MAY 2015
HPGE
1. The ratio between the volume of water and the volume of voids
a. degree of saturation
b. moisture content
c. void ratio
d. porosity
2. The ratio between the volume of voids and the volume of soil mass
a. void ratio
b. porosity
c degree of saturation
d. moisture content
3. The ratio between the weight of water and the weight of solid particles
a. porosity
b. degree of saturation
✔c. moisture content
d. void ratio
PSAD
1. The material composition is the same but its mechanical properties are different in every
direction
a. isotropic material
✔b. orthotropic material
c. homogeneous material
d. elastic material
2. Refers to the tendency of solid materials to return to their original shape after being
forces are applied on them. When the forces are removed, the object will return to its initial
shape and size.
A. buckling
b. yielding
c. strain hardening
✔d. elasticity
3. Refers to the stress at which material begins to deforms plastically.
a. strain hardening
b. buckling
✔c. yielding
d. rapture
NOV 2015
HPGE
1. Which component of rock or soil is independent of interparticle friction?
a. adhesion
✔ b. cohesion
c. plasticity
d. skin friction
2. A phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake
shaking or other rapid loading.
a. liquefaction
b. settlement
c. erosion
d. solidification
3. A pile of sand keeps frim spreading out like a liquid because the weight of the sand keeps
the grains struck together in their current arrangement, mostly out of static friction. This
weight and pressure is called?
a. adhesion
b. internal friction
c. cohesion
✔ d. effective stress
4. Which of the following is not a soil component?
a. organic materials
b. minerals
c. gas
✔ d. none of these
5. A practice or procedure used to assess the particle size distribution (also called
gradation) of a granular material. The size distribution is often of critical importance to the
way the material performs in use.
a. consolidation test
b. standard penetration test
c. liquid limit test
✔ d. sieve analysis
6. According to USCS, what do you call a soil grain with grain size greater than 4.75 mm but
less than 75?
a. rock
✔ b. gravel
c. boulder
d. cobble
7. Which of the following does not affect the settlement of a footing?
a. location of Ground water table
b. depth of backfill
c. plasticity of the soil
✔ d. none of these
MAY 2016
HPGE
1. When the path lines of the individual particles of a flowing liquid are irregular curves and
continually cross each other and form a complicated network, the flow is called;
a. continuous
b. laminar
✔ c. turbulent
d. uniform
2. A line joining the points of highest elevation of water in a series of vertical open pipes
rising from a pipeline in which water flows under the pressure is referred to as?
a. hydraulic loss
✔ b. hydraulic gradient
c. hydraulic jump
d. hydraulic head
3. A pressure surge or wave caused when a fluid in motion is forced to stop or change
direction suddenly (momentum change) is referred to in hydraulics as
a. potential head
b. hydraulic jump
✔ c. water hammer
d. hydrodynamics
PSAD
1. The ability of material to absorb energy in the plastic range.
a. elasticity
b. plasticity
c. stiffness
✔ d. toughness
2. The ability of material to absorb energy in the elastic range
✔ a. resilience
b. plasticity
c. stiffness
d. toughness.
3. The term which refers to the ability of material to deform in the plastic range without
breaking
a. resilience
b. elongation
✔ c. ductility
d. stiffness
4. It is the point through which the resultant of the resistance to the applied lateral force
acts.
