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INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark
only one answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of
your choice on the answer sheet provided.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 1 only.

NOTE: Whenever you come across a caret (^) sign, it means exponentiation.
Ex. x^2 means x2; (x+y)^(x-z) means
(x+y) raised to the (x-z). Pi=3.1416

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. What is the basic principle where electronics & radio communication found
its origin?
A. Electrical C. Civil
B. Architectural D. Mechanical

2. Code name for polyethylene insulation or PVC at 75 degrees Celsius

(maximum)in dry locations?
A. TW C. TF
B. THW D. THHN

3. In CGS, what is the formula for finding the force in a conductor?

A. Blvi C. Ei
B. Bil D. Blv

4. Which of the following conductors has the highest resistance?

A. Manganin C. Nichrome
B. Constantan D. Steel

5. One of the following is NOT TRUE for wye connections.

A. Lesser phase voltage C. Can tolerate 100% insulation in cable
B. Equal phase & line current D. Two voltages are available

6. The angle between voltage and current is 0 degree as in purely resistive

load. What term is used to describe such condition?
A. Out of phase C. Single phase
B. Equal phase and line current D. In-phase

7. What is the basis for counter-clockwise direction as positive in rotation of

vectors?
A. Conventional C. Agreement
B. Treaty D. Research

8. A wire has resistance of 0.5 ohm. If the length is doubled, what is the
resistance?
A. Double C. Triple
B. Half D. Equal

9. Which of the following is not present for rapid-start fluorescent lamp?

A. Ballast C. Starter
B. Wire Harness D. Capacitor

10. Which is not accepted method of starting of an induction motor

A. Primary inductance C. Full voltage
B. Primary resistance D. Wye-delta

11. Which of the following is NOT accepted as if they have the same meaning?
A. Over voltage C. Low voltage

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B. Under voltage D. No voltage

12. What is called an automatic controller which the controlled variable is a

mechanical position or mechanical rotation?
A. Process controller C. Servo mechanism
B. Automatic controller D. Automatic

13. A live room is one whose interior finishing is such that reverberation of
sound in second is
A. 0 C. More than 5
B. More than 1 D. Less than 1

14. What is replacing and of choice for terrestrial transmission

A. Copper cable C. Print to print wireless transmission
B. Aluminum cable D. Fiber optic cable

15. What is the correct induced emf?

A. BIL C. NI/L
B. Blv D. BVI

16. Pursuing the researches of Oersted and Faraday on electromagnetic wave, who
is the British physicist on 1864 who depicted electromagnetic wave was later
on demonstrated by Hertz
A. Thomas Edison C. James Clerk Maxwell
B. Carl Von Siemens D. James Watt

17. Which has equal positive and negative charge?

A. Static charge C. Positively charged
B. Negatively charged D. Electrically charged

18. How are multiple start push buttons arranged in a control circuit?
A. Combination series-parallel C. Parallel
B. Gang D. Series

19. In DC shunt motors, how is the starting resistance connected?

A. Parallel C. Series with the line
B. Series with the field D. Series with the armature

20. Which of the following is NOT 180 degrees apart

A. XL and IC C. XC and IC
B. IC and IL D. XL and XC

21. The following components are in series L= 100 micro-henrys C= 20 pico-

farads R= 2000 ohms. At the frequency of 2 Mhz and applies voltage of 80
volts. Calculate XL.
A. 1352 C. 1265
B. 1156 D. 1256

22. Compute the area in circular mills of a certain wire of diameter 0.1285 in.
A. 12968 C. 12850
B. 16512 D. 21024

23. A galvanometer with a resistance of 5000 ohms is connected in series with a

battery and a very high resistance of 102,000 ohms. The deflection of the
galvanometer is noted. If the high resistance is changed with a 2000 ohms,
what shunt must be used with the galvanometer in order that the deflection
may retain unaltered.
A. 85 C. 95

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B. 100 D. 75

24. A non-magnetic ring having a mean diameter of 30 cm, the cross sectional
area is 4cm^2 and is uniformly with two conductor A & B over one another. A
has 90 turns and B has 240 turns calculate the first principle of mutual
inductance between the core.
A. 10.62 C. 10.55
B. 11.52 D. 11.00

