1.

If A is an mxn matrix such that AB and BA

are both defined, then B is an

13. The number of all possible matrices for order

3x3 with each entry 0 or 1 is

- nxm matrix
2. If A and B are symmetric matrices, then ABA
is
-symmetric
3. If A =

- skew symmetric

, the value of An is

-512
14. If for a matrix A, A2 + I = 0, then I is an
identity matrix, then A equals
15. If A, B are symmetric matrices of same
order, then AB BA is a

-none of these
4. If A is an orthogonal matrix, then A-1 is

- skew symmetric matrix

- A

and

, then An is equal to

5. If A = diagonal (d1, d2, . dn), then An

16. If A =

- diag(d1n, d2n dnn )

- 2n-1 A

6. If A and B are two invertible matrices of same

order, then (AB)-1 is

17. If a matrix A is symmetric as well as skew

symmetric, then

- B-1A-1

- A is a null matrix

7. The inverse of a symmetric matrix is

18. Matrices A and B will be inverse of each

other only if

-symmetric
- AB = BA = I
8. If A,B are two square matrices such that AB =
A and BA = B then

19. If A is a square matrix of order n x n and

a scalar, then | | is

-A,B are idempotent

-

|A|

9. Inverse of a diagonal matrix is

20. If A is a non-singular square matrix, then
|adj. A| is equal to

- a diagonal matrix
10. If A is symmetric, then An for

is

- |A|n-2

- symmetric
11. If A is skew-symmetric, then An for

is

-none of these
12. If A is skew symmetric, then An for an odd
positive integer is

21. If A is an invertible matrix, then det(A-1) is

equal to
- 1 / |A|
22. If A is an orthogonal matrix, then
- |A| =

is

23. If A is invertible, then which of the

following is not true

32. Value of

- A-I = |A|-i

24. If A =

is

2i 12

then matrix A is
33. If A =

- Nilpotent

and B =

then AB

equals

25. If A =

then

is

- a null matrix
34. The value of determinant
26. If

is

= 0 then
-0

- a/b is a cube root of -1

27. If x,y,z are in A.P., then the value of the
determinant (insert very large matrix here) is
-0

35. If A = [aij] is a 4x4 matrix and cij is the cofactor of the element aij in |A|, then the
expression a11c11 + a12c12 + a13c13 + a14c14
equals
- |A|

28. If
k

36. The value of the determinant

is

then the value of k is

-3
29. If A is a square matrix of order n such that
its elements are polynomials in x and its r-rows
become identical for x = a, then

- a3(1 + 3/a)
37. For any 2x2 matrix A, if A[adj. A] =
then |A| equals

- (x-a)n is a factor of |A|

10

30. For a square matrix A and a non-singular

matrix B of same order, value of determinant of
B-1AB is

38. If A =

- |A|

- a3

31. The value of the determinant (insert very

large matrix here), where = 1, is
-3

|A||adj.A| is

, then the value of

39.

and

are the

given determinants, then

- d/dx ( 1) = 3

= a2b2c2, then the

46. If
value of

40. The value of the

is
4

47. If

determinants

is

is to be the square root of the

two rowed unit matrix, then

satisfy the relation

should

-0

-1

41. If a, b, c are non-zero real numbers, then the

48. The value of the determinant (insert matrix

with !) is

inverse of the matrix A =

is

=0

- 4!
49. If A is a square matrix such that A2 = A, then
|A| equals

- 0 or 1
42. If A =

, then the value of |adj. A|

is

50. If A is a square matrix such that |A| = 2, then

for any positive integer n, |An| is equal to

- a6

- 2n

43. If A and B are square matrices of the same

order and A is non-singular then for a positive
integer n, (A-1BA)n is equal to

51. One root of the equation

- A-1BnA

following?

44. If [1,2,3]A = [4,5], what is the order of

matrix A?

