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GATE 2019 Electronics & Communication

75 questions across 2 sessions

Gate Ece 2019

PYQ 1

It would take one machine 4 hours to complete a production order and another machine 2 hours to complete the same order. If both machine work simultaneously at their respective con...

General Aptitude·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 2

Four people are standing in a line facing you. They are Rahul, Mathew, Seema and Lohit. One is engineer, one is a doctor, one a teacher and another a dancer. You are told that : 1....

General Aptitude·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 3

"Indian history was written by British historians – extremely well documented and researched, but not always impartial. History had to serve its purpose : Everything was made subse...

General Aptitude·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 4

Two design consultants, P and Q, started working from 8 AM for a client. The client budgeted a total of USD 3000 for the consultants. P stopped working when hour hand moved by 210...

General Aptitude·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 5

The strategies that the company _______ to sell its products ________ house-to-house marketing.

General Aptitude·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 6

When he did not come home, she ___ him lying dead on the roadside somewhere.

General Aptitude·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 7

Five people P, Q, R, S and T work in a bank. P and Q don’t like each other but have to share an office till T gets a promotion and moves to the big office next to the garden. R, wh...

General Aptitude·MCQ·medium·✓ keyed
PYQ 8

Five different books (P, Q, R, S, T) are to be arranged on a shelf. The books R and S are to be arranged first and second respectively from right side of the shelf. The number of d...

General Aptitude·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 9

The boat arrived _______ dawn.

General Aptitude·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed
PYQ 10

The families of curves represented by the solution of the equation $${{dy} \over {dx}} = - {\left( {{x \over y}} \right)^n}$$ for n = –1 and n = 1 respectively, are

Engineering Mathematics·MCQ·easy·✓ keyed

Set Master

Q1

The strategies that the company ________ to sell its products ________ house-to-house marketing.

English·MCQ·easy
Q1

Which one of the following functions is analytic over the entire complex plane?

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q2

The boat arrived ________ dawn.

English·MCQ·easy
Q2

The families of curves represented by the solution of the equation dy/dx = -(x/y)^n for n = -1 and n = +1, respectively, are

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q3

Let H(z) be the z-transform of a real-valued discrete-time signal h[n]. If P(z) = H(z)H(1/z) has a zero at z = 1/2 + 1/2j, and P(z) has a total of four zeros, which one of the foll...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·hard
Q3

It would take one machine 4 hours to complete a production order and another machine 2 hours to complete the same order. If both machines work simultaneously at their respective co...

Math Reasoning·MCQ·medium
Q4

Consider the two-port resistive network shown in the figure. When an excitation of 5 V is applied across Port 1, and Port 2 is shorted, the current through the short circuit at Por...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q4

Five different books (P, Q, R, S, T) are to be arranged on a shelf. The books R and S are to be arranged first and second, respectively from the right side of the shelf. The number...

Logical Reasoning·MCQ·medium
Q5

When he did not come home, she ________ him lying dead on the roadside somewhere.

English·MCQ·easy
Q5

Let Y(s) be the unit-step response of a causal system having a transfer function $G(s) = \frac{3-s}{(s+1)(s+3)}$. That is, $Y(s) = \frac{G(s)}{s}$. The forced response of the syste...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q6

Four people are standing in a line facing you. They are Rahul, Mathew, Seema and Lohit. One is an engineer, one is a doctor, one a teacher and another a dancer. You are told that:...

Logical Reasoning·MCQ·medium
Q6

For an LTI system, the Bode plot for its gain is as illustrated in the figure shown. The number of system poles Np and the number of system zeros Nz in the frequency range 1 Hz ≤ f...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q7

A linear Hamming code is used to map 4-bit messages to 7-bit codewords. The encoder mapping is linear. If the message 0001 is mapped to the codeword 0000111, and the message 0011 i...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q7

The bar graph in Panel (a) shows the proportion of male and female illiterates in 2001 and 2011. The proportions of males and females in 2001 and 2011 are given in Panel (b) and (c...

Logical Reasoning·MCQ·medium
Q8

"Indian history was written by British historians – extremely well documented and researched, but not always impartial. History had to serve its purpose: Everything was made subser...

Logical Reasoning·MCQ·medium
Q8

Which one of the following options describes correctly the equilibrium band diagram at T=300 K of a Silicon pnn+p++ configuration shown in the figure?

Electronics and Communication Engineering·DIAGRAM·medium
Q9

Two design consultants, P and Q, started working from 8 AM for a client. The client budgeted a total of USD 3000 for the consultants. P stopped working when the hour hand moved by...

Quantitative Aptitude·MCQ·hard
Q9

The correct circuit representation of the structure shown in the figure is

Electronics and Communication Engineering·DIAGRAM·medium
Q10

Five people P, Q, R, S and T work in a bank. P and Q don't like each other but have to share an office till T gets a promotion and moves to the big office next to the garden. R, wh...

