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NTA NET Management December-2013 Solved Paper II
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- The Marshallian utility analysis is based on a less valid assumption of
- Cardinal measurement of utility
- Constant marginal utility of money
- Diminishing marginal utility of goods
- Additivity of the utility
Answer: b
- An appropriate pricing strategy for a new product to be introduced in the market will be
- Average/Marginal cost-plus pricing
- Skimming/Penetrating pricing
- Product-line pricing
- Differential pricing
Answer: b
- Economic capacity of a plant represents the firm՚s capability for
- Maximum physical output
- Maximum marginal output
- Break-even level of output and sale
- Output that equates average and marginal costs
Answer: d
- Multi-stage approach to product pricing in a firm involves considerations for setting the price as follows:
- Selection of firm՚s objective
- Composition of marketing-mix
- Selection of target market
- Selection of pricing policy and strategy
Indicate correct sequence:
- 4 ⇾ 2 ⇾ 1 ⇾ 3
- 3 ⇾ 1 ⇾ 2 ⇾ 4
- 2 ⇾ 4 ⇾ 3 ⇾ 1
- 1 ⇾ 3 ⇾ 2 ⇾ 4
Answer: b
- Which one of the following practices is not sought to be regulated under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986?
- Sales of defective goods
- Supply of services having some deficiency
- Misleading advertisements
- Goods supplied free of charge
Answer: d
- The leadership prototype
- is useful primarily for selection and training of employees
- Uses LPC (Least Preferred Co-worker) as an important component
- Depicts the image of a model leader
- Emphasizes leadership development
Answer: c
- Which is not a perceptual process stage?
- Attention/selection
- Interpretation
- Follow-through
- Retrieval
Answer: a
- Which statement is correct?
- Goals act as the set of constraints that an organisation must satisfy.
- Deterministic goals specify the end or direction towards which the organization applies its efforts, and they can be fairly determined.
- Goals may be categorised as deterministic and constraint goals.
- All of the above:
Answer: d
- According to Fiedler՚s Contingency Model of Leadership, which one of the following is not situational variable?
- Leader-Member relations
- Task structure
- Position power
- Maturity of followers
Answer: d
- Which is not a centralized communication network system?
- Wheel Network
- Y-shaped Network
- Circle Network
- Chain Network
Answer: c
- Why is ‘procedural justice’ important in the context of the management of misconduct?
- It reflects on the integrity of HR professionals.
- It ensures that individuals have a sense that they have been treated fairly.
- It reflects on the values and attitudes of top management.
- It protects the interest of daily wage earners.
Answer: b
- To be effective a points-based rating system requires:
- Close management control
- Comprehensive, relable and consistent information
- Objectivity in assessments
- 360° assessment
Answer: b
- Too much of reliance on internal recruitment can result in
- Reduced job performance
- High labour turnover
- Internal conflict
- Poor group dynamics
Answer: a
- The concept of stagnation in the context of HRM means:
- Lack of appropriate selection criteria.
- HR staff having very limited experience outside the HR functions.
- Over-reliance on the internal labour market to fill new positions.
- Lack of integration of recruitment and selection into the wider human resource function.
Answer: b
- Negotiations are an important aspect of the collective-bargaining process. What do they ensure?
- That conflict is contained within manageable boundaries.
- That there is an agreement between all parties involved.
- That conflict is always resolved.
- It achieves a set of lasting agreements.
Answer: a
- If the going rate of interest is above the coupon rate, the bond will sell:
- At a Premium
- At a Discount
- At Par
- None of the above
Answer: b
- In case the sales or project՚s investment deviates from expected ones, it needs
- Optimistic scenario analysis
- Sensitivity analysis
- Simulation analysis
- Financial break-even analysis
Answer: b
- ‘Trading on equity’ refers to
- Optimum capital structure
- Appropriate capitalisation
- Capital gearing
- Watered capital
Answer: c
- Match the items of two lists, giving the correct code:
List-I List-II - Dividend Capitalisation Model
- Dividend Relevance Model
- Dividend Irrelevance Model
- Dividend Payout Model
- John Lintner
- James E. Walter
- Myron Gordon
- Modigliani & Miller
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 2
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 3
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 2
Answer: c
- The excess payment by the new company to the amalgamating companies for the appraised value of the assets and liabilities taken over is accounted as
- Capital Reserve
- Bonus Share Capital
- Goodwill
- Amount paid for the acquisition of the brand
Answer: c
- Which of the following is direct marketing?
- Face to-face marketing
- Catalogue marketing
- Direct mailing
- Test marketing
Answer: a
- In marketing research, primary data can be collected through
- Observational Method
- Survey Method
- Experimental Method
- All of the above
Answer: d
- Holistic marketing does not include
- Internal Marketing
- Integrated Marketing
- Performance Marketing
- Financial Marketing
Answer: d
- Which of the following is not a distinctive characteristic of services?
- Transparency
- Intangibility
- Inseparability
- Perishability
Answer: d
- To remain dominant, a market leader looks for
- Ways to expand total market demand
- Attempting to protect its current share
- Increasing its market share
- all of the above
Answer: d
- Consider the names of organisations/persons listed in List-I and their role/functions given in List-II:
List-I List-II - Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
- Zeithmal, Parasuraman and Berry
- ISO
- National Assessment and Accreditation Council
- Measurement of Service quality
- Measurement of quality of Educational service
- Standardisation and quality control of manufactured goods
- Quality marking and Certification of standards
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 2
Answer: d
- In Linear Programming, which one of the following cases is not a type of senstivity analysis?
