BANGLADESH BANK

Written Examination Question

Assistant Director (Electrical-Engineering)
Date: 13/09/2013 at 10:00 AM
Full Marks: 200 (Broad 180 + MCQ 20)
Time: 2 hours

1. What are the information/data required to set up an electrical sub-station at Bangladesh Bank Head
Office and what are the equipment necessary for this sub-station? [10]
2. (i) Mention modern system to be installed in a high-rise building for safety operation management. [5]
(ii) Write five power station names which use natural gas. [5]
3. What are the possible causes of short circuit in garments? Mention some preventive measures. [10]
4. (i) Write down properties of Insulator. [5]
(ii) Define Diversity factor and Plant Use factor? [5]
5. Find current through each resistor- [10]

6. A 120V, 60W lamp is operated in 220V, 50Hz supply; calculate non inductive resistance and pure
inductance that would be required to connect in series to run the lamp on its rated voltage? [10]
7. Three identical impedances are connected in delta to a three phase 400V supply; line current is 34.65A
total power taken from supply is 14.4kW. Calculate resistance and reactance of each phase. [10]
8. DC series motor has high resistance torque-Justify? [10]
9. (i) List the step involved in PCM for signal processing? [5]
(ii) Show the block diagram of Optical Fiber Communication? [5]
10. Prove that single phase transformer has maximum efficiency can be obtained when copper loss is equal
to iron loss? [10]
11. Define slip of induction motor? What are the effects of variation of stator voltage and frequency on the
operation of three phase induction motor? [10]
12. Why it is not safe to connect a stationary alternator to a live bus-bar? What are the conditions of
synchronization of an alternator to a bus-bar? [10]
13. Determine the quiescent level of IC and VCE – [10]

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14. Draw the circuit diagram of an adder, a differentiator, an integrator using Op-Amp. Mention the
properties of an ideal Op-Amp? [10]
15. Draw the circuit of thyristor-operated three phase controlled rectifier. Show the sequence of thyristor
gating pulses. [10]
16. Define FDM and TDM. Draw their block diagram? [10]
17. Elaborate the following- [10]
i. LASER
ii. PABX
iii. SNR
iv. QPSK
18. (i) Define simplex, half duplex and full duplex? [5]
(ii)Design full-adder circuit using only two-input NAND gate? [5]
19. Tick (√) the correct answer of the following: [10x2=20]
(a) A wire has a resistance of 6Ω. It is bent in the form of equilateral triangle. The effective resistance
between any two corners of the triangle is-
(i) 4.7Ω (ii) 6 Ω (iii) 4/3 Ω (iv) 3 Ω
(b) Which modulation technique uses sampling?
(i) pulse code modulation (ii) amplitude modulation
(iii) frequency modulation (iv) phase modulation
(c) An R-L high pass filter consists of 470Ω resistor and a 600mH coil. The output is taken across the coil. The
cut-off frequency will be –
(i) 125Hz (ii) 1250Hz (iii) 564Hz (iv) 5644Hz
(d) When a 50Hz transformer is operated at 100Hz, then its KVA rating will be –
(i) double (ii) half (iii) four times (iv) unaffected
(e) Purpose of a chock coil in a fluorescent tube is to –
(i) decrease the current (ii) increase the current
(iii) decrease the momentary voltage (iv) increase the momentary voltage
(f) The power factor of an alternator is determined by its –
(i) speed (ii) load (iii) excitation (iv)prime mover
(g) An audio power amplifier is preferably operated in class ------- operation.
(i) A (ii) B (iii) AB (iv) C
(h) Insulation resistance is measured by –
(i) Kelvin bridge (ii) voltmeter (iii) megger (iv) ammeter
(i) Nuclear reactor utilizes the process of –
(i) fusion (ii) fission
(iii) both fusion and fission (iv) none of them
(j) A computer uses 500 characters. How many bits are required to give different codes of all the characters?
(i) 5 bit (ii) 7 bit (iii) 9 bit (iv) 10 bit

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