PAA Assistant Director Past Paper 13 Jan 2019 PDF

General Knowledge
Q. Joule is the unit of ______?
Answer: Energy / Heat
Q. A continuous and directed movement of ocean water is known as ______?
Answer: Ocean Currents
Q. Which is NOT a recognized form of business continuity planning?
Answer: Editing
Q. Which list contains only vector quantities?
Answer: Acceleration, Electric Field, Velocity
Q. What is the wavelength of a wave with a period of 2 seconds and a speed of 2 cm/s?
Answer: 4 cm
\lambda=vT
Q. Which of the following is due to the change in wave speed when a wave strikes the boundary of another medium?
Answer: Refraction

Physics

Q. A camera of 6 cm focal length is used to photograph a distant scene. The distance from the lens to the image is approximately?
Answer: 6 cm
Q. Which change in a double-slit interference experiment would increase the fringe width?
Answer: Move the slits closer together
\beta=\frac{\lambda D}{d}
Q. An object is placed 20 cm from a diverging lens. If the image distance is 8 cm, what is the magnification?
Answer: 2/5
m=\frac{v}{u}
Q. A pipe has a length of 1 m. Determine the frequencies of the fundamental and first two harmonics if the pipe is open at both ends.
Answer: 170 Hz, 340 Hz, 510 Hz
f_1=\frac{v}{2L}
Q. A convex lens of focal length 40 cm is in contact with a concave lens of focal length 25 cm. The power of the combination in dioptres is?
Answer: -1.5 D
P=\frac{1}{f}
Q. The centripetal force necessary to keep a racing car moving in a circular path is provided by ______?
Answer: Friction
Q. If Bilal moves away from a stationary organ with half the speed of sound, the observed frequency will be ______?
Answer: Less than f
Q. Why is blue light advantageous in a compound microscope?
Answer: It produces less diffraction and increases resolving power
Q. A 1000 kg vehicle turns around a corner at 10 m/s on a circular path of radius 10 m. What force is required?
Answer: 1.0 × 10⁴ N
F=\frac{mv^2}{r}
Q. A traveling wave on a rope has a frequency of 2.5 Hz and speed of 1.5 m/s. What are its period and wavelength?
Answer: 0.4 s, 0.6 m
\lambda=\frac{v}{f}

Mathematics & Analytical Reasoning

Q. What is the ratio between the areas of two circles if the ratio between their radii is 1:3?
Answer: 1:9
Q. Find lim(x→1) 5(2x + 3)⁻¹
Answer: 1
\lim_{x\to1}5(2x+3)^{-1}
Q. The central angle of a pie graph is 180°. The proportion of that part is ______?
Answer: 50%
Q. A box contains 10 red balls and 5 blue balls. If two balls are selected randomly without replacement, what is the probability that both are red?
Answer: 3/7
P=\frac{10}{15}\times\frac{9}{14}
Q. 6x + 9 is an ______?
Answer: Expression
Q. The expenditure on painting at Rs.100 per square foot for a wall of 32.4 square feet is ______?
Answer: 3240
Q. If the smallest value is 27, the largest value is 48, and the class interval is 3, then the number of classes will be ______?
Answer: 7
Q. Base of a parallelogram is 10 cm and altitude is 7 cm. Find its area.
Answer: 70 cm²
A=bh
Q. 5x = 3y − 2x − 8y is same as?
Answer: 7x + 5y = 0
Q. The length of a rectangle exceeds its breadth by 4 m. If the perimeter is 84 m, find its dimensions.
Answer: Length = 23 m, Width = 19 m
Q. If x = 3 and y = 2, then 2x + 3y = ?
Answer: 12
Q. Two times a number taken away from 10 is 4 can be expressed as ______?
Answer: 10 − 2x = 4
Q. In a class of 30 students, one student likes no subject. How many students like all three subjects?
Answer: 2
Q. If the area of a square is 4 m², then the length of the square is ______?
Answer: 2 m

Management & Business Communications

Q. The main purpose of most professional documents is ____?
Answer: To motivate readers to do something
Q. Effective business proposal is ______?
Answer: Build a positive image of your organization
Q. Management roles are specific categories of ______?
Answer: Managerial Behavior
Q. A consumer’s intense and active loyal relationship with a brand is known as ______?
Answer: Brand Resonance
Q. The commonly accepted goal of the MNC is to ______?
Answer: Maximize Shareholder Wealth
Q. Consumer behavior researchers are primarily interested in studying which activities?
Answer: Purchase, Consumption, and Disposal Activities

Geography 

Q. Abyssal Hills were formed as oceanic ______?
Answer: Crust
Q. The cheapest way to transport petroleum is ______?
Answer: By Pipeline
Q. A ship coming from the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar first enters which sea?
Answer: The Mediterranean Sea
Q. The oldest rocks found in the oceanic basins are approximately how many million years old?
Answer: 200 Million Years

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