Civil Overseer Loksewa Exam Model Questions | Civil Engineer Loksewa Exam Questions

1. The error due to bad ranging is

A) Cumulative; positive #

B) Cumulative; negative

C) Compensative

D) Cumulative; positive or negative

2. Consider the following statements: Resource leveling means (1)

Economical utilization of resource (2) gradual increase in resource (3)

adjustment of resource to have the least variations (4) Complete

revamping of resource to suit the requirement (5) validating network

depending on resource constraints of these statements

A) 1 and 2 are correct

B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct

C) 3 and 5 are correct #

D) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Correct

3. With the usual notations, capital recovery factor is given by

A) (1+i)n

B) i/(1+I)n-1

C) i/(1+i)n

D) i(1+i)n/(1+i)n-1 #

4. Interfering float is difference between

A) Total float and free float #

B) Total float and independent float

C) Free float and independent float

D) None of the above

5. Economic saving of time results by crashing

A) Cheapeat critical activity #

B) Cheapest non-critical activity

C) Costliest critical activity

D) Costliest non-critical activity

6. The reduction in project time normally result in

A) Decreasing the direct cost and increasing indirect cost

B) increasing the direct cost and decreasing the indirect cost #

C) Increasing the direct cost indirect cost both

D) decreasing the direct cost and indirect cost both

7. The time corresponding to minimum total project cost is

A) Crash time

B) Normal time

C) Optimistic time

D) Between normal time and crash time #

8. The time with which direct cost does not reduce with the increase

in time is known as

A) Crash time

B) Normal time #

C) Optimistic time

D) Standard time

9. Which of the following is not a PERT event ?

A) Site investigation started

B) Seasonal work completed

C) But starts from jaipur

D) Class is being attended #

10. The rise and fall method

A) Is less accurate than height of instrument method

B) Is not suitable for leveling with tilting levels

C) provides a check on the reduction of intermediate points levels #

D) Quicker And Less Tedious for Large number of intermediate sights

11. A ' level line' is a

A) Horizontal line

B) line parallel to the mean spheroid surface of the earth #

C) Line passing through the center of the cross hairs and the center of

eye piece

D) Line passing through the objective lens and the eye-piece of a

dumpy or tilting level

12. The Horizontal angle between the true meridian and magnetic

meridian at a place is called

A) Azimuth

B) Declination #

C) Local attraction

D) Magnetic bearing

13. The prismatic compass and surveyor's compass

A) Give whole circle bearing (WCB) of a line and quadrennial bearing

(QB) of a line Respectively #

B) Both give QB of a line and WCB of a line

C) Both give QB of a line

D) Both give WCB of a line

14. The principal of 'working from whole to part' is used in surveying

because

A) Plotting becomes easy

B) Survey work can be completed quickly

C) accumulation of errors is prevented #

D) All of the above

15. Number of links a 30 m metric chain is

A) 100

B) 150 #

C) 180

D) 200

16. Which of the following is an obstacle to chaining but not to

ranging ?

A) River #

B) Hillock

C) Building

D) None of the above

17. With the usual notations, sinking fundvis given by

A) (1+I)n

B) i/(1+i)n-1 #

C) i/(1+i)n

D) i(1+i)n/(1+i)n-1

18. Consider the following pairs: (1) Difference between total flot and

free float: inferfering float (2) Sum ofv independent float and tail

slack: Free float (3) Sum of independent float tail slack and interfering

float: total float which of these pairs are correctly matched ?

