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MH SET 2023: 26 March, Paper II, Management

  • Date: 26 March 2023
  • Paper code: MAR-51223
  • Series: A
  • Language: Bilingual
  • 20 pages
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                                                             MANAGEMENT
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                                Management
                                   Paper II
Time Allowed : 120 Minutes]                                 [Maximum Marks : 200
Note : This Paper contains Hundred (100) multiple choice questions. Each question
        carrying Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.

1.   Which is not a recognised form of        4.   What     is   not    an        assumption
     business continuity planning ?
                                                   underpinning the rational decision
     (A) Contingency planning                      making model ?
     (B) Scenario planning
                                                   (A) Incomplete information
     (C) Financial planning
                                                   (B) An agreed goal
     (D) Building planning
2.   Who is a whistleblower ?                      (C) A structured problem

     (A) Someone who reports illegal or            (D) High      level       of     certainty
         unethical acts                                regarding the environment
     (B) Someone who commits illegal or
                                              5.   Which     among       the        following
         unethical acts
                                                   statements is INCORRECT ?
     (C) Someone who benefits from
         illegal or unethical acts                 (A) Index number is a relative

     (D) Someone who denies illegal or                 measurement
         unethical acts                            (B) In fact all index numbers are
3.   Which one of these characteristics                weighted
     is most commonly associated with
     the rational goal model of                    (C) Theoretically the best average
     management ?                                      in   construction           of   index
     (A) Worker welfare                                numbers is geometric mean
     (B) Health and safety                         (D) It is not possible to shift the
     (C) Interpersonal relationships                   base if it is the case of fixed base
     (D) Productivity                                  index

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6.   Demand for a commodity refers to :            10. Expressive communication is driven
     (A) Need for the commodity                        by :
     (B) Desire for the commodity                       (A) Passive aggression

     (C) Amount of the commodity                        (B) Encoder’s personality chara-
         demanded at a particular price                     cteristics
         and at a particular time                       (C) External clues

     (D) Quantity demanded of that                      (D) Encoder-decoder contact
         commodity                                 11. Human Resource Planning is
                                                       required to cope with changes in
7.   In the short-run, when the output
                                                       market condition, thus the basis for
     of a firm increases, its average fixed
                                                       human resource planning is :
     cost :
                                                        (A) Strategic plan of the firm
     (A) Remains constant
                                                        (B) The economic trends
     (B) Decreases
                                                        (C) Demand for employee
     (C) Increases
                                                        (D) Budgetary provision
     (D) First decreases and then rises
                                                   12. Which of the following is not the
8.   Which one of the following is not the
                                                       methods for job evaluation ?
     objective    of   fiscal   policy    of
                                                        (A) Factor comparison
     government of India ?
                                                        (B) Classification
     (A) Full employment
                                                        (C) Ranking
     (B) Price stability
                                                        (D) Job counselling
     (C) Regulation of inter-state trade
                                                   13. An individual consideration about
     (D) Economic growth                               the specific task assigned to him/her,
9.   Vertical    hierarchy      and      old           their relative importance and the
     departmental boundaries are                       preferred behaviour to accomplish
     virtually eliminated through :                    those task is :
     (A) Horizontal structure                           (A) Role adaptation
     (B) Matrix structure                               (B) Role congruence
     (C) Geographic structure                           (C) Role perception
     (D) Virtual structure                              (D) Role ambiguity

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14. Relatively stable clusters of feeling        17. The tendency for individual to
                                                     excercise less endeavour while
    and behavioural disposition towards              working in a group as compared to
    same specific objective is termed as :           working alone is treated as :
                                                     (A) Social role ambiguity
    (A) Attitude
                                                     (B) Social cohesiveness
    (B) Formation feeling                            (C) Personal role maintenance

    (C) Negation                                     (D) Social loafing

                                                 18. Work stress is a chronic ailment
    (D) Dissonance
                                                     caused by conditions that negatively
15. Job design which affects the                     affect one’s performance. Which of
                                                     the following are not the typical
    motivation level of the employees in
                                                     symptoms of job related stress ?
    an organization excludes :
                                                     (1) Insomnia
    (A) Job Rotation                                 (2) Lack of concentration

    (B) Job contraction                              (3) Anxiety, depression

                                                     (4) Job insecurity
    (C) Job enlargement
                                                     (5) Extreme anger and mood swing
    (D) Job enrichment
                                                     (6) Strict deadlines
16. Sixteen personality factor theory                (7) Frustration
    was given by :                                   (8) Family conflict

