MPhil PhD DU Commerce-2020

MPhil PhD Entrance Delhi University Commerce Syllabus and Question Paper and Question Pattern – 2020

The Written entrance test would be compulsory for students, who are otherwise eligible, for admission to the MPhil Program. The entrance test will be conducted once a year.

The combined entrance test for M.Phil. and Ph. D. will be a qualifying examination with qualifying marks as 50% (45% for SC/ST/OBC (NC)/PWD). The syllabus for the entrance test will consist of 50% questions on research aptitude/methodology and 50% subject-specific questions from the following areas:

• Accounting

• Finance

• International Business

• Marketing

• Organizational Behaviour and Development

There would be 50 MCQ’s and the duration of examination is 2 hours. Each question would carry four marks with negative marking for wrong answer.  The maximum marks would be 200.

Question Paper – MPhil PhD Entrance

  1. If the capacity usage ratio of a production department is 90% and activity ratio is 99% then the efficiency ratio of the department is
    1. 100%
    2. 120%
    3. 110%
    4. 105%
  2. A firm previously calculated product costs using absorption costing, but now uses activity based costing. What feature of the product cost calculations remains the same
    1. Overhead absorption rate for manufacturing overheads
    2. Prime costs
    3. Overhead absorption rate for support function
    4. The classification of fixed and variable costs
  3. The measurable value of an alternative use of resources is referred to as (an)
    1. Opportunity cost
    2. Imputed cost
    3. Differential cost
    4. Sunk cost
  4. Unabsorbed depreciation which could not be set off in the same assessment year, can be carried forward up to
    1. 4 years
    2. 8 years
    3. 10 years
    4. Indefinite period
  5. Which of the following events after the balance sheet date would normally qualify as adjusting events according to AS‐4(events after Balance sheet Date)
    A. The insolvency of a customer with the balance outstanding at the balance sheet date
    B. A decline in the market value of investment
    C. The declaration of an ordinary dividend
    D. The determination of the cost of assets purchased before the balance sheet date
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
    1. A, C and D only
    2. A and B only
    3. B and C only
    4. A and D only
  6. Which one of the following is not a Sensex index constituent Stock
    1. State Bank of India Ltd
    2. Cipla Ltd
    3. Hindustan Uniliver Ltd
    4. MRF ltd
  7. Capital budgeting is used for
    A. Evaluating investments
    B. Choosing project with highest return
    C. Deciding whether to buy or repair an asset
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
    1. A only
    2. A and C only
    3. A, B and C only
    4. B and C only
  8. The security market line, on Y axis measures
    1. Expected Returns
    2. Beta
    3. Alpha
    4. Risk free return
  9. ________________ is not an assumption of Capital Asset Pricing Model
    1. Investors are risk averse
    2. There are no transaction cost and taxes
    3. Investors have heterogeneous expectations
    4. Investments are divisible
  10. The Capital market line, on X axis measures
    1. Expected Returns
    2. Beta
    3. Alpha
    4. Standard Deviation
  11. In the context of contemporary management practices which one of the following is least reprehensive of truth?
    1. top managers ensure the organization’s competitiveness
    2. top management supports personnel development and ensure employability
    3. empowered lower‐level managers and employees are responsible for the organization’s competitiveness
    4. empowered lower‐level managers and employees are responsible for their own development
  12. Motivation as an important part of management function is part of which of the following core functions
    1. Controlling
    2. Organizing
    3. Leading
    4. Planning
  13. In Organizational Behaviour model ‘Structure’ is considered as organizational level
    1. Outcome
    2. Process
    3. Input
    4. Input and Outcome both
  14. Which one of the following does not concern OCTAPACE model of organizational culture?
    1. Confrontation
    2. Collaboration
    3. Autonomy
    4. Accommodation
  15. Putting People on the Balance Sheet means
    1. HR on the table
    2. Considering employees as capital
    3. Considering employees as external liability
    4. Prioritising employees over customers
  16. Which agreement of WTO deals with intellectual property rights?
    1. TBT
    2. SPS
    3. TRIPS
    4. GATS
  17. According to the purchasing power parity theory, exchange rates are determined by
    1. Money supply
    2. Relative prices
    3. Interest rates
    4. Demand and supply
  18. An arrangement where a firm in one country agrees to operate facilities or provide other management services to a firm in another country for an agreed‐upon fee is known as
    1. Turnkey project
    2. Management contract
    3. Exporting
    4. Foreign direct investment
  19. A tariff on an imported good levied by the importing country to counter the impact of foreign subsidies is known as
    1. Excise duty
    2. Quota
    3. Export restraint
