PROFESSIONAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SUBJECTS SET A

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct, answer ler each of the following questions. Mark only one
answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer
sheet provided.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.

MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. Which of the following is NOT a property of magnetic field lines?
A. The field is stronger where the lines are closer together.
B. The lines intersect surfaces of equal intensity at right angles.
C. Magnetic field lines have no beginning and no ends.
D. The lines cross themselves only at right angles.

2. Which of the following effects are generally less for an alternating current for a direct
current?
A. Heating effects B. Chemical effects C. magnetic effects D. impedance

3. Which of the following cannot have a sin le unit of 100 MW?

A. Hydro power plant C. Diesel power plant
B. Steam power plant D. Nuclear power plant

4. In the left-hand rule, thumb always represents direction of the

A. voltage B. force of conductor C. current D. magnetic field

5. Three 3-ohm resistors are connected in parallel. This combination is then placed in series
with another 3-ohm resistor. What is the equipment resistance in ohm?
A. 12 B. 9 C4 D. 6

6. Copper loss of a transformer are deter7ed by means of a/an ________________test.

A. Open circuit B. polarity C. short-circuit D. inductive-circuit

7. What is/are the main reason/s for using high voltage in the transmission of power in the grid
system?
I. to transmit bulk power with minimum line losses
II. increase system reliability
A. II only B. both I and II C. either I or II D. I only

8. In which type of electronic communications does the information travel in two directions?
A. Half duplex B. Full duplex C. Multiplex D. Bicomm

9. A voltage divider of two resistors is designed with a total resistance of the two resistors equal
to 50 ohms. If the output voltage is 10% of the input voltage, what are the values of the two
resistors in the circuit?
A. 49.5 and 0.50 ohms B. 40 and 10 ohms C. 42.5 and 7.5 ohms D. 45 and 5 ohms

10. Which of the following insulators will be selects for high voltage applications?
A. strain type B. disc type C. suspension type D. pin type

11. A delta, 3phase,4-wire secondary 230/115 V would have a high-leg to neutral voltage of

A.208 V B. 230 V C. 277 V D.199V

12. A 200:5 current transformer is used with a 10-amps ammeter. If the meter reads 3.75 amps,
determine the line current
A. 300A B. 150A C. 180 A D. 45 A

13. The dc armature winding in which the coil sides are place a pole pitch apart is
called
winding.
A. Multiplex C. Full-pitch C. Fractional pitch D. Pole-pitch

14. What is the cquivalent of a2 + a + 1?

A. 1 +j B. -1 C. 0 D. 1
15. The effect of series capacitor on a transmission line to improve
A. steady state stability B. transient stability C. A and B both D. none of these

16. In two-wattmeter method, the reading of one of the wattmeters will be zero when
A. load in one of the phases is zero C. power factor is 0.5
B. power factor is unity D. neutral is earthed

17. A 4-pole induction motor running with 5% slip is supplied by a 60 Hz synchronous generator.
Determine the speed of the motor.
A. 1,674 rpm B. 1,728 rpm C. 1,710 rpm D. 1,692 rpm

18. The electric motor generally used in household food mixer.

A. Shaded Pole B. Universal C. Split Phase D. Capacitor Start

19. What type of transformer bank is used to convert 2-phase to 3-phase power?
A. wye-delta B. scott-T C. wye-delta D. delta-delta

20. By increasing the transmission voltage double of its original value, the same power can be
dispatched by keeping the line loss
A. Equal to its original value C. double the original value
B. Half of the original value D. One-fourth of the original value

21. Chemicals with lower flash points present a greater

A. Personal hazard B. Flammability hazard C. Explosion hazard D. Skin hazard

22. In the full load current of a 2 HP, 115 volt and single-phase motor is 24 amperes, what is the
branch circuit protection to this motor using dual element time delay fuse.
A. 30 40 C. 60 D. 80

23. A carbon resistor dissipates 60 W of power while drawing 0.5 A of current at 20 °C. How
much power will be dissipated in the resistor at 100 °C if connected across a 120-V source?
Temperature coefficient of carbon at 20 °C is —0.0005 °C'.
A. 60 W B. 60.5 W C. 61.5 W D.62.5 W

