C) 3 and 3 (D) 3 and 2

Q.31 The velocity  (in m/s) of a moving mass, starting from rest, is given as d     t . Using Euler forward
dt
difference method (also known as Cauchy-Euler method) with a step size of 0.1 s, the velocity at 0.2 s
evaluates to

(A) 0.01 m/s (B) 0.1m/s (C) 0.2 m/s (D) 1 m/s

Q.32 The rotor of the control transformer of a synchro pair gives a maximum voltage of 1.0V at a particular
position of the rotor of the control transmitter. The transmitter rotor is now rotated by 300 anticlockwise
keeping the transformer rotor stationary. The transformer rotor voltage for this position is :

(A) 1.0 V (B) 0.866 V (C) 0.5 V (D) 0 V

Q.33 The matched transistors Q1 and Q2 shown in the adjoining figure have β =100. Assuming the base-emitter
voltages to be 0.7V, the collector-emitter voltage V2 of the transistor Q2 is :
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(A) 33.9V (B) 27.8V (C) 16.2V (D) 0.7V

Q.34 The volume of a cylinder is computed from measurements of its height (h) and diameter (d). A set of
several measurements of height has an average value of 0.2m and a standard deviation of 1%. The average
value obtained for the diameter is 0.1m and the standard deviation is 1%. Assuming the errors in the
measurements of height and diameter are uncorrelated, the standard deviation of the computed volume is :

(A) 1.00% (B) 1.73% (C) 2.23% (D) 2.41%

Q.35 A thermocouple based temperature measurement system is shown in the adjoining figure. Relevant
thermocouple emf data (in mV) is given below. The cold junction is kept at 00 C . The temperature is 300 C
in the other parts of the system. The emf V0 is measured to be 26.74 mV. the temperature of the hot liquid
is :

Emf of Copper-
Temperature Emf of Chromel-Constantan
Constantan
100 C 0.591 0.391
200 C 1.192 0.789
300 C 1.801 1.196
3700 C 26.549 19.027
3800 C 27.345 19.638

(A) 370.00 C (B) 372.40 C (C) 376.60 C (D) 380.00 C

Q.36 A differential pressure transmitter is used to measure the flow rate in a pipe. Due to aging, the sensitivity
of the pressure transmitter is reduced by 5%. All other aspects of the flow meter remaining constant,
change in the sensitivity of the flow measurement is :
(A) 10.0% (B) 5.0% (C) 2.5% (D) 2.2%
Q.37 The asymptotic Bode magnitude plot of a lead network with its pole and zero on the left half of the s-plane
is shown in the adjoining figure. The frequency at which the phase angle of the network is maximum (in
rad/s) is :
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3 1
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) 1
10 20 20 30

Q.38 In an analog single channel cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO), the x and y sensitivities are set as 1ms/div.
and 1 V/div. respectively. The y-input is connected to a voltage signal 4cos (200πt − 45º) V. The trigger
source is internal, level chosen is zero and the slope is positive. The display seen on the CRO screen is :
(A) (B)

(C) (D)

Q.39 A unit ramp input is applied to the system shown in the adjoining figure. The steady state error in its
output is :

(A) 0 (B) 0.5 (C) 1 (D) 2

k
Q.40 A unity feedback system has an open loop transfer function G ( s)  . The value of k that yields a
s ( s  3)
damping ratio of 0.5 for the closed loop system is :
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 9
Q.41 A 4-bit successive approximation type ADC has a full scale value of 15V. The sequence of the states, the
SAR will traverse, for the conversion of an input of 8.15V is :

(A)
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(B)

(C)

(D)

Q.42 The logic gate circuit shown in the adjoining figure realizes the function

(A) XOR (B) XNOR (C) Half adder (D) Full adder
Q.43 In an 8085 processor, the main program calls the subroutine SUB1 given below. When the program
returns to the main program after executing SUB1, the value in the accumulator is :
Address Opcode Mnemonic
2000 3E 00 SUB1 : MVI A, 00h
2002 CD 05 20 CALL SUB2
2005 3C SUB2 : INR A
2006 C9 RET
(A) 00 (B) 01 (C) 02 (D) 03
Q.44 Light coming out of an optical fiber is incident on a plane perpendicular to the fiber axis and 50mm away
from the end of the fiber. The light coming out creates a circular spot that can at most be of 20mm
diameter. Neglecting the diameter of the fiber, the numerical aperture of the fiber is, approximately
(A) 0.14 (B) 0.20 (C) 0.34 (D) 0.40
Q.45 A solution “P” is put in a spectrophotometer cuvette of optical path length 1cm. The transmittance is
found to be 10%. Another solution “Q” has a transmittance of 40% under the same circumstances. If equal
volumes of P and Q are mixed together, the transmittance of the resulting solution (assuming the
constituents of P and Q do not react with each other) is, approximately.
(A) 15% (B) 20% (C) 25% (D) 30%
Q.46 4-point DFT of a real discrete-time signal x[n] of length 4 is given by X [k ], n  0,1, 2,3 and k  0,1, 2,3 . It is
given that X [0]  5, X [1]  1 j1, X [2]  0.5 . X [3] and x[0] respectively are
(A) 1  j, 1.875 (B) 1  j, 1.500 (C) 1  j, 1.875 (D) 0.1  j0.1, 1.500
Q.47 An active filter is shown in the adjoining figure. The dc gain and the 3dB cut-off frequency of the filter
respectively, are, nearly
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(A) 40 dB, 3.14 kHz (B) 40 dB, 1.00 kHz (C) 20 dB, 6.28 kHz (D) 20 dB, 1.00 kHz
Common Data Question 48 & 49
A differential amplifier is constructed using an ideal opamp as shown in the adjoining figure. The values
of R1 and R2 are 47 k and 470 k respectively.

