BSNL JTO Civil Question Papers 2009 is given below for Download. BSNL Conducts the Junior Telecom Officer Exam for Civil Engineering. BSNL JTO Questions Paper has 3 sections. Section-I has 50 questions, first 20 questions are 1 mark and remaining 30 questions are 2 Mark. Section-2 also same pattern. But the Section-III consists of 20 number of General Awareness questions of 1 Mark. So total 100 Questions. Download this questions.
BSNL JTO Civil Question Papers 2009
(Section-I Technical Questions)
1. A brick laid with its length across the wall is known as a
- a. stretcher
- b. header
- c. closer
- d. bat
2. Which of the following is not a mobile crane type?
- a. Bottom slewing tower crane
- b. Telescopic-boom truck mounted crane
- c. Crawler crane
- d. Lattice-boom truck mounted crane
3. A principal plane is a plane of
- a. minimum tensile stress
- b. maximum tensile stress
- c. maximum shear stress
- d. zero shear stress
4. (i) Rapid hardening Portland cement is used in mass concrete construction for lowering the heat of hydration.
(ii) Rapid hardening Portland cement is blended cement.
Which of the following option is correct?
- a. (i) is false and (ii) is true
- b. (i) is true and (ii) is false
- c. Both (i) and (ii) are false
- d. Both (i) and (ii) are true
5. Which of the following statement is true?
- a. The nominal dimension of a brick is greater than its specified dimension by thickness of the mortar joint.
- b. The nominal dimension of a brick is less than its specified dimension by thickness of the mortar joint.
- c. The nominal dimension of a brick is equal to its specified dimension.
- d. The nominal dimension of a brick is less than its specified dimension by twice the thickness of the mortar joint.
6. Which of the following equipment is used primarily to excavate below the natural ground
surface on which it rests?
- a. Dozer
- b. Scrapper
- c. Hoe
- d. Jaw crusher
7. The phenomenon in which, some of the water in the mix tends to rise to the surface of freshly placed concrete is known as
- a. flash set
- b. bleeding
- c. setting
- d. hydration
8. In a network diagram, the early start time of an activity is
- a. the minimum of the late finish times of all its immediate predecessors
- b. the minimum of the early finish times of all its immediate predecessors
- c. the maximum of the late finish times of all its immediate predecessors
- d. the maximum of the early finish times of all its immediate predecessors
9. Which of the following compound is most widely used as accelerating admixture in concrete?
- a. Sugar
- b. Calcium chloride
- c. Soluble zinc salts
- d. Synthetic detergents
10. Which method of compaction is appropriate for sand?
- a. Impact
- b. Pressure
- c. Vibration
- d. Kneading
11. Partial safety factor for concrete and steel in limit state method of design of RC structures are assumed as
- a. 1.35 and 1.2 respectively
- b. 1.14 and 1.25 respectively
- c. 1.08 and 1.25 respectively
- d. 1.5 and 1.15 respectively
12. Which of the following is not a soft wood?
- a. Oak
- b. Fir
- c. Pine
- d. Spruce
13. In a network diagram, the total float of an activity is equal to
- a. (Late finish time) — (Late start time)
- b. (Late finish time) — (Early finish time)
- c. (Early finish time) — (Early start time)
- d. (Late start time) — (Early finish time)
14. As per IS 456 : 2000, the maximum spacing of steel bars in a reinforced concrete solid slab is
- a. 300 mm
- b. 450 mm
- c. 3 times effective depth or 300mm whichever is less
- d. 3 times the effective depth
15. Which of the following is fly ash based blended cement?
- a. Portland slag cement
- b. Low-heat Portland cement
- c. Portland pozzolana cement
- d. Ordinary Portland cement
16. Which of the following test is performed on hardened concrete to assess the hardness of its surface?
- a. Rebound hammer test
- b. Rebound hammer test
- c. Initial surface absorption test
- d. Flexural test
17. In a PERT network, the optimistic time, pessimistic time and most likely time of an activity are 4 days, 16 days and 7 days respectively. What is the value of the expected duration of the activity?
