civil engineering Mcqs
5301. Mobilization advance up to 10% of the cost of work is given to a contractor_______________?
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A. for all activities required to start the work at site on finalization of the contract document

B. for the payment of advances to labour and other staff

C. on commencement of work at site for payment of loan taken by him

D. for the purchase of construction materials

5302. Which of the following surfaces will give highest rolling resistance for a rubber tyred vehicle?
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A. Concrete

B. Firm earth

C. Loose sand

D. Asphalt

5303. Consider the following statements for a power shovel?
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A. ect the correct statements?

B. i) Output can be increased by keeping the depth of cut less than optimum depth

C. ) For a given angle of swing, output will be maximum at optimum depth of cut

D. Output can be increased by reducing the angle of swing for a given depth of cut

E. ) Output can be increased by increasing the size of shovel</strong>

5304. Which one of the following is not an excavating and moving type of equipment ?
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A. Clam shell

B. Scraper

C. Dump truck

D. Bulldozer

5305. Which of the following does not represent an activity?
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A. site located

B. foundation is being dug

C. the invitations are being sent

D. the office area is being cleaned

5306. The process of incorporating changes and rescheduling or replanning is called_______________?
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A. updating

B. resource levelling

C. resource smoothening

D. critical path scheduling

5307. For which of the following materials, the output of power shovels for a fixed shovel size will be maximum_______________?
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A. We|l blasted rock

B. Moist loam

C. Good common earth

D. Wet sticky clay

5308. Interfering float is the difference between__________________?
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A. total float and free float

B. total float and independent float

C. free float and independent float

D. none of the above

5309. An earth moving equipment costs Rs. 5,00,000/- and has an estimated life of 10 years and a salvage value of Rs. 50,000/-.What uniform annual amount must be set aside at the end of each of the 10 years for replacement if the interest rate is 8% per annum and if the sinking fund factor at 8% per annum interest rate for 10 years is 0.069 ?
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A. Rs. 31050

B. Rs. 50000

C. Rs. 37950

D. Rs. 34500

5310. If the gross vehicle weight of a truck is 30 t and rolling resistance is 30 kg/tonne, then the tractive effort required to keep the truck moving at a uniform speed is__________________?
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A. 30 kg

B. 900 kg

C. 300 kg

D. 1000 kg

5311. At a work site, statistical quality control of concrete means________________?
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A. reduction in wastage of inspection costs

B. applying the theory of probability to sample testing or inspection

C. measurement of risks to eliminate failures

D. reduction in costs for the removal of defects

5312. A machine costs Rs. 20000 and its useful life is 8 years. The money is borrowed at 8% interest per annum. The capital recovery factor at 8% interest per annum for 8 years is 0.174. The annual equipment cost of the machine will be________________?
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A. Rs.1740

B. Rs.6960

C. Rs.3480

D. Rs.5220

5313. In the time-cost optimisation, using CPM method for network analysis, the crashing of the activities along the critical path is done starting with the activity having________________?
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A. least cost slope

B. shortest duration

C. longest duration

D. highest cost slope

5314. Whenever an activity has zero total float, then_______________?
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A. free float of the activity must be zero but independent float need not be zero

B. independent float must be zero but free float need not be zero

C. free float and independent float both must be zero

D. free float and independent float both need not be zero

5315. Rolling resistance of a wheel depends upon_____________?
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A. Vehicle load

B. ) Grade

C. ect the correct statements?

D. i) Ground</strong>

5316. A tractor shovel has a purchase price of Rs. 4.7 lacs and could save the organization an amount of rupees one lac per year on operating costs. The salvage value after the amortization period is 10% of the purchase price. The capital recovery period will be________________?
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A. 5 years

B. 3.7 years

C. 7.87 years

D. 4.23 years
5317. Sinking fund is_______________?
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A. a part of the money kept in reserve for providing additional structures and structural modifications

B. raised to meet maintenance costs

C. the fund for rebuilding a structure when its economic life is over

D. the total sum to be paid to the municipal authorities by the tenants

5318. A contractor has two options : Invest his money in project A or (II) : Invest his money in project B. If he decides to invest in A, for every rupee invested, he is assured of doubling his money in ten years. If he decides to invest in B, he is assured of making his money 1.5 times in 5 years. If the contractor values his money at 10% interest rate, he______________?
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A. could invest in either of the two projects

B. should invest in project A

C. should invest in neither of the two projects

D. should invest in project B

5319. Which of the following excavators is most suitable for digging under water?
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A. Hoe

B. Drag line

C. Dipper shovel

D. Clam shell

5320. If the optimistic time, most likely time and pessimistic time for activity A are 4, 6 and 8 respectively and for activity B are 5, 5.5 and 9 respectively, then______________?
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A. expected time of activity A is greater than the expected time of activity B

B. expected time of activity B is greater than the expected time of activity A

C. expected time of both activities A and B are same

D. none of the above

5321. A four wheel trac*or whose operating weight is 12000 kg is pulled along a road having a rising slope of 2% at a uniform speed. Assume grade resistance factor = 10 kg/tonne. The tension in the tow cable is 720 kg. The rolling resistance of the road will be___________________?
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A. 20 kg/tonne

B. 40 kg/tonne

C. 50 kg/tonne

D. 30 kg/tonne

5322. The grade resistance factor for an earth moving machine can be obtained by multiplying grade percentage by a factor approximately equal to_________________?
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A. 20 kg/tonne

