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Top 50 Mechanical Engineering Questions asked in placement Interviews

Top 50 Electrical Engineering Questions asked in placement Interviews
Top 50 Civil Engineering Questions asked in placement Interviews
Top 50 ECE Questions asked in placement Interviews
Top 50 CS/IT Questions asked in placement Interviews
Top 50 Mechanical Engineering Questions asked in placement
Interviews

1. What is Carnot cycle?

2. And what is the difference between a car and a mini bus then?
3. Did you study Fluid Mechanics?
4. Explain the basic principle of refrigeration.
5. Explain the refrigeration cycle.
6. Does more engine volume also mean more power?
7. How is one gear box different from another?
8. Tell us about the working of Petrol and Diesel Engine.
9. Give one practical application of thermodynamics.
10. What is bending moment?
11. Difference between four and two stroke?
12. How are these processes used for combustion in engines?
13. How is horsepower different from torque?
14. Law of thermodynamics?
15. So you are a mechanical engineer. What is the difference between a mini bus and a large bus from
an engineering point of view?
16. How many types of efficiencies are used to define the performance of engines?
17. If we open a refrigerator's door, will the temperature of the room drop?
18. Which type of transmission is better in terms of fuel efficiency: Manual or Automatic?
19. How many types of gears are there?
20. What are the three laws of thermodynamics?
21. Name a few companies manufacturing bearings.
22. What are the forces acting on a ball when it is in the air?
23. What are the Bharat III norms?
24. What are 'making capacity' and 'breaking capacity'?
25. Which are your favorite subjects? (Mechanical Engineering)
26. State the laws of thermodynamics and give equations?
27. Can you explain the swinging motion?
28. Have you heard of LHC (Large Hadron collider)?
29. What is an IC Engine and what problems does it face?
30. Prove that a one sided infinite turning machine has same power as two sided.
31. What are IC engines?
32. Tell us about some new technologies in passenger car industry.
33. What happens to fuel economy when the number of cylinders is increased?
34. What are the special features of NANO?
35. What do you know about the Nano?
36. What have you studied in Kinematics of Mechanics?
37. What does 2.4 l written on a car indicates?
38. What is a warm gear and can we use it in steering?
39. What is a V-Tec engine?
40. In a heat exchanger, if I have given pressure on tube side, can I perform hydro test of shell side
simultaneously? Why?
41. What is a synchromesh gear?
42. What is the difference between a blower and a fan?
43. What is Horse Power and how is it different from Torque?
44. What is hot rolling and cold rolling?
45. What is venturimeter and orifice plate?
46. What is the difference between Reva and Hybrid Cars?
47. What is the difference between precision and calibration?
48. What is the difference between carburetor and fuel injector?
49. What is the difference between gear hobbling and gear shaping?
50. What is the biggest cost in manufacturing a car?
Top 50 Electrical Engineering Questions asked in placement Interviews

1. In what units is Resistance measured?

2. The number of microamperes in 2 milli amperes is how much?
3. An electric heater draws 3.5 A from a 110 V source. What is the resistance of the heating element?
4. If 750 μA is flowing through 11k Ω resistance, what is the voltage drop across the resistor?
5. A resistor is connected across a 50 V source. What is the current in the resistor if the color code is
red, orange, and silver?
6. Approximately how many milli amperes of current flow through a circuit with a 40 V source and 6.8k
Ω of resistance?
7. When converting 1,600 kilohms to mega ohms, the result is?
8. If there is 12 mA of current through a 1.2 k Ω resistor, what is the voltage across the resistor?
9. What is inrush current?
10. In a Tap changing transformer, where is the tap connected? Is it connected in the primary side or
the secondary side?
11. Why are transformer ratings in KVA?
12. What is the difference between fuse and breaker?
13. What is the difference between delta-delta and delta-star transformer?
14. Capacitor is load free component but why ampere meter shows current when capacitor bank
breaker closes?
15. Why is electricity in India in the multiples of 11 like 11kv, 22kv, 33kv?
16. Why do we use AC and not DC system in India?
17. Which type of motor is used in trains, what is the rating of supply used? Explain the working
principle.
18. Are battery banks connected in series or in parallel and why?
19. Differentiate between megger test equipment and contact resistance meter test instruments.
20. When do we connect the large capacitor back in series?
21. What is electrical diversity factor in electrical installations?
22. Why is field rheostat kept in minimum position while armature rheostat is kept in maximum
position?
23. Why does the humming sound occur in computers in HT transmission line?
24. What is rated speed?
25. What is the difference between resistance grounding system and resistance earthing system?
26. When a fourth resistor is connected in series with three resistors, does the total resistance increase
or decrease and by how much?
27. A sine wave voltage is applied across an inductor. When the frequency of the voltage is decreased,
does the current increase or decrease?
28. What is electrical diversity factor in electrical installations?
29. How do you increase the winding resistance of a coil?
30. When the current through an inductor decreases, does the amount of energy stored in the
electromagnetic field increase or decrease?
31. In a three-phase system, the voltages are separated by how many degrees?
32. In a three-phase system, when the loads are perfectly balanced, how much is the neutral current?
33. When the current through an inductor is cut in half, what happens to the amount of energy stored
in the electromagnetic field?
34. A certain transformer has 400 turns in the primary winding and 2,000 turns in the secondary
winding. The turns ratio is?
35. If the cross-sectional area of a magnetic field increases, but the flux remains the same, does the flux
density increase or decrease?
36. How many primary volts must be applied to a transformer with a turns ratio of 0.1 to obtain a
secondary voltage of 9 V?
37. What is the function of a transformer?
38. What happens when the current through the coil of an electromagnet reverses?
39. A coil of wire is placed in a changing magnetic field. If the number of turns in the coil is decreased,
the voltage induced across the coil will increase or decrease?
40. What is the unit for reluctance?
41. Why generator or any other system requires Neutral Grounding and not Phase grounding?
42. What happens if any one of the phases is grounded?
43. If 15kv is grounded directly, what will happen? Why should it not be grounded like that?
44. Why, for transformer protection, do we protect transformer from 3rd harmonics and 5th harmonics
and what is the reason for generating these harmonics in electrical system?
45. What is meant by Active and reactive power?
46. Why in a three phase 440 circuit, in all the phases current is almost equal: L1-35 A, L2-34 A , L3-31 A;
but in neutral when we check with clamp meter, it shows 25 A?
47. What is meant by derating factor?
48. How can we know the cable size for a given current?
49. Explain the working principle of servomotor.
50. Why are servomotor and induction motor in different shapes?
Top 50 Civil Engineering Questions asked in placement Interviews

