PCEP Certification Exam Preparation: 4 Practice Tests

1) The average fossil fuel plant convers about is ______ % of the power going in to the power going out.

2) There are ____ types of dependent sources, depending on the controlling variable and output of the source.

3) The quantity “Rm” which relates dependent voltage to controlling current is called

4) SCR (Silicon Controlled Rectifier) goes into saturation, when gate-cathode junction is

5) What is the probability of a number “2” when a dice is thrown?

6) Which line is obtained by the method of least square?

7) Radio frequency chokes are air cored to

8) The _____ time signal is described for all values of time.

9) A transformer transforms

10) Fundamental property used in single node pair circuit analyzer is that ______ across all elements is same.

11) If the input capacitor of a power supply is shorted, it will result in

12) Drop out to cut off ratio for most relays is of the order of

13) Power in AC circuit is found by

14) For which purpose bundled conductors are employed to a power system

15) If field resistance of DC shunt generator is increased beyond its critical value, the generator

16) A semiconductor device is connected in a series circuit with a battery and a resistance. If the polarity of battery is reversed, the current drops almost to zero. The device may be

17) The Pole Shoes of DC Machines are fastened to the pole core by:

18) Main purpose of modulation process is to

19) Admittance is the reciprocal of

20) Fourier series are infinite series of elementary trigonometric functions i.e. Sine and

21) At very sunny places this source(s) of energy can be found

22) Discrete device field effect transistor is classified on the basis of their

23) Modulation index in amplitude modulation

24) ______ is a by-product of paper industry, which is used by many industries as a primary source of electricity.

25) If the firing angle in an SCR rectifier is decreased, output will be

26) Conjunction x ^ y behaves on digits 0 and 1 exactly as ____ does for ordinary algebra.

27) Which of the following ideas means deciding at runtime what strategy to summon?

28) Which of the following are considered as disadvantages(s) of Gauss-Seidel method over Newton Raphson method in load flow analysis?

29) Which of the following conditions relate line resistance ‘R’ and line reactance ‘X’ for maximum steady state power transmission on a transmission line?

30) Landfill gas is actually _______ used in thermal power plants.