33 A

Ph.D (All Courses)

SRMHCAT 2018
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Paper Code: 33 A
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Question No. sequence –

Research Methodology 50 (1-50),
Statistical Analysis 50 (51-100)

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Section 1 – Research Methodology 8) Information such as the title of the report, information
about the researcher or organization conducting a
1) Selecting every fifth female entering the mall is research, the name of the business manager and the
example of time period of the study generally are available in
the _______
A) Quota sampling
A) Title page
B) Cluster sampling
B) Letter of transmittal
C) Systematic sampling
C) Letter of authorization
D) Simple random sampling
D) Executive summary

2) Which of the following scale possess an absolute

zero? 9) The process of administering the first draft of the
questionnaire on a small group of respondent in order
A) Nominal scale
to refine it and arrive at the final version is called
B) Ordinal scale
A) Primary testing
C) Interval scale
B) Draft testing
D) Ratio scale
C) Pilot testing
D) All of the above
3) In a tabular representation, the data sources are
usually given in the
A) Footnote 10) Aahana is more beautiful than Lavanaya – this is an
B) Table heading example of
C) Bibliography A) Nominal Scale
D) As a special mention B) Ordinal Scale
C) Interval Scale
D) Ratio Scale
4) Data editing is generally done at _______ Level(s)
A) Single
B) Two 11) Which of the following tasks is not a part of research
C) Three design?
D) Multi A) Design the exploratory, descriptive and/or causal
phases of research
B) Construct and pretest a study instrument
5) Before drawing a sample one must
C) Formulate the sampling plan
A) Determine the sample size
D) Develop hypothesis
B) Selecting a sample scheme
C) Identifying a sampling frame
D) Define the population 12) Working paper have all the following details except
may be:
6) The _______ is the most frequently used primary A) Scope and framework of the study
method of data collection in any area of business B) Methodology of the study
research. it involves the predetermined set of queries in C) Results and finding of the study
a structured format. D) Study background
A) In-depth interviews
B) Focus group discussion
C) Questionnaire 13) The Journal of Marketing Research is an example
D) All of the above of what type of external secondary data source?
A) Government source
B) Commercial source
7) Which of the following measures of central tendency
can be applied for ordinal scale measurement? C) Trade association source
A) Geometric and harmonic mean D) Book and periodicals
B) Arithmetic mean
C) Median and mode
D) Arithmetic mean and mode
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14) In a typical research problem the _______ is
expected to influence the _______
A) Predictor variable; primary variable
B) Independent variable; dependent variable
C) Dependent variable; independent variable
D) Criterion; hypothesis
20) All statement about qualitative research are true
except:
A) The information is in depth and rich in content
B) Requires a lot of skill in interpretation
C) Is more time and cost consuming than quantitative
research
D) Can be used to test causal hypothesis

15) If all the scatter of points on two variable lie on a

negatively stopped straight line, the correlation 21) All elements of a typical research report would
coefficient between the variable would be definitely be found in the
A) + 1 A) Working paper
B) -1 B) Technical report
C) Zero C) Business report
D) None of the above D) Survey report

16) The questionnaire that is the most flexibly structured 22) In constructing a Likert Scale, which of the following
is: statements are included?
A) Formalized; unconcealed A) Odd number of statements
B) Formalized; concealed B) Even number of statements
C) Non formalized; concealed C) Statements resulting in ordinal scale data
D) Non formalized; unconcealed D) Discriminating statements

17) The _______ step of the data processing consist of 23) If it is not possible to eliminate the effect of an
carefully reviewing the data collection process to access extraneous variable from the test unit the variable is
if there any gaps or inconsistencies in the same. said to be
A) Coding A) Biased
B) Data cleaning B) Controlled
C) Field work validation C) Confounded
D) Tabulation D) Random

18) The validity of scale means 24) The salary of Raghawan is twice as much as the
A) There is no systematic error salary of Advik- this is an example of
B) The correlation coefficient between the A) Nominal scale measurement
observations taken at two different time periods is B) Ordinal scale measurement
high and significant C) Interval scale measurement
C) It measures what is supposed to measure D) Ratio scale measurement
D) All of the above

25) Which of the following is true about chi-square

19) The sum of squares of factor loadings distribution
corresponding to a given factor is called A) Chi – square distribution is not symmetric
A) Eigen value B) The shape of chi – square distribution depends
B) Communality upon degrees of freedom
C) Factor score coefficient C) The value of chi – square statistic cannot be
D) KMO Statistic negative
D) All of the above statements are true

