1.

Digital control systems are generally superior to analog control systems, but they are
always worse with regard to:
(A) Speed
(B) Diagnostics
(C) User-friendliness
(D) Flexibility
(E) Noise immunity

Answer : A

2. Many digital control systems utilize Ethernet as a communications network,

because . . .
(A) no terminating resistors are necessary
(B) speed is not affected by traffic
(C) it is a wireless network standard
(D) it is fully deterministic
(E) it is robust and inexpensive

Answer : E

3. Steady state error is usually specified in terms of :

a) Error constants
b) Damping factor
c) Speed of response
d) Bandwidth
Answer: a
4. Transient response measure is usually specified in terms of :
a) Error constants
b) Damping factor
c) Speed of response
d) Both b and c
Answer: d
5. In time domain the measure of relative stability is:
a) Damping factor
b) Maximum peak overshoot
c) Damping factor and Maximum peak overshoot
d) Speed of response
Answer: c
6. In frequency domain the measure of relative stability is:
a) Resonant peak
b) Phase margin
c) Resonant peak and phase margin
d) Maximum peak overshoot
Answer: c
7. In time domain the speed of response is measured in terms of :
a) Rise time
b) Settling time
c) Natural frequency
d) All of the mentioned
Answer: d
8. In frequency domain the speed of response is measured in terms of:
a) Resonant frequency
b) Bandwidth
c) Resonant peak and bandwidth
d) Maximum peak overshoot
Answer: c
9. Peak overshoot of step-input response of an underdamped second-order system is
explicitly indicative of
a) Settling time
b) Rise time
c) Natural frequency
d) Damping ratio
Answer: d

1. Routh Hurwitz criterion gives:

a) Number of roots in the right half of the s-plane
b) Value of the roots
c) Number of roots in the left half of the s-plane
d) Number of roots in the top half of the s-plane
Answer: a
2. The order of the auxiliary polynomial is always:
a) Even
b) Odd
c) May be even or odd
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: a
3. Which of the test signals are best utilized by the stability analysis.
a) Impulse
b) Step
c) Ramp
d) Parabolic
Answer: a
4. Consider the following statement regarding Routh Hurwitz criterion:
a) It gives absolute stability
b) It gives gain and phase margin
c) It gives the number of roots lying in RHS of the s-plane
d) It gives gain, phase margin and number of roots lying in RHS of the s-plane
Answer: d
5. If the Liapunov’s function cannot be found then the system is:
a) Stable
b) Unstable
c) Conditionally stable
d) Marginally stable
Answer: b
6. Liapunov’s stability analysis is for the :
a) LTI system
b) Time variant system
c) Non-linear system
d) Linear system
Answer: c
7. Conditions of ___________ are necessary and sufficient condition for the asymptotic
stability of the system.
a) Linear system
b) Krasovskii’s method
c) positive definiteness
d) Variable gradient method
Answer: c
8. It is difficult to form Liapunov’s function for:
a) Linear system
b) Non-linear
c) Time variant systems
d) Time –invariant systems
Answer: b
9. If the V is positive definite, for the system to be asymptotically stable, Q should be
negative definite.
a) Krasovskii’s method
b) Variable gradient method
c) Constant method
d) Non-variable gradient method
Answer: a

10. The method which provides considerable flexibility in finding the Liapunov’s
function is:
a) Krasovskii’s method
b) Variable gradient method
c) Constant method
d) Non-variable gradient method
Answer: b
11. Liapunov stability analysis is different from the classical theories approach of
stability.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a