National Transmission and Dispatch Company

For junior engineers electrical and electronics

Test held through NTS on 16 Oct 2016

Paper composition:
General knowledge = 17 questions
Post related (technical) = 83 questions

General Knowledge portion

Q1: FIFA world cup 2018 will be held in?
Russia
Q2: PTI and PML (N) agreed on
(a)JIT b) High commission c)judicial commission d) NAB e)FIA
Q3: Nawaz Shareef is currently elected for prime minister for ____ times.
a)4th b)2nd c)5th d)3rd
Q4: Iran-Pak gas pipeline is called.
Peace pipeline
Q5: Operation Zarb-e-Azab is for
a)terrorism b)Political instability c)Radicalism d)All
Q6: current president of India.
Pernab MukherJee
Q7: Current chief minister of Punjab.
Shahbaz Shareef
Q8: Allai hydropower project is in
a)Punjab b)Bluchistan c)KPK d)Sindh
Q9: Ishaq Dar is:
Finance Minister
Q10: Amjad Sabri who shot dead in Karachi is:
Qawwal
Q11: APS attack is on:
a)14 dec 2014 b)16 dec 2014 c)6 dec 2014 d)8 dec 2014
Q12: Malalah Yousaf Zai shared 2014 Nobel peace prize with:
Kailash satyarthi
Q13: Pakistan won 3rd Asian Kabaddi 2016 by defeating:
a)China b)Bangladesh c)India d)Brazil
Q14: 2015 Cricket world cup champion is:
a)New Zealand b)Australia c)England d)Pakistan
Q15: Bangladesh banned which religious scholar recently?
a)Zakir Ali b)Zakir Muhammad c)Zakir Naik d)Muhammad Owais
Q16: State of worlds children 2016 is published by
a)WHO b)UNESCO c)UNICEF d)IMF
Q17: Abdus Sattar Edhi is died due to disease?
a)Kidney b)Heart c)Diabetes d)hypoglycemia

Post Related(Technical)

Q18: In DC motor which loss decreases with increase in load

a)friction and windage loss b)core c)brush contact loss d)None
Q19: Transformer Oil should be free from
a)Odour b)Gasses c)Sulphur d)Moisture
Q20: Constant current transformer should not have
a)moveable secondary winding b)high resistance c)primary and secondary winding surrounding core
d)none
Q21: Green functions is useful for solving
a)ordinary differential equation b)partial differential equation c)first order ordinary differential
equation d) second order differential equation
Q22:In piston maximum temperature is at:
a)ring set b)Gudgeon pin c)topsides d)top centre
Q23: Copper wire which has highest tensile strength
a)Soft drawn b)medium drawn c)hard drawn d) none
Q24: Outdoor substation lightening arrestor is placed near
a)Isolator b)current transformer c)Power transformer d)Current breaker
Q25: Isolator tests
d)All
Q26: P = 3000KW, d = 30km transmission line voltage will be:
a)11KV b)66kV c)33KV d)132KV
Q27:Condensors take steam coming out of:
a)boiler b)turbine c)super heater d)Economizer
Q28: Coal which has lowest calorific value:
a)Steam coal b)Bituminous c)lignite d)Anthracite
Q29:Graphic representation between discharge and time is called:
a)monograph b)Hectograph c)Topograph d)Hydrograph
Q30:Coal from storage to boiler is taken through:
a)Buckets b)V-ballets c)Trolleys d)Manually
Q31: Main drawback of feedback system is:
a)Inaccuracy b)Inefficiency c)Insensitivity d)Instability
Q32: phase margin specifies
a)Absolute Stability b)Relative Stability c)frequency response d)
Q33:Non-linearity caused by servomotor is due to:
a)coulomb friction b)Dead space c)Saturation d)dissemination
Q34:In force-voltage analogy Inertia is analogous to:
a)Capacitance b)Inductance c)Inverse of capacitance d)Inverse of Inductance
Q35: When control unit commands ALU to perform an operation, machine cycle is involved in which
step?
a)1st step b)3rd step c)2nd step d)4th step
Q36:Padders in receivers are used for
a)Increase sensitivity b)Tracking c)fine tuning d)decrease noise
Q37:PCM quantization noise depends on
a)Number of quantization levels b)Sampling rate c)Index number d)none
Q38:Graphical difference between nFET and pFET is
a)inversion bubble at gate b)Inversion bubble at source c)Inversion bubble at drain d)all
Q39:Probability of defective bulbs = 0.12, Total bulbs = 8000 then number of defective bulbs:
a)960 b)96 c)9600 d)96000
Q40:In poison distribution probability of success is very close to
a)1 b)0.5 c)0.2 d)0
Q41:Technique used to enable multiple broadband signals to be transmitted over single mode fiber:
a)Subscriber b)wavelength division multiplexing c)time division multiplexing d)frequency division
multiplexing
Q42:single flip flop is constructed using
a)NAND b)AND c)OR d)NOR
Q43: ___Cells make concentration layer of lens
a)Strong b)Fibrous c)Weak d)Optical
Q44:Which communication system is digital
a)FM b)AM c)PAM d)PCM
Q45:PWM is generated by:
a)a mono stable multi vibrator b)astable multi vibrator c)Integration of PPM signal d)derivative the
PPM signal
Q46:In communication receivers the fidelity is provided by
a)Audio stage b)Detector stage c)mixer stage d)All
Q47:Balanced modulator produces
a)AM b)SSB c)USB d)DSB