- a. 27 days
- b. 8 days
- c. 12 days
- d. 19 days
18. (i) The addition of fly ash in concrete lowers the heat of hydration in concrete.
(ii) The addition of fly ash in concrete reduces its permeability. Which of the following option is correct?
- a. (i) is false and (ii) is true
- b. (i) is true and (ii) is false
- c. Both (i) and (ii) are false
- d. Both (i) and (ii) are true
19. The crack resulting in lengthwise separation of wood, occurring between and parallel to annual rings is known as
- a. check
- b. knot
- c. split
- d. shake
20. Which of the following compound is mainly responsible for the early strength development of hydrated Portland cement?
- a. C3S
- b. C2S
- c. C3A
- d. C4AF
SECTION – III (General Awareness)
1. Who was the first woman to be elected as the President of the Indian National Congress?
- a. Sarojini Naidu
- b. Sonia Gandhi
- c. Indira Gandhi
- d. Annie Besant
2. Which political leader delivered the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech?
- a. Jawaharlal Nehru
- b. Winston Churchill
- c. Martin Luther King
- d. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Who established the organization `Khudai Khidmatgar’?
- a. Hyder Ali
- b. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- c. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- d. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
4. Analgesics are drugs used to prevent or relieve
- a. aches and pain
- b. fever and high body temperature
- c. hormone deficiency
- d. stress and anxiety
5. The abbreviation CD stands for
- a. Circular Disc
- b. Computer Device
- c. Compact Disc
- d. Code-Demodulator
6. Chandrayaan-I, India’s first mission to the moon, has 11 scientific instruments that are being released on the surface of the moon. These instruments are together known as
- a. Moon Impact Probes
- b. Terrain Mapping Cameras
- c. Scientific Payloads
- d. Spectrometers
7. The World Wide Web was invented by
- a. Tim Berners-Lee
- b. Narayanmurthy
- c. Sabeer Bhatia
- d. Charles Babbage
8. How many diagonals does a quadrilateral have?
- a. one
- b. two
- c. four
- d. four
9. ISO 14000 standards deal with
- a. quality management
- b. production management
- c. human resource management
- d. environmental management
10. Which Indian politician’s autobiography is titled The Story of My Life?
- a. Morarji Desai
- b. Mahatma Gandhi
- c. Lal Krishna Advani
- d. Atal Behari Vajpayee
11. The phrase ‘through thick and thin’ means
- a. big and small
- b. thin and fat
- c. large object
- d. under all conditions
12. Picturesque means
- a. Photogenic
- b. Simple
- c. Stimulating
- d. Ugly
13. Diligent means
- a. intelligent
- b. energetic
- c. modest
- d. industrious
14. The opposite of miserly is
- a. spendthrift
- b. generous
- c. liberal
- d. charitable
15. The opposite of ingratitude is
- a. sympathy
- b. reward
- c. thankfulness
- d. stimulation
16. The appropriate missing word in the blank space in the sentence “I prefer coffee tea.” is
- a. than
- b. over
- c. for
- d. to
17. The appropriate missing word in the blank space in the sentence “Many relatives attended him during his illness.”
- a. of
- b. on
- c. for
- d. with
18. The article required before the word “one- eyed” in the sentence “There was one-eyed beggar by the multiplex.” Is
- a. the
- b. a
- a. an
- b. nil
19. The article required before the word University in the sentence “She met Professor Shah at University” is
- a. a
- b. an
- c. the
- d. nil
20. ‘Which one is the correct sentence amongst the following sentences?
- a. Mr. Gupta, accompanied by his friends, were assembled on the lawns.
- b. Mr. Gupta, accompanied by his friends, are assembled on the lawns.
- c. Mr. Gupta, accompanied by his friends, assembled on the lawns.
- d. Mr. Gupta, accompanied by his friends, have assembled on the lawns.
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