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Note: a) Q.1 to Q.25 carry 1-mark each, and Q.26 to Q.55 carry 2-mark each b) Q 48 to Q.51 (2 pairs) are common data questions and question pairs (Q.52 & Q.53) and (Q.54 & Q.55) are linked answer questions.

Section 1 (Q.1 to Q.25) 1. A wave form shown in figure below. Is fed to D.C ammeter. What is the reading shown by the meter? a) Zero b) 50 m-A c) 75 m-A d) 100 m-A 2. According to the Maximum power transfer theorem, what is the maximum power absorbed by one network from another network? a) The impedance of one network is half that of the other network b) The impedance of one network is complex conjugate of the other 3. The Nyquist plot of a system passes through (-1,j0) point in the G(jw)H(jw) plane, the phase margin of the system is: a) Infinite b) Greater than zero but not infinite c) Zero d) less than zero

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a) 1 A b) 3A c) 2A d) 4A

5. In the network shown below, it is given that v=1volts and time after the switch S is closed. What is the value of C?

at a time t, where t is the

a)0.05 F 0.15 F b) 0.1 F 6. In a two element series network, the voltage and current respectively are given as, V(t)=50 sin(314t) + 50 sin(942t) Volts and i(t) = 10 sin(314t+600) + 8 sin(942t+450) Amps, then the power factor of the network is approximately: a) 0.9 b) 0.3 c) 0.1

c) d)

7. The successive approximation A/D output for a 4-bit converter to a 8.217 Volt input (if the reference is 5 V) will be: a) 1101 d)1001 b)0110 c) 1010

8. What is the load at which maximum efficiency occurs in case of a100 kVA transformer with iron loss of 1kw and full-load copper loss of 2kw? a) 100 KVA b) 70.7 KVA c) 50.5 KVA d)25.2KVA

9. Two generating stations connected to load center having capacity of 50 MVA and 75 MVA deliver 100 MW to the load. The incremental cost of plant 1 is 15+0.15P1 and that of the plant 2 is 18 + 0.15P2. What are the values of P1 and P2, respectively? a) 60MW & 40 MW b) 50MW each c) 72MW & 28 MW d) 30MW

10. For the circuit shown in Fig. A, the V-I (Voltage-current) characteristics of the circuit using ideal components is given by curve a in Fig.B. Which curve in Fig.B represents the V-I characteristics for the circuit shown in Fig.C? Department of EEE, VLITS, Vadlamudi Page 2

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a) Curve a b) Curve b c) Curve c

11. In 8085 microprocessor Carry flag is not affected by the following instruction a) ADD B b) SBB B c) INR B d) ORA B

12.In the given circuit, the output y equals which one of the following? a) A+B b) B +A

c) AB 13. What is the operating slip of a 400V,50 Hz, 6 pole, 3-phase induction motor, while the speed is 936 r.p.m. with a 400 V, 45Hz, 3-phase supply? a) 0.036 b)0.064 c) 0.025 d) 0.075

14. Mho relay is usually employed for the protection of a) Short lines only only d)Any line b) Medium Lines only c) Long Lines

15.X is a uniformly distributed random variable that takes values between 0 and 1. The value of E is a) 0 b) c) d) 1/8

16. In the circuit given above, if the output is taken from point E instead of node C, what will be the result? Department of EEE, VLITS, Vadlamudi Page 3

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a) An increase in the output impedance b) A reduction in the output impedance c) An increase in the input impedance 17. What is represented by the digital circuit given by

a) An SR flip-flop with A=S and B=R b) A JK flip-flop with A=K and B=J c) A JK flip-flop with A=J and B=K 18. A resistor connected across the gate and cathode of an SCR a) Increases rating of SCR

b) Increases holding current of SCR c) Decreases noise immunity of SCR 19. How many relays are used to detect inter phase fault of a three line system? a) One b) Two c) Three d) Six

20. What is the purpose of impedance matching between the output of previous stage and input of the next stage in cascaded amplifiers a) To achieve high efficiency c) To achieve reduced distortion

b) To achieve maximum power transfer d) TO achieve reduced noise 21. If the inertia constant H=8MJ/MVA for a 50MVA generator, the stored energy is: a) 50MJ b) 8MJ c) 400MJ d) 6.25MJ

22. The circuit shown in figure below is: a) A low pass filter b) A high pass filter c) A comparator

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23.In a 3-phase semi converter, for firing angle less than or equal to 600, freewheeling diode conducts for: a) 900 b) 600 c) 300 d) 00

24. A turbine-generator set has a regulation constant of 6% on the generator rating of 120MVA, 50Hz. The generator frequency decreases by 0.01 Hz. The increase in turbine output for steadystate operation is: a) 0.8MW b) 0.4MW c) 0.2MW d)