24. A 500-kVa alternator operates at full-load kVa output at an efficiency of 93.5 percent: If the
load pl. is 0.83, c culate the total loss.
A. 15 kW B. 29 kW .C. 24 kW D. 34.8 kW -

25. A doorbell requires 0.4 A at 6 V. It is connected to a transformer whose primary contains

2000 turns and is connected to 110-V household outlet. How many turns should there be in
the secondary?
A. 109 B. 115 C. 134 D. 127
 26. A pole, 50 Hz, 3 (1), LX -connected alternator has a single-layer stator winding carried in 36
slots, each slot containing 12 conductors. The flux per pole is 42 mWb. Calculate the emf
between the terminals.
A. 645 V B. 1290 V C. 322. 5 V D. 739 V

27. A network has 12 branches and 8 independent loops. How many nodes are there in the
network?
A. 19 B. 17 C. 15 D. 4

28. Two point charges 10 cm apart exert a force of 1 x 10 -3g on each other. If the charges are of
the same value, what is each charge in statcoulombs?

A. 8.9 statcoulombs B. 9.90 statcoulombs C. 6.90 statcoulombs D. 7.90 statcoulombs

29. Three inductances L1 = 20.2 mH, L2 =Mh and L3 = 40.0 mH are connected in parallel. Find
the equivalent inductance.
A. 160 mH B. 8 mH C. 0.80 mH 0.80 mH

30. Which medium has the highest value of dielectric strength?

A. glass B. porcelain C. mica D. quartz

31. A hydroelectric power plant consumes 60,000,000 kWHR per year. What is the next head if
the expected flow is 1,500 m3/min and overall efficiency is 63%?
A. 33.33 m B1 44.33 m C. 5.33 m D. 66.33 m

32. Two transformers are connected in open delta and deliver a balanced three-phased load of
245 kW at 460 volts and a power factor of 0.707. Calculate the power delivered by the
individual transformers.
A. 122.5 KW, 122.5 KVV, B. 150 KW, 95 KW C. 173.2 KW, 71.8 KW D. 193.2 KW, 51.8 KW

33. A transformer rated 2,000 kVa, 34,500/240 volts has 5.75% impedance. What is the per unit
impedance?
A. 0.0635 B. 0.0656
C. 0.0575 D. 0.0342

34. In a 3-phase, 4-wire system, the current in line A has hi = 200<0° A and 1a2 = 100<60° A. The
current through the neutral conductor is 300 <60°A. Find the line current Ib in amperes.
A. 100< -30° C. 300< 240° C. 300< -60° D. 300< 120°

35. Sumpner's test is conducted on transformers to determine

A. temperature B. stray losses C. all-day efficiency D. none of these
36. A 100 kVa single-phase transformer has a full-load primary current of 400 A/and total
resistance referred to primary is 0.006 Ohms. If the iron loss amounts to 500 W, find the
efficiency on full-load unity power factor.
A. 98.19% B. 98.22% C. 98.58% D. 98.56%

37. An inductive load takes 4 MW. A 2 MVAR shunt capacitor is connected across the load to
improve the load-end power factor of 0.97 lagging. If the capacitor is disconnected (or trips),
the load-end power factor will be:
A. 1 B. 0.85 lead C. 0..80 lag D. 0.90 lag
38. What is the main drawback in Nit method?
A. Slow to converge

B. A large memory allocation is required to store the jacobian matrix

C. The number of iterations is more

D. All of these

39. A 30-Cd standard light source is compared with a lamp of unknown intensity using grease -
spot photometer. The two light sources are place 1 m apart, and the grease spot is moved
toward the standard light. When the grease spot is 25 cm from the standard light source,
the illumination is equal on both sides. Where should the grease spot be placed for the
illumination by the unknown light source to be exactly twice the illumination of the standard
Free?
A. 32 cm from standard C. 18 cm from standard
B. 668 cm from standard D. 82 cm from standard

40. Buchholz relay in a transformer is placed in between

A. the LV winding and the bushing C. the HV winding and the bushing
B. the tank and the conservator D. the conservator and the breather

41. A generating station has peaked demand of 120 MW and its connected load is 200 MW. The
energy produced annually is 4 x 105 MWhr. Determine the demand factor.
A. 0.47 B. 0.38 C 0.60 D. 0.23

