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staff reading held at a station of RL 110 m was 2.555
PYRAMID IAS ACADEMY m, the telescope being horizontal. The horizontal
KARAIKUDI distance between the foot of the tower and the
instrument station is 810 m. The RL of the top of the
ENGINEERING SURVEY tower is
OBJECTIVE PROBLEMS (23.06.2021) (a) 560 m (b) 569.50 m (c) 580.25 m (d) 600 m
Max. Mark :45 Max. Duration :00.45 Hrs
9. When the whole circle bearing of two lines A B and
1. A 30m chain after measuring a distance of 6000m A C are 115° and 41° respectively, then the
was found to be 10cm more than the designated included angle B A C will be
length. If the chain was standardized before the a ) 41° b ) 74° c) 115° d) 156°
commencement of survey then the true length is
a)6020m b)6010m c)5990m d)5980m 10. If two triangulation signals of 6.75 m I each, are to
be just visible over mutually, what is the maximum d:
2. The magnetic bearing of a line AB is S 450E and the between their locations on the gr surface?
declination is 50west. The true bearing of the line AB (a) 10 km (b) 20 km (c) 30 km (d) 40 km
is
a) S 450E b) S 400E c) S 500 E d) S 500W 11. In Fig. width of the river (CD) is
a) 57.74m
3. Reduced level of bottom of sunshade, ‘a’ is 63.120 b) 63.39m
m. The following readings were obtained using a c) 66.67m
level : Readings on inverted staff at 'a' is 2.235 m d)38.92m
Readings on the top of peg 'p' on the ground is 1.035
m. The height difference between a and p is
a) 2.235 m b) 1.195 m c) 3.270 m d) 1.035 m
12. A rectangular plot of 16 km2 in area is shown on a
map by a similar rectangular area of 1 cm2. R.F. of the
4. The bearing of line A B is 152° 30' and angle A B C
scale to measure a distance of 40 km will be
measured clockwise is 124° 28'. The bearing of B C is
a) 1/1600 b) 1/400000
a) 27° 52' b ) 96° 58' c) 148° 08' d ) 186° 58'.
c) 1/400 d) 1/16000
5. An observer standing on the deck of a ship just sees
13. Two points A and B are 1530 m apart across a river.
the top of a lighthouse which is 30 m above the sea
The reciprocal levels measured are:
level. If the height of the observer's eye is 10 m above
the sea level, then the distance of the observer from
the lighthouse will be nearly (IES-1998)
(a) 22.5 km (b) 24.3 km
(c) 33.3 km (d) 59.7 km The true difference in level between A and B would
be
6. Following bearings are observed white traversing (a) 1.255 m (b) 1.355 m (c) 1.545 m (d) 1.645 m
with compass. (Gate-2013)
Line Fore Bearing Back Bearing 14. In profile leveling, staff reading on two
neighboring pegs 20m apart are 1.200 and 1.000
AB 1260 45’ 3080 00’
respectively .Therefore the proposed road had a
BC 490 15’ 2270 30’
a)rising gradient of 1 in 100b)falling gradient of 1 in 100
CD 3400 30’ 1610 45’
c)rising gradient of 1 in 20d)falling gradient of 1 in 20
DE 258 30’
0 780 30’
EA 212 30’
0 310 45’
15. The leveling staff held at a distance of 200 m is read
After applying the correction due to local attraction, at 4.54 m with the bubble out of centre by 2 divisions
the corrected force bearing of line BC will be: towards the observer. If the sensitiveness of the bubble
a) 48015’ b) 500 15’ c) 490 45’ d) 480 45’ is 25 secs/division, and 1 division = 2 mm, then actual
staff reading must have been
7. Correct length of a 50m tape, weighing 1.2kg when a) 4.6 m b) 4.492 m c) 4.54m d) 5 m
a pull of 12kg is applied at the ends and is freely
suspended is 16. A lighthouse is visible just above the horizon at a
a)49.98m b)49.96m c)50.02m d)50.04 certain station at the sea level. The distance between
the station and the lighthouse is 40 km. The height of
8. A theodolite was set up at P and the angle of the lighthouse is approximately
elevation to the top of a mobile tower ST was 300. The (a) 187 m (b) 137.7 m (c) 107.7 m (d) 87.3 m
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17. For a tachometer focal length of object glass is
20cm, distance between object glass and trunnion axis 24. The Reduced Levels (RLs) of the points P and Q
is 10cm.Spacing between the outer lines of are +49.600 m and +51.870 m respectively.
