(Paper) SSC Junior Engineers (JE) Exam - 2016 "held on 02 March 2017" Afternoon Shift (General Engineering)
QID : 201 - For construction of structures under water, the type of lime used is _____.
Options:
1) hydraulic lime
2) fat lime
3) quick lime
4) pure lime
Correct Answer: hydraulic lime
QID : 202 - The compound of Portland cement which reacts immediately with water and also sets first is _____.
Options:
1) Tri-calcium silicate
2) Di-calcium silicate
3) Tri-calcium aluminate
4) Tetra calcium alumino ferrite
Correct Answer: Tri-calcium aluminate
QID : 203 - Rapid hardening cement attains early strength due to _____.
Options:
1) larger proportion of lime grounded finer than normal cement
2) lesser proportion of lime grounded coarser than normal cement
3) lesser proportion of lime grounded finer than normal cement
4) larger proportion of lime grounded coarser than normal cement
Correct Answer: larger proportion of lime grounded finer than normal cement
QID : 204 - The percentage of water for normal consistency is _____.
Options:
1) 5 % to 15%
2) 10% to 25%
3) 15% to 25%
4) 20% to 30%
Correct Answer: 15% to 25%
QID : 205 - Soundness test of cement determines _____.
Options:
1) quality of free lime
2) ultimate strength
3) durability
4) initial setting
Correct Answer: quality of free lime
QID : 206 - Bulking of sand is caused due to _____.
Options:
1) surface moisture
2) air voids
3) viscosity
4) clay contents
Correct Answer: surface moisture
QID : 207 - For a 50 kg cement bag, water required is _____.
Options:
1) 16.5 liters
2) 18.5 liters
3) 20.5 liters
4) 22.5 liters
Correct Answer: 22.5 liters
QID : 208 - Pick up the correct statement from the following Method of sawing timber _____.
Options:
1) tangentially to annual rings, is known as tangential method
2) in four quarters such that each board cuts annual rings at angles not less than 45°, is known as quarter sawing method
3) cut out of quarter logs, parallel to the medullary rays and perpendicular to annual rings is known as radial sawing
4) All options are correct
Correct Answer: All options are correct
QID : 209 - For the manufacture of plywood, veneers are placed so that grains of adjacent veneers are _____.
Options:
1) at right angles
2) parallel
3) inclined at 45°
4) inclined at 60°
Correct Answer: at right angles
QID : 210 - The portion of the brick without a triangular corner equal to half the width and half the length is called _____.
Options:
1) closer
2) queen closer
3) king closer
4) squint brick
Correct Answer: king closer
QID : 211 - The height of the sink of wash basin above floor level is kept _____.
Options:
1) 60 cm
2) 70 cm
3) 75 cm to 80 cm
4) 80 cm
Correct Answer: 75 cm to 80 cm
QID : 212 - Pick up the correct statement from the following.
Options:
1) In order to check up the average depth of excavation, ‘Dead mans' are left at the mid-widths of borrow pits
2) The earthwork calculation in excavation is made from the difference in levels obtained with a level
3) The earthwork done in excavation is to form the road embankment includes the formation of correct profiles and depositing the soil in layers
4) All options are correct
Correct Answer: All options are correct
QID : 213 - If the formation level of a highway has a uniform gradient for a particular length and the ground is also having a longitudinal slope, the earthwork may be calculated by _____.
Options:
1) Mid-section formula
2) Trapezoidal formula
3) Prismoidal formula
4) All options are correct
Correct Answer: All options are correct
QID : 214 - The area of a sloping surface of a protective embankment of mean height d, side slopes S:1 and length L is _____.
Options:
1) d x d x s
2) √[(d2 x (ds2)]
3) L.D √(1+s2)
4) 2Ld √(1+s2)
Correct Answer: L.D √(1+s2)
QID : 215 - A cement concrete road is 1000 m long, 8 m wide and 15 cm thick over the sub-base of 10 cm thick gravel. The cubic content of concrete (1:2:4) for the road specified in is _____.
