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C. Design Speed: Sample 100 Items Exam
C. Design Speed: Sample 100 Items Exam
1. It is a tool used to determine geometric features of a new road during road design.
A. Traffic Barriers
B. Road Alignment
C. Design Speed
D. None of the above
2. It is the portion of a highway provided for vehicular use and it includes both carriageway and
shoulders.
A. Road way
B. Clear Zone
C. Highway Median
D. None of the above
A. Traffic Barriers
B. Road Alignment
C. Design Speed
D. None of the above
4. It is an unobstructed, traversable roadside area that allows a driver to stop safely, or regain control of
a vehicle that has left the roadway.
A. Road way
B. Clear Zone
C. Highway Median
D. None of the above
5. It is a strip of land that is granted, through an easement other mechanism, for transportation
purposes, such as for a trail, driveway, rail line or highway.
A. Grade separation
B. Right of way
C. Grade line
D. Median
6. Islands provided at regular bus stops and similar places for the protection of passengers.
A. Divisional Islands
B. Channelizing islands
C. Pedestrian loading islands
D. Rotary islands
9. Used to divide highway into two roadways to eliminate head on collision and reduce accident.
A. Divisional Islands
B. Channelizing islands
C. Pedestrian loading islands
D. Rotary islands
10. It is commonly known as crossroad and critical aspect of street design as the point where motorist,
bicycle, and pedestrian movements converge.
A. Road segment
B. Highway intersection
C. Traffic control
D. Box junction
2. It is applied to minimize plastic shrinkage cracking until finishing operations are complete.
a) Ponding and Immersion b) Fogging and Sprinkling
c) Saturated Wet Coverings d) Steam Curing
4. Is it necessary that framework should be left for a long period of time before removing?
a) No, it may cause significant risk damage if we left it for a long period of time.
b) Yes, in order to achieve its stiffness and trueness.
5. In testing requirements for CTB, a common moisture requirement is to be within how many percent
of the laboratory established optimum moisture content (ASTM D558)?
a) 5% b) 2% c) 8% d) 15%
8. It is responsible for the planning, design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure especially
the national highways, flood control and water resources development system.
a) Civil Engineers b) Government
c) DPWH d) Quality Engineer
9. The behavior of concrete pavement that is expose to loading and environmental effect entirely
depends upon the following EXCEPT:
a) Quality of concrete b) Underlying sub-grade
c) Base course d) Underlying subbase
1. Pavements having a low or negligible flexural strength and are flexible in their structural action
under the loads are known as?
a. Rigid Pavement
b. Flexible Pavement
c. Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement
d. Continuously Reinforced Pavement
3. These are short bars that provide a mechanical connection between slabs without restricting
horizontal joint movement.
a. Temperature steel
b. Reinforcing steel
c. Tie bars
d. Dowel bars
4. It is another type of joints which control the cracks happening due to shrinkages.
a. Contraction joints
b. Construction joints
c. Expansion joints
d. Dummy joints
5. Is a hardened material obtained by mechanically compacting a mixture of finely crushed soil, water,
and a quantity of Portland Cement that will make the mixture meet certain durability requirements.
a. Cement-Stabilized Soil
b. Cement-Modified Soil
c. Plastic Soil Cement
d. Soil Cement
6. Is a semi hardened or unhardened mixture of water, Portland cement, and finely crushed soil. This
mixture has less cement than soil-cement mixture.
a. Cement-Stabilized Soil
b. Cement-Modified Soil
c. Plastic Soil Cement
d. Soil Cement
7. Is related to the physical condition of the pavement with respect to factors that have a negative
impact on the capability of the pavement to carry the traffic load.
a. Functional Performance
b. Traffic Load
c. Structural Performance
d. Drainage
8. Consists of combination of mineral aggregate with bituminous binder ranging from inexpensive
surface treatment ¼ in or less thick to asphaltic concrete.
a. Rigid Pavement
b. Surface Course Materials
c. Pavement
d. Bituminous Pavement
9. Is the discharge of water and subgrade materials through joints, cracks, and along the pavement
edges.
a. Drainage
b. Traffic
c. Pumping
d. Dust Proofing
10. It is based on a combination of theoretical studies, results of model, and full-scale tests, and
experience gained from the performance of concrete pavements.
a. AASHTO Method
b. PCA Design Method
c. USCS Method
d. USACE Method
1.) A permanent drainage structure to carry roadway or railway track over small stream or channels.
a. Ditches c. Culvert
b. Pipes d. Side ditch
2.) A type of culvert that serves a dual purpose. Generally, rectangular in shape and constructed on
rivers and canals.