25. An ideal single phase full wave rectifier circuit has non inductive
resistance load, negligible tube drop and no transformer losses, what is the
rectification or conversion efficiency in percent?
A. 100% C. 90%
B. 80% D. 70%

26. What is the mass of 1𝑥1019 electrons in kg?

A. 1.6x10−19 C. 9.1083𝑥10−31
B. 6.28𝑥1018 D. 9.1083𝑥10−12

27. The capacitance of a capacitor formed by two parallel metal plates each of
200 sq. cm in area separated by a dielectric 1 mm thick is 4.5𝑥10−4
microfarad. What is the dielectric constant of material?
A. 3.5 C. 7.5
B. 2.54 D. 5.0

28. A 10 ohm R1, 30 ohms XL and 60 ohms XL are connected in parallel across a
220 volts 60 Hz source. What is the current at R1 in amperes?
A. 7.33 C. 22
B. 3.7 D. 24.6

29. An unbalanced wye connected loads on a 3 phase four wire system consists of
Z1=10+j5, Z2=8+j4, and Z3=20+j0. The wye connected generator supplying the
unbalanced load is balanced voltage to neutral of 120 volts. What is the
total power in watts?
A. 7200 C. 1440
B. 3312 D.1152

30. A wye connected load on 3 phase system consists of a three balanced phase
impedance each equal to 15+j10 ohms calculate the equivalent delta
connected load?
A. 15+j10 C. 5+j3.33
B. 45+j30 D. 30+j20

31. Resistance of 15 ohms R1 and 45 ohms R2 are connected in parallel across 48

volts storage battery. Calculate total resistance Rt.
A. 60 C. 30
B. 11.25 D. 45

32. A shunt dynamo and battery of accumulator connected in parallel the dynamo
has an induced emf of 100V and the battery has an open circuit voltage of
110V the resistance of the dynamo is 0.4 ohms and the battery resistance is
0.5 ohms. What is the common terminal potential drop by each if the output
current is 40A.
A. 91.3 C. 92.9
B. 91.8 D. 95.5

33. A negative feedback amplifier has 0.5% of output voltage feedback and anti

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phase with it. The gain of the amplifier then if 150. Calculate the
amplifier gain without feedback.
A. 500 C. 450
B. 600 D. 700

34. A 500 KVA, single phase transformer 13.2/0.4 kv has core loss of 1800
watts, 4% reactance and 1% resistance. What is the efficiency of
transformer full load at 85% pf?
A. 96% C. 97.6%
B. 98.4% D. 95.8%

35. For three single phase transformers, a 600hp 2,400 volts three phase 60 Hz
motor with an efficiency of 90% and power factor of 90% supplied from
34,500 volts utility. For delta-delta connection, what is the primary and
secondary voltage rating of each transformer?
A. 32,500/2500 C. 34,000/2500
B. 35,000/2500 D. 34,500/2400

36. A 50 kva single phase transformer of ordinary efficiency at 96% works at

full load for 8 hours per day to burn a street lights. Determine the all-
day efficiency if the copper loss is 60% of the full load losses.
A. 92 C. 89.5
B. 90 D. 93

37. A dc shunt motor runs at 900 rpm from a 460V supply when taking an armature
current of 25 A. Calculate the speed at which it will run from a 230V
supply when taking an armature current of 15 A. The resistance of the
armature circuit is 0.8 ohm. Assume flux per pole at 230V have to decrease
to 75% of its value at 460V.
A. 495 C. 585
B. 485 D. 595

38. A 3 phase, 8 pole generator is delta connected. The terminal voltage is

2400 volts while the line current is 500 amperes. If the machine is
converted to wye, what is the tolerable line current?
A. 371.5 C. 288.7
B. 315.2 D. 345.1

39. A 50Hp, 440V, three phase 60 cycle induction motor has a power factor of
87.2 and efficiency of 90.6%. What is the power input Hp?
A. 50 C. 47
B. 45 D. 55.2

40. A delta connected motor with 6 leads. 20 Hp, 3-phase, 60 Hz, 230V, 1750
rpm, 54 amperes squirrel cage induction motor with starting current of 5
times its full load current with normal applied voltage and develops 1.5
times of its full load torque T. What is the starting current in amperes
per phase of the motor when delta connected?
A. 160 C. 90
B. 110 D. 270

