Assist Director MoD 2019 Past Paper (Solved MCQs)

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1. 1. FEND

   1. Hostility
   2. Encourage ✓
   3. Laxity
   4. Native

2. 2. BENEVOLENT

   1. Malevolent ✓
   2. Liberal
   3. Beneficial
   4. None

3. 3. EFFICACIOUS

   1. Useful
   2. Skilled
   3. Useless ✓
   4. Unskilled

4. 4. YIELDING

   1. Ordinance
   2. Obdurate ✓
   3. Understood
   4. Skilled

5. 5. BRIEF:LEGAL

   1. spreadsheet:financial
   2. review:theatrical
   3. letter:administrative
   4. formula:mathematical ✓

6. 6. COMPLAIN:CARP

   1. supply:donate
   2. argue:debate
   3. grumble:accuse
   4. drink:guzzle ✓

7. 7. DEPLETE:ENERVATE

   1. strengthen:weak
   2. invigorate:tired
   3. exhaust:enfeeble ✓
   4. tighten:loose

8. 8. NUMISMATIST:COINS

   1. philatelist:stamps ✓
   2. jeweler:jewels
   3. cartographer:map
   4. geneticist:chromosomes

9. 9. Atrophy

   1. capture
   2. waste away ✓
   3. defeat
   4. win

10. 10. Voluminous

    1. short
    2. loud
    3. shining
    4. huge ✓

11. 11. Chronicle

    1. rearrange
    2. record ✓
    3. split
    4. none

12. 12. Tractable

    1. wise
    2. simple
    3. amenable ✓
    4. convoluted

13. 13. _________ by long queues and bad weather, the voters _______ their way to polling stations any way they could.

    1. undaunted,made
    2. worried,lost
    3. encouraged,prepared
    4. going,dropped ✓

14. 14. When the new artistes started work, it was discovered that they could not make _____ what to do.

    1. in
    2. off
    3. up ✓
    4. out

15. 15. The man who was driving the truck would not admit that he had been at fault,and________.

    1. neither would the other driver
    2. the other driver neither
    3. neither had the other driver ✓
    4. none of the above

16. 16. Jamal _________ his head in shame.

    1. turned
    2. stretched
    3. tilt
    4. nodded ✓

17. 17. Arsh for organs found in pairs, it Itlaf of one of such organs is done, shall be:

    1. Double of the amount of diyat
    2. Equal to the amount of diyat
    3. one half of the amount of diyat ✓
    4. one fourth of the amount of diyat

18. 18. Revelation has been of how many kinds?

    1. 1
    2. 2 ✓
    3. 3
    4. 4

19. 19. Jurisprudence is derived from:

    1. Lex
    2. Juris ✓
    3. Prudent
    4. None

20. 20. 'The Unstable Earth' a famous geography book is authorized by:

    1. Thornbury
    2. JA Steer ✓
    3. Monkhouse
    4. None of the above

21. 21. Which one is a cold current?

    1. Brazil
    2. Kuroshio
    3. GulfStream
    4. Benguela ✓

22. 22. The word Geography was coined for the first time by a Greek scholar ________ in 234BC.

    1. Plato
    2. Thales of Miletus
    3. Herodotus
    4. Eratosthenes ✓

23. 23. The Great Barrier Reef is located in:

    1. Indian Ocean
    2. Arctic Ocean
    3. Pacific Ocean ✓
    4. Atlantic Ocean

24. 24. How many themes are there in Geography?

    1. 4
    2. 5 ✓
    3. 6
    4. 7

25. 25. The Royal Geographical Society was founded in:

    1. 1720
    2. 1650
    3. 1670
    4. 1830 ✓

26. 26. Which Type of climates of the world has dry summer and wet winter?

    1. Tundra type
    2. Western European type
    3. Mediterranean type ✓
    4. Equatorial type

27. 27. Amazon tropical rainforest is known as:

    1. Boreal
    2. Selvas ✓
    3. Tundra
    4. Conifers

28. 28. Sedimentary rocks are formed by a natural process known as:

    1. Rejuvenation
    2. Peroxidation
    3. Lithification ✓
    4. Hydration

29. 29. Atmospheric pressure decreases rapidly with altitude because the air becomes ___________.

    1. Less dense
    2. Colder
    3. Warmer ✓
    4. None

30. 30. Gneiss, diamond, marble, schists, slate are examples of:

    1. Sedimentary rocks
    2. Metamorphic rocks ✓
    3. Extrusive Igneous rocks
    4. None

31. 31. The proportion of which rocks decrease with depth?

    1. Silicon ✓
    2. Aluminum
    3. Iron
    4. Lead

32. 32. Regarding food availability which of the following things inspired people to settle permanently in one location?

    1. Fishing
    2. Industry
    3. Tools
    4. Agriculture ✓

33. 33. The Earth surface and crust are constantly evolving due to __________.

    1. Rotary Cycle
    2. Rock Cycle
    3. Change Cycle ✓
    4. Normal Cycle

34. 34. The source of light is placed on opposite side for drawing the graticules for _________,

    1. Equidistant projection
    2. Stereographic projection
    3. Orthographic projection ✓
    4. Gnomonic projection

35. 35. Which of the following move material in their parallel to the direction of movement?

