psu GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Qi- Ql Q2 Qs Q4 Qs Q. S carry one mark each. The strategies that the company to sell its products house-to-house marketing. (A) use, includes (B) uses, include (C) used, includes (D) uses, including The boat arrived dawn. A) in Bat (© on (D) under It would take one machine 4 hours to complete a production order and another machine 2 hours to complete the same order. If both machines work simultaneously at their respective ‘constant rates, the time taken to complete the same order is hows. (2 B34 (Or ©) 73 Five different books (P,Q, R, S, T) are to be arranged on a shelf. The books R and S are to be arranged first and second, respectively from the right side of the shelf. The mmber of different orders in which P,Q and T may be arranged is. a2 Be or (©) 120 ‘When he did not come home, she him lying dead on the roadside somewhere. (A) concluded (B) looked (©) notice () picturedBes : ‘= GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Q.6-Q.10 carry two marks each. Q6 Four people are standing in a line facing you. They are Rahul, Mathew, Seema and Lohit. One is an engineer, one is a doctor, one a teacher and another a dancer. You are told that: Mathew is not standing next to Seema 1 2. ‘There are two people standing between Lohit and the engineer 3. Rahul is not a doctor 4, ‘The teacher and the dancer are standing next to each other 5. Seema is turning to her right to speak to the doctor standing next to her ‘Who among them is an engineer? (A) Seema B) Lohit (© Rahul (D) MathewBes : ‘= GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 Q7 The bar graph in Panel (a) shows the proportion of male and female illiterates in 2001 and 2011. The proportions of males and females in 2001 and 2011 are given in Panel (b) and (©), respectively. The total population did not change during this petiod. The percentage inerease in the total number of literates from 2001 to 2011 is__. Proportion o’iliterates (%) = 0 w 40 504g 20 Fomale Male 2001 92011 Panel (@) 2001 201 Female 40% Panel (0) Panel (©) (A) 30.43 (B) 33.43 (©) 34.43 (D) 35.43psu Qs Qo GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 “Indian history was written by British historians — extremely well documented and researched, but not always impartial. History had to serve its purpose: Everything was made subservient to the glory of the Union Jack. Latter-day Indian scholars presented a ‘contrary picture.” From the text above, we can infer that: Indian history waitten by British historians (A)was well documented and not researched but was always biased (B) was not well documented and researched and was always biased (©)was well documented and researched but was sometimes biased (D)was not well documented and researched and was sometimes biased Two design consultants, P and Q, started working fiom 8 AM for a client. The client budgeted a total of USD 3000 for the consultants. P stopped working when the hour hand moved by 210 degrees on the clock. Q stopped working when the hour hand moved by 240 degrees. P took two tea breaks of 15 mimes each during her shift, but took no lunch break. Q took only one Iunch break for 20 minutes, but no tea breaks. The market rate for consultants is USD 200 per hour and breaks are not paid. After paying the consultants, the client shall have USD remaining ia the budget. (A) 000.00 (B) 166.67 (©) 300.00 (D) 433.33psu GATE 2019 General Aptitude (GA) Set-1 QU0 Five people P,Q. R, S and T work in a Sank. P and Q don’t like each other but have to share an office fill T gets a promotion and moves to the big office next to the garden. R, who is curently sharing an office with T wants to move to the adjacent office with S, the handsome new intern, Given the floor plan, what is the current location of Q, R and T? (O= Office, WR = Washroom) @ o WR OI 702 [03 [oa WR [OI ]o2 [03 ]o4 PQ R PQ RT |s ‘Manager Teller | Teller ‘Manager Teller | Teller T 1 1 f2 Entry Entry Garden Garden ®) ©) WR POI ]02 ]O3 Joa WR OT ]O2 [03 [OF RQ T [RS Pp j@ R |s “Manager Teller [Teller | [Manager Teller | Teller 1 2 1/2 Entry Entry