    (A) Mayer and Bridge                             Codes :

                                                     (A) (1) and (5)
    (B) Koontz O’Donnell
                                                     (B) (3) and (7)
    (C) Raymond Cattell
                                                     (C) (4) and (6)
    (D) Stephen Robben                               (D) (2) and (8)

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19. Which of the following are known           21. ‘‘Glass ceiling’’ is a phenomena
    as ‘‘Big five’’ dimensions of                  related to :
    personality ?                                  (A) Solar energy conservation
    (a) Extraversion                                   system
    (b) Dominance                                  (B) Inter-personal openness
    (c) Sensitivity                                (C) Gender bias        in    career
    (d) Agreeableness                                  progression
    (e) Conscientiousness                          (D) Transparency in information
    (f)   Rule-consciousness                           sharing

    (g) Self-reliance                          22. Who popularised quality of work life
                                                   as a global phenomena ?
    (h) Emotional stability
                                                   (A) TV Rao, Biju Varkkey and
    (i)   Openness to experience
                                                       Hasmukh Adia
    (j)   Perfectionism
                                                   (B) James Austin, Peter Villanova
    Codes :                                            and Hugh Hindwar
    (A) (a), (d), (e), (h) and (i)                 (C) Richard Reilly, James Smithy
    (B) (a), (e), (h), (b) and (j)                     and Nicholas Vasilopolons
    (C) (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h)                 (D) Einar Thorsrud, Fred Emery
    (D) (a), (d), (g), (i) and (j)                     and Eric Tryst
20. Which of the following strategies          23. Which of the following statements
    adopted by HR to attract potential             about assessment centres is not
    candidates to apply in the process             correct ?
    of recruitment, may result in                  (A) It is a simulation excercise
    indirect discrimination ?                      (B) It is designed to evaluate
    (A) Advertisement on the web                       managerial potential
        portal                                     (C) It uses interviews, in-basket
    (B) Word of mouth                                  problem solving excercises and
    (C) Through HR agencies and job                    business decision games as
        centres                                        methods
    (D) Advertisement     in         the           (D) It is used only as a selection
        Employment Bulletin                             technique

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24. From among the following, who                 26. OD is based on certain values that
    focused on the soft side of                       are important for the development
    organization as a sequel to
                                                      of organizations as open and
    globalization comprising adhocracy
    simple structure, the divisionalised              proactive systems. OD fosters a set
    form, the machine and professional                of specific values ‘OCTAPACE’.
    bureaucracy ?                                     ‘OCTAPACE’ refers to :
     (A) Henry Mintzberg
                                                      (1) Openness
     (B) Galbraith and Kazanjaam
     (C) Barlett and Ghosal                           (2) Communication
     (D) Burns and Stalker                            (3) Trust
25. Richard P Calboon observed that
    ‘‘Grievance procedure is a control                (4) Authority
    necessary for protecting the                      (5) Experimentation
    standards of the employee as
    discipline is the control necessary for           (6) Evaluation
    preserving standards of the
                                                      (7) Autonomy
    company’’.
     Which of the following inferences                (8) Productivity
     cannot be derived from the above
                                                      (9) Proactivity
     statement ?
     (A) Grievance procedure is a control             (10) Collaboration
         on employer’s HR decisions
                                                      (11) Commitment
     (B) Disciplinary actions are control
         on employee’s work related                   (12) Confrontation
         conduct
                                                      (13) Authenticity
     (C) Grievance redressal and
         disciplinary actions are inimical            Codes :
         to one another
                                                      (A) (1), (2), (3), (4), (9), (13), (11), (6)
     (D) Grievance redressal and
         disciplinary actions as control              (B) (1), (12), (3), (13), (9), (4), (11), (6)
         mechanisms shall be handled
                                                      (C) (1), (12), (3), (13), (9), (7), (10), (5)
         through a due, just and
         judicious process                            (D) (1), (2), (3), (4), (8), (7), (11), (6)

