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Post NameTRADESMAN (Electronics and Instrumentation) - TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Question Paper Code077/2023
Category Code766/2021
Date of Test17 June 2023
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOMR Examination
Total Questions100
1
The voltage of a circuit is measured by a voltmeter having an input impedance comparable with the output impedance of the circuit thereby causing error in voltage measurement. This error is called
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C. Error caused by loading effect
2
The quantity whose magnitude has a definite repeating time cycle is
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A. Steady state periodic
3
The _____ is the retardation in the response of a measurement system to changes in the measured quantity.
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B. measuring lag
4
The units whose sizes cannot be chosen independently are called
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A. derived units
5
What will be the value of shunt resistance required for 1 mA meter to extend the range to measure 10 mA (meter resistance is 18 Ω) ?
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B. 2 Ω
6
In mechanics three fundamental units are
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B. length, mass, time
7
The dimension of power is
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D. ml2T –3
8
Electrostatic type instruments are primarily used as
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C. Voltmeter
9
In _________ instruments a small weight is attached to the moving system to produce a controlling torque.
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A. Gravity controlled
10
The __________ torque is necessary to avoid oscillations of the moving system about its final deflected position.
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D. damping torque
11
To extend the range of voltmeter which arrangement is used ?
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A. High value of resistor in series with the meter
12
momentum =
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B. mass Γ— Velocity
13
The physical quantity under measurement is called
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C. measurand
14
Error of an instrument is expressed as
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A. (measured value βˆ’ True value) Γ— 100 True value
15
dead band is usually expressed in percentage of
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D. Span
16
An undesired change in the output input relationship over a period of time is
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A. drift
17
Which of the following is not a method for measuring low value resistance ?
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D. Direct deflection method
18
Screen of the CRT is coated with
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A. Phosphor material
19
The least interval between two adjacent discrete details which can be distinguished one from the other is called
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C. Resolution
20
An ammeter reads 15.34 Amps. The absolute error in the measurement is – 0.11 Amps. determine the true value of current.
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B. 15.45 Amps
21
PmmC stands for
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B. Permanent magnet moving Coil meter
22
Induction wattmeter is used to measure
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A. AC power
23
The deflection in moving coil galvanometer is
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B. directly proportional to the number of turns of the coil
24
In a CRO, which circuit is provided for synchronising two type of deflections so that horizontal deflection starts at the same point of the input vertical signal each time it sweeps.
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D. Trigger circuit
25
For making P type semiconductor, which material should not be added in extrinsic semiconductor material ?
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C. Arsenic
26
The difference of voltage across two points in a circuit is called
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C. Potential difference
27
The ratio of flux created in that material to the flux created in air is
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B. Permeability
28
Electrical property of an electrical circuit or device to oppose any change in magnitude of current flow in a circuit is called
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B. Inductance
29
An inductor stores an energy in the magnetic field created by the current. The energy is expressed as
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A. W = 1/2 LIΒ²
30
Which of the following statement is/are correct about resistance offered by a conductor depends ? i. Resistance varies directly with its length ii. Resistance varies by its crosssectional area iii. Resistance of the conductor not depends on the material with which it is made of
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A. Only i and ii
31
Which of the following statement is/are correct in case of parallel circuits ? i. The applied voltage same across each branch ii. The reciprocal of total resistance equals the sum of the reciprocal of the resistance iii. The resultant resistance is less than the smallest resistance of the parallel combination
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D. All of the above
32
What is the capacitance of a capacitor that requires 0.9 C to charge it to 30 V ?
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D. 0.03 F
33
The capacitance of a capacitor is not determined by
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B. material of the plates
34
Which law states that magnitude of the induced emf is equal to the rate of change of flux linkage ?
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C. Faraday’s law
35
When forward bias is applied to a PN junction diode, its
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A. Potential barrier is reduced
36
The charge on N type semiconductor is
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D. Electrically neutral
37
If one diode in the centre-tapped full wave rectifier opens, then rectifier output will be
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C. Resembles output from a half wave rectifier
38
When transistor is used as a switch, it operates in
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B. Cut off region and saturation region
39
In common base amplifier which of the following is wrong ?
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C. Used for audio frequency application
40
In a transistor most of power is dissipated in collector-base junction. It is because
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B. Collector base voltage is much greater than emitter-base voltage
41
Removal of emitter bypass capacitor from the common emitter amplifier results
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A. Reduced voltage gain
42
In the following which is not the characteristics of emitter follower circuit ?
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C. low input impedance and high output impedance
43
How many active devices are there in a single stage transistor amplifier ?
