Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi: VTU-ETR Seat No.: A
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi: VTU-ETR Seat No.: A
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi: VTU-ETR Seat No.: A
6. Choose the best answer, which is the most reliable source of information for your literature
review :
a) A TV documentary b) A Newspaper article
c) A peer reviewed research article d) A relevant chapter from a text book
7. Which literature review involves time line based collection of literature review
a) Narrative method b) Systematic method
c) Meta – analysis method of literature review
d) Meta – synthesis method of literature review.
9. A review of the literature should sort out the information into a _____framework
a) Conceptual b) Selective c) Theoretical d) Universal
10. The internet should not be used for finding published literature
a) True b) False
11. Which one among the following is the most comprehensive source of population data?
a) National sample surveys b) Demographic health surveys
c) National family health surveys d) Census
16. After the data has been processed and analysed, the research process requires
a) Interpretation of data b) Presentation of data
c) Reporting of data d) Testing of data
17. The process of marking segments of data with symbols, descriptive words or category names is
known as
a) Concurring b) Coding c) Coloring d) Segmentation
19. A study in statistics that helps to interpret the variability of data known as
a) Standard deviation b) The measure of central tendency
c) The measure of dispersion d) None of the above
20. For a frequency distribution of a variable X, mean = 32 and median = 30. The distribution is
a) Positive skewed b) Negatively skewed c) Mesokurtic d) Platykurtic
25. The process of finding true but unknown value of population parameter is called as
a) Statistical inference b) Estimation
c) Guess d) Biased
26. Arrange the following steps in the process of hypothesis testing in proper sequence
A) Select the level of significance B) Setup null and alternative hypothesis
C) Establish the decision rule D) Performance computations
E) Select test statistics F) Draw conclusion
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
a) A, B, C, D, E, F b) A, B, E, D, C, F c) B, A, C, D, E, F d) B, A, E, C, D, F
VER-A : EC/TE 2 of 10
27. Which among the following is non parametric statistics?
a) t - test b) F - test
c) 2 - test d) Spearman’s rank order correlation
30. If the critical region is located equally in both sides of the sampling distribution of test statistic,
the test is called
a) One tailed b) Two tailed c) Right tailed d) Left tailed
34. When conducting an ANOVA , F DATA will always fall within what range?
a) Between 0 and infinity b) Between 0 and 1
c) Between negative infinity and infinity d) Between 1 and infinity
35. In one way ANOVA which of the following is used within F – ratio as a measurement of the
variance F individual observations
a) SSE b) MSE c) MSRT d) None of the above
37. If the regression equation is equal to Y = 23.6 – 54.2x, then 23.6 is the ____ while – 54.2 is the
____ of the regression line.
a) Slope, intercept b) Slope, regression coefficient
c) Intercept , slope d) Radius, intercept
38. How many coefficients do you need to estimate in a simple linear regression model (one
independent variable).
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
VER-A : EC/TE 3 of 10
39. Which of the following is not the part of the exploratory factor analysis process
a) Extracting factors
b) Determining the number of factors before the analysis.
c) Rotating the factors d) Refining and interpreting the factors
40. If a researcher wanted to determine which variable were associated with which factors she/he
would look at
a) Factor scores b) Factor loadings c) Factor d) Factor associations
41. What is a complementary event for “At least one head appears” if two coins are tossed
simultaneously?
a) Exactly one head appears b) Atleast one tail appears
c) Atmost one tail appears d) None head appears
42. A bag contains 7 Red and 4 Blue Balls. Two Balls are drawn at random with replacement. The
probability of getting the Balls of different colors is :
a) 28/121 b) 56/121 c) ½ d) None of the above
43. If two coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting atleast one head?
a) 1/2 b) 1/3 c) 1/4 d) 3/4
45. In class, 30% of students study Hindi, 45% study Maths and 15% study Both Hindi and Maths.
If a student is randomly selected, what is the probability that he/she study Hindi and Maths?
a) 1/5 b) 3/5 c) 2/5 d) 2/7
48. In a Binomial distribution, if ‘n’ is the number of trials and ‘p’ is the probability success, then
the mean value is
a) np b) n c) p d) np (1-p)
VER-A : EC/TE 4 of 10
PART – II
Discipline Oriented Section
(Electronics and Communication Engineering /
Telecommunication Engineering)
[50 MARKS]
52. The Thevenin’s equivalent voltage and resistance for the circuit shown in Figure across
terminal ab is
a) 20 V 25 b) 30 V 25 c) 30 V 10 d) 10 V 10
53. For the circuit shown in figure, if the switch is closed at t = 0 then the current i(0+) and voltage
across capacitor are :
a) 0 A 10 V b) 0 A 0 V c) 1 A 0 V d) 1 A 10 V
54. The resistance between terminals ab for the circuit shown in figure is
a) 30 b) 25 c) 28 d) 45
VER-A : EC/TE 5 of 10
55. In a series RLC circuit, resonance condition the expression for resonant frequency fr and
Quality factor Q are :
1 1 L 1 1 R
a) f r , Q b) f r , Q
2 LC R C 2 LC L C
1 1
c) f r , Q L d) f r 2 LC , Q LCR
2LC R
57. When the analog signal x(t) = 3 cos100t is sampled at the rate 75 Hz, the resulting discrete
time signal is
2
a) 3 cos 200t b) 3 cos n c) 3 cos n d) 3 cos75n
2 3
58. Compute the convolution x(n) h(n) given x(n) = [1, 2, 6] and h(n) = [2, 2, 1]
a) {1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 1} b) {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 6}
c) {3, 4, 7} d) {2, 6, 17, 14, 6}
59. Given the 4-point DFT samples X(0) = 6; X(1) = –2 + j2 and X(2) = (–2) , find the 4-point
sequence x(n) , (can use FFT algorithms to compute faster)
