R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Gate GATE 2017-2018 Architecture and Planning Practice Paper 2

In case of residential apartments, the effective floor area available for use within an apartment, is known as

1. Carpet Area
2. Built-up Area
3. Plinth Area
4. Super Built-up Area

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Star Rating of an Air Conditioner is determined by its

1. Power Consumption
2. Energy Efficiency Ratio
3. Cooling Capacity
4. Power of Compressor

✅ Correct Answer: 2

V7 concept given by Le Corbusier refers to

1. Neighbourhood Planning
2. Housing Typologies
3. Architecture Design Principle
4. Hierarchy of Roads

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In AUTOCAD, a line of infinite length in the direction defined by starting point and through point, is known as

1. RAY
2. LINE
3. PLINE
4. XLINE

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Orbit Tower built at the London Olympic Park has been designed by

1. Foster & Partners
2. Anish Kapoor & Cecil
3. Balmond
4. Zaha Hadid & Antony Gormley

✅ Correct Answer: 2

As per National Building Code 2005, the minimum size of a habitable room in m2 is

1. 9.5
2. 10.5
3. 11.4
4. 12.5

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The urban form of Srirangam town in Tamil Nadu refers to

1. Dandaka
2. Swastika
3. Nandyavarta
4. Sarvotabhadra

✅ Correct Answer: 4

PMGSY, a programme of Government of India, deals with

1. Urban Employment Generation
2. Rural Employment Generation
3. Rural Electrification
4. Rural Road Development

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Beam or lowest division of the entablature which extends from column to column, is known as

1. Arabesque
2. Arcade
3. Architrave
4. Arbour

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The information that is NOT essential to be submitted for sanction of any building plan is

1. Site Plan
2. Floor Plans
3. Title Deed
4. Land Cost

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The tendency of an ecosystem to maintain its balance by regulatory mechanisms when disrupted, is known as

1. Homeostasis
2. Entropy
3. Succession
4. Evolution

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Gantt Chart DOES NOT provide information about

1. List of Jobs
2. Duration of Jobs
3. Interdependency of Jobs
4. Progress of Work

✅ Correct Answer: 3

If threshold of hearing has a sound level of zero decibels and the sound level in a broadcasting studio is 100 times the threshold of hearing, its value in decibels would be

1. 0
2. 10
3. 20
4. 100

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The width to height ratio of the front facade of Parthenon (without the pediment) is

1. 9:4
2. 4:9
3. 1:1.618
4. 1.618:1

✅ Correct Answer: 1

. The face of an Icosahedron is

1. Equilateral Triangle
2. Isosceles Triangle
3. Square
4. Pentagon

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The term 'Zeitgist', used in contemporary architecture, refers to

1. Iconicity
2. Spirit of Times
3. Kinesthetics
4. Semantic Associations

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Alhambra, a UNESCO world heritage site, is classified as an example of

1. Moorish Architecture
2. Mudejar Architecture
3. Mozarabic Architecture
4. Tudor Architecture

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Wythenshawe and Becontree are examples of

1. Factory Town
2. Satellite Town
3. Garden City
4. Vertical Neighborhood

✅ Correct Answer: 2

National Ceremonial Plaza at Thimpu in Bhutan has been designed by

1. Christopher Charles Benninger
2. Charles Correa
3. Karan Grover
4. I. M. Pei

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Identify which is NOT a green building rating system

1. LEED
2. CASBEE
3. ENERGY
4. BUILDD. BREEAM

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In 3DS Max, smooth 3D surfaces, by blending a series of selected shape curves, can be created by

1. Lofting
2. Sweepin
3. Filleting
4. Extruding

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Travel behavior characteristics of an urban area can be derived from

1. Parking Survey
2. Demographic Survey
3. Socio Economic Survey
4. Origin & Destination Survey

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In GIS, the set of entities representing vector data type is

1. Point, Line, Polygon,
2. TINB. Pixel, Voxel
3. DEM, DSM, DTMD.
4. Coordinates, Elevation, Slope

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A common flowering shrub is

1. Tectona grandi
2. Mimusops elengi
3. Dalbergia sisso
4. Ixora coccinea

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The correct arrangement of the height of towers given below in descending order is P. Burj Khalifa, Dubai Q. Petronas Tower, Kuala Lumpur R. Taipei 101, Taiwan S. Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong

1. P, Q, R, S
2. P, Q, S, R
3. P, R, S, Q
4. P, R, Q, S

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term 'Working head' in context of water supply system means

1. Height of a body of water falling freely under the force of gravity to acquire a certain velocity
2. Rate of increase of velocity with respect to distance normal to the direction of flow
3. otal head with deduction for velocity head or losses
4. Difference between supply and delivery water levels

✅ Correct Answer: 4

If the area coverage of one sprinkler is 20 m2, with a maximum and minimum spacing of 4.6 m and 1.8 m respectively, the minimum number of sprinklers required to be arranged in a regular orthogonal grid to cover the area of a 15 m x 20 m room would be _______.

