Project Planning and Quantity Surveying MCQs 2026

Reinforcement quantity taken as

1. A Length in kilometres only without weight ✓
2. B Count of workers ✓
3. C Weight in kg or tonnes from bar schedule ✓
4. D Volume of concrete ignored always ✓

Earthwork in estimate measured by

1. A Only truck count without volume ✓
2. B Bank measure or loose cubic metre per spec ✓
3. C Only colour of soil ✓
4. D Only smell of soil ✓

Lead and lift charges in rate analysis cover

1. A Only profit tax ✓
2. B Only design fee ✓
3. C Only insurance of car ✓
4. D Transport and hoisting of materials ✓

Overhead and profit added to

1. A Only client furniture ✓
2. B Only government tax always same as overhead ✓
3. C Direct cost for contractor unit rate ✓
4. D Only discount subtracted always ✓

Schedule of rates SOR issued by

1. A Government department for small works ✓
2. B Random shopkeeper ✓
3. C Only cricket board ✓
4. D Only airline ✓

Percentage rate contract pays

1. A Fixed lump sum only always ✓
2. B Percentage over measured cost or defined basis ✓
3. C Zero documentation ✓
4. D Only bonus without work ✓

Quantity surveyor role includes

1. A Only structural design always ✓
2. B Only soil testing always ✓
3. C Only driving train ✓
4. D Measurement valuation and contract administration ✓

Taking off quantities means

1. A Removing building parts physically ✓
2. B Measuring from drawings to calculate work amounts ✓
3. C Only painting walls ✓
4. D Only deleting files ✓

Bill of materials differs from BOQ by listing

1. A Only staff salaries ✓
2. B Only land price always ✓
3. C Materials without full labour plant breakdown ✓
4. D Only legal fees only ✓

Revision estimate prepared when

1. A Design changes significantly from original ✓
2. B Never changed ever ✓
3. C Only after project ends ✓
4. D Only before feasibility ✓

Comparative statement of tenders shows

1. A Only weather data ✓
2. B Only cricket scores ✓
3. C Only staff birthdays ✓
4. D Rates and amounts from each bidder ranked ✓

Lowest bid not always accepted if

1. A Always must accept lowest legally always without check ✓
2. B Non-responsive or abnormally low risking performance ✓
3. C Only highest accepted always ✓
4. D Random selection ✓

Earned value in cost control compares

1. A Budgeted cost of work performed to actual ✓
2. B Only invoice date ✓
3. C Only staff age ✓
4. D Only vehicle colour ✓

Final account settles

1. A Only bid bond return without measurement ✓
2. B Only mobilization without completion ✓
3. C Only design fee unrelated ✓
4. D Contract sum adjustments variations claims ✓

Daywork in contract pays

1. A Lump sum regardless of hours ✓
2. B Zero payment always ✓
3. C Labour plant materials at schedule rates plus percentage ✓
4. D Only profit without work ✓

Provisional sum covers

1. A Nothing defined ever ✓
2. B Defined scope with uncertain detail at tender ✓
3. C Contractor illegal payment ✓
4. D Only tax evasion ✓

Prime cost sum for

1. A Free unlimited gift ✓
2. B Only main contractor profit alone ✓
3. C Nominated subcontract supply later adjusted ✓
4. D Only design change without record ✓

Cost plan during design stages RIBA or similar refines

1. A Estimate at concept schematic detailed stages ✓
2. B Only after demolition ✓
3. C Only before idea ✓
4. D Only never updated ✓

Benchmarking project cost uses

1. A Only random number ✓
2. B Only lottery ✓
3. C Only horoscope ✓
4. D Similar completed projects indices ✓

S-curve cash flow for owner shows

1. A Only soil gradation ✓
2. B Expenditure profile over project duration ✓
3. C Only wind data ✓
4. D Only tide chart ✓

Benefit-cost ratio greater than one indicates

1. A Benefits exceed costs in present value terms ✓
2. B Project always unviable ✓
3. C Equal ignore decision always ✓
4. D Only costs matter ✓

Sensitivity analysis tests

1. A Only one fixed scenario always ✓
2. B Only paint colour ✓
3. C Only staff names ✓
4. D Effect of variable changes on viability ✓

Shadow price in economic analysis reflects

1. A Market price always identical without adjustment ✓
2. B Zero always ✓
3. C True social opportunity cost ✓
4. D Contractor bid only ✓

Land acquisition cost in feasibility includes

1. A Compensation resettlement and delays ✓
2. B Only free land always assumed ✓
3. C Only interior design ✓
4. D Only signage ✓

Operation and maintenance cost in lifecycle includes

1. A Only capital cost day one only forever ignored ✓
2. B Only paint once ✓
3. C Staff energy repairs over service life ✓
4. D Only foundation only ✓

