EEC 324 practice questions

1. When a fault occurs on any part of the system, the ______ of the circuit breaker get energised.
⚪ Trip coils
⚪ Tap changer
⚪ Tap coil
⚪ Trip changer

2. The following are the common measures of availability except one

⚪ Inherent
⚪ Achieved Availability
⚪ Operational availability
⚪ Mission availability

3. What are the various possible causes for a failure?

⚪ Unexpected and unintentional damages
⚪ Workmanship
⚪ Improper design
⚪ All of the above

4. The other name for age-dependent failure is ________.

⚪ Time dependent failure
⚪ Time wasting failure
⚪ Incorrect usage
⚪ None of the above.

5. The bath-tub cure is obtained from the addition of curves _____.

⚪ Two
⚪ Four
⚪ Three
⚪ Five

6. The types of maintenance budget are the following except one.

⚪ Appropriation
⚪ Fixed
⚪ Cost
⚪ Variable
7. Reliability prediction is the process of the anticipated system
⚪ Calculating
⚪ Factorizing
⚪ Rule
⚪ Process

8. The main advantages of imposing reliability requirements are ______ productivity and
reductions in forced outage equipment due to planned maintenance activity.
⚪ Decreased
⚪ Small
⚪ Increased
⚪ None of the above

9. __________ Is the ratio of the number of failures during particular unit interval
⚪ Reliability
⚪ Failure rate
⚪ Availability
⚪ Maintenance

10. The following are the important elements of reliability except one
⚪ Probability
⚪ Performance
⚪ Time
⚪ Conflicts

11. The following the methods of measuring vibration except one.

⚪ Amplitude
⚪ Frequency
⚪ Phase
⚪ Magnitude

12. All of these are objectives of corrective maintenance except one

⚪ Elimination breakdowns
⚪ Elimination deviations from optimum operating condition
⚪ Elimination unnecessary repairs
⚪ None of the above
13. __________ maintenance is the program focused on regular planned tasks that will maintain all
critical machinery and system operation conditions.
⚪ Preventive
⚪ Corrective
⚪ Predictive
⚪ All of the above

14. A parallel system is one which does not ______ until all the sub-units or components have
failed.
⚪ Form
⚪ Fail
⚪ Block
⚪ Connect

15. Compare the reliability of series contains 3-sub units having reliabilities 0.95, 0.85 and 0.75
respectively.
⚪ 0.998.
⚪ 0.0998
⚪ 0.198
⚪ 1.998

16. A complex communication satellite has an in built microwave repeater unit having a mean time
to failure of 40,000hours. The link is operative if one channel is working and the reliability of the
switching unit is 0.95.
Calculate the reliability for one year operating period using two parallel channels.
⚪ 0.9992
⚪ 0.961
⚪ 0.9991
⚪ 0.896

17. Redundancy can be defined as the provision of more than one means of getting an
equipment/system to perform a give _______.
⚪ System
⚪ Requirement
⚪ Function
⚪ All of the above
18. The following are the types of redundancy except one
⚪ Active
⚪ Standby
⚪ Either a or b
⚪ None of the above

19. The use of _________ instruments is merely confined within laboratories as standardizing
instruments.
⚪ absolute
⚪ indicating
⚪ recording
⚪ integrating
⚪ None of the above

20. The disc of an instrument using eddy current damping should be of _______.
⚪ conducting and non-magnetic material
⚪ Conducting and magnetic material
⚪ non-conducting and magnetic material
⚪ none of the above.

21. Resistances can be measured with the help of _______.

⚪ Wattmeters
⚪ voltmeters
⚪ ammeters
⚪ ohmmeters and resistance bridges

22. According to application, instruments are classified as ____

⚪ Switch board
⚪ portable
⚪ Answer- both (a) and (b))
⚪ Moving coil, moving iron

23. A ______ device prevents the oscillation of the moving system and enables the latter to reach
its final position quickly.
⚪ Deflecting
 ⚪ controlling
⚪ damping
⚪ any of the above

24. Which of the following properties a damping oil must possess?

⚪ Must be a good insulator
⚪ Should be non-evaporating
⚪ Should not have corrosive action upon the metal of the vane
⚪ The viscosity of the oil should not change with the temperature
⚪ All of the above

25. A moving-coil permanent-magnet instrument can be used as _____ by using a low resistance
shunt.
⚪ ammeter
⚪ Voltmeter
⚪ flux-meter
⚪ Ballistic galvanometer

26. Induction type single phase energy meters measure electric energy in
⚪ kW
⚪ Wh
⚪ kWh
⚪ VAR

27. A potentiometer may be used for _______.

⚪ Measurement of resistance
⚪ measurement of current
⚪ calibration of ammeter
⚪ Calibration of voltmeter
⚪ all of the above

28. ________ is an instrument which measures the insulation resistance of an electric circuit
relative to earth and one another.
⚪ Tangent galvanometer
⚪ Meggar
⚪ Current transformer
 ⚪ None of the above

29. The household energy meter is ________.

⚪ An indicating instrument.
⚪ A recording instrument
⚪ an integrating instrument
⚪ none of the above

30. In majority of instruments damping is provided by _____

⚪ Fluid friction
⚪ spring
⚪ eddy current
⚪ All of the above

31. In a meggar controlling torque is provided by _____.

⚪ Spring
⚪ Gravity
⚪ coil
⚪ Eddy current

32. To measure a resistance with the help of a potentiometer it is ______.

⚪ Necessary to standardise the potentiometer
⚪ not necessary to standardise the potentiometer
⚪ necessary to use a volt ratio box in conjunction with the potentiometer
⚪ None of the above

33. Wagner earthing device is used to eliminate errors due to ________.

⚪ electrostatic coupling
⚪ Electromagnetic coupling
⚪ both (a) and (b)
⚪ none of the above

34. Importance of reliability are the following except one.

⚪ Capacity of equipment systems
⚪ Cost of Repair and Maintenance
⚪ Perceived risk
 ⚪ One of the above

35. Reliability is the characteristics of an item expressed as the probability that it will perform a
function, understands conditions for a stated period of time
⚪ Given
⚪ Good
⚪ Required
⚪ All of the above

36. _______ failure which is both gradual and partial.

