DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014

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Read the following passage carefully to answer these questions given below it. Certain words / phrases are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling and problem solving. Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances, Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles. This distinction is absolutely crucial for our purpose here. Successful transformation is 70-90 percent leadership and only 10-30 management. Yet for historical reasons, many organizations today do not have much leadership. And almost everyone thinks about the problem here as one of managing change.

For most of this century, as we created thousands and thousands of large organizations for the first time in human history, we did not have enough good managers to keep all those bureaucracies functioning. So many companies and universities developed management programs and hundreds and thousands people were encouraged to learn management on the job. and they did. But people were taught little about leadership. To some degree, management was emphasized because it is easier to teach them leadership. But even more so management was the main item on the twentieth century agenda because that is what was needed. For every entrepreneur or business builder who was a leader, we needed hundreds of managers to run their ever-growing enterprises.
Unfortunately for us today, this emphasis on management has often been institutionalized in corporate cultures that discourage employees from learning how to lead. Ironically past successis usually the key ingredient in producing this outcome. The syndrome, as I have observed it on many occasions goes like this: success creates some degree of market dominance which in turnproduces much growth. After a while keeping the ever larger organizations under control becomes primary challenge. So attention turns inward and managerial competences are nurtured. With a strong emphasis on management but not leadership, bureaucracy and an inward focus take over. But with the continued success the result mostly of market dominance, the problem often goes unaddressed and an unhealthy arrogance begins to evolve. All of these characteristics then make any transformation efforts much more difficult.

Arrogant mangers can over evaluate their current performance and competitive position, listen poorly and learn slowly. Inwardly focused employees can have difficulty seeing the very forces that present threats and opportunities. Bureaucratic cultures can smother those who want to respond shifting conditions. And the lack of leadership leaves no force inside these organizations to break out of the morass

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 1

Which of the following is Not the characteristic of Bureaucratic culture?

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 3

Which of the following characteristics help organizations in their transformation efforts?

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 5

What according to author is leadership?

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Why, according to author a distinction between management and leadership is crucial?

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Management education was emphasized in the management programs because

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Why does the attention of large organizations turn inward?

For the following questions answer them individually
DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 10

Given below is the sentence in active voice. Choose the correct sentence given in passive voice among the alternatives.
Ought you not to reveal the truth now?

Identify the incorrect sentence:

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 12

Identify the incorrect sentence:

For the following questions answer them individually

Identify the correct sentence:

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 15
For the following questions answer them individually
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Given below are four substitutions for the underlined part. Choose the correct alternative to make the sentence grammatically correct.
Make haste lest you should not be caught in the storm:

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 17

In the given alternatives, there are four sentences with underlined word. Identify the sentence with underlined word which is not an adverb:

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 18

Identify the correct sentence:

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Select the correct meaning of the bold idioms and phrases out of the four choices given below:
He does not understand that he stands in his own light.

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 27

Fill in the blank using the correct tense:
I ..... at five o’clock and ..... for two hours. After taking a bath, I ..... breakfast. Then, I ..... to school on my bike.

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 28

Three sentences have been given. You have to find out the sentence in which an adverb modifies the meaning of another adverb:
1.Jalpa sings well
2. He speaks very fluently
3. This soap is delicately perfumed.

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 30

Some words are used sometimes as adjectives, sometimes as adverbs. Four sentences have been given where in three sentences are containing words being used as adjectives and one sentence contains word being used as adverb. Identify the odd one:

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 32

Combine each of the following sentence by using an Adverb Clause.

He was quite tired. He could scarcely stand.

Choose the correct synonym out of the four choices given

In the following question, a word is given in capital letters followed by four words. Choose the word that is nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.

This question consists of an idiom followed by four alternative words or phrases giving the possible meaning of idiom. Select the alternative which gives closest meaning of
the idiom.

In the following question, the sentence has a blank space and four words are given after the sentence.Choose the word from alternative that you consider most appropriate for the blank space.

For the following questions answer them individually
DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 46

Change into passive voice.
The boys were playing cricket

In the following question, identify the correct reported speech from the given alternatives.

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 47

He said, “ I must go home at once.”:

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She said , “oh dear! I have just missed the bus .”:

For the following questions answer them individually
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Which of phrases given below in each sentence should replace the phrase in Underlined to make the sentence grammatically correct?
Why did you not threw the bag away?

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 50

Find out the sentence in Passive Voice

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 52

Identify the complex sentence among the followings:

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 53

Identify the correct tense which has been used in this sentence
By the end of this year he will have saved a lot of money

DMRC Electronics Engineering Paper-2 2014 - Question 55

Identify the kind of conjunction in the following sentence:
His bark is worst than his bite.

Select the word choice that gives the meaning of the sentence or phrase.

In following question, four spellings are given for a word. Pick the right choice which has the correct spelling.

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