    4. Countervailing duty
  20. Which among these is the lowest level of economic integration?
    1. Common market
    2. Customs Union
    3. Free Trade Area
    4. Economic union
  21. A ‘Lead’ in marketing jargon, means__________
    1. A likely customer or consumer
    2. Reverse of a Deal
    3. A marketing leader
    4. A leader of a sales team
  22. Just in time (JIT) – an inventory management technique, getting wider acceptance world over, the technique was first introduced in
    1. America
    2. China
    3. India
    4. Japan
  23. World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated on
    1. 15 April
    2. 15 March
    3. 20 March
    4. 20 April
  24. When market expansion is done by developing new products to satisfy new consumer needs, it is called as
    1. Market diffusion
    2. Diversification
    3. Market development
    4. Market penetration
  25. Many people need to buy BMW but only a few have ability and willingness to buy. This is an example of
    1. Need
    2. Want
    3. Social status
    4. Demand
  26. In which of the following stage, pilot testing is done?
    1. Research design
    2. Sampling design
    3. Framing research
    4. Framing management dilemma
  27. Research based on logic involves, which of the following reasoning
    1. Induction
    2. Deduction
    3. Both Induction and deduction
    4. Neither Induction nor deduction
  28. Ethical codes do not apply to which of the following
    1. Data collection
    2. Research design
    3. Participant response
    4. Sample selection
  29. Which of the following is not a method of citing secondary data sources referred to by a researcher
    1. MLA
    2. APA
    3. MPA
    4. Chicago
  30. Which of the following does not involve data modification?
    1. Clustering
    2. Transformation
    3. Standardization
    4. Sampling
  31. Which of the following research is conducted once and represent a snapshot of one point of time?
    1. Cross sectional
    2. Longitudinal
    3. Predictive
    4. Descriptive
  32. Which of the following is not the quality of an observer?
    1. Unobtrusiveness
    2. Drift
    3. Concentration
    4. Experience
  33. Variables that have ability to influence the event being tested by the researcher are called as
    1. Dependent Variables
    2. Independent Variables
    3. Control variables
    4. Extraneous variables
  34. Likert Scale was developed by
    1. Rensis Likert
    2. Renwis Likert
    3. Rupert Likert
    4. Richard Likert
  35. Which of the following questions imply a favorable response to a question?
    1. Target
    2. Leading
    3. Structured
    4. Unstructured
  36. The central limit theorem assumes that the sampling distribution of the mean
    1. Is always normal
    2. Is always normal for large sample sizes
    3. Is always normal for small sample sizes
    4. Approaches normal distribution as sample size increases
  37. Which of the following is not a researcher’s error
    1. Population definition error
    2. Measurement error
    3. Surrogate information error
    4. Cheating error
  38. Principle of Persuasive Communication was given by
    1. Plato
    2. Sun Tzu
    3. Aristotle
    4. McCarthy
  39. ………….is an example of non parametric test
    1. t test
    2. Chi Square
    3. Z test
    4. F test
  40. Which of the following is a measure of goodness of fit?
    1. RMR
    2. RMSEA
    3. GFI
    4. CMIN/DF
  41. Which of the following methods is appropriate when goal is to extract maximum variance in data set?
    1. Principle Axis
    2. Principal Component
    3. Weighted Least Square
    4. Partial Least Square
  42. Which of the following is appropriate when independent variable is measured on categorical scale and dependent is measured on ratio scale?
    1. ANOVA
    2. Pearson Correlation
    3. Discriminant
    4. One sample t test
  43. Which of the following statistical test can be used to check the significance of regression coefficient
    1. Chi Square
    2. Sign test
    3. Binomial test
    4. t‐ test
  44. In case of Chi Square for goodness of fit, the degree can be measured by
    1. (r‐1)(c+1)
    2. (r‐1) (c‐1)
    3. (r‐1)/(c‐1)
    4. n‐1
  45. The error sum of square can be obtained from the equation
    1. SSE= SST+SSR+SSTR
    2. SSE= SSR+SSC‐SST
    3. SSE= SST‐SSR‐SSTR
    4. SSE= SSR*SST
  46. The lowest strength of relationship is reflected by which of the following correlation coefficient
    1. 0.98
    2. ‐0.98
    3. ‐0.45
    4. 0.05
  47. The standard error of estimate Syx is a measure of
    1. Closeness
    2. Variability
    3. Linearity
    4. Additivity
  48. The standard deviation of the lifetime of a sample of 400 tube was found to be 250 hours, what shall be upper limit of 99% confidence interval of standard deviation
    1. 250+17.33
    2. 250‐17.33
    3. 250+22.81
    4. 250‐22.81
  49. In a hypothesis test, alpha=0.5 and beta= 0.10, the confidence level is
    1. 0.95
    2. 0.10
    3. 0.90
    4. 0.05
  50. A person tosses a coin 40 times and obtains 24 heads. Find 99% confidence limit for the proportion of heads that he would obtain in an unlimited number of the tosses of the coin
    1. 0.35 to 0.70
    2. 0.37 to 0.83
    3. 0.37 to 0.75
    4. 0.45 to 0.75