1. 10
2. 20
3. 30
4. 40

✅ Correct Answer: 2

If the slope of a hipped roof is 60 degrees and height of the roof is 3 m, span of the room, in m, would be _______.

1. 3.5
2. 4.8
3. 12.6
4. 11.9

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Volume of coarse aggregate in m3 present in 1.0 m3 of 1 : 1.5 : 3 concrete mix made by volume batching is _______.

1. 0.7 to 0.8
2. 1.5 to 1.6
3. 2.1 to 2.2
4. 0.5 to 0.6

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A tank of internal dimension 3 m x 5 m x 4 m (Length x Breadth x Height) has 200 mm thick brick wall on all sides. Volume of brickwork in m3 would be _______.

1. 13 to 14
2. 14 to 15
3. 5 to 16
4. 16 to 17

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Flux emitted from a 1cd light source in all directions, in lumens, would be _______.

1. 10 to 11
2. 21 to 22
3. 12 to 13
4. 43 to 44

✅ Correct Answer: 3

50 Hectare of residential sector has 65% buildable area. The FAR of the buildable area is 1.5. Within the residential sector, 60% of dwelling units are of area 100 m2 each and 40% of the dwelling units are of area 80 m2 each. The gross residential density, in dwelling units per Hectare, would be _______.

1. 104
2. 105
3. 106
4. 107

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The scale of a contour map is 1:10,000 and the contour interval is 5 m. Distance between two given points on the map is 2 cm and the elevation difference between the two given points is 10 m. The actual distance between the two given points in m would be

1. 2
2. 20
3. 200
4. 2000

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The scale of a contour map is 1:10,000 and the contour interval is 5 m. Distance between two given points on the map is 2 cm and the elevation difference between the two given points is 10 m. The slope between two given points in percentage is

1. 5
2. 10
3. 15
4. 20

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Cost of a new building is Rs 10,00,000 and its scrap value after 50 years is Rs. 1,00,000. Using straight line method The annual depreciation of the building in Rs. would be

1. 10000
2. 15000
3. 18000
4. 25000

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Cost of a new building is Rs 10,00,000 and its scrap value after 50 years is Rs. 1,00,000. Using straight line method The book value after 10 years in Rs. would be

1. 1,80,000
2. 3,60,000
3. 6,00,000
4. 8,20,000

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A room of size 100 m2 is illuminated by 10 lamps of 40 W having a luminous efficacy of 50 lm/W. Total flux emitted by the lamps in lumens would be

1. 2000
2. 5000
3. 10000
4. 20000

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A number is as much greater than 75 as it is smaller than 117. The number is:

1. 91
2. 93
3. 89
4. 96

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The professor ordered to the students to go out of the class. I II III IV Which of the above underlined parts of the sentence is grammatically incorrect?

1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following options is the closest in meaning to the word given below: Primeval

1. Modern
2. Historic
3. Primitive
4. Antique

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Friendship, no matter how _________it is, has its limitations.

1. cordial
2. intimate
3. secret
4. pleasant

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the pair: Medicine: Health

1. Science: Experiment
2. Wealth: Peace
3. Education: Knowledge
4. Money: Happiness

✅ Correct Answer: 3

X and Y are two positive real numbers such that 2X + Y â‰¤ 6 and X + 2Y â‰¤ 8. For which of the following values of (X,Y) the function f(X,Y) = 3X + 6Y will give maximum value?

1. (4/3, 10/3)
2. (8/3, 20/3)
3. (8/3, 10/3)
4. (4/3, 20/3)

✅ Correct Answer: 1

If |4X - 7| = 5 then the values of 2|X| - |-X| is:

1. 2, 1/3
2. 1/2, 3
3. 3/2, 9
4. 2/3, 9

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A firm is selling its product at Rs. 60 per unit. The total cost of production is Rs. 100 and firm is earning total profit of Rs. 500. Later, the total cost increased by 30%. By what percentage the price should be increased to maintained the same profit level.

1. 5
2. 10
3. 15
4. 20

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Abhishek is elder to Savar. Savar is younger to Anshul. Which of the given conclusions is logically valid and is inferred from the above statements?

1. Abhishek is elder to Anshul
2. Anshul is elder to Abhishek
3. Abhishek and Anshul are of the same age
4. No conclusion follows

✅ Correct Answer: 4