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SME Management (MGT601)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Objective Questions

  1. In Pakistan SMEs have a significant contribution in the total GDP of Pakistan, according to SMEDA and Economic survey reports, the share in the annual GDP is _______.

    1. 30%
    2. 35%
    3. 40%
    4. 45%
  2. Following factors can be assessed by cash flow statement EXCEPT:

    1. Company’s need of cash for procurements
    2. Company’s need for external financing
    3. Company’s ability to generate positive cash flows
    4. Company’s ability to pay dividends
  3. Adam Smith, father of Economics, referred to small business as the:

    1. Wealth of nation
    2. Steady growth
    3. Backbone of economy
    4. None of the given
  4. What kind of management level training is required for SME a sector that is not provided by Pakistan institute of Management Sciences (PIMS)?

    1. Top Level Management
    2. Middle Level Management
    3. Low Level Management
    4. Corporate Level Management
  5. Which of the following is the expressed form of PLC?

    1. Product Learning Cycle
    2. Production Length Cycle
    3. Product Life Cycle
    4. Product lifetime Customers
  6. "Job lock" encourages entrepreneur to pursue his/her own business.

    1. True
    2. False
  7. Which of the following segmentation types has characteristics like traits, attitudes, interests, or lifestyles of potential customer groups?

    1. Behavior segmentation
    2. Demographic segmentation
    3. Geographic segmentation
    4. Psychographic segmentation
  8. Before the partition of Sub-continent which city was the industrial hub in the continent?

    1. Dhaka
    2. Calcutta
    3. Bombay
    4. Karachi
  9. Entrepreneurial thinking has a positive impact on the growth of SMEs.

    1. True
    2. False
  10. Entrepreneur is a person who is:

    1. An innovator
    2. Firm's owner
    3. Risk taker
    4. All of the given
  11. Which of the following can be abbreviated as ILO?

    1. International Labour Order
    2. Industrial Legal Order
    3. Industrial Labour Order
    4. International Labour Organization
  12. Imitating entrepreneurs depend on the _______.

    1. government
    2. private firms
    3. developing countries
    4. advanced countries
  13. There are how many types of businesses?

    1. two
    2. three
    3. four
    4. five
  14. What kind of resources are utilized by small businesses as compare to large ones?

    1. Primary Resources
    2. Secondary Resources
    3. Macro Resources
    4. Surplus Resources
  15. Which of the following is true about today’s global economy?

    1. Knowledge Based Economy
    2. Industrial Based Economy
    3. Economy of Socialism
    4. Capital Economy
  16. In which year the restructuring of Small Business Finance Corporation (SBFC) was done?

    1. 1998
    2. 2000
    3. 2001
    4. 2002
  17. Which one of the following entrepreneurs duplicates existing activities and put them into practice without any expenditure on research?

    1. Innovating entrepreneurs
    2. Imitating Entrepreneur
    3. Fabian Entrepreneurs
    4. Drone Entrepreneurs
  18. What percent of SMEs are the member of business associations?

    1. 50%
    2. 52%
    3. 54%
    4. 56%
  19. Imitating entrepreneurs depend on the ________.

    1. government
    2. society
    3. innovating entrepreneurs
    4. All of the given
  20. SMEs are considered as engines of _______ growth in both developed and developing countries.

    1. business
    2. GDP
    3. economic
    4. none of these
  21. A business is said to be medium sized business if total strength of employees is greater than 36 and less than 99 and total productive assets valued Rs 40 Million. This definition is coined by which of the following institution of Pakistan?

    1. State Bank of Pakistan
    2. SME Bank of Pakistan
    3. SMEDA
    4. Lahore Chamber of Commerce
  22. In recent years, per worker productivity of Pakistani labour force has decreased up to what percent as compared to China's per worker productivity?

    1. 25%
    2. 30%
    3. 35%
    4. 40%
  23. Which of the following is the indigenous product of Pakistan?

    1. Kinno
    2. Software
    3. Dates
    4. Dairy Product
  24. SMEDA was established in _______ to take on the challenge of developing Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan.

    1. October 1997
    2. November 1997
    3. October 1998
    4. November 1998
  25. What kind of activity is taking place when department manager provides a complete tour of company or plant to the new member?

    1. Appraisal
    2. Orientation
    3. Training
    4. Socialization
  26. According to a research conducted by SMEDA and UNIDO, what is the percentage of small firms which avail the facility of loan from banks and other financial institutions?