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26) Deductive logic refers to the: 32) Arithmetic mean can be calculated on the following
A) Analytical reasoning used to arrive at general type of measurement :
propositions on the basis of observation of certain A) Nominal scale
phenomena B) Ordinal scale
B) Analytical reasoning used for the purpose of leading C) Interval scale & Ratio scale
individuals to reason
D) None of the above
C) Analytical reasoning of linking different proposition
on the basis of abstraction
D) Logical process of driving a conclusion from a 33) The process of giving a numeral value to the
known premise or established facts responses given by the respondent is called
A) Coding
B) Tabulating
27) The primary objective of _______ is to provide
insights into and an understanding of the problem C) Data analysis
confronting the researcher D) None of the above
A) Exploratory research
B) Conclusive research
34) Social class is an example of
C) Causal research
A) Nominal scale
D) Descriptive research
B) Ordinal scale
C) Interval scale
28) In which of the following interviewer bias is very high D) Ratio scale
and thus a problem?
A) Email questionnaire
B) Telephone interview 35) The non – parametric goodness of fit test to
determine whether the observations for a variable could
C) Mail questionnaire
have come from a particular distribution is
D) Web-based questionnaire A) Runs test
B) One sample sign test
29) A research that is oriented towards building theories C) Chi – square test
and models in the field of management is called D) Mann – whitney test
A) Theoretical research
B) Model testing research
36) If the confidence coefficient increases from 90 to
C) Basic research
95%, it will
D) None of the above A) Decrease the sample size
B) Increase the sample size
30) When testing for the equality of two means, the C) The sample size increased by 5%
hypothesis would take which of the following forms? D) The sample size decrease by 5%
A) H0 : u1 = u2
H1 : u1 ≠u2
B) H0: u ≤ 2.0 37) Non – probability sampling design is used in
H1: u ≥ 2.0 A) Descriptive
C) H0: p1 = p2 B) Causal
H0: p1 ≠ p2 C) Exploratory
D) None of the above D) Both A and B

31) A list of tables, list of graphs, list of appendices, and 38) Cross-sectional and longitudinal designs are type of
list of exhibits are usually found in the_______ Section _______
of the research report.
A) Causal research
A) Table of contents
B) Descriptive research
B) Preliminary
C) Exploratory research
C) Background
D) None of the above
D) Executive summary
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39) In the proportionate stratified random sampling 45) Which of the following statements about review of
A) The bigger a population stratum the larger is the literature is true?
number of sample units allocated to it. A) The literature has been formalized by the
B) Population is divided into strata in such a way that researcher for the specific purpose of addressing
the elements within the strata are heterogeneous. the research problem at hand.
C) The cost of choosing a sample is of main B) Literature review generally involves collecting
consideration information through secondary sources of
information.
D) All of the above are true
C) Literature review generally involves collecting
information through primary sources of information
40) A company wants to know what the problems are D) Both B and C are true
are faced by employees in the night shift duties. The
company is intending to undertake
A) Pure research 46) What type of the question is the following?
How many times during the last semester have you
B) Applied research
called in sick for class or played basketball during a
C) Basic research weekday?
D) Causal research
A) Double barreled
B) Forced choice
41) The _______ Is the questionnaire type in which the C) Open ended
respondent does not fill in his/her responses? The
D) Loaded question
interviewer asks and makes note of the answers.
A) Structured interview
B) Schedule 47) A p value of 0.05 means
C) Focus group discussion A) There is only 5% chance that the results are
D) Semi-structured interview incorrect
B) There is probability of 5 in 100 that this result would
occur if the null hypothesis is true
42) The probability of rejecting a null hypothesis when it C) There is only 5% chance of getting this result
is true is called
D) All of the above are true
A) Level of significance
B) Type I error
C) Type II error 48) The alternative hypothesis is “that more than 80 %
D) Beta of the students know driving” is an example of
A) One – tailed test
B) Two – tailed test
43) Which of the following situations can make use of C) Type I error
secondary data?
D) Type II error
A) Problem identification and formulation
B) Hypothesis testing
C) Telephonic survey 49) The process of going back to the respondent top get
D) All of the above the answers to inconsistencies or non–response is
called
A) Field work validation
44) When one is making an inventory of brands, sizes B) Back tracking
and quantities of food in an respondent’s kitchen, we C) Data cleaning
are said to be conducting:
D) Data validation
A) A contrived observation
B) A mechanical observation
C) A pantry audit 50) The coefficient of determination (R2) is defined as
D) A hidden observation A) Error sum of square / explained sum of squares
B) Total sum of squares / explained sum of squares
C) Explained sum of squares / total sum of squares
D) Error sum of squares / total sum of squares
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Section 2 – Statistical Analysis 57) Which of the following is the first step in starting the
research process?
51) Statistical tests that produce reasonably accurate A) Searching sources of information to locate problem.
probabilities even when its assumptions are violated are B) Survey of related literature
called C) Identification of problem
A) significant
D) Searching for solutions to the problem
B) confident
C) robust
D) parametric tests 58) Deciding what data is best for your research
analysis depends upon which of the following?
A) The research question
52) The main purpose of research in education is to B) The nature of the participants.
A) Increase social status of an individual C) The researcher's personal preferences.
B) Increase job prospects of an individual D) All of these
C) Help in the personal growth of an individual
D) Help the candidate become an eminent
educationist 59) Branch of statistics which considers ratio scale and
interval scale is considered as
A) parametric statistics
53) Maximum value of correlation is B) non-parametric statistics
A) 2 C) distribution statistics
B) 1.5 D) sampling statistics
C) 1
D) 0
60) The difference between random and systematic
errors is
54) A college wants to give training in use of Statistical A) Systematic errors are always larger than random
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to researchers. errors
For this the college should organize: B) random errors are subject to probability laws &
A) Lecture while systematic errors are not
B) Seminar C) Systematic errors can be eliminated by
C) Workshop taking repeated measurements
D) Conference D) None of the above

