Basic Question on Civil Engineering Subject in Interview / GD's.

Civil Engineering

• What kind of foundations do you use for flyovers?
• For a construction which of the following is preferred - a pre-cast pile or a cast-in-situ pile?
• What is pre-stressed concrete?
• What are the ingredients of pre-stressed concrete?
• What does 53 stand for in 53-grade cement?
• What type of foundation would you prefer for a multistoried building? Support your answer with reasons.
• What are machine foundations?
• How does machine foundations differ in construction from an ordinary foundation?
• What are the requirements of an ideal machine foundation?
• What are the advantages of pre-cast piles?
• What are the loads to be considered for the design of bridges?
• What type of foundation would be adopted in marshy soils?
• Explain well foundations?
• Draw the cross section of rail.
• Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams for different loading on beams.
• What do you mean by batching?
• Where does the maximum bending moment act in the case of bridge?
• How can the supports be provided in bridges (with reason)?
• What is the life of a pavement?
• According to you what is the reason for the collapse of the Kadalundi bridge? What is solution to this problem?
• What are the characteristics of the soil that are to be determined to decide upon the kind of foundation?
• How do you determine the strength of a soil mass?
• What are the different types of foundations adopted for different soils?
• Given the plan and elevation, draw the isometric view.
• Suppose you want to construct a bridge in Kochi, which foundation would you adopt?
• What is a theodolite? How is it used?
• How is the theodolite levelled?
• Define Civil Engineering?
• Draw the stress-strain curve of mild steel?
• What is the difference between bitumen and tar?
• Which is commonly used - tar or bitumen? Why?
• What is hydraulic jump?
• What is Reynolds's number?
• What is cutback bitumen?
• Define angularity number and give its practical applications.
• Define duty and delta.
• What does 20 stand for in M20-mix concrete?
• Differentiate between pre-tensioning and post-tensioning.
• What is the role of a plate girder in a railway bridge?
• What is camber?
• What is differential settlement?
• What is total energy line?
• What is piping failure?
• What is the difference between hollow bricks and ordinary bricks?
• How many express ways are there in India?
• Name the different types of retaining wall.
• Which is better - Tiled roof or Terraced roof?
• What is leap-frog trigonometric levelling?
• What are the dimensions of a standard brick?
• Differentiate between English bond and Flemish bond.
• What are AADT, AASHO and ASCE?
• What does IRC stand for?
• Which instrument is used for measuring unevenness in a road?
• Give the standard lengths of chains used for surveying.
• What is a benchmark? What are the different types of benchmarks?
• Expand PERT? How is it different from CPM and GANTT?
• What are the common earth-moving equipment?
• How is under-water concreting carried out?
• What is N-value?
• Differentiate between BOD and COD.
• On what basis are the foundations classified as shallow and deep?

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Basic Question on Chemical Engineering in Interview / GD's.

Basic question asked to Chemical engineers in the Job Interview or Group Discussion / Personal interview for and MBA admission.

• What is Teflon?
• What are the properties of Teflon?
• Name some Chemical companies.
• What are the mainstream products of DuPont?
• What is Mass Transfer?
• What is a hortonsphere?
• How is NH3 stored?
• Which is the most toxic gas?
• What are fluid machines?
• What are solid machines?
• What are the differences between fluid machine and solid machines?
• What is viscosity?
• What is surface tension?
• Why does a liquid flow freely?
• What are CFCs?
• What is Osmosis?
• What is Osmotic pressure?
• What is term diffusion?
• What is a chemical bomb?
• As a chemical engineer, state the difference between nuclear warfare and biological warfare?
• What is a polymer?
• What is a synthetic polymer?
• Name some synthetic fibres.
• What is electrolysis?
• What is PET?
• What is an elastomer?
• Name some specialty chemicals.
• What is heat transfer?
• What is thermodynamics?
• What do you know about food processing technology?
• What is nanotechnology?
• Who first spoke about nanotechnology?
• Who coined the term 'nanotechnology'?
• How is steel manufactured?

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Basic Economic Terms list with explanation. Alphabet - N

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What is Near Money?
Assets which are readily convertible into money e.g. deposit accounts, deposit with savings banks and building societies, and certain short-term agreement securities.

What is Negotiable Instrument?
A claim, the title to which passes by delivery. Examples of such claims include bills of exchange,cheques, promissory notes, dividend warrants and debentures payable to bearer. Transfer is by delivery only. A bill of exchange payable to a certain person ?only? is not a negotiable instrument. Neither is a cheque with ?not negotiable? written on it. Bill of Lading, Dock Warrants, and Postal Orders are not negotiable.