a) {0, 1, 2, 3} b) {1, 2, 3, 4}
c) {0, 2, 1, 3} d) {1, 2, 0, 3}
n n
61. In an extrinsic Silicon, the Fermi levels for p and n type are:
a) at the same level
b) below conduction band for n-type and above valence bond for p-type
c) above conduction band for n-type and below valence band for -type
d) None of these
VER-A : EC/TE 6 of 10
65. The diffusion of impurities is done on the _______ layer.
a) substrate layer b) second layer c) SiO2 layer d) All of these
66. A periodic pulse train Vin of 10V amplitude with on-time T ON = 1 ms and off-time TOFF = 1 s
is applied to the circuit shown in the figure.
The difference between the maximum voltage and minimum voltage of the output waveform
V0 is _______ V.
a) 10 b) 5 c) 3 d) 3.5
68. Find the output voltage of the given network if E in = 6V and the zener breakdown voltage of
the zener diode is 10V.
a) 4 V b) 0 V c) 10 V d) 6 V
69. Which of the following BJT configuration has highest power gain?
a) Common collector b) Common Emitter c) Common Base d) All configuration
70. Find the approximate collector current in the given transistor circuit. Assume current gain
= 100
a) 10 mA b) 1.25 mA c) ≃1 mA d) 11.5 mA
71. In the figure shown, if the number of XOR gates are odd, the final output Y is
a) 0 b) 1 c) X d) X
VER-A : EC/TE 7 of 10
72. For the Karnaugh map shown in figure, the minimum number of essential prime implicants are
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
74. The figure shows a binary counter with synchronous clear input. With the logic shown the
counter works as a :
a) A B C b) (A+B) C c) ( A B) C d) AB + C
76. Let Y(s) be unit step response of a casual system having a transfer function
3s G (s)
G(s) = that is Y (s) . The forced response of the system is
(s 1)(s 3) s
a) U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t) b) 2U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t)
c) 2U(t) d) U(t)
VER-A : EC/TE 8 of 10
78. The characteristic equation of a feedback system is s3 + ks2 + 5s + 10 = 0 , for a stable system
the value of k should not be less than
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4.5
80. In Robotics Denavit-Hartenberg consists of _______ steps and ______ passes in its algorithm.
a) 16, 2 b) 12, 2 c) 12, 4 d) 10, 13
Assuming that m(t) = 10 sinc(104 t), what is the transmission band width of an FM modulated
81. signal with frequency deviation constant kf = 4000.
a) 90 kHz b) 82 kHz c) 72 kHz d) 92 kHz
83. A pure ALOHA network transmits 200 bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps. What is
the throughput in %, if the system produces 1000 frames per second?
a) 36.8 b) 13.5 c) 30.3 d) 18.4
85. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using code given below the list.
List I List II
A Entropy coding 1 Mc Milan’s Rule
B Channel capacity 2 Redundancy
C Minimum length code 3 Shannon Fano
D Equivocation 4 Shannon’s law
A B C D A B C D
a) b)
1 2 3 4 3 4 1 2
A B C D A B C D
c) d)
1 4 3 2 3 2 1 4
86. Calculate the emf of a material having a flux linkage of 2t2 at time t = 1 sec
a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 16
87. In a homogenous isotropic linear and stationary media, a plane electromagnetic wave has the
following characteristics
a) Both E and H are transverse b) = 0
c) Both a and b d) Neither a or b
VER-A : EC/TE 9 of 10
88. The transmitter power is 10 W. It is increased by an antenna gain of 30 dB. The effective
radiated power in watts is
a) 100 W b) 30 W c) 10,000 W d) 1000 W
89. What is the skin depth in copper at 10 GHz? Assuming conductivity of copper
= 5.810 7 mhos/m and permeability equal to that of free space
a) 0.55 m b) 0.33 nm c) 0.44 nm d) 0.66 m
90. Calculate the numerical aperture of an optical fiber whose core and cladding are made of
materials of refractive index 1.6 and 1.5 respectively.
a) 0.55677 b) 55.77 c) 0.2458 d) 0.647852
91. ______ are the multiplier bits in Booth bit pair coding for multiplication of numbers –8 –8
a) –1 –2 1 b) 0 2 0 c) 1 1 0 d) 0 –2 0
92. ______ is the exponent value for representing 571.25 in IEEE single precision floating point
format.
a) 01001011 b) 10110101 c) 10001000 d) 10010001
93. In _______ approach the CPU repeatedly checks the status flag to achieve the required
synchronization between the processor and an input or output device.
a) I/O controlled I/O b) CPU controlled I/O
c) Program – Controlled I/O d) Program – Controlled CPU
94. What is the maximum addressing capacity of a microcomputer which uses 16 bit data bus and
32 bit address bus?
a) 16 MB b) 32 GB c) 8 GB d) 4 GB
95. The ionic feature of the RISC machine among the following is _______
a) Reduced number of addressing modes b) Increased memory size
c) Having a branch delay slot d) All of these
96. The Bus Interface unit of 8086 microprocessor contains instruction queue of how many bytes
size?
a) 8 b) 6 c) 4 d) 16
97. What is the address range of special function registers in 8051 microcontroller?
a) 80H to FFH b) 70H to 7FH c) 80H to 8FH d) 00H to FFH
2. A bag contains 7 Red and 4 Blue Balls. Two Balls are drawn at random with replacement. The
probability of getting the Balls of different colors is :
a) 28/121 b) 56/121 c) ½ d) None of the above
3. If two coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting atleast one head?
a) 1/2 b) 1/3 c) 1/4 d) 3/4
5. In class, 30% of students study Hindi, 45% study Maths and 15% study Both Hindi and Maths.
If a student is randomly selected, what is the probability that he/she study Hindi and Maths?
