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  1. 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

  2. A.

     1, 2, 4, 3, 5

    B.

     1, 3, 2, 4, 5

    C.

     1, 2, 3, 4, 5

    D.

     1, 3, 4, 2, 5

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  3. The salient feature of functional organization is

  4. A.

     Strict adherence to specifications

    B.

     Separation of planning and design part

    C.

     Each individual maintains functional efficiency

    D.

     All the above

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  5. The time corresponding to minimum total project cost is

  6. A.

     Crash time

    B.

     Normal time

    C.

     Optimistic time

    D.

     Between normal time and crash time

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  7. The process of incorporating changes and rescheduling or replanning is called

  8. A.

     Resource levelling

    B.

     Resource smoothening

    C.

     Updating

    D.

     Critical path scheduling

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  9. If D is the duration, ES and EF are the earliest start and finish, LS and LF are latest start and latest finish time, then the following relation holds good

  10. A.

     EF = ES + D

    B.

     LS = LF - D

    C.

     LF = LS + D

    D.

     All the above

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  11. The artificial activity which indicates that an activity following it, cannot be started unless the preceding activity is complete, is known as

  12. A.

     Event

    B.

     Free float

    C.

     Dummy

    D.

     Constraint

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  13. The independent float affects only

  14. A.

     Preceding activities

    B.

     Succeeding activities

    C.

     The particular activity involved

    D.

     None of the above

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  15. PERT analysis is based on

  16. A.

     Optimistic time

    B.

     Pessimistic time

    C.

     Most likely time

    D.

     All the above

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  17. Pick up the correct statement from the following with regards to C.P.M. network analysis of projects

  18. A.

     The latest occurrence time of the node of which the activity arrow terminates minus the duration of the activity, is called latest start time

    B.

     The latest occurrence time for the node at which the activity arrow terminates, is called latest finish time

    C.

     Earliest occurrence time of the event from which the activity arrow' originates, is called earliest start time of the activity

    D.

     All the above

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  19. A CPM family includes

  20. A.

     CPA (Critical Path Analysis)

    B.

     CPP (Critical Path Plotted)

    C.

     MCE (Minimum Cost Expenditure)

    D.

     All the above

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