GATE Architecture and Planning Mock Test - 2 (Planning) - GATE Architecture and Planning MCQ

We cannot obtain the answer from (i) or (ii) alone. When (i) and (ii) are combined, we find that (ii) indicates that all Mingoes are honest. Since all Lingoes are Mingoes (i) it follows that all Lingoes are honest. Statement (iii) is redundant.

Since the code number for “he” is not known, we cannot determine the code for” he can swim”.

The correct answer is option d: "too / too." In the sentence, "After hours of playing tennis, I feel too fatigued to walk back," the word "too" is used to indicate an excessive degree of fatigue, which is the correct usage. The second "too" is also correct as it fits the pattern of indicating excessiveness in this specific sentence structure. 

The capacity utilization of the companies A, B, C, D and E are 128%, 83.33%, 80%, 100% and 140% respectively.
Average capacity utilization = 531.33 / 5
= 106%

Statement (a) follows as it is clear that most telecom companies could not match their financial performance to plans. Statement (ii) is not valid as no data is available about government’s financial role in the entire process.

D₂ = 30

According to NBC 2016, automatic sprinklers must be installed in basements of residential buildings if the area exceeds 200 Sq.m. This requirement is crucial for fire safety, ensuring that larger underground spaces are equipped to manage potential fire hazards effectively. Automatic sprinkler systems are designed to detect and suppress fires quickly, preventing them from spreading and causing significant damage or harm. Therefore, if the basement area is greater than 200 Sq.m., sprinkler installation is mandatory for enhanced safety.

Measure command divides the object into segments of predefined length. Divide option divides object into n number of equal segments.

Complementary Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors.

• All brickwork has to be measured in cubic meters for walls with one or more brick thick. For half brick partition walls, the measurement is taken in square meters.
• Openings and provision for lintels has to be deducted from all brickwork measurements

Despite their visual similarities, catenaries and parabolas are two very different curves, both conceptually and mathematically. A catenary curve is created by its own weight, pulling down because of gravity. The parabolic curves of the suspension cable are not created by gravity alone, but also by other forces: compression and tension acting on it. Also, the weight of the suspension cable is negligible compared to that of the deck, but it is also supporting the weight of the deck. This is also another conceptual reason why the suspension cables hang in a parabolic curve. 

Golden ratio, also known as the golden section, golden mean, or divine proportion, in mathematics, the irrational number (1 + Square root of√5)/2, often denoted by the Greek letter ϕ or τ, which is approximately equal to 1.618. 

In 2020, the following sites were added to the Ramsar Sites of India List:

• December 2020 – The Tso Kar Wetland Complex was added to the list of Ramsar sites in India. This includes the high-altitude wetland complex of two connected lakes, Startsapuk Tso and Tso Kar, in Ladakh.
• November 2020 – Maharashtra – Lonar Lake
• November 2020 – Agra (Uttar Pradesh) – Sur Sarovar also called, Keetham Lake
• November 2020 – Uttarakhand – Asan Barrage · July 2020 – Bihar – Kanwar Lake or KabalTaal
• February 2020 – Kolkata – Sunderban Reserve Forest (Sunderban Wetlands) Four new sites have been added to the list of Ramsar Sites in India in August 2021.

These are:

• Sultanpur National Park – Gurugram, Haryana
• Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary – Jhajjar, Haryana
• Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuary – Near Ahmedabad, Gujarat
• Wadhvana Wetland – Vadodara, Gujarat 

For the Census of India 2011, the definition of urban area is as follows;
1. All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee, etc.
2. All other places which satisfied the following criteria:
(i) A minimum population of 5,000;
(ii) At least 75 per cent of the male main working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits; and
(iii) A density of population of at least 400 persons per sq. km.

Stages of a construction project as per National Building Code, 2016 are:
a) Project formulation and appraisal stage:  
1) Inception,  
2) Feasibility, and  
3) Strategic planning  
b) Pre-construction stage:  
1) Project development,  
2) Planning for construction, and  
3) Tender action  
c) Construction stage, and  
d) Commissioning and handing over stage. 

In electrical power distribution, a bus duct (also called busway), is a sheet metal duct containing either copper or aluminium busbars for the purpose of conducting a substantial current of electricity. Variable air volume (VAV) is a type of heating, ventilating, and/or air-conditioning (HVAC) system. Unlike constant air volume (CAV) systems, which supply a constant airflow at a variable temperature, VAV systems vary the airflow at a constant temperature. Facultative lagoons are a type of waste stabilization pond used for biological treatment of industrial and domestic wastewater. An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an advanced application which, without embodying intelligence as such, aims to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.