a) 1/5 b) 3/5 c) 2/5 d) 2/7
8. In a Binomial distribution, if ‘n’ is the number of trials and ‘p’ is the probability success, then
the mean value is
a) np b) n c) p d) np (1-p)
VER-B : EC/TE 1 of 10
12. In ANOVA procedure ‘Factor’ refers to
a) The dependent variable b) The independent variable
c) Different levels of a treatment d) The critical value of F
14. When conducting an ANOVA , F DATA will always fall within what range?
a) Between 0 and infinity b) Between 0 and 1
c) Between negative infinity and infinity d) Between 1 and infinity
15. In one way ANOVA which of the following is used within F – ratio as a measurement of the
variance F individual observations
a) SSE b) MSE c) MSRT d) None of the above
17. If the regression equation is equal to Y = 23.6 – 54.2x, then 23.6 is the ____ while – 54.2 is the
____ of the regression line.
a) Slope, intercept b) Slope, regression coefficient
c) Intercept , slope d) Radius, intercept
18. How many coefficients do you need to estimate in a simple linear regression model (one
independent variable).
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
19. Which of the following is not the part of the exploratory factor analysis process
a) Extracting factors
b) Determining the number of factors before the analysis.
c) Rotating the factors d) Refining and interpreting the factors
20. If a researcher wanted to determine which variable were associated with which factors she/he
would look at
a) Factor scores b) Factor loadings c) Factor d) Factor associations
21. Which one among the following is the most comprehensive source of population data?
a) National sample surveys b) Demographic health surveys
c) National family health surveys d) Census
26. After the data has been processed and analysed, the research process requires
a) Interpretation of data b) Presentation of data
c) Reporting of data d) Testing of data
27. The process of marking segments of data with symbols, descriptive words or category names is
known as
a) Concurring b) Coding c) Coloring d) Segmentation
29. A study in statistics that helps to interpret the variability of data known as
a) Standard deviation b) The measure of central tendency
c) The measure of dispersion d) None of the above
30. For a frequency distribution of a variable X, mean = 32 and median = 30. The distribution is
a) Positive skewed b) Negatively skewed c) Mesokurtic d) Platykurtic
33. Research to study the effect of certain Policies, Plans and Program is
a) Applied Research b) Descriptive Research
c) Evaluation Research d) Causal Research
36. Choose the best answer, which is the most reliable source of information for your literature
review :
a) A TV documentary b) A Newspaper article
c) A peer reviewed research article d) A relevant chapter from a text book
37. Which literature review involves time line based collection of literature review
a) Narrative method b) Systematic method
c) Meta – analysis method of literature review
d) Meta – synthesis method of literature review.
VER-B : EC/TE 3 of 10
38. Narrative literature review method is also known as
a) Advanced method b) Scientific method
c) Traditional method d) Systematic method.
39. A review of the literature should sort out the information into a _____framework
a) Conceptual b) Selective c) Theoretical d) Universal
40. The internet should not be used for finding published literature
a) True b) False
45. The process of finding true but unknown value of population parameter is called as
a) Statistical inference b) Estimation
c) Guess d) Biased
46. Arrange the following steps in the process of hypothesis testing in proper sequence
A) Select the level of significance B) Setup null and alternative hypothesis
C) Establish the decision rule D) Performance computations
E) Select test statistics F) Draw conclusion
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
a) A, B, C, D, E, F b) A, B, E, D, C, F c) B, A, C, D, E, F d) B, A, E, C, D, F
50. If the critical region is located equally in both sides of the sampling distribution of test statistic,
the test is called
a) One tailed b) Two tailed c) Right tailed d) Left tailed
VER-B : EC/TE 4 of 10
PART – II
Discipline Oriented Section
(Electronics and Communication Engineering /
Telecommunication Engineering)
[50 MARKS]
51. ______ are the multiplier bits in Booth bit pair coding for multiplication of numbers –8 –8
a) –1 –2 1 b) 0 2 0 c) 1 1 0 d) 0 –2 0
52. ______ is the exponent value for representing 571.25 in IEEE single precision floating point
format.
a) 01001011 b) 10110101 c) 10001000 d) 10010001
53. In _______ approach the CPU repeatedly checks the status flag to achieve the required
synchronization between the processor and an input or output device.
a) I/O controlled I/O b) CPU controlled I/O
c) Program – Controlled I/O d) Program – Controlled CPU
54. What is the maximum addressing capacity of a microcomputer which uses 16 bit data bus and
32 bit address bus?
a) 16 MB b) 32 GB c) 8 GB d) 4 GB
55. The ionic feature of the RISC machine among the following is _______
a) Reduced number of addressing modes b) Increased memory size
c) Having a branch delay slot d) All of these
56. The Bus Interface unit of 8086 microprocessor contains instruction queue of how many bytes
size?
a) 8 b) 6 c) 4 d) 16
57. What is the address range of special function registers in 8051 microcontroller?
a) 80H to FFH b) 70H to 7FH
c) 80H to 8FH d) 00H to FFH
VER-B : EC/TE 5 of 10
61. Assuming that m(t) = 10 sinc(104 t), what is the transmission band width of an FM modulated
signal with frequency deviation constant kf = 4000.
a) 90 kHz b) 82 kHz c) 72 kHz d) 92 kHz
63. A pure ALOHA network transmits 200 bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps. What is
the throughput in %, if the system produces 1000 frames per second?
a) 36.8 b) 13.5 c) 30.3 d) 18.4
65. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using code given below the list.