55) Conference proceedings are considered as 61) What is the first stage in statistics?
________documents. A) Identify the group of people to be studied
A) Conventional B) Organize data
B) Primary C) Summarize data
C) Secondary D) Review the materials
D) Tertiary

62) Questionnaire is a
56) Correlation between income and demand is A) Research method
A) Negative B) Measurement technique
B) Positive C) Tool for data collection
C) Zero D) Data analysis technique
D) None of the above

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63) To determine the importance of a statistically 70) The p-value of a test is the
significant difference, you must know all of the following A) smallest significance level at which the null
EXCEPT hypothesis cannot be rejected
A) the effect size B) largest significance level at which the null
B) alternative explanations of the difference hypothesis cannot be rejected
C) β and α values C) smallest significance level at which the null
D) cost information hypothesis can be rejected
D) largest significance level at which the null
hypothesis can be rejected
64) If a hypothesis is rejected at the 0.025 level of
significance, it
A) must be rejected at any level 71) The region of a sampling distribution including
samples less likely than ALPHA is called the
B) must be rejected at the 0.01 level
A) critical zone
C) must not be rejected at the 0.01 level
B) rejection region
D) may or may not be rejected at the 0.01 level
C) confounded area
D) chi square
65) Graph of variables having linear relation will be
A) Curved
72) What is Bibliometry?
B) Hyperbola
A) Function of Library Network
C) Straight line
B) Information Management Service
D) None of the above
C) Information Management Tool
D) Library Service
66) Whether Library is a system?
A) Yes, it has various sections as sub-systems
coordinating each other forming a system 73) Researchers decide statistical significance based
on the ____ associated with the data set.
B) No, it cannot be a system
A) p-value
C) It is quite impossible
B) Null hypothesis
D) Library is separate from a system.
C) Chi-square
D) Alternative hypothesis
67) If positive square root is taken of population
variance then calculated measure is transformed into
A) Standard root 74) What do you consider as the main aim of inter
disciplinary research?
B) Standard deviation
A) To over simplify the problem of research
C) Standard variance
B) To bring out holistic approach to research
D) Sample variance
C) To create a new trend in research methodology
D) To reduce the emphasis of single subject in
68) What would the degrees of freedom be for a research domain
correlation obtained from 100 subjects?
A) 99
75) Research and Development become the index of
B) 98
development of country. Which of the following reasons
C) 97 are true with regards to this statement?
D) 96 A) Because R&D targets the human development
B) Because R&D can improve the standard of living of
the people in a country
69) A meta-analysis would allow you to
C) Because R&D reflect the true economic and social
A) explore the variations or inconsistencies in the conditions prevailing in a country
outcomes of lots of studies
D) All the above
B) assess the reliability of a study
C) replicate many studies
D) identify the antecedents of a behaviour
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76) If most repeated observations recorded are outliers 83) A constant variable can take values
of data then mode is considered as A) Zero
A) Intended measure B) Fixed
B) Percentage measure C) Not fixed
C) Best measure D) Nothing
D) Poor measure

