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Contents
A. Civil Engineering
B. Computer Science and Engineering
C. Electrical & Electronics and Communication Engineering
D. Mechanical Engineering
E. Chemical Engineering
F. Economics

*Important Questions are highlighted in yellow. These have been

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Where have you worked for your internship?

What did you do there in your internship?
What did you learn from your internship?
What was your final year project on?
Why did you take up that particular project?
Explain your project.
Tell us about all your projects.
Show us the design of column, beam and slab.
What do you have to consider while constructing a building?
What is your favorite project out of these?
What is liquefaction? And explain it a bit.
What are the properties of concrete?
What are the disadvantage of using concrete?
Estimate foot fall of Noida city center metro station.
What are the different types of pump? What is the basic difference between them? Which
of this pump has high performance efficiency?
Which pump will you recommend for pumping oil to a certain height?
What is yield strength and yield point? What is Hooks law?
How are alloys formed? What is the basic difference between the different types of steel
alloys?
Why is chromium added to steel?
Basic difference between stainless steel and carbon steel.
How will you measure pressure difference and velocity in a pipeline?
On what basis will you select the material, its thickness etc. in a design for pipeline?
What is Factor of Safety? What is optimal FOS?
What is Heat Treatment? Why is it done?
What are the types of loads acting on a building?
What is propped cantilever?
What is Concrete Technology?
What is Transportation, Surveying etc.?
How do you decide alignment of a road?
What will you do in case you encounter a soil of insufficient soil bearing capacity and how
explain?
What is the minimum time needed for removing formwork of different components of
building?
What is a transient curve?
What are different components in a beam column joint and how are they designed?
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Questions from concrete technology:

Variation of compressive strength of concrete with age of concrete and with admixtures.
Different types of admixtures.
Define light weight concrete.
Which concrete is more useful when there is more Sulphur content in the environment?
Questions on pre-stressed concrete.
Questions from transportation:
What is water bound macadam?
Softening point of bitumen.
Width of an urban road with double lane.
What is super elevation and how will you decide it?
Different kinds of pavements and widths.
Questions from Strength of materials:
Describe SFD and BMD.
Questions related to Solid Mechanics and Beam Column Reinforcement.
Question related to instruments used to find out angles of different figures.
Stress-Strain Curve.
Given diameter and length of a steel bar, find the weight.
What amount of current passes through the overhead cables in our university?
What is the unit of battery other than volts?
Circuit diagram of AC to DC converter.
How do you measure Voltage and Current values of a HVDC line?
Types of turbines
Rankine cycle explanation
Questions were:
What is the tool used in lathe made of and its composition?
Types of welding
Why is the Taj Mahal very stable even though it is very close to the Yamuna River? Wont it
be affected by the high water table level surrounding the area?
Some scenario questions, for example You are building a one story residential building
but you have only a small store room provided for your construction where you can keep
only limited amount of construction materials and how would you efficiently store your
materials?
What kind of foundation and what depth of that foundation will you give for a 2 story
commercial building?
If A weighs 20kgs, B weighs 15kgs and C weighs 10kgs, what will be the combined weight of
the three?
The interviewer drew a sketch of a house and asked me about the ceiling which is the MAIN
reinforcement bar.
What is the percentage of bitumen in the bitumen mix design?
Minimum number of times a roller should be allowed to roll on the road.
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What is the maximum ratio steel used in Shear Walls and Core Walls?
How many liters' of water would be required in M-20 grade for making 1 cubic meter?
A 64 small cubes of size 1 unit to form a big cube after that the corner cubes are removed
then the surface area of that cube?
What is Beam Cover?
What are the duties and responsibilities of civil site engineer in road and building
construction?
What do you understand by preset during the installation process of bridge bearings?
Why are steel plates inserted inside bearings in elastomeric bearings?
What reinforcements are used in the process of prestressing?
In the design of bridge arguments what considerations should be made to select the
orientation of the wing walls?
In case if concrete box girder bridges how is the number of cells determined?
Under what circumstances should pot bearings be used instead of elastomeric bearings?
Why should pumping be not used in case of concreting works?
Why should curing not be done by ponding and polythene sheets?
What are the different type of slump test indications?
Why is propping required for long structures once the formwork is removed?
Explain the mechanism of cavitations in pipes and drains?
For what purpose bedding is used under storm water drains, explain?
Why are pull-out tests performed for soil nails?
Describe briefly the advantages and disadvantages of using plastic and timber fenders?
Explain why concrete barriers have curved surface profiles?
Why is the use of granular sub-base in concrete carriageways not preferred, explain?
Why are separation membranes used between concrete pavement slab and sub-base?
In the roof of a pumping station explain briefly the components of a waterproofing system
During reclamation how can the occurrence of mud waves be rectified?
In reclamation works what are the importance of geotextiles and sand?
In block work seawalls what is the purpose of slip joints?
For a washout valve why are two gate valves required in normal practice?
What are the different approaches in designing the floors of the service reservoirs?
What is modular elasticity?
Discuss some applications of modular elasticity.
What is difference between engineering stress and true stress?
What are some structures that are subjected to fatigue?
What is absolute pressure? How absolute pressure is calculated?
What is aggregate?
How do you calculate the power of centrifugal pump?
Why is concrete cube test carried out?
What do you mean by honeycomb in concrete?
What are the ingredients of pre-stressed concrete?
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What is the ratio of steel and concrete to use in slabs, beams, columns?
What is the L/D ratio of cantilever beam?
Explain major difference between auto level and dumpy level?
Which code is used for TOR & TMT steel bar?
What is the difference between TOR steel and TMT steel?
Why the statue of liberty is made of Copper?
Explain the difference between shear and tensile strength.
Difference between pre-tensioning and post-tensioning.
How do we calculate the power of centrifugal pump?
What you understand by Richter scale?
Explain major differences between routing maintenance and major maintenance
What are the techniques to measure road difference?
What is rigging?
How can you produce desired alloys and discuss their applications in daily life.
Explain the design for RCC multi-storied building?
What are the benefits of RCC pipes over steel designed pipes?
Elaborate advantages & disadvantages of using crusher dust instead of sand in RCC work.
What is a bearing capacity of soil?
Why does the pressure increase under soil?
How to increase a bearing capacity of soil?
What do you understand by building codes?
Explain moment of inertia and its importance.
How do we determine the specific gravity of a cement?
What are the causes of building collapse?
Explain the latest method to detect a crack in a building?
How do we test on design and style in a software?
Explain different types of RCC pipes.
Why in Pakistan Bricks are used so much?
How can you check the diameter of steel after the construction?
Which are the Steel tests?
How much is the cover for slab?
What is Packing Factor?
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What all programming languages youve done?

