This is the sample model test in which you can build your strength through practicing the best questions mentioned below.
1. Technical sanction means:
A. Expenditure Sanction
B. Financial Sanction
C. Sanction of Contract
D. Sanction of Detailed estimate
2. Administrative Approval represents:
A. Allocation of funds
B. Formal acceptance of a project by administrative department
C. Formal acceptance of a project by Financial department
D. Approval of tender by engineering department
3. The method of estimate used by commercial bank for the purpose of valuation of the public entity in Nepal, is:
A. Preliminary estimate
B. Detailed estimate
C. Plinth area estimate
D. Approximate estimate
4. The Abbreviation NIDC stands for:
A. Nepal Industrial Development Corporation
B. National Industrial Development Co-operation
C. Nepal Industrial Development Co-operation
D. National Industrial Development corporation
5. The information which cannot be included in drawings is conveyed to the estimator through:
A. Specifications
B. Cover note
C. Progress chart
D. None
6. The loss value of property by its becoming out of date in style , in design, in structure etc, is called:
A. Obsolescence
B. Distress value
C. Salvage value
D. Scrap value
7. The field activities of an engineer includes:
A. Estimation
B. Approval of construction plans by the local authority
C. Inspection and payment of work done by contractor
D. All of the above
8. The chart which gives an estimate about the amount of materials handling between various works station is known as:
A. Flow chart
B. Travel chart
C. Process chart
D. Operation chart
9. The aggregate which passes through 4.75 mm IS sieve and entirely retained on 75 micron IS sieve is called:
A. Coarse aggregate
B. Fine aggregate
C. All in one aggregate
D. Cyclopean Aggregate
10. The function of water reducing admixture in concrete is:
A. To increase the slump of concrete at same water content
B. To Decrease the slump of concrete at same water content
C. To enhance the durability in freeze and thaw cycles
D. All of the above
11. The foundations are placed below ground level, is to increase:
A. Strength
B. Workability
C. Stability of structure
D. All of the above
12. The underside of an arch is known as:
A. Soffit
B. Intrados
C. Back
D. Haunch
13. The process of making background rough, before plastering:
A. Hacking
B. Dubbing
C. Peeling
D. None
14. The intercept of a staff:
A. Is maximum If the staff is held normally to the line of sight
B. Is minimum if the staff is held normally to the line of sight
C. Decreases if the staff is tilted away from normal
D. Increases if the staff is tilted towards normal
15. In chain surveying tie lines are primarily provided
A. To check the accuracy of the survey
B. To take offsets for details survey
C. To avoid long offsets from chain lines
D. To increase the number of chain lines
16. Closed contours of decreasing value towards their center, represent:
A. A hill
B. A depression
C. A saddle
D. A cave
17. To fix the plane table station with three known points, is unreliable if the plane table station lies:
A. Inside the great triangle
B. Outside the great triangle
C. On the circumference
D. None of the above
18. A bearing of a line is known as:
a. Magnetic bearing
b. True bearing
c. Reduced bearing
d. Azimuth
19. A pitot tube is used to measure:
A. Velocity of flow
B. pressure difference
C. Pressure
D. None of the above
20. The thickness of sharp crested weir is kept less than:
A. 1/3rd of the height of water on the sill
B. 1/2nd of the height of water on the sill
C. 2/3rd of the height of water on the sill
D. None of these
21. The maximum vacuum created at the summit of a syphon is:
A. 2.7 m of water
B. 7.3 of water
C. 5.5 m of water
D. None of the above
22. The ratio of average velocity to maximum velocity of viscous fluid through a circular pipe is:
A. 0.5
B. 1
C. 2