42. A 220-V dc shunt motor runs at 500 r.p.m. when the armature current is 50 A. Calculate the
speed if the torque is doubled. Given that Ra = 0.2 ohm
A. 476 rpm B. 525 rpm C. 428 rpm D. 583 rpm

43. A series RLC circuit has R = 10 Q, L = 0.1 H and C = 8 AF. Determine the resonant frequency.
A. 1118 Hz B. 178 kHz C. 1118 kHz D. 178 Hz

44. Protection scheme used for detection of loss of excitation of a very large generating feeding
into a grid employ
A. undervoltage relay C C. offset mho relay
.
B. underfrequency relay D. percentage differential relay

45. What is the emf induced across an inductor with 150 mH inductance and constant current
of 4 amperes?
A. 0.6v 0 Ov C. 1.2 v D. 12 v

46. A series RLC circuit has R = 400 Q, L = 0.50 mH and C = 0.04 /IF. An alternating voltage of
8.00 V peak is applied to the circuit. At what frequency will the peak current in the circuit be 16
mA?
A.207 kHz B. 21 kHz C. 170 kHz D. 12 kHz

47. What is the maximum number of 3.5 sq. mm RHH copper conductors permitted inside a 35
sq. mm electric metallic conduit?
A.2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 1

48. What is the solid angle subtended at the center of a 3.20-m diameter sphere by a 0.5-m2 are
on its surface?
A. 0.195 sr B. 0.049 sr C. 0.153 sr D. 0.613 sr
 49. A light is suspended 9 in above a street and provides an illumination of 35 lux at a
point directly below it. Determine the luminous intensity of light.
A. 2920 Cd B. 324 Cd C. 972 Cd D. 1460 Cd

50. Motor A has a full-load current of 8 A and motor B, 10 A. What is the ampacity of the
feeder conductor supplying then two motors?
A. 9A B 20.5 A C. 18 A D. 24.2 A

51. The nameplate speed of a 60 Hz, 3-phase induction motor is 1, 175 rpm. What is its number
of poles?
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8

52. Two identical coupled coils have an equivalent inductance of 80 mH when connected in series
'ding and 35 mH in series opposing. Find the coefficient of coupling.
A. 0.39 B. 0.43 C. 0.5 D. 0.64

53. To protect the A - A power transformer against fault, the CT will h ve

A. A - A connection B. A - Y connection C. Y - A connection D Y-Y connection

54. Three 6.66 ohm resistors are connected wye. What is the equivalent of each delta connected
resistors?
A. 2.22Ω B 20 Ω C. 11.54 Ω D. 10 Ω

55. Red, red orange, silver indicates a resistance of

A. 22 Ω, ±5% B. 220 Ω, ±5% C. 2.2 Ω, ±10% D. 22 k Ω, ±10%

56. A three-phase transformer rated for 33 Kv/6.6 Kv is connected Y-A and the protecting current
transformer on the low voltage side have a ratio of 400/5. What is the ratio of the current
transformer on the high voltage side?
A. 46.19:2.89 B. 46.19:5 C. 80:5 D. 80:2.89

57. Three resistors A, B, and C are connected in series to a 120-v supply. If the resistor A = 60
ohms and the voltage across resistor B = 40 v when the current is 1/2 A, what is the
resistance of resistor C in ohms?
A. 105 B. 90 C. 110 D. 100

58. Which of the following type of fault used only the equivalent positive sequence impedance of
the circuit in the short-circuit calculation?
A. Line to line B. Line to ground C. Double line to ground D. Three-phase fault

59. Find the power factor of impedance 5<-25° Ω.

A. 0.423 lagging B. .9063 leading C. 0.423 leading

60. Calculate the time delay for a phase angle of 45° at a frequency
A. 2 ms B. 0.5 ms C. 1.5 ms D 0.25 ms

61. A 20 RF capacitor is in parallel with a practical inductor represented by L = 1 mH in series

with R = 7 Ω.
A. 79.6 Hz B. 59.2 Hz C. 25.3 Hz D. 500 Hz
62. A 100 µF capacitor, carrying an initial charge of 500 RC is discharged through a 50 resistor.
Determine the time it takes the capacitor to discharged to 184- IR charge.