Garden Garden END OF THE QUESTION PAPERBsus Q. 1-Q. 25 carry ONE mark each. GATE 2019 ECA Q1_— Which one of the following fimetions is analytic over the entire complex plane? (@) In@ ellz a 8) Om Q2 The families of curves represented by the solution of the equation = -G forn = —1 and n = +1, respectively, are (A) Parabolas and Circles (B) Circles and Hyperbolas (C) Hyperbolas and Circles (D) Hyperbolas and Parabolas Q3 Let H(z) be the z-transform of a real-valued discrete-time signal hf]. If @) cos(z) P(2) = H(@)H (2) has a zero at z = 5437, and P(z) has a total of four zeros, which one of the following plots represents all the zeros correctly? « @) plane Imaginary] plane Imaginary axis 6 5 OM 5 ° > a TRedaxis Real axis 2 ° ©) plane Imaginary plane Imaginary aa = 1 oe we ° obo ° > ‘Teal axis os} 5, [05 TRealaxis wr oot oo ws g ss ° 2u's a4 Qs GATE 9 Consider the two-port resistive network shown in the figure. When an excitation of 5 V is applied across Port 1, and Port 2 is shorted, the current through the short circuit at Port 2 is measured to be 1 A (see (a) in the figure). Now. ifan excitation of 5 V is applied across Port 2, and Port 1 is shorted (see (b) in the figure), what is the current through the short circuit at Port 1? 19 2 Wit it Port I RQ Port? 19 20 19, 20 sv Ra a? Ra sv @ 6 (054 @ia © 24 @) 254 Let ¥(5) be the unit-step response of a causal system having a transfer function 3-s 6) = Ge that is, ¥(s) = £2 The forced response of the system is (A) u(t) — 2e7tu(t) + eStu(r) (B) 2u(t) — 2e u(t) + e u(t) © 2ue) ©) uo)psu GATE 2019 ECA Q6 Foran LTE system, the Bode plot for its gein is as illustrated in the figure shown. The number of system poles N,, and the number of system zetos N, in the frequency range Hz < f = 107 His Gain (dB) 20 (A) Np =5, Mp =2 (B)Np =6,Np=3 (C)Np=7.Ne=4 () Np=4,N,=2 Q7 Alinear Hamming code is used to map 4-bit messages to 7-bit codewords. The encoder ‘mapping is linear. If the message 0001 is mapped to the codeword 0000111, and the ‘message 0011 is mapped to the codeword 1100110, then the message 0010 is mapped to (A) 0010011 (B) 1100001 (©) 1111000 ©) mmBUS carer roa Q8 Which one of the following options describes correctly the equilibrium band diagram at T-300 K of Silicon prn“p** configuration shown in the figure? © ©)BUS carer roa Q9 The conect circuit representation of the stricture shown in the figure is 8 E c “ ®) c c B 8 E E © ©) ic c 8 B E E aBUS carer roa Q.10. The figure shows the high-frequency C-V curve of a MOS capacitor (at T = 300 K) with ®q,=0 V and no oxide charges. The flat-band, inversion, and accumulation conditions are represented, respectively, by the points 1) Whot is the electric Dux (f - d@) through a quarter-cylinder of height (as shown in the figure) due to an infinitely long line charge along the axis of the cylinder with a charge density of 0? ep 1 ' ' i H 12 i 1 1 I Ha Hg wr on oe om 40 0psu Qi2 Qu3 Qu GATE 2019 ECA In the table shown, List I and List IL, respectively, contain terms appearing on the left-hand side and the right-hand side of Maxwell’s equations (in their standard form). Match the lefi-hand side with the corresponding right-hand side. List I List 1 1 v-D Pr 0 VxE_1Q 2 vB R _oB = 4 Vx Ss oD ne (A)1-P,2-R,3-Q4-S (B)1-Q.2-R.3-P.4-8 (C)1-Q2-S3-P4-R (D)1-R2-Q3-S.4-P ‘A standard CMOS inverter is designed with equal rise and fall times (B,, = fp). Ifthe width of the pMOS transistor in the inverter is increased, what would be the effect on the LOW noise margin (WM,) and the HIGH noise margin NMj,? (A) NM, increases and NM, decreases. (B) NM, decreases and NMy increases. (0) Ba Ni act Ng nue (D) No change in the noise margins, I the circuit shown, what are the values of F for EN = 0 and EN = 1, respectively? ua EN } L po _| 4 >> (A) OamdD (B) Hi-Z andD (©) Oandt (D) Hi-Z andD arpsu GATE 2019 ECA Q15 Inthe circuit shown, A and B are the inputs and F is the output. What is the functionality of the cireuit? Vdd (A) Latch (B) XNOR (© SRAM Cell @) XoR Q.16 The value of the contour integral 1 1 = f (2+5) ae evaluated over the unit circle |z| = 1 is QU7 The nnmber of distinct