= 0 is which of the

52. If 1/a + 1/b + 1/c = 0, then

- 3x2

is equal to

45. If A =

, the value of
is

- 64

2/3

- abc
53. If each element of a 3x3 matrix is multiplied
by 3, then the determinant of the newly formed
matrix is
- 27|A|

54. If A and B are symmetric matrices of order n

(
), then

63. For a 3x3 matrix A, if |A| = 4, then |adj. A|

equals

A + b is symmetric

55. Let A and B be 3x3 matrices, then AB = 0

implies

16

64. If a, b and c are all different from zero and

delta =

= 0 then the

- Either |A| = 0 or |B| = 0

value of 1/a + 1/b +1/c is
56. If for a matric=x A, A2 + I = 0, where I is the
identity matrix, then A equals
57. Which of the following matrices in not
revertible?

-1

65. Let aij denote the element of the ith row and
jth column in a 3x3 determinant (
and let aij = -aji for every I and j, then the
determinant has all the principal diagonal
elements as

-0

58. If A and B are two matrices such that A + B

and AB are both defined, then

66. Let A be an invertible matrix, which of the

following is not true?

- A,B are square matrices of same order

- A-1 = |A|-1

59. If A the transpose of square matrix A, then

67. From the matrix equations AB =AC, we can

conclude B = C provided

- |A| = |A|

- A is non-singular
60. If A and B are any 2x2 matrices, then |A+B|
= 0 implies

68. A and B are two non-zero matrices such that

AB = 0, then

- none of these
- Either of them is singular
61. If A =

4n

then A equals

69. The value of the determinant delta = (insert

large matrix with logarithm) is

-0
2

62. If 1,w,w are the cube roots of unity, then

delta =
-0

has the value

70. If a + b + c = 0,one root

of
- x=0

= 0 is

71. If A is a singular matrix, then adj. A is

80. A square matrix can always be expressed as

-singular

- sum of a symmetric matrix and a skew

symmetric matrix

72. The value of the determinant (insert large

matrix with 1, C1, C2 here) is equal to

81. If

= 0, then x is

1
equal to

73. The order of [x y z]

is

- 0, -(

82. A and B are square matrices of order nxn,

then (A B)2 is equal to

- 1x1

74. If A and B are two matrices such that AB =

B and BA = A, then A2 + B2 =

A2 AB BA + B2

83. Choose the correct answer

A+B
- Every identity matrix is a scalar matrix

75. If a>0, b>0, c>0 are respectively the pth, qth

rth terms of a G.P., then the value of the
determinant (insert matrix with log) is
-0
76. If in

16A

85. If A and B are square matrices of oder 3

such that |A| = -1, |B| = 3. Then |3AB| =

the co-factor of a is A,

then c1A1 + c1A2 + c3A3 is

-0
77. The value of

then A5 =

84. If

86. If
is

-81
is cube root of unity, then

Delta = (insert large matrix here with x and

)=

X3

-0
78. For a square matrix A, it is given that AA +
I, then A is
-orthogonal matrix
79. If A is a square matrix, then A = A is
-skew symmetric matrix

87. In a third order determinant, each element of

the first column consist of sum of two terms,
each element of the second column consists of
sum of three terms and each element of the third
column consists of sum of four terms. Then it
can be decomposed into n determinants where n
has value
= 24

1. In an open loop control system

(a) Output is independent of control input
2. For open control system which of the
following statements is incorrect ?
(b) Recalibration is not required for maintaining
3. A control system in which the control action
is somehow dependent on the output is known
as
(a) Closed loop system
4. In closed loop control system, with positive
value of feedback gain the overall gain of the
system will
(a) decrease
5. Which of the following is an open loop
control system ?
(a) Field controlled D.C. motor
6. Which of the following statements is not
necessarily correct for open control system ?
(b) Presence of non-linearities causes
malfunctioning
7. In open loop system
(d) the control action is independent of the
output
8. __________ has tendency to oscillate.
(b) Closed loop system
9. A good control system has all the following
features except
(b) slow response
10. A car is running at a constant speed of 50
km/h, which of the following is the feedback
element for the driver?
(c) Needle of the speedometer
11. The initial response when the output is not
equal to input is called
(a) Transient response