Answer Key

1 (3) 2 (2) 3 (1) 4 (4) 5 (4) 6 (4) 7 (3) 8 (1) 9 (3) 10 (4) 11 (1) 12 (3) 13 (3) 14 (4) 15 (2) 16 (3) 17 (2) 18 (2) 19 (4) 20 (3) 21 (1) 22 (4) 23 (2) 24 (2) 25 (4) 26 (1) 27 (3) 28 (3) 29 (3) 30 (4) 31 (1) 32 (2) 33 (4) 34 (2) 35 (2) 36 (4) 37 (4) 38 (3) 39 (2) 40 (3) 41 (2) 42 (1) 43 (4) 44 (4) 45 (2) 46 (4) 47 (2) 48 (3) 49 (1) 50 (2) 

 

Question Pattern

Accounting

  1. If the capacity usage ratio of a production department is 90% and activity ratio is 99% then the efficiency ratio of the department is
    1. 100%
    2. 120%
    3. 110%
    4. 105%
  2. A firm previously calculated product costs using absorption costing, but now uses activity based costing. What feature of the product cost calculations remains the same
    1. Overhead absorption rate for manufacturing overheads
    2. Prime costs
    3. Overhead absorption rate for support function
    4. The classification of fixed and variable costs
  3. The measurable value of an alternative use of resources is referred to as (an)
    1. Opportunity cost
    2. Imputed cost
    3. Differential cost
    4. Sunk cost
  4. Unabsorbed depreciation which could not be set off in the same assessment year, can be carried forward up to
    1. 4 years
    2. 8 years
    3. 10 years
    4. Indefinite period
  5. Which of the following events after the balance sheet date would normally qualify as adjusting events according to AS‐4(events after Balance sheet Date)
    A. The insolvency of a customer with the balance outstanding at the balance sheet date
    B. A decline in the market value of investment
    C. The declaration of an ordinary dividend
    D. The determination of the cost of assets purchased before the balance sheet date
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
    1. A, C and D only
    2. A and B only
    3. B and C only
    4. A and D only

