| Post Name | ASSISTANT ENGINEER (CIVIL) SR FOR ST ONLY |
|---|---|
| Department | LSGD Cat.No.55/2016 |
| Question Paper Code | 083/2017/OL |
| Category Code | 055/2016 |
| Date of Test | 11 October 2017 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
Where did Benjamin Bailey establish the first printing press in Kerala ?
Answer
C. Kottayam
2
In which year the Freedom of Information Act was replaced by the Right to Information Act ?
Answer
B. 2005
3
Who is called 'Martin Luther of the East' ?
Answer
B. Abraham Malpan
4
Who is the present President of Pukasa ?
Answer
A. Vaisakhan
5
On which date in the year 1936 Temple Entry Proclammation was made by the Travancore ruler Sri Chithira Tirunal Balarama Varma ?
Answer
D. November 12
6
Who wrote 'Sabdikkunna Kalappa' ?
Answer
D. Ponkunnam Varkey
7
By the Indian Constitution, who has the power to make a 'Proclamation of Emergency' ?
Answer
A. President
8
Which of the following organs can be donated only by a live donor ?
Answer
C. Kidney
9
"Intha ulakathile oru jaathi oru matham oru kadavul", who said these words ?
Answer
A. Thycaud Ayya
10
Which Constitution Amendment Act incorporated the terms 'Socialist' and 'Secular' into the preamble of the Indian Constitution?
Answer
C. 42nd Amendment
11
Among these women leaders who participated in the agitation against the Travancore Diwan Sir C. P. Ramaswamy Ayyar ?
Answer
C. Akkamma Cheriyan
12
Who founded Sidhasramam at Alathur in Palakkad ?
Answer
D. Brahmananda Sivayogi
13
Who authored the book "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" ?
Answer
D. Arundathi Roy
14
Which is the official language of Pakistan ?
Answer
C. Urdu
15
Who founded the newspaper "Swadesabhimani" ?
Answer
B. Vakkom Abdul Khadir Maulavi
16
In connection with which movement in Kerala, Savarna Jatha was organized ?
Answer
A. Vaikkom Satyagraha
17
In which Indian City Napier Museum is situating ?
Answer
B. Thiruvananthapuram
18
Name the woman social reformer who was nominated to the Cochin Legislative Assembly to advise about the Namboothiri bill.
Answer
B. Arya Pallam
19
Who started 'Paccha Malayalam Movement' ?
Answer
D. Kodungallur Kunhikkuttan Thampuran
20
Which was organized on the pattern of the Servants of India Society of Gopalakrishna Gokhale ?
Answer
A. N.S.S.
21
Among the following which is true for one way slab ?
Answer
D. L > 2B
22
What is the section modulus of a beam of circular in shape with radius R?
Answer
A. πR³/4
23
In treatment of water what for sedimentation with coagulation is done ?
Answer
D. Remove fine colloidal particles
24
What is an impermeable formation which contain water but are not capable of transmitting ?
Answer
C. Aquiclude
25
Which among the following is not a road junction at the same elevation ?
Answer
A. Diamond interchange
26
Among the properties of cement, to determine the compressive strength (cube strength), what should be the face area of cement mortar cube prepared for conducting the compression test?
Answer
A. 50 cm²
27
What is the average rate of loss such that the volume of rainfall in excess of that rate will be equal to direct run-off ?
Answer
B. Infiltration index
28
Which among the following is the ratio of modulus of elasticity of steel to the modulus of elasticity of concrete ?
Answer
A. Modular ratio
29
Which among the following is the construction in the form of cluster of closely spaced piles used for tying up of ships ?
Answer
C. Dolphins
30
What is meant by the strength of a section ?
Answer
A. Moment of resistance offered by a section
31
What is the name of the wedge shaped unit at the crown of an arch ?
Answer
D. Key
32
What is the minimum water content at which a soil will just begin to crumble when rolled into a thread approximately 3 mm in diameter ?
Answer
C. Plastic limit
33
In Critical Path Method (CPM) what does an arrow represent ?