eigenvalues of the matrix 22 A cure Nene on o0 00 isequaltoBsus Quis Qe Q20 Q21 Q22 GATE 9 IfX and Y are random variables such that E[2X + Y] = 0 and E[X + 2Y] = 33, then B(x] + EY] = The value of the integral J-° ("= dx dy. is equal to. . y= Let Z be an exponential random variable with mean 1. That is, the cumulative distribution fimetion of Z is given by ufl-e* ifx 20 neo ={) "Greco Then Pr(Z > 2 |Z > 1), sounded off to two decimal places, is equal to Consider the signal f(t) = 1+ 2cos(wt) +3 sin (Zt) + 4cos (Zt +2 seconds. Its fundamental time period, in seconds, is The baseband signal m(t) shown in the figure is phase-modulated to generate the PM signal p(€) = cos(2zfet + k m(t)). The time ¢ on the x-axis inthe figure is in milliseconds. If the carrier frequency is f = 50 kHz and k = 10m, then the ratio of the minimum instantaneous frequency (in kHz) to the maximum instantaneous frequency (in KHz) is (rounded off to 2 decimal places). ma 1- 7 (inms)BEYUS cares Ect Q23. Radiation resistance cf'a small dipole cuzrent element of length / at a frequency of 3 GHz is 3 ohms. If the length is changed by 1%, then the percentage change in the radiation resistance, rounded off to two decimal places, is %, Q24 In the circuit shown, Vz is a square wave of period T with maximum and minimum values of 8 V and -10 V, respectively. Assume that the diode is ideal and Ry = Ry = 50 0. The average value of V, io___volto (rounded off to 1 decimal place). Q25- In the circuit shown, the clock frequency, .e., the frequency of the Clk signal, is 12 kHz. The frequency of the signal at Qy is kHz — [yeas iti Clk Qi fr Clk _Q:US caress Ect Q.26-Q. 55 carry TWO marks each. Q26 Consider a differentiable function f(x) on the set of real numbers such that f(—1) = 0 and [f'(2)I < 2. Given these conditions, which one of the following inequalities is necessarily true forall x € [2,2]? (FO) < le +1] (B) f(@) < 2x +1] Ose < tial (©) f@) = 2x Q27 Consider the line integral / (xdy — ydx) é the integral being taken in a counterclockwise direction over the closed curve C that forms the boundary of the region R shown in the figure below. The region R is the area enclosed by the union of a2 x 3 rectangle and a semi-circle of radius 1. The line integral evaluates to 3 C 2 I o ne (A)64+2/2 (B) 840 (© W2+0 (D) 16 +20 a Tarpsu GATE 2019 ECA Q28 Qu ‘Consider a six-point decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, for which the signal-flow graph corresponding to X[1] is shown in the figure. Let We = exp (—). In the figure, what should be the values of the coefficients a;,42,a3 in terms of Wg so that X[1] is obtained correctly? a Be x13] XT] x15] Wa Oa 1,02 = We,a3 = W2 Laz = We,a3 = We It is desired to find a three-tap causal filter which gives zero signal as an output to an input of the form fam (fren ai)=cen(P)+e00(F), where c; and c; are arbitrary real numbers. The desired three-tap filter is given by no)=1, h]=a, AQ} =b and Aln] =0 for n<0 orn>2. ‘What are the values of the filter taps a and b if the output is y[n] is as given above? 0 for all n, when x[n] x(n] 7 —>| 1 Alzt| = (1, 4, b} 1 © a=-Lb=1 ()a=0,b=1 (a=1, B)a=0) Tarpsu GATE 2019 ECA Q30 In the circuit shown, if v(t) = 2 sin(1000 ¢) volts, R = 1kQ and C = 1 pf, then the steady-state current i(t), in milliamperes (mA), is iW 4 w(t) OY Rg R R (A) sin(1000 t) + cos(1000 t) (B) 2sin(1000 t) + 2cos(1000 t) (C) 3sin(1000 t) + cos(1000 t) (D) sin(1000 t) + 3 cos(1000 ¢) Q31_ Consider a causal second-order system with the transfer function 1 {= Tasae ‘with a unit-step R(s) = 4.as an input. Let 2(s) be the corresponding output. The time taken by the system output c(t) to reach 94% of its steady-state value lim ¢(t), rounded off to two decimal places, is (A) 5.25 (B) 4.50 (C) 3.89 @) 281 Q32_ The block diagram of a system is illustrated in the figure shown, where X(s) is the input and ¥(s) is the output. The transfer function H(s) = Por is Ys) Xs) 1 ea Mite eH Faget oa Rast eee 2H (A) H(s) = BHO = OHO = (D) H(s) =Bsus Q33 Q34 Q35 GATE 2019 ECA Let the state-space representation of an LTT system be x(t) = A x(©) + B