What is NAV (Net Asset Value)?
The value of a fund?s investment. For a mutual fund, the net asset value per share usually represents the fund?s market price.

What is Net Book Value?
A statement of the value of fixed assets which is used in accounting. The appropriate amount of depreciation is deducted from the original cost of purchase of the asset to give its net book value.

What is Net Profit?
Resulted amount after deduction of Administration costs like overheads from Gross profit.

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Basic Economic Terms list with explanation. Alphabets - M

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What is Management?
The process of planning, organizing,leading, and controlling the work of members of an organization and of using all available organizational resources to reach stated organizational goals.

What is Manpower?
In ordinary language, manpower means the working population of a country. In economics, manpower means the organisation of work force for its utilization in different sectors of the economy.

What is Market?
A market consists of all the potential customers sharing a particular need or want who might be willing and able to engage in exchange to satisfy that need or want. In non-marketing terms the function of a market is to enable an exchange of goods or services to take place, a means by which buyers and sellers are brought into contact with one another.

What is Marketing?
Marketing is a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating, offering and exchanging products of value with others.

What is Market Economy?
Means an economy in which crucial economic decisions and choices are made in a decentralized manner by private individuals and firms operating through a free price-and-market mechanism. Equilibrium of prices and quantities are determined in a market economy through the laws of supply and demand.

What is Market Forces?
Refers to pressures by the free play of market supply and demand, which induce adjustment in prices and / or quantities traded.

What is Market Price?
Means the price determined by the equilibrium between demand and supply in a market period (or very short period).

What is Matched Order?
Its purpose is to create an impression in the market that a security is very active. For this purpose, two sets of brokers are employed - one for buying and the other for selling at prices determined in advance by the speculator.

What is Matrix Structure?
An organizational structure in which each employee reports to both a functional or division manager and to a project group manager.

What is Maturity?
Means the date on which a loan or bond or debenture becomes due and is to be paid off i.e., the capital refunded.

What is Merger?
Means a union of two or more firms in a transaction by which one absorbs the other(s), or a new firm gets created utilising the assets of the absorbed firms.

What is Mortgage?
Refers to the conveyance of property by a debtor (mortgager) to a creditor (mortgagee) as security for a debt, with a condition that the property will have to be reconveyed on payment of the debt.

What is MNC (Multi National Corporation)?
A company is called a MNC, which the company expand its operation to more than one country with a headquarters in only once country.

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SWOT(Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) Analysis of India Economy

Indian industry has come a long way from the command, control style of functioning rooted in an inward looking Import substitution policy to an export orientation, globally competitive, quality driven style of functioning.  In short term, with improved investment, scenario coupled with government continual through and reforms, the industrial performance is expected to do better.  But in large run, the performance depends on how well the reform are initiated, the investment and growth in Infrastructure, the continued availability of natural resources avail of low-cost , high skill workforce and global market scenario.  For sure is that it will gain momentum on the wheel of growth has been set to motion.


Here is and SWOT(Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) Analysis of India Economy not to become an Super power but at least to become a Developed Country.

Strengths of India.

• Vast Industrial Presence in both Public and Private Sectors
• Huge demand for Domestic Industrial goods.
• Avail of Low-cost, Skilled Human Resources.
• Proactive government continued thrust on reforms- Further liberalization under process.
• Increasing investment in real assets (Capacity Expanding), Inflow of FDI(Foreign Direct Investment) across Industrial sector.

Weaknesses of India

• Presence of Vast Industrial sickness
• Outdated labor laws, and presence of too many political labor and trade union.
• Nascent Regulatory systems to check misuse of market power by firms.
• Dependency of Subsidies(SSI – Small scale industries)
• Inadequate and poor quality infrastructure cost and time delays.

Opportunities in India.

• Growing Competition of Indian industry due to focus on efficient and quality.
• Vast export marked to explore.
• Growing recognition of “Made in India” brand in global market
• Major growth through outscoring opportunities
• Presence of Deming award winning firms (Focus on quality)
• Growing number of overseas investment and acquisition by Indian Firms.

Threats to India

• Heavy competition in manufacturing field from china.
• Power crises and the virtuous growth cycling manufacturing sector.
• Large informal sector, Poor working condition and low wages.
• Inclusion of social (Labor) issues in trade dialogues could happens exports (e.g., Child labor)
• High corruption and inadequate environmental safety norms could affect sustainability.

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