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Preeti Kumari Select the word that is most SIMILAR in meaning to the bold word in capital letters.
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A Admiration
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B Pray
C Admonish
D Worship
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We do not need today in India extra ordinary specialist but those trained ordinary doctors who are dedicated to their profession.
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I : We should promote medical profession on with dedicated ordinary doctors rather than promoting high specialized medical education.
II : Extra ordinary specialists are not dedicated to their profession.
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B Conclusion II follows
D Neither I or II follows
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Each number is twice the previous one with added or subtracted alternatively
B 1579
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At food world super market, built in 2010, the number of successful thefts has risen dramatically in the past few months. Food world has a
reliable electronic security system at all customer exit doors, and this system is always in operation. Therefore, the thefts must be
committed by people who used exit other than the regular customer exit doors.
Which is the following assumption make the conclusion above logically correct?
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C If a super market was built before 2015, it often has exits that can’t be equipped with electronic
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If a , a2 , a3 ........... an are in AP. Where ai > 0 for all i, then the value of
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B 0 Correct Option
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D None of these
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Karan and Arjun run a 100 m race, where Karan beats Arjun by 10 m. To do a favour to Arjun, Karan starts 10 m behind the starting line in a
second 100 m race. They both run at earlier speeds. Which of the following is true in connection with the second race?
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Out of 120 musicians in a club, 5% can play three instruments, Guitar, Violin and Flute. It so happens that the number of musicians who can
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A 1.33 Ω
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C 4.0 Ω
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The frequency response of a loop transfer function G(jω) is provided in the tabular form as shown below: Preeti Kumari
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A 64
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C 21.33
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Consider the following impulse response h(t ) of an LTI system, Preeti Kumari
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B increase input resistance and increase the output resistance Correct Option
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The maximum number of product terms that can be produced by the above circuit for a particular set of inputs (S1S0) to the decoder is
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D 128
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The instruction XRA A will set the ‘Z ’ (zero) flag. DCX does not affect any flag. Thus loop is executed once.
B 8 times
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D infinite times
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A Hertzian dipole is operating at a frequency, f = 100 MHz. The maximum effective area of the dipole is
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If H(X ) indicates the entropy of a random variable X, then which one of the following relations is not true?
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B 1/3
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The number of children in a family in a region are either 0, 1 and 2 with probability 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5 respectively. The probability that each
child being a boy or a girl is 0.5. The probability that a family has no boys is
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C 0.451
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If the switch “S ” is connected to “b ” for a long time and moved to “a” at t = 0, then the value of current at t = 2 ms will be ___________
mA.
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Then the maximum value of ‘n’ for which y(n) is non-zero is ________.
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A transistor has maximum allowed power dissipation of 3 W at an ambient temperature of 30°C and maximum allowed collector junction
temperature is 120°C. Then the thermal resistance of the junction is _______ °C/W.
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The diode D has a forward cut-in voltage Vγ = 0.7 V and is biased by using a supply voltage of V = 15 V, the value of input voltage Vi for
which the current through the diode will be equal to 3 mA is equal ________ V.
(Assuming the output voltage Vo is floaing)
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10.70 (10.50 - 11.00)
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Q. 29
The minimum number of 2 × 1 MUX required to design a 6-bit Grey code to binary converter is ________.
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∵ For a six bit number, the number of EX-OR gates required to convert Grey code into a binary number is 5 and two 2 × 1 MUXs are
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The cut-off wave number of an air filled rectangular waveguide having dimensions (3 cm × 1 cm) is _______ rad/m.
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Q. 32
24 voice signals, each band limited to 3.4 kHz, are time division multiplexed. Each voice signal is sampled at a rate of 8 kHz and an 8-bit
quantizer is used in the system. If a single additional bit is added at the end of each frame for the purpose of synchronization, then the rate
of the resultant data will be ________ kbps.
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Let the average bit energy transmitted in a coherent BPSK system is EP and that of in a coherent BFSK system is EF. If both the systems
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0.50 (0.48 - 0.52)
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Q. 35
The integral is evaluated along the semi-circular arc = 1 above real axis. If then the value of B is________.