List I List II
A Entropy coding 1 Mc Milan’s Rule
B Channel capacity 2 Redundancy
C Minimum length code 3 Shannon Fano
D Equivocation 4 Shannon’s law
A B C D A B C D
a) b)
1 2 3 4 3 4 1 2
A B C D A B C D
c) d)
1 4 3 2 3 2 1 4
66. Calculate the emf of a material having a flux linkage of 2t2 at time t = 1 sec
a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 16
67. In a homogenous isotropic linear and stationary media, a plane electromagnetic wave has the
following characteristics
a) Both E and H are transverse b) = 0
c) Both a and b d) Neither a or b
68. The transmitter power is 10 W. It is increased by an antenna gain of 30 dB. The effective
radiated power in watts is
a) 100 W b) 30 W c) 10,000 W d) 1000 W
69. What is the skin depth in copper at 10 GHz? Assuming conductivity of copper
= 5.810 7 mhos/m and permeability equal to that of free space
a) 0.55 m b) 0.33 nm c) 0.44 nm d) 0.66 m
70. Calculate the numerical aperture of an optical fiber whose core and cladding are made of
materials of refractive index 1.6 and 1.5 respectively.
a) 0.55677 b) 55.77 c) 0.2458 d) 0.647852
VER-B : EC/TE 6 of 10
71. In an extrinsic Silicon, the Fermi levels for p and n type are:
a) at the same level
b) below conduction band for n-type and above valence bond for p-type
c) above conduction band for n-type and below valence band for -type
d) None of these
76. A periodic pulse train Vin of 10V amplitude with on-time T ON = 1 ms and off-time TOFF = 1 s
is applied to the circuit shown in the figure.
The difference between the maximum voltage and minimum voltage of the output waveform
V0 is _______ V.
a) 10 b) 5 c) 3 d) 3.5
78. Find the output voltage of the given network if E in = 6V and the zener breakdown voltage of
the zener diode is 10V.
a) 4 V b) 0 V c) 10 V d) 6 V
79. Which of the following BJT configuration has highest power gain?
a) Common collector b) Common Emitter
c) Common Base d) All configuration
VER-B : EC/TE 7 of 10
80. Find the approximate collector current in the given transistor circuit. Assume current gain
= 100
a) 10 mA b) 1.25 mA c) ≃1 mA d) 11.5 mA
81. The current I in a circuit shown in figure using superposition theorem is
82. The Thevenin’s equivalent voltage and resistance for the circuit shown in Figure across
terminal ab is
a) 20 V 25 b) 30 V 25 c) 30 V 10 d) 10 V 10
83. For the circuit shown in figure, if the switch is closed at t = 0 then the current i(0+) and voltage
across capacitor are :
a) 0 A 10 V b) 0 A 0 V c) 1 A 0 V d) 1 A 10 V
84. The resistance between terminals ab for the circuit shown in figure is
a) 30 b) 25 c) 28 d) 45
VER-B : EC/TE 8 of 10
85. In a series RLC circuit, resonance condition the expression for resonant frequency fr and
Quality factor Q are :
1 1 L 1 1 R
a) f r , Q b) f r , Q
2 LC R C 2 LC L C
1 1
c) f r , Q L d) f r 2 LC , Q LCR
2LC R
87. When the analog signal x(t) = 3 cos100t is sampled at the rate 75 Hz, the resulting discrete
time signal is
2
a) 3 cos 200t b) 3 cos n c) 3 cos n d) 3 cos75n
2 3
88. Compute the convolution x(n) h(n) given x(n) = [1, 2, 6] and h(n) = [2, 2, 1]
a) {1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 1} b) {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 6}
c) {3, 4, 7} d) {2, 6, 17, 14, 6}
89. Given the 4-point DFT samples X(0) = 6; X(1) = –2 + j2 and X(2) = (–2) , find the 4-point
sequence x(n) , (can use FFT algorithms to compute faster)
a) {0, 1, 2, 3} b) {1, 2, 3, 4} c) {0, 2, 1, 3} d) {1, 2, 0, 3}
n n
90. 3 1
The ROC of the ZT of the signal x(n) = u ( n 1) u ( n ) is ________
4 3
a) 3 | z | 1 b) | z | 1 c) 1 | z | 3 d) | z | 1
4 3 3 3 4 3
91. In the figure shown, if the number of XOR gates are odd, the final output Y is
a) 0 b) 1 c) X d) X
92. For the Karnaugh map shown in figure, the minimum number of essential prime implicants are
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
93. Choose the correct statement from the following :
a) PAL contains programmable OR array and fixed AND array
b) PLA contains programmable OR array and fixed AND array
c) PROM contains programmable AND array and fixed OR array
d) PAL contains programmable AND array and fixed OR array
VER-B : EC/TE 9 of 10
94. The figure shows a binary counter with synchronous clear input. With the logic shown the
counter works as a :
a) A B C b) (A+B) C c) ( A B) C d) AB + C
96. Let Y(s) be unit step response of a casual system having a transfer function
3s G (s)
G(s) = that is Y (s) . The forced response of the system is
(s 1)(s 3) s
a) U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t) b) 2U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t)
c) 2U(t) d) U(t)