Finance

  1. Which one of the following is not a Sensex index constituent Stock
    1. State Bank of India Ltd
    2. Cipla Ltd
    3. Hindustan Uniliver Ltd
    4. MRF ltd
  2. Capital budgeting is used for
    A. Evaluating investments
    B. Choosing project with highest return
    C. Deciding whether to buy or repair an asset
    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
    1. A only
    2. A and C only
    3. A, B and C only
    4. B and C only
  3. The security market line, on Y axis measures
    1. Expected Returns
    2. Beta
    3. Alpha
    4. Risk free return
  4. ________________ is not an assumption of Capital Asset Pricing Model
    1. Investors are risk averse
    2. There are no transaction cost and taxes
    3. Investors have heterogeneous expectations
    4. Investments are divisible
  5. The Capital market line, on X axis measures
    1. Expected Returns
    2. Beta
    3. Alpha
    4. Standard Deviation

International Business

  1. Which agreement of WTO deals with intellectual property rights?
    1. TBT
    2. SPS
    3. TRIPS
    4. GATS
  2. According to the purchasing power parity theory, exchange rates are determined by
    1. Money supply
    2. Relative prices
    3. Interest rates
    4. Demand and supply
  3. An arrangement where a firm in one country agrees to operate facilities or provide other management services to a firm in another country for an agreed‐upon fee is known as
    1. Turnkey project
    2. Management contract
    3. Exporting
    4. Foreign direct investment
  4. A tariff on an imported good levied by the importing country to counter the impact of foreign subsidies is known as
    1. Excise duty
    2. Quota
    3. Export restraint
    4. Countervailing duty
  5. Which among these is the lowest level of economic integration?
    1. Common market
    2. Customs Union
    3. Free Trade Area
    4. Economic union

Marketing

  1. A ‘Lead’ in marketing jargon, means__________
    1. A likely customer or consumer
    2. Reverse of a Deal
    3. A marketing leader
    4. A leader of a sales team
  2. Just in time (JIT) – an inventory management technique, getting wider acceptance world over, the technique was first introduced in
    1. America
    2. China
    3. India
    4. Japan
  3. World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated on
    1. 15 April
    2. 15 March
    3. 20 March
    4. 20 April
  4. When market expansion is done by developing new products to satisfy new consumer needs, it is called as
    1. Market diffusion
    2. Diversification
    3. Market development
    4. Market penetration
  5. Many people need to buy BMW but only a few have ability and willingness to buy. This is an example of
    1. Need
    2. Want
    3. Social status
    4. Demand

Organizational Behaviour and Development

  1. In the context of contemporary management practices which one of the following is least reprehensive of truth?
    1. top managers ensure the organization’s competitiveness
    2. top management supports personnel development and ensure employability
    3. empowered lower‐level managers and employees are responsible for the organization’s competitiveness
    4. empowered lower‐level managers and employees are responsible for their own development
  2. Motivation as an important part of management function is part of which of the following core functions
    1. Controlling
    2. Organizing
    3. Leading
    4. Planning
  3. In Organizational Behaviour model ‘Structure’ is considered as organizational level
    1. Outcome
    2. Process
    3. Input
    4. Input and Outcome both
  4. Which one of the following does not concern OCTAPACE model of organizational culture?
    1. Confrontation
    2. Collaboration
    3. Autonomy
    4. Accommodation
  5. Putting People on the Balance Sheet means
    1. HR on the table
    2. Considering employees as capital
    3. Considering employees as external liability
    4. Prioritising employees over customers

