Practice Test: Question Set - 08
1. The first method invented for planning projects, was
- (A) Bar chart
method
- (B) Milestone
chart
- (C) Critical
path method (CPM)
- (D) Programme
Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
2. Which one of the following is not an excavating and moving type of equipment?
- (A) Bulldozer
- (B) Clam shell
- (C) Scraper
- (D) Dump truck
3. The main disadvantage of line organization, is
- (A) Rigid
structure
- (B) Extraordinary
delay in communications
- (C) Top level
executions over work
- (D) All the
above
4. Batching refers to
- (A) Controlling the total quantity at each batch
- (B) Weighing accurately, the quantity of each
material for a job before mixing
- (C) Controlling the quantity of each material into each
batch
- (D) Adjusting the water to be added in each
batch according to the moisture content of the materials being mixed in the
batch
5. While scheduling a project by C.P.M.
- (A) A project is
divided into various activities
- (B) Required
time for each activity is established
- (C) Net work is
drawn by connecting the activities and the events
- (D) All the
above
6. Slack time refers to
- (A) An activity
- (B) An event
- (C) Both event and activity
- (D) None of the above
7. Final technical authority of a project lies with
- (A) Assistant
Engineer
- (B) Executive
Engineer
- (C) Superintending
Engineer
- (D) Chief
Engineer
8. Whenever an activity has zero total float, then
- (A) Free float of the activity must be zero but
independent float need not be zero
- (B) Independent float must be zero but free
float need not be zero
- (C) Free float and independent float both must be zero
- (D) Free float and independent float both need
not be zero
9. Mile Stone charts were invented in the year of
- (A) 1910
- (B) 1920
- (C) 1930
- (D) 1940
10. Which of the following is not a PERT event?
- (A) Site investigation started
- (B) Sessional work completed
- (C) Bus starts from Jaipur
- (D) Class is being attended
11. A construction schedule is prepared after collecting
- (A) Number of
operations
- (B) Output of
labour
- (C) Output of machinery
- (D) All
the above
12. A tractor whose weight is 20 tonnes has a drawbar pull of 2500 kg, when operated on a level road having a rolling resistance of 30 kg per tonne. If this tractor is operated on a level road having a rolling resistance of 40 kg per tonne, then the drawbar pull of the tractor will
- (A) Reduce by 200 kg
- (B) Increase by 200 kg
- (C) Increase by 250 kg
- (D) Reduce by 250 kg
13. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
- (A) The
difference of latest occurrence time and earliest expected time, is called
slack
- (B) The
activities connecting the events having zero slack, lie on the critical path
- (C) The critical
path consumes the maximum time
- (D) All the
above
14. In India, are prefabricated components costlier than those of traditional cast-in-situ items that the prefabricated components replace?
- (A) Yes, because of heavier overheads and
handling cost
- (B) Yes, because of the very high order of quality
control for the factory made components
- (C) No, because of repetitive manufacture of a number
of elements
- (D) No, because of savings in site labour
15. Frequency distribution curves
- (A) Having a
single lump, are called uninodal curves
- (B) If
symmetrical, are called normal curves
- (C) If
not symmetrical, are called skew curves
- (D) All
the above
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