Quantity takeoff software examples

1. A Only word processor ✓
2. B Only music player ✓
3. C Only game engine ✓
4. D Bluebeam CostX Cubit ✓

Standard method of measurement avoids

1. A All ambiguity intentionally ✓
2. B Ambiguity in item description and unit ✓
3. C Only verbal contracts ✓
4. D Only lump sum without scope ✓

Cut and fill balance in earthwork estimate aims to

1. A Maximize haul distance always ✓
2. B Ignore topography ✓
3. C Import all soil from abroad always joke item ✓
4. D Minimize borrow and waste haul ✓

Star rates in contract are

1. A Illegal always ✓
2. B Same as tender rates always without process ✓
3. C New rates agreed for varied work not in BOQ ✓
4. D Only penalty rates ✓

Price adjustment formula uses

1. A Contractor arbitrary invoice always ✓
2. B Official indices for materials labour fuel ✓
3. C Only gold price alone always ✓
4. D Only cricket ranking ✓

Work charged to contractor measured by

1. A Engineer per contract method ✓
2. B Contractor alone without check always ✓
3. C Random guess ✓
4. D Social media vote ✓

Detailed estimate prepared from

1. A Drawings specifications and site measurements ✓
2. B Only guess without quantity ✓
3. C Only contractor mood ✓
4. D Only weather forecast ✓

Abstract of cost links

1. A Only site diary ✓
2. B BOQ quantities rates and amounts ✓
3. C Only labour names ✓
4. D Only vehicle log ✓

Rate analysis for excavation includes

1. A Only profit without cost ✓
2. B Only tax without items ✓
3. C Only contingency only ✓
4. D Labour equipment and overhead for one unit ✓

Depreciation of equipment in rate analysis accounts for

1. A Wear and tear allocation per hour ✓
2. B Fuel colour change ✓
3. C Operator uniform ✓
4. D Office rent unrelated ✓

BOQ preparation requires

1. A Random units mixed without rule ✓
2. B Only lump descriptions without qty ✓
3. C Standard method of measurement for items ✓
4. D Only photographs ✓

Tender documents package includes

1. A Only oral quote ✓
2. B Instructions drawings specs BOQ and conditions ✓
3. C Only one sketch ✓
4. D Only email hello ✓

Contingency allowance covers

1. A Unforeseen work within project scope ✓
2. B Known BOQ items priced twice ✓
3. C Contractor profit guarantee ✓
4. D Tax bribe illegal item ✓

Escalation clause in contract adjusts

1. A Fixed price forever without change ever ✓
2. B Only contractor hobby costs ✓
3. C Only paint colour change ✓
4. D Rates for inflation over long execution period ✓

Project life cycle phases include

1. A Only excavation always ✓
2. B Initiation planning execution closure ✓
3. C Only painting always ✓
4. D Only demolition only ✓

Feasibility study determines

1. A Only paint schedule ✓
2. B Only staff lunch menu ✓
3. C Technical economic and financial viability ✓
4. D Only logo design only ✓

NPV positive means

1. A Always loss ✓
2. B Break even only always ✓
3. C Ignore time value of money ✓
4. D Project returns exceed discount rate ✓

IRR is discount rate when

1. A Cost equals zero always ✓
2. B NPV equals zero ✓
3. C Benefit undefined ✓
4. D Tax equals zero only ✓

Payback period measures

1. A Total project life always ✓
2. B Only design phase ✓
3. C Time to recover initial investment ✓
4. D Only maintenance only ✓

Cost-benefit analysis compares

1. A Present value of benefits and costs ✓
2. B Only contractor mood ✓
3. C Only soil colour ✓
4. D Only wind rose ✓

Measurement rules for concrete may be

1. A By guess bags only ✓
2. B By cubic metre in place net of openings ✓
3. C By surface paint area only ✓
4. D By weight of rebar only without concrete ✓

Plinth area estimate used for

1. A Final contractor payment without detail ✓
2. B Harbour dredging quantity ✓
3. C Railway signalling ✓
4. D Rough cost of buildings early stage ✓

Centre line method suits

1. A Regular symmetric walls and trenches ✓
2. B Irregular scattered footings only always ✓
3. C Only paint work ✓
4. D Only landscaping only ✓

Long wall short wall method used in

1. A Circular tank only always ✓
2. B Only highway ESAL ✓
3. C Building with varying wall lengths ✓
4. D Only airport runway ✓

Unit of measurement for brick masonry commonly

1. A Cubic metre or per square metre wall ✓
2. B Kilometre length only ✓
3. C Litre volume only for all ✓
4. D Tonnes always only ✓