12. A control system working under unknown

random actions is called
(c) stochastic control system
13. An automatic toaster is a ______ loop
control system.
(a) open
14. Any externally introduced signal affecting
the controlled output is called a
(b) stimulus
15. A closed loop system is distinguished from
open loop system by which of the following ?
(b) Feedback
16 is a part of the human temperature control
system.
(b) Perspiration system
17. By which of the following the control action
is determined when a man walks along a path ?
(d) Eyes
18 is a closed loop system.
(a) Auto-pilot for an aircraft
19. Which of the following devices are
commonly used as error detectors in
instruments ?
(d) Any of the above
20. Which of the following should be done to
make an unstable system stable ?
(b) The gain of the system should be increased
21 increases the steady state accuracy.
(a) Integrator
22. A.C. servomotor resembles
(a) two phase induction motor
23. As a result of introduction of negative
feedback which of the following will not
decrease ?
(a) Band width

24. Regenerative feedback implies feedback

with
(d) positive sign
25. The output of a feedback control system
must be a function of
(a) reference and output
26 is an open loop control system.
(b) Field controlled D.C. motor
27. A control system with excessive noise, is
likely to suffer from
(a) saturation in amplifying stages
28. Zero initial condition for a system means
(d) system is at rest and no energy is stored in
any of its components
29. Transfer function of a system is used to
calculate which of the following ?
(c) The output for any given input
30. The band width, in a feedback amplifier.
(c) increases by the same amount as the gain
decrease
31. On which of the following factors does the
sensitivity of a closed loop system to gain
changes and load disturbances depend ?
(d) All of the above
32. The transient response, with feedback
system,
(d) decays quickly
33. The second derivative input signals modify
which of the following ?
(d) The time constant and suppress the
oscillations
34. Which of the following statements is correct
for any closed loop system ?
(c) Only one of the static error co-efficients has
a finite non-zero value

35. Which of the following statements is correct

for a system with gain margin close to unity or a
phase margin close to zero ?
(c) The system is highly oscillatory
36. Due to which of the following reasons
excessive bond width in control systems should
be avoided ?
(c) Noise is proportional to band width
37. In a stable control system backlash can
cause which of the following ?
(d) Low-level oscillations
38. In an automatic control system which of the
following elements is not used ?
(d) Oscillator
39. In a control system the output of the
controller is given to
(a) final control element
40. A controller, essentially, is a
(c) comparator
41. Which of the following is the input to a
controller ?
(a) Servo signal
(b) Desired variable value
(c) Error signal
(d) Sensed signal
Ans:
42. The on-off controller is a _____ system.
(a) digital
(b) linear
(c) non-linear
(d) discontinuous
Ans:
43. The capacitance, in force-current analogy, is
analogous to
(d) mass
44. The temperature, under thermal and
electrical system analogy, is considered
analogous to
(a) voltage

45. In electrical-pneumatic system analogy the

current is considered analogous to
(d) air flow rate

56. ___________ is the reference input minus

the primary feedback.
(c) Actuating signal

46. In liquid level and electrical system analogy,

voltage is considered analogous to
(a) head

57. The term backlash is associated with

(a) servomotors
(b) induction relays
(c) gear trains
(d) any of the above
Ans:
58. With feedback _____ increases.
(a) system stability

47. The viscous friction co-efficient, in forcevoltage analogy, is analogous to

(b) resistance
48. In force-voltage analogy, velocity is
analogous to
(a) current
49. In thermal-electrical analogy charge is
considered analogous to
(d) temperature
50. Mass, in force-voltage analogy, is analogous
to
(c) inductance
51. The transient response of a system is mainly
due to
(c) stored energy
52 signal will become zero when the feedback
signal and reference signs are equal.
(b) Actuating
53. A signal other than the reference input that
tends to affect the value of controlled variable
is known as
(a) disturbance
54. The transfer function is applicable to which
of the following ?
(a) Linear and time-in variant systems
55. From which of the following transfer
function can be obtained ?
(a) Signal flow graph

59. By which of the following the system

response can be tested better ?
(c) Unit impulse input signal
60. In a system zero initial condition means that
(a) The system is at rest and no energy is stored
in any of its components
61. In a system low friction co-efficient
facilitates
(a) reduced velocity lag error
62. Hydraulic torque transmission system is
analog of
(a) amplidyne set
(b) resistance-capacitance parallel circuit
(c) motor-generator set
(d) any of the above
Ans:
63. Spring constant in force-voltage analogy is
analogous to
(b) reciprocal of capacitance
64. The frequency and time domain are related
through which of the following?
(a) Laplace Transform and Fourier Integral
65. An increase in gain, in most systems, leads
to
(a) smaller damping ratio