a. shear wall
b. center of mass
c. eccentricity
✔ d. center of rigidity
5. The point on a structure where the resultant vertical force acts.
a. shear wall
✔ b. center of mass
c. eccentricity
d. center of rigidity
6. The distance between the center of mass and center of rigidity
a. shear wall
b center of mass
✔ c. eccentricity
d. center of rigidity
NOV 2016
MSTHC
1. A type of thermoplastic lane marking designed to aid and provide motorist with visual,
audio, and motion warning on the road
a. regulatory signs
b. diagonal marking
c. chevron marking
✔ d. rumble strip
2. Lane lines must not be continued on the following cases:
I. Across signalized intersection. However, lane lines of low priority road must be
discontinued at the intersection;
II. Across side street entrances unless the street is one way street
III. Past the start of the taper at which a multi-lane road narrows down
IV. On roads with more than two lanes if not separated by median islands
a. I, II, & IV
b. I, III, & IV
c. II, III, & IV
✔ d. I, II, and III
3. Inform and advise road users of directions, distances, routes, the location of services for
road users, and points of interest
a. guide sign
b. warning sign
c. regulatory sign
d. traffic sign
4. Shoulder paving is a valuable method of providing:
I. integrity of the pavement
II. Width to place edgeline pavement markings
III. Additional safety to prevent vehicles skidding or drivers losing control in gravel
IV. Low maintenance cost compared with pave shoulders
a. I, III, & IV
b. All of the above
c. I, III, & III only
d. II, III, & IV only
5. Any structure built into the sea but not parallel to the coast line and includes any stage,
stair, landing place, landing stage, jetty, floating barge or pontoon, and any bridge or other
works connected therewith
a. lighthouse
b. port
✔ c. pier
d. wharf
6. A body of water with navigable depth leading to a harbor is called:
a. fairway
b. channel
c. shoal
d. significant depth
HPGE
1. The pressure exerted onto a liquid is transmitted equally and undiminished to all
portions of the liquid. This principle in fluid mechanics is known as:
a. Archimedes
b. Bernoulli
✔ c. Pascals
d. Boyles
2. In any stream flowing steadily without friction the total energy contained is the same at
every point in its oath if flow. This principle is attributed to:
a. Archimedes
b. Bernoulli
c. Pascals
d. Boyles
3. Which of the following is not a characteristic of cohesive soil?
✔ a. possess low shear strength
b. practically permeable
c. plastic and compressible
d. decrease when shear strength disturbed
PSAD
1. Which of the following can be measured by a seismometer?
a. intensity
✔ b. ground displacement
c. focal depth
d. reference points
2. Which of the following refers to the flexibility of a structural system?
a. composite stiffness
✔ b. inverse of stiffness
c. rigidity
d. static flexibility
3. The stress point where a material will have appreciable deform when small amount of
stress is experienced
a. breaking
✔ b. yielding
c. strain hardening
d. fracture
4. The ability of the material to deform in plastic range without breaking
a. yielding
b. ductility
c. elasticity
d. toughness
5. The greatest stress than can be applied to an elastic body without causing permanent
deformation
a. proportional limit
b. rapture strength
✔ c. elastic limit
d. yield point
MAY 2017
MSTHC
1. The following are the step by step procedures for calculating azimuths clockwise.
I. Plan and prepare
II. Perform the calculation
III. Repeat the calculation
IV. Check the calculation
V. Calculate the azimuths clockwise traverse
VI. Calculate azimuths counter clockwise traverse
Which of these procedures are true?
a. I, II, IV, & V
b. II, III, V, & VI
✔ c. I, II, III, & IV
d. III, IV, V, & VI
2. Given the geometric relationships, which of these statements are true?
I. At the PC and PT, the radius and tangents are perpendicular.
II. The angle between tangent and long chords originating at the PC or PT, is equal to one
half of “I” .
III. The curvature at the center of the circle that subtends the arc between the PC and the
PT is called the central angle. Its value is the same as the “I” angle.
a. I and II only
b. all of the above
c. II and III only
d. I only
3. They are normally parabolas centered about the point of intersection of the vertical,
tangents they join
✔ a. vertical curve
b. vertical tangent
c. spiral curve
d. grade
HPGE
1. The ratio of the volume of voids to the total volume of soil.
a. porosity
b. void ratio
c. degree of saturation
d. water content
2. The ratio of the volume of water to the volume of voids
a. porosity
b. void ratio
✔ c. degree of saturation
d. water content
NOV 2017
MSTHC
1. What are the components of stopping sight distance?
a. Reaction Distance and Maneuver Distance
✔ b. Reaction Distance and Braking Distance
c. Maneuver Distance and Braking Distance
d. Reaction Time and Sight Distance
2. Primary consideration in the design of geometric cross section of highways, runways,
and taxiways
a. Shoulder
✔ b. Drainage
c. Railway
d. Parking Space
3. The maximum number of vehicles, passengers, pedestrians or the like, which can be
accommodated by a given facility under a given level of service.
a. capacity
b. traffic
✔ c. volume
d. density
4. This is commonly identified as primary, secondary, and working control on the jobsite?
a. Referencing control
b. Vertical control
c. Monumentation control
✔ d. Horizontal control
5. Waves which fall forward since the forward velocity of the crest particles exceed the
velocity of propagation of the wave length L is less than 7 times the wave height (L < 7H)
a. Intermediate waves
✔b. Breaking waves
c. Shallow water waves
d. Significant waves
6. The ratio of the wave height to its wave length is called:
a. wave period
b. wave propagation
c. slope
✔ d. steepness
7. What is the meaning of MLLW?
a. Lower Mean Low Water
✔ b. Mean Lower Low Water
c. Mean Low Level Water
d. Mean Lower Level Water
PSAD
1. What will develop if the center of mass and center of rigidity of a structure does not
coincide?
