Engineering Surveying Questions

Part I – Multiple Choice

1. Which the following is not a use of contour maps?
A) Drawing of plan
B) Determination of intervisibility between two points
C) Tracing of contour gradient and location of route
D) Calculation of reservoir capacity

2. Which of the following error cannot be eliminated in reciprocal levelling?

A) error in instrument adjustment
B) combined effect of earth’s curvature and refraction of atmosphere
C) variations in average refraction
D) variation in temperature

3. Precision is a term which indicates the degree of conformity of

A) measured value to its true value.
B) measured value to its mean value.
C) measured value to its weighted mean value.
D) repeated measurements of the same quantity to each other

4. Which of the following is false statement?

A) Control survey is used for both measurement and setting out surveying
B) The instrument is set up on unknown point in intersection and on known point in
resection
C) Leveling is used to establish a 1D control point
D) Control point is defined as a reference point of known coordinates with their
precision.

Part II – True or False

1. A minimum of three GPS satellites required to get the position of a point on Earth
surface.
2. The difference between the absolute parallax of two points depends upon the difference
in their elevations.

Part III – Short Answer

1. Why horizontal and vertical angles are measured in double face?
2. What is the coordinate system used in Ethiopia?