41. A 3-phase induction motor has 4 pole, star connected stator winding and
runs on a 220 volts 50 Hz supply. The rotor resistance 0.1 ohm and blocked
rotor reactance 0.9 ohm. The ratio of rotor to stator turns is 2/3.
Calculate the torque in N-m when running with 4% slip.
A. 226.1 C. 221.2
B. 48.5 D. 33.1

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42. Three phase 3 wire 50 Hz transmission line delivers a load of 2500 KVA at
6000V at 0.8 pf lagging at a distance of 10km. Line has resistance of 0.3
ohm/km and reactance of 1.28 mH/Km determine the sending end voltage.
A. 7.6 C. 8.00
B. 7.8 D. 8.024

43. A three phase 60 Hz transmission line is to deliver 20,000 Kw at 66,000

volts at a distance of 30 miles. The load pf is 85 percent lagging, the
line conductor are 3/0 AWG with resistance per mile of 0.326 ohm at 20
degrees Celsius and at 72 inch spacing and reactance per mile pf 0.742
ohm. Find the resistance per conductor.
A. 9.78 ohms C. 3.26 ohms
B. 0.326 ohm D. 29.34 ohms

44. A load at 75 percent lagging power factor 20,000 KW is to be delivered at

69,000 volts 60 Hz over a 20 mile three phase transmission line. The
conductors are 3/0 AWG copper spaced 72 inches. Resistance is 0.326 ohm per
mile, reactance 0.742 ohm per mile. Capacitance is nil. What is the percent
voltage regulation?
A. 8.3 C. 5.4
B. 6.7 D. 7.3

45. A three phase 60 Hz transmission line delivers 750 KW at 95 percent leading

power factor ant at delta voltage of 6900 volts all measured at the load
end. The resistance per conductor is 4.3 ohms and the reactance per
conductor is 2.6 ohms. Assuming both the source ant the load to be wye
connected, determine the impedance of the load.
A. 60.27 C. 34.82
B. 104.45 D. 108.7

46. A three phase 60 Hz transmission line delivers 750 KW at 95 percent leading

power factor ant at delta voltage of 6900 volts all measured at the load
end. The resistance per conductor is 4.3 ohms and the reactance per
conductor is 2.6 ohms. Assuming both the source ant the load to be wye
connected, determine the efficiency of the transmission line in percent?
A. 93 C. 94
B. 95 D. 96

47. The voltage current and power factor at the input of a single phase
transmission line are 2400 volts, 30 amp and 75 percent respectively. The
entire load is connected at the line output or line end, 7 miles from the
source end. Calculate the line loss in watts. The line resistance is 1.1
ohm per mile of wire and the reactance is 0.8 ohm per mile of the wire?
A. 20790 C. 13860
B. 6930 D. 15354

48. A lamp giving 200 candelas uniformly below the horizontal plane is
suspended 3 m above a horizontal plane. Calculate the illumination at a
point 3 m from the vertical axis.
A. 7.66 C. 7.86
B. 7.75 D. 7.55

49. A light has a candle power of 100 at a given direction at a point 10 ft

distance from the source, if the receiving plane is tilted through 30
degrees from the perpendicular, what is the illumination upon the surface?
A. 0.7 C. 0.5
B. 0.34 D. 0.866
50. A room with dimension 75ft x 36ft requires 50 foot candle lamp lumen output

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3200 maintenance factor if 0.7, coefficient of utilization is 0.40. Arrange

in 4 rows and 4 bays. How many lamps in bay?
A. 8 C. 4
B. 6 D. 10

51. How much greater is the heating effect of current of 32 amperes than that
of 8 amperes through a wire of 10 ohms resistance?
A. 16 C. 4
B. 2 D. 64

52. The power input to a 30hp shunt motor is 2100 watts, taken a no load. The
field and armature resistance are 73 and 0.1 ohm respectively. What is the
stray loss?
A. 1936 watts C. 1864 watts
B. 2100 watts D. 1432 watts

53. A 3-phase 4-wire 208/120 volt system supplies 100 kw at a lagging p.f. of
0.8 to a balanced motor load. In addition, 20 kw of power are supplied to
each of two incandescent lamp loads, one connected between line A and the
neutral and the other between line B and the neutral. Calculate the current
at line A.
A. 167 amp C. 278 amp
B. 491 amp D. 347 amp

