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WBPSC JE PRACTICE MCQ Set-2

1. For drawing the isometric view of a 3- A. 0.05 m

dimensional object, the value of the angle with B. 0.06 m
the horizontal is usually C. 0.08 m
D. 0.07 m
A. 300
B. 450 7. The instantaneous speed of a vehicle as it
C. 900 passes a point in a highway is known as
D. 600
A. Design speed
2. Calculate the quantity of the sand required B. Running speed
in (cubic meter) in 20 cubic meters of C. Spot speed
reinforced cement concrete (1:2:4) D. Overall speed
A. 2.87 8. The maximum super-elevation on hill roads
B. 4.4 should not exceed
C. 5.7
A. 7%
D. 8.8
B. 8%
3. Calculate the primary estimate including C. 9%
contractor’s profit in rupees for the building D. 10%
having a plinth area of 1500 sqm and rate of
9. A department of public works (now known
Rs. 2000 per sqm.
as Central Public Works Department) was
A. 30,00,000 formed to look after the work of road
B. 31,50,000 construction during the period of
C. 33,00,000
A. Lord William Bentick
D. 35,00,000
B. Lord Dalhousie
4. The minimum pitch of the rivets should not C. Lord Mayo
be less than D. Lord Ripon
A. 2.0 times of hole diameter 10. The slenderness of bracing member shall
B. 1.5 times of hole diameter not exceed
C. 3.0 times of hole diameter
A. 145
D. 2.5 times of hole diameter
B. 85
5. A structural member subjected to an axial C. 160
compressive force is called D. 120
A. Beam 11. As per IS 800: 2007 what should be the
B. Column maximum slenderness ratio for the tension
C. Frame members in which reversal stress due to load
D. Strut other than wind or seismic forces occurs?
6. A state highway road is to be constructed A. 350
with bitumen concrete pavement of width 7 m B. 180
wide and a camber of 1 in 50 is provided. C. 400
What is the rise of crown with respect to D. 300
edges?

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12. Rise of water table above the ground 18. Specific yield is defined as the
surface causes
A. Ratio of Total Volume to Volume of
A. Equal increase in pore water pressure water drained by gravity
and total stress B. Ratio of Volume of water drained by
B. Equal decrease in pore water pressure gravity to total volume
and total stress C. Difference between Volume of water
C. Increase in pore water pressure but drained by gravity and Total Volume
decrease in total stress D. Ratio of Volume of Voids and Total
D. Decrease in pore water pressure but volume
increase in total
19. Alum as a coagulant is found to be
13. The soils which exhibit cohesion but the effective between pH range of __
angle of shearing resistance is zero are known
A. 8.0 to 10.0
as:
B. 8.5 to 10.5
A. Cohesive soils C. 6.5 to 8.5
B. Cohesion - frictional soils D. 3.5 to 5.5
C. Cohesionless soils
20. Methemoglobinemia found in infants is
D. Purely cohesive soils
due to excessive presence of the following
14. Deposits directly made by the melting pollutant in drinking water:
glaciers are known as
A. Carbonates
A. Talus B. Nitrates
B. Alluvial C. Sulphates
C. Till D. Fluoride
D. Colluvial
21. The following data pertain to a sewage
15. Regarding plane-table survey, which of the sample:
following statements does not hold true?
(a) Initial DO = 10 mg/l
A. It is quite suitable for small scale
(b) Final DO = 2 mg/l
surveys
B. Less number of control points are (c) Dilution Ratio = 1:100
required
C. All the plotting work including The BOD of the given sewage sample is:
contouring can be done in the field A. 800 mg/l
D. It can be done in all seasons B. 10 mg/l
16. In Prismatic compass, the graduations are C. 100 mg/l
in W.C.B. system having 180° at _____end. D. 8 mg/l

A. West 22. The suitable method of forecasting

B. East population for a young and rapidly increasing
C. North city is
D. South A. Arithmetic method
17. The length of Engineer’s Chain is B. Geometrical increase method
C. Incremental increase method
A. 100 m D. Graphical method
B. 100 ft
C. 50 m 23. Standard rain gauge adopted in India is:
D. 30 ft A. Tipping bucket type
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C. Natural syphon type 30. A 70% index of wetness means