A. 5 ms B. 0.5 ms C. 15 ms D. 20 ms

63. Three 10 transformers are banks NY to supply a 30 load from a 400 v, 3 phase source. The line
voltage on the load side is 3, 464 volts. What is the ration of transformation of each
3, transformer?
A. 5:1 B 1:5 C. 8.66:1 D. 1:8.66

64. What is the rotor frequency of an induction motor if the rotor speed is 1, 145 rpm?
2.75 Hz B. 5.5 Hz C. 1.25 Hz D. 60 Hz

65. A 60 Hz, 4 pole, 3 phase wound rotor induction motor has rotor resistance and stand still
leakage reactance of 0.1 and 0.8 ohm/phase respectively. How much additional resistance
must be inserted in the rotor in ohms/phase so that the motor has maximum starting torque?
A. 0.6 B 0.7 C. 0.06 D. 0.07

66. An equal number of electrons is placed on two metal spheres 3 cm apart in air. How many
electrons are on each sphere if the resultant force is 4 kN?
A. 1.47 x 1014 electrons C. 1.25 x 1014electrons
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B. B. 1.33 x 10 electrons D. 1.40 x 1014 electrons

67. Surge impedance of transmission line is given by

A. B. LC C. 1 LC D. LC

68. An aluminum cable has 10 identical strands, a length of 1,500 m and a diameter of 2.50 mm
each. What is the resistance of the cable?
A. 86.3 52 Ω B. 0.863 Ω C. 56.3 Ω D. 0.563 Ω

69. Three resistors A, B, and C are connected in series to a 12 -v supply. If the resistor A = 50
ohms and the voltage across resistor B = 40 v, when the current is 1/2 A, what is the
resistance of resistor C in ohm/s?
A. 105 B. 90 C 110 D. 100

70. A coil having a resistance of 10 SZ and an inductance of 4 H is switched across a 20 V dc

source. Calculate the rate of current change when the current reaches 50% of its final steady
glue.
A. 2.5 A/s B. 3.5 A/s C. 4.5 A/s D. 5.5 A/s

71. If a tropical storm is going to the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) within 24 hours,
what type of alert to be raised in accordance to the Philippine Grid Code?
A. Orange Alert B. Blue Alert C. Yellow Alert D. Red Alert

72. A certain copper wire has a resistance of 25 ohms at 10°C. Take the temperature coeffic ient
at 10°C to be a = 0.00405°C-1. What must be the maximum operating temperature of the
wire if its resistance is to increase by at most 20%?
A. 59.24°C B. 58.80°C C. 60.13°C D. 59.38°C

73. Determine the GMR of three-equal strands conductors in vertical formation in terms of r
of an individual strand.
A. 1.9307r B. 1.6696r C. 1.8149r D 1 .7036r
74. A 100-kVa, 20/5 kV has an equivalent impedance of 10%. Calculate the impedance (in ohm/s)
of the transformer referred to the 5 kV side.
A. 25 B. 200 C. 400 D. 50

75. A 300-kW 250-volt 8-pole generator has a simplex lap winding. Determine the voltage
generated per path.

A. 62.5 v B. 31.25 v C. 250 v, D. 125 v

76. A power plant gets water from a dam from a height of 100 meters at the rate of 1,000 cubic
meters per minute. If the overall efficiency of the plant is 75%, what is the kW output of the
p nt?
12,250 kW B. 5,250 kW C. 7,550 kW D. 15,250 kW

77. A 3-phase circuit 60 HZ, 230 kV transposed transmission line is composed of two 1, 272 MCM
54/19 conductors per phase with horizontal configuration. The bundle conductors are 50 cm
in distance while phase spacing between the centers of the bundle is 10 meters. If the GMR
of the ACSR conductors is 0.0466 ft., find the inductive reactance in ohm/km/phase of the
transmission line?
A. 0.3398 B 0.3775 C. 0.3628 D. 0.3964

78. What is the IEEE device function number 50?

A. Differential protective relay C. Instantaneous overcurrent relay
B. AC circuit breaker . D. AC time overcurrent relay

79. Iron, rather than copper, is used in the core of transformers because iron:
A. Has a very high permeability C. Insulates the primary from the secondary
B. Can withstand a higher temperature D. Makes a good permanent magnet

80. Receptacles installed on 15- and 20- ampere branch circuits must always be of what type?
A. Grounding type B. Duplex receptacles C. Twist-lock receptacles D. Three-prong type

81. What device is used to measure the temperature of a motor winding while the motor is in
operation?
Seismic probe C. Thermocouples
Resistance temperature detector D. Proximity prob

82. An induction motor draws 50 KW at a 0.60 lagging power factor from a 40 v, 60 Hz source.
What parallel capacitor will increase the overall power factor to 0.90 lagging?