98. The characteristic equation of a feedback system is s3 + ks2 + 5s + 10 = 0 , for a stable system
the value of k should not be less than
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4.5
100. In Robotics Denavit-Hartenberg consists of _______ steps and ______ passes in its algorithm.
a) 16, 2 b) 12, 2 c) 12, 4 d) 10, 13
*****
VER-B : EC/TE 10 of 10
VTU-ETR Seat No. Question Paper Version : C
5. The process of finding true but unknown value of population parameter is called as
a) Statistical inference b) Estimation
c) Guess d) Biased
6. Arrange the following steps in the process of hypothesis testing in proper sequence
A) Select the level of significance B) Setup null and alternative hypothesis
C) Establish the decision rule D) Performance computations
E) Select test statistics F) Draw conclusion
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
a) A, B, C, D, E, F b) A, B, E, D, C, F c) B, A, C, D, E, F d) B, A, E, C, D, F
10. If the critical region is located equally in both sides of the sampling distribution of test statistic,
the test is called
a) One tailed b) Two tailed c) Right tailed d) Left tailed
11. What is a complementary event for “At least one head appears” if two coins are tossed
simultaneously?
a) Exactly one head appears b) Atleast one tail appears
c) Atmost one tail appears d) None head appears
VER-C : EC/TE 1 of 10
12. A bag contains 7 Red and 4 Blue Balls. Two Balls are drawn at random with replacement. The
probability of getting the Balls of different colors is :
a) 28/121 b) 56/121 c) ½ d) None of the above
13. If two coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting atleast one head?
a) 1/2 b) 1/3 c) 1/4 d) 3/4
15. In class, 30% of students study Hindi, 45% study Maths and 15% study Both Hindi and Maths.
If a student is randomly selected, what is the probability that he/she study Hindi and Maths?
a) 1/5 b) 3/5 c) 2/5 d) 2/7
18. In a Binomial distribution, if ‘n’ is the number of trials and ‘p’ is the probability success, then
the mean value is
a) np b) n c) p d) np (1-p)
24. When conducting an ANOVA , F DATA will always fall within what range?
a) Between 0 and infinity b) Between 0 and 1
c) Between negative infinity and infinity d) Between 1 and infinity
VER-C : EC/TE 2 of 10
25. In one way ANOVA which of the following is used within F – ratio as a measurement of the
variance F individual observations
a) SSE b) MSE c) MSRT d) None of the above
27. If the regression equation is equal to Y = 23.6 – 54.2x, then 23.6 is the ____ while – 54.2 is the
____ of the regression line.
a) Slope, intercept b) Slope, regression coefficient
c) Intercept , slope d) Radius, intercept
28. How many coefficients do you need to estimate in a simple linear regression model (one
independent variable).
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
29. Which of the following is not the part of the exploratory factor analysis process
a) Extracting factors
b) Determining the number of factors before the analysis.
c) Rotating the factors d) Refining and interpreting the factors
30. If a researcher wanted to determine which variable were associated with which factors she/he
would look at
a) Factor scores b) Factor loadings c) Factor d) Factor associations
31. Which one among the following is the most comprehensive source of population data?
a) National sample surveys b) Demographic health surveys
c) National family health surveys d) Census
36. After the data has been processed and analysed, the research process requires
a) Interpretation of data b) Presentation of data
c) Reporting of data d) Testing of data
37. The process of marking segments of data with symbols, descriptive words or category names is
known as
a) Concurring b) Coding c) Coloring d) Segmentation
VER-C : EC/TE 3 of 10
38. The most repeated value in the series is called as
a) Mean b) Mode c) Median d) Range
39. A study in statistics that helps to interpret the variability of data known as
a) Standard deviation b) The measure of central tendency
c) The measure of dispersion d) None of the above
40. For a frequency distribution of a variable X, mean = 32 and median = 30. The distribution is
a) Positive skewed b) Negatively skewed c) Mesokurtic d) Platykurtic
43. Research to study the effect of certain Policies, Plans and Program is
a) Applied Research b) Descriptive Research
c) Evaluation Research d) Causal Research
46. Choose the best answer, which is the most reliable source of information for your literature
review :
a) A TV documentary b) A Newspaper article
c) A peer reviewed research article d) A relevant chapter from a text book
47. Which literature review involves time line based collection of literature review
a) Narrative method b) Systematic method
c) Meta – analysis method of literature review
d) Meta – synthesis method of literature review.
49. A review of the literature should sort out the information into a _____framework
a) Conceptual b) Selective c) Theoretical d) Universal
50. The internet should not be used for finding published literature
a) True b) False
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PART – II
Discipline Oriented Section
(Electronics and Communication Engineering /
Telecommunication Engineering)
[50 MARKS]
51. In the figure shown, if the number of XOR gates are odd, the final output Y is
a) 0 b) 1 c) X d) X
52. For the Karnaugh map shown in figure, the minimum number of essential prime implicants are
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
53. Choose the correct statement from the following :
a) PAL contains programmable OR array and fixed AND array
b) PLA contains programmable OR array and fixed AND array
c) PROM contains programmable AND array and fixed OR array
d) PAL contains programmable AND array and fixed OR array
54. The figure shows a binary counter with synchronous clear input. With the logic shown the
counter works as a :
a) A B C b) (A+B) C c) ( A B) C d) AB + C
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56. Let Y(s) be unit step response of a casual system having a transfer function
3s G (s)
G(s) = that is Y (s) . The forced response of the system is
(s 1)(s 3) s
a) U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t) b) 2U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t)
c) 2U(t) d) U(t)
58. The characteristic equation of a feedback system is s3 + ks2 + 5s + 10 = 0 , for a stable system
the value of k should not be less than
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4.5
60. In Robotics Denavit-Hartenberg consists of _______ steps and ______ passes in its algorithm.
a) 16, 2 b) 12, 2 c) 12, 4 d) 10, 13
61. ______ are the multiplier bits in Booth bit pair coding for multiplication of numbers –8 –8
a) –1 –2 1 b) 0 2 0 c) 1 1 0 d) 0 –2 0
62. ______ is the exponent value for representing 571.25 in IEEE single precision floating point
format.
