MCQs Question Of Surveying
Question No. 01
A check line in a chain surveying?
a. Checks the accuracy of the framework
b. Enables the surveyor to locate the interior details which are far away from the main chain
lines
c. Fixes up the directions of all other lines
d. All of the above
Question No. 02
A plain scale is used to read ?
a. One dimension
b. Two dimensions
c. Three dimensions
d. All of these
Question No. 03
The method of measuring distance by pacing is chiefly used in?
a. Reconnaissance surveys
b. Preliminary surveys
c. Location surveys
d. All of these
Question No. 04
Direct ranging is possible only when the end stations are ?
a. Close to each other
b. Not more than 100 m apart
c. Mutually intervisible
d. Located at the highest points in the sea
Question No. 05
When the measured length is less than the actual length, the error is known as ?
a. Positive error
b. Negative error
c. Compensating error
d. Instrumental error
Question No. 06
The tension, at which the effects of pull and sag for a tape are neutralized, is known as ?
a. initial tension
b. absolute tension
c. surface tension
d. normal tension
Question No. 07
A plumb bob is required ?
a. When measuring distances along slopes in a hilly country
b. For accurate centering of a theodolite over a station mark
c. For testing the verticality of ranging poles
d. All of the above
Question No. 08
When the length of the chain used in measuring distance is longer than the standard length, will
the error in the measured distance be?
a. Positive error
b. Negative error
c. Compensating error
d. None of these
Question No. 09
Chain surveying consists of the arrangement of the framework of triangles because a triangle is
the simple plane figure which can be plotted uniquely if ............... of the triangle are known. ?
a. Three sides
b. three angles
c. one side and two angles
d. one angle and two sides
Question No. 010
The accuracy in laying down the perpendicular offsets and in measuring them depends upon
the?.
a. Scale of plotting
b. Length of offset
c. Importance of the object
d. All of these
Question No. 11
The horizon glass in an optical square is?
a. Wholly silvered
b. Wholly unsilvered
c. One-fourth silvered and three-fourth unsilvered
d. Half-silvered and half unsilvered
Question No. 12
The obstacle, which obstructs vision but not chaining, is a ?
a. River
b. Pond
c. Hill
d. All of these
Question No. 13
The true or geographical meridians through the various stations?
a. Are parallel
b. Converge to the poles
c. Converge from the north pole to the south pole
d. Converge from the south pole to the north pole
Question No. 14
The horizontal angle between the true meridian and magnetic meridian is known as ?
a. True bearing
b. Dip
c. Local attraction
d. Magnetic decline
Question No. 15
When the object lies on the left-hand side of the chain line, then while taking offset with an
optical square, it is held in?
a. Left hand upside down
b. Right hand upside down
c. Left hand upright
d. Right hand upright
Question No. 16
In a whole circle system, the bearing of a line is measured.
a. Always clockwise from the south point of the reference meridian towards the line right round
the circle
b. Clockwise or anticlockwise from the east or west whichever is nearer the line towards north or
south
c. Clockwise or anticlockwise from the north or south whichever is nearer the line towards east
or west
d. None of the above
Question No.17
Due to the magnetic influence of the earth, the magnetic needle of the prismatic compass is
inclined downward towards the pole. Is this inclination of the needle with the horizontal is
known?
a. True bearing
b. dip
c. local attraction
d. magnetic decline
Question No.18
Which of the following statement is wrong?
a. The magnetic meridian coincides with the true meridian at all places.
b. The magnetic meridian does not vary from place to place on the earth's surface.
c. The magnetic declination at a place is constant.
d. All of the above
Question No. 19.
In plane surveying,?
a. The curvature of the earth is taken into consideration
b. The curvature of the earth is taken into consideration
c. the surveys extend over small areas
d. the surveys extend over large areas
Question No. 20
An average length of a pace is ?
a. 60 cm
b. 80 cm
c. 100 cm
d. 120 cm
Question No.21
The angle between the back tangent and forward tangent of a curve is known as?
a. Deflection angle
b. Central angle
c. Angle of intersection
d. None of these
Question No.22
The error in measured length due to the sag of the chain or tape is known as ?
a. Positive Error
b. Negative Error
c. Compensating Error
d. Instrumental Error
Question No.23
A line joining the apex of a triangle to some fixed point on the opposite side is called a ?
a. Check line
b. Tie line
c. Baseline
d. None of these
Question No.24
The length of the peg interval for flat curves is?
a. 15 m
b. 20 m
c. 25 m
d. 30 m
Question No.25
Chain surveying is most suitable when?
a. Area to be surveyed is small
b. Ground is fairly level and open with simple details
c. Plans are required on a large scale
d. All of the above
Question No.26
The instrument used for setting out an offset at a right angle, is called?
a. Open cross-staff
b. French cross-staff
c. Optical square
d. Adjustable cross-staff
Question No.27.