3.) It is simple to build and to maintain toward the downhill side of the road
a. Outsloping c. Insloping
b. Oversloping d. Crowned Surface
4.) Significantly reduces sediment delivery from road surfaces by increasing the transverse road surface
grade.
a. Sloping c. Crowning
b. Sliding d. both a and c
10.) A culvert that has an artificial floor. It is widely used for narrow passages.
a. Arch Culvert c. Box Culvert
b. Pipe Culvert d. Bridge Culvert
1.This is a form of treatment to ensure stability where a concrete or masonry gravity structure is used to
retain the unstable rock mass.
A. Scaling
B. Construct buttress support
C. Dentition
D. Rock bolt/nail
2.Another form of treatment to ensure stability where an exposed soft material in a rock face be
trimmed back and the resulting slot be filled with filter material and protected by masonry or concrete
to prevent erosion.
3.__________ protection on slopes are commonly used to reduce rainwater infiltration and to prevent
erosion of the slope-forming materials and can be done by shotcrete and stone pitching.
4.It is an angle that maintains naturally to a safe equilibrium by the composing material of a slope.
A. Angle of Rotation
B. Angle of Incidence
C. Angle of Refraction
D. Angle of Repose
A. Cantilevered
B. Precast Panel
C. Gravity
D. Bored Pile
A. Weep holes
B. Surface channel
C. Stepped or trapezoidal channel
D. Catch pit
A. Torsional Failure
B. Bearing Capacity Failure
C. A&B
D. None of the above
9.__________ are driven into the ground and are composed of a variety of material including steel,
vinyl, aluminum, fiberglass or wood planks.
10.Inspection should be carried out regularly to determine the conditions of a slope. These inspections
can be sub-divided into how many levels/categories?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
A.) Maintenance
B.) Rehabilitation
C.) Restoring
D.) Recycling
2.) The routine work performed to keep a pavement, under normal conditions of traffic and normal
forces of nature, as nearly as possible in it as constructed condition.
A.) Maintenance
B.) Rehabilitation
C.) Restoring
D.) Recycling
A.) Patching
B.) Scarifying
C.) Blading
D.) Sealing
5.) Can mean a lot of things, ranging from simple cleaning or restriping up to fixing severe distresses like
potholes and washouts.
9.) A method in which the existing pavement is heated and softened, and then sacrificed/milled to a
specified depth.
10.) Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) materials are combined with new materials, sometimes along
with a recycling agent, to produce hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures.
1.) These are designs to add structural support to the existing pavement and because of this, they are
structurally designed.
A. Structural Overlays
B. HMA Overlays
C. In-place Recycling
D. Rehabilitation
2.) It is a new alignment, full adherence to AASHTO design standards, major projects.
A. Construction
B. Reconstruction
C. Rehabilitation
D. Maintenance
3.) It is an activity to decrease the rate of deterioration, repairs, and remedial work at spot locations.
A. Construction
B. Reconstruction
C. Rehabilitation
D. Maintenance
4.) It is the major adjustments of alignment, grades and geometries for existing routes, adherence to
AASHTO standards.
A. Construction
B. Reconstruction
C. Rehabilitation
D. Maintenance
5.) These are designs to add or replace the existing pavement wearing course. Because of this, they
contribute very little to the pavement structure and are generally assumed to provide no additional
structural support.
A. Structural Overlays
B. HMA Overlays
C. In-place Recycling
D. Non-Structural Overlays
6.) It is a consideration that deals with the cost, or worth, of a pavement that can be defined in two
ways: (1) present worth (PW), or the present value, and (2) equivalent uniform annual costs (EUAC).
A. Environmental Consideration
B. Economic Consideration
C. Energy Consideration
D. None of the above
7.) Even though recycling of pavements was performed as early as 1915, it was not until the mid1970s
that widespread attention was paid to recycling because of the oil embargo. What kind of consideration
is this?