a) 01001011 b) 10110101 c) 10001000 d) 10010001
63. In _______ approach the CPU repeatedly checks the status flag to achieve the required
synchronization between the processor and an input or output device.
a) I/O controlled I/O b) CPU controlled I/O
c) Program – Controlled I/O d) Program – Controlled CPU
64. What is the maximum addressing capacity of a microcomputer which uses 16 bit data bus and
32 bit address bus?
a) 16 MB b) 32 GB c) 8 GB d) 4 GB
65. The ionic feature of the RISC machine among the following is _______
a) Reduced number of addressing modes b) Increased memory size
c) Having a branch delay slot d) All of these
66. The Bus Interface unit of 8086 microprocessor contains instruction queue of how many bytes
size?
a) 8 b) 6 c) 4 d) 16
67. What is the address range of special function registers in 8051 microcontroller?
a) 80H to FFH b) 70H to 7FH c) 80H to 8FH d) 00H to FFH
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68. Number of I/O ports in 8051 microcontroller
a) 2 Ports b) 3 Ports
c) 4 Ports with one Port having 5 pins d) 4 Ports
71. Assuming that m(t) = 10 sinc(104 t), what is the transmission band width of an FM modulated
signal with frequency deviation constant kf = 4000.
a) 90 kHz b) 82 kHz c) 72 kHz d) 92 kHz
73. A pure ALOHA network transmits 200 bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps. What is
the throughput in %, if the system produces 1000 frames per second?
a) 36.8 b) 13.5 c) 30.3 d) 18.4
75. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using code given below the list.
List I List II
A Entropy coding 1 Mc Milan’s Rule
B Channel capacity 2 Redundancy
C Minimum length code 3 Shannon Fano
D Equivocation 4 Shannon’s law
A B C D A B C D
a) b)
1 2 3 4 3 4 1 2
A B C D A B C D
c) d)
1 4 3 2 3 2 1 4
76. Calculate the emf of a material having a flux linkage of 2t2 at time t = 1 sec
a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 16
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77. In a homogenous isotropic linear and stationary media, a plane electromagnetic wave has the
following characteristics
a) Both E and H are transverse b) = 0
c) Both a and b d) Neither a or b
78. The transmitter power is 10 W. It is increased by an antenna gain of 30 dB. The effective
radiated power in watts is
a) 100 W b) 30 W c) 10,000 W d) 1000 W
79. What is the skin depth in copper at 10 GHz? Assuming conductivity of copper
= 5.810 7 mhos/m and permeability equal to that of free space
a) 0.55 m b) 0.33 nm c) 0.44 nm d) 0.66 m
80. Calculate the numerical aperture of an optical fiber whose core and cladding are made of
materials of refractive index 1.6 and 1.5 respectively.
a) 0.55677 b) 55.77 c) 0.2458 d) 0.647852
81. In an extrinsic Silicon, the Fermi levels for p and n type are:
a) at the same level
b) below conduction band for n-type and above valence bond for p-type
c) above conduction band for n-type and below valence band for -type
d) None of these
86. A periodic pulse train Vin of 10V amplitude with on-time T ON = 1 ms and off-time TOFF = 1 s
is applied to the circuit shown in the figure.
The difference between the maximum voltage and minimum voltage of the output waveform
V0 is _______ V.
a) 10 b) 5 c) 3 d) 3.5
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87. The following symbol represents
88. Find the output voltage of the given network if E in = 6V and the zener breakdown voltage of
the zener diode is 10V.
a) 4 V b) 0 V c) 10 V d) 6 V
89. Which of the following BJT configuration has highest power gain?
a) Common collector b) Common Emitter
c) Common Base d) All configuration
90. Find the approximate collector current in the given transistor circuit. Assume current gain
= 100
a) 10 mA b) 1.25 mA c) ≃1 mA d) 11.5 mA
92. The Thevenin’s equivalent voltage and resistance for the circuit shown in Figure across
terminal ab is
a) 20 V 25 b) 30 V 25 c) 30 V 10 d) 10 V 10
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93. For the circuit shown in figure, if the switch is closed at t = 0 then the current i(0+) and voltage
across capacitor are :
a) 0 A 10 V b) 0 A 0 V c) 1 A 0 V d) 1 A 10 V
94. The resistance between terminals ab for the circuit shown in figure is
a) 30 b) 25 c) 28 d) 45
95. In a series RLC circuit, resonance condition the expression for resonant frequency fr and
Quality factor Q are :
1 1 L 1 1 R
a) f r , Q b) f r , Q
2 LC R C 2 LC L C
1 1
c) f r , Q L d) f r 2 LC , Q LCR
2LC R
97. When the analog signal x(t) = 3 cos100t is sampled at the rate 75 Hz, the resulting discrete
time signal is
2
a) 3 cos 200t b) 3 cos n c) 3 cos n d) 3 cos75n
2 3
98. Compute the convolution x(n) h(n) given x(n) = [1, 2, 6] and h(n) = [2, 2, 1]
a) {1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 1} b) {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 6}
c) {3, 4, 7} d) {2, 6, 17, 14, 6}
99. Given the 4-point DFT samples X(0) = 6; X(1) = –2 + j2 and X(2) = (–2) , find the 4-point
sequence x(n) , (can use FFT algorithms to compute faster)
a) {0, 1, 2, 3} b) {1, 2, 3, 4} c) {0, 2, 1, 3} d) {1, 2, 0, 3}
n n
100. The ROC of the ZT of the signal x(n) = 3 u ( n 1) 1 u ( n ) is ________
4 3
a) 3 | z | 1 b) | z | 1 c) 1 | z | 3 d) | z | 1
4 3 3 3 4 3
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VTU-ETR Seat No. Question Paper Version : D