a. in-plane offset
b flexural stress
b. Out of plane offset
d. torsional shear stress
2. A building which has a floor which is less than 70% as stiff as the floor immediately
above it, it less than 80% as stiff as the average stiffness of the three floors above it.
a. soft storey
b. hard storey
c. shear wall
d. bearing walls
3. Refers to the lateral displacement of one level relative to the other level above or
below
a. storey drift
b. deflection
c. storey displacement
d. accidental eccentricity
MAY 2018
MSTHC
1. Waves under the influence of the winds that generated them are called:
a. Wakes
b. Sea
✔ c. Swell
d. Seiching
2. The maximum sustained 15-minute rate of flow, expressed in passenger cars per hour
per lane, which can be accommodated by a uniform freeway segment under prevailing
traffic and roadway conditions in one direction is called:
a. Density
b. Traffic flow
✔ c. Capacity
d. Design Hourly Volume
3. Warn road users of condition on or adjacent to the road that may be unexpected or
hazardous.
a. Roadwork signs
✔ b. Warning signs
c. Traffic signs
d. Guide signs
4. Preventing parking at or near intersections is one of the purpose of installing edge lines.
a. True
✔ b. False
c. None of the above
d. All of the above
5. It is the maximum number of vehicles, which have a reasonable expectation of passing
over a given section of a lane or a roadway in one direction or in both direction during one
hour under prevailing road and traffic conditions.
a. Road capacity
b. Flow of traffic
c. Density
d. Free flow
HPGE
1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a cohesion less soil.
a. easy to compact
b. high shear strength
c. prone to settlement due to vibrating load
✔ d. practically impermeable
2. In standard penetration test, medium dense sand have number if blows of:
a. 4 to 10
✔ b. 10 to 30
c. 30 to 50
d. over 50
PSAD
1. Which of the following best refers to the rigidity of a structure.
a. reciprocal of stiffness
b. product of rigidity and deflection
✔ c. reciprocal of deflection
d. product of stiffness and deflection
2. Which of the following best describes liquefaction?
a. decrease in pore water pressure
b. increase in effective stress
✔ c. sudden drop of shear strength
d. increase in bearing capacity
3. If two springs with stiffness k1 and k2 are arranged in parallel, which of the following
gives the combined stiffness k?
a. k = (k1 k2)/(k1 + k2)
✔ b. k = k1 + k2
c. k = 1/k1 + 1/k2
d. k = k1 x k2
4. The point through which the resultant of the resistance to the applied lateral force acts.
a. center of rigidity
b. center of buoyancy
c. shear center
d. center of mass
5. The point on a structure through which be applied seismic force acts.
a. center of gravity
✔ b. center of mass
c. out of plane offset
d. center of rigidity
6. Refers to the flexible of a structure
a. reciprocal of stiffness
b. reciprocal of rigidity
c. reciprocal of deflection
d. deflection
NOV 2018
MSTHC
1. Pavement markings shall only be applied and/or removed by:
a. DOC
b. LTO
✔ c. DPWH
d. PNP
2. Guide signs are generally ____ in shape.
✔ a. rectangular
B triangular
c. circle
d. square
3. It is the maximum number of vehicles, which have a reasonable expectation of passing
over a given section of lane or roadway in one direction or in both direction during one hour
under prevailing road and traffic conditions.
✔ a. Road capacity
b. Free flow
c. Density
d. Flow Traffic
4. Spikes is one of the track structure for a railroad.
a. True
✔ b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
5. Sight with the vertical crosshair is one of the standard practice of measuring vertical or
zenith angles.
a. True
✔ b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
6. In many parts of the world, the high waters reach their greatest height and the low waters
at the least height, soon after the time of full and new moon, this tides are called:
a. Spring tides
b. Neap tides
c. Flood tides
d. Ebb tides
7. Which of these contour characteristics is not true?
a. Contours on the ground can cross another
b. Contours point upstream
c. Contours are at the right angles to the slope
d. Contour on the ground closes itself
8. Based on the expression in the technical resolution of the International Water Way
congress, about how many percent of tide is guaranteed for the ships?
