Surveying Online Test - Paper 3 » Winning Questions

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1. The strength of fix' is poor when:

a) the station is within the great triangle

b) the station is outside the great circle

c) the station is on the great circle

d) the station is within the great circle but outside the great triangle

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2. The inclination of the needle to the horizontal towards the pole is called

a) dip

b) declination

c) azimuth

d) bearing

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3. If the length of a transition curve is such that the full super elevation is attained at the junction with the circular curve, the resultant curve is known as

a) transition curve

b) vertical curve

c) compound curve

d) reverse curve

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4. The resection by a two-point problem as compared to the three-point problem:

a) requires more labor

b) takes less time

c) gives more accurate results

d) none of the above

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5. If the formation level is less than the ground level, the difference between them at any point will give the

a) height of embankment

b) depth of cutting

c) proposed gradient

d) none of the above

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6. Open cross-staff is commonly used for setting out

a) long offsets

b) short offsets

c) oblique offsets

d) none of the above

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7. The W.C.B of a line is preferred to a quadrantal bearing merely because

a) the bearing is not completely specified by an angle

b) the bearing is completely specified by an angle

c) the sign of the correction of magnetic declination is different in different quadrants

d) all of the above

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8. The important points selected at the ends of the chain lines to command the boundaries of the survey are known as

a) main stations

b) subsidiary stations

c) tie stations

d) none of the above

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9. Find the R.F. of 1cm = 5m

a) 1/5

b) 1/50

c) 1/500

d) 1/5000

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10. If the needle of the compass is sluggish the type of error will be

a) instrumental error

b) personal error

c) natural error

d) none of the above

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11. The types of instrument generally used in the survey of gravity water supply system are:

a) abney level

b) dumpy level

c) theodolite

d) clinometer

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12. The benchmark of a station A is 500 m, and the back sight reading at the point A is 2 m & foresight reading of station B is 3 m. Find the RL of station B

a) 502 m

b) 503 m

c) 499 m

d) 505 m

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13. Crosshairs in a surveying telescope are fitted

a) in the objective glass

b) in the ground

c) in the optical center of the eyepiece

d) all of the above

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14. Leveling across a river is done by

a) fly leveling

b) reciprocal leveling

c) trigonometrical leveling

d) cross leveling

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15. The advantage of anallatic lens is

a) helps in external focusing

b) protection against moisture

c) computation becomes easy as the additive constant in the distance formula vanishes

d) all of the above

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16. Automatic level has advantages of

a) high precision and external influence

b) freedom from errors and external influence

c) comfortable and has a large range of application

d) all of the above

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17. In a theodolite, staff readings for upper, middle, and lower crosshairs are 1.4, 0.9 & 0.4, respectively. If the height of the tower is 100m, then find the horizontal distance between the instrument station and the base of the tower

a) 40m

b) 90m

c) 140m

d) 100m

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18. The angular and linear measurement of the part of the traverse can be checked by

a) astronomical error

b) cut off lines

c) well-defined objects

d) all of the above

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19. The spacing of cross-sections in the indirect method of contouring depends upon

a) character of the ground

b) scale of the map

c) contour intervals

d) all of the above

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20. In the stadia method, if k is the multiplying factor, s is the staff intercept, c is the additive constant of the instrument, then the distance equation is given by the expression

a) D = k+cs

b) D=ks+c

c) D=k/s +c

d) none of the above

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21. The observed reading on a leveling staff was 3.525 m. If the staff was 0.125m off from the original ground level, what should be the correct reading?