54. A generator of 60Hz & 220-v delivers power to a load consisting of a

resistor 4 ohms and inductor of 8 ohms inductive reactance connected in
series. Determine the capacitive reactance in ohms to be connected in
parallel across the load to give the total pf of 0.9 with total current
lagging the load voltage.
A. 13.2 ohms C. 15.8 ohms
B. 19.6 ohms D. 17.4 ohms

55. A certain line has a resistance and a reactance of 0.1 and 0.3 ohms
respectively, supplies a load at one end and disconnected to a 440-v
generator at the other end. The load connected consists of 2 parts, one
drawing 100 amp at 100% power factor and the other taking 75 amp at 80%
power factor leading. Calculate the voltage at the load.
A. 420 volts C. 430 volts
B. 435 volts D. 428 volts

56. A shunt motor takes 45 amperes at 112 volts under full load. When running
without load at the same speed, it takes 3 amp at 106 volts. The field
resistance is 100 ohms and the armature resistance is 0.125 ohm. What is the
overall efficiency at full load?
A. 88.5% C. 83.6%
B. 87 .5% D. 86.8%

57. What is the reactance of an ac circuit having 20 ohms inductive reactance

and 10 ohms capacitive reactance?
A. 10 ohms C. 30 ohms
B. 5 ohms D. 15 ohms

58. A series circuit consist of an inductor of 0.5H, a resistor of 10 ohms, a

capacitor of 12µF and an ac generator of 320 volts with frequency of 60 Hz.
What is the power?
A. 556 watts C. 417 watts
B. 886 watts D. 664 watts

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59. An AC 60 Hz single phase 240 volts motor delivers a mechanical full load of
25 hp with an efficiency of 85% and 80% power factor. Determine the starting
current in amperes if its known to be 6 time the full load current.
A. 685 amp C. 569 amp
B. 756 amp D. 774 amp

60. Water is required at 50 cfm at a point 120 ft above the surface of a lake.
The pipe friction is estimated at 10 ft. the pump efficiency is 75%, the
efficiency of the three phase 440-volt induction motor driving the pump is
90% at the power factor of 95%. Calculate the current drawn by the motor.
A. 15.7 amp C. 18.7 amp
B. 12.6 amp D. 13.9 amp

61. A 440-volt, 75 Hp shunt motor has an armature resistance of 0.175 ohms and
a field resistance of 350 ohms. The current drawn at full load is 135
amperes. What is the starting resistance to start at 175% of full load
torque?
A. 1.69 ohms C. 2.6 ohms
B. 3.25 ohms D. 4.08 ohms

62. A 420 kW, 600-volt 580 rpm long shunt generator has an armature resistance
of 0.03 ohms, series field resistance of 0.01 ohms, shunt field resistance
of 45 ohms and SPL of 12kW. Calculate the necessary driving torque at
treated load.
A. 5580 lb-ft C. 5830 lb-ft
B. 5280 lb-ft D. 5460 lb-ft

63. A certain 230 volt shunt motor with an armature resistance of 0.07 ohm,
including the brushes, generates a torque of 250 lb-ft at 1200 rpm and has
an armature current of 210 amperes. Calculate the torque when the armature
current is 300 A and the field is reduced 75% of the normal.
A. 226 lb-ft C. 176 lb-ft
B. 386 lb-ft D. 268 lb-ft

64. A 20-hp three-phase induction operates at full load of 440 volts across its
terminals. It takes 25 amp per line, lagging 30° behind the phase voltage.
What is the efficiency of the motor?
A. 90.5% C. 92.4%
B. 93.2% D. 94.6%

65. Two alternators, operating in parallel, supply 2500 kW to a load at lagging

a lagging pf of 80%. If one machine delivers kW at 95% power factor, what is
the operating power factor of the other machine?
A. 69.6% C. 75.4%
B. 65.5% D. 70.7%

66. A 25 MV, 13.8-kv generator has a reactance of 0.20 p.u. and is connected
through transmission line through a transformer rated 38 MVA, 13.8/230 kV
with reactance of 0.08 p.u.. If the base to be used in calculation is 100
MVA, 220 kV for transmission line, what per unit value should be used for
generator?
A. 0.291 C. 0.874
B. 1.165 D. 0.2

67. A three phase delta connected induction motor operating on a 440 volt line
has a lagging power factor of 0.75 and an efficiency of 0.85. It is
delivering 20hp. What is the current in its phase winding?

