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Civil Engineering Practice Test: Construction Planning and Management
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Construction planning is the specific process a construction manager uses to lay out how they will manage and execute a construction project, from building design to completion. It lists the activities and schedule for each part of the construction process.

Construction management involves planning, budgeting, coordinating, and supervising construction projects from start to finish.

A construction manager may work on various construction projects, including buildings, roads, bridges, and other structures.

Civil Engineering Practice Test: Construction Planning and Management
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1. Free float is mainly used to
2. Consider the following operations:
1. Drilling 2. Blasting 3. Mucking 4. Placing steel 5. Placing concrete
The correct sequence of these operations in tunnel construction is
3. The first method invented for planning projects, was
4. Final technical authority of a project lies with
5. Frederick W. Taylor introduced a system of working known as
6. The time by which activity completion time can be delayed without affecting the start of succeeding activities, is known as
7. For a given size of bucket, the ideal output of a dragline will be least in
8. For completion of a project, the critical path of the network represents
9. The maximum rimpull in the first gear of a tractor while towing a load is 6300 kg. The tractor weighs 12.5 tonnes and is operating along a 2 percent upgrade and the rolling resistance is 45 kg/tonne. Pull available for towing the load is
10. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
11. If to, tp and tm are the optimistic, pessimistic and most likely time estimates of an activity respectively, the expected time t of the activity will be
12. A tractor shovel has a purchase price of Rs. 4.7 lacs and could save the organization an amount of rupees one lac per year on operating costs. The salvage value after the amortization period is 10% of the purchase price. The capital recovery period will be
13. An earth moving equipment costs Rs. 5,00,000 and has an estimated life of 10 years and a salvage value of Rs. 50,000. What uniform annual amount must be set aside at the end of each of the 10 years for replacement if the interest rate is 8% per annum and if the sinking fund factor at 8% per annum interest rate for 10 years is 0.069?
14. Consider the following activities in a building construction:
1. Concreting of roof slabs 2. Brick-jelly lime concrete terracing 3. Erection of form work for slab 4. Construction of parapet wall in terrace
The correct sequence of these activities is
15. Which one of the following represents an activity?
16. A wheeled tractor hauling unit is working on firm earth. The total loaded weight distribution of this unit is:
Drive wheels: 25000 kg
Scraper wheels: 10000 kg.
If the coefficient of traction for wheeled tractor on firm earth is 0.5, the rimpull which this tractor can exert without slipping is
17. While scheduling a project by C.P.M.
18. Total float for any activity is defined as the difference between
19. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
20. The time by which a particular activity can be delayed without affecting the preceding and succeeding activities is known as
21. Which of the following does not represent an activity?
22. Which one of the following is not an excavating and moving type of equipment?
23. Residential buildings are treated as
24. Consider the following statements for a power shovel: (i) Output can be increased by reducing the angle of swing for a given depth of cut. (ii) For a given angle of swing, output will be maximum at optimum depth of cut. (iii) Output can be increased by keeping the depth of cut less than optimum depth, (iv) Output can be increased by increasing the size of shovel. Of these statements
25. While filling the tender for any work, the contractor considers