4. When conducting an ANOVA , F DATA will always fall within what range?
a) Between 0 and infinity b) Between 0 and 1
c) Between negative infinity and infinity d) Between 1 and infinity
5. In one way ANOVA which of the following is used within F – ratio as a measurement of the
variance F individual observations
a) SSE b) MSE c) MSRT d) None of the above
7. If the regression equation is equal to Y = 23.6 – 54.2x, then 23.6 is the ____ while – 54.2 is the
____ of the regression line.
a) Slope, intercept b) Slope, regression coefficient
c) Intercept , slope d) Radius, intercept
8. How many coefficients do you need to estimate in a simple linear regression model (one
independent variable).
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
9. Which of the following is not the part of the exploratory factor analysis process
a) Extracting factors
b) Determining the number of factors before the analysis.
c) Rotating the factors d) Refining and interpreting the factors
10. If a researcher wanted to determine which variable were associated with which factors she/he
would look at
a) Factor scores b) Factor loadings c) Factor d) Factor associations
13. Research to study the effect of certain Policies, Plans and Program is
a) Applied Research b) Descriptive Research
c) Evaluation Research d) Causal Research
16. Choose the best answer, which is the most reliable source of information for your literature
review :
a) A TV documentary b) A Newspaper article
c) A peer reviewed research article d) A relevant chapter from a text book
17. Which literature review involves time line based collection of literature review
a) Narrative method b) Systematic method
c) Meta – analysis method of literature review
d) Meta – synthesis method of literature review.
19. A review of the literature should sort out the information into a _____framework
a) Conceptual b) Selective c) Theoretical d) Universal
20. The internet should not be used for finding published literature
a) True b) False
21. What is a complementary event for “At least one head appears” if two coins are tossed
simultaneously?
a) Exactly one head appears b) Atleast one tail appears
c) Atmost one tail appears d) None head appears
22. A bag contains 7 Red and 4 Blue Balls. Two Balls are drawn at random with replacement. The
probability of getting the Balls of different colors is :
a) 28/121 b) 56/121 c) ½ d) None of the above
23. If two coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting atleast one head?
a) 1/2 b) 1/3 c) 1/4 d) 3/4
28. In a Binomial distribution, if ‘n’ is the number of trials and ‘p’ is the probability success, then
the mean value is
a) np b) n c) p d) np (1-p)
35. The process of finding true but unknown value of population parameter is called as
a) Statistical inference b) Estimation
c) Guess d) Biased
36. Arrange the following steps in the process of hypothesis testing in proper sequence
A) Select the level of significance B) Setup null and alternative hypothesis
C) Establish the decision rule D) Performance computations
E) Select test statistics F) Draw conclusion
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
a) A, B, C, D, E, F b) A, B, E, D, C, F c) B, A, C, D, E, F d) B, A, E, C, D, F
40. If the critical region is located equally in both sides of the sampling distribution of test statistic,
the test is called
a) One tailed b) Two tailed c) Right tailed d) Left tailed
41. Which one among the following is the most comprehensive source of population data?
a) National sample surveys b) Demographic health surveys
c) National family health surveys d) Census
46. After the data has been processed and analysed, the research process requires
a) Interpretation of data b) Presentation of data
c) Reporting of data d) Testing of data
47. The process of marking segments of data with symbols, descriptive words or category names is
known as
a) Concurring b) Coding c) Coloring d) Segmentation
49. A study in statistics that helps to interpret the variability of data known as
a) Standard deviation b) The measure of central tendency
c) The measure of dispersion d) None of the above
50. For a frequency distribution of a variable X, mean = 32 and median = 30. The distribution is
a) Positive skewed b) Negatively skewed c) Mesokurtic d) Platykurtic
VER-D : EC/TE 4 of 10
PART – II
Discipline Oriented Section
(Electronics and Communication Engineering /
Telecommunication Engineering)
[50 MARKS]
51. Assuming that m(t) = 10 sinc(104 t), what is the transmission band width of an FM modulated
signal with frequency deviation constant kf = 4000.
a) 90 kHz b) 82 kHz c) 72 kHz d) 92 kHz
53. A pure ALOHA network transmits 200 bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps. What is
the throughput in %, if the system produces 1000 frames per second?
a) 36.8 b) 13.5 c) 30.3 d) 18.4
55. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using code given below the list.
List I List II
A Entropy coding 1 Mc Milan’s Rule
B Channel capacity 2 Redundancy
C Minimum length code 3 Shannon Fano
D Equivocation 4 Shannon’s law
A B C D A B C D
a) b)
1 2 3 4 3 4 1 2
A B C D A B C D
c) d)
1 4 3 2 3 2 1 4
56. Calculate the emf of a material having a flux linkage of 2t2 at time t = 1 sec
a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 16
57. In a homogenous isotropic linear and stationary media, a plane electromagnetic wave has the
following characteristics
a) Both E and H are transverse b) = 0
c) Both a and b d) Neither a or b
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58. The transmitter power is 10 W. It is increased by an antenna gain of 30 dB. The effective
radiated power in watts is
a) 100 W b) 30 W c) 10,000 W d) 1000 W
59. What is the skin depth in copper at 10 GHz? Assuming conductivity of copper
= 5.810 7 mhos/m and permeability equal to that of free space
a) 0.55 m b) 0.33 nm c) 0.44 nm d) 0.66 m
60. Calculate the numerical aperture of an optical fiber whose core and cladding are made of
materials of refractive index 1.6 and 1.5 respectively.
