Public Administration 2010

**The line-item budget covers:**A. inputs onlyB. outputs onlyC. inputs and outputsD. neither inputs nor outputs Show Answer Correct Answer: A. inputs only

**Performance budget covers:**A. inputs onlyB. outputs onlyC. neither inputs nor outputsD. inputs and outputs Show Answer Correct Answer: D. inputs and outputs

**The emphasis of the politics-administration dichotomy is on:**A. the focus or “what” of public administrationB. the actors or “who” of public administrationC. the span or “when” of public administrationD. the locus or “where” of public administration Show Answer Correct Answer: A. the focus or “what” of public administration

**The essential difference between management-by-objectives and planning-programming-budgeting is that:**A. MBO does not necessarily focus on inputsB. MBO does not necessarily focus on outputsC. MBO does not necessarily focus on alternativesD. MBO necessarily focus on alternatives Show Answer Correct Answer: D. MBO necessarily focus on alternatives

**Gulick and Urwick’s POSDCORB anagram was:**A. reference to the locus of public administrationB. a listing of when to utilize public administrationC. an expression of administrative principles to followD. a means of identifying the problem associate with bureaucracy Show Answer Correct Answer: C. an expression of administrative principles to follow

**One of the salient feature of civil service system of Pakistan is:**A. preference for contract appointmentsB. preference for professionalsC. preference for generalistsD. preference for doctors Show Answer Correct Answer: C. preference for generalists

**The three components that compromise publicness and privateness in society are:**A. bureaucracy, consistency and budgetB. administration, management and organizationC. execution, regulation and structureD. agency, access, interest Show Answer Correct Answer: C. execution, regulation and structure

**Public goods differ from private goods on the basis of:**A. priceB. deliveryC. exclusionD. public interest Show Answer Correct Answer: C. exclusion

**Simon refuted the administrative ___________.**A. Revealing the administrative principlesB. Showing that for every principle there is a counter-principleC. Explaining that administrative principles can only be used in complex organizationD. None of these Show Answer Correct Answer: B. Showing that for every principle there is a counter-principle

**The New Public Management can be best described as:**A. Public administration in 21st centuryB. Bureaucratic model of public administrationC. Application of business practices in public managementD. A mechanism for improving service delivery Show Answer Correct Answer: C. Application of business practices in public management