Kerala PSC Assistant Engineer (Civil)- Harbour Engineering (153/2017) Mock Test

1. The first non-brahmin who rang the temple bell of Guruvayur Temple

2. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into existence on

3. The Article that mentions about Lok Sabha Speaker and Deputy Speaker

4. The first General Secretary of SNDP Yogam formed in 1903

5. Gandhiji first visited Kerala on 18th August 1920 at Kozhikode. Who translated Gandhiji's speech into Malayalam ?

6. The national leader who praised Ayyankali as an "untiring warrior "?

7. India's first Lunar probe "Chandrayan 1" confirmed the presence of what in moon ?

8. How many members were there in the drafting committee of Indian Constitution ?

9. Sree Narayana Guru built a temple for Saradadevi in 1912 at

10. Carrying two month old baby in her arms, who participated Civil Disobedience Movement in Kerala ?

11. The Nobel Prize Winner of 2017 for literature

12. 'Sadhu Jana Doothan' was a magazine charted by

13. The most outstanding feature of Indian Constitution is

14. Pradhan Manthri Jhan Dhan Yojana is a nation-wide scheme launched by Indian Govt. for

15. The Ezhava Memorial was submitted to

16. How many schedules does Right to Information Act, 2005 have ?

17. The national leader who participated Vaikom Satyagraha on the basis of Gandhiji's advice

18. Ayyankali burnt Oorutu Ambalam School in connection with

19. NITI Ayog is a Govt. of India Policy to replace

20. The literary journal which is known as the Ezahava Gazette

21. A pumped storage plant is a

22. If a water tank, partially filled with water is being carried on a truck, moving with a constant horizontal acceleration, the level of liquid will

23. The unit of dynamic viscosity of a fluid is

24. In a Bernoulli equation, used in pipe flow, each term represents

25. For steady incompressible flow through a closed-conduit of uniform cross-section, the direction of flow will always be

26. While planning a water supply reservoir, as compared to an irrigation reservoir the design yield may be kept

27. The metacentre is

28. Consider the following statements related to a venturimeter.

1. The velocity of flow in the main pipe is greater and the pressure is lesser than
that at the throat section.
2. The velocity of flow in the main pipe is lower and the pressure is larger than that
at the throat section.
3. The pressure difference between the main pipe and throat section is positive.
4. The pressure difference between the main pipe and throat section is negative.

Which of these statements are not correct ?

29. In a Francis turbine, the runner blades are radial at the inlet and the discharge leaves the runner radially at the exit. For this turbine

30. A centrifugal pump has its impeller of 50 cm diameter at inlet, and it rotates at 1200 rpm. The tangential velocity of the impeller at the inlet is

31. A test used for determining the biological quality of drinking water is

32. Consider the following statements.

1. Chlorination of water kills the viruses of polio, viral hepatitis and jaundice.
2. Treatment of water with ozone removes the chlorine from water.

Which of these statements is/are correct ?

33. If A is to the South of B and C is to the East of B. In what direction is A with respect to C?

34. How many even numbers are there in the following sequence of numbers which are immediately followed by an odd number as well as immediately preceded by an even number ?

8,6,7,6,8, 9, 3, 2,7,5, 3, 4,2,2, 3, 5,5, 2,2, 8, 1, 1,9

35. Find the sum to n terms of the series 6+ 66+666+.....

36. A, B, C and D play a game of cards. A says to B, if I give you 8 cards, you will have as many as C has and I shall have 3 less than what C has. Also, if I take 6 cards from C, I shall have twice as many as D has. If B and D together have 50 cards, how many cards has A got ?

37. Which of the following factors contribute to formation of photochemical smog?

1. Stable atmosphere
2. NO_x
3. Solar insolation
4. CO

38. During consolidation process of clayey soils, indicate the sequence of occurrence of the following events in the order from first to last.

1. Load being taken up by the pore water
2. Load being taken up by the soil grains
3. Drainage of water from the pores of the soil

39. The local scour depth in front of a semicircular shaped rectangular pier having width equal to w aligned parallel to the flow below the surrounding bed is

40. Soundness test of cement is carried out to determine its

41. What treatment is adopted for making timber fire-resistant ?

42. Which of the following statements are the important characteristics of a slow sand filter?

1. Cleaning of filter is done by scraping and sand removal.
2. Lack of pre-treatment.
3. Greater efficiency of bacterial removal as compared to rapid sand filter.
4. Efficient in colour, taste and odour removal.

43. If w is the percentage of water required for normal consistency of cement, water to be
added for determination of initial setting time is

44. Hardness of water is caused by the presence of calcium (Ca^2+) and magnesium (Mg^2+) ions. Which are the least soluble forms of calcium and magnesium at normal water temperature ?