Logical Reasoning·MCQ·medium
Q10

The figure shows the high-frequency C-V curve of a MOS capacitor (at T = 300 K) with Φms = 0 V and no oxide charges. The flat-band, inversion, and accumulation conditions are repre...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q11

What is the electric flux (∫ E ⋅ da) through a quarter-cylinder of height H (as shown in the figure) due to an infinitely long line charge along the axis of the cylinder with a cha...

Physics·MCQ·medium
Q12

In the table shown, List I and List II, respectively, contain terms appearing on the left-hand side and the right-hand side of Maxwell's equations (in their standard form). Match t...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q13

A standard CMOS inverter is designed with equal rise and fall times ($\beta_n = \beta_p$). If the width of the pMOS transistor in the inverter is increased, what would be the effec...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q14

In the circuit shown, what are the values of F for EN = 0 and EN = 1, respectively?

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q15

In the circuit shown, A and B are the inputs and F is the output. What is the functionality of the circuit?

Electronics and Communication Engineering·DIAGRAM·medium
Q16

The value of the contour integral $\frac{1}{2\pi j} \oint (z + \frac{1}{z})^2 dz$ evaluated over the unit circle $|z| = 1$ is ________.

Mathematics·MCQ·medium
Q17

The number of distinct eigenvalues of the matrix $A = \begin{bmatrix} 2 & 2 & 3 & 3 \\ 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 3 & 3 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 2 \end{bmatrix}$ is equal to ________.

Mathematics·MCQ·easy
Q18

If X and Y are random variables such that E[2X + Y] = 0 and E[X + 2Y] = 33, then E[X] + E[Y] = _________.

Electrical Engineering·NAT·medium
Q19

The value of the integral $\int_0^\pi \int_y^\pi \frac{\sin x}{x} dx dy$, is equal to _________.

Mathematics·NAT·medium
Q20

Let Z be an exponential random variable with mean 1. That is, the cumulative distribution function of Z is given by $F_Z(x) = \begin{cases} 1 - e^{-x} & \text{if } x \ge 0 \\ 0 & \...

Electrical Engineering·NAT·medium
Q21

Consider the signal $f(t) = 1 + 2 \cos(\pi t) + 3 \sin(\frac{2\pi}{3} t) + 4 \cos(\frac{\pi}{2} t + \frac{\pi}{4})$, where t is in seconds. Its fundamental time period, in seconds,...

Electrical Engineering·NAT·medium
Q22

The baseband signal m(t) shown in the figure is phase-modulated to generate the PM signal $\varphi(t) = \cos(2\pi f_c t + k m(t))$. The time t on the x-axis in the figure is in mil...

Electrical Engineering·NAT·hard
Q23

Radiation resistance of a small dipole current element of length l at a frequency of 3 GHz is 3 ohms. If the length is changed by 1%, then the percentage change in the radiation re...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·medium
Q24

In the circuit shown, V_S is a square wave of period T with maximum and minimum values of 8 V and -10 V, respectively. Assume that the diode is ideal and R_1 = R_2 = 50 Ω. The aver...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·medium
Q25

In the circuit shown, the clock frequency, i.e., the frequency of the Clk signal, is 12 kHz. The frequency of the signal at Q_2 is _________ kHz.

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·easy
Q26

Consider a differentiable function f (x) on the set of real numbers such that f(-1) = 0 and |f'(x)| ≤ 2. Given these conditions, which one of the following inequalities is necessar...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q27

Consider the line integral ∫_C (xdy - ydx) the integral being taken in a counterclockwise direction over the closed curve C that forms the boundary of the region R shown in the fig...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q28

Consider a six-point decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, for which the signal-flow graph corresponding to X[1] is shown in the figure. Let $W_6 = \exp\left(-...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q29

It is desired to find a three-tap causal filter which gives zero signal as an output to an input of the form $x[n] = c_1 \exp\left(-\frac{j\pi n}{2}\right) + c_2 \exp\left(\frac{j\...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·hard
Q30

In the circuit shown, if v(t) = 2 sin(1000 t) volts, R = 1 kΩ and C = 1 µF, then the steady-state current i(t), in milliamperes (mA), is

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q31

Consider a causal second-order system with the transfer function G(s) = \frac{1}{1 + 2s + s^2} with a unit-step R(s) = \frac{1}{s} as an input. Let C(s) be the corresponding output...

