Ies Exam Paper 2019 General Studies and Engineering Aptitude PDF
Ies Exam Paper 2019 General Studies and Engineering Aptitude PDF
Ies Exam Paper 2019 General Studies and Engineering Aptitude PDF
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0280189 GENERAL STUDIES AND
ENGINEERING APTITUDE
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1. Which one of the following is not a 4. With respect to the conduct and perform-
component of 'Capital Receipts'? ance of a company, 'perfect competition'
refers to
Market borrowings including
special bonds Large number of small firms pro-
ducing differentiated products
External loans raised by the Central
Government from abroad Complete freedom in economic life
Receipts from taxes on property and absence of rivalry among firms
and capital transactions
Many companies selling similar
Provident Funds (State 'Provident products with free entry
Funds and Public Provident Fund)
Sole producer selling a distinct
product
2. Which one of the following statement
is correct with respect to the 'societal
development'? 5. The cheapest method of marketing of
securities with the only cost incurred
Behaviour grows into habits, habits being on sending 'letters of rights' to
into tradition and tradition becomes existing holders is
custom
Public issue through prospectus
Customs grow into mores and method
mores grow into custom
Offer for sale method
Behaviours grow into customs and
customs grow into traditions Rights issue
Folkways grow into tradition and Subscription by inside coterie
traditions grow into customs method
V13Y-G-DST — A 2
7. Which of the following come under the 9. Which of the following are the main
offerings of `MUDRA' Bank? objectives of Gold Monetization Scheme
launched in the country?
Portfolio Credit Guarantee
To monetize gold holdings in the
Credit for large industries country
Innovations
10. A person travelled by car 70 km towards
Focusing on service industry north to A then covered 30 km turning
left to B. Again he turned towards left
Bringing the values of proactivity and travelled 110 km to C. Then he
into the society cycled at the rate of 10 kin/hour towards
the starting point. The time taken by
Select the correct answer using the codes him to reach the starting point from C
given below: will be
3 A — VBY-G-DST
11. A student purchases some books for 14. Which of the following conditions hold
Rs. 1600. If he had bought 8 more books good for a train which crosses the bridge
for the same amount, each book would of length lin time ti and crosses another
cost Its. 10 less. The number of books he
bridge of length in time t2 ?
buys is 2
30
32 2. 212 >t1
34
36
4. Speed of train is —1 if ti —12 = 5
10
12. A hemisphere depression is cut out from
Select the correct answer using the codes
one face of the cubical wooden block given below:
such that the radius r of the hemisphere
is equal to half of the edge of the cube. 1 and 4 only
What will be the surface area of the 2 and 4 only
remaining solid?
1 and 3 only
2r2(n- +24) 2 and 3 only
r2(n +24)
15. A tourist covers half of his journey by
2r2Or +36) train at 60 km/h, half of the remainder
by bus at 30 km/h and the rest by cycle
(d) r2(it +36) at 10 kin/h. Average speed of the tourist
during the journey is
13. A rod of length 1 is to be divided into 36 km/h
two parts, such that if 5 limes the 33 km/h
smaller portion is added to half of the
larger portion, it will always be less 24 km/h
than 1. This can be achieved by taking 18 km/h
length of the larger portion more than
16. In a lake, the tip of a bud of lotus is
seen 10 cm above the surface of water.
Forced by the wind, it gradually moved,
and just submerged at a distance of
30 cm. The depth of water at the root of
the lotus plant will be
40 cm
50 cm
60 cm
(d)
70 cm
VBY-G-DST — A 4
17. A man sold a chair and a table together 20. Information used in a business, generally
for Rs. 7,600, thereby making a profit of unknown to the public, that the company