84) Secondary data are always preferable to primary

77) Largest value is 60 and smallest value is 40 and data when
number of classes desired is 5 then class interval is A) Secondary data are more expensive than primary
A) 20 data
B) 4 B) The target population and sampling fit with
C) 25 the research objective and quality is acceptable
D) 15 C) The sample size of secondary data is larger
than the one of primary data
D) None of the above
78) The word 'Anusandhan' implies
A) Goal Orientation
85) If you find that someone else publishes work similar
B) Following an aim
to yours before your project is completed, what could
C) Attaining an aim you do?
D) Praying to achieve an aim A) There is nothing you can do so do not mention it in
your study
B) Completely revamp your ideas so you are not
79) Government and non-government publications are replicating their study
considered as
C) Acknowledge it in your report and evaluate the
A) internal secondary data sources study
B) external primary data sources D) Change your hypotheses and aims
C) internal primary data sources
D) external secondary data sources
86) Which of the following describe the middle part a of
a group of numbers
80) Which of the following is not a “Graphic A) Measure of variability
representation”? B) Measure of central tendency
A) Pie chart C) Measure of association
B) Bar chart D) Measure of shape
C) Table
D) Histogram
87) Scale used in statistics which provides difference of
proportions as well as magnitude of differences is
81) Random sampling is helpful as it is considered as
A) Reasonably accurate A) satisfactory scale
B) Free from personal biases B) ratio scale
C) An economical method of data collection C) goodness scale
D) All the above D) exponential scale

82) Number of emergency cases in hospital for five days 88) The term "statistical independence" means
are as 12, 15, 18, 16, 14 then variance of sample is A) a study has more than one independent variable
A) 5 B) the null hypothesis is correct
B) 20 C) the alternative hypothesis is correct
C) 4 D) there is no relationship between two variables
D) 15

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89) Sampling is advantageous as it 96) In a criminal trial, a Type I error is made when
A) Saves time A) a guilty defendant is acquitted (set free)
B) Helps in capital-saving B) an innocent person is convicted (sent to jail)
C) Both (A) and (B) C) a guilty defendant is convicted
D) Increases accuracy D) an innocent person is acquitted

90) Number of individuals arriving at boarding counter 97) As degrees of freedom increase
on an airport is an example of A) the t distribution becomes flatter
A) Numerical outcome B) the t distribution becomes more like the normal
B) Non- numerical outcome distribution
C) Random outcome C) the chi square distribution becomes more like
D) Simple outcome the t distribution
D) the chi square distribution becomes more like the
normal distribution
91) Tail or head, one or zero and girl and boy are
examples of
A) Non- functional events 98) A satisfactory statistical quantitative method should
not possess one of the following qualities
B) Complementary events
A) Flexibility
C) Non- complementary events
B) Measurability
D) Functional events
C) Comparability
D) Appropriateness
92) Relative measures in measures of dispersion are
also considered as
A) Uniform measure 99) The main difference between the z and t-tests is that
B) Relative measure A) for a t-test, the population mean and standard
deviation are needed.
C) Absolute measure
B) for a t-test only the sample mean is needed
D) Both (B) and (C)
C) for a z-test the population mean and standard
deviation are needed.
93) Research is D) The z and t-tests are identical except for the size of
A) Searching again and again the sample used.

B) Finding solution to any problem

C) Working in a scientific way to search for truth of any 100) What name is given to data which is on a
problem continuous scale with a neutral zero?
D) None of the above A) Ranked data
B) Ratio data
C) Un ranked data
94) When reading a journal article you should do what?
A) Accept their ideas - after all they are published D) Categorical data
authors
B) Read it as a way of obtaining more information
C) Approach it with a questioning style
D) Use the same ideas for your project

95) The grouped data is also called

A) Raw data
B) Primary data
C) Secondary data
D) Qualitative data

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