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GATE 2017-2018 Architecture and Planning Practice Paper 2

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




2. Star Rating of an Air Conditioner is determined by its




3. V7 concept given by Le Corbusier refers to




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




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




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




7. The urban form of Srirangam town in Tamil Nadu refers to




8. PMGSY, a programme of Government of India, deals with




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




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




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




12. Gantt Chart DOES NOT provide information about




13. 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




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




15. . The face of an Icosahedron is




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




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




18. Wythenshawe and Becontree are examples of




19. National Ceremonial Plaza at Thimpu in Bhutan has been designed by




20. Identify which is NOT a green building rating system




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




22. Travel behavior characteristics of an urban area can be derived from




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




24. A common flowering shrub is




25. 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




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




27. 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 _______.




28. 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 _______.




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




30. 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 _______.




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




32. 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 _______.




33. 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




34. 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




35. 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




36. 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




37. 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




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




39. 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?




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




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




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




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




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




45. 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.




46. 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?