Q.48 The input impedances seen looking into the terminals V1 and V2 , with respect to ground, respectively are
(A) 47 k and 43k (B) 47 k and 47 k (C) 47 k and 517 k (D) 517 k and 517 k
Q.49 V1 and V2 are connected to voltage sources having an open circuit output of +1V each and internal
resistances of 13 k Ω and 3 k Ω respectively. The output voltage V0 is :
(A) 0 V (B) 0.15 V (C) 1.5 V (D) 10 V
Common Data Question 50 & 51
A PMMC type ammeter has full scale current of 100 A and a coil resistance of 100 .
Q.50 The resistance required to convert the 100 A ammeter into 1A full scale dc ammeter is :
(A) 10m in series with the meter (B) 10m in parallel with the meter
(C) 1m in series with the meter (D) 1m in parallel with the meter
Q.51 The above PMMC meter is connected in the circuit shown in the adjoining figure. The opamp is ideal. The
voltage vi (t ) = 1.0 sin 314t V. Assuming the source impedance of vi (t ) to be zero, the ammeter will indicate
a current of
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(A) 100 A (B) 70.7 A (C) 63.7 A (D) 31.8 A

Statement For Linked Answer Questions 52 & 53
A coil having an inductance (L) of 10mH and resistance R is connected in series with an ideal 100 μ F
capacitor (C). When excited by a voltage source of value 10 2 cos(1000t) V, the series RLC circuit draws
20W of power.
Q.52 The value of the coil resistance R is :
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 5

Q.53 The Q factor of the coil at an angular frequency of 1000rad/s is :

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 5
Statement For Linked Answer Questions 54 & 55
Consider a temperature measurement scheme shown in the adjoining figure. It uses an RTD whose
resistance at 00 C is 100 and temperature coefficient of resistance () is 0.00392 / 0 C .

Q.54 The differential gain of the instrumentation amplifier to achieve a voltage sensitivity of 10mV/ºC at 0ºC
should be approximately
(A) 13.41 (B) 26.02 (C) 57.53 (D) 90.14
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Q.55 The RTD is placed in a hot water bath of temperature 1000 C . Based on the gain calculated in Q.54 the
error in the measured value of the temperature due to bridge nonlinearity is :
(A)  0.10 C (B)  0.40 C (C)  0.90 C (D) 1.20 C

Q.56 to Q.60 carry one mark each

Q.56 25 persons are in a room. 15 of them play hockey, 17 of them play football and 10 of them play both
hockey and football. Then the number of persons playing neither hockey nor football is :
(A) 2 (B) 17 (C) 13 (D) 3
Q.57 Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence :
If we manage to ________ our natural resources, we would leave a better planet for our children.
(A) uphold (B) restrain (C) Cherish (D) conserve
Q.58 The question below consists of a pair of related of related words followed by four pairs of words. Select
the pair that best expresses the relation in the original pair.
Unemployed: Worker
(A) fallow : land (B) unaware : sleeper
(C) wit : jester (D) renovated : house
Q.59 Which of the following options is the closest in meaning to the world below:
Circuitous
(A) cyclic (B) indirect (C) confusing (D) crooked
Q.60 Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence :
His rather casual remarks on politics _______ his lack of seriousness about the subject.
(A) masked (B) belied (C) betrayed (D) suppressed
Q.61 to Q.65 carry two marks each
Q.61 Hari (H), Gita (G), Irfan (I) and Saira (S) are sibiligs (i.e. brothers and sisters). All were born on 1st
January. The age difference between any two successive siblings (that is born one after another) is less
than3 years. Given the following facts :
i. Hair’s age + Gita’s age > Irfan’s age + Saira’s age.
ii. The age difference between Gita and Saira is 1 year. However, Gita is not the oldest and Saira is not
the youngest.
iii. There are no twins.
In what order were they born (oldest first) ?
(A) HSIG (B) SGHI (C) IGSH (D) IHSG
Q.62 5 skilled workers can build a wall in 20 days; 8 semi-skilled workers can build a wall in 25 days; 10
unskilled workers can build a wall in 30 days. If a team has 2 skilled, 6 semi-skilled and 5 unskilled
workers, how long will it take to build the wall ?
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(A) 20 days (B) 18 days (C) 16 days (D) 15 days

Q.63 Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian
populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and
regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful
tools for their cause.
Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage :
(A) Modern warfare has resulted in civil strife.
(B) Chemical agents are useful in modern warfare.
(C) Use of chemical agents in warfare would be undesirable.
(D) People in military establishments like to use chemical agents in war.
Q.64 Given digits 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 how many distinct 4 digit numbers greater than 3000 can be formed ?
(A) 50 (B) 51 (C) 52 (D) 54
Q.65 If 137 + 276 = 435 how much is 731 + 672 ?
(A) 534 (B) 1403 (C) 1623 (D) 1513

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