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Post NameASSISTANT PROFESSOR (CIVIL ENGINEERING)
DepartmentTECHNICAL EDUCATION (ENGINEERING COLLEGES)
Question Paper Code139/2016
Date of Test27 October 2016
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOMR Examination
Total Questions100
1
What reflects the quintessence of the constitution? |
Answer
B. The Preamble |
2
Which are the articles dealing with the Centre-State Relations? |
Answer
A. Articles 245 to 263
3
§. What is the subject matter of articles 346 and 347?
Answer
C. Official language or languages of a State
4
Which article provides a guaranteed remedy for the enforcement of fundamental rights?
Answer
A. Article 32
5
The Central Government has been created the National Green Tribunal on : |
Answer
D. 18% October 2010
6
In which year Samkshepa Vedartham, the first book in Malayalam was published?
Answer
C. c) 1772
7
Ayyankali organized the first planned peasant strike in Kerala at Venganoor in :
Answer
Question Cancelled
8
List out the odd one from the following options :
Answer
B. Madan Asan
9
Who authored the work Ananda Sutra?
Answer
A. Brahmananda Sivayogi
10
Who was the martyr of Paliyam Satyagraha?
Answer
B. A. G Velayudhan
11
Who wrote the pamphlet Zau-us-Sabah?
Answer
Question Cancelled
12
In which years Kumara Guru was nominated to the Sri Mulam popular Assembly?
Answer
D. 1921 and 1931
13
What was the name of the Madras Governor, who ordered the Travancore govt. to issue orders for permitting the Channar women to wear jacket and pinafore?
Answer
Question Cancelled
14
The first woman Chief Secretary of Kerala :
Answer
C. Pathma Ramachandran
15
Who was the founder of Sree Ramadasa Asramam?
Answer
A. Sree Neelakanda Gurupadar
16
The founder of Sabarit Asram in Palakkad?
Answer
C. T.R. Krishnaswamy ~
17
The first female Prime Minister of Greece?
Answer
B. Vassiliki Thanou
18
Who won the ‘Global Indian of the Year’ award?
Answer
D. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
19
Who won the Nobel Prize 2015 in Economics?
Answer
B. Angus Deaton
20
Who won the ‘Man of the Match’ award in the final match of the ICC World Twenty 20 in 2016?
Answer
A. M. Samuels
21
If 1, 2, 3 are the eigen values of a matrix A, then the eigen values of
Answer
C. 9,4,1
22
The value of the integral ∫₀^∞ (e⁻²ᵗ sin²t / t) dt is :
Answer
B. (ln 2)/4
23
The homogeneous linear differential equation if its solutions are e²ˣ, xe²ˣ, x²e²ˣ is: y‴ + Ay″ + By′ − 8y = 0 where A and B are
Answer
B. −6, 12
24
The following is not a simple pole of the function a ean z (hea
Answer
A. 0.75
25
The coefficient aₙ in the Fourier cosine series expansion of the function f(x) = (x − 1)² in the interval 0 < x < 1 is:
Answer
D. 4/(n²π²)
26
Centre of gravity of a right circular cone of base radius r and height h from the base is:
Answer
B. h/4
27
What is the maximum weight that can be lowered by a person who can exert a 500 N pull on a rope if the rope ia wrapped 2 turns around a horizontal spur? Coefficient of friction between spur and rope is 0.3:
Answer
D. 55659 N A 5 139/2016 7 [P.T.O.}
28
What is the length of a Surveyors chain?
Answer
B. 66 ft
29
R.Lofa factory floor is 100.00. Staff reading on the floor is 5.62 ft. and the staff reading when the staff is held inverted with bottom touching the tie beam of the roof truss is 10.16 ft. What is the height of the tie beam above the floor’
Answer
A. 15.78 ft
30
The horizontal distance between the vertical joints in successive courses in brick work is called :
Answer
B. Lap
31
Knocking in a spark ignition engine is promoted by :
Answer
D. reduced turbulence of the fuel-air mixture during combustion
32
Centrifugal pumps operating in series will result in:
Answer
C. Higher head
33
A good refrigerant should have :
Answer
C. High latent heat of vaporization and low freezing point
34
In sheet metal blanking, shear is provided on punches and dies so that :
Answer
A. press load is reduced
35
. #85. A curve generated by a fixed point on the circumference of a circle which rolls without slipping on the outer side of a fixed circle is known as:
Answer
B. Epicycloid
36
Direction of dynamically induced EMF can be found by :
Answer
B. Flemings Right Hand rule
37
Form factor of sinusoidally varying alternating current is -
Answer
B. 1.11
38
In a Delta connected three phase supply system phase current is given by:
Answer
D. 1/√3 times line current
39
Earth wire is usually connected to part of the electric heater.
