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Q. 1 – Q. 5 carry one mark each.
Q.1 Based on the given statements, select the appropriate option with respect to grammar and usage.
Statements
(i) The height of Mr. X is 6 feet.
(ii) The height of Mr. Y is 5 feet.
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(A) Mr. X is longer than Mr. Y.
(B) Mr. X is more elongated than Mr. Y.
(C) Mr. X is taller than Mr. Y.
(D) Mr. X is lengthier than Mr. Y.
Q.2 The students _______ the teacher on teachers' day for twenty years of dedicated teaching.
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(A) facilitated (B) felicitated (C) fantasized (D) facillitated
Q.3 After India's cricket world cup victory in 1985, Shrotria who was playing both tennis and cricket till then, decided to concentrate only on cricket. And the rest is history.
What does the underlined phrase mean in this context?
(A) history will rest in peace (B) rest is recorded in history books
(C) rest is well known (D) rest is archaic
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Q.4 Given (9 inches) = (0.25 yards), which one of the following statements is TRUE?
(A) 3 inches = 0.5 yards (B) 9 inches = 1.5 yards
(C) 9 inches = 0.25 yards (D) 81 inches = 0.0625 yards
Q.5 S, M, E and F are working in shifts in a team to finish a project. M works with twice the efficiency of others but for half as many days as E worked. S and M have 6 hour shifts in a day, whereas E and F have 12 hours shifts. What is the ratio of contribution of M to contribution of E in the project?
(A) 1:1 (B) 1:2 (C) 1:4 (D) 2:1
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Q. 6 – Q. 10 carry two marks each.
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Q.6 The Venn diagram shows the preference of the student population for leisure activities.
Read books, Watch TV
12 13 19 7 44 17 15
Play sports
From the data given, the number of students who like to read books or play sports is
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(A) 44 (B) 51 (C) 79 (D) 108
Q.7 Social science disciplines were in existence in an amorphous form until the colonial period when they were institutionalized. In varying degrees, they were intended to further the colonial interest. In the time of globalization and the economic rise of postcolonial countries like India, conventional ways of knowledge production have become obsolete.
Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above statements?
(i) Social science disciplines had a pre-colonial origin.
(ii) Social science disciplines always promote colonialism.
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(iii) Social science disciplines have become obsolete.
(iv) Social science must maintain disciplinary boundaries.
(A) (ii) only (B) (i) and (iii) only (C) (ii) and (iv) only (D) (iii) and (iv) only
Q.8 Two and a quarter hours back, when seen in a mirror, the reflection of a wall clock without number markings seemed to show 1:30. What is the actual current time shown by the clock?
(A) 8:15 (B) 11:15 (C) 12:15 (D) 12:45
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Q.9 M and N start from the same location. M travels 10 km East and then 10 km North-East. N travels 5 km South and then 4 km South-East. What is the shortest distance (in km) between M and N at the end of their travel?
(A) 18.60 (B) 22.50 (C) 20.61 (D) 25.00
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Q.10 A wire of length 340 mm is to be cut into two parts. One of the parts is to be made into a square and the other into a rectangle where sides are in the ratio of 1:2. What is the length of the side of the square (in mm) such that the combined area of the square and the rectangle is a MINIMUM?
(A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 120 (D) 180
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Q. 1 – Q. 25 carry one mark each.
Q.1 The value of x for which the matrix A =
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9 7 13
-6 -4 -9+x
has zero as an eigenvalue is
Q.2 Consider the complex valued function f(z) = 2z³ + b |z|3 where z is a complex variable.
The value of b for which the function f(z) is analytic is
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Q.3 As x varies from -1 to +3, which one of the following describes the behaviour of the function f(x) = x³ – 3x² + 1?
(A) f (x) increases monotonically.
(B) f(x) increases, then decreases and increases again.
(C) f (x) decreases, then increases and decreases again.
(D) f (x) increases and then decreases.
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Q.4 How many distinct values of x satisfy the equation sin(x) = x/2, where x is in radians?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 or more
Q.5 Consider the time-varying vector I = x 15 cos(wt) + y 5 sin(wt) in Cartesian coordinates, where w > 0 is a constant. When the vector magnitude |I| is at its minimum value, the angle ? that I makes with the x axis (in degrees, such that 0 = 0 = 180) is
Q.6 In the circuit shown below, Vs is a constant voltage source and I1 is a constant current load.
The value of I1 that maximizes the power absorbed by the constant current load is
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(A) Vs/4R (B) Vs/2R (C) Vs/R (D) 8
Q.7 The switch has been in position 1 for a long time and abruptly changes to position 2 at t = 0.