Why did you do this particular course?
How much experience in C?
Projects and internships.
Questions related to resume.
How will you open Gmail from IT point of view?
Questions related to SQL : Primary key, unique key, database
Given a multiple digit number give the output as sum of individual digits.
Convert an inputted number into alphabets, for ex - no. is 1000, then the output will be one
thousand and optimize this code.
Given login page as diagram, generate test cases for it.
Embedded C questions.
Stacks and queues.
Questions from HTML.
What is web designing?
Definition of linked list, storage classes, arrays, recursion (they asked me to write the
program for finding factorial of a given number), loops etc.
Syntax of different loops in C? Write a program of factorial of a number using for loop?
Length of a string without using a function?
Define Functions.
Logic gates (Universal Gates)
Do you know about any other operating system?
What is multiplexer?
Convert binary to octal?
OSI model.
Circular list program.
Define deadlock.
Explain the Circular wait.
Define Synchronization and give the examples how we can synchronize process?
Little things about Linux.
What is operating system and applications?
Who allocates the memory in system and how it is allocated?
About RAM and microprocessor.
Advantage of java over C.
Call by value and call by reference explain with examples.
Write small program for swapping with and without use of 3rd variable.
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36. At which layer TCP/IP protocol works and define it?

37. About difference between TCP and UDP? Which is better? (under this connection less and
connection oriented)
38. Applications of stacks.
39. Multiprogramming.
40. Little bit about sockets.
41. About JVM (java virtual machine)?
42. What IP means
43. Difference b/w union and structure.
44. Recursion
45. E-numerators
46. Bitwise operators.
47. Multi file program.
48. What do you think security is in computer, virus meaning, and anti-virus info?
49. Interest in security, software development or test?
50. Software Black box Test.
51. Can you specify steps for software development (Software Development cycle)?
52. Basic telephone Directory - PHP, CSS and HTML
53. What do you understand by cloud?
54. On which server have you worked on? Was it open source or licensed?
55. What do you do when your laptop gets hanged or there is unexpected shutdown?
56. Questions about the front end, servers and database like how did you create the database?
How did you manage it? What do you understand from a server? What was the server in
your project? What is the difference between a normal server and local host?
57. Is C++ a software?
58. Questions regarding C Language
58.1. Write a program for matrix addition
58.2. Write a program for Palindrome.
58.3. Write basic structure of for loop?
58.4. When was C invented?
58.5. Write an algorithm for factorial.
58.6. Write a program for swapping two elements of an array.
58.7. Write a c program to store Fibonacci series and add the consecutive digits.
58.8. You have an unordered array, take out highest [Link] will be the best solution?
58.9. Why divide by 2 while writing code for finding out prime numbers?
58.10. You have an array and I remove an element .Find out the element without using
comparisons.
59. What is the difference between
59.1. An array and a linked list
59.2. for loop and while loop
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59.4. Java and C

