Civil Engineering Questions And Answers :: Construction Planning And Management: part3



Civil Engineering : Construction Planning And Management QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part3 : 16 to 20

Following Civil Engineering Multiple choice objective type questions and answers will help you in BSNL JTO, GATE 2024 and IES 2024 examinations :

16.An excavator costs Rs. 20,00,000/- and has an estimated life of 8 years. It has no salvage value at the end of 8 years. The book value of the excavator at the end of 3 years using general double declining balance method is

Rs. 8,43,750/-
Rs. 8,75,000/-
Rs. 10,50,000/-
Rs. 11,56,250/-

17.A machine costs Rs. 20000 and its useful life is 8 years. The money is borrowed at 8% interest per annum. The capital recovery factor at 8% interest per annum for 8 years is 0.174. The annual equipment cost of the machine will be

Rs.1740
Rs.3480
Rs.5220
Rs.6960

18.During the construction period, price variation clause in contracts caters to

increase in rates of only important materials
variation in cost in materials element, labour element and petrol-oil-lubricant element
variation in total cost of the project on an ad hoc basis
rate of inflation

19.Consider the following statements : In the critical path method of construction planning, Free Float can be. # greater than Total Float. # greater than Independent Float # equal to Total Float. # less than Independent Float. Of these statements

1 and 4 are correct
2 and 3 are correct
1 and 4 are correct
1 and 2 are correct

20.If the expected time of completion of a project is 60 weeks with a standard deviation of 5 weeks, the probability of completing the project in 50 weeks and 65 weeks respectively will be

2.3% and 84.1%
97.7% and 84.1%
97.7 % and 15.9%
15.9% and 97.7%

More Construction Planning And Management QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS available in next pages

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