Mmup Most Common Question

MMUP Most Common Questions (CIVIL) 1. Strength of Material is Defined as : Ability of Material to Resist External Forces (Ability of Material to Resist the Deformations due to external forces) 2. Stress Means: Is the internal forces developed in material due to external loads 3. The SPT-N (Soil Penetration Test ): Indication of the relative density of granular deposits (for dense sand =20 ̴40) 4. Critical Path: Longest sequence of activities path in a project 5. Add-Mixture are Used in Concrete for : Both (to increase workability of concrete + increase air content) 6. In PERT Chart the time estimate of activity is calculated by : Probability (not normal or binomial or logarithmic) 7. The value of concrete cube strength is given at : 28 days 8. For simply supported beam the shear and flexural stresses will equal to zero at : At mid span and neutral axe 9. The summation of internal angles at any polygon equal to : =720=180 * (n-2) , where “n” is the number of faces 10. ASGHAL is responsible for : Urban Planning and public buildings 11. Compaction in backfilling is used for: Reducing air content in backfilled material 12. Last component that is added to cement production process is : Calcium sulfate (Gypsum)

13. Ultra Sonic pulse test is :

Both (Non destructive test, used in smooth concrete surfaces) {It is used to inspect the depth and width of concrete, and detection of steel bars location in concrete} 14. Slump test is used for : Testing of workability of concrete 15. No. of layers of concrete required in slump test: 3 layers 16. The following is not a gypsum board characteristic: Fire resistance 17. Super elevation is used at: Horizontal curves **to avoid centrifugal force at high speeds 18. Moisture content range for timber that is used in construction is equal to: 14-18% 19. Plywood is preferred as construction material because : The strength of the panel consistent across all directions 20. Fast Track project means: Design/Built (Activities are parallel) 21. The meaning of crashing in project: To increase project resource in order to reduce project total duration 22. The meaning of resource leveling : Technique used to examine unbalanced use of resources over time 23. Minor limit design method for rectangular section will provide: Minimum steel area, Maximum section dimension 24. Nominal moment for rectangular concrete cross section is given by : Mn=Fs As (d-a/2) 25. The un-drained shear strength for clay is equal to : One and a half the unconfined compressive strength of clay 26. Moment distribution method is devolved by : Hardy Cross

27. The error in measuring tape due to shortage of tape is called: Systematic error 28. Poisson’s Ratio is : The transverse strain / the longitudinal strain 29. Initial setting time of cement for asbestos cement products should be not less than : 30 minutes 30. Type of cement using for canal lining is: Sulphate resisting cement 31. If water required for 1 bag of cement is 30 liters , the water cement ratio is : 0.6 32. The weight of 1 m3 of brick earth, is about: 1800 kg 33. Mastic asphalt is normally used for : Water proofing 34. Strength of cement concrete primarily depends upon: Water-Cement ratio 35. Soundness of cement is tested by: Le-chatelier apparatus 36. Slump test for concrete is carried out, to determine: Workability 37. The foundations are placed below ground level, to increase: Stability of structure 38. The loose pockets in soil mass can be bridged safely by providing a raft foundation provided the soft area is smaller than: One-third the column spacing 39. The concrete slump recommended for beams and slabs is: 30 to 125 mm 40. The entrained concrete is used in lining walls and roofs for making:

Both (Heat insulated – sound insulated) 41. What is the maximum value of PHF (Peak Hour Factor): 1 42. What is the minimum value of PHF (Peak Hour Factor): 0.25 43. What is the factor not to be taken in consideration in mix design: ??????? 44. What to take in consideration to safe design for long pile in a drilled rock soil: Strength of concrete 45. What is the factor effecting the hardness of water? Calcium &Magnesium 46. The road cross section is used for : Cut and fills quantity 47.What is RQD 100% refer to :

*RQD = Rock Quality Designation

High quality rock 48. Activity is followed by two activities is called: Diversion activity 49. At project time frame , type of cost estimation is: Budget cost 50. Maximum backfilling height for chambers and pit as per QCS is: 300mm 51. Amount of time that an activity may be delayed from early start without delaying the project is: Total float Or Total Slack 52. Amount of time a task can be delayed without delaying the early start of its successor is: Free float 53. What is hydration in concrete?

It is the reaction between cement and water 54. What is Project scope definition? It is the sum total of all its product and their requirements or features 55. What is the yield strength of steel? The ability of a metal to tolerate gradual progressive force without permanent deformation 56. Perfect sampling for Rock Soil: Double Sleeve 57. What is the perception and reaction time for calculating the sight distance? 2.5 seconds, 1mile = 1.609344 KM, 60mile = 96.56 KM 58. For why steel is preferred as reinforcement in concrete? Because it has the same coefficient of expansion of the concrete. 59. In infrastructure works , the utility with the lowest level is : Drainage 60. Who makes the tests to ensure the reliability and suitability of the product? Certified Testing Engineer. 61. Consolidation is aterm used to describe the volume reduction of? Saturated Clay 62. Fundamental factor in creating durable concrete is …… and ……… Pozzolana, Ground granulated blast-furnace slag 63. A project with CPI=0.95 and SPI=1.01 that means The project runs with over cost and progress faster than plan 64. What is service Capacity of roads describes? Capacity is defined as the maximum number of vehicles, passengers, or the like, per unit time, which can be Accommodated under given conditions with a reasonable expectation of occurrence.

65. The levels of service of roads describe? A term closely related to capacity and often confused with it is service volume. When capacity gives a quantitative Measure of traffic, level of service or LOS tries to give a qualitative measure. It divides the quality of tra_c into six levels ranging from level A to level F. 66. Cohesionless backfill is usually layers thick ……? 30 CM 67. The main type of plastic moment into concrete is? Plastic settlement Or Plastic shrinkage Or Both Or none of the above. 68. The legal area of piece of land is measured? Vertically Or Horizontally Or Along ground Or Between the ellipsoid and geoid 69. What is proctor compactor test check? Max Dry density 70. What does a burst activity mean? A burst activity is an activity that is a predecessor to more than one activity ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ QCS: (2010): Qatar Construction Specification QCS: (2007): Qatar Construction Standards PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique CPM: Critical Path Method PWA: Public Works Affairs AASHTO: American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials QSAS: Qatar Sustainability Assessment System BS: British Standards ABET: Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

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Problems 71.A sample of 200 ml wastewater is given in a container (Weight of container = 22.00 g) and was inserted in oven, after water evaporated the weight of sample was given as = 24.502 g then the sample was inserted in a burning oven and the weight changed to = 22.606 g, the Volatile solids content for this sample is equal to: =24.502-22.606=1.896 g Volatile solids content= 1.896 g/200 ml =0.0095 g/ml

72.A car going on a speed of 60 mile/Hr on a curve highway. After passing midpoint the driver saw an accident in front of him. The distance that will be passed from the moment the driver saw the accident until he hit the brakes equal to: - The perception and reaction time for calculating the sight distance=2.5 seconds -60 mile/hr *5280 ft/3600 seconds=88 ft/sec - The distance that will be passed from the moment the driver saw the accident until he hit the brakes = 88 ft/sec *2.5 sec = 220 ft 73.A flow in rectangular section 2 m wide as shown velocity equal to Y 1/3 calculates the discharge. 30

V = Y 1/3

Y 1 meter 30

74.Calculate pressure at point A Water Oil S=0.9

0.5m 1.3 m 1m

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Mercury S=13.55