a) 0.55677 b) 55.77 c) 0.2458 d) 0.647852
62. The Thevenin’s equivalent voltage and resistance for the circuit shown in Figure across
terminal ab is
a) 20 V 25 b) 30 V 25 c) 30 V 10 d) 10 V 10
63. For the circuit shown in figure, if the switch is closed at t = 0 then the current i(0+) and voltage
across capacitor are :
a) 0 A 10 V b) 0 A 0 V c) 1 A 0 V d) 1 A 10 V
64. The resistance between terminals ab for the circuit shown in figure is
a) 30 b) 25 c) 28 d) 45
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65. In a series RLC circuit, resonance condition the expression for resonant frequency fr and
Quality factor Q are :
1 1 L 1 1 R
a) f r , Q b) f r , Q
2 LC R C 2 LC L C
1 1
c) f r , Q L d) f r 2 LC , Q LCR
2LC R
67. When the analog signal x(t) = 3 cos100t is sampled at the rate 75 Hz, the resulting discrete
time signal is
2
a) 3 cos 200t b) 3 cos n c) 3 cos n d) 3 cos75n
2 3
68. Compute the convolution x(n) h(n) given x(n) = [1, 2, 6] and h(n) = [2, 2, 1]
a) {1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 1} b) {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 6}
c) {3, 4, 7} d) {2, 6, 17, 14, 6}
69. Given the 4-point DFT samples X(0) = 6; X(1) = –2 + j2 and X(2) = (–2) , find the 4-point
sequence x(n) , (can use FFT algorithms to compute faster)
a) {0, 1, 2, 3} b) {1, 2, 3, 4}
c) {0, 2, 1, 3} d) {1, 2, 0, 3}
n n
70. 3 1
The ROC of the ZT of the signal x(n) = u ( n 1) u ( n ) is ________
4 3
a) 3 | z | 1 b) | z | 1 c) 1 | z | 3 d) | z | 1
4 3 3 3 4 3
71. ______ are the multiplier bits in Booth bit pair coding for multiplication of numbers –8 –8
a) –1 –2 1 b) 0 2 0 c) 1 1 0 d) 0 –2 0
72. ______ is the exponent value for representing 571.25 in IEEE single precision floating point
format.
a) 01001011 b) 10110101 c) 10001000 d) 10010001
73. In _______ approach the CPU repeatedly checks the status flag to achieve the required
synchronization between the processor and an input or output device.
a) I/O controlled I/O b) CPU controlled I/O
c) Program – Controlled I/O d) Program – Controlled CPU
74. What is the maximum addressing capacity of a microcomputer which uses 16 bit data bus and
32 bit address bus?
a) 16 MB b) 32 GB c) 8 GB d) 4 GB
75. The ionic feature of the RISC machine among the following is _______
a) Reduced number of addressing modes b) Increased memory size
c) Having a branch delay slot d) All of these
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76. The Bus Interface unit of 8086 microprocessor contains instruction queue of how many bytes
size?
a) 8 b) 6 c) 4 d) 16
77. What is the address range of special function registers in 8051 microcontroller?
a) 80H to FFH b) 70H to 7FH c) 80H to 8FH d) 00H to FFH
81. In the figure shown, if the number of XOR gates are odd, the final output Y is
a) 0 b) 1 c) X d) X
82. For the Karnaugh map shown in figure, the minimum number of essential prime implicants are
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
83. Choose the correct statement from the following :
a) PAL contains programmable OR array and fixed AND array
b) PLA contains programmable OR array and fixed AND array
c) PROM contains programmable AND array and fixed OR array
d) PAL contains programmable AND array and fixed OR array
84. The figure shows a binary counter with synchronous clear input. With the logic shown the
counter works as a :
a) A B C b) (A+B) C c) ( A B) C d) AB + C
86. Let Y(s) be unit step response of a casual system having a transfer function
3s G (s)
G(s) = that is Y (s) . The forced response of the system is
(s 1)(s 3) s
a) U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t) b) 2U(t) – 2e–t + e–3t U(t)
c) 2U(t) d) U(t)
88. The characteristic equation of a feedback system is s3 + ks2 + 5s + 10 = 0 , for a stable system
the value of k should not be less than
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4.5
90. In Robotics Denavit-Hartenberg consists of _______ steps and ______ passes in its algorithm.
a) 16, 2 b) 12, 2 c) 12, 4 d) 10, 13
91. In an extrinsic Silicon, the Fermi levels for p and n type are:
a) at the same level
b) below conduction band for n-type and above valence bond for p-type
c) above conduction band for n-type and below valence band for -type
d) None of these
96. A periodic pulse train Vin of 10V amplitude with on-time T ON = 1 ms and off-time TOFF = 1 s
is applied to the circuit shown in the figure.
The difference between the maximum voltage and minimum voltage of the output waveform
V0 is _______ V.
a) 10 b) 5 c) 3 d) 3.5
98. Find the output voltage of the given network if E in = 6V and the zener breakdown voltage of
the zener diode is 10V.
a) 4 V b) 0 V c) 10 V d) 6 V
99. Which of the following BJT configuration has highest power gain?
a) Common collector b) Common Emitter
c) Common Base d) All configuration
100. Find the approximate collector current in the given transistor circuit. Assume current gain
= 100
a) 10 mA b) 1.25 mA c) ≃1 mA d) 11.5 mA
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