a. 95%
b. 75%
c. 80%
✔ d. 98%
HPGE
1. In accordance with the USCS, a soil grain having a size greater than No. 200 sieve
opening (0.074mm) but less than that of a No.4 sieve (4.75mm opening) is called:
a. gravel
b. pebble
c. cobble
d. sand
2. A granular soil deposit is considered medium dense if the blow count if a standard
penetration test is between
a. over 50
✔ b. 10 to 30
c. 30 to 50
d. 4 to 10
3. If the ground water table in a soil formation ruses as a result of flooding, the bearing
capacity of the soils:
✔ a. decreases
B depends in the footing load
c. increases
d. unaffected
MAY 2019
MSTHC
1. In the measures of congestion of highway capacity, what will happen as the density
continues to increase?
a. Running speed and traffic flow is minimum
✔ b. The point is reached at which speed declines noticeably
c. Minimum rate flow is eventually reached
d. Increase speeds and reduced flow rate
2. Device mounted on a fixed support (permanent signs) or portable support (temporary
signs) whereby a specific message is conveyed by mean of words or symbols placed or
erected for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
a. Special instruction signs
b. Roadwork signs
✔ c. Traffic signs
d. Overhead signs
3. What is the process of proportioning the cement, water, aggregates and additives prior to
mixing concrete called?
✔a. Batching
b. Curing
c. Paving
d. Mixing
4. A wave generated in deep water, when reaching shoaling waters, charges not only on its
height but also in its length but the period will
a. decrease
b. remain constant
c. none of these
d. increase
5. A maximun wave height and wave period of the maximum wave height in wave train
a. significant wave
b. highest wave
c. equivalent depth water wave height
d. deep water wave
6. When directly generated and affected by local winds, a wind wave system is called:
a. wind sea
b. wind seiching
c. wind wakes
d. wind swell
PSAD
1. A property of a material which it has the same composition at every point but the elastic
property may not be same in all directions.
a. homogeneous
b. orthotropic
c. prismatic
✔ d. isotropic
2. A property of a material that has the same elastic properties in all directions
✔ a. homogeneous
b. orthotropic
c. prismatic
d. isotropic
3. A property of a material in which the composition material exhibits elastic properties in
one direction different from that in perpendicular direction
a. homogeneous
✔ b. orthotropic
c. prismatic
d. isotropic
4. Which of the following describes the location of an earthquake besides epicenter.
a. fault line
b. dip angle
c. ground displacement
✔ d. focal depth
5. Seismometer measures?
a. actual displacement
✔ b. components of ground motion
c. ground displacement
d. focal depth
6. A Richter scale measures _____ of an earthquake.
✔ a. magnitude
b. intensity
c. drift
d. amplitude
NOV 2019
MSTHC
1. It is nothing more than a column driven into the soil to support a structure by transferring
building loads to a deeper and stronger layer of soil or rock.
a. caisson
b. shoring
c. pier
✔ d. pile
2. This sign informs and advise road users of the directions, distances, routes, the location
of services for the road users and point of interest.
a. advance direction sign
✔ b. guide sign
c. traffic instruction sign
d. crossroad sign
3. Ways of avoiding traffic conflicts:
a. grade separation
b. space-sharing
c. time-sharing
✔ d. all of these
4. The difference between the actual travel time of a given segment of a transportation
system and some ideal travel time for that segment.
a. travel time
b. service time
c. queue time
✔ d. delay
5. Cracks approximately at right angles to pavement centerline. These may be caused by
shrinkage or differential thermal stress of the asphalt concrete or maybe reflective cracks.
✔ a. transverse cracks
b. longitudinal cracks
c. alligator crack
d. block crack
6. Road geometry, road surface, road illumination at night and road topography are the
characteristic of the road environment and is the provisions of safety sight distance.
