Free MPA Master of Public Administration MCQ Questions and Answers

Question 1

Because of the politics-administration divide, the public service:

Accepted Answer

Neutral

Answer

Learning process oriented

Answer

Actively involved in Public Policy Making

Answer

Welfaristic

Question 2

Which of the following claims regarding the concepts of L.D. White's introduction to the study of public administration is true:
1) The study of P. A should be founded in the law rather than management
2) Politics should not intrude on administration
3) P. A is not capable of becoming a science in its own right
4) Mission of administration is economy and efficiency

Accepted Answer

2 and 4

Answer

None of the given statements are true

Answer

1,2,3 and 4

Answer

2,3,and 4

Question 3

Who stated that "the perception that development administration is concerned primarily with the administration of developing nations will only decrease the value of the idea of development administration in its application to the comparative study of "developed" and "developing" countries"?

Accepted Answer

Ramesh K. Arora

Answer

Pai Panandikar

Answer

B.S khanna

Answer

Inayatullah

Question 4

Which of the following does not distinguish between public and private administrators?
1)M.P Follet
2)L.D White
3)Lyndall Urwick
4)Henri Fayol

Accepted Answer

2 only

Answer

4,2,1

Answer

3 only

Answer

4 only

Question 5

Which of the following statements on the ability to tax is true?
1) It is written by Geoffery Brennan and Jmes buchanen
2) it examines the concept of Leviathan state

Accepted Answer

Both 1 and 2

Answer

1 only

Answer

Neither1 nor 2

Answer

2 only

Question 6

What new characteristics set NEW Managerialism apart from conventional managerialism from the list below?
1)division of labor
2)outsourcing
3)lean sizing
4) administrative-managerial skills

Accepted Answer

3 and 2

Answer

4 and 2

Answer

2,3 and 4

Answer

1,3 and 4

Question 7

Who said that because public administration is a worldwide profession, American public administration should be seen as a subfield.

Accepted Answer

Riggs

Answer

Heady

Answer

Lynton Caldwell

Answer

Jong S. Jun