Sample Question Paper for LPUNEST (M.Tech.)

Sample Questions

English

Question 1:

Choose the correct verb to fill the gap.
By the end of the year, she _______ with a degree in business.

  1. already graduates
  2. already graduated
  3. will have already graduated
  4. has already graduated

Question 2:

Choose the synonym for the following word Hallowed

  1. Sacred
  2. Old
  3. Inactive
  4. Effective

Question 3:

As _______ cuts it as well as he does, I always have my hair cut at Johnson’s.

  1. anyone
  2. someone else’s
  3. no one else
  4. everyone

Question 4:

Mohit _______ his century before it is the end of the match.

  1. will score
  2. will have scored
  3. has scored
  4. scores

Question 5:

Which word is a adverb in this sentence?
There are no interesting programmes tonight.

  1. interesting
  2. programmes
  3. there
  4. tonight
Computer Science

Question 1

The process related to process control, file management, device management, information about system and communication that is requested by any higher level language can be performed by __________.

  1. Compilers
  2. System Call
  3. Editors
  4. Caching

Question 2

The problem of thrashing is effected scientifically by ________.

  1. Program size
  2. Program structure
  3. Primary storage size
  4. None of these

Question 3

What is the number of separate protocol layers at the serial interface gateway specified by the X.25 standard?

  1. 4
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 6

Question 4

When a subroutine is called, the address of the instruction following the CALL instructions stored in/on the:-

  1. Program counter
  2. Stack
  3. Accumulator
  4. Stack pointer

Question 5

Consider a language L for which there exists a Turing Machine (TM), T, that accepts every word in L and either rejects or loops for every word that is not in L. The language L is:-

  1. Recursive
  2. Recursively enumerable
  3. NP complete
  4. NP hard
Electronics

Question 1

A network function can be completely specified by:-

  1. Poles, zeros and a scale factor
  2. Real parts of zeros
  3. Poles and zeros
  4. Real parts of poles

Question 2

If a periodic function f(t) of period T satisfies f(t) = -f(t-T/2), then in its Fourier series expansion:-

  1. There will be no cosine terms
  2. There will be no sine terms
  3. There will be no even harmonics
  4. The constant term will be zero

Question 3

The type of power amplifier which exhibits crossover distortion in its output is:-

  1. Class B
  2. Class A
  3. Class C
  4. Class AB

Question 4

11001, 1001 and 111001 correspond to the 2’s complement representation of the following set of numbers:-

  1. -7, -7 and -7 respectively
  2. 25, 9 and 57 respectively
  3. -25, -9 and -57 respectively
  4. -6, -6 and -6 respectively

Question 5

A 4 bit ripple counter and a 4 bit synchronous counter are made by flips flops having a propagation delay of 10 ns each. If the worst case delay in the ripple counter and the synchronous counter be R and S respectively:-

  1. R = 30 ns, S = 10 ns
  2. R = 10 ns, S = 30 ns
  3. R = 10 ns, S = 40 ns
  4. R = 40 ns, S = 10 ns
Mechanical Engineering

Question 1:

Newton’s law of viscosity relates:-

  1. Shear stress, rate of angular deformation in the fluid
  2. Shear stress, shear strain
  3. Shear stress, angular deformation in the fluid
  4. Shear stress, linear deformation in the fluid

Question 2:

Which of the following water turbines does not require a draft tube?

  1. Pelton
  2. Propeller
  3. Francis
  4. Kaplan

Question 3:

The transverse shear stress acting in a beam of rectangular cross-section, subjected to a transverse shear load is:-

  1. Uniform
  2. Variable with maximum at the top of the beam
  3. Variable with maximum at the neutral axis
  4. Variable with maximum at the bottom of the beam

Question 4:

If a closed system is undergoing an irreversible process, the entropy of the system:-

  1. Must decrease
  2. Must increase
  3. Can increase, decrease or remain constant
  4. Always remains constant

Question 5:

When the crank is at the inner dead centre, in a horizontal reciprocating steam engine, then the velocity of the piston will be:-

  1. Average of minimum and maximum velocities
  2. Zero
  3. Minimum
  4. Maximum
Biotechnology

Question 1

Which of the following is not an example of carbohydrate metabolism?

