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The questions asked in ECE were

mainly from Control Systems,
Communications

EMT and microprocessor

Make sure that u know the
fundas of microprocessors useful
in interview also: see if u know
these questions
1. Which type of architecture
8085 has?
2. How many memory locations
can be addressed by a
microprocessor with 14 address
lines?
3. 8085 is how many bit
microprocessor?
4. Why is data bus bi-directional?
5. What is the function of
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embedded system?
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10. What are the different
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RIM, SIM, IN?
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addressing mode? ECIL Papers Govt IB-ACIO
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8085?
15. What happens during DMA ISRO ISRO Papers
transfer?
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16. What do you mean by wait
state? What is its need? RCIL Papers SAIL Papers

17. What is PSW?

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18. What is ALE? Explain the
functions of ALE in 8085. University Syllabus VTU VTU MCA

19. What is a program counter? VTU Papers - PG VTU Question Paper

What is its use?
20. What is an interrupt? VTU Syllabus

21. Which line will be activated

when an output device require
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are you not interested in higher ►  July (55)

studies?
►  June (25)
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behave to different signals -
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4. questions on flip flops

5. Johnson counter
6. Questions on
microprocessors- what is SIM?
7. Abt your project. What will
happen when this/that happens
to your project?
8. Radar, antenna and satellite
communication.
9. Which is the first/latest
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10. What is apogee /perigee?

Interview Experience -

Hi, FriendsI have appeared in

DRDO interview for Scientist-B at
Pune on 17th November
2007.First all candidates have to
sit in waiting room at venue
center and give sign for
presence. It will be better for
guys to go with tie and black
shoe. Tea or Coffee provided in
waiting room and go for
documents verification &
submission oftheir required Bio-
data form one bye one in
administrative office according to
list of candidates.(They have
called 12 candidates on that
day).At that time Interview was
started in sequence. Average
time taken for interview is half
hour. Inthe interview room there
was five members. One
chairman, two internal members
and two external members.When
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and two external members.When
you enter inside interview room
you have to sit in front of board
members.One will first demand
for your project report and one
ask about your interesting
subject of your discipline. Then
different board member ask
question about your interesting
subjects. If you are answering
right way then they can take you
inbrief to map your abilities.
Then member who has taken
your project report willask about
your project work. I am
highlighting questionnaires
below which I have faced in
interview. I am belongs to CSE so
I have told Data Structure,
Microprocessor and Computer
Networks from my interesting
subjects.Board Member-I
(Chairman)1) What is your Name?
2) Which College you are belongs
to?3) Types of network cables?4)
Building structure of all that
cables and differences?Board
Member-II (External)1) Why
microprocessor is called 8/16 bit
processor?2) What is diff
between 8/16 bit processor?3)
Why lower address data/address
buses are multiplexed?4) Diff
between data and address bus?
5) Use of buses in
microprocessor?6) How many
address location will addressed
with 16 address line?7) Function
of cache memory?Board
Member-III (External)1) What you
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Member-III (External)1) What you
will do for database loss and
recovery?2) What is DDL and
DML which command are
belongs to both?3) What will be
radix sort time complexity by big
ohh method?4) Use of Data
dictionary?5) What is schema?6)
What is use of Data Flow
Diagram (DFD)?Board Member-IV
(Internal) (About my project of
Z39.50 protocol development)1)
What is your project of protocol?
2) What facilities are provided by
this protocol and usefulness?3)
What you have developed and
where it is useful?4) In which
layer Z39.50 protocol works?5)
What you will do for connect to
computers generally?6) What
type of network eshtablished in
your office and which cable is
used?7) Have you heard about
RED?8) What is pass by value and
pass by reference in
programming?Board Member-V
(Internal)1) What is XML?2)
Where you have used XML in you
project?(my project also have
XML use)3) What is use of your
project for in that organization?4)
Where is Z39.50 protocol useful
in application?