D. 0.70
23. Borrow pits should be preferably located in:
A. Field on the left side of the canal
B. Field on the right side of the canal
C. Fields on both side of the canal
D. Central width of the section of the canal
24. Irrigation canal are generally aligned along:
A. Water shed line
B. Contour line
C. Valley line
D. Straight line
25. F.S.L of a canal at its head with respect to parent channel is kept:
A. At the same level
B. 15 cm lower
C. 15 cm higher
D. None of the above
26. When a canal and drainage approach each other at the same level, the structure so provided is:
a. An aqueduct
b. A syphon
c. Level Crossing
d. Inlet and outlet
27. The main function of a diversion head works of a canal from a river is:
A. To remove silts
B. To control floods
C. To raise water level
D. All of the above
28. In a loaded beam, the point of contra-flexture occurs at a section where:
A. Bending moment is minimum
B. Bending moment is zero or change sign
C. Bending moment is maximum
D. Shear force is zero
29. Shear span is defined as the zone where:
A. BM zero
B. SF zero
C. BM constant
D. SF constant
30. The shape of bending moment over the length of a beam having no external load is always:
a. Linear
b. Parabolic
c. Circular
d. Cubic
31. A beam is said to be of uniform strength, if:
A. B.M is same throughout the beam
B. Deflection is same throughout the beam
C. Bending stress is same throughout the beam
D. Shear stress is same throughout the beam
32. The variety of pig iron used for manufacture of wrought iron is:
A. Bessemer pig
B. White forge pig
C. Gray pig
D. Mottled pig
33. Sand stone is :
A. Sedimentary
B. Metamorphic
C. Igneous
D. Volcanic
34. Inner part of timber log surrounding the pith is known as:
A. Sap wood
B. Annular ring
C. Medullary ray
D. None of these
35. The commonly used drying oil for oil paints is:
A. Olive oil
B. Linseed oil
C. Kerosene
D. Acetate of lead
36. The passive earth pressure of a soil is proportional to
A. Tan(45°-ø)
B. Tan2(45°-ø/2)
C. Tan2(45°+ø/2)
D. Tan(45°-ø/2)
37. The minimum water content at which at which the soil just begins to crumble when rolled into threads 3 mm diameter, is called:
A. Liquid limit
B. Plastic limit
C. Plastic limit
D. Permeability limit
38. The lateral earth pressure on a retaining wall
A. Is equal to mass of the soil retained
B. Proportional to the depth of soil
C. Proportional to the square of the depth of soil
D. Proportional to the internal friction of the soil
39. The size of boundary sieve between gravel and sand is:
A. 4.75 mm
B. 300 mm
C. 75 mm
D. 75 microns
40. The minimum area of tension reinforcement in beams shall be of:
A. 0.15%
B. 1%
C. 1.5%
D. 4%
41. An RCC column is treated as long column if its slenderness ratio is greater than:
A. 35
B. 40
C. 50
D. 60
42. Dimension of beam need not be change if shear stress shall be less than:
A. 10kg/cm2
B. 15 kg/cm2
C. 20 kg/cm2
D. 25kg/cm2
43. The modular ratio is the ratio between:
A. Ec/Es
B. Es/Ec
C. Em/Ec
D. Es/Et
44. Thickness of pavement can be reduced by:
A. Compaction of soil
B. Stabilization of soil
C. Drainage of soil
D. All of the above
45. Design of horizontal, horizontal alignment vertical alignment sight distance is worst affected by:
A. Width of vehicle
B. height of vehicle
C. Length of vehicle
D. Speed of vehicle
46. The weaving length of a roadway is the distance:
A. Between the channelizing islands
B. Equal to half circumference
C. Equals to diameter of rotary
D. Between the adjacent islands
47. BPT are used to:
A. Store water
B. Guard water hammer
C. Break the pressure
D. Increase velocity of flow
48. In slow sand filters, the turbidity of raw water can be removed only upto:
A. 40 NTU
B. 50 NTU
C. 70 NTU
D. 60 NTU
49. The minimum diameter of sewers is:
A. 10 cm
B. 15 cm
C. 20 cm
D. 30 cm
50. If the diameter of sewer is 225 mm, the gradient required for generating self-cleansing velocity is:
