ISRO ECE Exam Question Paper 2024
ISRO ECE Exam Question Paper 2024
SUBJECTWISE WEIGHTAGE
S. No. Name of the Subject No. of Questions
1. Network Theory 5
2. Signals & Systems 9
3. Analog Circuits 7
4. Digital Circuits 8
5. Control Systems 10
6. Electronic Devices & VLSI 5
7. Electromagnetic Theory 5
8. Communication Systems 11
9. Microwave Engineering 5
Electronic Measurements &
10. 3
Instrumentation
11. Power Electronics 4
12. Electrical Machines 4
13. VHDL 1
14. Mathematics 3
15. Aptitude / Ability Test 15
Total No. of Questions 95
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01. Which of following class of amplifiers
0.3
provides highest efficiency?
0.4
(a) Class A (b) Class B
1 1
(c) Class C (d) Class F 0.6
01. Ans: (d) (a) 0.35 (b) 0.38
(c) 0.12 (d) 0.62
02. Compared to linear power supplies SMPS
04. Ans: (b)
offers
(a) Higher efficiency 05. Which parameter of semiconductor diode
(b) Better ripple performance exhibits positive temperature co-efficient?
(c) Gives better regulation (a) Reverse leakage current
(d) None of the above (b) Reverse breakdown voltage
02. Ans: (a) (c) Forward voltage
(d) None of the above
03. What are the different circuit topologies
05. Ans: (a)
used for DC/DC converter designs?
(a) Buck (b) Boost 06. If a transistor operates at the middle of the
(c) Flyback (d) All of the above dc load line, an increase in the current gain
03. Ans: (d) will move the Q point
(a) Off the load line
04. What is the average probability of error (b) Nowhere
with two symbols 0 and 1 with source (c) Up on the load line
probability 0.2, 0.8 respectively transmitted (d) down on the load line
over a binary asymmetric channel as given 06. Ans: (b)
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(a) 1.8 (b) 3.6 17. After firing a SCR, if the gate pulse is
(c) 5.4 (d) 2.7 removed, then the current in the SCR
13. Ans: (a) (a) Drops to zero
(b) Increases
14. In a chopper circuit, the thyristor is (c) Decreases
switched OFF at regular intervals by (d) Remains the same
adopting 17. Ans: (d)
(a) Natural commutation
(b) Forced commutation
18. Which of the following offers highest speed
(c) Either natural or forced commutation
of operation?
(d) A combination of natural and forced
(a) BJT
commutation
(b) FET
14. Ans: (b)
(c) Enhancement Mode MOSFET
(d) Depletion mode MOSFET
15. Wein-Bridge is commonly used for the
18. Ans: (c)
measurement of
19. Gunn Diode operated at a high frequency 22. The bandwidth occupied by an 8 PSK
is a modulated signal, where each of the I, Q
(a) Negative resistance device and C data streams which form the n-tuple
(b) Positive resistance device IQC toggle at a rate 200 Mbps, is:
(c) High noise device (a) 600MHz (b) 200MHz
(d) None of the above (c) 400 MHz (d) 133.33MHz
19. Ans: (a) 22. Ans: (d)
20. Compared to Silicon, GaAs Semiconductors 23. Given that CNDR of 256 QAM signal
offer advantage of operating at 12.5M Symbols/s is 100dBHz.
(a) Higher Electron Mobility The value of Eb/N0 (Energy per-bit to Noise
(b) Higher frequency operation Density ratio) is:
(c) Lower leakage current (a) 40dB (b) 20dB
(d) All of the above (c) 10dB (d) 24dB
20. Ans: (d) 23. Ans: (b)
21. Calculate the approximate power added 24. Return loss of a stand-alone antenna is
efficiency of following power amplifier: 10dB. One 6dB attenuator with return loss
DC Voltage : 8 Volts of 40dB is connected at the input of that
DC Current : 5 Amp antenna. What will be the approximate
AC Input signal : 0 dBm return loss of the combined (Antenna +
O/P power : 30 dBm Attenuator) port?
