Surveying Online Test – Paper 3

1. During chaining along a straight line, the leader of the survey party has three arrows, and while the follower has five arrows. The distance of the follower from the starting point will be

2. A river is an obstacle to

3. The angular error of closure or summation error should not exceed (Where N is the number of stations or sides.)

4. An offset scale always has the zero mark at

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

6. Which one of the following may not be classified as personal error

7. Azimuth and altitude of a star

8. Handles are connected to the link by

9. The tie line is run through the survey to

10. The "point of the curve" of a simple circular curve is

11. If the level tube is out of adjustment by an angle e, when the telescope is rotated through 180°, it becomes

12. The range of accuracy in measuring distance by EDM with respect to ODM is

13. Personal error in leveling occurs due to

14. Resection is the method employed for:

15. The type of survey in which horizontal and vertical distance is measured

16. Which one is the simplest survey?

17. The dip of the needle

18. In survey works, declination varies from time to time and place to place. The main important variation is

19. The length of an Engineer's chain is

20. The projection of a line on a plane perpendicular to the meridian is known as

21. The distance between terminal points computed from a subsidiary traverse run between them is known as

22. Distomats is a type of

23. Short offsets are measured with

24. The survey stations set up during traversing with the compass should be such that

25. The fundamental lines of transit of the theodolite are

26. In a traverse, the algebraic sum of the deflection angles, taking the right-hand deflection angles as positive and left-hand deflection as negative, should be equal to

27. The designation of scale recommended by IS: 1491-1959 is

28. The best method of interpolation of contours in the direct method of contouring is by

29. A traverse deflection angle is

30. The orientation of the table is done by

31. In a dumpy level, the objective and eyepiece lenses are made of two or more small lenses to obtain

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

33. The "point of tangency" of a simple circular curve is

34. If the observed reading of a level staff is 3.83m, and at the point sighted the staff is 0.15m off from the vertical through the bottom, the correct reading will be

35. Tellurometer uses

36. Chain surveying is used for a small area in

37. The shape of the vertical curve generally used is

38. To orient a plane table without two inaccessible points, the method generally adopted is:

39. The rise and fall method of leveling provides a complete check on

40. *The leveling of the instrument is done such that

41. For accurate work, in comparison to the chain, the steel band is used because it

42. 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

43. For Y level, Cooke's, and Cushing levels, the line of collimation should coincide with

44. *Accuracy of 'fix' by two-point problem is

45. The absence of spherical aberration in a telescope is known as

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

47. Find the length of curve if radius of curve

48. The chain length which is not the standard metric chain length is

49. The closing error is given by

50. Local attraction in compass surveying may be due to