The optical square is used to measure angles by?
a. Reflection
b. Refraction
c. Double refraction
d. Double reflection
Question No.28
The line in which the plane passing through the given point and the north and south poles south
pole 0 intersects the surface of the earth, is called?
a. Arbitrary meridian
b. Magnetic meridian
c. True meridian
d. None of these
Question No.29
The instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle in order to measure the distance travelled, is
called?
a. Passometer
b. Pedometer
c. Odometer
d. Speedometer
Question No.30
The horizontal angle between the true meridian and a survey line is called?
a. Magnetic bearing
b. Azimuth
c. Dip
d. Magnetic decline
Question No.31
The lines of Earth's magnetic field run from?
a. South to North
b. North to South
c. East to West
d. West to East
Question No.32
The theodolite is an instrument used for measuring very accurately.
a. Horizontal angles only
b. Vertical angles only
c. Horizontal and vertical angles
d. Linear measurements
Question No.33
In the surveying telescopes, crosshairs are fitted in?
a. Centre of the telescope
b. Optical center of the eyepiece
c. Front of the eyepiece
d. Front of the objective
Question No.34
When the image formed by the objective is not situated in the plane of cross-hairs, ?
a. The cross-hairs should be adjusted
b. The eye-piece should be focussed
c. The objective should be focussed
d. The parallax should be removed
Question No.35
For removing the parallax,?
a. The eye-piece should be focused on the distinct vision of cross-hairs
b. The image of the object should be brought in the plane of cross-hairs
c. Either (a) or (b)
d. Both (a) and (b)
Question No.36
The representative fraction 1/2500 means that the scale is?
a. 1 cm = 0.25 m
b. 1 cm = 2.5 m
c. 1 cm = 25 m
d. 1 cm = 250 m
Question No.37
The ratio of the focal length of the objective to that of an eye-piece of a telescope is called its?
a. Definition
b. Brightness
c. Sensitivity
d. Magnification
Question No.38
An angle measured clockwise from the proceeding survey line to the following survey line is
called?
a. Direct angle
b. Vertical angle
c. Horizontal angle
d. Deflection angle
Question No.39
If a chain is used at a temperature ............. the temperature at which it was calibrated, the error
in measured length is negative. ?
a. Equal to
b. Lower than
c. Higher than known
d. None of them
Question No.40
The obstacle, which obstructs chaining but not vision, is?
a. River
b. Hill
c. Rising ground
d. All of these
Question No.41
The degree of the curve is the angle subtended by a chord of?
a. 15 m
b. 20 m
c. 25 m
d. 30 m
Question No.42
The lines passing through points at which the magnetic declination is equal at a given time are
called?
a. Isogonic lines
b. Agonic lines
c. Isoclinic lines
d. None of these
Question No.43
The process of turning the telescope of a theodolite over its supporting axis through 180° in a
vertical plane, is called?
a. Transiting
b. Reversing
c. Plunging
d. Any one of these
Question No.44
The capacity of a telescope of producing a sharp image is called its ?
a. Definition
b. Brightness
c. Sensitivity
d. Magnification
Question No.45
The power of a telescope to form distinguishable images of objects separated by small angular
distance is called its?
a. Definition
b. Brightness
c. Sensitivity
d. Resolving power
Question No.46
A deflection angle in a traverse is equal to the?
a. Difference between the included angle and 180°
b. Difference between 360° and the included angle
c. Sum of the included angle and 180°
d. None of the above
Question No.47
In locating the details of inaccessible objects visible at least from transit stations, the method
used is?
a. By angles and distances from the same station
b. By angle from one station and distance from the other station
c. By distances from two different stations
d. None of the above
Question No.48
A staff reading was taken on a point whose elevation is to be determined as a change called?
a. Fore sight reading
b. Backsight reading
c. Intermediate sight
d. none of these
Question No.49
The plane table surveying is ?
a. Most suitable for preparing small-scale maps
b. Particularly advantageous in magnetic areas
c. Less costly than a theodolite survey
d. All of the above
Question No.50
Which of the following statement is correct?
a. The error in measured length due to bad ranging is compensating error.
b. If the chain used in measuring a distance is too short, the error is a positive error.
c. The error in measured length due to the careless holding of the chain is a cumulative error.
d. When the pull applied while measuring with a tape, is more than the standard tape, the error
in measured length is positive.
