Public Administration MCQs 2010

In terms of public administration, one defines a system:
A. According to the organizational structure
B. According to the administrative effectiveness
C. According to problem one wishes to resolve
D. According to the amount of resource available

The advantage of systems approach is:
A. It allows us to disregard the differences in world views
B. It allows means and ends to remain ambiguous
C. It forces us to delineate the differences and similarities in world views and improves efficiency and effectiveness
D. It allows for new and fresh solutions to old and distressing problems

According to humanists approach, the management scientist’s system is incomplete because:
A. It fails to factor in the variable of environment and instability
B. It fails to account for the variable of uniquely human qualities such as genius and despair
C. It gives too much emphasis to the variable of uniquely human qualities
D. It does not consider quantifiable and measurable variables

The purpose of decision tree is:
A. decision alternatives
B. cost analysis
C. project coordination
D. time analysis

The line-item budget covers:
A. inputs only
B. outputs only
C. inputs and outputs
D. neither inputs nor outputs

Performance budget covers:
A. inputs only
B. outputs only
C. neither inputs nor outputs
D. inputs and outputs

The emphasis of the politics-administration dichotomy is on:
A. the focus or “what” of public administration
B. the actors or “who” of public administration
C. the span or “when” of public administration
D. the locus or “where” of public administration

The essential difference between management-by-objectives and planning-programming-budgeting is that:
A. MBO does not necessarily focus on inputs
B. MBO does not necessarily focus on outputs
C. MBO does not necessarily focus on alternatives
D. MBO necessarily focus on alternatives

Gulick and Urwick’s POSDCORB anagram was:
A. reference to the locus of public administration
B. a listing of when to utilize public administration
C. an expression of administrative principles to follow
D. a means of identifying the problem associate with bureaucracy

One of the salient feature of civil service system of Pakistan is:
A. preference for contract appointments
B. preference for professionals
C. preference for generalists
D. preference for doctors