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27. Which of the following methods of             30. Which issue of the following is not
    performance appraisal places
                                                      related to talent management ?
    predetermined percentages of rates
    into several performance categories ?             (A) Cost
     (A) Alternation Ranking Method
                                                      (B) Leadership limitations
     (B) Paired comparison Method
                                                      (C) Worker conflicts
     (C) Forced Distribution Method
     (D) Graphic Rating Scale                         (D) Resignation
28. In which of the following states there
                                                  31. The accounting principle that states
    does not exist an enacted law for
    recognition of trade unions ?                     that the companies and owners
     (A) Gujrat                                       should be accounted for separately
     (B) Odisha                                       is ....................
     (C) Rajasthan
                                                      (A) Business entity concept
     (D) Maharashtra
29. Which of the following statements                 (B) Going concern concept
    about CSR provision in the new
    companies Bill passed in Parliament               (C) Monetary unit assumption
    is not true ?                                            concept
     (A) There is provision for minimum
                                                      (D) Periodicity assumption concept
         turnover of Rs. 800 crore
     (B) It is compulsory for a company           32. Four-times stock turnover ratio
         to spend on CSR if its net worth             implies .............. month(s) inventory
         is at least Rs. 500 crore
                                                      holding period.
     (C) The net profit of at least Rs. 5
         crore in a year is a condition for           (A) 1
         compulsory spending on CSR
     (D) The companies have to spend                  (B) 2
         2% of its average profits of three           (C) 3
         years on corporate social
         responsibility                               (D) 4

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33. Which of the following are examples        36. The cost which is to be incurred
    of Funds Flow Statement item ?
                                                   even when a business unit is closed
    (1) Collection of debtors
                                                   is a ............... .
    (2) Shares issued for cash
                                                   (A) imputed cost
    (3) Shares issued against the
         purchase of machine                       (B) historical cost

    (4) Shares issued for property
                                                   (C) sunk cost
    Codes :
                                                   (D) shut down cost
    (A) (1) and (2)
                                               37. Which of the following is affected by
    (B) (1) and (3)
                                                   changes in corporate tax rates ?
    (C) (1) and (4)

    (D) (1), (2), (3) and (4)                      (A) Cost of equity capital

34. Break-even is not affected with                (B) Cost of retained earnings
    changes in .............
                                                   (C) Cost of preference capital
    (A) Sales price per unit

    (B) Variable cost per unit                     (D) Cost of debt capital

    (C) Total fixed costs                      38. The concept of ‘optimum capital

    (D) Number of units sold                       structure’ is associated with :

35. Warehouse rent is a part of ........
                                                   (A) NI approach
    (A) Prime cost
                                                   (B) NOI approach
    (B) Factory cost
                                                   (C) M-M approach
    (C) Direct cost

    (D) Factory overhead                           (D) Traditional approach

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39. ................ is defined as the percentage        42. For a project costing INR 50000/-,
     change in EBIT relative to a given                      the NPV at 10% hurdle rate is INR
     percentage change in sales.
                                                             25000/-. If the life of the project is
     (A) Degree of operating leverage                        5 years, its profitability index (PI)
           (DOL)
                                                             will be .................... .
     (B) Degree of financial leverage
                                                             (A) 0.50
           (DFL)
     (C) Degree of combined leverage                         (B) 0.25
           (DCL)                                             (C) 1.50
     (D) Degree of moderate leverage
                                                             (D) 1.25
           (DML)
                                                         43. Which of the following is a non-DCF
40. The EBIT level at which the EPS
    is the same for two alternative                          technique of capital budgeting ?
     financial plans is referred to as                       (A) ARR
     the ................. .
                                                             (B) IRR
     (A) Break-even point
                                                             (C) NPV
     (B) Point of ROI
     (C) Planned point                                       (D) Discounted PBP

     (D) Indifference point                              44. In order to make capital rationing
41. How long would it take to double the                     decision related to divisible project,
    amount deposited in a fixed income                       the recommended capital budgeting
     security carrying 12% rate of                           technique is ............... .
     interest ?
                                                             (A) NPV
     (A) About 5 years
                                                             (B) IRR
     (B) About 6 years
     (C) About 7 years                                       (C) PI

     (D) About 8 years                                       (D) MIRR

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45. Walter’s model and Gordon’s model                 48. An ................ is a contract that gives
    are applicable to firms in which all                  the holder the right but not
    financing is done through ..............              obligation to buy specified securities
    and with ............. leverage.                      at a specified price on or before a
                                                           specified exercise date.
    (A) Retained earnings, zero
                                                           (A) American put option
    (B) External sources, 100%
                                                           (B) European put option
    (C) Retained earnings, 100%
                                                           (C) American call option
    (D) Preference, zero
                                                           (D) European call option
46. Merger of two firms which are
                                                      49. In the credit term ‘‘2/10 net 30’’, the
    involved in different stages of                       time duration within which a
    distribution and production in same                    customer must pay to be entitled to
    business activity is called ............ .             the discount is ............... .
    (A) Horizontal merger                                  (A) 2 days

