Sub-Engineer Mock Test of 50 Past Question #40

1. Airport elevation is the reduced level (RL) above mean sea level of:

2. Holding aprons, run up pads, or holding bags are placed adjacent to the ends of runways is:

3. Curing as used in concrete and cement plaster is process that helps these gain:

4. If a payment of annuity begins after some years in future, it is known as:

5. The difference between the time available to do the job and time required to do the job is known:

6. Which type of estimate is most correct estimate for a building:

7. First class timber has an average life of:

8. Working out the exact quantities of various items of work is known as:

9. In detailed measurement, the sequences of dimensions are written:

10. In hill roads, minimum sight distance required is:

11. In highway engineering, which of the following terms is irrelevant?

12. The joint, parallel to the centre line of the road are called:

13. The layer of road that is directly coming in constant with the traffic is:

14. The background colour of the informatory sign board is:

15. A canal aligned approximately parallel to the natural drainage of a country is called:

16. The notch angle for maximum discharge over a triangular weir is:

17. The water utilizable by plants is available in soils mainly in the form of:

18. Which of the following impurities in water is removed by the sedimentation process?

19. When water table is within the root zone depth and is detrimental to plant life, the land is said to be:

20. The presence of hydrogen sulphide in water causes:

21. PH value is symbol for……….concentration:

22. Seasoning of timber is done to:

23. A brick is a block of…….material:

24. The technique of finding the fair price of an existing building or property is known as:

25. When water content in a soil is reduced beyond the shrinkage limit, the soil will be:

26. Particles of 0.002 mm size are that of

27. A shear stress is a stress which is applied to a face of a material:

28. When two or more individual columns are joined by a beam, it is called:

29. The ultimate tensile strength of structural mild steel is about:

30. The submerged unit weight for completely saturated soil is given by:

31. Agent of transportation for alluvial soil is

32. The difference between total stress and pore water pressure on a plane in soil mass is:

33. The process of compaction of soil involves:

34. Uniformity coefficient of a soil is:

35. The amount of water required to fill up the pore spaces in soil particles by replacing all air held in pore-spaces is known as:

36. The pressure of a liquid measured with the help of a piezometer tube is:

37. The variation in the volume of a liquid with the variation of pressure is called:

38. A pitot tube is used to measure the:

39. A member which does not regain its original shape after the load producing deformation is removed is said to be:

40. The law which states that within elastic limits strain produced is proportional to stress producing it is known as:

41. The most efficient section of a channel is:

42. The hardest rock is:

43. If volume of a liquid weighing 3000kg is 4 cubic meters, its specific gravity is:

44. The paint which has high reflection property is:

45. Quartzite is a

46. During leveling if back sight is more than foresight, then:

47. If the whole circle bearing of a line is 180°, it’s reduced bearing is:

48. Determining the difference in elevation between two point on the surface of the earth is known as:

49. When several contours coincide indicates:

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