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A. 17.8 amp C. 15.8 amp

B. 19.6 amp D. 13.6 amp

68. A busbar for three phase currents consist of three 1 inch diameter copper
rods spaced 12 inches apart, center-to-center, in equilateral arrangement.
What is the inductance per 100 ft?
A. 0.459 mH C. 0.0688 mH
B. 0.0209 mH D. 0.0367 mH

69. A 230-kv double circuit 3-phase line with conductors of 795 MCM acsr are
arranged at the vertices of a regular hexagon 20 ft on sides. What is the
GMD of the parallel lines?
A. 26.3 ft C. 34.6 ft
B. 27.8 ft D. 35.6 ft

70. A 5-hp, 4-pole 60-Hz 3-phase induction motor takes 4500 W from the supply.
The rotor and stator copper losses are 92 and 292 W, respectively. The
friction and windage losses are 72 W and the core loss is 225 W. what is the
efficiency?
A. 86.4% C. 84.8%
B. 82.4% D. 88.6%

71. A 3-phase wye-connected induction motor operating on 20 volts has a p.f. of

70% and efficiency of 82% when delivering 8 hp. What is the phase current?
A. 23.3 amp C. 26.8 amp
B. 25.7 amp D. 27.3 amp

72. If an alternating current of 5 amperes flows in a series circuit composed

of 12 ohms pure resistance, 15 ohms inductive reactance, and 40 ohms
capacitive reactance. What is the voltage across the circuit?
A. 135.5 ohms C. 132.2 ohms
B. 138.7 ohms D.136.2 ohms

73. What is the capacitive reactance of an ac circuit containing 35 microfarad

capacitance if the frequency is 60 cycles?
A. 68.6 ohms C. 75.8 ohms
B. 55.8 ohms D. 84.6 ohms

74. At a 230-kv bus of a power system the short circuit MVA are 500 MVA.
Calculations are to be made for an industrial plant which will be supplied
from this bus. If the bases for calculations to be 220 kV, 20 MVA, what are
the p.u. values of series reactance and voltage of the Thevenin’s equivalent
power system?
A. X = 0.044 & E = 1.045 C. 0.044 & E = 0.956
B. X = 0.04 & E = 1.045 D. 0.04 & E = 0.956

75. A three phase transformer substation delivers 100 kw of power to a balanced

load at 80% power factor. The power is received at 13800 volts and is
delivered at 2300 volts. A single bank of V-connected transformer is used.
What is the minimum rating of each transformer?
A. 68.2 kva C. 55.2 kv
B. 72.1 kva D. 41.6 kv

76. A 50 kva, 2200/220 volt transformer has an iron loss of of 300 watts at 60
Hz. The resistance at its low and high potential windings are 0.005 and 0.5
ohm respectively. Calculate the input to this transformer when delivering
full load to a circuit having a power factor of 80% lagging.
A. 40,756 watts C. 41,024 watts

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B. 40,560 watts D. 40,816 watts

77. A 500 kva 11000/2300 – volt 60-cycle transformer are respectively 0.8 and
0.04 ohm for the high and the low-voltage sides. The iron loss is 3000
watts. This transformer is loaded daily as follows; 2hr at full load, 3 hrs
at three quarter load and 6 hr at one-quarter load. Calculate the all-day
efficiency.
A. 97% C. 95%
B. 92% D. 90%

78. Two 2.4 KV generators rated 2.5 MVA and 5 MVA are connected in parallel to
the same busbar have sub-transient reactance of 10%. What is the per unit
reactance of a single generator equivalent to the two generator in parallel
on a15MVA, 2.4 kv bases?
A. 0.3 C. 0.2
B. 0.05 D. 0.6

79. In a series motor, what is the relation of the connection of motor field
winding with respect to the motor armature?
A. series C. parallel
D. series-parallel D. delta

80. What is the minimum number of magnetic contactors to allow forward-reverse

control in the rotation of a motor?
A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1

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