diaphragm=4mm.If the staff intercepts are Distance PQ is 20 m. The distance (in m from P) at
1.000(bottom) and 2.500(middle) when the line of which the +51.000 m contour cuts the
collimation is perfectly horizontal then, horizontal line PQ is
distance between the staff station and instrument a) 15.00 b) 12.33 c) 3.52 d) 2.27
station is
a)75.3m b)78m c)150.3m d)153m 25. If fore bearing of a line is S49°52'E (assuming there
is no local attraction), the back bearing of the line will
18. The observed magnetic bearing of a line OE was be (IES- 1995)
found to be 1850. It was later discovered that station O (a) S52°49'E (b) S49°52'E
had a local attraction of +1.50. The true bearing of the (c) N49°08'E (d) N49°52'W
line OE, considering declination of 3.50 E will be
a) 1800 b) 1870 c) 1900 d) 1930 26. What is the volume of a 6 m deep having
19. If the declination is 5°40'W, which one of the rectangular shaped top 6 m and bottom 4 m x 2 m
following magnetic bearing would represent the true (computed through the use of prismoidal formula)?
bearing of S25°20'E? (a) 96 m3 (b) 94 m3
(a) S19°40'E (b) S31°0'E (c) 92 m3 (d) 90 m3
(c) S20°0'E (d) S19°20'W
27. The following measurements were made during
20. In a cross staff survey, the perpendicular offsets testing a levelling instrument.(Gate -2007)
are taken on right and left of the chain line AD as Instrument at Staff reading at
shown in figure-all values are in ‘meters’. The area P1 Q1
enclosed by ABCDEFA, computed by trapezoidal P 2.800 m 1.700 m
method is Q 2.700 m 1.800 m
P Q P1is close to P and Q1is close to Q . If the reduced
(a) 3650 m2 level of station P is 100.000 m, the reduced level of
(b) 3200 m2 station Q is
(c) 3475m2 a) 99.000 m b) 100.000 m c) 101.000 m d) 102.000 m
(d) 3500 m2
28. Following offsets were from a survey line to a
21. A B C D is a regular parallelogram plot of land hedge:
whose angle B A D is 60°. If the bearing of the line A B
is 30°, the bearing of C D , is
a) 90° b) 120° c) 210° d ) 270°.

22. A standard steel tape of length 30 m and cross-

The area between survey line and the hedge is (by
section 15 x 1.0 mm was standardized at 25°C and at 30
trapezoidal method):
kg pull. While measuring a base line at the same
(a) 185.5 m2 (b) 187.5m2 (c) 189.5 m2 (d) 289.5 m2
temperature, the pull applied was 40 kg. If the
modulus of elasticity of steel tape is 2.2 x 106 kg/cm2,
29. The reduced level of a floor is 99.995 m, the staff
the correction to be applied is
reading on the floor is 1.505 m. If the inverted staff
a) - 0.000909 m b) + 0.0909 m
reading against the roof is 1.795 m, the floor level
c) 0.000909 m d) none of these.
below the slab, is
23. Following observations were taken with a transit a) 3.290 m b) 3.300 m c) 3.275 m d ) 2.790 m.
fitted with stadia wires. The line of sight was
horizontal and the staff was held vertical. 30. The focal length of the object glass of a
Reading on staff (m) tacheometer is 200 mm, the distancebetween the
Top hair 1.726 vertical axis of the tacheometer and the optical centre
Middle hair 2.278 of the objectglass is 100 mm and the spacing between
the upper and lower line of the diagramaxis is 4 mm.
Bottom hair 2.830 With the line of collimation perfectly horizontal, the
The tacheometric constants k and C are 100 and 0.4 m staff interceptsare 1 m (top), 2m (middle), and 3 m
respectively. The horizontal distance between staff (bottom). The horizontal distance (m)between the
and instrument is staff and the instrument station is
a) 90.8 b) 100.8 c) 110.8 d) 120.8 a) 100.3 b) 103.0 c) 150.0 d) 153.0
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www.pyramidiasacademy.blogspot.com, [email protected]
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