    (B) Vertical merger                                    (B) 10 days

    (C) Leveraged Buyout                                   (C) 30 days

    (D) Management Buyout                                  (D) 5 days
                                                      50. An Indian software company having
47. The required rate of return on a
                                                          a subsidiary in the US borrows at
    portfolio with beta of 1.2 is 18%.
                                                          4% in US. If the US dollar is
    What will be the expected return on
                                                           expected to appreciate by 2%, what
    the market portfolio as per CAPM
                                                           is the effective rate of interest for
    if the risk free rate of return is 6% ?                the Indian software company ?
    (A) 12%                                                (A) 2%
    (B) 14%                                                (B) 4%
    (C) 16%                                                (C) 6%

    (D) 18%                                                (D) 8%

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51. Distribution      through      every          54. Demarketing is a concept that can
    reasonable outlet in the market is                be better described as :
    described as :
                                                      (A) Irregular demand management
    (A) Intensive Distribution
                                                      (B) Deliberately reducing demand
    (B) Selective Distribution                            for certain products
    (C) Exclusive Distribution                        (C) Stop marketing of products in
    (D) Micro Distribution                                maturity stage

52. Companies sell a package or set of                (D) Managing latent demand
    goods or services for a lower price
                                                  55. Process by which strategies and
    than they would charge if the
                                                      policies are put into action through
    customer bought all of them
                                                      programs, budgets and procedures is
    separately. This pricing is known as :
                                                      known as :
    (A) Competitive pricing
                                                      (A) Strategy formulation
    (B) Psychological pricing
                                                      (B) Strategy implementation
    (C) Bundle pricing
                                                      (C) Strategy evaluation
    (D) Optional pricing
                                                      (D) Strategy control
53. Choosing one or more segments for
    which to design your marketing                56. Strategy for the Dog quadrant

    strategies is known as :                          products is :

    (A) Targeting                                     (A) Divest

    (B) Segmenting                                    (B) Hold

    (C) Positioning                                   (C) Invest

    (D) Local marketing                               (D) Build

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57. Major      reason       for   adopting         60. The set of decisions and actions that
                                                       result in the formulation and
     Retrenchment strategy is :
                                                       implementation of plans designed to
     (A) Psychological satisfaction                    achieve the company’s objectives is
                                                       called as :
     (B) Less risky
                                                       (A) Functional management
     (C) Continuous loss                               (B) Entrepreneurship

     (D) Expansion is perceived as                     (C) Strategic management
                                                       (D) Disaster management
         threat
                                                   61. When firms leverage an existing
58. The factor responsible for designing               brand name to introduce a new
     the Taxation policy is :                          product in market it is called as :
                                                       (A) Brand extension
     (A) Political factor
                                                       (B) Sub-brand
     (B) Economic factor                               (C) Parent brand
                                                       (D) Product extension
     (C) Social factor
                                                   62. Which of the following is correct to
     (D) Technological factor                          describe about ‘Cookies’ ?

59. Four forces give rise to fifth force in            (A) It analyses the information fed
                                                            so that it is properly cooked
     porter’s 5 forces model. This fifth
                                                       (B) Cookies collect information as a
     force is known as :
                                                            user surfs the web and feed the
     (A) Threat of new entrant                              information back to a web
                                                            server
     (B) Threat of substitute
                                                       (C) It is the name of a website
     (C) Bargaining power of supplier                  (D) It is a name of a company
                                                            which    stores   e-commerce
     (D) Competitive Rivalry
                                                            transactions
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63. In which stage of the product life                  67. Which of the following is not a retail
    cycle, the sales volume is at the                        format ?
    peak ?
                                                             (A) Convenience store
     (A) Introduction                                        (B) Off price retailers
     (B) Growth                                              (C) Departmental stores
     (C) Maturity                                            (D) Wal-mart
     (D) Decline                                        68. Customer retention, repeat business

64. .......... is the added value endowed                    and customer referrals are alternate
    on services and products.                                measures of :

