civil engineering MCQs – Page 115

Practise multiple-choice questions from civil engineering for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

civil engineering Mcqs
2281. Duopoly is a market situation where there is/are____________?
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A. Many sellers and few buyers

B. Few sellers and many buyers

C. One seller and few buyers

D. Few sellers and few buyers

2282. Which of these gives the lowest effective rate of interest ?
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A. 12.35 % compounded annually

B. 12.20 % compounded annually

C. 11.60 % compounded annually

D. 11.90 % compounded annually

2283. Who coined the term, Remote sensing_______________?
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A. Evelyn L. Pruitt, a geographer

B. None of these

C. Wilbur Wright, an Italian scientist

D. Gaspard Felix Tournachon, a French scientist

2284. Aside from many sellers and many buyers, which one is a characteristic of perfect competition ?
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A. Homogeneous product

B. Perfect information and absence of all economic friction

C. Free market entry and exit

D. All of the above
2285. The risk coefficient k, depends on__________________?
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A. mean probable design life of structures

B. basic wind speed

C. both (A) and (B)

D. none of the above

2286. What refers to the market situation in which any given product is supplied by a very large number of vendors and there is no restriction against additional vendors from entering the market ?
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A. Monopoly

B. Perfect competition

C. Oligopoly

D. Oligopsony

2287. What is another term for perfect competition ?
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A. Heterogeneous market

B. Free-for-all competition

C. Atomistic competition

D. No-limit competition

2288. Miss Calledo deposited P 1,000, P 1,500 and P 2,000 at the end of the 2nd year, 3rd year and 4th year, respectively in a savings account which earned 10% per annum. How much is in the account at the end of the 4th year ?
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A. P 4,880.00

B. P 4,820.00

C. P 4,840.00

D. P 4,860.00
2289. Which one of the following geometric errors of satellite sensors is random ?
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A. Earth rotation

B. Scan skew

C. Altitude variation

D. Panoramic distortion

2290. The moment-curvature relation at a plastic hinge is________________?
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A. constant curvature for all moments

B. constant moment for all curvatures

C. linear

D. parabolic

2291. As per IS : 875, for the purposes of specifying basic wind velocity, the country has been divided into_____________________?
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A. 4 zones

B. 5 zones

C. 6 zones

D. 7 zones

2292. If the floor is supported at or near the bottom but top chords of a bridge are not braced, then the bridge is called________________?
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A. double deck type

B. half through type

C. through type

D. deck type

2293. The coherence length over which there is a strong relationship between amplitudes is_________________?
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A. None of these

B. Directly proportional to the bandwidth

C. Inversely proportional to the bandwidth

D. The square of the bandwidth

2294. A loan for P50,000 is to be paid in 3 years at the amount of P65,000. What is the effective rate of money ?
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A. 9.41%

B. 9.31%

C. 9.14 %

D. 9.01%

2295. The various stages occuring in GPS system are described below ?
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A. Detection of the GPS signals

B. Decoding the GPS signal</strong>

C. Processing the data in the built-in-computer

D. Generation of an output to the user
2296. If there is only one seller and many buyers, the market situation is ______________________?
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A. Oligopsony

B. Duopsony

C. Monopoly

D. Oligopoly

2297. For rivets in tension with counter-sunk heads, the tensile value shall be____________________?
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A. increased by 25 %

B. reduced by 33.3%

C. increased by 33.3 %

D. reduced by 25 %

2298. A VOM has a selling price of P 400. If its selling price is expected to decline at a rate of 10% per annum due to obsolescence, what will be its selling price after 5 years ?
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A. P 231.56

B. P 222.67

C. P 236.20

D. P 212.90

2299. What is defined as a financial security note issued by business or corporation and by the government as a means of borrowing long-term fund ?
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A. Securities

B. Bank notes

C. Bond

D. T-bills

2300. A P 1, 000, 6% bond pays dividend semiannually and will be redeemed at 110% on June 21, 204. It is bought on June 21, 2001 to yield 4% interest. Find the price of the bond ?
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A. P 1,144.81

B. P 1,155.06

C. P 1,133.78

D. P 1,122.70