25.Which three-phase connection can be used in transformer to introduce a phase difference of 300 between its output and corresponding input line voltages? a) Star-Star Zigzag b) Star-delta c)Delta-delta d) Delta-

26. For a lossy transmission line, the characteristic impedance does not depend on a) The operating frequency of the line b) The conductivity of the conductors c) Conductivity of the dielectric separating the conductors

27.The transfer function of a linear control system given by the value of gain for =0.1 rad/sec is a) 20db b)0 db c) 60db d) 80db

in its bode diagram,

28. Consider the following statements with regards to signal flow graph given below:

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1) The number of loops are 3 2) The number of forward paths are 3 Which of these statements are correct? a) 1, 2 and 4 c)1,3 and 4

29.For a line of characteristic impedance Z0 terminated in a load of ZR such that ZR=Z0/3, what is the reflection coefficient? a) 1/3 b)-1/3 c)2/3 d)-12

30. Which one of the following statements is not true for a P-type semiconductor? a) Conduction is by the movement of holes in the valence band b) Holes constitute the majority charge carriers c) Fermi level lies closer to the conduction band between the conduction and valence bands

31. A particular control system yielded a steady-state error of 0.2 for unit step input. A unit integrator is cascaded to this system and unit ramp input is applied to this modified system. What is the value of steady state error for this modified system? a) 0.1 b) 0.15 c) 0.2 d) 0.25

32. At t=0 the switch K is thrown from b to a of the circuit as shown below. What are the values of v (0+) and i(0+)? a) 50 and 90mA b) 50 V and 100mA c) 50 V and 110mA

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33.In a series R-L-C circuit, the maximum voltage across the capacitor occurs at a frequency a) Double at the resonant frequency b) Equal to resonant frequency c) 1.414 times the resonant frequency

34.One cycle of a square wave signal observed on an oscilloscope is found to occupy 6 cm at a scale setting of 30 s/cm. what is the signal frequency? a) 1.8 kHz b) 5.55KHz c) 18KHz d) 55.5KHz 35. What is the approximate value of the gain margin in the Nyquist diagram given below? a) 0.67 b) 3.0 c) 1.0

36.The function f(x)=2x-x2+3 has a) A maxima at x=1 and a minima at x=5 and a minima at x = -5 c) a maxima at x=1

37.A zero mean a random signal is uniformly distributed between limits a and + a and its mean square value is equal to its variance. Then the r.m.s value of the signal is a) b) c) a d) a

38.The two vectors [1,1,1] and [1,a,a2], where a=[-0.5+j0.707], are a) Orthogonal b) orthonormal c) parallel d) collinear

39. The second harmonic component of the periodic waveform given in the figure has an amplitude of a) 0 b) 1 Department of EEE, VLITS, Vadlamudi Page 7 c) 2/

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40.The power electronic converter shown in the figure has a single pole double throw switch. The pole P of the switch is connected alternately to throws A and B. the converter shown is a a) Step-down chopper b) Step up chopper c) Half wave rectifier

41.Consider a three core, three phases, 50Hz 11 Kv cable whose conductors are denoted as R, Y and B in the figure. The inter phase capacitance (C1) between each pair of conductors is 0.2 F and the capacitance between each line conductor and the sheath is 0.4F. the per phase charging current is a) 2A b) 2.4A c) 2.7A

42.A field excitation of 20 A in a certain alternator results in an armature current of 400A in short circuit and a terminal voltage of 2000 V on open circuit. The magnitude of the internal voltage drop within the machine at a load of 200 A is a) 1V b) 10V c) 100V d) 1000V

43.Out of the following plant categories (i) Nuclear (ii) Run-of-river (iii) Pump Storage (iV) Diesel

The base load power plants are a) i & ii b) ii & iii c) i,iii & iii d) i, iii & iv

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44.An SCR is considered to be a semi-controlled device because a) It can be turned OFF but not ON with a Gate pulse b) It conducts only during one half-cycle of an alternating current wave c) It can be turned ON but not OFF with gate pulse

45.The trace and determinant of a 2 X 2 matrix are known to be -2 and -35 respectively. Its Eigen values are a) -30 & -5 b) -37 & 1 c) -7 & 5 d) 17.5 & -2

46.A three phase fully controlled bridge converter feeding a load drawing a constant and ripple free load current of 10 A at a firing angle of 300. The approximate Total Harmonic Distortion (%THD) and the RMS value of fundamental component of the input current will respectively be a) 31% & 6.8A b) 31% & 7.8 A 66% & 7.8A c) 66% and 6.8 A d)

47.A 220 V, 1440 rpm, 40 A separately exited DC motor has an armature resistance of 0.4. The motor is fed from a single phase circulating current dual converter with an input AC line voltage of 220V (rms). The approximate firing angles of the dual converter for motoring operation a\at 50% of rated torque and 1000 rpm will be a) 430,1370 b)430,470 c)390,1410 d)390,510 Statement for linked question