     (A) Brand value                                         (A) Internal service quality
                                                             (B) External service quality
     (B) Brand strategy
                                                             (C) Employee satisfaction
     (C) Brand equity
                                                             (D) Customer loyalty
     (D) Brand premise
                                                        69. ................ is creating an environment
65. Co-production of services is made
                                                             in retail centres which makes it easy
    possible due to ................ inherent in
                                                             for consumers to buy goods.
    the production of services.
                                                             (A) Spatial convenience
     (A) Homogenity
                                                             (B) Lot convenience
     (B) Heterogeneity
                                                             (C) Jobber convenience
     (C) Tangiblity
                                                             (D) Interactive convenience
     (D) Inseparability
                                                        70. A consumer usually purchases .......
66. Which of the following is not a way                      frequently/immediately and with a
    to enter the foreign market ?                            minimum effort.
     (A) Exporting                                           (A) Speciality goods
     (B) Joint venture                                       (B) Personal goods
     (C) Negotiations                                        (C) Convenience goods

     (D) Licensing                                           (D) Shopping goods

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71. Consumers who buy one brand all             75. ‘Are you happy and satisfied’ with
    the time are :                                  our services’ is an example of ........
    (A) Safe core loyal                             type of question.
    (B) Switchers
                                                    (A) Incomplete question
    (C) Shifting loyals
    (D) Hard core loyals                            (B) Double barreled question
72. What do you mean by Big Ben ?                   (C) Leading question
    (A) Application all modules install
        at once                                     (D) No response question

    (B) ERP all modules install at once         76. When the population is divided into
    (C) Technical all modules install at            subsets such that the units within
        once only                                   the subset are as heterogeneous as
    (D) Functional all modules install              possible and are as homogeneous as
        at once only
                                                    possible among themselves, the
73. For a normal curve with mean of 120
                                                    sampling method is called as :
    and standard deviation of 35, what
    proportion (in percent) of the area             (A) Quota Sampling
    under the curve will lie between the
                                                    (B) Systematic Sampling
    values of 85 and 155 ?
    (A) 50.00                                       (C) Stratified Sampling
    (B) 68.26                                       (D) Cluster Sampling
    (C) 72.20
                                                77. Which of the following value of Karl
    (D) 95.44
                                                    Pearson’s correlation coefficient
74. Parametric test, unlike the non-
    parametric tests, make certain                  indicates strongest relationship ?
    assumption about :                              (A) r = 0.02
    (A) The population size
                                                    (B) r = –0.9
    (B) The sample size
    (C) The underlying distribution                 (C) r = 0.0

    (D) The sampling error                          (D) r = –0.04

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78. Which of the following is not an                82. A search engine is a program that :
    assumption of the simple single                      (A) Searches for missing files
    server queuing model ?
                                                         (B) Searches for web pages
     (A) Service times are Poisson
                                                         (C) Searches for data
         distributed
                                                         (D) Searches for portals
     (B) Queue discipline is first come
         first served                               83. ............... is a system where operations
     (C) Mean arrival rate is less than                 like data extraction, transformation
         mean service rate                              and loading operations are executed.
     (D) Arrivals     follow      Poisson                (A) Data staging
         distribution                                    (B) Data integration
79. Which one of the following strategies                (C) ETL
    specifies how the firm will employ
                                                         (D) Data distribution
    its production capabilities to support
                                                    84. Moore’s law predicted that the
    its corporate strategy ?
                                                        number of transistors packed into
     (A) Tactical
                                                        electronic circuits would :
     (B) Operations
                                                         (A) Double every two days
     (C) Manufacturing
                                                         (B) Halve every two years
     (D) Production
80. ............. charts are used to monitor             (C) Double every four years
    the defects per unit.                                (D) Halve every four years
     (A) X chart                                    85. Roger’s model of diffusion of
     (B) p chart                                         innovation is based on :
     (C) c chart                                         (A) The communication of money
     (D) pie chart                                            within populations
81. If the processing equipment is                       (B) The spread of email within
    organised according to the sequence
                                                              populations
    of operations, the layout is called :
                                                         (C) The communication of ideas
     (A) Fixed position layout
                                                              within populations
     (B) Combination layout
                                                         (D) The spread of digital media
     (C) Functional layout
                                                              within populations
     (D) Line layout