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A. 1
44
The term not related to FET is
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C. Intrinsic stand-off ratio
45
UJT cannot be used
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C. As an amplifier
46
In the following components which can be used as controlled bidirectional switch ?
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D. Triac
47
2’s complement of the binary number 00010110
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B. 11101010
48
In the following logic gates, which cannot be used as an inverter ?
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B. ANd GATE
49
According to distributive law
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D. A(B + C) = AΒ·B + AΒ·C
50
For a full adder, determine the output for the input A = 1, B = 0, and carry in = 1
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B. Sum = 0 with carry of 1
51
On chip program memory of 8051 microcontroller is
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B. 4 KB
52
Name the register which points to the address of the next instruction to be executed.
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A. Program counter
53
From the following, which section comes first in SMPS with ac input ?
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B. Rectifier
54
In boost converter circuit, input source is connected to output. At that time
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D. Switching transistor is OFF and is connected in parallel with load
55
Inverter performs opposite function of
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A. Rectifier
56
One of the following UPS has no transition time delay. It is
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C. Online UPS
57
In the following, cell using photo voltaic effect is
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A. Solar Cell
58
Which of the following is a type of volatile memory ?
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D. RAm
59
Which of the following is not a component of a computer network ?
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C. Keyboard
60
Which of the following technology was used by intel to design its first 8-bit microprocessor ?
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A. NmOS
61
Which of the following is a network topology ?
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C. Bus
62
Which of the following is NOT a memory type ?
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A. USB
63
Which of the following is NOT an operating system ?
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D. Excel
64
Which of the following is the most commonly used architecture for personal computers ?
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B. CISC
65
EEPROm is basically a __________ memory.
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C. Non-volatile
66
The Unix shell is both ____________ and ___________ language.
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A. Interpreter, scripting
67
Which is the largest network in the world ?
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D. Internet
68
The gauges that uses electrical devices for measuring pressure is
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C. Both
69
Rotational displacement can be measured using
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D. Shaft encoder
70
In lVdT, output voltage
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C. Vary unequally depending on the core position
71
An open tank contains varying density liquid, the level of the tank is to be measured accurately, the most suitable measuring system is
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B. Float and cable
72
In Coriolis densitometer, for measuring densities of fluid in the pipe __________ parameter is measured.
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D. Frequency of vibration
73
In an industrial pressure thermometer the sensing element is usually made of
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Question Cancelled
74
The induced voltage generated in a electromagnetic flow meter is proportional to
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A. Flow rate
75
load cell make use of which type of arrangements ?
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C. Both tensile and compressive strain gauge
76
load cell converts
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Question Cancelled
77
As the temperature increases, the thermal conductivity of a gas
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A. Increases
78
Stroboscope measures
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B. Frequency of vibrating object
79
In a resistance potentiometer high value of resistance of POT leads to
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A. High value of sensitivity
80
The changes in resistance on application of strain in a semiconductor strain gauge
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B. Is much higher than in metal strain gauge and is due to change in resistivity
81
In an RTd
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A. Resistance increases with temperature rise
82
This acts as a quenching gas in Geiger muller Counter
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A. Alcohol
83
This law makes it possible to use extension wires of a metal different from the metals used for thermocouple
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B. law of intermediate metals
84
Flame ionisation detector in the gas chromatography is used for the detection of
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D. Hydrocarbons
85
If the reading of pH meter changes from 7 to 9, the hydrogen ion concentration of the solution is
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D. decreases 100 times
86
Bolometer measures
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B. Intensity of electromagnetic radiation
87
The purpose of the reference electrode in a pH meter is to deliver
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B. A constant voltage
88
Telemetry system which normally uses self balancing potentiometer at the receiving end
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A. Voltage telemetry system
89
In time division multiplexing
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A. Entire bandwidth of the channel is dedicated to one speed channel for a short period of time
90
Recorder which records the relationship between two variables
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D. X-y recorder
91
The signal selected by a multiplexer is converted into a constant voltage by
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C. Sample and hold circuit
92
A non-dispersive shifted fibre is
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A. Standard single mode fibre
93
Process of changing resting potential to action potential is known as
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C. depolarization
94
Sensitivity of an ECG is typically of
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C. 10 mm/mV
95
Input to the controller is
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C. Error
96
The capacitance in force-current analogy is analogous to
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D. mass
97
It refers to the time for the process control loop to make necessary adjustments to the final control element
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D. Control lag
98
_____________ lets the computer adjust process-loop setpoints for optimum process performance using standard analog control loops for control.
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A. Supervisory control
99
The master terminal unit in the SCAdA system can be a
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D. All of the above
100
PlC scan time is the time taken to
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D. Reading all the input signals, run the program and updating outputs

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