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DETAILED SYLLABUS OF
ELECTRONICS
MECHANIC TRADE
in RRB TECHNICIAN
(CEN) No. 02/2024
• Safety rules and safety signs,
Types and working of fire
extinguishers, First aid safety
practice, Hazard identification
and prevention, Personal
safety and factory safety.
• Concept of Standards and
advantages of BIS/ISI. Trade
tools specifications.
ACTIVE - PASSIVE
COMPONENTS AND IC’s
Resistors. Capacitors, Inductors,
Series-parallel combinations of
resistors, capacitors &
inductors, Colour coding of
various components, Inductive
reactance, Capacitive
reactance, Self inductance,
Mutual inductance, Q - Factor,
Transformers, Diodes,
Transistors, FET, MOSFET,
Surface Mount Device,
Regulated IC’s.
BASIC
ELECTRONICS
• Semiconductor materials, PN Junction, Diode biasing,
PNP & NPN Transistors, α, β, γ relationship, Transistor
biasing, Transistor configuration, Classification of
amplifiers, Single stage and multistage amplifiers,
Oscillators (Sinusoidal and non sinusoidal),
Multivibrators, Operational amplifiers.
POWER
SUPPLIES
• Cell, Batteries, Care and maintenance of cells,
Rectifiers, regulated power supplies, SMPS, UPS,
Inverter.
BASIC
ELECTRICAL
• Ohm's law, Kirchhoff’s law, AC & DC measurements,
Classification of meters, Network theorems, AC
fundamentals, Faraday's law electromagnetic
induction, Basic concepts of voltage, current, power
and energy.
ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONIC
MEASURING
INSTRUMENTS
• Multimeter, Cathode Ray
Oscilloscope, Digital Storage
Oscilloscope, Function
generator.
SOLDERING
AND DESOLDERING
• Different soldering
techniques, soldering
materials, Different types of
soldering gun, Flux
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION
• Radio wave propagation, Modulation and
Demodulation, AM & FM transmitter and Receiver,
Digital modulation techniques, Sampling,
Quantization and encoding, Multiplexing and
Demultiplexing, Optical fibre communication,
Mobile communication.
TRANSDUCERS
AND SENSORS
• Active and passive transducers,
Thermistors, Thermocouple,
Strain gauge, Inductive and
capacitive transducers, LVDT,
Proximity sensors,
Optoelectronic devices, Solar
Power (Renewable Energy
System), LCD and LED TV.
DIGITAL ELECTRONICS
& MICROCONTROLLERS
• Different logic gates and truth table, Logic
families, Combinational logic circuits, Arithmetic
circuits, Encoder, Decoder, Multiplexer,
Demultiplexer, Flip Flops, Sequential logic
circuits, Registers, Counters, ADC and DAC
circuits.
• 8051 Microcontroller, features, Internal
architecture, Pin diagram, Addressing modes.
COMPUTER HARDWARE
& NETWORKING
• Basic blocks of a computer, Components of desktop and
motherboard. Hardware and software, I/O devices, and
their working. Different types of printers, HDD, DVD.
Various ports in the computer.
• Concept of word processing: MS word –Menu bar,
standard tool bar, editing, formatting, printing of
document etc. Excel –Worksheet basics, data entry and
formulae. Moving data in worksheet using tool bars and
menu bars, Formatting and calculations, printing
worksheet, creating multiple work sheets, creating charts.
• Network features – Network medias, Network topologies,
protocols- TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, models and types.
Specification and standards, types of cables, UTP, STP,
Coaxial cables. Network components .
NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed
above, questions from other topics prescribed for the
educational qualification of the post may also appear in
the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the
topics above may be covered in the question paper