a) 3.65m

b) 3.525m

c) 3.4m

d) all of the above

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22. Local attraction in compass surveying may be due to

a) faulty adjustment in the compass

b) the presence of magnetic materials

c) loss of magnetism in the needle

d) friction of the needle at the point

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23. The length of the perpendicular offset from a tangent to the junction of a transition curve and circular curve is equal to

a) shift

b) 2 x shift

c) 3 x shift

d) 4 x shift

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24. Handles are connected to the link by

a) flexible joint

b) rigid joint

c) swivel joint

d) ball and socket joint

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25. When the whole circle bearing of two lines AB and AC are 115° and 41° respectively, then the included angle BAC will be:

a) 74°

b) 45°

c) 115°

d) 156°

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26. If the focal length of the objective glass is 20cm, and the distance from the object glass to the trunnion axis is 12cm, the additive constant is

a) 0.8m

b) 0.4m

c) 0.32m

d) 0.20m

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27. Under Survey, "working from whole to part" is done

a) to prevent the accumulation of error

b) to localize the error

c) both of the above

d) none of the above

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28. The difference between the sum of the measured angles and the theoretical sum of the angles of a closed traverse is called the

a) angular closing error

b) closing error in bearing

c) relative closing error

d) all of the above

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29. The errors due to bad ranging are

a) cumulative positive

b) cumulative negative

c) compensating

d) cumulative positive or negative

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30. You are requested to carry out a survey for the construction of a small airport in a mountainous region of Nepal. Which of the following surveying method will you choose?

a) plane tabling

b) chain surveying

c) leveling

d) tacheometric surveying

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31. In compass surveying

a) the direction and lengths of the survey line are measured by compass

b) the direction is measured by the compass

c) length is measured by the chain or tape

d) both (b) and (c) of above

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32. The method most suitable for plotting in hilly areas is:

a) radiation

b) resection

c) intersection

d) traversing

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33. The projection of a line on a plane parallel to the meridian is known as

a) parallax

b) aberration

c) latitude

d) departure

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34. The maximum angular error in laying the direction is 3°; if this maximum displacement of the point on paper is the same for both sources of error, the accuracy in the offset measurement will be

a) 1 in 18

b) 1 in 19

c) 1 in 25

d) 1 in 30

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35. The types of survey in which fieldwork and plotting proceed simultaneously are:

a) plane table

b) compass

c) leveling

d) tacheometric

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36. The contour line can cross one another on a map only in the case of

a) a valley

b) a ridge

c) a saddle

d) an overhanging cliff

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37. Angular surveying in which both the horizontal and vertical positions of a point are obtained by optical means is known as

a) tacheometry

b) hydrography

c) topography

d) all of the above

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38. A river is an obstacle to

a) ranging but not chaining

b) chaining but not ranging

c) both chaining and ranging

d) none of the above

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39. Angle of 45° with the chain line may be set out with

a) optical square

b) prismatic square

c) open cross-staff

d) French cross-staff

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40. The multiplying constant of a tacheometer is

a) f/d

b) f/I

c) f(i+d)

d) none of the above

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41. The angle that can be set by a French cross-staff is

a) 45°

b) 90°

c) 45° or 90°

d) none of the above

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42. A relatively fixed point of known elevation above the datum is called

a) datum point

b) benchmark

c) reduced level

d) reference point

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43. The device used in computing the horizontal and vertical distances rapidly and conveniently is

a) stadia tables

b) stadia diagrams

c) stadia slide rule

d) none of the above

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44. The magnetic declination at a place is 7°20' W, the bearing given by the compass is S45°40'E, the true bearing of the place is

a) N53°0'E

b) S53°0'E

c) N53°0'W

d) S53°0'W

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45. In the case of a telescopic alidade, the adjustment done is

a) the line of collimation should be perpendicular to the axis of the telescope

b) the horizontal axis should be parallel to the alidade rule

c) the bubble line of the telescope level should be parallel to the plane of collimation

d) all of the above

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46. An example of a level surface is

a) surface of earth

b) surface of sea

c) surface of reservoir

d) surface of a still lake

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47. The reciprocal leveling eliminates

a) the error due to curvature

b) collimation error

c) both (a) and (b) of the above

d) none of the above

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48. The closing error is given by

a) √(ΣL^2+ΣD^2)

b) √((ΣL+ΣD))^2

c) ΣL^2 +ΣD^2

d) none of the above

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49. Chain surveying is used for

a) small areas in open ground

b) small areas with crowded details

c) small areas with simple details

d) large areas with simple details

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50. The location of the contour gradient for a highway is best set out from

a) ridge down the hill

b) saddle down the hill

c) bottom to the ridge

d) bottom to the saddle

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