Options:
1) 300 m3
2) 600 m3
3) 900 m3
4) 1200 m3
Correct Answer: 1200 m3
QID : 216 -
Options:
1) 1/2(b1+b2)h
2) (b1+b2)h+ Sb2
3) (b1+b2)+2Sh2
4) 2[(b1+b2)(b+Sh)]
Correct Answer: (b1+b2)+2Sh2
QID : 217 - The following item of earthwork is not measured separately _____.
Options:
1) Setting out of works
2) Site clearance
3) dead men
4) All options are correct
Correct Answer: All options are correct
QID : 218 - Pick up the incorrect statement from the following _____.
Options:
1) No deduction is made for the volume occupied by reinforcement
2) No deduction is made for the openings up to 0.1 sq.m
3) No deduction is made for volumes occupied by pipes, not exceeding 100 sq. cm in cross- section
4) None of the these
Correct Answer: None of the these
QID : 219 - While estimating a reinforced cement structure the omitted cover of concrete is assumed _____.
Options:
1) at the end of reinforcing bar, not less than 25 mm or twice the diameter of the bar
2) in thin slabs, 12 mm minimum or diameter of the bar whichever is more
3) for reinforcing longitudinal bar in a beam 25 mm minimum or diameter of the largest bar which is more
4) All options are correct
Correct Answer: All options are correct
QID : 220 - For 100 sq. m cement concrete (1:2:4) 4 cm thick floor, the quantity of cement required is _____.
Options:
1) 0.90 m3
2) 0.94 m3
3) 0.98 m3
4) 1.00 m3
Correct Answer: 0.94 m3
QID : 221 - If h is the difference in height between end points of a chain of length l the required slope correction is _____.
Options:
1) h2/(2l)
2) h/(2l)
3) h2/l
4) h2/(4l)
Correct Answer: h2/(2l)
QID : 222 - Correction per chain length of 100 links along a slope of α radians is _____.
Options:
1) 100 α2
2) 100 α
3) 100 α3
4) 100 α(-1)
Correct Answer: 100 α
QID : 223 - Check lines (or proof lines) in Chain Surveying are essentially required _____.
Options:
1) to plot the chain lines
2) to plot the offsets
3) to indicate the accuracy of the survey work
4) to increase the out-turn
Correct Answer: to indicate the accuracy of the survey work
QID : 224 - For taking offsets with an optical square on the right hand side of the chain line it is held _____.
Options:
1) by right hand upside down
2) by left hand upright
3) by right hand upright
4) by left hand upside down
Correct Answer: by left hand upright
QID : 225 -
Options:
1) road bridge
2) railway bridge
3) canal bridge
4) aquaduct
Correct Answer: road bridge
QID : 226 - In an adjusted level when the bubble is central, the axis of the bubble tube becomes parallel to _____.
Options:
1) line of sight
2) line of collimation
3) axis of the telescope
4) None of the these
Correct Answer: line of sight
QID : 227 - An internal focusing type surveying telescope may be focused by the movement of _____.
Options:
1) objective glass of the telescope
2) convex-lens in the telescope
3) concave lens in the telescope
4) plano-convex lens in the telescope
Correct Answer: concave lens in the telescope
QID : 228 - A dumpy level is set up with its eye-piece vertically over a peg A. The height from the top of peg A to the center of the eye-piece is 1.540 m and the reading on peg B is 0.705 m. The level is then setup over B. The height of the eye-piece above peg B is 1.490 m and a reading on A is 2.195 m. The difference in level between A and B is _____.
Options:
1) 2.900 m
2) 3.030 m
3) 0.770 m
4) 0.785 m
Correct Answer: 0.770 m
QID : 229 - The constant vertical distance between two adjacent contours is called _____.
Options:
1) horizontal interval
2) horizontal equivalent
3) vertical equivalent
4) contour interval
Correct Answer: contour interval
QID : 230 - The direction of steepest slope on a contour is _____.
Options:
1) along the contour
2) at an angle of 45° to the contour
3) at right angles to the contour
4) None of the these
Correct Answer: at right angles to the contour