⚪ Degradation
⚪ Catastrophic
⚪ Combination
⚪ None of the above

37. _____ is defined as a part, sub-system or equipment which can be individually considered and
separately by tested
⚪ Item
⚪ Failure
⚪ Risk
⚪ Equipment system

38. Which type of maintenance is associated or concerned with an elimination of failure during the
operational level of an equipment?
⚪ Preventive
⚪ Predictive
⚪ Breakdown
⚪ Capital

39. Which among the below mentioned parameters is/are associated with the quality of a device?
⚪ Time & environment conditions
⚪ Numerical value
⚪ Manufacturing of a unit
⚪ All of the above

40. Which type of failures occur due to some major reason by terminating the function level for a
long duration of time?
⚪ Initial failures
 ⚪ Early failures
⚪ Wear out failures
⚪ Catastrophic failures

41. Which stage of life cycle associated with an electronic instrument plays a vital role in establishing
a target figure for reliability in terms of specifications?
⚪ Design
⚪ Production
⚪ Storage & Transport
⚪ Operation

42. Which among the below mentioned types of redundancy exhibit maximum failure rate?
⚪ Cold standby
⚪ Warm or tepid
⚪ Hot or active
⚪ All of the above

43. Which of the following exhibits inversely proportional relationship with the reliability?
⚪ Production cost
⚪ Design and development cost.
⚪ Maintenance and repair cost
⚪ All of the above

44. What is the failure of a product possessing reliability R=1?

⚪ Zero
⚪ Unity
⚪ Infinity
⚪ None of the above

45. What is/are the major purposes of using a bath tub curve?
⚪ To determine the capital maintenance in defense equipment
⚪ To compute lifts in the distillation column
⚪ All of the above
⚪ None of the Above

46. Which method prevents the operating condition that exceed beyond 50% of the maximum rating
in order to improve the system reliability?
⚪ Parts improvement method
 ⚪ Strictiral Redundancy
⚪ Effective & Creative design
⚪ Operating of components

47. Which type of availability deals with the probability of system operation and functioning at the
requisite level in an ideal environment without any consideration of maintenance?
⚪ Inherent availability
⚪ Achieved availability
⚪ Operational availability
⚪ None of the above

48. What would happen, if an equipment possesses reliability and maintainability to the maximum
extent in accordance with MTTR?
⚪ Failure rate is higher & downtime is longer
⚪ Failure rate is lower & downtime is longer
⚪ Failure rate is higher & downtime is shorter
⚪ Failure rate is lower & downtime is shorter

49. On which factors does the down time of equipment at the maintainability phase, depend?
⚪ Design
⚪ Installation.
⚪ Both a and b
⚪ None of the above

50. How is the reliability of a product specified?

⚪ Always less than 1
⚪ Always greater than 1
⚪ Always equal to 1
⚪ None of the above

51. Continuous tests were conducted on an electrical item and faults which were repaired
immediately occurred at the following time:
Failures 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Time (x 100 hrs) t0=0 tl=2 t2=4 t3=8 t4= 10 t5=14 t6=15
Calculate the mean time between the failures (MTBF)
⚪ 300hrs
⚪ 250hrs
⚪ 2500hrs
⚪ 150hrs
52. Life testing is made on six (non-repairable) electrical lamps and the following results were
obtained
Failures 0 1 1 1 1 2
Time (x 100 hrs) t0=0 tl=4 t2=10 t3=16 t4=20 t5=23
Calculate the MTTF.
⚪ 1500hrs
⚪ 1000hrs
⚪ 160hrs
⚪ None of the above.

53. The following are classification of failure rate except one.

⚪ Causes of failure
⚪ Timing of failure
⚪ Of failure
⚪ None of the above

54. Ten items have failed out of 1010 put on test during a period of 5000 hours, calculate the failure
rate.
⚪ 0.02%/hrs
⚪ 0.0002%/hrs
⚪ 0.0004%/hrs
⚪ None of the above

55. MTBF means:

⚪ Mean Time Before Failure
⚪ Mean Time Between Failure
⚪ Menu Time Between Failure
⚪ None of the above

56. One thousand similar components, each of constant failure rate of 5 percent per 103 hours are
put into test together.
Calculate the time tag before failure of 100 components.
⚪ 2107 hours
⚪ 13,863 hours.
⚪ 2007 hours
⚪ 13,000 hours

57. One thousand similar components, each of constant failure rate of 5 percent per 103 hours are
put into test together.
Calculate the time tag before failure of 500 components.
⚪ 2007 hours
⚪ 1.387 hours
 ⚪ 13,863 hours
⚪ 2107 hours

58. MTTF means:

⚪ Mean Tide to Failure
⚪ Mean Time to Failure
⚪ Either a or b
⚪ None of the above

59. Electronic switches are controlled by _______.

⚪ D flip-flop
⚪ SR flip-flop
⚪ T flip-flop
⚪ JK flip-flop

60. At high frequency, source consists of ______.

⚪ amplifiers
⚪ regulators
⚪ oscillators
⚪ Op-amps

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