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86. Which of the following items in a                88. OGL suggests ...............
    country’s balance of payments is
                                                          (A) Open general license
    classified as ‘‘invisible’’ ?
                                                          (B) Operative government loan
    (A) goods exported
                                                          (C) Operative general loan
    (B) foreign travel by tourist
                                                          (D) Overseas government liability
    (C) government expenditure abroad
                                                     89. (i)   This institution began its
    (D) foreign investment
                                                               operations in 1947.
87. (i)   The principle of comparative
                                                          (ii) This institution promotes
          advantage in the context of
                                                               exchange rate stability.
          foreign trade was put forward
                                                          (iii) This institution was set up after
          firstly by David Ricardo.
                                                               Bretton Woods Conference.
    (ii) The principle of absolute
                                                          The institution referred to above is :
          advantage in the context of
          foreign trade was put forward                   (A) International Monetary Fund
          firstly by Adam Smith.                          (B) International         Bank     for
    What can you say about these                               Reconstruction and Development
    statements ?                                          (C) Bank        for    International
    (A) Both      statement         (i)   and                  Settlements
          statement (ii) are incorrect                    (D) International Finance Corporation
    (B) Statement (i) is correct and                 90. A Website’s front page is called :
          statement (ii) is incorrect
                                                          (A) Browser page
    (C) Statement (i) is incorrect and
                                                          (B) Search page
          statement (ii) is correct
                                                          (C) Home page
    (D) Both      statement         (i)   and
          statement (ii) are correct                      (D) Bookmark

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91. (i)   The share of OECD countries in              93. The MSME sector do not comprise
          India’s    foreign     trade     is
                                                          of the following :
          consistently rising.

    (ii) The    share     of   developing                 (A) Manufacturing

          countries in India’s foreign                    (B) Service Industry
          trade is consistently falling.
                                                          (C) Logistics and Infrastructure
    What can you say about these
    statements ?                                          (D) Agricultural Promotion Schemes
    (A) Both        statement      (i)   and          94. Which among the following is an
          statement (ii) are incorrect
                                                          asset for a commercial bank ?
    (B) Both        statement      (i)   and
          statement (ii) are correct                      (A) Credit to farmers

    (C) Statement (i) is correct and                      (B) Deposit of public
          statement (ii) is incorrect
                                                          (C) Borrowing from RBI
    (D) Statement (i) is incorrect and
          statement (ii) is correct                       (D) Demand Deposit of Industries

92. The Gramin Bank originated in                     95. Small scale industries are also
    1976 in the work of ................... at
                                                          known as MSME’s are defined and
    University of Chittagong, who
                                                          categorized by Micro, Small and
    launched research project to study
    how to design credit delivery system                  Medium Enterprises Development
    to provide banking services to the                    Act ................... .
    rural poor.
                                                          (A) 2007
    (A) Prof. Mufti Muhammed Taqui

    (B) Prof. Shaikh Abdul Sattar                         (B) 2006

    (C) Prof. Muhammad Yunus                              (C) 2008

    (D) Prof. Umar Chapra                                 (D) 2012

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96. Which of the following is the final           98. Women entrepreneurs are defined as

     step of a comprehensive feasibility               these who operate and control an
                                                       enterprise and their holding in the
     analysis ?
                                                       enterprise is at least .............. %
     (A) Financial feasibility analysis
                                                       (A) 21%
     (B) Marketing research                            (B) 33%
     (C) Filing articles of incorporation              (C) 90%

     (D) Industry/market feasibility                   (D) 51%
         analysis                                 99. .............. is one method of stimulating,
                                                       and then capitalizing on, individuals
97. Which of the following is not a factor
                                                       in an organization who think that
     in stimulating innovation within a
                                                       something can be done differently
     nation ?
                                                       and better.
     (A) Competition         stimulates                (A) Strategic orientation
         investment, cost reduction and
                                                       (B) Capitalization
         general improvement
                                                       (C) Management
     (B) There are strong support
                                                       (D) Intrapreneurship
         industries
                                                  100. Which of the following is not an
     (C) Knowledgable customers in the                 internal factor that influences
         home market-maintain pressure                 entrepreneurs ?

         for improvement                               (A) Political Environment

     (D) Growing       industries     are              (B) Economic condition

         protected from international                  (C) Personal factors
         competition                                   (D) Social environment

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Source: Savitribai Phule Pune University. Question paper published by Savitribai Phule Pune University.