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Construction planning and management questions with answers

138 multiple-choice questions. Open any question for its answer and explanation.

  1. Military organization is known as
  2. Critical path lies along the activities having total float
  3. An excavator costs Rs. 20,00,000 and has an estimated life of 8 years. It has no salvage value at the end of 8 years. The book value of the excavator at the end of 3 years using general double declining balance method is
  4. Slack time refers to
  5. The most suitable type of equipment for compaction of cohesive soils is
  6. The most popular type of organization used for Civil Engineering Constructions, is
  7. CPM is A. Synthesising in concepts B. Is built of activities oriented programme C. Is based on time estimate D. All the above
  8. In time-cost optimization of a project, crashing is done.
  9. Critical path
  10. Earliest finish of an activity is always
  11. Latest start of an activity is always
  12. The rated loads of lifting cranes, as percentage of tipping load at specified radius, for crawler-mounted and pneumatic tyre-mounted machines would be respectively
  13. In the time-cost optimisation, using CPM method for network analysis, the crashing of the activities along the critical path is done starting with the activity having
  14. A machine costs Rs. 20000 and its useful life is 8 years. The money is borrowed at 8% interest per annum. The capital recovery factor at 8% interest per annum for 8 years is 0.174. The annual equipment cost of the machine will be
  15. Consider the following statements for a power shovel: (i) Output can be increased by reducing the angle of swing for a given depth of cut. (ii) For a given angle of swing, output will be maximum at optimum depth of cut. (iii) Output can be increased by keeping the depth of cut less than optimum depth. (iv) Output can be increased by increasing the size of shovel.
  16. For which of the following materials, the output of power shovels for a fixed shovel size will be maximum
  17. The original cost of an equipment is Rs.10,000. Its salvage value at the end of its total useful life of five years is Rs. 1,000. Its book value at the end of two years of its useful life (as per straight line method of evaluation of depreciation) will be
  18. Crash project duration is obtained by summing the
  19. Mile Stone charts were invented in the year of
  20. Which one of the following represents an activity?
  21. The part of a derrick crane include (i) Mast (ii) Boom (iii) Bull wheel (iv) Jack which of these statements are correct?
  22. For excavating utility trenches with precise control of depth, the excavation equipment used is
  23. Which of the following surfaces will give highest rolling resistance for a rubber tyred vehicle?
  24. Power stations are generally treated as
  25. If the optimistic time, most likely time and pessimistic time for activity A are 4, 6 and 8 respectively and for activity B are 5, 5.5 and 9 respectively, then