59.5. Core java and java script
Questions related to DBMS
60.1. What is a foreign key? How to use DBMS in companies?
60.2. What is inner joint?
60.3. What is left joint?
60.4. Why do we need DBMS?
60.5. What is SQL? Why do we need SQL?
60.6. What is DDL and DML in DBMS?
60.7. What are SQL queries?
60.8. Explain concept of a database to a Lehman.
60.9. What is the Usefulness of database?
60.10. tables and classes
60.11. joins
60.12. What is group by commands?
60.13. What is order by? Give example.
60.14. What do you know about procedures in DBMS?
60.15. What is a relational data base?
60.16. Which is better: Relation Database or hierarchy database and why?
60.17. Every 2 minutes some data is to be entered and some is to be deleted in the
relational database. What is the logic you will follow to do this with timer and
without timer?
What is selection sort?
What is Data structure? What is the Importance of data structure?
Find depth of an AVL tree
Explain paging and fragmentation.
What are the attributes for any design output?
Explain OOP concepts in java? What is polymorphism
What is user interface experience?
What is color theory?
How do you design a banking app and advertisement?
How is Java different from others?
Write down the Algorithm for probability.
How will you instruct the computer to pick a random card from the deck of 52 cards? Can
you write an algorithm for it?
Write a code on HTML or PHP and take problem on your own.
How do you interlink OS, memory and CPU?
What are the components of a computer?
Explain the Functioning of an UPS?
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79. How the Google maps work and find roads and distance between 2 destinations?
80. What is encapsulation?
81. What are APIs? Have you ever worked with them? How are they different from
functions?
82. PUZZLES (you have 7n/[Link] a code for finding solution without
multiplication and
division.
83. Suggest the Problem Faced in Laptop with the perspective of consumer and then with
Engineer Point of view.
84. Do you know any programming frame work?
85. What is SDLC?
86. How many registered companies are there in Bangalore? How would you
find it? How
would you short list the companies?
87. Is embedded C still written in HEX format?
88. What is the double link list?
89. How will you find total no of PCs in Delhi?
90. You are at 200m and you have 150m rope and knife .How will you use it to reach 100 m?
91. You are starting a job site which takes job from other sites .Which table would you use?
(You can use more than one table).
92. Prove 2+2 =4.
93. You have 25 horses and you can use only race 5 horses at a time .How many minimum no.
of races you need to find out top 3 horses?
94. There are 3 jar labels. One has apples, one oranges and one has both apples and oranges.
Each jar has the wrong label and you can open jar only once. How will you put the correct
labels?
95. A car goes from a to b with some speed and with some speed from b to c .Find the average
speed?
96. Write a program to perform level order traversal. Make appropriate changes in the written
code so that it prints a new line at the end of the each level.
97. Write a program to check a loop in a singly linked list without using any extra memory.
98. What is the biggest problem you faced and solved during any of your projects? Is there a
better solution for the biggest problem that u have faced?
99. If in case why you chose your solution over the best one?
100. Candidate was required to give the best solution complexity wise (time and space) of the
stated problems.
101. Traversal and search through a modified binary tree, as in, the numbers were arranged in
increasing order except for one position.
102. Related to reversing a linked list with a given condition.
103. Textbook technical questions pertaining to Software Engineering, OS, DBMS, Networks,
Software Engineering, Algorithms, Data Structures and Computer Architecture were asked.
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105. Problem: A maze problem wherein we had a matrix and the user had to go from top left
corner to the bottom right corner. He could only move right or down. Also, assumption
was made that each node had a weight assigned to it and thus, the user had to reach the
destination in the least possible sum of distances.
106. Problem: Sum of distance from one point downhill to the other point after covering the
downhill and uphill of various mountains in random order. Just that the base length is
given.
107. Is it possible to run a program of size 2GB in a 500MB RAM? If yes, how do we do, and
write the code in C# to do the same.
108. What are the commands that are used in Windows PowerShell?
109. In C#, other than int, what are the other data-types available to store a number?
110. Explain DFS and BFS, Queue and Stack.
111. Define data-type.
112. Different types of sorting and which one has the best efficiency in terms of time.
113. K-Nearest Neighbor analysis, linear regression analysis, and Bayesian method analysis.
114. Why we use File Handling?
115. What are the ways of storing data in Files?
116. In what way is a file more flexible than a String?
117. Given in order & preorder traversal or in order & post order traversal of a tree, build a tree.
118. Why prototypes are used?
119. What are inline functions and scope resolution?
120. What are pre-processors? What is their use?
121. Differentiate between Calloc &Malloc, structures & unions, *p++ & ++*p etc.
122. What is the difference between a bug and a virus?
123. What is hyper threading (HT technology)?
124. What is virtual memory? Differentiate between logical & physical memory
125. What are: demand paging, pure demand paging, page fault, page replacement, page
replacement algorithms (LRU, Opt. FCFS etc.), thrashing, paging, segmentation, external &
internal fragmentation etc.
126. Which technique does DOS (& UNIX) use? (Paging or Segmentation or both.)
127. What are scheduling algorithms? (FCFS, SJF, RR,) [IBM]
128. What is turnaround time, Throughput [IBM]?
129. What do you optimize using scheduling algorithms SJF, RR etc.?
130. Head movement algorithms (FCFS, SHORTEST DISTANCE FIRST, SCAN, C-SCAN, LOOK, CLOOK etc.)
131. Write down the equivalent pointer expression for referring the same element a[i][j][k][l] ?
132. Minimum number of queues needed to implement the priority queue?
133. How to access the least element in the stack with O (1) time complexity there is no Memory
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C. Electrical & Electronics and Communication Engineering