1. What is meant by Gantry Girder?

2. Why is the brick red in color?
3. What is ductility?
4. What is bolt value?
5. What should be the percentage of silt content in sand?
6. What is the meaning of M.S.L for civil field?
7. What is the least count of Total station?
8. As a civil engineer, how would you reduce global warming?
9. At what temperature is granulation carried out?
10. Being a girl, why did you choose civil engineering?
11. Have you ever worked on AutoCAD?
12. Can you tell us the concept of air-conditioning with diagram?
13. Define metallurgy?
14. Define strength and toughness?
15. Do you know about the cable suspended bridges?
16. How can you make a building earthquake resistant?
17. How do you design a beam?
18. What kind of steel is used in rails? What qualities does it need to possess?
19. Name some nuclear stations.
20. Questions on Geographical Information Systems.
21. Tell me one company which makes pistons.
22. Tell us something about IRC road specifications.
23. What are the different types of furnaces?
24. Why did you opt for civil engineering?
25. What is mortar?
26. What is shearing force?
27. What is a power grid?
28. What are the features of earthquake resistant buildings? Do you know about the earthquake
resistant structures in California?
29. Chandigarh is a planned city. How will you convert Mumbai into a planned city?
30. What is a Theodolite?
31. What is a turbine?
32. What happens in an airplane? Does the pilot operate conveyor belts and pulleys?
33. What is bending moment?
34. What is cantilever? What are its support conditions?
35. What is fatigue? Name the most fatigue resistant and the least fatigue resistant material.
36. What are the different types of sorting?
37. What is CPM and PERT?
38. What is heavy water?
39. What is Tensile strength?
40. What is the process of making steel?
41. What is the purpose of using a cable?
42. Why civil engineering is called civil?
43. Difference between four and two stroke?
44. What do you feel about real estate sector?
45. Do you know why explosives are used in coal industry?
46. How is fluid flow used in real life?
47. So you have studied Industrial Engineering, does it involve minimum or no inventory?
48. What is the difference between PERT and CPM? Where would you use either of them?
49. What is the difference between production and manufacturing?
50. What is steel?
Top 50 ECE Questions asked in placement Interviews

