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1. The design thickness of the pavement is decided on the load carried by

a) Main gears

b) Nose wheel

c) Tail wheel

d) All of the above

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2. Pick up the correct statement from the following

a) Tar concrete pavements are suitable if fuel spillage occurs

b) Rubberized tar concrete resists hot blast as well as spillage

c) Epoxy asphalt concrete resists jet fuel and provides a more elastic pavement

d) All of the above

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3. In the premix asphalt concrete of airport pavement construction, the aggregate is also heated

a) For easy work ability

b) For easy spreading

c) To generate a homogeneous mix

d) All of the above

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4. The roof suitable in high mountainous regions is:

a) Hipped roof

b) Gambrel roof

c) Flat roof

d) Mansard roof

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5. The work of finishing the mortar joints along with the wall construction is known as:

a) toothing

b) pointing

c) racking back

d) jointing

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6. A guard wall of small height exposed to the weather is called:

a) parapet

b) buttress

c) load-bearing

d) none of the above

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7. Curing period is minimum for concrete using:

a) rapid hardening cement

b) low heat cement

c) ordinary Portland cement

d) slag cement

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8. The main principle of an organization is:

a) Unity of command & coherency

b) Effective command and control

c) Delegation of authority

d) All of the above

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9. A drawback of a bar chart is:

a) It is difficult to judge whether an activity is completed or not

b) All the activities represented are independent of each other

c) The sequence of activities is not clearly defined

d) It is not possible to judge whether the activity is ahead or behind the schedule.

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10. A guarantee amount that is provided by the contractor to the employer towards the successful execution of the contract is known as:

a) Tender security

b) Bid security

c) Performance security

d) Advance security

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11. The soil good for making bricks is

a) clay soil (silica & alumina)

b) alluvial

c) silt

d) sand and silt

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12. The nominal size of modular brick is

a) greater than actual brick

b) none of the above

c) less than actual brick

d) equal to actual brick

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13. *The process of heating the limestone to redness in contact with air is termed

a) carbonation

b) oxidation

c) hydration

d) calcination

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14. Distemper is generally used in:

a) walls

b) wood

c) steel

d) none of the above

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15. The space covered by a drawing on a paper after changing the scale from 1:100 to 1:50 will:

a) Increase by 400%

b) Increase by 200%

c) Decrease by 200%

d) Decrease by 400%

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16. The art of representation of an object by systemic lines on a paper is known as:

a) Drawing

b) Art

c) Dimensioning

d) Profession

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17. Drawing is the...... of engineers.

a) Language

b) Tool

c) Machine

d) All of the above

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18. The full form of VAT is

a) Variation at tax

b) Voucher and tax

c) Value-added tax

d) Violation and taxation

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19. Contractor profit is added to

a) Detailed estimate

b) Rate analysis

c) Valuation

d) Salvage

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20. Which one information is not found in specification?

a) Nature of works

b) Quality of materials

c) Types of workmanship

d) Dimension

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21. Which of the following is not a machine used in road construction?

a) excavator

b) bulldozer

c) tower crane

d) roller

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22. To transfer wheel load at expansion joints from one slab to the other

a) tie base is used

b) dowel bars are used

c) hanger bars are used

d) bitumen filler is used

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23. Camber is

a) b/a

b) 2b/a

c) a/b

d) 2a/b

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24. As per our convenience which one is correct with respect to the dimensionless number?

a) WIS-MIE-RIV-FIG-EIP

b) WIE-MIS-RIV-FIG-IEP

c) MIE-WIS-RIG-FIV-PIE

d) WIG-MIS-RIE-FIV-IPE

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25. If the Froude number in open channel flow is more than 1.0, the flow is called

a) critical flow

b) streaming flow

c) shooting flow

d) none of the above

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26. *Which of the following statements is valid?

