CONSTRUCTION PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT QUIZ

Which of the following earth moving machines has the shortest cycle time?

Drag line

Hoe

Clam shell

Dipper shovel

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Frequency distribution curves

If not symmetrical, are called skew curves

If symmetrical, are called normal curves

Having a single lump, are called uninodal curves

All listed here

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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

expected time of both activities A and B are same

None of these

expected time of activity A is greater than the expected time of activity B

expected time of activity B is greater than the expected time of activity A

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The most popular type of organization used for Civil Engineering Constructions, is

Line and staff organization

Effective organization

Functional organization

Line organization

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If the output of a drag-line for 90Â° angle of swing at optimum depth of cut is X, then the output for 120Â° angle of swing at 120 % of optimum depth of cut will be

More than X

Equal to X

Any of the above

Less than X

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A father notes that when his teenage daughter uses the telephone, she takes not less than 6 minutes for a call and som? times as much as an hour. Fifteen minutes call are more frequent than calls of any other duration. If these phone calls were an activity in PERT project, then phone calls expected duration will be

21 minutes

27 minutes

15 minutes

20.143 minutes

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In India, are prefabricated components costlier than those of traditional cast-in-situ items that the prefabricated components replace?

No, because of repetitive manufacture of a number of elements

Yes, because of the very high order of quality control for the factory made components

Yes, because of heavier overheads and handling cost

No, because of savings in site labour

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Consider the following operations: 1. Drilling 2. Blasting 3. Mucking 4. Placing steel 5. Placing concrete The correct sequence of these operations in tunnel construction is

1, 3, 4, 2, 5

1, 2, 4, 3, 5

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

1, 3, 2, 4, 5

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Which one of the following is not an excavating and moving type of equipment?

Bulldozer

Clam shell

Scraper

Dump truck

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Optimistic time, most likely time and pessimistic times for the activities of a network in the given figure are written above their arrows. If the contractual obligation time for the project is 75, the latest occurrence time for the event 2, is

35

25

15

20

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