1. What is the difference between TDMA and FDMA?

2. What is a 555 timer?
3. How many memory locations can be addressed by a microprocessor with 14 address lines?
4. How do you make a memory card of a mobile phone?
5. Which type of architecture does 8085 have?
6. What will be the common test case for SMS and Mp3 player applications?
7. What is the difference between a photo-diode and a solar cell?
8. Explain negative test cases for testing mobile phones.
9. What is the exact meaning of manual testing?
10. What is the significance of "4-20 mA" signal in hart protocol?
11. How do you check the mobile battery charge status?
12. Is it possible to reverse the order of a Variable Frequency drive?
13. What do you mean by "flow of electron"?
14. 6 dB pad introduces how much attenuation?
15. Why does charging batteries take a long time?
16. What can be done to quicken the battery charging speed?
17. The current through a resistor of 50 ohms in an AC circuit at t = 0.008 s is 65% of the peak value. The
smallest possible frequency of the generator delivering the current is ________.
18. Is it possible to build an AC or DC variable-speed generator with a variable field current controlled by
a signal from a torque sensor connected to the shaft of the generator (i.e., net torque = 0)?
19. How is the transmission of a signal in a computer over x number of clock cycles translated into
binary?
20. When recording infrasound waves or microwaves- how do they differ from one another?
21. What is the best way to read infrasound waves or microwaves?
22. Is it possible to reverse the order of a Variable Frequency Drive? Ex: I want to be able to create 120V
power from a variable speed engine, with at least 6kw of power.
23. What are encoders and decoders?
24. What are the uses of encoders and decoders?
25. Explain the working of encoders and decoders with a circuit diagram.
26. Which voltage source converts chemical energy to electrical energy?
27. The removal of a non-neutral subatomic particle converts the atom into?
28. Which electronics material opposes the movement of free electrons?
29. Single-element semiconductors are characterized by atoms with how many valence electrons?
30. A diode conducts when it is forward-biased, and the anode is connected to the ________ through a
limiting resistor.
31. As the forward current through a silicon diode increases, does the internal resistance increase?
32. What is the boundary between p-type material and n-type material called?
33. The bit sequence 0010 is serially entered (right-most bit first) into a 4-bit parallel-out shift register
that is initially clear. What are the Q outputs after two clock pulses?
34. What is a shift register that will accept a parallel input, or a bi-directional serial load and internal
shift features called?
35. What is meant by parallel load of a shift register?
36. In a 6-bit Johnson counter sequence; there are a total of how many states, or bit patterns?
37. A modulus-12 ring counter requires a minimum of how many flip-flops?
38. A serial in/parallel out, 4-bit shift register initially contains all 1s. The data nibble 0111 is waiting to
enter. After four clock pulses, the register contains ________.
39. A sequence of equally spaced timing pulses may be easily generated by which type of counter
circuit?
40. The bit sequence 10011100 is serially entered (right-most bit first) into an 8-bit parallel-out shift
register that is initially clear. What are the Q outputs after four clock pulses?
41. If an 8-bit ring counter has an initial state 10111110, what is the state after the fourth clock pulse?
42. A 4-bit shift register that receives 4 bits of parallel data will shift to the ________ by ________
position(s) for each clock pulse.
43. How many clock pulses will be required to completely load serially a 5-bit shift register?
44. How is a strobe signal used when serially loading a shift register?
45. An 8-bit serial in/serial out shift register is used with a clock frequency of 150 kHz. What is the time
delay between the serial input and the Q3 output?
46. What is the difference between a ring shift counter and a Johnson shift counter?
47. What is a re-circulating register?
48. When is it important to use a three-state buffer?
49. Determine the output frequency for a frequency division circuit that contains 12 flip-flops with an
input clock frequency of 20.48 MHz.
50. Explain the concept of frequency re-use.
Top 50 CS/IT Questions asked in placement Interviews

1. Draw the diagram for waterfall model of software development.

2. Describe the OSI Model.
3. Difference between HTTP and HTTPS?
4. What is Data mining?
5. How does programming differ from Cloud Computing?
6. Explain C++ in a layman's language.
7. How is Unix different from Windows?
8. Can you tell me how many types of software development Models are there?
9. Have you studied C, C++ etc.? Which language are you strong in? Describe any projects that you did
in these two languages?
10. How can C++ help in any business?
11. How are IP addresses assigned?
12. How is Unix different from Linux?
13. Tell us something about assembly languages.
14. What is analytics?
15. 8085 is how many bit processor? What about 8086?
16. Are 4G services provided in India?
17. What is WIMAX?
18. Give an example of Digital electronics sum: related to addition of binary numbers.
19. Describe LAN and WAN.
20. Tell us something about Indian IT industry.
21. Do you know what is Abacus?
22. Tell us something about Software Engineering, standard deviation, coefficient of variation.
23. How did you build your knowledge about computers?
24. What is Operations Research?
25. Name five people who have brought change in Computer Science.
26. Is there any mechanism to increase the reliability of software?
27. Name an application of data Structures in OS.
28. Name a few Operating Systems.
29. How does internet work?
30. What exactly do you mean by a computer?
31. What does embedded software mean?
32. What happens to the reliability if the LOC of the software goes on increasing?
33. What is a bus in computer terminology?
34. What is the difference between MIS and DS?
35. Why MAC doesn't get a virus, but Windows-run computers do?
36. Tell us something about OSI LAYERS.
37. What is artificial intelligence?
38. Tell us about SAP, ERP.
39. So you are a CSE graduate, what is a compiler?
40. Tell us about a big global project related to Computer Vision.
41. Tell us something about the major advancements in the field of computers in 1970s.
42. Tell us two plus points and two negative points about Unix.
43. What are different databases and their differences?
44. What are genetic computers?
45. What are the challenges that we face today in taking computers to every village?
46. What are the differences between Waterfall Model and Agile Model of Software development?
47. What are the essential qualities that a good programming code should have?
48. What are the input and output commands of C and C++?
49. Which books do you follow for OO Analysis and Design?
50. What do you mean by a 64 bit computer?