Reinventing The Skyscraper: A Vertical Theory Of Urban Design is a book authored by Ken Yeang. The book includes Unique treatment of urban design of skyscrapers. Includes progressive ideas about vertical landscaping. Provides new mapping techniques useful in both conventional and vertical urban design.

Theoretical Framework of the Study Ian Bentley's Responsive Environment (1985) discusses that the built environment should provide freedom of choices to everyone and that planning towards a "responsive" environment should be a "product of progressive social and political attitudes" (Bentley, et.al, 1985).

Serial Vision is a visual approach to urban design first introduced by Gordon Cullen in his 1961 classic Townscape. This method of visual representation can be used as a tool for evaluating current experience in moving around a space, analyzing it, designing alternatives, and presenting a new design.

Notable advocates of climate-sensitive urban design for winter settlements were the SwedishEnglish architect Ralph Erskine and the Canadian planner Norman Pressman. Pressman published numerous books and articles on winter cities between 1986 and 2004. While his works looked at a range of different ways of making winter cities more livable, his work settled and focused on three climate-sensitive design principles for winter cities. Here his microclimatic design ideas focused on maximizing solar access, minimizing the negative effects of wind, and managing snowfall and gathering. 

A psychrometer consists of two thermometers, with the bulb of one thermometer covered with a wet cloth. Water evaporates from the wet cloth, which lowers the temperature. Relative humidity can be found by subtracting the temperature on the wet-bulb thermometer from the temperature on the dry-bulb thermometer and using a relative humidity chart.

As per Part 4, Volume 1, NBC 2016, maximum travel distance for exit for residential occupancy shall be 30m.

Let the payback time be ‘P’ year.
So, 6, 00,000 + 15,000 P = 500 x 8 x 12x P
6, 00,000 + 18,000 P = 48000 P
6, 00,000 = 48000 P - 18,000 P
P = 20 year

Given, v = 85 kmph

= 85/3.6 = 23.6111 m/s , (1 kmph = 1/3.6 m/s)

f = 0.10

t = 2.5 second (As per IRC)

SSD = vt + v²/(2 gf) = 23.6111 × 2.5 + 23.6111² / (2 × 9.81 × 0.10)

SSD = 343.1684

EPA’s MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) is a state-of-the-science emission modeling system that estimates emissions for mobile sources at the national, county, and project level for criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and air toxics.  

Fratar method is used for trip distribution. The basic premise of the Fratar procedure is that. the distribution of trips from a zone is proportional to the present movements out of. the zone modified by the growth factor of the zone to which the trips are attracted. The future volume of trips out of a zone is determined from the present trips out of.

Growth factor model is a method which respond only to relative growth rates at origins and destinations and this is suitable for short-term trend extrapolation.  

User equilibrium is a user-driven traffic assignment in which each user chooses the most convenient path selfishly. It guarantees that fairness among users is respected since, when the equilibrium is reached, all users sharing the same origin and destination will experience the same travel time.  

The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), with an operational name of NavIC (acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation, is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system that provides accurate real-time positioning and timing services. It covers India and a region extending 1,500 km (930 mi) around it, with plans for further extension. It has a total of 8 satellites as part of it.

The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act was passed in 1992 and it came into effect on 24 April 1993. The Act empowered state governments to take the necessary steps that would lead to the formalisation of the gram panchayats and gram sabhas and help them operate as units of selfgovernance.  

Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT): It is the average 24-hour traffic volume at a given location over a period of 365 days.

It helps in deciding the importance of route and road development. It includes seasonal variation also.

It is not feasible to take traffic reading continuously and hence reading is taken periodically and expansion factors are used to convert traffic data into AADT.

1) Hourly Expansion Factor =Total 24−hr volume / Volume for particular hour

2) Daily Expansion Factor =Average total week volume / Average volume of a day

3) Monthly expansion factor =Average annual daily traffic / ADT of a month

Calculation:

Given,

24-hr traffic count = 1200 veh.

Daily adjustment factor = 1.141

∴ Average week volume = Daily adjustment factor × 24-hr traffic count

= 1200 × 1.141 = 1369.2 veh

Monthly adjustment factor = 0.913

∴ AADT = Monthly adjustment factor × Average week volume

= 0.913 × 1369.2 = 1250.0796 = 1250 VPD

Value = Land cost + Construction cost of building- depreciation of building

 Land Cost = 10,000 x 100 (1 hectare = 10,000 m²) = 10 lakhs              

Book Value after 5 years = Construction cost of building- depreciation of building

= D (1- r)ⁿ

D= Value of new building = 2700 x 4500 m² = 121.5 lakhs

r = 8% = 0.08       n = 5yrs

121.5 x (1 - 0.08)⁵ = 80.0784

Value = 10 lakhs +80.0784 lakhs = 90.0748 lakhs