If time t is in seconds, the capacitor voltage Vc (in volts) for t > 0 is given by
(A) 4(1 - exp(-t/0.5)) (B) 10 - 6 exp(-t/0.5)
(C) 4(1 - exp(-t/0.6)) (D) 10 - 6 exp(-t/0.6)
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Q.8 The figure shows an RLC circuit with a sinusoidal current source.
At resonance, the ratio |IL|/|IR|, i.e., the ratio of the magnitudes of the inductor current phasor and the resistor current phasor, is
Q.9 The z-parameter matrix for the two-port network shown is
[jw 3 + 2jw] , where the entries are in O. Suppose Z?(j?) = Rp + j? .
Then the value of Rb (in 2) equals
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Q.10 The energy of the signal x(t) = sin(4pt)/4pt is
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Q.11 The Ebers-Moll model of a BJT is valid
(A) only in active mode (B) only in active and saturation modes
(C) only in active and cut-off modes (D) in active, saturation and cut-off modes
Q.12 A long-channel NMOS transistor is biased in the linear region with VDS=50 mV and is used as a resistance. Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
(A) If the device width W is increased, the resistance decreases.
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(B) If the threshold voltage is reduced, the resistance decreases.
(C) If the device length L is increased, the resistance increases.
(D) If VGs is increased, the resistance increases.
Q.13 Assume that the diode in the figure has Von = 0.7 V, but is otherwise ideal.
The magnitude of the current i2 (in mA) is equal to
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Q.14 Resistor R1 in the circuit below has been adjusted so that I1 = 1 mA. The bipolar transistors Q1 and Q2 are perfectly matched and have very high current gain, so their base currents are negligible. The supply voltage Vcc is 6 V. The thermal voltage_kT/q is 26 mV.
The value of R2 (in O) for which I2=100 µA is
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Q.15 Which one of the following statements is correct about an ac-coupled common-emitter amplifier operating in the mid-band region?
(A) The device parasitic capacitances behave like open circuits, whereas coupling and bypass capacitances behave like short circuits.
(B) The device parasitic capacitances, coupling capacitances and bypass capacitances behave like open circuits.
(C) The device parasitic capacitances, coupling capacitances and bypass capacitances behave like short circuits.
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(D) The device parasitic capacitances behave like short circuits, whereas coupling and bypass capacitances behave like open circuits.
Q.16 Transistor geometries in a CMOS inverter have been adjusted to meet the requirement for worst case charge and discharge times for driving a load capacitor C. This design is to be converted to that of a NOR circuit in the same technology, so that its worst case charge and discharge times while driving the same capacitor are similar. The channel lengths of all transistors are to be kept unchanged. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(A) Widths of PMOS transistors should be doubled, while widths of NMOS transistors should be halved.
(B) Widths of PMOS transistors should be doubled, while widths of NMOS transistors should not be changed.
(C) Widths of PMOS transistors should be halved, while widths of NMOS transistors should not be changed.
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(D) Widths of PMOS transistors should be unchanged, while widths of NMOS transistors should be halved.
Q.17 Assume that all the digital gates in the circuit shown in the figure are ideal, the resistor R = 10 ?O and the supply voltage is 5 V. The D flip-flops D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5 are initialized with logic values 0,1,0,1 and 0, respectively. The clock has a 30% duty cycle.
The average power dissipated (in mW) in the resistor R is
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Q.18 A 4:1 multiplexer is to be used for generating the output carry of a full adder. A and B are the bits to be added while Cin is the input carry and Cout is the output carry. A and B are to be used as the select bits with A being the more significant select bit.
Which one of the following statements correctly describes the choice of signals to be connected to the inputs 10, I1, I2 and I3 so that the output is Cout?
(A) 10=0, 11=Cin, I2=Cin and I3=1
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(B) 10=1, I1=Cin, I2=Cin and I3=1
(C) Io Cin, 11=0, I2=1 and I3=Cin
(D) 10=0, I1=Cin, I2=1 and 13=Cin
Q.19 The response of the system G(s) = s-2/(s+1)(s+3) to the unit step input u(t) is y(t).The value of dy/dt at t = 0+ is
Q.20 The number and direction of encirclements around the point -1 + j0 in the complex plane by the Nyquist plot of G(s) = 1-s/4+2s is
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(A) zero. (B) one, anti-clockwise.
(C) one, clockwise. (D) two, clockwise.