66. Static error co-efficients are used as a

measure of the effectiveness of closed loop
systems for specified ________ input signal.
(d) all of the above
67. A conditionally stable system exhibits poor
stability at
(b) reduced values of open loop gain
68. The type 0 system has ______ at the origin.
(a) no pole
69. The type 1 system has ______ at the origin.
(c) simple pole
70. The type 2 system has ______ at the origin.
(d) two poles
71. The position and velocity errors of a type-2
system are
(c) zero, constant
72. Velocity error constant of a system is
measured when the input to the system is unit
_______ function.
(b) ramp
73. In case of type-1 system steady state
acceleration is
(b) infinity
74. If a step function is applied to the input of a
system and the output remains below a certain
level for all the time, the system is
(a) not necessarily stable
75. Which of the following is the best method
for determining the stability and transient
response ?
(a) Root locus
76. Phase margin of a system is used to specify
which of the following ?
(c) Relative stability

77. Addition of zeros in transfer function causes

which of the following ?
(b) Lag-compensation
78. __________________ technique is not
applicable to nonlinear system ?
(a) Nyquist Criterion
79. In order to increase the damping of a badly
underdamped system which of following
compensators may be used ?
(a) Phase-lead
80. The phase lag produced by transportation
relays
(c) increases linearly with frequency
81. In a stable control system saturation can
cause which of the following ?
(a) Low-level oscillations
82. Which of the following can be measured by
the use of a tacho-generator ?
(b) Speed
83 ____________ is not a final control element.
(b) Potentiometer
84. Which of the following is the definition of
proportional band of a controller ?
(c) The range of measured variables through
which the air output changes from maximum to
minimum
85. In pneumatic control systems the control
valve used as final control element converts
(b) pressure signal to position change
86. Pressure error can be measured by which of
the following ?
(a) Differential bellows and straingauge

87. Which of the following devices is used for

conversion of co-ordinates?
(c) Synchro-resolver
88. The effect of error damping is to
(c) reduce steady state error
89 technique gives quick transient and stability
response
(a) Root locus
90. A phase lag lead network introduces in the
output
(c) lag at low frequencies and lead at high
frequencies
91. Which of the following is the non-linearity
caused by servo motor ?
(c) Saturation

99. An amplidyne can give which of the

following characteristics ?
(d) Constant current, constant voltage and
constant power
100. Which of the following can be measured by
LVDT?
(d) Any of the above
101 directly converts temperature into voltage.
(a) Thermocouple
102. The transfer function technique is
considered as inadequate under which of the
following conditions ?
(d) All of the above
103. Which of the following is the output of a
thermocouple ?
(d) D.C. voltage

92 can be extended to systems which are timevarying ?

(d) State model representatives

104. A.C. servomotor is basically a

(c) two phase induction motor

93. When the initial conditions of a system are

specified to be zero it implies that the system is
(d) at rest but stores energy

105. The first order control system, which is

well designed, has a
(c) large negative transfer function pole

94. Which of the following is an

electromechanical device ?
(c) LVDT

106. Which of the following is exhibited by Root

locus diagrams ?
(a) The poles of the transfer function for a set of
parameter values

95. A differentiator is usually not a part of a

control system because it
(c) increases input noise
96. If the gain of the critical damped system is
increased it will behave as
(d) underdamped
97. In a control system integral error
compensation _______ steady state error
(b) minimizes
98. With feed back _____ reduces.
(b) system gain

DSP
1. In the Fourier expansion series, a0, an,
bn are
d. Full Range Coefficient
2. Find the first four closed-form
expression of the convolution of the
sequence
d.{1,1.1,0.91,0.671}
3. A mathematical transform using
sinusoids as the basis fuction.
a. Fourier Transform
4. A series of sinusoid wave forms that,
when added together, produce a
resultant waveform.
c.Fourier Series
5. A filter that is used on the output of the
DAC in a DSP system. Its purpose is to
smooth out the stair step pattern of the
DACs output.
a.smoothing filter
b.Anti-Aliasing Filter
c.Finite Impulse Response Filter
d.InFinite Impulse Response Filter
6. A filter that is used to limit the
bandwidth of any incoming signal.
b. Anti-Aliasing Filter
7. For speech, which is not acceptable as
sampling freq.
c. 4000Hz

