Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE Discrete-time signals PYQs
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Questions 1–10 of 28. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 16
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The response of a discrete time system
obeys the following relation:
The input to the system is
Which of the following options is TRUE for
?Your answerChoose one option.
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Consider the discrete time system (S) with input
and output
as shown in the Figure. The two sub-systems represented by their impulse responses
and
are linear and time invariant.Which of the following statements is necessarily TRUE?

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Consider the discrete-time system below with input
and output
. In the figure,
and
denote the impulse responses of LTI Subsystems 1 and 2, respectively. Also,
is the unit impulse, and
. Assuming
, the overall system (denoted by the dashed box) is _____. 
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Let
be a discrete-time signal whose z-transform is
. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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The radian frequency value(s) for which the discrete time sinusoidal signal
has a period of 40 is/are _____.Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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The relation between any N-length sequence
and its corresponding N-point discrete Fourier transform
is defined as
Another sequence
is formed as below
For the sequence
, the value of
is ______.Log in to check the answer
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In the table shown below, match the signal type with its spectral characteristics.
Signal type | Spectral characteristics |
|---|---|
(i) Continuous, aperiodic | (a) Continuous, aperiodic |
(ii) Continuous, periodic | (b) Continuous, periodic |
(iii) Discrete, aperiodic | (c) Discrete, aperiodic |
(iv) Discrete, periodic | (d) Discrete, periodic |
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Consider a discrete-time period signal with period
. Let the discrete-time Fourier series (DTFS) representation be
, where
,
,
,
and
. The value of the sum
isYour answerChoose one option.
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Let an input
have discrete time Fourier transform
be passed through an LTI system. The frequency response of the LTI system is
. The output
of the system isYour answerChoose one option.
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For a vector
, the 8-point discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is denoted by
, where
Here,
. If
and
, then the value of
is ________ (rounded off to one decimal place).Log in to check the answer
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