45. The number of bricks required per cubic metre of brick masonry is

46. The spacing of tile drains to relieve waterlogged land is directly proportional to the

47. Which one of the following correctly defines aquiclude ?

48. Which one of the following sections performs better on the ductility criterion ?

49. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

50. Which one of the following filters should be recommended for protected rural water supply project ?

51. For cement-concrete, the stress-strain curve is approximately linear upto

52. The consistent of cement which act as binder are

53. As per IS 456 the cross sectional area of longitudinal steel in a column should not be less than

54. The ratio of the diameter of reinforcing bars and the slab thickness is

55. Consider the following statements.

1. Welded structures are usually lighter than riveted structures.

2. Weldings allows the arrangement of structural components in such a manner that the joint provides maximum efficiency.

3. During welding, the member do not get distorted.

Of the statements

56. When the effect of wind or earthquake load is considered in the design of rivets and
bolts for steel structures, by what percentage the permissible stresses may be exceeded?

57. Traps are used in household drainage system to

58. Reflection cracking is observed in

59. Consider the following situations.

1. Traffic volume entering from all roads is less than 300 vehicle per hour.
2. Pedestrian volume is high.
3. Total right turning traffic is high.
4. A road is in a hilly region.

A rotary will be more suitable than control by signals in situations listed against.

60. For different concrete specimens, each hydrated to the same degree, the permeability is

61. A contractor wishes to determine a suitable combination of manual labour and
machine work for the excavation of a multistorey construction. For every cubic metre of excavation, 3 man-hours are needed, or 0.2 machine-hour. Costs involved are Rs. 20 per man-hour and Rs. 500 per machine-hour. The total quantity of excavation is estimated to be 4000 cum. The optimal quantity of excavation to be done manually
for minimum total cost will be

62. A building with a gabled roof will experience pressure on its leeward slope which is

63. Consider the following statements.

Entrainment of air in concrete is done so as to

1. Increase the workability
2. Increase the strength
3. Increase the resistance to freezing and thawing

Which of the above statements is/or correct ?

64. Consider the following statements in work breakdown structure.

1. It is a graphical representation of entire programme
2. The Top-Down approach to planning is adopted
3. The Down-Top approach to planning is adopted
4. It is suitable for complex projects

Which of the above statements is/are correct ?

65. Terzaghi's Consolidation theory is applicable to one-dimensional consolidation test

66. Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ?

67. Two circular footings of diameters D_1 and D_2 are resting on the surface of a purely cohesive
soil. The ratio D_1/D_2 = 2. If the ultimate load carrying capacity of the footing of diameter
D_1 is 200 kN/m², then the ultimate bearing capacity (in kNm²) of the footing of diameter D_2 will be

68. In the case of a pile foundation, negative skin friction may occur at a load which is

69. Consider the following statements.

1. Underreamed piles are designed as bearing piles.
2. In multiple-bulb underreamed piles, the bulbs are spaced at 1.5 to 2 times the
diameter of the underream, the centre of the fist underream being at a minimum depth of 1.75 m.
3. The length of traditional underreamed pile ranges from 3 m to 4 m

Which of these statements is/are correct?

70. Working from the whole to the part is followed as the fundamental principle of surveying so as to

1. Distribute errors
2. Improve ease of working
3. Prevent accumulation of errors
4. Compensate errors in a way
5. Refer to a common datum, say MSL

71. Average yield from standard tube wells is of the order of

72. If 60 ppm is concentration of suspended solids present in turbid raw water, then how
much dry solids will be deposited per day in the tank assuming 70% removal in the
basin and average specific gravity of the deposit is 2?

73. Which of the following statements explains the term pyrolysis ?

74. Ozone layer in the upper atmosphere is getting destroyed owing to its reaction with

75. A combined value ot flakiness and elongation index is to be determined for a sample of aggregates. The sequence in which the two tests are conducted is

76. As per IRC: 67:2001, a traffic indicating the speed limit on a road should be of

77. The formation width of a double lane NH embankment is

78. In pressure penstock 4500 m long, water is flowing at a velocity of 4 m/s. If the velocity
of the pressure wave travelling in the pipe, due to sudden complete closure of a
valve at the downstream end, is given as 1500 m/s, what would be the period of
oscillation in second under frictionless condition ?

79. A shaft turns at 150 rpm under a torque of 1500 Nm. Power transmitted is

80. Which one of the following is the correct statement ?

In a gusseted base, when the end of the column is machined for complete bearing on the base plate, the axial load is assumed to be transferred to the base plate.

81. Which one of the following shovel excavators is considered most efficient in loading carriers?

82. Which type of brick masonry bond is provided for heavy loads on masonry?

83. The working range of a crane is limited horizontally for maximum lift only by

84. The displacement method is also referred to as

85. The allowable shear stress in the web of mild steel beam decreases with

86. For an I-beam, the shape factor is 1.12. If the allowable stress (with factor safety in bending is 1.5) is increased by 20% for wind and earthquake loads, the modified load factor is

87. Poise has the unit of

88. Consider the following statement.

Activated sludge process can be said to comprise

1. Conversion of dissolved organic matter into biological flocs.
2. Removal of dissolved BOD of the waste water.
3. Digestion of the sludge.

Which of these statements are correct?