Sunday, 18 November 2012

Surveying Multiple Choice Questions and Answers preparation for gate exams

1.      During chaining along a straight line, the leader of the party has 4 arrows in his hand while the follower has 6. Distance of the follower from the starting point is
2.    A metallic tape is made of ______.
3.    For a well-conditioned triangle, no angle should be less than
4.    The angle of intersection of the two plane mirrors of an optical square is
5.    The allowable length of an offset depends upon the
6.    Which of the following angles can be set out with the help of French cross staff?
7.    Which of the following methods of offsets involves less measurement on the ground?
8.    The permissible error in chaining for measurement with chain on rough or hilly ground is
9.    The correction for sag is _____.
10.    Cross staff is an instrument used for ______.
11.    Normal tension is that pull which _____.
12.    Which of the following is not used in measuring perpendicular offsets ?
13.    If the length of a chain is found to be short on testing, it can be adjusted by
14.    The maximum tolerance in a 20 m chain is ______.
15.    For accurate work, the steel band should always be used in preference to chain because the steel band
16.    The length of a chain is measured from _____.
17.    Select the incorrect statement.
18.    If the true bearing of a line AB is 269° 30', then the azimuth of the line AB is
19.    In the prismatic compass _____.
20.    For a line AB
21.    Local attraction in compass surveying may exist due to
22.    In the quadrantal bearing system, a whole circle bearing of 293° 30' can be expressed as
23.    The prismatic compass and surveyor's compass
24.    The horizontal angle between the true meridian and magnetic meridian at a place is called
25.    A negative declination shows that the magnetic meridian is to the _____.
26.    If the magnetic bearing of the sun at a place at noon in southern hemisphere is 167°, the magnetic declination at that place is
27.    The graduations in prismatic compass ______.
28.    Agate cap is fitted with a _____.
29.    The temporary adjustments of a prismatic compass are
30.    Theodolite is an instrument used for
31.    The process of turning the telescope about the vertical axis in horizontal plane is known as
32.    Size of a theodolite is specified by
33.    Which of the following is not the function of levelling head ?
34.     If the lower clamp screw is tightened and upper clamp screw is loosened, the theodolite may be rotated
35.    A telescope is said to be inverted if its
36.    The cross hairs in the surveying telescope are placed
37.     For which of the following permanent adjustments of theodolite, the spire test is used ?
38.    The adjustment of horizontal cross hair is required particularly when the instrument is used for
39.    Which of the following errors is not eliminated by the method of repetition of horizontal angle measurement ?
40.     The error due to eccentricity of inner and outer axes can be eliminated by
41.     In the double application of principle of reversion, the apparent error is
42.     Which of the following errors can be eliminated by taking mean of bot face observations ?
43.     Which of the following errors cannot be eliminated by taking both face observations ?
44.    If a tripod settles in the interval that elapses between taking a back sight reading and the following foresight  reading, then the elevation of turning point will
45.    If altitude bubble is provided both on index frame as well as on telescope of a theodolite, then the instrument is levelled with reference to
46.    A'level line'is a
47.    The following sights are taken on a "turning point"
48.    The rise and fall method of levelling provides a complete check on
49.    If the R.L. of a B.M. is 100.00 m, the back- sight is 1.215 m and the foresight is 1.870 m, the R.L. of the forward station is
50.    In an internal focussing type of telescope, the lens provided is
51.    Which of the following errors can be neutralised by setting the level midway between the two stations ?
52.    Height of instrument method of levelling is
53.    The rise and fall method
54.     If the staff is not held vertical at a levelling station, the reduced level calculated from the observation would  be
55.    The difference between a level line and a horizontal line is that
56.    The sensitivity of a bubble tube can be increased by
57.     With the rise of temperature, the sensitivity of a bubble tube
58.     Refraction correction
59.     The R.L, of the point A which is on the floor is 100 m and backsight reading on A is 2.455 m. If the foresight reading on the point B which is on the ceiling is 2.745 m, the R.L. of point B will be
60.    As applied to staff readings, the corrections for curvature and refraction are respectively        The above table shows a part of a level field book. The value of X should be
63.     If the horizontal distance between the staff point and the point of observation is d, then the error due to curvature of earth is proportional to
64.     Sensitiveness of a level tube is designated by
65.     Which of the following statements is in-correct ?
66.    Dumpy level is most suitable when
67.    The difference of levels between two stations A and B is to be determined. For best results, the instrument station should be
68.    Contour interval is ______.
69.    An imaginary line lying throughout the surface of ground and preserving a constant inclination to the horizontal is known as
70.    The suitable contour interval for a map with scale 1 : 10000 is
71.    Select the correct statement.
72.    A series of closely spaced contour lines represents a
73.    Direct method of contouring is
74.    In direct method of contouring, the process of locating or identifying points lying on a contour is called
75.    In the cross-section method of indirect contouring, the spacing of cross-sections depends upon
76.     Which of the following methods of con-touring is most suitable for a hilly terrain ?
77.     Select the correct statement.
78.    Closed contours, with higher value inwards, represent a
79.    Contour interval is _______.
80.    Benchmark is established by
81.    The type of surveying which requires least office work is
82.     Intersection method of detailed plotting is most suitable for
83.    Detailed plotting is generally done by
84.    Three point problem can be solved by
85.    The size of a plane table is
86.    The process of determining the locations of the instrument station by drawing resectors from the locations of the known stations is called
87.    The instrument used for accurate centering in plane table survey is
88.    Which of the following methods of plane table surveying is used to locate the position of an inaccessible point ?
89.    The two point problem and three point problem are methods of
90.    The resection by two point problem as compared to three point problem
91.    The methods used for locating the plane table stations are
92.    After fixing the plane table to the tripod, the main operations which are needed at each plane table station are
93.    Bowditch rule is applied to
94.    If in a closed traverse, the sum of the north latitudes is more than the sum of the south latitudes and also the sum of west departures is more than the sum of the east departures, the bearing of the closing line is in the
95.    If the reduced bearing of a line AB is N60°W and length is 100 m, then the latitude and departure respectively of  the line AB will be
96.    The angle between the prolongation of the preceding line and the forward line of a traverse is called
97.    Transit rule of adjusting the consecutive coordinates of a traverse is used where
98.    Which of the following methods of theodolite traversing is suitable for locating the details which are far away from transit stations ?
99.    Subtense bar is an instrument used for
100.    Horizontal distances obtained by tacheometric observations

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