Technical Questions
1. What is the speed of 1G, 2G, etc.?
2. *What is GSM?
3. Describe the entire process of mobile communications, right from the beginning.
4. Technical questions based on your final year projects.
5. Why handover is required in data communication?
6. Why do they use hexagonal sector and not circular sector?
7. If mobile moves from one cell to another cell, is there any change in frequency?
8. *Basics of fiber optics - advantages and disadvantages.
9. Convert decimal into binary?
10. How do you determine the length of an antenna?
11. What is TIR?
12. What is a P-N junction diode?
13. Different types of topologies in network, if you have 20 systems, create a network using
them.
14. Applications of Optical fiber in GIS.
15. What are Star and delta connections describe their architecture, also describe their
combinations
16. *What are flip flops and latches?
17. Describe Single mode and multimode in fiber optics?
18. Data rate in fiber optics versus Copper cable.
19. What is GPON technology.
20. Can different network topologies work together?
21. What is CDMA, Modulation & Demodulation and Sampling?
22. What is handoff?
23. Is C++ a software?
23.1. Questions related to C programming
23.2. Write a program for matrix addition
23.3. Write a program for Palindrome.
23.4. Write basic structure of for loop?
23.5. When was C invented?
23.6. What is recursion?
23.7. Write an algorithm for factorial.
23.8. Write a program for swapping two elements of an array.
23.9. Write a c program to store Fibonacci series and add the consecutive digits.
23.10. You have an unordered array, take out highest [Link] will be the best solution?
23.11. Why divide by 2 while writing code for finding out prime numbers?
23.12. You have an array and I remove an element .Find out the element without using
comparisons.
24. What is the difference between
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24.1. An array and a linked list

24.2. for loop and while loop
24.3. C and C++
24.4. Java and C
24.5. kvar and kW
24.6. *microprocessor and microcontroller
24.7. threads and processes
24.8. Signal and Wave
24.9. voltage and current controlled devices.
24.10. combinational and sequential circuits
25. What is SQL? Why do we need SQL?
26. What are SQL queries?
27. Questions related to data structures
27.1. What is a linked list? Other questions about linked lists.
27.2. What is selection sort?
27.3. What is Data structure? What is the Importance of data structure?
27.4. Reverse a linked list using loop and recursion
27.5. Find depth of an AVL tree.
28. What are semiconductor devices?
29. Convert XOR gate to AND gate.
30. What are the various losses that happen in transmission lines ?
31. What is AC and DC in lay man language?
32. Convert binary to octal?
33. OSI Model?
34. Difference between analog and digital-which is better and why?
35. How the call gets connected?
36. *Who allocates the memory in system and how it is allocated?
37. How is memory allocated in 8051?
38. About RAM and microprocessor.
39. At which layer TCP/IP protocol works and define it?
40. About difference between TCP and UDP? Which is better?
41. *What is formula of Fourier transform as well as its application in day to day life,
42. What is meant by interrupts in it? Type of interrupts? What do you understand by flags?
43. *Block diagram of Mux? Its truth table? Make an 8:1 Mux using two 4:1 Mux? Truth table
8:1 of Decoder?
44. How will you design an ammeter?
45. What is a Zener Diode.
46. How to simulate the power supply?
47. Logic behind systems like GPS, Google maps, address registers, etc., and how these systems
were implemented?
48. As you are an electrical student, looking at a printer from outside can you guess what all
electrical functions and electronics technology would be going on inside a printer?
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49. If I give you a printer and ask you to build upon it which does something other than regular
printing what will you build?
50. Write a code to convert an inputted number into alphabets, for ex - no. is 1000, then the
output will be one thousand and optimize this code.
51. What is the procedure to connect to a new server to a new place
52. Describe the parts of a transformer?
53. What is K - Map?
54. In which of the following communication speed is high: Satellite communication or optical
fiber?
55. What is Mac address and IP address? Does your iPhone, smart phones, android phones
have a Mac address?
56. How does an alternator work?
57. What will happen if we give DC to a ceiling fan?
58. What is Ferranti effect?
59. MATLAB Questions:
59.1. Using only one instruction convert 1x5 matrixes into a new 2x5 matrix whose 2nd
row would be same as 1st row.
59.2. Some basics operation on matrix.
59.3. Basic questions like how you read an image in MATLAB.
60. How a program is executed in CPU?
61. How to run multiple threads or processes in parallel?
62. What is Channel Estimation in wireless?
63. What is modulation scheme used in GSM, Gaussian Filter, Equation of Gaussian distribution.
64. What are EDGE and GPRS standards?
65. LTE air interface, MIMO technique, OFDM, Flat and Frequency selective fading, Cyclic Prefix.
66. How to create pulse shaping Filter and its Use.
67. Describe concept of negative frequency.
68. What is Modulation and how to translate lower frequency to higher frequency?
69. How to plot circle in CRO?
70. Make a complex signal in time domain from a real signal in time domain.
71. How to convert analogue data into I and Q form using QAM modulation?
72. What is a hydraulic press? What is the function of a coolant?
73. Difference between motor and generator.
74. About the ac-ac, ac-dc drives, their functionality and use in forklifts?
75. What is the role of Bucholz relay?
76. What is the function of breather and conservator tank?
77. Why do we use CT and PT?
78. Why cant we leave secondary side of CT open?
79. Why do you we use delta star starting method?
80. Questions based on:
80.1. Power system protection, Components and detailed description.
80.2. Surge arrestors
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80.3. Circuit breakers