A. 532 uF B. 189 uF C. 704 uF D. 582uF

83. Based on the Philippine Distribution Code, all users of the distribution system must
maintain a certain power factor at the connection point in order to maintain power quality
in the system. What power factor should be maintained at the connection point?
A. Not less than 65% C. Not less than 85% —
B. Not less than 70% D. Not less than 75%

84. What is the Thevenin's equivalent reactance of a certain electric system rated 20 MVA at
34. 5 KV if the available short circuit MVA is 950?

A 2.10% B. 1.75% C. 2.25% D. 1.59%

 85. Breather mounted on transformer tank contains
A. water B. oil C. liquid

A. speed limitation B. armature heating 0

86. In a shunt generator the voltage builds up till constrained by
C. saturation iron D. insulation restrictions

87. The reciprocal of permeability is

A. conductivity B. susceptibility C. reluctivity D. permittivity

88. 1013 ergs/sec is equal to how many kW?

A. 1,000 B. 250 C. 100 D. 10

89. Two 500-watt lamps connected in series across a 220-volt line draw IAA. What is the total
power consumed?
A. 1,000 w B. 220 w C. 500 w D. 250 w

90. A 500-KVA alternator operates at 80% of full-load with an efficiency of 92 percent. If the
ad power factor is 0.8, calculate the total loss.
A. 27.83 kW B. 34.78 kW C. 37.48 kW D. 29.33 kW

91. The growth rate of the energy consumption in our country i$ 6.9%. In how many years will
the energy be quadruple? \
A. 30 B 20 C. 15 D. 25
92. A substance that changes its electrical resistance when illuminated by light is called:
A. Photovoltaic B. Photoconductive C. Photoelectric D. None of these

93. The sequence components of phase c current of a 3-phase system are as follows: lco = 0, lci =
18.4 <88.4°A and la = 3.23<48.22 A. Find the phase b current in amperes.
A. 19.24<-218 B. 18<-42 -(1 19.24<218 D. 18<-42

94. Two generators G1 and G2 are rated 15 MVA, Z equals 0.10, 11 kV and 10 MVA, Z equals
0.10, 11 kV, respectively. The generators are connected to a transformer of 15 MVA, 11 per
66 kV and 6 percent impedance. Calculate the fault current in per unit when three-phase fault occurs on
the high voltage side of the transformer.
A. 12.5 B. 16.9 C. 14.2 8.33

95. A symmetrical three-phase 240 V supplies a balanced delta connected load of 6 - j8 ohms
per phase. What is the line current?
A. -25 + j32 A B. 25 - j5.78 A C. -25 -32 A 0 25 + j32 A

96. In an unbalanced wye connected system

lA = 10 cis (-32°)
is = 13 cis (12°) lc
= 14 cis (86°)

What is the neutral current?

A. 2.37 cis 131.4 deg B. 0.79 cis 43.8 deg C. 7.11 cis 79.4 deg D. 37 cis 266 deg
97. In an ac circuit, a low value of KVAR compare with KW indicates
A. maximum load current C high power factor
B. low efficiency D . unity power factor

98. The illumination on a surface is 100 1m/m2. The reflection coefficient of the surface is 80%.
at is the maximum brightness of the surface in Cd/m2?
80 B. 125 C. 100 D. 64

99. The active length of each conductor placed in DC generator armature is 0.4 m. The armature
is rotated at a speed of 1,800 rpm in a magnetic field of average flux density 1.2 T. The
diameter of the armature is 0.5 m. Find the emf induced in the conductor when it cuts the
magnetic field at the right angles.
A. 5.65 v B. 11.31 v C. 45.24 v 22.62 v

100. Three sinusoidal generators and a battery are connected in series with a coil whose
resistance and inductance are 8 5.2 and 26.53 mH, respectively. The frequency
and rms voltage of the respective generators are 20 Hz, 15 v, 60 hz, 30 v, and 80 Hz, 50 v.
The battery voltage is 6 v. Determine the circuit rms voltage.
A.10 v B. 60.51v C. 101 v D. 68.5 v