Q.21 A discrete memoryless source has an alphabet {a1, A2, A3, A4} with corresponding probabilities 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8.
The minimum required average codeword length in bits to represent this source for error-free reconstruction is
Q.22 A speech signal is sampled at 8 kHz and encoded into PCM format using 8 bits/sample. The PCM data is transmitted through a baseband channel via 4-level PAM. The minimum bandwidth (in kHz) required for transmission is
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Q.23 A uniform and constant magnetic field B = 2B exists in the 2 direction in vacuum. A particle of mass m with a small charge q is introduced into this region with an initial velocity v = xvx + 2vz. Given that B, m, q, vx and v2 are all non-zero, which one of the following describes the eventual trajectory of the particle?
(A) Helical motion in the 2 direction.
(B) Circular motion in the xy plane.
(C) Linear motion in the 2 direction.
(D) Linear motion in the x direction.
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Q.24 Let the electric field vector of a plane electromagnetic wave propagating in a homogenous medium be expressed as E = Exe-j(wt-ßz), where the propagation constant ß is a function of the angular frequency w. Assume that ß(w) and Ex are known and are real. From the information available, which one of the following CANNOT be determined?
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(A) The type of polarization of the wave.
(B) The group velocity of the wave.
(C) The phase velocity of the wave.
(D) The power flux through the z = 0 plane.
Q.25 Light from free space is incident at an angle ?i to the normal of the facet of a step-index large core optical fibre. The core and cladding refractive indices are n1 = 1.5 and n2 = 1.4, respectively.
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The maximum value of ?i (in degrees) for which the incident light will be guided in the core of the fibre is
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Q.26 The ordinary differential equation dx/dt = -3 x + t, with x (0) = 1 is to be solved using the forward Euler method. The largest time step that can be used to solve the equation without making the numerical solution unstable is
Q.27 Suppose C is the closed curve defined as the circle x² + y² = 1 with C oriented anti-clockwise. The value of $(xy² dx + x² dy) over the curve C equals
Q.28 Two random variables X and Y are distributed according to
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fx,y(x, y) = (x + y), 0 = x = 1,0= y =1 ; 0, otherwise.
The probability P(X + Y < 1) is
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Q.29 The matrix A = a 0 3 7 ; 2 5 1 3; 0 0 2 4; 0 0 0 b has det(A) = 100 and trace(A) = 14. The value of a - b| is
Q.30 In the given circuit, each resistor has a value equal to 1 O.
What is the equivalent resistance across the terminals a and b?
(A) 1/6 O (?) 1/3 O (C) 9/20 O (D) 8/15 O
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Q.31 In the circuit shown in the figure, the magnitude of the current Iu (in amperes) through R2 is
Q.32 A continuous-time filter with transfer function H(s) = 2s + 6/s² + 6s + 8 is converted to a discrete-time filter with transfer function G(z) = 2z-2/z²-0.5032 z + k so that the impulse response of the continuous-time filter, sampled at 2 Hz, is identical at the sampling instants to the impulse response of the discrete time filter. The value of k is
Q.33 The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of the 4-point sequence x[n] = {x[0], x[1], x[2], x[3]} = {3, 2, 3, 4} is X[k] = {X[0], X[1], X[2], X[3]} = {12, 2j, 0, -2j}.
If X1[k] is the DFT of the 12-point sequence x1[n] = {3, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0}, the value of X1[8]/X1[11] is
Q.34 The switch S in the circuit shown has been closed for a long time. It is opened at time t = 0 and remains open after that. Assume that the diode has zero reverse current and zero forward voltage drop.
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The steady state magnitude of the capacitor voltage Vc (in volts) is
Q.35 A voltage VG is applied across a MOS capacitor with metal gate and p-type silicon substrate at T=300 K. The inversion carrier density (in number of carriers per unit area) for VG = 0.8 V is 2 × 1011 cm-2. For V = 1.3 V, the inversion carrier density is 4 x 1011 cm-2. What is the value of the inversion carrier density for VG = 1.8 V?
