Civil Engineering Test | QA 008

Friends!
Please take these 20 questions for practice this week. As usual, I would like to request you not to see the answers at the very beginning. Please exercise your God gifted brain first.

Q 01: Granite stone is

A. Igneous Rock

B. Sedimentary Rock

C. Metamorphic Rock

D. Reformed Rock

Q 02: The prime purpose of using hollow bricks is

A. Acoustic insulation

B. Structural weight reduction

C. Thermal insulation

D. All of above

Q 03: The main constituent of varnish is

A. Color pigment

B. Resin

C. Kerosene

D. Glue

Q 04: The drawing of a single span beam shows 2 nos. 25 dia bars as bottom reinforcement. If only 16 dia bars are available in the market, how many numbers will be required for substitution?

A. 7

B. 6

C. 5

D. 4

Q 05: How much stone chips (20 mm down) will be required for casting of 250 x 400 x 5000 mm size concrete beam with volumetric proportion 1:2.5:4?

A. 0.4 cum

B. 0.5 cum

C. 0.6 cum

D. 0.8 cum

Q 06: Find out the maximum span moment of a simply supported overhang beam of span L and both side overhang L/4, carrying a load of w per unit length throughout the entire beam.

A. (3/32) wL²

B. (5/32) wL²

C. (3/8) wL²

D. (5/8) wL²

Q 07: Which one of the following is the most suitable material for making manhole covers?

A. Mild steel

B. Cast iron

C. Wood

D. Cement

Q 08: The highest imaginary point in the celestial sphere directly above an observer is called

A. Mica

B. Lagoon

C. Zenith

D. Top point

Q 09: Which of the following wood is mostly used for timber piling work?

A. Segun

B. Teak

C. Gamar

D. Sal

Q 10: The important criteria for design of foundation is -

A. Design load

B. Bearing capacity of soil

C. Settlement characteristics of soil

D. All of the above

Q 11: A structural member is called beam -

A. if it is made of concrete

B. if it is made of steel

C. if it is subjected to transverse load

D. if it is lying horizontally

Q 12: Hook’s law states that within elastic limit

A. Strain is proportional to stress

B. Stress is proportional to strain

C. Strain is equal to stress

D. Stress is equal to strain

Q 13: A dam is best described by -

A. A reservoir for irrigation and boating

B. A reservoir for power and fishery

C. A reservoir for water supply and flood control

D. A reservoir for flood control and power

Q 14: The extreme fiber stress of a 200 x 300 mm deep concrete section, subjected to a moment of 6 KNm is –

A. ± 2 MPa

B. ± 3 MPa

C. ± 4 MPa

D. ± 6 MPa

Q 15: Normally, the tensile strength of plain concrete is

A. 10% of its compressive strength

B. 20% of its compressive strength

C. 30% of its compressive strength

D. 40% of its compressive strength

Q 16: Abrasion test is carried out to find the -

A. Strength of an aggregate

B. Hardness of an aggregate

C. Toughness of an aggregate

D. density of an aggregate

Q 17: The liquid used to determine the specific gravity of cement is –

A. Water

B. Kerosene

C. Oxalic acid

D. Turpentine oil

Q 18: Pick up the item that is not used as a structural steel –

A. I section

B. T section

C.  V section

D. Z section

Q 19: The moment of inertia about centroidal axis of a square lamina of size 6 is –

A. 108

B. 162

C. 216

D. 432

Q 20: Number of links per metre length of a chain is –

A. 10

B. 8

C. 5

D. 4

Answers:

01. A  02. D  03. B  04. C  05. A
06. A  07. B  08. C  09. D  10. D
11. C  12. B  13. D  14. A  15. A
16. B  17. B  18. C  19. A  20. C

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