A) 1, 2 and 3 #

B) 1 and 2

C) 2 and 3

D) 1 and 3

19. Which of the following is a mineral ?

A) Basalt

B) Granite

C) Quartz #

D) Syenite

20. The moisture content in a well seasoned timber is

A) 4% and 6%

B) 10% and 12% #

C) 15% and 20

D) 100%

21. First class timber has an average life of

A) Less than one year

B) 1 To 5 Year

C) 5 to 10 year

D) more than 10 year #

22. The percentage of alumina in a good brick earth lies between

A) 5 to 10%

B) 20 to 30% #

C) 50 to 60%

D) 70 to 80%

23. The process of mixing clay, water and other ingredient make brick

is known as

A) Kneading #

B) Moldings

C) Plugging

D) Drying

24. The main ingredients of portland cement are

A) Lime and silica #

B) lime and alumina

C) Silica and alumina

D) Lime and iron

25. The Basic purpose of a retarder in concrete is

A) To increase the initial setting timer of cement paste in concrete #

B) To decrease the inital setting timer of cement past in concrete

C) to render the concrete more water light

D) To improve the workability of concrete mix

26. Percentage of carbon content in mild steel is

A) less than 0.25 #

B) between 0.25 and 0.7

C) between 0.7 and 1.5

D) greater than 1.5

27. A queen closer is a

A) Brick laid with length parallel to the face or direction of wall

B) Brick laid with its breadth parallel to the face or direction of wall

C) Brick having the same length and depth as the other bricks but half

the breadth #

D) Brick with half the width at one end and full width at the other

28. The differential settlement in case of foundations on sandy soils

should not exceed

A) 25 mm #

B) 40 mm

C) 65 mm

D) 100 mm

29. The type of joint commonly used at the junction of a principal

rafter and tie beam in timber trusses is

A) Mortise and tennon joint

B) Oblique mortise and tennon joint #

C) Butt joint

D) Mitred joint

30. Couple close roof is suitable for maximum span of

A) 2.5 m

B) 3.5 m

C) 4.5 m #

D) 5.5 m

31. In any good staircase, the maximum and minimum pitch

respectively should be

A) 90° and 0°

B) 75° and 30°

C) 60° and 10°

D) 40° and 25° #

32. A guaged mortar is obtained by adding which of the following

ingredients to cement ?

A) Sand stone

B) Sand and SurkhI

C) Sand and lime #

D) Surkhi alone

33. To make one cubic meter of 1:2:4 by volume concrete, the volum

of coarse aggregates required is

A) 0.95 m×3

B) 0.85 m×3 #

C) 0.75 m×3

D) 0.65 m×3

34. The temperature range in cement kiln is

A) 500 to 1000°

B) 1000 to 1200°

C) 1300 to 1500° #

D) 1600 to 2000°

35. In a two hinged arch an increase in temperature induces

A) No bending moment in the arch

B) Uniform bending moment in the arch rib

C) maximum bending moment at the crown #

D) minimum bending moment at the crown

36. Due to some point load anywhere on afixed beam, the maximum

free bending moment is M. The sum of fixed end moment is

A) 1 M #

B) 1.5 M

C) 2.0 M

D) 3.0 M

37. When a load crosses a through type prant truss in the direction

left to right, the nature of force in any diagonal member in the left

half of the span would

A) Change from compression to tension #

B) Change from tension to compression

C) Always be compression

D) Always be tension

38. A fixed beam of uniform section is carrying a point load at its mid

span if the moment of intertia of the middle half length is now

reduced to half its previous value, then the fixed end moments will

A) increase #

B) decrease

C) remain constant

D) Change their directions

39. Select the incorrect statement

A) Lean mixes bleed more as compared to rich ones

B) Bleeding can be minimized by adding pozzolana finer aggregate

C) Bleeding can be increased by addition of calcium chloride

D) None of the above #

40. Approximate value of shrinkage strain in concrete, is

A) 0.003

B) 0.0003 #

C) 0.00003

D) 0.03

41. strength of concrete increase with

A) Increase in watee - cement ratio

B) Increase in fineness of cement #

C) Decrease in curing time

D) Decrease in size of aggregate

42. The permissible diagonal tensile stress in reinforced brick work is

A) About 0.1 N/mm2 #

B) Zero

C) 0.3 N/mm2 to 0.7 N/mm2

D) About 1.0 N/mm2

43. The design yied stress of steel according to is: 4560-1978 is

A) 0.37 fy

B) 0.57 fy

C) 0.67 fy

D) 0.87 fy #

44. According to Whitney's theory, ultimate strain of concrete is

assumed to be

A) 0.03%

B) 0.1%

C) 0.3% #

D) 3%

45. If the angularly number of an aggregate is increased, then the

workability of the concrete using this aggregate will

A) Increase

B) Decrease #

C) Not change

D) None of the above

46. Maximum permissible limit of magnesia content in ordinary

portland cement is

A) 4%

B) 6% #

C) 8%

D) 10%

47. Which of the following workability tests is most suitable for

concrete of vary low workability? (i) Slump test (ii) compacting factor

test (iii) Vee - Bee test The correct answer is ?

A) Only (ii)

B) Only (iii) #

C) (i) and (ii)

D) (i) and (iii)

48. In limit state design, the limiting value of depth of neutral axis is

A) 0.53 d #

B) 0.48 d

C) 0.45 d

D) 0.43 d

49. A channel section consist of

A) two webs

B) two flanges

C) two webs and two flanges

D) one web and two flanges #

50. The dead loads

A) Change their position

B) Do not change their position #

C) Vary in magnitude

D) Do not vary in magnitude

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