PAD202

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Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.

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PAD202

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examines humans and their
interactions with their
natural environments

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The classical theory of
organisation is also known
as the

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3. Lagos colony was merged with Southern Nigeria in what year?

A. 1951

B. 1990

C. 1906

D. 1960

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4. Public Administration is the action part or the lifewire of any government in ________

A. Business

B. Control

C. Power

D. Force

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_____ is the machinery, as
well as the integral
processes through which
the government performs
its functions

A. Social Development

B. Leadership

C. Public Administration

D. Civil Service

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6. Lagos colony plus Southern protectorate were merged with Northern protectorate to form a amalgamated tertiary called Nigeria was in what year?

A. 1960

B. 1986

C. 1906

D. 1914

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The emergence of the
colonial masters brought a
different dimension do the
administration

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According to Gulick and
Urwick, ______ constitutes
the key duties and functions
of any administrator in an
organization

A. Larger

B. GBN

C. PPA

D. ANPT

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The
writers upheld the
distinction between the line
and staff activities

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10. Public Administration is seen here as a veritable tool for social, political and economic development of a/an _________

A. Nation

B. Family

C. State

D. Organization

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11. means ensuring that everything occurs in conformity with established rule and expressed command

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12.

Evaluate (x-2)!(y-4) if x=6
and y=9

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13. Science that studies the distribution and abundance of living __________

A. Cells

B. Organism

C. Beings

D. None of the above

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14. in a given business venture a lady can make a profit of N300 with probability 0.6 or take a loss of N100 with probability 0.4. what is her expectation?N

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15.

A ____________________
random variable is
memoryless

A. normal

B. gamma

C. uniform

D. exponential

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16.

The career professionals
are guided by impersonal
relationship among them,
and between them and their

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17. ________ have contended that organizations are constructed by their environment

A. Elimination theory

B. System Theory

C. National theory

D. Human theory

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18. There is a widespread expectation of benefits from public administration at little or not cost to the ________

A. Government

B. POSCORD

C. Citizen

D. People

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19.

The attention of a public
administrator is _______

A. Reduced

B. Aliens

C. Multiplied

D. Added

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20. If X has the probability density $$f(x)=k.e^{-3x} $$ for x>0, find the value of k

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21.

Administration has a
universal application and
present in every human
endeavour be it social,
cultural, religious group and
_________

A. Communities

B. Differences

C. Public

D. Problems

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22.

is much harsher in private
than in public administration

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23. What eliminate conflicting lines of command

A. Unity of direction

B. Order

C. Unity of command

D. Discipline

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24. Public Administration operates in a _________ environment

A. Complex

B. Simple

C. Wide

D. Larger

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25. If the probability is 0.40 that a child exposed to a certain contagious will catch it, what is the probability that the tenth child exposed to the disease will be the third to catch it?

A. 0.0645

B. 0.6451

C. 0.2333

D. 0.0523

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26.

The formulation of the
human relations theory
began with the efforts of
in
year

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27. Find the expected value of

the random variable Y whose

probability density is given

by $$f(y)=frac {1}{8}(y+1)$$

for 2

A. 41/12

B. 16/17

C. 37/12

D. 30/13

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28.

Social rewards and
sanctions are the strongest
on the job

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29. How many scope are there in public administration

A. 2

B. 5

C. 3

D. 4

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30. Private Administration or organization can be defined as all activities that are concerned with profit making by minimizing cost of production and maximizing ________

A. Money

B. Capital

C. Cost

D. Profit

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31. The human relation theory is called the _______ theory because it accepts efficiency, economic, and productivity of an organization

A. Anti-classical

B. Sio-classical

C. Neoclassical

D. Bi-classical

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32.

Lagos and colony was
administered from

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33. Public Administration operates in an intense and pervasive political _________

A. Lithospher

B. Atmosphere

C. None of the above

D. Biosphere

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34.

Which of these is not a
characteristics of a classical
theory

A. Minimium Organizational Economy

B. Basic Principles

C. Preconcieved Plan

D. Productivity

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35. is much harsher in private than in public administration

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36.

The human relations
approach is the study of an
individual as a
being and what motivates
the individual

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37. Public Administration is the machinery as well as the ________ process through which the government perform its functions

A. Government

B. Internal

C. Organization

D. External

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38.

Consists of setting the
human resources into
activity toward the
organization's objective

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39.

Human relations theory is
another method of studying

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40.

Drucker argued that the
central theme of Taylor's
work was not inefficiency
but the need to substitute
industrial warfare by

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41.

Workers are graded in
different level of
__________

A. Power

B. Strenght

C. Wealth

D. Authority

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42.

The five managerial
activities are treated by
Fayol as

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43.

The
of classical theories are
considered along with the
main features of the
classical theory

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44.

In what year was moloney
appointed Governor of
Lagos

A. 1989

B. 1866

C. 1886

D. 1806

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45. Politics are concerned with available

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46. When you toss 5 coins once, if the number of head(s) is the random variable define on the resulting sample space. What is the set of random variable resulting from this experiment?

A. {0,1,2,3,4,5}

B. {2,3,4,5}

C. {2,4,5}

D. {1,2,3,4,5}

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47.

The scientific management
theory was propounded by

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48. If x is a normal variable with the mean u=5 and variance (sigma square)=16, what is the probability that x is less than or equal to 6?

A. 0.5987

B. 0.3681

C. 0.5732

D. 0.4123

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49. The rth moment about the origin of the gamma distribution is given by

A. $$u_{r}^{'}=\frac{\beta ^{r}\Gamma (\alpha +r)}{\Gamma (\beta )}$$

B. $$u_{r}^{'}=\frac{\beta ^{r}\Gamma (\alpha +r)}{\Gamma (\alpha )}$$

C. $$u_{r}^{'}=\frac{\beta ^{r}\Gamma (\beta +r)}{\Gamma (\alpha )}$$

D. $$u_{r}^{'}=\frac{\alpha ^{r}\Gamma (\alpha +r)}{\Gamma (\alpha )}$$

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50. Who is the father of bureaucracy and bureucratic theory

A. Allan Reilay

B. Max Weber

C. Abraham Maslow

D. James D. Mooney

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