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1. All questions are compulsory
2. Each questions carries 01 Mark
3. Total No. of questions are 30
4. Time duration : 60 min

1. What does "Power System Stability" refer B) Ensuring environmental sustainability

to? ( ) C) Managing system reliability
A) The ability of the system to maintain D) Understanding system behavior under
voltage within specified limits transient conditions
B) The ability of the system to withstand
disturbances and return to a steady state 4. Which component's dynamics are
C) The ability of the system to generate primarily studied in Power System Stability?
power without interruptions ( )
D) The ability of the system to balance A) Transformer
reactive power demand B) Capacitor
C) Synchronous Machine
2. Which of the following is NOT a D) Transmission Line
classification of Power System Stability?
( ) 5. What is the primary purpose of a System
A) Voltage Stability Model in Power System Stability analysis?
B) Frequency Stability ( )
C) Transient Stability A) To simplify the system for easier
D) Renewable Stability management
B) To accurately represent system behavior
3. What is the focus of System Dynamics for analysis and simulation
Problems in power systems? ( ) C) To predict future power demand
A) Maintaining economic efficiency D) To optimize power generation schedules
 10. How do fault shunts affect Transient
Stability? ( )
6. What are the factors affecting Transient A) By increasing generator inertia
Stability in a power system? ( ) B) By reducing damping in the system
A) Transmission line length and conductor C) By improving voltage regulation
material D) By enhancing power flow control
B) Generator inertia and damping
C) Load demand and voltage regulation
D) Transformer tap settings and capacitor 11. Which method is utilized to enhance
placement Transient Stability by reducing the time it
takes to clear faults in a power system? ( )
A) High Speed Excitation Control
7. Which method is commonly used to solve B) Regulated Shunt Compensation
the Swing Equation in Transient Stability C) Dynamic Braking
analysis? ( ) D) High Speed Fault Clearing
A) Gauss-Seidel method
B) Point By Point method
C) Runge-Kutta method 12. How does the reduction of transmission
D) Newton-Raphson method system reactance contribute to Transient
Stability enhancement? ( )
A) By increasing system damping
8. What does the Equal Area Criteria B) By reducing fault clearing time
determine in Transient Stability analysis? C) By improving voltage regulation
( ) D) By enhancing power flow control
A) The location of fault shunts
B) The stability limit of the system
C) The critical clearing angle 13. What is the primary function of
D) The optimal generator dispatch schedule regulated shunt compensation in improving
Transient Stability? ( )
A) To increase fault impedance
9. What is the Transient Stability Limit of a B) To regulate system frequency
power system? ( ) C) To provide reactive power support
A) The maximum fault shunt impedance D) To control system separation
allowed
B) The maximum power generation capacity
C) The maximum angle deviation following 14. What role does dynamic braking play in
a disturbance before instability occurs Transient Stability enhancement? ( )
D) The minimum fault clearing time A) It reduces fault clearing time
required for system recovery B) It increases generator inertia
C) It improves system damping
D) It enhances power flow control
15. How does small signal stability 18. What is the objective of Automatic
enhancement differ from transient stability Generation Control (AGC) in power
enhancement? ( ) systems? ( )
A) Small signal stability focuses on long- A) To ensure economic dispatch of
term stability while transient stability generation resources
focuses on short-term stability. B) To stabilize system frequency and tie-line
B) Small signal stability enhancement power exchange
involves reactive power compensation only, C) To regulate reactive power flow in
while transient stability enhancement transmission lines
involves active power control. D) To maintain constant generator voltage
C) Small signal stability enhancement does
not involve control devices, while transient
stability enhancement does. 19. What does steady-state analysis of an
isolated power system primarily focus on? (
D) Small signal stability enhancement is
)
independent of system parameters, while
A) Voltage stability
transient stability enhancement relies on
B) Frequency stability
system parameters.
C) Economic dispatch
D) Transient stability
16. What is the primary purpose of Load
Frequency Control (LFC) in power systems?
( ) 20. Which component is responsible for
A) To regulate system frequency within Automatic Voltage Control (AVC) in power
acceptable limits systems? ( )
B) To control voltage fluctuations at load A) Excitation system
B) Governor
buses
C) Prime mover
C) To manage reactive power flow in
D) Load controller
transmission lines
D) To optimize power generation schedules
21. What does the Load Duration Curve
represent in power system analysis? ( )
17. In the modeling of generators for Load
A) The relationship between load and time
Frequency Control, what component
represents the physical generator's response over a specific period
to changes in system frequency? ( ) B) The distribution of loads across different
A) Governor areas in the power system
B) Prime mover C) The variability of load demand over
different seasons
C) Excitation system
D) The impact of renewable energy
D) Load controller
integration on system operation
22. How is Load Factor defined in power C) To optimize the placement of
system terms? ( ) transmission lines
A) The ratio of peak load to average load D) To analyze the impact of renewable
over a specified period energy integration on system stability
B) The ratio of maximum load to minimum
load over a specified period
26. What is the primary purpose of System
C) The percentage of time a unit operates at
State Classification in power system
full capacity
D) The percentage of total load served by a security? ( )
specific generating unit A) To categorize different types of
generating units
B) To classify the system based on its
23. What does the Diversity Factor indicate operating conditions
in power system analysis? ( ) C) To determine the optimal load
A) The ratio of actual load to the maximum distribution across the network
load on a generating unit D) To assess the impact of renewable energy
B) The ratio of peak load to average load integration on system stability
over a specified period
C) The ratio of sum of individual maximum
27. What does Contingency Analysis
demands to system maximum demand
involve in power system security? ( )
D) The ratio of actual load to installed
capacity in a given area A) Assessing the impact of various
disturbances or outages on system stability
B) Analyzing the economic dispatch of
24. What does Economic Load Dispatch generating units
involve in power system operation? ( ) C) Optimizing the placement of
A) Minimizing transmission losses in the transmission lines
power grid D) Monitoring the voltage profile across the
B) Balancing generation and demand while transmission network
minimizing operating costs
C) Maximizing the utilization of renewable
28. What are Sensitivity Factors used for in
energy sources
power system security? ( )
D) Optimizing voltage regulation across the
transmission network A) To determine the reliability of generating
units
B) To optimize the placement of renewable
25. What is the primary purpose of Load energy sources
Forecasting in power system planning? ( ) C) To assess the vulnerability of the system
A) To determine the reliability of generating to parameter changes
units D) To classify different types of load
B) To predict future load demand for demand
efficient system operation
29. What factors typically affect Power
System Security? ( )
A) Weather conditions and climate change
B) Economic factors and market trends
C) Generator efficiency and fuel availability
D) Load demand variations and equipment
failures

30. What is the primary objective of

Security Analysis in power systems? ( )
A) To maximize system efficiency
B) To minimize transmission losses
C) To ensure system reliability under
various operating conditions
D) To optimize voltage regulation across the
transmission network

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