80.4. Relays- working, types.
80.5. Difference between isolators, circuit breakers.
80.6. Layout of power system protection.
80.7. Single line diagram.
81. What amount of current passes through the overhead cables in our university?
82. What is the unit of battery other than volts?
83. How do you measure Voltage and Current values of a HVDC line?
84. Write the truth table for full adder and implement it in NAND gate only.
85. What's the difference between looping 0s and 1s in K map?
86. What microprocessors are you familiar with
87. How will you send and receive data from a microprocessor?
88. *How to find range of a radar? And what factors does it depend on?
89. What is Doppler shift? What is its importance?
90. What is a membership function?
91. What are the design criteria for very low frequency amplifier?
92. How will you design a stable oscillator?
93. You have designed an amplifier. After few days it is found that its gain have changed. What
might be the reason?
94. A plane is moving in a circular path around the transmitter of the radar. Will there be
Doppler shift detected in the radar?
95. State Kepler's laws.
96. What are the invasive and non-invasive methods of instrumentation?
97. What is biasing?
98. What is meant by virtual ground in the op amp?
99. What is servo transformer?
100. Why 440volts is used instead of 660volts in 3 phases of supply system?
101. *What is the difference between LED's and PN junction diode? Why cut in voltage is high
for LED's?
102. Which of the following is used to hold ROM and RAM cards 1. Computer Bus 2. Expansion
cards 3. Mother Board 4. Cache memory
103. Mention the working regions of transistor as a switch. What is Schotky diode?
104. What is active high and active low logic?
105. Explain low pass filter.
106. How is Laplace transform useful in solving analog circuits?
107. Why is common collector configuration not used for amplifier?
108. What is ripple factor? What is hard saturation in transistors?
109. What is thermal runaway? What do you mean by RMS value of current?
110. Does an oscillator have an input? If so, draw it.
111. It is always advisable not to keep your feet apart when standing in a substation yard. Why?
What is step potential?
112. Does corona has any advantage in power system?
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113. What are lightning arrestors?

114. What are the different power system losses and how can it be eliminated?
115. What is the criterion for selection of system voltage?
116. What is the difference between an insulator and a dielectric?
117. What is bus bar? Differentiate between an insulator and a dielectric
118. What is skin effect? Why is voltage stepped up before transmission?
119. Explain transmission and distribution systems.
120. What are the standard transmission and distribution voltages
121. How are turbines selected to be installed in a generating station?
122. Which is better 50 Hz supply or 60 Hz? Explain
123. What are the disadvantages of low power factor?
124. What is grading of a cable?
125. Explain the power rating of a bulb, say 60W, what if the voltage changes?
126. Why is the earth pin in a 3-pin plug the longest and the thickest?
127. What is IDMT? What is the principle?
128. What is SCADA?
129. Why do we use a trap draw circuit?
130. What is power line communication?
131. What are traveling waves?
132. How can you decrease the harmonics in a waveform?
133. What is the wattage of a zero-watt bulb?
134. Which type of winding would you choose for low voltage high current generators and why?
135. Why do series motors have high starting torque?
136. What happens if armature and field coils of a generator are interchanged and used? Why
are induction motors more widely used?
137. What are equalizer rings used for?
138. How is the alternator synchronized to the main bus bar?
139. Which is the motor used in fans?
140. How do you convert fixed ac to variable ac?
141. Can an inverter be used as a converter? How?
142. What is the difference between a Verilog task and Verilog function?
143. What is the difference between AC and DC Resistance & How to calculate it?
144. Name power losses in rotating electrical machines
145. Looking upon the increase of DC loads in residential areas - Laptops, smart phones and
household appliances operating on dc, is it not right to switch to dc system than ac at least
in distribution circuits? If yes why? If no why?
146. What are GPRS services?
147. How can a Pseudo Random Noise Code be usable?
148. What are the drawbacks of Walsh codes?
149. What is DMA controller?
150. What is DMA channels?
151. What happens during DMA transfer?
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152. What is half duplex transmission?

153. What is the difference between the bandwidth of half duplex and simplex transmission?
154. What are the processes required to perform interfacing successfully?
155. What is single input output interface? How it is different from single ended interface?
156. What is parallel to serial conversion?

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Draw the basic refrigeration cycle.

