SME Management (MGT601)

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. 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

3. SMEs are considered as engines of _______ growth in both developed and developing countries.

   1. business
   2. GDP
   3. economic
   4. none of these

4. Following are the main functions of Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) EXCEPT:

   1. Technology transfer
   2. Vocational infrastructure
   3. Financial assistance
   4. Entrepreneurial Development

5. 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

6. Owners also play the role of managers for SMEs, due to its limited structure and centralized decisions making.

   1. True
   2. False

7. In retailing business, how much percent have owner share in the business?

   1. 70%
   2. 80%
   3. 90%
   4. 99%

8. 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

9. 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

10. Which of the following enlisted the 12 common barriers in the path of entrepreneurship?

    1. Vesper
    2. Weber
    3. Drucker
    4. Adam Smith

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. How many craftsman colonies were developed by Sindh Small Industries Corporation (SSIC)? (as per survey 2001)

    1. 2
    2. 4
    3. 6
    4. 10

15. 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

16. 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

17. Entrepreneur is a person who is:

    1. An innovator
    2. Firm's owner
    3. Risk taker
    4. All of the given

18. 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.

19. How many major changes an entrepreneur of a small business can bring in the industry?

    1. 3
    2. 4
    3. 5
    4. 6

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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%

23. 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

24. Entrepreneurial thinking has a positive impact on the growth of SMEs.

    1. True
    2. False

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. SMEs provide opportunity to rural and urban women to utilize their vocational skills while staying at their homes.

    1. True
    2. False

29. What percent of SMEs are the member of business associations?

    1. 50%
    2. 52%
    3. 54%
    4. 56%

30. To ensure profits entrepreneurs always avoid risks and abrupt changes.

    1. True
    2. False

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. NGOs are ________ based organizations with their own management structure.

    1. social
    2. community
    3. economic
    4. social & community

35. 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

36. Entrepreneurship is a:

    1. Type of offered product
    2. Function of an organization
    3. Act of bringing innovation
    4. All of the given

37. 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

38. The successful entrepreneur who is/has _______.

    1. self-disciplined
    2. leading skills
    3. authority
    4. communication skills

39. "Job lock" encourages entrepreneur to pursue his/her own business.

    1. True
    2. False

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. Which of the following is the indigenous product of Pakistan?

    1. Kinno
    2. Software
    3. Dates
    4. Dairy Product

45. Pakistan’s economy heavily depends on the _______.

    1. export
    2. small & medium size firms
    3. agriculture
    4. manufacturing

46. 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)

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. Imitating entrepreneurs depend on the _______.

    1. government
    2. private firms
    3. developing countries
    4. advanced countries

54. SME's usually have a formalized grand structure to manage routine operations.

    1. True
    2. False

55. 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

56. 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

57. Before the partition of Sub-continent which city was the industrial hub in the continent?

    1. Dhaka
    2. Calcutta
    3. Bombay
    4. Karachi

58. ________ 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

59. 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%

60. 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

61. _______ 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

62. Corporations are considered as one of the forms of SME.

    1. True
    2. False

63. According to one study, what percentage of Japan's economy consists of SME's?

    1. 21%
    2. 41%
    3. 91%
    4. 61%

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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%

68. 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

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. In 1959 Bison and Meyers replaced the terms with “management” and “organization” for ________.

    1. entrepreneurship
    2. entrepreneur
    3. business
    4. administration

73. Generally in what terms performance of an employee is evaluated?

    1. Quality
    2. Quantity
    3. Time
    4. All of the given

74. 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

75. 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

76. Family trend plays a vital role in making business choice in SMEs.

    1. True
    2. False

77. Which of the following CANNOT be accessed by performance appraisal?

    1. Traits
    2. Behaviors
    3. Task outcomes
    4. Attitudes

78. In which year the restructuring of Small Business Finance Corporation (SBFC) was done?

    1. 1998
    2. 2000
    3. 2001
    4. 2002

79. 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

80. ________ entrepreneurs are the owners as well as themselves employees of the organization.

    1. Innovating
    2. Imitating
    3. Fabian
    4. Single owner

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. Which of the following is abbreviated as NPC?

    1. National Planning Committee
    2. National Planning Council
    3. National Press Committee
    4. National Press Competition

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

89. Imitating entrepreneurs depend on the ________.

    1. government
    2. society
    3. innovating entrepreneurs
    4. All of the given

90. In the formation of SMEs, the most benefited from this sector ________.

    1. lower class
    2. middle class
    3. both a & b
    4. upper class

91. 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

92. 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)

93. There are how many types of businesses?

    1. two
    2. three
    3. four
    4. five

94. EPB stands for:

    1. Employee Promotion Bureau
    2. Export Producing Benefits
    3. Employee Pension Benefits
    4. Export Promotion Bureau

95. Which of the following year was considered as starting period of industrialization in Pakistan?

    1. 1947
    2. 1950
    3. 1955
    4. 1960

96. Fabian Entrepreneurs belongs to _______.

    1. middle class
    2. family business
    3. partnership business
    4. ruling class

97. 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

98. 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

99. 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

100. An entrepreneur should have technical, conceptual and human skills.

     1. True
     2. False

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