✔ a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
7. Friction between the tire and the road and eye height of the driver are the provisions of
safety sight distance.
a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
8. To level a floor or layer of concrete with a straight edge using a back-and-forth motion
while moving across the surface.
a. floating
b. trowelling
c. finishing
✔ d. screeding
9. Owing to the retardation of the tidal wave in the ocean by frictional force, as the earth
revolved daily around its axis & as the tide tends to follow the direction of the moon, the
highest tide for each location is not coincident with cojunction and opposition but occurs
at some constant time after new and full moon. This interval which may amount to as
much as 2.5 days is knows as:
A. semi-diurnal tide
✔ b. age of tides
c. lunar tides.
d. diurnal tide
10. Wearing way of the pavement surface caused by dislodging of aggregate particles and
binder. This is usually a result of insufficient asphalt binder in the mix or striping of asphalt
from particles of aggregate.
a. ravelling
b. bleeding
c. joint crack spalling
d. flushing
11. The most important process to prepare concrete
a. batching
b. admixture
c. cement-aggregate ratio
d. water-cement ratio
12. A test to determine the relatively consistency of the concrete
a. water cement ratio
b. aggregate cement ratio
c. all of these
✔ d. slump test
13. These are written instructions detailing how the facility is to be constructed.
a. plans
b. estimates
✔ c. specifications
d. bid documents
NOV 2021
MSTHC
1. These are circumstances or deviation from standard condition which could permit an
occurrence of accident or incident.
a. hazard
b. unsafe act
✔ c. unsafe condition
d. risk
2. It is the single most important environmental factor in the broad field of coastal
engineering.
a. coastal erosion
b. sand
c. sea
d. wave
3. It is a construction operation that concrete should be protected so that moisture is nit
lost during the early stages of hardening, and it should be kept at a temperature that will
promote hydration and also protect against injury from subsequent construction activities.
✔ a. curing
b. scaling
c. sprinkling
d. ponding
4. It is combination of the likelihood of an occurrence of a hazardous event with specified
period in specified circumstances and the severity of injury or damage of health of the
people, property, environment or any combination of these caused by the event.
a. hazard
b. unsafe condition
✔ c. risk
d. unsafe act
5. What is the worst condition which should be considered in relation to the design of
coastal defence works?
a. position in relation to still water level
b. offshore wave climate
c. extreme wave height
✔ d. combination of unusually high sea level with severe wave action
6. Waves are form by the frictional drag of wind across the water surface. This is a process
of transferring energy from wind to water. Water particles are moved from their position by
the wind, and then return to the original position by gravity, which is restoring force. These
waves are called:
a. shallow waves
b. equivalent waves
c. significant waves
✔ d. gravity waves
7. Density is a function of cars in a given length of roadway.
✔ a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
8. The subsystem to be included in the structure are electrical, mechanical, plumbing is
one of the concept of safe design for construction.
a. True
✔ b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
9. It occurs as concrete hardens, being greater in wet mixes. Curing helps to limit effects
and therefore concrete in the actual structure should be thoroughly and continuously
moistened for some considerable period after placing.
a. moisture content
b. compact
c. concrete
✔ d. shrinkage
10. The single initial application of bituminous material to an existing bituminous, portland
concrete, or block surface or base is called:
a. tact coat
✔ b. prime coat
c. seat coat
d. overcoat
11. The ideal capacity of road in vehicles per hour is:
a. 1800 vph
✔ b. 2000 vph
c. 1400 vph
d. 1200 vph
12. PERT makes use of three estimates, puts the greatest weight on the most likely times
estimate and is motivated by the beta distribution.
a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
13. The sound creaks and groans that one hesrs inside the building are in fact material
response to external stimuli such as heart, wind and gravity loads. These stimuli fall into
four categories which are mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical.
a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
14. Be sure the instrument is level, sight exactly on the target and sight direct and reverse
are the standard practice of measuring vertical or zenith angles.
a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
15. The calculation of the probability that the critical path will be completed by the time T
requires knowledge of the standard deviation for all activities in the network.
a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
16. It is the probability of a mechanism that will function satisfactorily. If the mechanism is
to operate on a given occasion. If the mechanism is to operate continuously, it refers its
performance for a specific period of time.
a. standard deviation
b. infinite set
✔ c. reliability
d. mean
17. Compacting applies energy to soil to consolidate it by compressing air voids to increase
the soil’s dry density. One of the objective of proper compacting is it protects slope that will
drain water away.
a. True
✔ b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
18. When train passes on curves, which have no super elevation, it will give thrust on the:
a. inner rail
b. inner side of inner rail
c. outer rail
✔ d. inner side of outer rail
19. Of all paths throughout the network, the critical path
✔ a. has the maximum expected time
b. has the minimum expected time
c. has the maximum actual time
d. has the minimum actual time
20. All normal curves are bell shaped and symmetric.
✔ a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
HPGE
1. A pressure surge or wave caused when fluid in motion is forced to stop or change
direction suddenly (momentum change) is referred to in hydraulic as
a. water hammer
b. hydraulic jump
c. potential head
d. hydrodynamics
2. A line joining the points of highest elevation of water in series of vertical open pipes rising
from a pipeline in which water flows under pressure is referred to as
a. energy grade line
b. hydraulic loss
c. hydraulic head
✔ d. hydraulic grade line
3. If the ground water table im a soil formation rises as a resulting of flooding, the bearing
capacity of the soil
a. depends on the footing load
b. unaffected
✔ c. decreases
d. increases
4. One of the following foundation conditions does not affect the bearing capacity of the
supporting soil.