B. 2 kg/tonne

C. 6 kg/tonne

D. 9 kg/tonne
5323. During the construction period, price variation clause in contracts caters to__________________?
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A. increase in rates of only important materials

B. variation in cost in materials element, labour element and petrol-oil-lubricant element

C. rate of inflation

D. variation in total cost of the project on an ad hoc basis

5324. If the scheduled completion time of a project is more than the earliest expected time for completion of the project, then the probability of completion of the project within the scheduled completion time will be__________________?
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A. 50%

B. 100%

C. more than 50%

D. less than 50%

5325. Critical path_____________?
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A. is always longest

B. may be shortest

C. is always shortest

D. may be longest

5326. In the bar chart planning____________?
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A. sider the following statements?

B. progress of work can be measured

C. interdependence of the operations cannot be portrayed

D. spare time of the activities can be determined

E. schedule cannot be updated</strong>

5327. In time-cost optimization of a project, crashing is done____________?
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A. on original critical activities and those that become critical at any stage of crashing in the order of ascending cost slope

B. only on activities lying on the orginal critical path and having flatter cost slopes

C. on all the activities

D. on all the activities lying on the critical path

5328. The most suitable type of equipment for compaction of cohesive soils is_________________?
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A. Smooth-wheeled rollers

B. Tampers

C. Sheep foot rollers

D. Vibratory rollers

5329. The correct sequence of these activities is________________?
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A. sider the following activities in a building construction?

5330. The correct sequence of these operations in tunnel construction is______________?
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A. Blasting

B. sider the following operations :

C. Placing steel

D. Drilling

E. Placing concrete</strong>

F. Mucking

5331. If the excavation of earth is done manually then it costs Rs. 10 per cum. A machine can excavate at a fixed cost of Rs. 4000 plus a variable cost of Rs. 2 per cum. The quantity of earth for which the cost of excavation by machine will be equal to the cost of manual excavation is_________________?
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A. 1500 cum

B. 2000 cum

C. 500 cum

D. 1000 cum

5332. PERT is preferred for planning because of________________?
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A. sider the following features/factors

5333. Batching refers to________________?
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A. weighing accurately, the quantity of each material for a job before mixing

B. adjusting the water to be added in each batch according to the moisture content of the materials being mixed in the batch

C. controlling the total quantity at each batch

D. controlling the quantity of each material into each batch
5334. In the critical path method of construction planning, Free Float can be_____________?
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A. greater than Independent Float

B. sider the following statements ?

C. greater than Total Float.

D. equal to Total Float.

E. less than Independent Float. Of these statements</strong>

5335. Which of the following is not a PERT event ?
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A. class is being attended

B. bus starts from Jaipur

C. site investigation started

D. sessional work completed

5336. The probability of completion of any activity within its expected time is_________________?
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A. 84.10%

B. 50%

C. 99.90%

D. 100%

5337. What estimate would you give for the variance in above problem ?
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A. 54

B. 81

C. 9

D. 36

5338. Which one of the following surfaces will give highest coefficient of traction while using crawler track tractors?
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A. Concrete

B. Ice

C. Earth

D. Loose sand

5339. Free float for any activity is defined as the difference between__________________?
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A. its earliest finish time and latest start time for its successor activity

B. its earliest finish time and earliest start time for its successor activity

C. its latest finish time and earliest start time for its successor activity

D. its latest start time and earliest start time

5340. PERT technique of network analysis is mainly useful for__________________?
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A. research and development projects

B. small projects

C. deterministic activities

D. large and complex projects

5341. Total float for any activity is defined as the difference between________________?
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A. its latest finish time and earliest start time for its successor activity

B. its latest start time and earliest start time

C. its latest start time and earliest finish time

D. its earliest finish time and earliest start time for its successor activity

5342. Slack time refers to_______________?
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A. an activity

B. an event

C. both event and activity

D. none of the above

5343. In PERT analysis, the time estimates of activities and probability of their occurrence follow_______________?
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A. Poissons distribution curve

B. Beta distribution curve

C. none of the above

D. normal distribution curve

5344. The time with which direct cost does not reduce with the increase in time is known as_________________?
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A. normal time

B. standard time

C. crash time

D. optimistic time

5345. Economic saving of time results by crashing_________________?
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A. costliest non-critical activity

B. costliest critical activity

C. cheapest non-critical activity

D. cheapest critical activity
5346. The minimum width of the fire escape stairs shall be?
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A. 1.25 m

B. 2.0 m

C. 1.5 m

D. 1.00 m

5347. Select the incorrect statement?
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A. Earliest start of an activity is the early event time of the node it leaves.

B. Latest finish of an activity is the late event time of the node it enters.

C. none of the above

D. Latest start of an activity is its latest finish minus its duration.

5348. The independent float affects only_______________?
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A. the particular activity involved

B. preceding activities

C. succeeding activities

D. none of the above

5349. Assertion A: For a given depth of cut, the output of a power shovel can be increased by decreasing the angle of swing Reason R: If the angle of swing is decreased, the cycle time will be decreased_______________?
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A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

B. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

C. A is true but R is false

D. A is false but R is true

5350. The constraints in case of resource smoothening operation would be_______________?
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A. resources

B. project duration time

C. both resources and project duration time

D. none of the above