D. None of the above
A. Rain excess of 30%
24. Water-budget method is used for the B. Rain deficiency of 30%
determination of lake evaporation. It is based C. Rain deficiency of 70%
on D. None of the above
A. Conservation of mass 31. Minimum number of samples required to
B. Conservation of energy be considered for testing for a concrete work
C. Heat transfer of 40 m3 is _______
D. None of these
A. 5
25. The kor depth for rice is 190 mm and kor B. 4
period is 14 days. The outlet factor for this will C. 3
be D. 2
A. 637 hectares/m3/sec 32. An RC column is reported as long column
B. 837 hectares/m3/sec if the ratio of its effective length and least
C. 972 hectares/m3/sec lateral dimension exceeds
D. 1172 hectares/m3/sec
A. 10
26. The amount of irrigation water required to B. 15
meet the evapotranspiration needs of the crop C. 12
during its full growth is called D. 40
A. Effective rainfall 33. A rectangular RCC beam having breadth
B. Consumptive use 200 mm and effective depth 280 mm, was cast
C. Consumptive irrigation requirement with Fe 415 steel, what is the minimum area of
D. Net irrigation requirement tension reinforcement?
27. Infiltration rate is always A. 115 mm2
B. 207 mm2
A. More than the infiltration capacity
C. 150 mm2
B. Less than the infiltration capacity
D. 130 mm2
C. Equal to or less than the infiltration
capacity 34. The vertical deflection limits may
D. Equal to or more than the infiltration generally be assumed to be satisfied provided
capacity that the span to depth ratio is not greater than
______ for simply supported beam for span up
28. Cyclonic precipitation is caused by lifting
to 10 m.
of an air mass due to
A. 7
A. Pressure difference
B. 10
B. Temperature difference
C. 26
C. Natural topographical barriers
D. 20
D. All of the above
35. What is the approximate ratio of 7 days
29. A rain-gauge should preferably be fixed
compressive strength to 28 days compressive
A. Near the building strength of cement concrete?
B. Under the tree
A. 0.65
C. In an open space
B. 0.95
D. In a closed space
C. 1.5
D. 2

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36. The deflection including the effects of A. 10%

temperature, creep and shrinkage occurring B. 20%
after erection of partitions and the application C. 30%
of finishes should not normally exceed D. 40%
A. Span/350 or 20 mm 43. A rectangular simply supported beam of
B. Span/150 or 20 mm size 100 mm × 250 mm size and span 3 m is
C. Span/300 or 20 mm subjected to a uniform distributed load of 50
D. Span/200 or 20 mm kN/m. The maximum shear stress developed in
the beam is ______MPa
37. Spacing of stirrups in a rectangular beam,
is A. 3
B. 4
A. Kept constant throughout the length
C. 5
B. Decreased towards the centre of the
D. 4.5
beam
C. Increased at the ends 44. The Bending Moment Diagram of a
D. Increased at the centre of the beam cantilever beam subjected to moment at free
end of beam will be
38. In manufacturing of Portland cement, the
proportion of raw materials used are A. Triangle
B. Rectangle
A. Lime: 22%, Silica: 63%, Others: 15%
C. Parabola
B. Lime: 63%, Silica: 22%, Others: 15%
D. Elliptical
C. Lime: 15%, Silica: 63%, Others: 22%
D. Lime: 63%, Silica: 15%, Others: 22% 45. If bulk modulus(K) is 80 GN/m2 and
Rigidity modulus (C) is 48 GN/m2, determine
39. The presence of calcium chloride in water
Young's modulus:
A. Causes little effect on quality of
A. 180 GN/m2
concrete
B. 150 GN/m2
B. Accelerates setting of cement
C. 90 GN/m2
C. Accelerates hardening of cement
D. 120 GN/m2
D. All of the given options
46. Which one of the following solid sections
40. For protection from frost, concrete should
will have minimum shape factor
be _______
A. Circular
A. Dense
B. Rectangular
B. Free from cracks
C. Triangular
C. Adhesion between mortar and
D. Diamond
aggregate should be perfect
D. All the options are correct 47. Euler buckling load for one end fixed and
other hinged is given by:
41. For consistency test vicat plunger having
____ diameter and ____ Length is used. A. π2El /l2
B. 2π2El /l2
A. 15 mm & 45 mm
C. 4π2El /l2
B. 10 mm & 50 mm
D. π2El /4l2
C. 20 mm & 60mm
D. All of the above 48. The ratio of lateral strain to the linear
strain within the elastic limit is known as
42. What is the allowed reduction of water
with super plasticizers without reducing A. Young’s modulus
workability? B. Bulk modulus
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D. Poisson ratio
49. Degree of kinematic indeterminacy of a
pin-jointed plane frame is given by
A. 2j - r
B. j - 2r
C. 3j - r
D. 2j + r
50. The number of independent equations to be
satisfied for static equilibrium of a plane
structure is
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 6

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