  1. HMP
  2. Lipolysis
  3. Glycolysis
  4. Kreb cycle

Question 2

The lipopolysaccharides present in bacterial cell wall has lipid A which is connected to:-

  1. O-polysaccharide
  2. Core polysaccharide
  3. Both with O-polysaccharide and Core polysaccharide
  4. Rhamnose-mannose disaccharide

Question 3

Multistage chemostat system used for

  1. Production of Primary Metabolites
  2. Production of Mixed Metabolites
  3. Production of Acetic Acid
  4. Production of Secondary Metabolites

Question 4

Antibodies are chemically:-

  1. Glycolipids
  2. Liposomes
  3. Glycoprotein
  4. Lipids

Question 5

Histologically, the stomach mucosa comprises:-

  1. An extra, inner layer of smooth muscle called the oblique layer
  2. A simple columnar epithelial lining, with numerous gastric pits
  3. Goblet cells that secrete a thick carpet of mucin over the surface
  4. All of these
Civil Engineering

Question 1

The moisture content of timber used in building frames can be:-

  1. 12% to 18%
  2. 8% to 12%
  3. >20%
  4. 2% to 5%

Question 2

Which one of the following conditions is valid in case of unconfined compression test in comparison to triaxial test?

  1. Minor principal stress = 0.5 × Major principal stress
  2. Major principal stress = 3 × Minor principal stress
  3. Minor principal stress = 0
  4. Minor principal stress = Major principal stress

Question 3

Modular bricks are of nominal size 20 × 10 × 10 cm and 20% of the volume is lost in mortar between joints. Then what is the number of modular bricks required per cubic meter of brick work?

  1. 485
  2. 470
  3. 500
  4. 520

Question 4

For a sandy soil with soil grains spherical in shape and uniform in size, what is the theoretical void ratio?

  1. 0.61
  2. 0.71
  3. 0.81
  4. 0.91

Question 5

Which one of the following soils is expected to have high weight per cubic meter?

  1. Dry Sand
  2. Dry Earth
  3. Wet Sand
  4. Soft Rock
Electrical Engineering

Question 1:

Materials with lots of free electrons are called:-

  1. Conductors
  2. Filters
  3. Semiconductors
  4. Insulators

Question 2:

To measure the current out of the second resistor in a circuit consisting of four resistors, an ammeter can be placed:-

  1. At the negative terminal of the source
  2. Between the third and fourth resistors
  3. At any point in the circuit
  4. Between the second and third resistors

Question 3:

In assigning the direction of branch currents:-

  1. They must point into a node
  2. They must point out of a node
  3. The directions are not critical
  4. The directions are critical

Question 4:

A sawtooth wave has a period of 10 ms. Its frequency is:-

  1. 10 Hz
  2. 50 Hz
  3. 100 Hz
  4. 1,000 Hz

Question 5:

Point +4 on the complex plane is:-

  1. 4 units left of the origin on the real axis
  2. 4 units above the origin on the j axis
  3. 4 units below the origin on the j axis
  4. 4 units right of the origin on the real axis
Food Technology

Question 1:

What is the active ingredient in baking soda

  1. Sodium chloride
  2. sodium Bicarbonate
  3. Sodium Benzoate
  4. Sodium Sulfide

Question 2:

Which of the following is a disadvantage of food processing?

  1. Canning of food leads to loss of vitamin C
  2. Processed food adds empty calories to food constituting junk
  3. Some chemicals make the human and animal cells grow rapidly which is unhealthy
  4. All of the mentioned

Question 3:

The heat required to bring down the temperature of the food is directly proportional to

  1. Specific heat of the food
  2. Weight of the food
  3. Temperature difference
  4. All of the mentioned

Question 4:

What converts liquid oils into a more solid form?

  1. Unsaturated fatty acids
  2. Polyunsaturated fatty acids
  3. Linoleic acid
  4. Hydrogenation

Question 5:

Which nutrient protect your eye sight as you age?

  1. Zinc
  2. Vitamin C and E
  3. Zeaxanthin and lutein from fruits and vegetables
  4. All of the above