    1. 16%
    2. 18%
    3. 25%
    4. 30%
  27. In 1959 Bison and Meyers replaced the terms with “management” and “organization” for ________.

    1. entrepreneurship
    2. entrepreneur
    3. business
    4. administration
  28. Generally in what terms performance of an employee is evaluated?

    1. Quality
    2. Quantity
    3. Time
    4. All of the given
  29. Following are the financial institutions developed to promote SME in Pakistan EXCEPT:

    1. Segmented Business Fund Corporation (SBFC)
    2. Youth Investment Promotion Scheme (YIPS)
    3. Regional Development Finance Corporation (RDFC)
    4. Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan (IDBP)
  30. To which category SME belongs if the number of employees is not more than 50, total assets up to 50 million and sales not exceeding Rs. 300 million.

    1. Manufacturing
    2. Trading/Services
    3. Cottage industry
    4. Exporting
  31. What is the basic purpose of a cash flow statement for an entrepreneur in an accounting period?

    1. Provides information about investments
    2. Provides information about financing activities
    3. Provides information about cash inflows and outflows
    4. All of the given options
  32. Which one of the following parameters is considered in declaring a business as a small business?

    1. Share in the economy
    2. Number of competitors
    3. Resources control
    4. Volume of production
  33. Owners also play the role of managers for SMEs, due to its limited structure and centralized decisions making.

    1. True
    2. False
  34. Which of the following statement is True?

    1. There is a close relationship between industry & technology.
    2. The relationship between industry and technology is waived.
    3. Both are independent and not affected by each other.
    4. Technology always follows the industrial change
  35. Albert Shapiro had described external factors for an entrepreneur in his psychological analysis, which of the following is NOT integrated in those factors?

    1. Luck
    2. Decision making power
    3. Fate
    4. All of the given
  36. To ensure profits entrepreneurs always avoid risks and abrupt changes.

    1. True
    2. False
  37. What is the average mean age of entrepreneur of Pakistan according to a survey conducted by World Bank?

    1. 40 Years
    2. 43 Years
    3. 45 Years
    4. None of the given options
  38. Which of the following year was considered as starting period of industrialization in Pakistan?

    1. 1947
    2. 1950
    3. 1955
    4. 1960
  39. Which of the following is true for quality control in engineering and manufacturing?

    1. It is a set of measures taken to ensure that defective products are not produced
    2. It is a set of measures taken to ensure that defective services are not produced
    3. It is a set of measures taken to ensure that the design meets performance requirements.
    4. All of the given
  40. SMEDA is an SME ______ body for the government of Pakistan but also facilitates other stakeholders in addressing their SME development agendas.

    1. Policy making
    2. Policy advisory
    3. Policy implementing
    4. all of these
  41. What kind of business transaction was reported in the first written material available about a small business?

    1. Purchase of land for business
    2. Loan from bank for business
    3. Purchase of machinery for business
    4. Sale of business products
  42. Fabian Entrepreneurs belongs to _______.

    1. middle class
    2. family business
    3. partnership business
    4. ruling class
  43. In technical feasibility, you can identify all of the following critical technical specifications EXCEPT:

    1. Durability
    2. Reliability of performance
    3. Safety
    4. Sales volume and profitability
  44. Which of the following enlisted the 12 common barriers in the path of entrepreneurship?

    1. Vesper
    2. Weber
    3. Drucker
    4. Adam Smith
  45. Which of the following is an external source of information for new product idea?

    1. Analysis of concepts in the light of existing problems
    2. Search of memories to find information related to the concept
    3. Newspapers, trade journals, professional journals
    4. Recombining the elements found in new and useful ways
  46. Which of the following is NOT a prime outcome of a training program in an organization?

    1. Increase in proficiency
    2. Organizational growth
    3. Personal growth
    4. Increase number of workplace accidents
  47. The main objective of an entrepreneur is to have ________ in his/her work.

    1. consistency
    2. value creation
    3. free hand
    4. none of the given
  48. Which one of the following parameters is considered in declaring a business as a small scale business?

    1. Share in the economy
    2. Number of competitors
    3. Resources control
    4. Volume of production
  49. SMEDA is directly associated with which of the following ministries?

    1. Ministry of Commerce
    2. Ministry of Economic Affairs & Statistics
    3. Ministry of Industry and Production
    4. Ministry of Planning & Development
  50. How many major changes an entrepreneur of a small business can bring in the industry?

    1. 3
    2. 4
    3. 5
    4. 6
  51. What kind of link will exist between small and business sectors if a portion of all the material available is procured by the small unit who manufactures a specific part needed by large company?