48.For the circuit given above, the Thevinins resistance across the terminals A and B is

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a) 0.5K 0.11K b) 0.2K c) 1K d)

49.For the circuit above, the Thevinins voltage across the terminals A and B is a) 1.25V b) 0.25V c) 1V d) 0.5V

The input voltage given to a converter is Vi=100 2 sin(100 t) Volt. The current drawn by the converter is ii=(10 2sin(100 t+5 2 sin(300 ) +2 2 sin (500 )A

50. The input power factor of the converter is a) 0.31 b) 0.44 c) 0.5 d) 0.71

51. The active power drawn by the converter is a) 181 W b) 500W c) 707W d) 887W

A 1:1 pulse Transformer (PT) is used to trigger the SCR in the adjacent figure. The SCR is rated at 1.5KV, 250A with IL=250mA, IH=150mA, and IGmax=150mA, IGmin=100mA. The SCR is connected to an inductive load, where L=150mh in series with a small resistance and the supply voltage is 220 v Dc. The forward drops of all transistors/diodes and gate-cathode junction during ON state is 1.0V.
52. The resistance R should be

a) 4.7K b) b) 470 c) c) 47
53. The minimum approximate volt-second rating of the pulse transformer suitable for triggering the SCR should be: (volt-second rating is the maximum of product of the voltage and the width of the pulse that may be applied) a) 2000 V-s b) 200 V-s c) 20 V-s d) 2.0V-s

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Caley-Hamilton Theorem states that a square matrix satisfies its own characteristic equation, consider a matrix A = 54. A satisfies the relation
a) A+3I+2A-1 =0 b)A2+2A+2I =0 d) exp(A)=0 c) (A+I)(A+2I)=0

55. A9 equals
a) 511A+510I b) 309A+104I exp(9A) c) 154A+ 155I d)

GENERAL APPLITUDE QUESTIONS Q.56-Q.60 EACH CARRY ONE MARK Q.56 choose the most appropriate words from the options given below to complete the following sentence Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by Indian Medical Association, human geans are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which ......................... treatments are unsatisfactory. (A) Satisfactory (B) Most (C) Uncommon (D) Available Q.57 The question below consists of a pair of related words followed by pair of four words. Select the pair that best expresses the relation in the original pair Gladiator: Arena (A) Dancer: stage (B) Commuter: train (C) Teacher: classroom (D) Lawyer: courtroom Q.58 There are 2 candidates P, Q in a election. During the campaign 40% of voters promised to vote for P, and rest for Q. However on the day of election 15% of voters went back on their promises to vote for P instead of Q, 25% of voters went back on their promises to vote for Q instead of P. Suppose P lost by 2 votes, what are the total number of voters? (A) 100 sentence It was her that the country problems had been.....................by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them back would be the counter-productive (A) Identified (B) Ascertained (C) Exacerbated (D) Analysed (B) 110 (C) 90 (D) 95 Q.59 Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following

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Q.60 Choose the most appropriate word opposite in meaning from the options given below to the given word Frequency (A) Periodicity (B) Rarity (C) Gradualness (D) Persistency Q.61-Q.65 EACH CARRY TWO MARKS Q.61 the sum of n term of the series 4+44+444+4444+.................is (A) (4/81) (10n+1 -9n-1) (C) (4/81) (10n+1 -9n-10) (B) (4/81) (10n-1 -9n-1) (D) (4/81) (10n -9n-10)

Q.62 The horse had played a little known but very important role in the medicine. Horses are injected with toxins of the diseases until their blood build up with immunities. Then a serum was made from their blood. Serum to fight with diphtheria and tetanus were developed as this way It can be inferred from passage that horses were (A) Given immunity to diseases (C) Given medicines to fight toxins (B) Generally quite immune to diseases (D) Given diphtheria and tetanus serums

Q.63 The fuel consumed by a motorcycle during a journey while travelling at various speeds is indicated in a graph given below

The distances covered during 4 laps of journey are listed in the table given below

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From the data it is concluded that the fuel consumed per liter is least during the lap (A) P (B) Q (C) R (D) S Q.64 Three fiends R, S, T shared toffee from a bowl. R took 1/3rd of the toffees but returned four to bowl. S took 1/4th of what was left but returned three toffees to the bowl. T took half of the remainder, but returned two back to the bowl. If the bowl had 17 toffees left, how many toffees were there originally in the bowl? (A) 38 (A) 0 (B) 31 (B) -1 (C) 48 (C) 1 (D) 41 (D) 2 Q.65 given that f(y) =| y| /y, and q is any non-zero real number, the value of mod {f (q)-f (-q)} is

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