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3.14 (3.10 - 3.20)
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The Norton’s equivalent to the left of the terminals and y of the circuit shown in the figure below is
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For the feedback control system shown below, if the peak overshoot of the response to a step input is 9.478% and the steady state error for
unit ramp input is 0.01, then the values of K and P will be
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B K = 120 and P = 12
C K = 600 and P = 6
D K = 3600 and P = 36
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The open loop transfer function of a unity negative feedback control system is given by, For K > 4, the stability
characteristics of the open loop and the closed loop configurations of the systems are respectively
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The magnitude and phase response of an LTI system are shown below:
If input to the system is = 4sin(5t + 30°), then the output of the system will be
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Q. 40
A hypothetical semiconductor has an intrinsic carrier concentration of 1.0 × 1010 cm–3 at 300 K, it has conduction band and valance band
effective densities of states NC and NV equal to 1020/cm–3 and 1018 cm–3 respectively at 300 K. Then the energy band gap Eg of the
semiconductor at 300 K will be
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The voltages V1, V2 and V3 are so adjusted such that both the transistors M1 and M2 are working in linear region with VDS << (VGS – VT). The
combinations is modeled as a single transistor M as shown by the second figure. If M1, M2 and M have value of all the parameters including
gate to source voltage same except the channel length. The value of length of transistor M1 and M2 is equal to 1 μm and 2 μm respectively,
then the value of the channel length of the transistor M with channel length L is equal to
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Q. 43
The three op-amps used to create the circuit given below are ideal and the transistor T1 and T2 are matched with each other. If the circuit is
operating at a temperature of 300°K, then the value of output voltage V0 is given as
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A 8-bit left-shift register and a D-flip flop are connected together as shown in the figure below and they are synchronized with the same
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C 61 nC
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The medium is a
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C Correct Option
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D
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Two random variables X and Y are related to another random variable Θ as, X = sinΘ and Y = cosΘ. If Θ is uniformly distributed in the range
then select the correct one of the following statements.
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In a coherent BFSK scheme with a bit rate of 20 kbps, if the continuity of the phase at bit transitions is not necessarily required, then the
best possible set of frequencies among the following choices to represent logic - 0 and logic - 1 is
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If 1 and 3 are the eigen values of a 2 × 2 square matrix A, then A3 can be written as
denotes identity matrix of second order)
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D Date insufficient
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The differential equation is solved by using Euler’s method with initial condition assumed to be
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Q. 54
A voltage source and a load resistance are connected to a two port network, whose inverse h-parameter matrix is given by [g] =
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The loop transfer function of a negative feedback control system is given by,
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Two systems with impulse responses h1[n] and h2[n] are cascaded as shown in the figure below.
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A Si abrupt p -n junction has NA = 3 × 1018 cm–3 on the p-side and an area of 1.6 × 10–3 cm2. The junction capacitance is 18 pF at a reverse
bias voltage of 3.2 V and 12 pF at 8.2 V. Then the donor concentration on n-side is _______ × 1015 cm–3.
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The input signal is coupled to the gate via large valued capacitor C1 and the output signal at the drain is coupled to the load resistance RL
via another valued large capacitor C2 to a transistor Q1 which is operating into saturation region by ac current source . The transistor
has VTN = 1.5 V, then the value of input resistance (Rin) as seen by the source Vin is equal to
_________ MΩ.
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The biasing voltages are such that the transistors are working in linear region. Both the transistors T1 and T2 are perfectly matched with β =
100. Assume then the value of small signal gain will be equal to __________ V/V.
(Assume VT = 25 mA)
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The number of combinations of A, B and C for which the output of the circuit will be equal to ‘0’ is ______.
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25.12 (25.00 - 25.25)
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The capacity of the channel shown in the figure below is ________ bits/symbol.
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Q. 63
In a digital communication system, bits 0 and 1 are transmitted with probabilities respectively. The receiver decides for either 0 or
1 based on the received value R. The conditional probability density functions of R are as follows:
Decision is made in favour of 0 if r < rth and in favour of 1 if r > rth. If the threshold value rth is decided in an optimum way according to MAP
criteria, then the probability of error in decision making will be ________.
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It is given that the solution of the differential equation passes through origin. The value of y(2) will be ________.
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Q. 65
The directional derivative of in the direction of the tangent to the curve y = sin2t + 1, z = 1 – cost at t =
0, is_______.
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