10. Two capacitor C1=4F and C2=6F having

initial voltage Vc1(0^-)=8V and Vc2(0^-)
= 3V are connected in parallel at t=0,
then what will be the voltage Vc(t), t>0
across the combination?
a. 8V
b. 3V
c. 5V
d. 2V
11. A capacitor of capacitance C Farad and
with an initial voltage, Vo is
represented in s-domain by:
a. An Impedance 1/sC in series with a
voltage source Vo/s
b. An Impedance 1/sC in parallel with
a current source CVo
c. An Impedance 1/sC in series with a
current source CVo
d. Both A and B
12. The laplace transform analysis gives
a. Time domain response only
b. Frequency domain response only
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
13. The Inverse of symmetric matrix is
14. A trigonometric Fourier series of an
even function does not have
a. Constant
b. Cosine Form
c. Sine Form
d. Odd harmonic term
15. Which of the following is not

8. Odd symmetric signals are _____

signals
a.sine
9. Which is not a step in converting analog
to digital signals?
a.convolution

- 1ei8pix
16. The impulse response function h(t), of a
zero-order-hold circuit is
a. An impulse Response
b. A rectangular pulse
c. A triangular pulse
d. None of the above

17. These are filter with multiple passband

and stopband and are obtained by
placing several poles near the unit circle
a. Comb filter
b. Ideal Frequency-Selective Filter
c. Practical or nonideal filter
d. Notch Filter
18. A metric space is
a. A vector space together with a
metric defined on it
b. A set on which a metric has been
defined
c. An inner product space on which a
metric has been defined
d. None of the above

19. An inner product space is

20. A band frequencies that are passed by a
filter with no or negligible attenuation
a. Passband
b. Stopband
c. Transition Band
d. Guard Band

25. Lowpass and signal band limited to

1200Hzwas sampled and 1000Hz is
reappearing in recovered signal as
400Hz
26. Odd order causal FIR filter with
symmetric Impulse
a. Type I FIR
b. Type II FIR
c. Type III FIR
d. Type IV FIR
27. Signal x(t) = 10sinc(20t) is applied as the
input signal to an LTI system. The
minimum bandwidth over which the
gain should be constant and phase
response should be linear, for
distortionless transmission of the signal
is
a. 5Hz
b. 10Hz
c. 20Hz
d. None of the above
28. Aperture effect

21. The smallest interval between two

quantization steps
a. Quantization Interval
b. Quantization Level
c. Quantization Process
d. Quantization Step

29. If x(t) is a periodic signal with odd

symmetry, its trigonometric Fourier
series

22. The lowest frequency of the sinusoid

that has exactly the same samples as
the input sinusoid and is denoted by Fa
a. Normalized Frequency
b. Folding Frequency
c. Apparent Frequency
d. Sampling Frequency

31. The initial value of 20-10t-e25t, x = 0

-19

23. Impulse response y[n] = 0.24(x[n]+x[n1]+x[n-2]+x[n-3])

24. Feedback control of type 2, steady state
error of parabola input

30. The final Value of (2s+1)/(s4+8s3+16s2+s)

32. FFT can be used for the computation of

a. A linear convolution but not circular
convolution
b. A circular convolutionbut not linear
convolution
c. Both linear and circular convolution
d. Neither linear nor circular
convolution
33. A high rate of sampling will make the
design of

34. What is the convolution of x[n] =[1 4 8

2] and v[n] = [0 1 2 3 4](The sequence
both start at n=0)
a. Y[n] = {0,1,6,19,34,44,38,8,0}
b. Y[n] = {1,0,6,34,19,44,8,38,0}
c. Y[n]={1,6,19,34,44,38,8,0,0}
d. Y[n]={1,0,6,34,19,44,38,8,0}
35. A measure of number of samples in one
second, expressed in samples per
second.
36. The basic cooley-tukey algorithm that
uses length N as a power of 2 for
splitting sequences into two subsequences of equal length at each stage
of the algorithm
a. DFT
b. FFT
c. Radix-2 FFT algorithm
d. Radix R FFT algorithm