25% on the chair and 10% on the table. has taken strong measures to keep
By selling them together for Rs. 7,500 confidential is called
he would make a profit of 10% on the
chair and 20% on the table. Then the A patent
cost price of chair and table will be
A copyright
Rs. 3000 and Rs. 4000
A trade secret
Rs. 3500 and Rs. 4000
A trade mark
Rs. 3000 and Rs. 3500
21. A committee of 4 is to be formed from
Rs. 3500 and Rs. 3500 among 4 girls and 5 boys. What is the
probability that the committee will have
number of boys less than number of
18. In two concentric circles, a chord length girls ?
80 cm of larger circle becomes a tangent
to the smaller circle whose radius is
9 cm. The radius of the larger circle will 2
(a)
be
13 cm 4
030
41 cm
4
52 cm
75 cm 1
5 A - VBY-G-DST
au av av au
(a) rw, and =
dr dr do
, au av av 1 au
to) — = - — ana — —
dr r ao ar r ao
The ratio of areas of the large circle to
the small circle of a square is
au ldvdv au
(c) — = - — and — = -r 4:1
ar r ao ar do
1:4
au av av 1 au
(d) — = r — anti = -- 2:1
ar ao ar r ao
1:2
24. If f(z) has a pole of order n at z = a,
then Residue of function f(z) at a is 26. Which term refers to a single person
having authority to oversee all aspects
of a product's production scheduling,
Res f(a)= inventory, dislocation and sales?
st-1
(n1)1{ddzn_1 ( (z f (z) )}
Project management
z=a
Product management
Res f(a)= Commercial management
1 d n-1 (‘z ar-if(4)}
Venture management
(n -1)! {de-1
z=a
(b) 2
Res f(a)=
1 {dn-1 (c) 3
ar f (z))}
(n-1)! dzn-1 (d) 5
V113Y-G-DST - A
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33. The insert command is used in 'Auto 36. Consider the following statements:
CAD' to insert
Greenfield Privatization or Incre-
Objects in the current file mental Privatization denotes en-
couragement to private sector in
Objects in any file
areas hitherto reserved for Public
Blocks in any drawing file Enterprises
VBY-G-DST — A 8
38. Who is responsible for establishing, 41. Which one of the following tests can be
documenting and maintaining proce- resorted to in order to check the
dures for post-production handling func- structural soundness conformance to the
tions such as storage, packaging and specified standards, when all other tests
delivery? fail?
9 A — VBY-G-DST
44. Which of the following approaches are 46. BUD of a waste water sample is
correct regarding total quality? estimated to be 180 mg/l. Assuming
4 mg/1 BUD can be consumed in the
Opportunity to improve BUD bottle, the volume of undiluted
sample to be added to a 300 ml bottle
Adoption requires little change is nearly
VBV-G-DST — A 10
50. What are the limitations of solar energy? Moonlight, and are chemically con-
verted to weak acidic compounds
Collecting solar energy over large such as sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and
areas and converting it to other nitric acid (HNO3)
forms that can be conveniently
Sunlight, and are chemically con-
transported, stored and used in
verted to weak acidic compounds
existing equipment is not eco-
such as sulfuric acid (H2504) and
nomical
nitric acid (111\103)
Low density of solar energy as
compared to coal, oil and gas 52. The Vilinamata Tragedy' was caused by
the eating of fish growing in the
Minamata Bay contaminated with
Its major applications are photo-
thermal conversion, solar water Peroxy alylnitrate
heating, green housing technology
and photo voltaic conversion Methyl isocyanate
Moonlight, and are chemically con- Select the correct answer using the
verted to strong acidic compounds codes given below:
such as sulfuric acid (112SO4) and
nitric acid (HNO3) 1, 2, 3 and 4
1, 2 and 3 only
Sunlight, and are chemically con-
verted to strong acidic compounds 3 and 4 only
such as sulfuric acid (112SO4) and
nitric acid (HNO3) 3 and 4 only
11 A — VBY-G-DST
V13Y-G-DST — A 12
016
61. Which one of the following is a viable
0.24
alternative to term-loans and are instru-
ments for raising debt finance by large 0-32
publicly traded firms?