Research Aptitude / Methodology

  1. In which of the following stage, pilot testing is done?
    1. Research design
    2. Sampling design
    3. Framing research
    4. Framing management dilemma
  2. Research based on logic involves, which of the following reasoning
    1. Induction
    2. Deduction
    3. Both Induction and deduction
    4. Neither Induction nor deduction
  3. Ethical codes do not apply to which of the following
    1. Data collection
    2. Research design
    3. Participant response
    4. Sample selection
  4. Which of the following is not a method of citing secondary data sources referred to by a researcher
    1. MLA
    2. APA
    3. MPA
    4. Chicago
  5. Which of the following does not involve data modification?
    1. Clustering
    2. Transformation
    3. Standardization
    4. Sampling
  6. Which of the following research is conducted once and represent a snapshot of one point of time?
    1. Cross sectional
    2. Longitudinal
    3. Predictive
    4. Descriptive
  7. Which of the following is not the quality of an observer?
    1. Unobtrusiveness
    2. Drift
    3. Concentration
    4. Experience
  8. Variables that have ability to influence the event being tested by the researcher are called as
    1. Dependent Variables
    2. Independent Variables
    3. Control variables
    4. Extraneous variables
  9. Likert Scale was developed by
    1. Rensis Likert
    2. Renwis Likert
    3. Rupert Likert
    4. Richard Likert
  10. Which of the following questions imply a favorable response to a question?
    1. Target
    2. Leading
    3. Structured
    4. Unstructured
  11. The central limit theorem assumes that the sampling distribution of the mean
    1. Is always normal
    2. Is always normal for large sample sizes
    3. Is always normal for small sample sizes
    4. Approaches normal distribution as sample size increases
  12. Which of the following is not a researcher’s error
    1. Population definition error
    2. Measurement error
    3. Surrogate information error
    4. Cheating error
  13. Principle of Persuasive Communication was given by
    1. Plato
    2. Sun Tzu
    3. Aristotle
    4. McCarthy
  14. ………….is an example of non parametric test
    1. t test
    2. Chi Square
    3. Z test
    4. F test
  15. Which of the following is a measure of goodness of fit?
    1. RMR
    2. RMSEA
    3. GFI
    4. CMIN/DF
  16. Which of the following methods is appropriate when goal is to extract maximum variance in data set?
    1. Principle Axis
    2. Principal Component
    3. Weighted Least Square
    4. Partial Least Square
  17. Which of the following is appropriate when independent variable is measured on categorical scale and dependent is measured on ratio scale?
    1. ANOVA
    2. Pearson Correlation
    3. Discriminant
    4. One sample t test
  18. Which of the following statistical test can be used to check the significance of regression coefficient
    1. Chi Square
    2. Sign test
    3. Binomial test
    4. t‐ test
  19. In case of Chi Square for goodness of fit, the degree can be measured by
    1. (r‐1)(c+1)
    2. (r‐1) (c‐1)
    3. (r‐1)/(c‐1)
    4. n‐1
  20. The error sum of square can be obtained from the equation
    1. SSE= SST+SSR+SSTR
    2. SSE= SSR+SSC‐SST
    3. SSE= SST‐SSR‐SSTR
    4. SSE= SSR*SST
  21. The lowest strength of relationship is reflected by which of the following correlation coefficient
    1. 0.98
    2. ‐0.98
    3. ‐0.45
    4. 0.05
  22. The standard error of estimate Syx is a measure of
    1. Closeness
    2. Variability
    3. Linearity
    4. Additivity
  23. The standard deviation of the lifetime of a sample of 400 tube was found to be 250 hours, what shall be upper limit of 99% confidence interval of standard deviation
    1. 250+17.33
    2. 250‐17.33
    3. 250+22.81
    4. 250‐22.81
  24. In a hypothesis test, alpha=0.5 and beta= 0.10, the confidence level is
    1. 0.95
    2. 0.10
    3. 0.90
    4. 0.05
  25. A person tosses a coin 40 times and obtains 24 heads. Find 99% confidence limit for the proportion of heads that he would obtain in an unlimited number of the tosses of the coin
    1. 0.35 to 0.70
    2. 0.37 to 0.83
    3. 0.37 to 0.75
    4. 0.45 to 0.75