Answer
A. Metallic body
40
Which of the following DC Motor gives highest No-load speed?
Answer
C. Series motor
41
The BJT used in an oscillator circuit is biased in region.
Answer
A. Active
42
The ripple factor of a capacitor filter 'C' connected to the output of a full-wave rectifier with input line frequency 'f' Hz and load resistance 'Rₗ' is:
Answer
B. 1/(4√3 fRₗC)
43
The bandwidth of wide band frequency modulated wave as per Carson's rule is:
Answer
C. Bᴛ ≈ 2(D + 1)W
44
Fora voltage shunt negative feedback amplifier using operational amplifier, select the TRUE statement :
Answer
A. Input impedance decreases and output impedance decreases
45
The type of negative feedback introduced in the Common Emitter amplifier using voltage divider bias network when the bypass capacitor is removed :
Answer
D. Current series -
46
The CPU gets the address of the next instruction to be executed from the :
Answer
C. Program Counter
47
What is the value of b at the end of execution of the following C program? int add(int
Answer
A. { + atatic int count = 0; count = count +
48
What will be the output of the following C program segment? int n= 1; switch (n) : case 1: printf (* One”); case 2: printf ("Two") ; case 3: case 4: case 6 : oe : printf(“Wrong Choice”);
Answer
B. One Two Wrong Choice
49
The default parameter passing mechanism of functions is : f
Answer
A. Call by value
50
What is the output of thia C code? : #include int main() ie do printf(“Inside while loop"); while(0); printf(“After while loop”); } |
Answer
D. Inside while loop After while loop
51
The Euler's formula for buckling load for a column with both ends fixed is:
Answer
C. 4π²EI/L²
52
The deflection at the free end of a cantilever of length L due to a concentrated load W at a distance of L/2 from the free end is:
Answer
A. 5WL³/(48EI)
53
The diagram with direct stress along x-axis and shearing stress along y-axis is called :
Answer
A. Mohr’s circle
54
For a cantilever beam of length L, the shear force diagram is a rectangle of size P x L. Then, the value of maximum bending moment is :
Answer
C. PL
55
A three hinged parabolic arch of span 20 m and central rise 4m is loaded with 4 kN concentrated load at 4m from the left end support. The horizontal thrust at the left end support is :
Answer
C. 2kN
56
A suspension cable of span 120m is loaded with a uniformly distributed load of 25 kN/m for the entire length. If the maximum tension in the cable ia limited to 5000 KN, the minimum central dip required is :
Answer
B. 9.435 m
57
Ona simply supported beam AB of span L, a load P ia moving from left to right. At a section 0.3 L from A, the maximum bending moment is: .