Q48:Reciever with poor IF selectivity will have poor

a)sensitivity b)blocking of adjacent element channels c)Diverse reception d)none
Q49:AGC voltage is applied to the stages which are
a)Before the detector stage b)After the detector stage c)at detector stage d)both a & c
Q50: Closed loop system
Q51: In position control system, device which provides rate-feedback is
a). b)Tachogenerator c) d).
Q52:Not applicable to non-linear system
a)Functional analysis b)Nyquist criterion c)Quasi-linearization d)phase-plane representation
Q53:A control system with excessive noise, is likely to suffer from
a)Saturation in amplifying stages b)loss of gain c)Vibrations d)Oscilations
Q54:Basically a controller is
a)amplifier b)comparator c)clipper d)Summer
Q55:Pole shoes of DC machine fastened to pole core by
a)welding b)soldering c)steal clamp d)counter sunk
Q56:Brushes on commutator are shifted from GNP to
a)obtain highest generated voltage b)Avoid sparking c)to increase generated efficiency d)to produce
sparking
Q57:admittance is reciprocal of:
Impedance
Q58:Power in AC is consumed by
a)inductor b)Capacitor c)Resistance d)All
Q59:Negative maximum of cosine waveform is
-1 at 180 degree
Q60:RF chokes are air cored to
a)keep frequency low b)keep inductive reactance low c) to keep frequency high d)to keep inductive
reactance high
Q61:Form factor for 220V and 50HZ AC is
a)1.5 b)1.14 c)1.11 d)0.85
Q62:In common base amplifier output voltage is taken from
a)collector b)Emitter c)Base d)both A & C
Q63:Rectification
Q64:V = 50v AC, f = 10kHZ, I = 7.96mA then Inductance = L = ?
a)1mH b)10mH c)100mH d)1H
Q65:Instantenous of sinusoidal AC current at 45 degree is called
a)Peak-peak b)RMS c)Peak current d)average
Q66:Current and voltage are out of phase the power is
a)0 b)minimum c)maximum d)square root(3)VI
Q67:Form factor is ratio of
a)avg to rms b)peak to rms c)rms to avg
Q68:Mutual inductance .
Q69:which is universal gate
a)AND b)OR c)NOR d)XOR

Q70:127 decimal to binary

a).. b) c)1111111 d)0111 1111
Q71:Digital electronics base on how many number of basic operations
a)2 b)3 c)4 d)5
Q72:Programmer most likely prepare
a)general system design b)specific system design c)general program flowchart d)specific program
flowchart
Q73:Thyristor is
4 layer 3 PN junction device
Q74:In three phase half wave diode rectification, average output voltage to per phase maximum AC
voltage is
a)1 b)1.169 c)0.827 d)1.57
Q75:Data communication in telegraph line
a)simplex line b)wideband c)narrowband d)dialed service

Q76:Knowldege of transfer function gives

a)The order of System b)The time constant c)The output for any given input d)The steady state gain
e)All
Q77:Video Transmission in TV broadcast is
a)FM b)PM c)AM d)SM
Q78: Scalar product of parallel vector is an addition of:
Product of their magnitude
Q79: Structured data that can be used for assessing the system is called
Date Base
Q80: horizontal and vertical component of earth magnetic field is equal , angle of dip is ?
60 , 90 , 45 , 30
Q81: If zener regulator current is dropped below knee current then
a)Zener will damage b)Below zener knee current a constant voltage is not maintained by zener
Q82: An electrode b/w cathode and anode is called ____
a)Filament b)Grid c). D)..
Q83: Optical power depends on ------- associated with optical fibre receiver. (Repeated from previous
NTS discos papers)
e)All
Q84: A transformer transform ______
Power
Current
Voltage
Q85: Knowldege of transfer function gives
a)The order of System b)The time constant c)The output for any given input d)The steady state gain
Q86: Which will enter to super heater of boiler __
Wet steam
Hot steam
Cold steam
Q87: The process of AC to Dc conversion is called ______
Rectification
Q88: The _____ field last as long as current flowing in the wire.
a)Electric field b)magnetic field c). d)..
Q89: At breakaway point, several branches of root loci coalese because the system characteristic
equation has Several roots
Q90: . A semiconductor device is connected to battery, upon changing the polarity of battery the
current reduced to zero, device is
N- type semiconductor
P- type semiconductor
P-N junction
Q91: Which wave does not require any physical medium for its propagation? Electromagnetic waves
Q92: . Principle of fiber optics transmission is
Total internal reflection
Q93: form same peak value, of which signal the RMS value is smaller
Sinusoidal
Trianglar
Square
Full-wave rectified
Q94: . Filter used for extracting original signal from sampled signal isband pass
band stop
high pass
low pass
Q95: A matrix has m rows and n columns then order of matrix is?
m*n
Q96: If a and b vectors are anti-parallel, then their resultant is
a-b
Q97: Which one is closed loop system?
Autopilot
Q98: Which is not true about VHDL?
a)Strong language b)case sensitive language c) d)
Q99: In critically damped system, damping factor of system is 1
Q100: Electric dipole moment per unit volume of dielectric is called dipole moment

Compiled by : Zaid ALI & Faizan Mateen