construction planning and management MCQs – Page 3

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construction planning and management Mcqs
41. 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>

42. 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
43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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
49. 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

50. 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%

51. Critical path_____________?
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A. is always longest

B. may be shortest

C. is always shortest

D. may be longest

52. 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>

53. 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

54. 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

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

56. 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

57. 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

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

59. 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
60. 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>