Answer
C. 0.21 PL
58
The values of flexural rigidity EJ and length L for the members AB and BC of the rigid frame ABC are equal. Joint B is rigid and the included angle between AB and BC at B is 90°. Ends A and C are fixed. When a moment of M is applied to the joint B, the rotation of the joint B is :
Answer
D. ML/8 EI
59
Slope deflection equation is :
Answer
A. an equilibrium equation
60
Stiffness matrix for the simply supported beam of span L and flexural rigidity EI, with clockwise rotational arrows at both ends as coordinates is :
Answer
B. (2EI/L) [[2, 1], [1, 2]]
61
M 20 grade of concrete mix is approximately : :
Answer
B. 1:14:3 mix
62
Minimum number of longitudinal steel reinforcement bars required in an RCC circular | column is : |
Answer
B. 6 |
63
A rectangular RCC beam 230 mm wide x 550 mm effective depth is reinforced with 3 numbers of 16 mm diameter bars. M20 grade concrete and Fe 415 grade steel are used. The beam section is :
Answer
A. under reinforced
64
In the design of RCC water tanks, the allowable bending tensile stress for M25 concrete in N/mm? ia :
Answer
C. c) 1.8
65
The maximum BM in the stem of a cantilever retaining wall will be at :
Answer
A. the base
66
Shape factor for a rectangular section
Answer
C. 1.5
67
Ina pre-stressed concrete beam of span 6m and section 300 mm x 500 mm, the pre-stressing tendons are located along the longitudinal centroidal axis, with an effective pre-stressing - force of 900 KN. If the beam is subjected to a uniformly distributed load of 15 kN/m including the self weight of the beam, the top and bottom extreme fibre stresses in concrete at the mid span section are respectively -
Answer
D. 11.4and0.6
68
PERT is:
Answer
B. event oriented
69
Number of standard bricks required for one cubic metre of brick masonry is :
Answer
B. 500
70
The process of calculating the exact quantities of various items of work is known as :
Answer
C. quantity surveying
71
Kaplan turbine is an/
Answer
B. reaction turbine
72
Pressure in pipes is measured using : |
Answer
A. manometer
73
A Pelton turbine, with six nozzles has specific apeed of 8.1. The specific apeed of one nozzle will be : |
Answer
B. 24.3
74
A discharge of 3 m/s flows in a canal, 2 m wide at a depth of 1.2 m. If the width of the canal is reduced to 1.5 m by a canal transition, then neglecting the losses, the depth of flow after the contraction will be :
Answer
A. 1.10m
75
In a rectangular open channel flow, for maximum discharge, the hydraulic mean depth should be equal to :
Answer
B. half the depth
76
Hydrograph is a curve showing the variation of :
Answer
A. discharge with time
77
T7. Ifthe duty of a crop for a base period of 120 days is 1250 hectarea/cumec, ita delta is :
Answer
A. 83cm
78
‘The level difference between the top of dam and water level is known as:
Answer
D. free board
79
The purpose of cross drainage works is to:
Answer
C. take a canal across the drain
80
Ina gravity dam, if the resultant force cuts the base within the middle third of the body of
Answer
C. nil
81
The soil deposited at the bottom of a lake is known as:
Answer
D. lacustrine soil
82
The bulk density of a soil sample is 2.10 gm/cm! at a water content of 15%. Without changing the voids ratio, the soil is partially dried to a density of 1.95 gm/cm?. Then the water content
Answer
C. 6.8%
83
The curve joining the points of equal vertical pressure below the earth surface is known as:
Answer
D. Isobar
84
Flow net can be used in the determination of :
Answer
D. all the above
85
The load carrying capacity of a pile can be determined by using :
Answer
B. static formulae
86
The year in which the Motor Vehicle Act is made effective is :
Answer
C. 1939
87
The instrument used for measuring the spot speed of a vehicle is :
Answer
A. enoscope
88
Drift method is the best suitable method of tunneling in :
Answer
A. rocks
89
The design speed of a road is 65 kmph, the friction coefficient is 0.36 and reaction time of driver is 2.5 sec. Then the head light sight distance is :
Answer
D. 914m
90
Then the time mean speed in kmph is :
Answer
B. 51
91
The permissible limit for fluoride in drinking water is :
Answer
C. 1.5 mg/lt
92
Bleaching powder containing 25% of available chlorine is used for treating the drinking | water. If the chlorine demand of water is 0.2 mg/It, the bleaching powder required for treating 1 litre of water is :
Answer
B. 0.8 mg
93
Expected value of pH for fresh sewage is : |
Answer
A. 7.6
94
Osmoscope is used for measuring :
Answer
C. odour of water
95
2 million litres of water per day is passing through a sedimentation tank, which is 6 m wide, 15 m long and having water depth of 3 m. The detention time of the tank is: |
Answer
B. 3.24 hrs
96
To work from the whole to the part principle is followed in surveying to:
Answer
A. prevent accumulation of errors
97
The last reading taken from any leveling station to the levelling staff is known as:
Answer
A. fore aight
98
The reading taken to the levelling staff kept at a point A from a levelling station of height 100 m is 2.50 m. Then the reduced level of the point A is :
Answer
Question Cancelled
99
Number of horizontal hairs in a stadia diaphragm ia:
Answer
C. 3
100
Cause for error in tacheometric surveying is:
Answer
D. all the above 1359/2016 14 A |

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