(A) 4.5 × 1011 cm-2 (B) 5.2 x 1011 cm-2 (C) 7.2 x 1011 cm-2 (D) 8.4 x 1011 cm-2
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Q.36 Consider avalanche breakdown in a silicon p?n junction. The n-region is uniformly doped with a donor density Np. Assume that breakdown occurs when the magnitude of the electric field at any point in the device becomes equal to the critical field Ecrit. Assume Ecrit to be independent of ND. If the built-in voltage of the_p+n_junction is much smaller than the breakdown voltage, VBR, the relationship between VBR and NÐ is given by
(A) ND = constant * vVBR (B) ND × vVBR = constant (C) ND × VBR = constant (D) ND /VBR = constant
Q.37 Consider a region of silicon devoid of electrons and holes, with an ionized donor density of N+ = 1017 cm-3. The electric field at x = 0 is 0 V/cm and the electric field at x = L is 50 kV/cm in the positive x direction. Assume that the electric field is zero in the y and z directions at all points.
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Given q = 1.6 × 10-19 coulomb, ?o = 8.85 × 10-14 F/cm, er = 11.7 for silicon, the value of L in nm is
Q.38 Consider a long-channel NMOS transistor with source and body connected together. Assume that the electron mobility is independent of VGs and VDs. Given,
9m = 0.5 µA/V for VDS = 50 mV and VGs = 2 V,
ga = 8 µ?/V for VGs = 2 V and VDS = 0 V,
where gm = ?ID/?VGS |VDS and ga = ?ID/?VDS |VGS.
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The threshold voltage (in volts) of the transistor is
Q.39 The figure shows a half-wave rectifier with a 475 µF filter capacitor. The load draws a constant current Io = 1 A from the rectifier. The figure also shows the input voltage Vi, the output voltage Vc and the peak-to-peak voltage ripple u on Vc. The voltage Vi is a triangle-wave with an amplitude of 10 V and a period of 1 ms.
The value of the ripple u (in volts) is
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Q.40 In the opamp circuit shown, the Zener diodes Z1 and Z2 clamp the output voltage Vo to +5 V or -5 V. The switch S is initially closed and is opened at time t = 0.
The time t = t1 (in seconds) at which Vo changes state is
Q.41 An opamp has a finite open loop voltage gain of 100. Its input offset voltage Vios (= +5mV) is modeled as shown in the circuit below. The amplifier is ideal in all other respects. Vinput is 25 mV.
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The output voltage (in millivolts) is
Q.42 An 8 Kbyte ROM with an active low Chip Select input (CS) is to be used in an 8085 microprocessor based system. The ROM should occupy the address range 1000H to 2FFFH. The address lines are designated as A15 to A0, where A15 is the most significant address bit.
Which one of the following logic expressions will generate the correct CS signal for this ROM?
(A) A15 + A14 + (A13 A12 + A13 A12) (B) A15 A14. (A13 + A12)
(C) A15 A14 (A13 A12 + A13 A12) (D) A15 + A14 + A13 A12
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Q.43 In an N bit flash ADC, the analog voltage is fed simultaneously to 2N 1 comparators. The output of the comparators is then encoded to a binary format using digital circuits. Assume that the analog voltage source Vin (whose output is being converted to digital format) has a source resistance of 75 O as shown in the circuit diagram below and the input capacitance of each comparator is 8 pF.
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<The input must settle to an accuracy of 1/2 LSB even for a full scale input change for proper conversion. Assume that the time taken by the thermometer to binary encoder is negligible.
If the flash ADC has 8 bit resolution, which one of the following alternatives is closest to the maximum sampling rate ?
(A) 1 megasamples per second (B) 6 megasamples per second
(C) 64 megasamples per second (D) 256 megasamples per second
Q.44 The state transition diagram for a finite state machine with states A, B and C, and binary inputs X, Y and Z, is shown in the figure.
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Which one of the following statements is correct?
(A) Transitions from State A are ambiguously defined.
(B) Transitions from State B are ambiguously defined.
(C) Transitions from State C are ambiguously defined.
(D) All of the state transitions are defined unambiguously.
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Q.45 In the feedback system shown below G(s) = 1/(s²+2s)
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The step response of the closed-loop system should have minimum settling time and have no overshoot.
The required value of gain k to achieve this is
Q.46 In the feedback system shown below G(s) = 1/(s+1)(s+2)(s+3)
The positive value of k for which the gain margin of the loop is exactly 0 dB and the phase margin of the loop is exactly zero degree is
Q.47 The asymptotic Bode phase plot of G(s) = k/(s+0.1)(s+10)(s+p1), with k and p1 both positive, is shown below.
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The value of p1 is
Q.48 An information source generates a binary sequence {an}. an can take one of the two possible values -1 and +1 with equal probability and are statistically independent and identically distributed. This sequence is precoded to obtain another sequence {ßn}, as ßn = an + kan-3. The sequence {ßn} is used to modulate a pulse g(t) to generate the baseband signal
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