a. unit weight of the soil
✔ b. load imposed onto the soil
c. position of ground water table
d. depth of founding of footings
PSAD
1. A material condition that causes it to deform permanently even due to slight increase of
stress.
a. plasticity
✔ b. yielding
c. fatigue
d. creep
2. Fracture caused when a material is subjected to repeated cycles of stress or strain.
a. yielding
b. creep
c. plasticity
✔ d. fatigue
3. When a material is loaded over a long period, it causes it to deform, continuously until
fracture.
a. creep
b. yielding
c. fatigue
d. plasticity
4. Refers to the lateral displacement of one level relative to the level above or below.
a. storey drift
b. lateral displacement
c. spring constant
d. eccentricity
5. Occurs when the structures center of mass does not coincide with its center of rigidity
a. re entrant corners
✔ b. torsional shear stress
c. storey drift
d. out of plane offset
6. It occurs when the structure’s period coincides with the earthquake period.
a. torsional shear stress
b. out of plane offset
✔ c. resonance
d. accidental eccentricity
MAY 2022
MSTHC
1. Signs used to guide drivers through a change in horizontal alignment of the road.
a. chevron signs
b. supplementary signs
c. guide post signs
d. delineators
2. Delineation is generally provided by the use of pavement markings, signs, guide
posts, reflective delineators, lighting and curb or other physical devices.
a. True
b. False
c. Unidentified
d. None of the above
3. Operating a motor vehicle on a street or highway can be complex and demanding at
times, but it can be boring at other times. It is helpful to begin by considering the three
essential elements such as navigation, guidance and control is referred to as:
a. engineering psychology
b. ergonomics
✔ c. driving task
d. range index
4. Signs that inform road users about the direction and distances of destinations on the
route they are following or along other roads that intersect their route.
a. supplementary signs
✔ b. guide signs
c. warning signs
d. stack signs
5. Any structure built into the sea but not parralel to the coastline and includes any stage,
stair, landing place, landing stage, jetty, floating barge or pontoon, and any bridge or other
works connected therewith. A berth structure projecting out form the shoreline.
a. wharf
✔ b. pier
c. port
d. yard
6. Because concrete is unable to maintain a particular shape before it sets, it must be
placed in a form or mold. In building construction, this is called:
✔ a. formworks
b. molder
c. scaffoldings
d. tube
7. What is the capacity requirements for all scaffoldings?
a. at least 4x its own weight
b. at least 6x its own weight
c. at most 6x its own weight
✔ d. at most 4x its own weight
8. It is a measure of a material’s ability to dissipate or deaden mechanical vibrations.
a. damping
b. frequency
c. resonance
d. transmissibility
9. It is an informal group discussion that focuses on a particular safety issue. These can be
used daily to promote department safety culture as well as to facilitate health and safety
discussions on job sites is know as:
a. office meeting
✔ b. toolbox meeting
c. on-site meeting
d. meeting de avance
10. A method of protecting employees from cave-ins form material that could fall or roll
from an excavation face or into an excavation or collapse of adjacent structures. This
includes support systems that provide the necessary protection
a. fall arrest system
b. level arrest system
✔ c. protective system
d. personnel protective system
11. A method of protecting workers form cave-ins by excavating the sides of an excavation
to form one or a series of horizontal level or steps, usually with vertical or near vertical
surfaces between levels.
a. benching
b. shoring
c. shielding
d. fall arrest system
12. A formal or legally binding agreement between two parties is referred to as:
a. deal
b. plan
c. meeting
✔ d. contract
13. It occurs after the completion of construction and the resolution of the majority of
punchlist and commissioning issues.
a. bidding
b. deal
✔ c. turnover of a project
d. payment
14. This drawing has elevation as its vertical axis, and horizontal distance as measured
along the centerline of the facility (or other reference line) as its horizontal axis.