a) a fluid with low viscosity resists motion because its molecular structure gives it a lot of internal friction

b) viscosity describes the internal friction of a moving fluid

c) two fluids with the same dynamic viscosities have the same kinematic viscosities irrespective of their densities

d) intensity of liquid pressure at the bottom of a tank is w.g.h/3

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27. The viscosity of liquids varies with temperature

a) directly proportional

b) inversely proportional

c) constant

d) none of the above

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28. The floor of an aqueduct is subjected to uplift pressure due to

a) seepage of water from the canal to the drainage

b) subsoil water table in the drainage bed

c) both (a) and (b) above

d) none of the above

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29. The "outlet discharge factor" is the duty at the head of

a) main canal

b) branch canal

c) watercourse

d) distributory

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30. *Total losses in the canal are

a) 40% of the total discharge

b) 10% of the total discharge

c) 60% of the total discharge

d) equal to seepage losses

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31. A Prismatic bar when subjected to pure bending assumes the shape of

a) catenary

b) parabola

c) cubic parabola

d) arc of a circle

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32. The maximum bending moment caused by a moving load on a fixed-end beam occurs

a) at the support

b) under the load

c) at mid span

d) none of the above

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33. *Short column taking maximum load having equal section

a) sal

b) pcc

c) chir

d) none of the above

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34. *The tension in a cable supporting a lift

a) is more when the lift is moving downwards

b) is less when the lift is moving upwards

c) Remains constant whether it moves downwards or upwards

d) is less when the lift is moving downwards

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35. *The bending moment at a section tends to bend or deflect the beam and internal stresses resist its bending. The resistance offered by the internal stress to the bending, is called:

a) compressive stress

b) shear stress

c) bending stress

d) elastic modulus

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36. The degree of saturation, Sr, of soil in percentage has a value

a) Sr > 0

b) Sr ≤ 0

c) 0 < S < 100

d) 0 ≤ S ≤ 100

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37. Specific gravity of solid particles is determined in a laboratory with:

a) Shrinkage Limit Method

b) Gas Jar Method

c) Density Bottle Method

d) All of the above

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38. The position of the backfill lies above a horizontal plane at the elevation of the top of the structure is known as:

a) Surcharge

b) Surcharge angle

c) Extra load

d) Failure load

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39. The shear strength of a soil is

a) Directly proportional to the cohesion of soil

b) Directly proportional to the angle of friction of the soil

c) Directly proportional to the normal stress

d) All of the above

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40. Passive earth pressure is defined as

a) Retaining wall tends to move away from the backfill

b) Retaining wall tends to move towards the backfill

c) Retaining wall is in a stationary position

d) All of the above

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41. In the working stress design, the allowable bending compressive strain in RCC is

a) 0.003

b) 0.0003

c) 0.002

d) none of the above

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42. The minimum lap length at the splice of compression reinforcement in RCC

a) 24 times the diameter of the bar or lap length

b) 30 times the diameter of the bar or lap length

c) 48 times the diameter of the bar or lap length

d) 30 times the diameter of the bar or twice the development length

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43. The quantity of coarse aggregate required in 100 m³ of concrete having mix 1:2:4

a) 74 m³

b) 79 m³

c) 87 m³

d) 92 m³

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44. Magnetic declination

a) remains the same at different places

b) varies from place to place

c) does not vary with temperature

d) none of the above

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45. The spacing of crosshairs in a stadia diaphragm of a tacheometer is 1.5mm, and the focal length of the objective glass is 30cm, the multiplying constant of the tacheometer is

a) 200

b) 100

c) 50

d) 25

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46. Permanent adjustment is carried out to

a) set up of the level

b) establish a fixed relationship between its fundamental axes

c) focus the eyepiece

d) focus the object glass

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47. A perched aquifer generally occurs

a) in an aquiclude

b) in an artesian aquifer

c) above the water table

d) below the water table

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48. The ratio of maximum hourly consumption and average hourly consumption of the maximum day is

a) 1.2

b) 1.5

c) 1.8

d) 2.7

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49. Harmful bacteria are called:

a) Parasites

b) Anaerobic bacteria

c) Aerobic bacteria

d) Pathogens

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50. Kidney damage may be caused due to excess concentration of

a) fluorides

b) nitrates

c) chlorides

d) nitrites

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