0.41
Shares
65. During tensile testing of a material, if
Debentures cross-sectional area of the specimen is
doubled, the load required to produce
Asset loans the same elongation shall be
Double
Gold loans
Half
62. Which one of the following makes the Same
design, assembly and operation of
complex systems feasible and practical? Four times
13 A — VBY-G-DST
Incongruent transformations
68. Which of the following features of atoms
determine the degree to which the solute Congruent transformations
atoms dissolve in the solvent atoms?
Non-equilibrium transformations
Atomic size factor
Equilibrium transformations
Crystal structure
72. In a simple cubic structure, atomic power
Electronegativity
factor is nearly
1 and 2 only
0-9
1 and 3 only
0-7
2 and 3 only
(c) 0-5
1, 2 and 3
(d) 0-3
69. A state for ionic compounds wherein 73: Which of the following are the advan-
there is the exact ratio of cations to tages of coding audiovisual objects?
anions as predicted by the chemical
formula is It allows interaction with the
content
Electroneutrality
It improves reusability and coding
Stoichiometry the content
Equiliometry It allows content-based scalability
Frankel defect 1 and 2 only
VBY-G-DST — A 14
74. The transmission of real-time streams 78. The Protocol (http), the DNS name of
across networks uses Bandwidth Alloca- the host, and the file name is identified
tion Mechanism (BAM), which is based through
on
Uniform Resource Locator
Stream peak rate Web Browser
Bucket rate Web Server
Token bucket depth IP address
Packet size
79. The traditional way to handle forms and
other interactive Web pages is a system
75. The quality of service provided in a called
computer network is
Graphical User Interface
Presentation layer issue
Common Gateway Interface
Session layer issue
Text Based User Interface
Network layer issue
Command Line Interface
Data link layer issue
80. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) which
76. The Pre-echo PE distortions in audio encrypts the data by using a block cipher
signal represents the is used in
15 A — VBY-G-DST
82. The philosophical study of beliefs and 85. A situation where very high prices are
knowledge is better known as charged from customers for a limited
period of time is known as
Ontology
Epistemology Gouging
Entomology Zipping
Etymology
Bamboozing
Utilitarianism
Take up the matter with higher
management
84. Consider the following statements
regarding 'Engineering Ethics' : Discuss the matter with immediate
supervisor
It is the activity of understanding
moral values
If the internal appeal does not
It resolves the moral issues and resolve the conflict, then he should
justifies moral judgments notify the company that he intends
to continue with an external review
It would refer to the set of speci- of the problem
fically moral problems and issues
related to Engineering What is the correct sequence of order
of the above steps?
Which of the above statements are
correct?
(a) 2, 3, 1 and 4
I, 2 and 3
(b) 1, 3, 2 and 4
1 and 2 only
VBY-G-DST — A 16
87. Which of the following are the attributes 89. When should whistle blowing be
of a profession? attempted ?
The work requires sophisticated There must be a clear and great
skills, use of judgment and exercise harm that can be avoided
of discretion The whistleblower must be in a
Membership in the profession does clear position to report on the
not require extensive formal educa- problem
tion as well as practical training The whistleblower must have a
reasonable chance of success in
There are set standards for admis-
stopping the harmful activity
sion to the profession and conduct
for members The whistleblower feels that all
other lines of action within the
Significant public good results from context of the organization have
practice of the profession been explored and shut off
Select the correct answer using the Select the correct answer using the
codes given below: codes given below:
(a) 1,2 and 3 only (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1,2 and 4 only 1, 2 and 4 only
17 A — V13Y-G-DST
92. Statement (1): Training should be con- Statement (I) : Abrasive ceramics are
ducted among the line used to wear, grind, or
and low management for cut away other material,
ensuring the importance which necessarily •is
of environmental protec- softer.
tion plan.
Statemental) : Environmental science Statement (II) : The prime requisite for
is a developing subject abrasive ceramic group
and the people imple- of materials is hardness
menting environment or wear resistance and a
strategies should remain high degree of toughness
up to date with the is essential to ensure that
environmental control the abrasive particles do
processes. not easily fracture.
VBY-G-DST — A 18
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VBY-G-DST - A 20