Principle behind 4 stroke engine.
Draw Otto cycle.
Working of a Turbine.
Which is better 4 stroke or 2 stroke?
Inventory evaluation and Demand supply curve.
What is Ductility?
General Questions about internships. (Project Details, Experience, What exactly the
company does and what was the role of the department in which you were interning )
What is your favorite subject and Why?
Tell all the laws of thermodynamics.
What are the 2 statements of 2nd Law?
Differences between S.I and C.I Engines.
Hookes Law.
P-V and T-S Diagrams of Diesel and Otto Cycle.
What are Eddy Currents?
Working of a Transformer.
Working of Air Conditioner.
Working of Refrigerator.
Define all physical properties of metals.
What is sagging?
All the lab experiments of Strength of Material subject
Basic knowledge of Material Science subject like definitions of Material properties
If a fridge is kept in an insulated room and you leave the fridge door open, what will
happen to the room temperature? Will it decrease or increase?
Draw the Iron-Carbon diagram.
What are different types of beams?
Explain all the points typically seen on a Stress-Strain Curve.
Questions about any projects you might have done in SNU or independently.
Explain different modes of Heat Transfer.
Charles Law and Boyles Law.
What is Case Hardening?
Types of Welding.
What is Heat Treatment and why is it done?
What is Brittleness?
What is Smelting?
Flowcharts
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37. Questions from strength of materials, IC engines, thermodynamics and manufacturing

processes, Theory of Machines, Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials (Really Important).
38. What is systems engineering? And how CATIA helps in achieving it.
39. What is the critical temperature of refrigerant?
40. What do you mean by through and across variables?
41. And basics of Thermodynamics & C-programming.
42. Would you be interested to work in any mechanical domain (Mechanical/Multi body
systems, Thermal)?
43. What is FEA?
44. Draw a top view of Maruti 800.
45. Draw a Carnot cycle.
46. Draw IC engine.
47. Difference between spur gear and helical gear.
48. What cycle is used for petrol engine and diesel engine?
49. What is the profile of a gear - helical and spur?
50. Questions on Spring-Mass system.
51. Problems in manufacturing process. (Asked to calculate feed rate, etc.)
52. Problems in CAD/CAM.
53. What are the different types of pump? What is the basic difference between them? Which
of this pump has high performance efficiency? Which pump will you recommend for
pumping oil to a certain height?
54. What is yield strength and yield point? What is Hooks law?
55. How are alloys formed? What is the basic difference between the different types of steel
alloys?
56. Why is chromium added to steel?
57. Basic difference between stainless steel and carbon steel.
58. How will you measure pressure difference and velocity in a pipeline?
59. On what basis will you select the material, its thickness etc. in a design for pipeline?
60. What is Factor of Safety? What is optimal FOS?
61. What is Heat Treatment? Why is it done?
62. Questions from electrical machines.
63. What is thermal efficiency?
64. Define Reynolds number.
65. What are the five types of pumps, positive displacement pump, and gear pump?
66. How do bearings fail?
67. What is the second law of thermodynamics?
68. Why cant we get 100% efficiency?
69. What are Indian boiler regulations codes?
70. What is a turbine and back pressure turbine?
71. How will you minimize a breakdown for a machine?
72. What is cooling time, cycle time?
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73. Describe an Aerator, Evaporator.

74. What is the Calorie value of coal?
75. What are the different ways of minimizing the inventory?
76. How can you increase the efficiency of a plant?
77. Maintenance and breakdown of a machine
78. How would reduction in wattage affect production?
79. Principles of energy conservation.
80. Geothermal energy.
81. Boilers and types of boilers.
82. How to reduce electrical energy?
83. Things to be noted in industry-assembly production.
84. Few questions asked were :
85. Difference b/w malleability and ductility.
86. Graph for compressive load.
87. Questions regarding machining and drilling operation on a job.
88. Explain Working of a diesel engine.
89. Function of exhaust in an engine.
90. Which is safer to work with LPG or CNG?
91. What is the difference between Diesel and petrol engine?
92. What is the tool used in lathe made of and its composition?
93. Why we do not use same technology to start both SI/CI engine?
94. Why there is no differential in a train. What happens when a train takes a turn?
95. Why vehicle does not move when its gear is applied though parked in slope area
96. What is shear force in fluid particle?
97. How gear ratio helps in power variation?
98. What is the angle of twist in drill?
99. What is the difference between impact force and sudden force?
100. How to calculate the turbine efficiency?
101. Why centrifugal pump casing is called involutes casing?
102. What will happen if reciprocating compressor run in exactly opposite direction?
103. What is the effect of clearance volume in performance of air- compressor?
104. What is the advantages and disadvantages of critical speed of turbine?
105. What will happen if oil is mixed with boiler feed water?
106. What is difference between fan and blowers?
107. What are the protections required to protect turbine?
108. What is critical temperature?
109. Air is a bad conductor of heat. Why it becomes hot in summer?
110. How many stages in compressor in there in gas turbine?
111. Which is more efficient? A rear engine Volvo Bus or a Front engine Volvo Bus? (Engine
Capacity is same for both) why?
112. What is Auto Dosing?
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113. What happens when too much oil is injected in the working cylinder?
114. How many manholes should be there on boiler? Why?
115. What is used to check the amount & quality of fuel in two stroke IC engine?
116. Work done in throttling process is given by which formula?
117. Function of the strainer in IC engine?
118. What is the difference between the air pre-heater & air blower?
119. Why the compression ratio of the diesel engine should be high?
120. A vertical plate and a horizontal plate are suspended in an open room. Both are heated to
the same temperature. Which one will cool first? Why?
121. What is the color of flame if the boiler is running?
122. Which is the best lubricant-air, oil or water?
123. Tell the octane number in Indian petrol?
124. What is the difference between safety valve and relief valve?
125. What is the working principal of air compressor?
126. What is cryogenics and what are its fundamentals?
127. What is the difference between a shaper machine and a planner machine?
128. Why stress relieving of stainless steel is not proffered?
129. What are the advantages of PID controllers compared with those of a PLC?
130. Which two continents are mirror images of each other?
131. Where half nut is used?
132. What is the need for drafting?
133. What is servo motor?
134. Can we use light duty vehicle axle into the heavy duty machinery axle? If no then why?
135. What is level of documentations for an ISO 9001 certified company?
136. What is back plate in centrifugal pumps and its purpose?
137. Why tyres are manufactured in black colour?
138. Whether ductile material can fail in brittle manner? When?
139. On what property you can distinguish material as brittle or ductile?
140. Name fuels used in nuclear power plant?
141. On what thermodynamic cycle nuclear power plant works?
142. How can you increase the efficiency of power plant without changing in effort?
143. What is purpose of governor in Diesel engine?
144. What is the difference between Torque and Power ( layman Idea)
145. What will be the induced stress in the bar?
146. What is the Difference between Rated Speed and Economic Speed?
147. Why petrol engine gives more power than diesel engine even though diesel engine has
high compression ratio?
148. What is mean by Resistance welding?
149. Compare Brayton and Otto cycle.
150. Why we have to know the specific frequency of any equipment? Does anybody know about
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151. What is the function of an isolator?