- Model building
- Objective-function ranging
- Pricing out
- Right hand-side ranging
Answer: a
- The upper control limit for an X chart, with n = 9, = 26.7, R = 5.3 and d2 = 2.970, is
- 24.9
- 26.11
- 27.29
- 28.48
Answer: d
- The additional cost of shortening an activity by one unit of time is
- Cost slope
- Crash cost
- Crash time
- Least cost
Answer: a
- Which method is least suited for forecasting the demand of a new product?
- Survey of Buyers ′ Intentions
- Composite Opinions of Sales Force
- Test Marketing
- Time-Series Analysis
Answer: d
- In a hypothesis test, α = 0.05 and β = 0.10, the power of the test is
- 0.10
- 0.90
- 0.95
- 0.15
Answer: b
- When performing a Chi-square hypothesis test, what happens when expected frequencies in several cells are too small?
- Value of χ2 will be overestimated.
- The null hypothesis will be more likely to be rejected than it should be.
- The degrees of freedom are greatly reduced.
- A and (B) , but not (C) .
Answer: d
- Under which situation, the method of ‘experimentation, modeling and sensitivity analysis’ is used to determine the information requirements of the management?
- Total Uncertainty
- High Risk
- Low Risk
- Certainty
Answer: a
- The technique (s) that can be used in data mining is/are:
- Non-linear Regression Methods
- Decision tree
- Neural networks
- All of the above
Answer: d
- A Binomial distribution may be approximated by a Poisson distribution, if:
- ‘n’ is large and ‘p’ is large.
- ‘n’ is small and ‘p’ is large.
- ‘n’ is small and ‘p’ is small.
- ‘n’ is large and ‘p’ is small.
Codes:
- 1,2 and 3
- 2 only
- 3 and 4 only
- 4 only
Answer: d
- Double taxation relief is normally provided by the country in which the parent company has its legal residence. It is provided in the following modes:
- Credit system without deferral
- Credit system with deferral
- Deduction of tax paid abroad as expenditure
- Investment credit
- Tax subsidy
Identify the correct combination.
Codes:
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 1,2, 4 and 5
- 2,3, 4 and 5
- 1,2, 3 and 5
Answer: a
- The strategies of a global firm are affected by the following factors:
- Different countries have different labour mixes.
- The legal, economic, social and cultural environment varies from one country to another.
- Different countries have different time lines and geographical boundaries.
- Political relationship between the home country and the host country.
Indicate the correct combination.
Codes:
- 1,2 and 3
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- 1 and 2 only
Answer: c
- Match the items of List-I and List-II:
List-I List-II - UNCTAD I
- UNCTAD II
- UNCTAD X
- UNCTAD XI
- India
- Brazil
- Thailand
- Switzerland
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 2
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
Answer: a
- In the context of International Business, whether an equal distribution of income in the host country:
- Has nothing to do with the MNCs market segmentation strategy.
- Matters greatly to the MNCs market segmentation strategy.
- Has little impact on the MNCs market segmentation strategy.
- Has a significant impact on the MNCs market segmentation strategy if the economy is at the take-off stage.
Answer: a
- Statement A: Cost of retained earnings is included in the cost of equity in the context of international business. Statement B: Interest rate swap and currency swap are used interchangeably in international business.
- Statement A is true, but Statement B is false.
- Statement A is false, but Statement B is true.
- Both the statements A and B are true.
- Both the Statements A and B are false.
Answer: d
- Who said – “An entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploit it as an opportunity.”
- James Burna
- McClelland
- Peter F. Drucker
- Robert C. Ronstadt
Answer: c
- ‘Kakinada Experiment’ on achievement motivation was conducted in
- Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Andhra Pradesh
- Gujarat
Answer: c
- The entrepreneurial process consists of the following steps:
- Management of the resulting enterprise.
- Determination of the required resources.
- Identification and evaluation of the opportunity.
- Development of the business plan.
Indicate the correct sequence.
Codes:
- 3 4 1 2
- 4 1 3 2
- 3 4 2 1
- 4 1 2 3
Answer: c
- Match the items given in List-I and List-II:
List-I List-II - Market Research
- Financial Plan
- Ownership
- Marketing Plan
- Sales promotion
- Form of business
- Budgeting
- Exploring market opportunity
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
Answer: c
- TePP stands for
- Technology for Promotion and Production
- Trade for Profitability and Productivity
- Technopreneur Promotion Programme
- None of the above
Answer: c
- Indo-American Model of Corporate Governance sets top most priority to
- Busness growth
- Customers
- Employees
- Shareholders
Answer: d
- A good governance in corporate sector depends upon
- Strong political will
- Transparency and accountability
- Trade Union practices
- Social and political responses
Answer: b
- Corporate leaders in India in private sector are tempted by a very high target of ________ and the concerned employees have to achieve the target for promotion and stability.
- Money making
- Business growth
- Product development
- Profit
Answer: d
- Corporate business ethics is ________ norms and pattern that spring from organizational view of good and bad, right and wrong.
- Social
- Behavioural
- Institutional
- Individual
Answer: b
- Trade Union strike supporting a political cause and affecting production activities is a problem related to
- Socio-economic phenomenon
- Ethical and technical phenomenon
- Ethical and economic phenomenon
- Socio-political phenomenon
Answer: c