Civil Engineering Mcqs

The process of incorporating changes and rescheduling or replanning is called_______________?

(A) resource levelling
(B) resource smoothening
(C) updating
(D) critical path scheduling

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The reduction in project time normally results in_______________?

(A) decreasing the direct cost and increasing indirect cost
(B) increasing the direct cost and decreasing the indirect cost
(C) increasing the direct cost and indirect cost both
(D) decreasing the direct cost and indirect cost both

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The time by which a particular activity can be delayed without affecting the preceding and succeeding activities is known as_______________?

(A) total float
(B) free float
(C) interfering float
(D) independent float

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A father notes that when his teenage daughter uses the telephone, she takes not less than 6 minutes for a call and som? times as much as an hour. Fifteen minutes call are more frequent than calls of any other duration. If these phone calls were an activity in PERT project, then phone calls expected duration will be_______________?

(A) 15 minutes
(B) 20.143 minutes
(C) 21 minutes
(D) 27 minutes

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Critical path_____________?

(A) is always longest
(B) is always shortest
(C) may be longest
(D) may be shortest

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Whenever an activity has zero total float, then_______________?

(A) free float of the activity must be zero but independent float need not be zero
(B) independent float must be zero but free float need not be zero
(C) free float and independent float both must be zero
(D) free float and independent float both need not be zero

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If the optimistic time, most likely time and pessimistic time for activity A are 4, 6 and 8 respectively and for activity B are 5, 5.5 and 9 respectively, then______________?

(A) expected time of activity A is greater than the expected time of activity B
(B) expected time of activity B is greater than the expected time of activity A
(C) expected time of both activities A and B are same
(D) none of the above

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Latest start of an activity is always________________?

(A) greater than or equal to latest event time of preceding node
(B) less than or equal to latest event time of preceding node
(C) equal to latest event time of preceding node
(D) less than latest event time of preceding node

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Which of the following does not represent an activity?

(A) site located
(B) foundation is being dug
(C) the office area is being cleaned
(D) the invitations are being sent

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If the excavation of earth is done manually then it costs Rs. 10 per cum. A machine can excavate at a fixed cost of Rs. 4000 plus a variable cost of Rs. 2 per cum. The quantity of earth for which the cost of excavation by machine will be equal to the cost of manual excavation is_________________?

(A) 500 cum
(B) 1000 cum
(C) 1500 cum
(D) 2000 cum

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