152. Why the back wheel of tractor is bigger than front wheel?
153. Why Mechanical seal used in Pumps?
154. What is colour of flame if the of Halide Torch detects a refrigerant leakage?
155. How can we remove paint from (painted over)plastic or nylon objects without damaging
the object?
156. How to calculate or arrive the capacity of a mechanical press?
157. The amount of thickness of the metal sheet that can be welded by ultrasonic welding is?
158. The amount of carbon present in Cast Iron?
159. What is the use of offset follower in cam? Why and where we have to use this type of
follower?
160. State the difference between Forging & Fabrication?
161. What is flange rating?
162. What amount of heat energy loss in ESP?
163. What happen when diesel is injected in petrol engine?
164. Why joule-Brayton cycle is not suitable for a reciprocating engine?
165. How does turbulence differ from swirl?
166. Is octane number beyond 100 is possible?
167. Explain the effect of fuel structure on knocking.
168. What is moisture choking? Which refrigerants are more prone to it?
169. What is Montreal protocol and why CFCs are being phased out?
170. Explain how solar-energy can used in refrigeration system?
171. Is wet bulb temperature a thermodynamic property?
172. What is the utility of comfort chart?
173. How would you decide whether a reciprocating compressor or centrifugal compression is
to be used in a refrigerating system?
174. Why smoking is not allowed in air conditioned enclosure?
175. Why desert coolers become ineffective in raining season?
176. Why package units are being preferred over central air conditioning system?
177. What is MAPI.
178. What is capital budgetary?
179. What is group technology layout?
180. What are the different types of fits? Explain?
181. What is the difference between projectile motion and a rocket motion?
182. What is Difference between stamina and strength?
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What should be the pressure to be taken for pipe and reactor before put in service?
Which liquid should be on shell side of a shell and tube HE and why?
How we can find leakage in any tube in shell and tube HE?
What is the difference between evaporation and boiling?
Why the hot liquid in heat exchanger, reactor jacket should flow from bottom to top?
Why steam enters top side of jacket in reactor?
When we need pumps in parallel and pumps in series?
When to use gear pumps?
Please give a comparison between orifice meter and venturi meter?
Why centrifugal pumps are widely used in process industries than positive displacement
pumps
What is surging in compressors and how it can be prevented?
Differentiate compressors, fans and blowers?
What is the difference between HAZOP and HAZAN?
Why we use LMTD to calculate overall heat transfer co efficient in shell and tube than
arithmetic average?
What should be the packing size in packed columns?
When to use absorption factor method to calculate no of plates?
How to convert ppm in to percentage?
What is TLV (threshold limit value)?
What is critical insulation thickness for pipes?
What is priming in centrifugal pumps?
Why PD pumps need safety valve at discharge side whereas a centrifugal pump doesnt need
it?
Why steam ejectors are located above 10.33 meters only (or) what is Barometric length?
What is the size of nozzle in steam ejectors?
Why Steam ejectors are used in series?
What is MSDS?
What is the role of casing in centrifugal pumps?
What is the difference between PFD and PID?
What is the MOC of HE?
Why earthing done in reactors?
Why SS are not corrosive?
When vacuum distillation is needed?
What is the use of plate efficiency in distillation column?
What would be impact if we increase and decrease the size of packing in packed column?
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How liquid nitrogen is saved in tanks?
In which type of condensation (Film type, drop wise) heat transfer would be higher?
What is the use of baffles in heat exchangers?
Why baffles are used in reactors?
Both the Nusselt number and the Biot number have the same form. What are the differences
between them in terms of the variables employed and their physical significance?
What are the color codes for cylinders of Oxygen, Carbon di oxide, and Chlorine?
What is the difference between fouling and scaling?
What is dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature?
What is dew point and why it is important in instrument air?
What are the design considerations for a piping system for the transfer of slurries?
What are the criterias involved in choosing mass balances for components?
What are the assumptions made on conservation equation?
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How many contacts do you have in your phone?
Which team game (Min 5 members) do you play?
Which is the fastest growing sector?
Why E-commerce is the fastest growing sector?
If a Burger King wants to open up a joint on T3, will it be profitable? What are the key
factors?
There are 10 bags containing 10 balls each, so total of 100 balls. The balls weigh 1000gm
each. 10 balls are defective and are placed in one bag. The defective balls weigh either