A. Environmental Consideration
B. Economic Consideration
C. Energy Consideration
D. None of the above
8.) It is typically involves milling and resurfacing of the existing asphalt pavement to mitigate the effects
of per ride rutting, cracking, and other distresses.
9.) Many agencies are using life-cycle cost (LCC) analysis to help them rationally select the best
rehabilitation technique. However, the inability to properly account for user delay costs is a major
limitation of LCC analysis.
10.) It is the upgrading of services on existing routes, minor changes in alignment, no ROW takings,
“expedient" standards, low cost.
A. Structural Overlays
B. HMA Overlays
C. In-place Recycling
D. Rehabilitation
1. A two- dimensional representation of a three-dimensional flow field, and as such it has limitations.
a. Topographic Map
b. Contour Map
c. Mass Diagram
d. None of the above
2. A detailed representation of the natural and man-made features of the earth's surface.
a. Topographic Map
b. Contour Map
c. Mass Diagram
d. None of the above
3. A contour map that connects the places having the same value of some measurable quantity of
geographical or meteorological.
a. Isohyet
b. Isobar
c. Isopleth
d. Isotherm
a. Isohyet
b. Isobar
c. Isopleth
d. Isotherm
5. A type of imaginary contour lines on a map of chart that connects all the points having same depth
below water surface like ocean, sea and lake.
a. Isobath
b. Isopleth
c. Isotherm
d. Isobar
6. A type of contour lines on a map which connects the point of equal salinity in the water body.
a. Isobath
b. Isopleth
c. Isoline
d. Isobar
7. A type of contour lines Isotach that connects the places of equal duration of sunshine for a given
period.
a. Isobath
b. Isopleth
c. Isohel
d. Isohume
8. A type of contour lines on a map that connects all the points of equal relative humidity of a specific.
a. Isobath
b. Isopleth
c. Isohel
d. Isopleth
a. Isotach
b. Isobath
c. Isohel
d. Isopleth
10. A contour map connects all the points within the earth having the same mean temperature.
a. Isogeotherm
b. Isobath
c. Isohel
d. Isotach
A. Highways
B. Sewers
C. Houses
D. Fences
2. How much do we normally assign for elevation to the datum rather than using the mean sea level
elevation.
A. 150.00
B. 100.00
C. 200.00
D. 1000.00
3. These are lines of levels or short profiles made perpendicular to the center line of the project.
A. Cross Section
B. Profile Leveling
C. Profile Elevation
D. Surveying
4. A surveying method that yields elevations at definite points along a reference line.
A. Cross Section
B. Profile Leveling
C. Profile Elevation
D. Surveying
5. Is “To render an accurate and fast solution to the problems of finding out their needed data in profile
leveling specially in computing the output of the measurements done in actual site” an objective of
Profile Leveling?
A. True
B. False
A. Cross Section
B. Backsight
C. Schematic
D. Surveying datum
7. It is a compact EDM particularly useful in building construction and other Civil Engineering works,
where distance measurements are less than 500 m.
A. Transit
B. Geodimeter
C. Leveling Rod
D. Theodolite
8. It is a flexible ruler and used is to measure distances.
A. Ruler
B. Leveling Rod
C. Measuring Steel Tape
D. T-square
A. Foresight
B. Backsight
C. Dumpsite
D. Worksite
1.) ________ Is the area of the mass diagram representing the number of cubic yard stations of haul
between balance points divided by the ordinate of the mass which the yardage is hauled?
A) Haul
B) Average haul
C) Overhaul
D) Free haul
2.) The authorized hauling of excavation beyond the specified free-haul distance.
A) Haul
B) Average haul
C) Overhaul
D) Free haul
3.) Average hauls for project that is free
A) Haul
B) Average haul
C) Overhaul
D) Free haul
4.) Mass diagrams determine the average haul, free haul, and overhaul on a given segment of roadway
6.) It is the cumulative total of the excavation and embankment on the project.
A.) Mass Diagram
B.) Mass Ordinate
C.) Mass Properties
D.) Mass
7.) Transportation of excavated material from its original position to is final location in the work or other
disposal area. This is also known as authorized haul.
A.) Haul
B.) Average haul
C.) Overhaul
D.) Free haul
10.) For the given mass diagrams which statement(s) are correct?