What is True Bearing?

1. Establishing the horizontal and vertical

positions of widely spaced control
points using principles of
(a) Plane table Surveying
(b) Geodetic Surveying
(c) Topographical Surveying
(d) Engineering Surveying
Ans: (b)
2. The most accurate instrument of the
following for making linear measurement is
(a) Chain
(b) Steel tape
(c) Invar tape
(d) Steel band
Ans: (c)

3. Example of an
obstacle to both
chaining
and
ranging is
(a) Hill
(b) River
(c) Tall building
(d) Pond
Ans: (a)

(d) Length of telescope

Ans: (a)
6. Parallel error can be removed by
focusing of
(a) Objective only
(b) Eye piece is not essential
(c) Eye piece also
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)
7. At a point vertical angle is usually
measured with respect to a
(a) Land line
(b) Horizontal line
(c) Land surface
(d) Horizontal surface
Ans: (b)
8. Levelling of a dumpy level is done to
make
(a) The line of sight truly horizontal
(b) The optical axis truly horizontal
(c) The vertical axis truly vertical
(d) The optical axis truly vertical
Ans: (c)

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4. If magnetic bearing is 4030' and magnetic declination is 430' E. What is

true bearing?
(b) 40 30'
(a) 36
(c) 45 15'
(d) 45
Ans: (d)
Sol: True bearing
= magnetic bearing + magnetic
declination
= 4030' + 430'
= 45
5. The size of a theodolite is specified by
(a) Diameter of lower plate
(b) Diameter of upper plate
(c) Diameter of vertical circle

9. The line joining the point of curvature

and point of Tangency is
(a) Vortex
(b) Long chord
(c) Tangent distance
(d) External distance
Ans: (b)

Surveying
10. The degree of a circular curve of radius
1719 m is approximately equal to
(a) 100
(b) 10
(c) 1
(d) None of these
Ans: (c)

11. The method of contouring most suitable for hilly terrain is

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(a) Direct Method
(b) Tachometric method
(c) Square method
Ans: (d)
(d) Cross sections method
12. A closely spaced contour represents
(a) Steep slope (b) Gentle slope
(c) Both (a)&(b) (d) None Ans: (a)

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Civil Engineering

13. Balancing Back sights and Fore sights

can eliminate the error due to
(a) Collimation, curvature and refracture
(b) Curvature and refraction
(c) Collimation and curvature
(d) Collimation only
Ans: (a)
14. In which of the following is not a component of GIS
(a) Hardware
(b) expertise
(c) Spatial Information
Ans: (d)
(d) None of the above
15. Theory of probability is applied to
(a) accidental errors only
(b) cumulative errors only
(c) both accidental and cumulative
(d) none of the above
Ans: (a)
16. Which one of the following wave have

wave length more than that of microwave

(a) Infrared wave (b) Visible light
(c) Short wave
(d) UV wave Ans: (c)
17. The space segment consists of a minimum of 24 operational satellites in six
circular orbits above the earth at an
Inclination angle of
(a) 24
(b) 36
(c) 45
(d) 55
Ans: (d)
18. High accuracy, survey quality GPS is
usually associated with
(a) differential code phase tracking
(b) low-cost GPS
(c) No post-processing softwave
(d) differential carrier phase tracking
Ans: (d)

19. Chain survey is well adopted for

(a) Small surveys in open ground
(b) Small surveys with ups and downs
(c) Large area with simple details
(d) Large area with crowded details
Ans: (a)

20. Which of the following methods results

in higher accuracy for measuring horizontal distance on rough grounds?
(a) chaining (b) taping (c) tacheometry
(d) all of the above
Ans: (c)
21. The correction for sag is
(a) always additive
(b) always subtractive (c) always zero
(d) sometimes additive and sometime
Ans: (b)
subtractive

22. The annual variation of magnetic declination at a place is caused because

of rotation of
(a) moon about earth
(b) earth about its own axis
(c) earth about sun
(d) moon about sun
Ans: (c)
23. Theodolite is an instrument used for
(a) measurement of bearings only
(b) measurement of horizontal angles only
(c) measurement of vertical angles only
(d) all the above
Ans: (d)
24. Wing nuts are provided on
(a) bubble tubes (b) diaphragm
(c) standards
(d) tripod
Ans: (d)
25. An open traverse can be checked by
(a) included angles
(b) deflection angles
(c) astronomical observations
(d) linear measurements
Ans: (c)
26. The closing error can be eliminated by
(a) Bowditch rule (b) transit rule
(c) working accurately latitudes
(d) either (a) or (b) as applicable
Ans: (d)

27. Correction due to refraction is given by

(a) 0.0112 D2
(b) 0.0785 D2
(c) 0.0673 D2
(d) 0.0012 D2
Ans: (a)

28. The additive constant of a tacheometer is generally

(a) a few cm
(b) 100 cm
(c) about 10 m
(d) a dimensionless constant Ans: (a)
29. Different grades are joined together by a
(a) compound curve (b) transition curve
(c) reverse curve
(d) vertical curve
Ans: (d)
30. Apart from arithmetic, the levelling
work is best checked by
(a) Height of instrument method
(b) Rise and fall method
(c) Closed loop check
(d) Open loop check
Ans: (c)