999gm or 1001gm. There is a digital weighing scale available, which can be used only
once. You need to weigh the bag of defective balls. How will you figure out which bag
contains the defective balls
A train passes a pole in 10sec. The same train passes a 100m platform in 25sec. What is
the length of the train?
Rate your peers sitting for the interview out of 20
Estimate no. of traffic lights in Delhi
Questions on SAS project.
An honest traffic policeman didn't stop a taxi moving on the wrong side of the road. What
could be the reason he didn't stop him?
If a pizza shop should be started ( Cost Benefit Analysis)
No of newspapers sold in a city.
Why do you want to work in a bank?
A typist types 200 letters in 10 seconds and then takes a break of 5 seconds, He has to
type from 0-1000 numbers and A-Z. How much time will he take? Find the easiest way to
do it.
Given three 2-D coordinates, tell if they form an equilateral or isosceles triangle?
Write the logic code for extracting vowels from any given word in that fixed order and
then creating a new word with the consonants and the vowels at the back of the
consonants
Questions on the macro calibration project.
Why did you choose SNU? Model the problem of choosing a graduate school.
Analyze the interviewer- whatever you noticed about him and then lay down 3-4 points
about his personality.
Why is Economics both a humanities and a science course?
If you've 1000 rupees to invest and the probability of the share price going up by 30pc is
10pc and going down by 10pc in 90pc then should you invest in it today?
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Real life usage of statistics.
Where are mean, median and mode used?
Average airfare in India?
Basic regression hypothesis testing.
Regression hypothesis
Probit log it model
What is the difference between GDP, GNP, etc
Current scenario in China, US, the oil prices, etc.
What happens if America increases their interest rates?
Election 2014
KPMG, IDF- different types of Work Corporation, why?
Eco masters after working in corp.?
How best to define economics
Does Europe, The USA or China have the largest Economy?
Why do some people believe that a mixed economic system solves basic economic
problems?
Should Newspapers and book publishers convert to electronic publishing over paper
publishing as their primary product?
What are the advantages of leaving the allocation of a Countrys resources to the price
mechanism?
What kind of Market Structure is the Automotive Industry?
What are the advantages of free market economy?
What are the disadvantages of a mixed economy system?
What was the theory of mercantilism?
Why was Vietnam divided into two countries?
What can you do about tourists use of natural resources?
What are the various uses of break-even analysis?
What still matters in strategic management lies in the value of planning?
What is the importance of strategic management towards the success of a business?
What are the effects of globalization on Indian Industry?
Is there a difference between corporate profit maximization and maximization of
shareholder wealth?
Is there a rule of thumb for office rent or lease per gross income?
What is the significance of foreign exchange rate risk and how can the risk be mitigated?
Who decides what goods services will be produces and sold in the US?
What is pricing of Factors of Production?
What are the types of market economies?
How do you calculate variable unit costs and total annual costs?
What is the difference between project proposal and project feasibility study?
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What is full employment GDP?
What happens to unsold newspapers?
What advantages might a socialist system have in responding to the needs of the poor?
What are the functions of price mechanism in a free market economy?
What is the importance of strategic management towards the success of a business?
What is Collateral Management?
What is social cost benefit analysis?
What are the advantages of both, fixed exchange rate regime and a flexible exchange rate
regime?
How do trade barriers affect international trade?
What still matters in strategic management lies in the value of planning?
What is meant by the term national debt?
Should Newspapers and book publishers convert to electronic publishing over paper
publishing as the primary product?
What does it mean when a rupee appreciates?
What does macroeconomics mean?
What is the role of Indian Govt. in Indian Economy?
How do tax cuts affect the economy?
How does the current situation in the Middle Est affect the US Economy?
What is PPS?
What is universal Banking?
What are the advantages of capitalism?
How does outsourcing affect the economy?
How would you differentiate between strike labor dispute and labor unrest?
What is the economy in Bulgaria like?
How do you explain GNI per capita?
In economy, what is the difference between service industry and industry?
What is the service sectors percentage in Indian GDP?
What is Inflation?
What is the impact on the economy if price ceiling or price floor were removed?
How is education an investment in human capital?
What is profitability analysis?
Does capital inflow lower US interest rates?