u(®), yO) = Cx(t) + du(t) where A,B, C are matrices, d is a scalar, w(t) is the input to the system, and y(t) is its output. Let B=[0 0 1]? and d = 0. Which one of the following eptions for Asn C will ensue thatthe transfer aeton ofthis IL sytem is 7 > NO) = Sy ayaa o 1 0 @a4=]0 0 1{mdc=f1 o Oo} -1 -2 -a o 1 0 0 0 ifandc=[1 0 oO] ) 0 0 0 ifandce=fo 0 1 1-2 o 1 0 @)4=]0 0 teste to a 1 3 -2 -1 A single bit, equally likely to be 0 and 1, isto be sent across an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with power spectral density No/2. Binary signaling, with 0+ p(t) and 1 + 4(2), is wed for the tansmission, along with an optimal receiver that minimizes the bit-error probability. Let 93(t), y(t) form an orthonormal signal set. If we choose p(t) = g(t) and q(t) = —,(t), we would obtain a certain bit-error probability P, If we keep p(t) = g(t), but take q(0) = VE g(t), for what value of £ would we ‘obtain the same bit-error probability P,? (A) 0 @l © 2 @) 3 ‘The quantum efficiency (1) and responsivity (R) at a wavelength 2 (in jum) in a p-i-n photodetector are related by xa WRaT OR= Ta 24x 124 MR=TG R= Trpsu Q36 Qa7 Q38 GATE 2019 ECA Two identical copper wires W1 and W2, placed in parallel as shown in the figure, carry ‘currents J and 2/, respectively, in opposite directions. Ifthe two wires are separated by a distance of 4r, then the magnitude of the magnetic field B between the wires at a distance r from W1 is tr wi The dispersion equation of a waveguide, which relates the wavenumber & to the frequency k(w) = (oF = 08 ‘where the speed of light c = 3 x 10" m/s, and ois a constant. If the group velocity is 2. 10° mys, then the phase velocity is (A)15x 10%m/s (B)2Xx 10% m/s (C) 3X 10®m/s_— (D) 4.5 x 10° ms In the circuit shown, the breakdown voltage and the maximum current of the Zener diode are 20 V and 60 mA. respectively. The values of Ry and R,, are 200 2 and 1k, respectively. What is the range of V; that will maintain the Zener diode in the ‘on’ state? Ry _ RL (A) 2Vto4V (B) 24V t036V. (© 18Vto24V @) WVt028V arBUS carer roa Q39. The state transition diagram for the circuit shown is ——_ Nout wv av av av a _ av (A) 18and1.2 (B) 24and24 (©) 18and24 ——(D) 24 and 12 Q41_ The RC circuit shown below has a variable resistance R(t) given by the following ‘expression: R@) = Ro(1-F) foro— WWmewus GATE 2019 ECA 42 Consider a unity feedback system, as in the figure shown, with an integral compensator ~ and open-loop transfer fimetion 1 GO) = By as42 ‘where K > 0. The positive value of K for which there are exactly two poles of the unity feedback system on the ja axis is equal to (rounded off to two decimal places). Ys) AIG Gs) [| Q43. Consider the homogeneous ordinary differential equation 2 PDs Bssyno, x>0 with y(x) as a general solution. Given that y@)=1 and y(2)=14 the value of y(1.5), rounded off to two decimal places, is Q44 Let h{n] be a length-7 discrete-time finite impulse response filter, given by hfo]=4, ht] =3, Al2I hl] = -3, hL-2] h[3] = 1, -2, Al-3 and h[n] is zero for |n| > 4. A length-3 fiaite impulse response approximation g[n] of in has to be obtained such that 200.9) = J" 1(el) —6(e!)['da is minimized, where H(e) and G(e/) are the discrete-time Fourier transforms of h[n] and g{n}. respectively. For the filter that minimizes E(h, g), the value of 10g[—1] + gf], rounded off to 2 decimal places, isBsus Q4s Q46 Qu7 GATE 2019 ECA Let a random process ¥(t) be described as V(t) = h(t) + X(t) + Z(t), where X(t) isa white noise process with power spectial density Sy(f) = 5 W/Hz. The filter h(t) has a ‘magnitude response given by |H(f)| = 0.5 for —5 = f < 5, and zero elsewhere. Z(t) is a stationary random process, uncorrelated with X(t), with power spectral density as shown in the figure. The power in Y(t), in watts, is equal to W (rounded off fo two decimal places). 