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Product Design & Development (PDD) important questionsMost repeated in SPPU papers

These 37 questions appeared in more than one SPPU Product Design & Development paper we have: 11 papers, from Oct 2022 to Nov 2025. The most-asked come first. Each one links to the papers it was asked in.

All PDD papers and notes

Repeated questions

Endsem questions (30)

  1. 5×asked

    Define Purchase Order and Product Costing in vendor development.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  2. 5×asked

    Write a short note on SWOT analysis for a selection of profitable product.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024 ·May 2023

  3. 4×asked

    Explain Product Testing and its Validation.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025 ·Nov 2024 ·May 2024

  4. 4×asked

    Define Limit, Tolerance and Fit. 2

    May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  5. 4×asked

    Differentiate value analysis and value engineering.

    May 2025 ·May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  6. 4×asked

    What is production capacity planning?

    May 2025 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  7. 4×asked

    What is product architecture? Explain types of product architecture.

    May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  8. 4×asked

    What is product policy of an organization? List down various product policies.

    May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  9. 4×asked

    What is Rapid prototyping? Define and enlist various methods of prototyping.

    May 2024 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  10. 3×asked

    List down types of FMEA and explain steps of FMEA.

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  11. 3×asked

    What is the need for Engineering Drawing? Classify Engineering Drawing.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  12. 3×asked

    What is concept selection? Explain Pugh’s chart with example.

    May 2024 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  13. 3×asked

    Why homologation certificate is important in design and development? Explain with example.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  14. 2×asked

    Describe in detail Concept Selection Process.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  15. 2×asked

    Describe in detail Design review/part Print Analysis.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  16. 2×asked

    Describe in detail Legal Product of Design Patents.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  17. 2×asked

    Enlist Industrial Safety to be consider in product design.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  18. 2×asked

    Explain Aesthetic and Aesthetics Consideration in product design.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  19. 2×asked

    Explain Drawing Office procedure in detail.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  20. 2×asked

    Explain Production Part Approval Process Tools in detail.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  21. 2×asked

    What are guidelines for Design for Robustness? Discuss. 

    Nov 2025 ·May 2023

  22. 2×asked

    What are the various elements of Production Drawing?

    Nov 2025 ·May 2025

  23. 2×asked

    What is the importance of PLM and PDM for a Designer?

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  24. 2×asked

    Write a short note on Advance Product Quality Planning.

    Nov 2025 ·Nov 2024

  25. 2×asked

    Explain Make Vs Buy Decision.

    May 2025 ·May 2024

  26. 2×asked

    Write a short note on product data management.

    May 2025 ·May 2024

  27. 2×asked

    Explain Economic analysis in product analysis.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  28. 2×asked

    What is Ergonomics in design? Explain types of Ergonomics with example.

    Nov 2023 ·May 2023

  29. 2×asked

    List down different methods of economic analysis of product and explain break even analysis.

    May 2023 ·Nov 2022

  30. 2×asked

    List down different methods used for product teardown process and explain any one.

    May 2023 ·Nov 2022

Insem questions (7)

  1. 3×asked

    Describe in detail seven phases of product design.

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2023 ·Oct 2022

  2. 3×asked

    What is Concurrent Engineering? Explain the CFT Approach and give their advantages.

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2024 ·Sep 2023

  3. 2×asked

    Explain essential factors for Product Design.

    Aug 2025 ·Sep 2023

  4. 2×asked

    Explain the concept of product life cycle with example.

    Aug 2025 ·Oct 2022

  5. 2×asked

    What is House of Quality, explain how it is used in the Product development process.

    Sep 2024 ·Oct 2022

  6. 2×asked

    Explain Customer need model.

    Sep 2023 ·Oct 2022

  7. 2×asked

    Specify Reasons for new product failure.

    Sep 2023 ·Oct 2022

Questions count as repeated when their wording matches closely across papers. Numericals that depend on a figure are left out, since the figure changes from paper to paper.