a. cross section
b. elevation
✔ c. profile
d. horizontal view
15. If you are preparing a report on PERT CPM network in a construction job, what time
scheduling should you consider in the preparation of the PERT CPM network diagram?
a. pessimistic time
b. optimistic time
c. probable time
✔ d. all of the above
16. It provides the detailed requirements for all the materials, equipments and
workmanship to be incorporated into the project.
a. estimates
b. plans
✔ c. specifications
d. bid documents
17. The bucket volume contained within the bucket when the following outline of the
bucket sides is referred to as:
a. heap volume
b. bucket load capacity
c. water line capacity
✔ d. plate line capacity
HPGE
1. This occurs when a cohesionless saturated or partially saturated soil substantially losses
strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an
earthquake or other sudden change in stress condition, in which material that is ordinarily
a solid behaves like a liquid
a. solidification
b. land slide
✔ c. liquefaction
d. liquidation
PSAD
1 A material condition that causes it to deform permanently even due to slight increase of
stress.
a. Plasticity
b. yielding
c. fatigue
d. creep
2. Fracture caused when a material is subjected to repeated cycles of stress or strain.
a. yielding
b. creep
c. plasticity
✔ d. fatigue
3. When a material is loaded over a long period of time, it causes it to deform continuously
until fracture.
a. creep
b. yielding
c. fatigue
d. plasticity
NOV 2022
MSTHC
1. It is a measure of a materials ability to withstand cyclic stresses. When repeatedly
stressed, even at stresses below yield strength, many materials will fracture without
warning.
a. fatigue resitance
b. screeding
c. double centering
d. hazard
2. It is a manner of moving a straight-edge back and forth with saw-like motion across the
top of the forms.
a. fatigue resitance
✔ b. screeding
c. double centering
d. hazard
3. In a horizontal angle layout, this is a procedure that involves turning the angle twice and
making the line of sight each time at the point. If two lines result, an average is established
to create the line. Typically, it is not used on every point, it is used on the critical points as
needed.
a. fatigue resitance
b screeding
✔ c. double centering
d. hazard
4. This is a source or situation with a potential cause to harm in terms of injury, ill health,
damage to property, damage to the environment or a combination of these.
a. fatigue resitance
b screeding
b. Double centering
d. hazard
5. What is the color of the loading and unloading zone marking?
a. red
b. white
c. yellow
d. blue
6. Which of the following reasons will not cause a contract change?
a. unforeseen conditions
b. poor jobsite productivity
c. a change in owner requirements
d. designer omission or error
7. It is nothing more than a column driven into the soil to support a structure by transferring
building loads to a deeper and stronger layers of soil or rock.
a. piles
b. column
c. beam
d. foundation
8. It is considered to be the basic unit of travel behavior.
a. trip
b. travel
c. destinations
d. routes
9. These are circumstances or deviation form standard condition which could permit an
occurrence of accident or incident is called:
a. hazard
b. risk
c. unsafe act
✔d. unsafe condition
10. If the standard deviation, of a set of observations is 0, you can conclude:
a. that there is no relationship between thr observations
b. that the average value is 0.
✔ c. that all observations are the same value
c. That a mistake in arithmetic has been made
11. It is the timing of signals in relationship to one another so that vehicles traveling at a
determined speed can pass through the greens of successive signals.
a. Signal coordination
b. Signal speed
c. Signal light
d. Signals
12. It is the type of thermoplastic lane marking designed to aid and provide motorist with
visual, audio and motion warning on the road.
a. rumble strip
b. chevron
c. signal coordination
d. warning signals
13. It represents the component of vehicle which acts parallel to an inclined surface.
a. Grade resistance
b. Rolling Resistance
c. Grade coordination
d. Rolling coordination
HPGE
1. A branch of hydraulics which deals with the study of forces (including velocity and
acceleration)extended by or upon liquids in motion.
a. Hydrodynamics
b. Hydrostatic
c. Hydraulics
d. Fluid Mechanics
2. A device use to determine the undrained shear strength of the soil which consists of four
equal-sized thin steel plates welded to a steel torque rod.
a. Shear Test
✔ b. Shear Vane
c. Shear Torque
d. Shear Rod
3. The most used property used in soil properties.
a. Specific gravity
✔ b. void ratio
c. Moisture content
d. Saturation
APRIL 2023
MSTHC
1. A measure of materials ability to resist indentation or penetration.
a. Hardness
b. Ductility
c. Toughness
d. Resilience
2. An increase in soil density of a cohesive soil resulting from the expulsion of water from
the soils void spaces.
