Entrance Exam ERA AAU AAiT

1. Managers are expected to motivate their employees to work hard. If you are a manger of
federal government office responsible for construction license design approval,
supervision, and similar activities, how do you motivate your subordinates?
2. a). prepare a formal “job description” for resident engineer in contractor or consulting
firm.
b).Discuss briefly the importance of insurance in construction industry.
3. Consider you are representing a client and act as a consultant to an 8 story office building
complex. The structural engineer specified concrete class C-30and steel grade S-400,
however the quality of concrete produced by the contractor was far below the specified
concrete quality. This was noticed after the 2nd floor slab was casted.
a. What do you understand by C-30 concrete and S-400 steel?
b. What would be your reaction and who shall be responsible?
c. What do you do if you were contractor’s representatives?
d. What would do you do if you were consultants representatives?
4. Write a brief report (not more than a page) to the chair man of the Board of the Authority
in which you are managing Director requesting for approval of your proposal to replace
the old financial system of your organizations with the stage of the art system which will
eventually cost about 2 million birr.
5. There is an old lift in head office of your organization. The engineering department
which you are heading is responsible (---some text is missed----------) replacement of the
list system. F1 was reported on Monday morning, this( ----some text is missed--- )was
based on the lift for over 6 hours due to power failure they over calculated.
a). who is responsible for the failure and why?
b). what would you have been done to avoid such occurrences?
6. Sketch typical administrative structure of a fairly large constructing firm engaged I local
and foreign civil construction works and having 50 Civil Engineers with BSc. And above
qualification. And over 5000 employee. Comment on the flow of information’s between
top management and lower level technician.
7. The construction of 45 million birr worth building complex is completed and is read for
commissioning.
a). What do you understand by the term commissioning?
b). List the necessary procedure required by the consultant/ contractor/ before
commissioning.