(a) 25% (b) 2.5% (a) 40dB (b) 22dB
(c) 40% (d) 75% (c) 16dB (d) 10dB
21. Ans: (b) 24. Ans: (d)
25. The bode plot of the delay transfer function 0 1 0 1
(a) (b)
e–3s has the following shape 9 3 9 3
(a) Straight line with negative slope 0 1 0 1
(c) (d)
(b) Straight line with positive slope 9 3 9 3
(c) A curved line with resonance 27. Ans: (c)
(d) A curve with two straight parts
28. Change in magnetic flux in coil of 30turns
25. Ans: (a)
is 0.1 weber/second. What is the value of
induced EMF?
26. What is the correct statement of the Cauchy
(a) 30V (b) –3V
residue theorem used in the Nyquist
(c) 300V (d) –300V
criterion (m and n are the number of poles
28. Ans: (b)
and zeros respectively)?
(a) G s ds 2j 29. Neglecting saturation, if the current taken
by DC series motor is increased from 10A
(b) G s ds 2jm n
to 12A, percentage increase in the torque
(c) G s ds 2jn m will be
(a) 44% (b) 40%
(d) G s ds 2jm
(c) 20% (d) 16%
26. Ans: (b)
29. Ans: (a)
27. When converting the following system into 30. A DC shunt generator produces 450A at
the standard state space form 230V. The resistance of shunt field and
armature are 50 ohms and 0.025 ohm
x 3 x 9x 3 sin t
the resultant A
respectively. The armature voltage drop will
matrix is
be
(a) 11.36V (b) 22.7V power; then, Directivity of directional
(c) 31.6V (d) 38.4V coupler is
30. Ans: (a) (a) Pf/Pr (b) Pr/Po
(c) Po/Pf (d) Pi/Pf
31. The rotor current frequency in an induction 34. Ans: (a)
motor operating at 50Hz, with 4% slip is
(a) 48Hz (b) 4Hz 35. Magic Tee can produce
(c) 2Hz (d) 16Hz (a) Sum and difference of signals
31. Ans: (c) (b) Oscillations
(c) Amplification
32. For matched junction S parameters, which
(d) Only difference of signals
of the following is correct?
35. Ans: (a)
(a) S11 0 (b) S11 = 0
(c) S21 = 1 (d) |S21| = 0
36. The cut off frequency of TEM wave is
32. Ans: (b)
(a) Infinite (b) DC
(c) 2c/ (d) None of the above
33. Which of the following transmission modes
36. Ans: (b)
is supported by Stripline?
(a) TEM (b) TE 37. In transistor oscillators, FET and BJT are
(c) TM (d) Quasi TEM used. Instability is achieved by:
33. Ans: (a) (a) Negative feedback
(b) Positive feedback
34. For a directional coupler, if Pi = Incident (c) Using a tank circuit
Power, Po = Output power, Pf = Forward (d) None of the above
coupled power and Pr = Reverse coupled 37. Ans: (b)
38. In a three stage cascade amplifier, each 41. When a carrier is AM modulated by three
stage has a gain of 10dB and noise figure of single tone signals of modulation
10dB. The overall noise figure is percentages 50%, 50% and 20%, then the
(a) 10.99 (b) 10 effective modulation index of the resulting
(c) 1.09 (d) 10.9 signal is
38. Ans: (a) (a) 0.54
b7…..b4 b3…..b0
(a) 8k (b) 0.25k Shift Reg A Shift Reg A
SIA SOA SIB SOB
(c) 1k (d) 0.5k
Clock
43. Ans: (c)
(a) C8 (b) 7D
44. Which of the following is the error transfer (c) FB (d) 3E
function for negative feedback? 46. Ans: (d)
1 G
(a) (b)
1 GH 1 GH
GH 1 47. What is the quantization noise power for N
(c) (d)
1 GH 1 GH bit uniform quantizer with full scale input
44. Ans: (a) voltage 2B?
B2 2B 50. For obtaining maximum power from a solar
(a) (b)
3 22N
3 2N cell, it should operate on which portion of
The +5V supply and the ground can be used (a) 0.707 (b) 1.414
as logic ‘1’ and ‘0’ inputs respectively. (c) 0 (d) 1
5m
j j
(d) x(n) y(n) X(e ). Y(e ) 50 5
(a) A/m (b) A/m
58. Ans: (b & c) 8 8
10 25
(c) A/m (d) A/m
59. The butterfly in figure is taken from radix 2 8 8
where 5 is the last stage. Which of the five line is 50. Input impedance of open
stages has butterflies of this form? circuited line is ZOC = 100 + j150. The
value of short circuited input impedance is
(a) 7.69 – j11.54 (b) 2 – j50
(c) 50 (d) 100 + j150
WN6 –1 61. Ans: (a)
62. The characteristic equation of a closed loop 3-input OR gates required to implement a
system is s2 + 2s + 2 = 0. Then the system is one bit full adder?