Answer
C. Activity
34
A simply supported beam of span I carries a point load W at the centre of the beam. What will be the bending moment diagram ?
Answer
A. Triangle
35
If the fore bearing of a line is 130° what is the back bearing of that line ?
Answer
D. N 50° W
36
If the centre of gravity of a plane vertical surface 2 m long and 1 m wide immersed in water, is at a depth of 2 m from the free surface of water, what is the total pressure on the surface ?
Answer
C. 4000 kg
37
How many points (or switches) will be there in a turn out ?
Answer
B. 2
38
Find the maximum torque transmitted by a shaft of 100 mm diameter, if maximum shear stress induced to shaft is 16 N/mm².
Answer
A. 31400 N-m
39
In case of steel column section, what is a fillet ?
Answer
B. Junction between flange and web
40
As per IS Code for the design of steel structures, what is the maximum deflection of a loaded beam?
Answer
B. 1/325 of span
41
By which of the following the final size of town will be anticipated ?
Answer
A. Green belt
42
A simply supported beam made of steel has an effective span of 4 m. What is the section modulus required for the beam section if the safe bending stress is 165 N/mm²? Take the total load, including superimposed load and dead load, as 3 kN/m.
Answer
B. (60 × 10⁶)/165 mm³
43
When direct ranging is done is chain surveying ?
Answer
C. When the two stations are intervisible
44
What is the name of cross drainage work if the canal crosses the drain at a higher elevation than the drain ?
Answer
D. Aqueduct
45
If a point 60 cm above horizontal plane is 20 cm in front of vertical plane then where will be its plan, when the scale of drawing is 1 : 10 ?
Answer
A. 2 cm below XY line
46
If a ground water body is separated from main ground water by a relatively impermeable stratum of small areal extent located above main ground water body, then what type of aquifer it is ?
Answer
A. Perched aquifer
47
Which property of cement among the following is determined using vicat apparatus ?
Answer
D. Setting time
48
What is negative skin friction ?
Answer
B. Downward drag acting on a pile due to downward movement of surrounding soil
49
Which among the following grades denotes the concrete mix 1 : 1 : 2 (one part of cement + one part of fine aggregate + 2 parts of coarse aggregate)?
Answer
D. M₂₅
50
Which among the following is a temporary dam constructed for facilitating construction works ?
Answer
C. Coffer dam
51
What is plasticity index ?
Answer
B. Liquid limit − plastic limit
52
What for a mouth piece is introduced ?
Answer
A. To increase value of coefficient of discharge of an orifice
53
If the gauge pressure is minus what will be the absolute pressure ?
Answer
A. Atmospheric pressure minus gauge pressure
54
In the case of primary tension failure, in which of the following sections tension cracks appear ?
Answer
A. Under-reinforced section
55
What is the built up area of a building at any floor level ?
Answer
C. Floor area
56
Which among the following is a compression of soil mass resulting from a long term static load and consequent escape of pore water ?
Answer
B. Consolidation
57
In a roof truss, which of the following is used to support roofing material ?
Answer
C. Purlins
58
According to PIEV theory for calculating stopping sight distance which among the following is not included in the total reaction time ?
Answer
B. Interchanging time
59
Which of the following is inversely proportional to coefficient of permeability ?
Answer
D. Viscosity of flowing fluid
60
Which among the following is a channel aligned roughly at right angles to the contours ?
Answer
A. Side slope canal
61
A cantilever of length L carries a point load W at free end. If the length of the cantilever is doubled what load at free end will cause the same deflection at free end ?
Answer
D. W/8
62
Name the process of obtaining hand cut samples from stiff cohesive soils, which is trimmed to regular shapes and wrapped to get undisturbed samples.
Answer
D. Chunk sampling
63
In which of the following types of foundation Rolled Steel Joists are used ?
Answer
C. Grillage foundation
64
Which among the following is determined by Hardy Cross method ?
Answer
A. Correction in discharge
65
What is the portion of a brick obtained by cutting the brick longitudinally into two equal parts ?
