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Surveying MCQ

Surveying MCQ

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Below is the Surveying MCQ test that checks your basic knowledge of Surveying. This Surveying MCQ Test contains 20 Multiple Choice Questions. You have to select the right answer to the question. Finally, you can also take the Online Quiz from the Take Surveying Quiz Button.

Surveying MCQ Test

1) Which of the following is one of the principles of surveying?

  • A. Covering entire area
  • B.Taking measurements
  • C.Working from whole to part
  • D.Determining the elevation differences

2) ........... is made in connection with the construction of streets, water supply systems, sewers.

  • A. City surveying
  • B.Traverse surveying
  • C.Cadastral surveying
  • D.Hydrographic surveying

3) Which type of surveying is used for exploring mineral wealth?

  • A. Military surveying
  • B.Mine surveying
  • C.Engineering surveying
  • D.Topographic surveying

4) Which type of surveying is used for exploring mineral wealth?

  • A. Military surveying
  • B.Mine surveying
  • C.Engineering surveying
  • D.Topographic surveying

5) Which of the following instrument registers the total distance covered by any number of pace?

  • A. Chaining
  • B.Odometer
  • C.Pedometer
  • D.Passometer
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6) In which type of surveying only linear measurements are made?

  • A. Contouring
  • B.Dumpy level
  • C.Chain surveying
  • D.Theodolite surveying

7) What is the size of a plane table?

  • A. 600 mm × 750 mm
  • B.450 mm × 600 mm
  • C.750 mm × 900 mm
  • D.None of the above

8) Hydrographic surveys deal with the mapping of

  • A. Heavenly bodies
  • B.Canal system
  • C.Large water bodies
  • D.All of the above

9) The intercept of a staff ...........

  • A. Increases if the staff is tilted towards normal.
  • B.Decreases if the staff is tilted away from normal
  • C.Is minimum if the staff is held truly normal to the line of sight.
  • D.Is maximum if the staff is held truly normal to the line of sight.

10) The radius of curvature of the arc of the bubble tube is generally kept

  • A. 50 m
  • B.100 m
  • C.25 m
  • D.150 m

11) In chain surveying tie lines are primarily provided

  • A. to take offsets for detail survey
  • B.to check the accuracy of the survey
  • C.to avoid long offsets from chain lines
  • D.to increase the number of chain lines.

12) Closed contours of decreasing values towards their centre, represent

  • A. A hill
  • B.A river bed.
  • C.A depression
  • D.A saddle or pass

13) A bearing of a line is also known as

  • A. Azimuth
  • B.True bearing
  • C.Magnetic bearing
  • D.Reduced bearing

14) The most reliable method of plotting a theodolite traverse is

  • A. by the tangent method of plotting.
  • B.by consecutive co-ordinates of each station
  • C.by independent co-ordinates of each station
  • D.by plotting included angles and scaling off each traverse leg

15) For a closed traverse the omitted measurements may be calculated

  • A. Length of one side only
  • B.Bearing of one side only
  • C.Length or bearing of adjacent side
  • D.All of the above

16) The main principle of surveying is to work

  • A. from part to the whole
  • B.from whole to the part
  • C.from lower level to higher level.
  • D.from higher level to the lower level

17) The sensitiveness of a level tube decreases if

  • A. Diameter of the tube is increased
  • B.Length of the vapour bubble is increased
  • C.Both viscosity and surface tension are increased.
  • D.Radius of curvature of its inner surface is increased

18) The limiting length of an offset does not depend upon

  • A. Scale of plotting
  • B.Accuracy of the work
  • C.Indefinite features to be surveyed.
  • D.Method of setting out perpendiculars

19) The accuracy of measurement in chain surveying, does not depend upon

  • A. Length of the offset
  • B.Scale of the plotting
  • C.Importance of the features
  • D.General layout of the chain lines

20) The line of collimation method of reduction of levels, does not provide a check on

  • A. Fore sights
  • B.Back sights
  • C.Reduced levels.
  • D.intermediate sights

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