(a) Over damped (b) Centrally damped (a) 2 (b) 5
(c) Under damped (d) Un damped (c) 4 (d) 3
62. Ans: (c) 65. Ans: (c)
63. A 12V battery discharges for 20 minutes at 66. In the given figure , find the value of (X0,
a constant current of 2A and terminal X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7,) to realize the
voltage drops linearly from 12V to 10V.
function F A B
What is the total energy delivery by the
X0 i0
battery during this time?
X1 i1 4:1
(a) 26.4KJ (b) 12.2KJ
X2 i2 MUX
(c) 120.5KJ (d) 24KJ X3 i3
i0 2:1
63. Ans: (a) S1 S0 F
A C MUX
i1
X4 i0
64. I1 = 10A, Calculate value of VS
X5 i1 4:1 B
I1 X6 i2 MUX
+
VS +
– V1 2V1 X7 i3
– S1 S0
A C
(a) –5V (b) 10V
(c) 15V (d) 20V (a) (1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1)
64. Ans: (a) (b) (1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1)
(c) (1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1)
65. Given a single 3:8 active high output (d) (0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
decoder. What is the minimum number of 66. Ans: (b)
67. Which of the following is True for signal 69. Ans: (c)
traveling through a Wave-Guide?
(a) Guide wavelength is longer than free x3 x5 x7
70. d x ....... / dx is equal to:
space wavelength 3! 5! 7!
(b) Guide wavelength is equal to free space (a) sin(x) (b) ex
wavelength (c) cos(x) (d) tan(x)
(c) Guide wavelength is shorter than free 70. Ans: (c)
space wavelength
71. The minimum distance required for a linear
(d) None of the above
block code to achieve a guaranteed
67. Ans: (a)
correction of up to 5 errors is
68. Given that the following matrix is singular: (a) 6 (b) 5
4 2x 0 (c) 11 (d) 10
4 0 2 . The value of x is: 71. Ans: (c)
12 6 0
72. The lower threshold point (LTP) voltage of
(a) 2 (b) 3
the Schmidt trigger with an ideal op-amp
(c) 1 (d) 0
shown in figure is _______
68. Ans: (c)
+5V
+ –
Vin Vout
69. Given that the Eigen values of matrix A33 – +
10k
–5V
are 1, 3 and 5. The Eigen value of A3 are
5k
(a) 1, 3 and 5
(b) 3, 9 and 15 (a) 5V (b) –5V
(c) 1, 27, 125 (c) 1.667V (d) –1.667V
(d) Given information is inadequate 72. Ans: (d)
73. An ideal comparator is fed with a sine wave (b) All zeros are inside unit circle
of 4VPP (Peak-to-peak) with zero DC (c) All poles are outside unit circle
component as shown in figure. The (d) All poles and zeros are inside unit circle
reference voltage of the comparator is 1V. 76. Ans: (d)
What is the duty cycle of the output Vout?
77. Given a real sequence and 8 point
4Vp-p Sine Wave + V0 DFT output are X(0) = 5, X(1) = 1 + j,
Vref = 1V –
X(2) = 3 + j, X(3) = 2 + 3j What is X(6)?
84. Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y are 85. Which option replaces the question mark?
sitting around a square table. (1 M)
1. Out of eight, four persons are sitting at
the corners of the table and the other four
are sitting at the mid- points of each side
of the table.
2. Persons at the corners are facing the
centre while the persons at the mid-
points of side are facing outside.
3. S is third to the right of P. P is facing the
centre. (a) 1 (b) 2
4. Y is not sitting beside P or S. (c) 3 (d) 4
5. T is third to the right of R. 85. Ans: (a)
86. Study the following table carefully and 88. Find out the wrong number in the series.
answer the questions given below it: 7, 8, 18, 57, 228, 1165, 6996 (2 M)
(a) 7 (b) 8
(c) 6996 (d) 228
88. Ans: (d)
(d) some people who claimed on the survey 92. Which one will replace the question mark?
to be dishonest may have been (1 M)
answering honestly
90. Ans: (a)
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