    1. Merchandising
    2. Purchase sub-contracting
    3. Complementary products
    4. Job sub-contracting
  52. Which one of the following is not an internal factor as described by Albert Shapiro in his psychological analysis?

    1. Vision
    2. Determination
    3. Decision making power
    4. Fate
  53. In retailing business, how much percent have owner share in the business?

    1. 70%
    2. 80%
    3. 90%
    4. 99%
  54. According to which institution of Pakistan, a business will fall in medium scale business category, if it has productive asset less than Rs.100 million and there is no limit of number of employees.

    1. Youth Investment Promotion Scheme (YIPS)
    2. Small Business Finance Corporation (SBFC)
    3. Directorate of Industries Balochistan (DIB)
    4. Small Industries Development Board (SIDB)
  55. Following are the basic reasons behind low tax base in Pakistan EXCEPT?

    1. High cost of book keeping
    2. Harassment of tax authorities
    3. Non cooperative role of CBR
    4. High physiological cost
  56. How many years ago the first piece of writing about the small business was discovered?

    1. 3000 years
    2. 3500 years
    3. 4000 years
    4. 4500 years
  57. Technological obsolescence, low capacity utilization, non-availability of spares and poor machinery maintenance are the postoperative problems that can be emerged in which of the following areas?

    1. Production
    2. Capital
    3. Customer
    4. Sale
  58. Which of the following CANNOT be accessed by performance appraisal?

    1. Traits
    2. Behaviors
    3. Task outcomes
    4. Attitudes
  59. According to a research conducted by SMEDA and UNIDO, what is the percentage of large firms that avails the facility of loan from banks and other financial institutions?

    1. 67%
    2. 80%
    3. 75%
    4. 83%
  60. EPB stands for:

    1. Employee Promotion Bureau
    2. Export Producing Benefits
    3. Employee Pension Benefits
    4. Export Promotion Bureau
  61. In which of the following source of information, an entrepreneur can get new idea by screening the product physically.

    1. Trade Fairs
    2. Ancillarisation
    3. Trade Journals
    4. Catalogues
  62. Pakistan’s economy heavily depends on the _______.

    1. export
    2. small & medium size firms
    3. agriculture
    4. manufacturing
  63. SMEs provide opportunity to rural and urban women to utilize their vocational skills while staying at their homes.

    1. True
    2. False
  64. According to the definition of SMEDA Pakistan “a business with employment size up to 250, paid up capital up to 25 million and annual sales up to 250 million is said to be small and medium business”. In which year this definition has been presented?

    1. SME Policy 2002
    2. SME Policy 2004
    3. SME Policy 2005
    4. SME Policy 2007
  65. What is the average mean age of entrepreneur in Korea according to a survey conducted by World Bank?

    1. 24 Years
    2. 82 Years
    3. 69 Years
    4. 46 Years
  66. Which one of the following is usually taken as a synonym of "Venture capital".

    1. Seed capital
    2. Paid-up capital
    3. Gross capital
    4. None of the given
  67. ________ is a response by the companies in industries where it is common for highly compensated employees to frequently move from one firm to another.

    1. Distractor
    2. Social Stigma
    3. Golden handcuffs
    4. Complacency
  68. What kind of business transaction was reported in the first written material available on small business?

    1. Purchase of land for business
    2. Loan from bank for business
    3. Purchase of machinery for business
    4. Purchase of material for business
  69. Until 2000, 79 member countries of WTO have maintained a list of MFN (Most Favorite Nation) exemptions. The list contains how many exemptions?

    1. 360
    2. 370
    3. 380
    4. 390
  70. Which of the following is abbreviated as NPC?

    1. National Planning Committee
    2. National Planning Council
    3. National Press Committee
    4. National Press Competition
  71. SME's usually have a formalized grand structure to manage routine operations.

    1. True
    2. False
  72. An entrepreneur should have technical, conceptual and human skills.

    1. True
    2. False
  73. Corporations are considered as one of the forms of SME.

    1. True
    2. False
  74. Which of the following termed is acronym as NEQS?

    1. National Environment Quality Standards
    2. National Environmental Qualification System
    3. National Environmental Qualification Standard
    4. National Environment Quality System
  75. The successful entrepreneur who is/has _______.

    1. self-disciplined
    2. leading skills
    3. authority
    4. communication skills
  76. If a person is evaluated high on many traits because of a belief that the individual is high in one trait. This perception is affected by which of the following effects?