a. Segregation
✔ b. Consolidation
c. Compaction
d. Soil stabilization
3. Who is given authority to review reports of inspection, accident investigations and
implementation of the program?
a. Health and Safety Committee
b. DOLE
c. DPWH
d. BFP
4. The process of injecting any agent into soil or rock to increase its strength or stability, to
protect foundation or reduce ground water.
a. Grouting
b. Pumping
c. Bleeding
d. Screeding
5. Every construction project shall have a suitable _______, which must be in accordance
with must be in accordance with these rules, and other orders and issuances by the DOLE.
a. Construction Safety and Health Program
b. Occupational Health and Safety Program
c. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
d. Workplace Safety and Procedures
HPGE
1. The shear strength of a soil:
a. is proportional to the cohesion of the soil
b. is proportional to the tangent of the angle of internal friction
✔ c. increase with increase in normal stress
d. Decreases with decrease in normal stress
2. Triaxial shear test acts on what axis?
a. x-axis
b. y-axis
c. both axis
✔ d. all plane axis except x and y axis
3. In what plane is the additional stress (deviator stress) can affect the shear stress?
a. Horizontal
b. Vertical
c. Both vertical and horizontal
d. Inclined
4. What test is not performed in laboratory?
a. Direct shear stress
b. Triaxial shear test
c. Unconfined compression test
✔ d. Vane test
5. Molecules of liquid gets attracted to ________
a. cohesion
b. adhesion
c. capillary action
d. surface tension
6. Where is the metacenter for stable equilibrium
a. above the center of gravity
b. at the center of gravity
c. below the center of gravity
d. one half of the total draft
7. Ratio of weight of water to the weight of solid particles.
a. water content
b. porosity
c. void ratio
d. degree of saturation
8. In AASHTO, soul greater than 75 mm is classified as:
a. cobbles
b. boulders
c. gravel
d. clays
9. If the volume of voids is equal to the volume of solids, what is the porosity and void ratio
equal to respectively?
a. 0.5 and 1.0
b. 0 and 0.5
c. 0 and 1
d. 1 and 0.5
10. The shear strength of a cohesionless soil is:
a. Proportional to the angle of the shearing resistance
b. Inversely proportional the angle of shearing resistance
✔ c. Proportional to the tangent of the angle of shearing resistance
e. None of the above
11. Negative skin friction on piles
a. caused by soft clay
b. decreases the pile capacity
c. is caused due to relative settlement of soil
✔ d. all of the above
12. The intensity of a vertical stress at a depth due to a point load acting on the surface of a
semi infinite elastic soil mass is
a. directly proportional to the depth
b. inversely proportional to the depth
✔ c. directly proportional to the square of depth
d. inversely proportional to the square of depth
13. Specific weight of liquid _________.
a. remains constant at every place
b. does not remain constant at every place
✔ c. does not vary on any other planet
d. varies from place to place on the earth
14. In civil engineering, soil is _______.
a. found in earth’s crust
b. it is all plants grow
✔ c. uncemented aggregate
d. all of these
15. When the metacenter of a floating body is lower than the center of gravity, then the
body will be in ___________.
a. unstable equilibrium
b. stable equilibrium
c. neutral equilibrium
d. none of the above
16. The weight per unit volume of a liquid at a standard temperature and pressure is called:
a. specific weight
b. specific gravity
c. mass density
d. none if the above
17. The metracentric height is the distance between the
a. center of gravity of the floating body and the center of buoyancy
b. center of gravity of the floating body and the metacenter
c. metacenter and the center of buoyancy
d. original center of buoyancy and new center of buoyancy
NOV 2023
1. The bringing of a concrete surface to true grade with enough mortar to produce the
desired finished after the concrete slab has been screeded is called:
a. Floating
b. Edging
c. leveling
d. bleeding
2. immediately following or during edging, premolded inserts are placed in a concrete
slab to control cracking in the concrete as a result of shrinkage is known as:
a. Jointing
b. Troweling
c. Leveling
d. Edging
3. In a triangular section, the most economical section is achieved when slopping
sides make an angle of ___ with vertical
a. 90°
b. 30°
c. 60°
d. 45°
4. Which is not characteristic of soil mass?
a. Gas
b. Porosity
c. Void ratio
d. None of these
5. In an open tube, what is the shape of a mercury?
a. Curved up
b. Curved down
c. Horizontal
d. vertical