1| S2(f) CW/Hz) ‘A voice signal m/(t) is in the frequency range 5 kHz to 15 kHz. The signal is amplitude- modulated to generate an AM signal f(t) = A(1 + m(t)) cos 2nfet, where f; = 600 KE. ‘The AM signal f(£) is to be digitized and archived. This is done by first sampling f(t) at 1.2 times the Nyquist frequency, and then quantizing each sample using a 256-level ‘quantizer. Finally, each quantized sample is binary coded using K bits, where K is the minimum number of hits required for the encoding. The rate, in Megabits per second (rounded off to 2 decimal places), of the resulting stream of coded bits is ‘Mbps. ‘Arandom variable X takes values —1 and +1 with probabilities 0.2 and 0.8, respectively. Itis transmitted across a channel which adds noise N, so that the random variable at the ‘channel output is ¥ = X +N. The noise Vis independent of X, and is uniformly distributed over the interval [-2 2]. The receiver makes a decision ¢ fh ifY 50 “(U4 ify> 6 where the threshold 9 € [—1,1] is chosen so as to minimize the probability of error Pr # X]. The mininmm probability of eor, rounded off to 1 decimal place, is TaBays GATE 2019 ECA Qas Qao Qsl A Germanium sample of dimensions 1 em x 1 cms illuminated with a 20 mW, 6600 um laser light source as shown in the “igure. The illuminated sample surface has a 100 nm of loss-less Silicon dioxide layer that reflects one-fourth of the incident light. From the remaining light, one-third of the power is reflected from the Silicon dioxide Germanium interface, one-third is absorbed in the Germanium layer, and one-third is transmitted through the other side of the sample. If the absorption coefficient of Germanium at 600 nm is 3 x 10* car! and the bandgap is 0.66 eV, the thickness of the Germanium layer, rounded off to 3 decimal places, is ym. aoe 60am tom _——____, In an ideal pm junetion with an ideality factor of 1 at T-300 K, the magnitude of the reverse-bias Voltage required to reach 75% of its reverse saturation current, rounded off to 2 decimal places, is__ mV. [k = 1.38 x 10-3 JK, h = 6.625 x 10-4 J-s, q = 1.602 x 10-*9C] ‘Consider a Jong-channel MOSFET with a channel length 1 yim and width 10 jim. The device parameters are acceptor concentration Na= 5 x 101 em, electron mobility 1,800 cu?/V-s, oxide eapacitance/area Cox= 3.45 x 10~ Flom? threshold voltage ‘Vi-0.7 V. The drain saturation current (Inst) for a gate voltage of SV is___mA (rounded off to two decimal places). [& = 8.854 x 10™F/cm, ¢5; = 11.9] A rectangular waveguide of width w and height / has cut-off frequencies for TEy9 and ‘TE, modes in the ratio 1: 2. The aspect ratio w/h, rounded off to two decimal places, is aTpsu GATE 2019 ECA Q52._ In the circuit shown, Vg is a 10 V square wave of period, T= 4 ms with R= 500 @ and C=10 pF. The capacitor is initially uncharged at t=0, and the diode is assumed to be ideal, The voliage across the capacitor (V.) at 3 ms is equal to___volts (rounded off to one decimal place). R ob Vs nH) 1 Cc Ve ee -10 2 = 0 Q53._A CMOS inverter, designed to have a mid-point voltage V, equal to half of Vag. as shown in the figure, has the following parameters: Vaa = 3V HnGox ~ 100 wA/V? ; Vin ~ 0.7 V for nMOS HpCox = 40 HA/V?: [Vip] = 0.9 V for pMOS The ratio of () 10 (Z) is equal to (rounded off to 3 decimal places). ne Ty Vout , Voss Er maTUS caress rea QS54 In the circuit shown, the threshold voltages of the pMOS (|V,,)|) and nMOS (Vi,) transistors are both equal to 1 V. All the transistors have the same output resistance ray of 6 MA. The other parameters are listed below: UnCox = 60 nA/V? (7) = 5 HpCox = 30 wA/V?: Ch.” =10 in and j1y are the carrier mobilities, and Cx is the oxide capacitance per unit area. Tonoring the effect of channel length modulation and body bias, the gain of the circuit is (rounded off to 1 decimal place). Vui-av Vout Th aeu's GATE 2019 ECA Q55- Inthe circuit shown, Vj = 0 and Vz = Vag- The other relevant parameters are mentioned in the figure. Ignoring the effect of channel length modulation and the body effect, the value of lout is mA (rounded off to 1 decimal place). Touevsevs -0.0001 to 0.0001 3to3 0.36 to 0.38 21 NAT EC 11.99 to 12.01psu 0.23 to 0.27 5.99 to 6.01 5.24 to 5.26 -27.01 to -26.99 2 17.40 to 17.60 11.80 to 11.82 0.1t00.1 0.230 to 0.232 34,00 to 38.00 2 25.40 to 25.60 1.71 to 1.75 EC 3.2 to 3.4 EC 0.210 to 0.230 [ | -905.0 to -895.0 OR 895.0 to 905.0 = 5.9to6.1