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·hard
Q32

The block diagram of a system is illustrated in the figure shown, where X(s) is the input and Y(s) is the output. The transfer function H(s) = \frac{Y(s)}{X(s)} is

Electrical Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q33

Let the state-space representation of an LTI system be $\dot{x}(t) = A x(t) + B u(t)$, $y(t) = C x(t) + d u(t)$ where A, B, C are matrices, d is a scalar, u(t) is the input to the...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·hard
Q34

A single bit, equally likely to be 0 and 1, is to be sent across an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with power spectral density $N_0/2$. Binary signaling, with $0 \map...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q35

The quantum efficiency ($\eta$) and responsivity (R) at a wavelength $\lambda$ (in $\mu$m) in a p-i-n photodetector are related by

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·easy
Q36

Two identical copper wires W1 and W2, placed in parallel as shown in the figure, carry currents I and 2I, respectively, in opposite directions. If the two wires are separated by a...

Physics·MCQ·medium
Q37

The dispersion equation of a waveguide, which relates the wavenumber k to the frequency $\omega$, is $k(\omega) = (1/c)\sqrt{\omega^2 - \omega_0^2}$ where the speed of light $c = 3...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q38

In the circuit shown, the breakdown voltage and the maximum current of the Zener diode are 20 V and 60 mA, respectively. The values of R1 and RL are 200 Ω and 1 kΩ, respectively. W...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·hard
Q39

The state transition diagram for the circuit shown is

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q40

In the circuits shown, the threshold voltage of each nMOS transistor is 0.6 V. Ignoring the effect of channel length modulation and body bias, the values of Vout1 and Vout2, respec...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·MCQ·medium
Q41

The RC circuit shown below has a variable resistance R(t) given by the following expression: R(t) = R₀ (1 - t/T) for 0 ≤ t < T where R₀ = 1 Ω, and C = 1 F. We are also given that T...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·hard
Q42

Consider a unity feedback system, as in the figure shown, with an integral compensator $\frac{K}{s}$ and open-loop transfer function $G(s) = \frac{1}{s^2 + 3s + 2}$ where K > 0. Th...

Electrical Engineering·NAT·hard
Q43

Consider the homogeneous ordinary differential equation $x^2 \frac{d^2y}{dx^2} - 3x \frac{dy}{dx} + 3y = 0$, $x > 0$ with $y(x)$ as a general solution. Given that $y(1) = 1$ and $y...

Mathematics·NAT·medium
Q44

Let $h[n]$ be a length-7 discrete-time finite impulse response filter, given by $h[0] = 4$, $h[1] = 3$, $h[2] = 2$, $h[3] = 1$, $h[-1] = -3$, $h[-2] = -2$, $h[-3] = -1$, and $h[n]$...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·hard
Q45

Let a random process Y(t) be described as Y(t) = h(t) * X(t) + Z(t), where X(t) is a white noise process with power spectral density Sx (f) = 5 W/Hz. The filter h(t) has a magnitud...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·hard
Q46

A voice signal m(t) is in the frequency range 5 kHz to 15 kHz. The signal is amplitude-modulated to generate an AM signal f(t) = A(1 + m(t)) cos 2πfct, where fc = 600 kHz. The AM s...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·medium
Q47

A random variable X takes values -1 and +1 with probabilities 0.2 and 0.8, respectively. It is transmitted across a channel which adds noise N, so that the random variable at the c...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·hard
Q48

A Germanium sample of dimensions 1 cm × 1 cm is illuminated with a 20 mW, 600 nm laser light source as shown in the figure. The illuminated sample surface has a 100 nm of loss-less...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·hard
Q49

In an ideal pn junction with an ideality factor of 1 at T=300 K, the magnitude of the reverse-bias voltage required to reach 75% of its reverse saturation current, rounded off to 2...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·medium
Q50

Consider a long-channel MOSFET with a channel length 1 µm and width 10 µm. The device parameters are acceptor concentration N_A= 5 × 10¹⁶ cm⁻³, electron mobility µ_n=800 cm²/V-s, o...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·medium
Q51

A rectangular waveguide of width w and height h has cut-off frequencies for TE₁₀ and TE₁₁ modes in the ratio 1: 2. The aspect ratio w/h, rounded off to two decimal places, is _____...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·medium
Q52

In the circuit shown, Vs is a 10 V square wave of period, T = 4 ms with R = 500 Ω and C = 10 µF. The capacitor is initially uncharged at t=0, and the diode is assumed to be ideal....

Electrical Engineering·NAT·medium
Q53

A CMOS inverter, designed to have a mid-point voltage V_I equal to half of Vdd, as shown in the figure, has the following parameters: Vdd = 3 V μn Cox = 100 μA/V^2 ; Vtn = 0.7 V fo...

Electrical Engineering·NAT·medium
Q54

In the circuit shown, the threshold voltages of the pMOS (|Vtp|) and nMOS (Vtn) transistors are both equal to 1 V. All the transistors have the same output resistance rds of 6 MΩ....

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·hard
Q55

In the circuit shown, V₁ = 0 and V₂ = Vdd. The other relevant parameters are mentioned in the figure. Ignoring the effect of channel length modulation and the body effect, the valu...

Electronics and Communication Engineering·NAT·hard