Answer
B. Queen Closer
66
When a doubly reinforced beam is preferred ?
Answer
B. When depth of beam is to be limited
67
What is defined as the difference between the amount of chlorine added to water and the amount of chlorine remaining at the end of a specified contact period ?
Answer
A. Chlorine demand
68
Which fitting is used to hold two rails together ?
Answer
D. Fish plates
69
Which among the following is known as bending equation?
Answer
B. M/I = f/y = E/R
70
In a leveling back sight is noted as 1.200 on a bench mark whose reduced level is 100.000 and fore sight is noted as 1.200. Then the instrument is shifted to a new position and back sight is noted as 1.100. What is the height of instrument for the second set up ?
Answer
C. 101.100
71
Which among the following is responsible for 'quick sand' ?
Answer
C. Seepage pressure
72
What is the advantage of coning of wheels of railway vehicles ?
Answer
D. Helps to keep the vehicle centrally aligned on a straight and level track
73
What is the polar moment of inertia of circular section of radius 2 cm?
Answer
B. π/2 cm⁴
74
Which among the following is not included in the shape test for road aggregates ?
Answer
D. Group index
75
For what purpose a venturimeter is used ?
Answer
B. To find out the discharge of a liquid flowing in a pipe
76
Which among the following is used to indicate the area of land acquired along the road alignment by the highway organization ?
Answer
D. Right of way
77
Among the following, in which filter backwashing can not be done for cleaning the filter ?
Answer
A. Slow sand filter
78
What is the flow called if the depth of water in a channel is greater than the critical depth ?
Answer
D. Streaming flow
79
Which among the following is a flow, whose streamlines may be represented by a curve ?
Answer
B. Two-dimensional flow
80
What is called the line produced by the intersection of two roof surfaces forms an external angle less than 180° ?
Answer
C. Valley
81
Which among the following is incorrect in the case of a combined footing ?
Answer
B. Allowable bearing pressure of soil should be less than the ratio of total load to the area of footing
82
Which among the following is suitable for half brick wall ?
Answer
C. Stretcher bond
83
Determine the crippling load (collapsing load) of a solid round bar of length 3.14 m used as a strut with both ends hinged, whose moment of inertia of cross-section is 30 × 10⁴ N/mm² and Young's modulus is 2 × 10⁵ N/mm².
Answer
C. 60 × 10³ N
84
In limit state method what is the minimum percentage of steel required?
Answer
B. 85/f_y
85
Which among the following is not included in the temporary adjustments of a dumpy level ?
Answer
B. Centering
86
The ratio of stress to the corresponding strain is a constant within the elastic limit. Which among the following is the above constant ?
Answer
D. All of the above
87
Which among the following is the ratio between inertia force and gravity force ?
Answer
C. Froude's number
88
In case of volume batching for concrete which of the following is correct ?
Answer
D. Fine aggregate and coarse aggregate are measured using a box which have volume equal to volume of one bag of cement
89
Which among the following is the bottom level of windows in a building ?
Answer
C. Sill
90
Which among the following is used for area calculation ?
Answer
B. Simpson's rule
91
What is an oxidation ditch ?
Answer
B. Extended aeration system
92
Which among the following can be used as a method for seasoning for removal of sap from timber ?
Answer
C. Boiling
93
Which among the following is a structure constructed for energy dissipation below spillways ?
Answer
D. Stilling basin
94
In case of open channel flow, for calculating the specific energy what will be taken as datum ?
Answer
C. Bottom of channel
95
Which among the following may be prescribed as design mix?
Answer
D. M₃₅
96
In which of the following, the sludge digestion and sedimentation takes place in the same chamber ?
Answer
C. Septic tank
97
When water contains suspended matter and acids or alkalies which pump can be recommended ?
Answer
A. Air lift pumps
98
In calculating fluctuation in demand for water, what is coincident draft ?
Answer
A. Maximum daily demand added to fire draft
99
In which of the following Sopwith staff can be classified ?
Answer
D. Self reading type staff
100
Among the following which is not classified under surface sources of water ?
Answer
A. Streams
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