Interview Experience: (Ramana)

Chairman:

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1. What are the various

experiments you are done in
your machines lab
2. How the vibration will come
from the mobile phone when it is
in that mode

Departmental Expert-1:

1. Why your eyes are in red

colour, don't you have enough
sleep yesterday's night
2. what is your favourate subject
3. What is meant by zpf... this
term is related to which machine
4. What is meant by reluctance
motor
5. write the expression for power
developed in salient pole
synchronous motor?
6. what is meant by load angle in
detail
7. can you explain hunting
breafly
8. Is there any method to reduce
hunting
I think you studied power system
analysis in your B.Tech....not
power systems power system
analysis

9. what are the various quantities

required for design of power
system
10. Can you tell the method for
power system stability analysis
He gives clue for above question
11. explain equal area criterion
analysis method
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Departmental expert-2:

1. this question related to

communication subject
2. what is meant by stepper
motor
3. how the steps can achieve
4. what is meant by BLDC motor
5. what is the constructional and
operational difference between
BLDC motor and DC motor
6. without the brushes and
commutator how can you
achieve the current reversal?
for the above question
Departmental Expert-1 gives 50%
answer as clue...
7. what is the purposes of
commutator in DC machines
8. In diesel engine trains how the
exact system is there inside
9. how can we get the supply for
fans and lights in trains
10. name the special generator
used for above...?
for this question departmental
expert-1 gives full answer

External expert:

1. instead of using AC
transmission why we are using
HVDC
2. What is the main adv. and dis
adv. of HVDC
3. can you learn about the earth
fault circuit breaker in houses
4. what is meant by MCB? how it
works? which type of CB it is?
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works? which type of CB it is?

Departmental expert-1:

1. apart from the losses, cost etc

etc..... the advantage of HVDC
over any other....

Lastly the departmental expert-1

asks Well Mr. Ramana suppose if
you are selected in this job,
afterwards you got
other job based on B.Tech
(example in ISRO that is also a
R&d org.)then what do you do....

Order of importance to study

for passing the exam....
1, Theory of computation
Computability, complexity
analysis ( important since others
may ignore it and only few will
answer it correctly so
opportunity to score above
others)

2, Compilers and system

programming( language
processors ,lex anlsis, etc) (
important since because of the
same reason as above

3, algorithm design and

problems different methods  for
algorithms....(important since if u
studied definitly you have a
chance to beat the averages)

4, Computer architecture, pipe-

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4, Computer architecture, pipe-
lining etc....

try to understand and know the

basics of these first and study it
well it will help you go more....

of course the others

OS,DS,Digital,and other in the
syllabus also important but it will
be under standable by average
people easily so don't avoid them
any way i know that all have
somewhat basics about these
subjects....

Previous years DRDO Interview

Questions Papers shared by
different candidates
CSE/ECE/Ele/Mech

1) Coldest planet: Pluto

2) INS Shivali is the first:
3) Which one of the following was
NOT indigenously developed?
:Prithvi/Akash/Agni
4) Full form of SARS
5) Anthrax is a :Virus/Bacteria
6) Dakshina Gangothri is:Ganga’s
origin/Indian camp @ antartica
7) Which of the following is a
chemical weapon:Mustard
Gas/Marsh Gas
8) A question based on Coding
and Decoding
9) Another question similar to
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9) Another question similar to
above
10) Question on series
completion
11) Another series completion
question
12) Where is Institute of Forensic
Science?:Hyderabad
13) A G.K question based on X
and Y chromosomes in males
and females

DRDO Sample technical

questions asked in test last year
in CSE :

1) Banker’s algorithm is used for:

Deadlock Avoidance
2) A LOT of questions were based
on generating strings from a
given grammar.
3) A circle(dot) shown in the PCB
is:Vcc/Grnd/Pin 1/Pin 14
4) Program Segment Prefix in
MS-DOS 5.0 is:
5) Some IP addresses were given
and the question was to select
the private addess from it(?)
6) 10Base2 and 10Base5 wires
refers to:
7) A question on sliding-window
protocol
8) Which of the following require
a driver?:disk/cache/ram/cpu
9) A LOT of mathematical
questions which were asked
from calculus,trigonometry…

The questions asked in ECE

were mainly from Control
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were mainly from Control
Systems, Communications
EMT and microprocessor

1. Which type of architecture

8085 has?
2. How many memory locations
can be addressed by a
microprocessor with 14 address
lines?
3. 8085 is how many bit
microprocessor?
4. Why is data bus bi-directional?
5. What is the function of
accumulator?
6. What is flag, bus?
7. What are tri-state devices and
why they are essential in a bus
oriented system?
8. Why are program counter and
stack pointer 16-bit registers?
9. What does it mean by
embedded system?
10. What are the different
addressing modes in 8085?
11.What is the difference
between MOV and MVI?
12. What are the functions of
RIM, SIM, IN?
13. What is the immediate
addressing mode?
14. What are the different flags in
8085?
15. What happens during DMA
transfer?
16. What do you mean by wait
state? What is its need?
18. What is ALE? Explain the
functions of ALE in 8085.
19. What is a program counter?
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What is its use?

20. What is an interrupt?
21. Which line will be activated
when an output device require
attention from CPU?

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