    1. Contrast
    2. Dominance
    3. Halo
    4. Perceptual
  77. ________ entrepreneurs are the owners as well as themselves employees of the organization.

    1. Innovating
    2. Imitating
    3. Fabian
    4. Single owner
  78. Following are the main functions of Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) EXCEPT:

    1. Technology transfer
    2. Vocational infrastructure
    3. Financial assistance
    4. Entrepreneurial Development
  79. In the formation of SMEs, the most benefited from this sector ________.

    1. lower class
    2. middle class
    3. both a & b
    4. upper class
  80. According to Gallup survey 2001, which of the following factor is responsible for the decline of export in Pakistan?

    1. Infrastructure
    2. Law and order
    3. Taxation
    4. Literacy
  81. Why small businesses became object of contempt in Egyptians, Arabs, Babylonians, Jews, Greeks and Roman eras?

    1. Poor salesmanship of entrepreneur
    2. Lack of desired skills of workforce
    3. Cheating and degrading of consumers
    4. Competitor's negative propaganda
  82. The development process was initiated in the sixties and the concept of development derived its origin from the _______ of small enterprise development.

    1. Indian model
    2. Ayubian model
    3. Calcutta
    4. Dhaka
  83. According to which country an enterprise will be a small enterprise if its number of employees is less than 10?

    1. USA
    2. Russia
    3. France
    4. Japan
  84. An entrepreneur not only innovates to cater market, but it also:

    1. Avert risk to avoid unexpected changes
    2. Exit the struggling markets to avoid losses
    3. Sustain the position through continues development
    4. All of the given
  85. _______ is/are used to describe the inability of an employee to freely leave a job because doing so will result in the loss of employee benefits.

    1. Job Lockin
    2. Golden handcuffs
    3. Social stigma
    4. Job Lockin & Golden handcuffs
  86. Which of the following national institute had conducted a survey about the development of SME in Pakistan with the collaboration of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)?

    1. Lahore Chamber of Commerce
    2. SME Bank
    3. Ministry of Trade
    4. SMEDA
  87. Family trend plays a vital role in making business choice in SMEs.

    1. True
    2. False
  88. What kind of an entrepreneur will he/she be, IF he/she follows the old traditions, avoids risk taking and responds to change only in situations where it becomes necessary to do so?

    1. Innovative
    2. Imitating
    3. Fabian
    4. Drone
  89. NGOs are ________ based organizations with their own management structure.

    1. social
    2. community
    3. economic
    4. social & community
  90. According to one study, what percentage of Japan's economy consists of SME's?

    1. 21%
    2. 41%
    3. 91%
    4. 61%
  91. How are the large and small enterprises interlinked?

    1. By fostering changes
    2. By subcontracting
    3. By sharing risk
    4. By serving the same market
  92. What type of industry it will be if number of employees ranges from 36 to 99 and productive assets ranges from 20 to 40 million?

    1. Micro
    2. Small
    3. Medium
    4. Large
  93. Entrepreneurship is a:

    1. Type of offered product
    2. Function of an organization
    3. Act of bringing innovation
    4. All of the given
  94. What is the average mean age of entrepreneur of Pakistan according to a survey conducted by World Bank?

    1. 22 Years
    2. 67 Years
    3. 42 Years
    4. None of the given
  95. According to research conducted in MIT, Harvard University, USA, following are the main objectives for a technology entrepreneur EXCEPT:

    1. Creating something novel and useful
    2. Creditability
    3. Building long-term value
    4. Freedom
  96. The rate of interest charged for soft loan is at _________.

    1. Below market rate
    2. Above market rate
    3. Twice the market rate
    4. Without considering the market rate.
  97. Who is the secretary general of National Planning Committee (NPC) developed in 1938?

    1. MR . K.T. Shah
    2. MR . K.Y. Shah
    3. MR . K.S. Shah
    4. MR . K.K. Shah
  98. How many craftsman colonies were developed by Sindh Small Industries Corporation (SSIC)? (as per survey 2001)

    1. 2
    2. 4
    3. 6
    4. 10
  99. Which of the following topic/s has/have pivoted importance for short to medium term issues?

    1. Delivery of Assistance and Access to Resources
    2. Business Environment
    3. Monitoring Developments
    4. All of the given options
  100. Which of the following is an expressed form of IPO?

    1. Initial Public Offering
    2. International Public Office
    3. Initial Price Offer
    4. Imitating Public Officer