    1. L waves ✓
    2. S waves
    3. P waves
    4. N waves

36. 36. The Famous Humboldt Ocean current is also known as ____ ?

    1. Canary current
    2. Gulf current
    3. Peruvian current ✓
    4. Labrador current

37. 37. Which of the following is the widened river mouth found at the point where a river enters into see?

    1. Bay
    2. Gulf
    3. Estuary ✓
    4. None of these

38. 38. CPEC is known as:

    1. A collection of security agreements
    2. A collection of Infrastructure projects ✓
    3. An attempt to safeguard Gwadar port
    4. None of the above

39. 39. Which of the following research methods DOFC NOT allow drawing conclusions regarding casually in research?

    1. Experimental research
    2. Correlational research
    3. Case studies ✓
    4. None

40. 40. Which of the following is not considered as an altered state of consciousness?

    1. Sleep
    2. Hypnosis
    3. Exercise
    4. Meditation ✓

41. 41. Which head of government of Pakistan utilized the tool of Cricket Diplomacy?

    1. General Zia-ul-Haq ✓
    2. General Ayub Khan
    3. President Musharaf
    4. Z.A. Bhutto

42. 42. Possibilism is theory of a French historian named as:

    1. Lucien Febver ✓
    2. Grifith Taylor
    3. Harlen Barows
    4. None

43. 43. One of the main criticism of Freudian Psychoanalytic theory is that it:

    1. Focuses too much on attention on sexual conflicts and fixations
    2. Assumes all behaviors are learned during childhood ✓
    3. Is too pessimistic about the future of humanity
    4. Focuses too much attention on the id and not enough on the ego

44. 44. Suspending a football player for committing a foul is an example of:

    1. Negative Reinforcement
    2. Punishment ✓
    3. Positive Reinforcement
    4. Primary Reinforcement

45. 45. Which of the following therapies has been found effective in treating autism, drug addiction, and anxiety disorders?

    1. Social cognitive therapy
    2. Behavioral therapy ✓
    3. Psychoanalysis
    4. None

46. 46. As children begin their elementary school years, they enter in________?

    1. Trust versus mistrust
    2. Autonomy versus doubt
    3. Identity versus role confusion
    4. Industry versus inferiority ✓

47. 47. Which of the following statements best illustrates Maslows esteem needs

    1. Donating a large sum of money to charity
    2. Getting married to your high school class fellow
    3. Going to university to earn a masters degree in counseling ✓
    4. None of these

48. 48. Which would a psychologist consider the best example of learning?

    1. A child being able to ride a bike ✓
    2. A woman experiencing labor pains
    3. All swimming upstream during mating seasons
    4. None of these

49. 49. The purpose of free Association is to _________.

    1. Facilitate changing negative behaviors
    2. Help bring unconscious to the surface
    3. Help a patient relax ✓
    4. None of the above

50. 50. When we perform well on a task we typically attribute our success to our internal characteristics. This is known as _______.

    1. Self-schema bias
    2. Self-serving bias ✓
    3. Personal schema
    4. None

51. 51. Are conflict management and conflict resolution the same concepts ?

    1. One and the same thing
    2. Coincide with each other ✓
    3. Slightly supportive to each other
    4. None of these

52. 52. Why Pakistan never raised the Kashmir issue in SAARC Conferences?

    1. Because of the government policy of the country
    2. SAARC Charter does not allow to raise the mutual disputes of the member countries at this forum ✓
    3. Pakistan did not expect any positive output from it
    4. none

53. 53. Is there any security agreement between Pakistan and China ?

    1. Gwadar port
    2. CPEC
    3. MacMohan Line agreement 1963 ✓
    4. None of these

54. 54. Prime Minister of Pakistan presented a report which is known as:

    1. Pakistan formula
    2. Objective resolution
    3. Bogras formula ✓
    4. None

55. 55. The ancient remains at Takht-i-Bal are of_________.

    1. Indus Valley civilization
    2. Muslim Civilization
    3. Gandhara Civilization ✓
    4. Greek Civilization

56. 56. In 1973, the Arab State used the oil weapon to pressurize the pro-Israel western powers. Tell who advised the Arab states for it?

    1. Shah Faisal
    2. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ✓
    3. Yasir Arfat
    4. None of them

57. 57. Who is the United stats security adviser to President Donald Trump:

    1. Robert OBrien ✓
    2. Susan Rice
    3. John Bolton
    4. Michel Flynn

58. 58. Pakistan nuclear stance is _________ which is entirely defer rent in nature.

    1. The first use option ✓
    2. As the second user state
    3. Nothing specific
    4. Never will use in war

59. 59. The book Pakistan: a Hard Country is written by:

    1. George Maximilian
    2. IH Qureshi
    3. Akbar Zaidi
    4. Anatol Lieven ✓

60. 60. The writer of Globalization of world politics is Steve Smith and _________.

    1. Michel Foley
    2. Prof.White
    3. John Baylis ✓
    4. None

61. 61. Who was the last security advisor of PML (N) Government (2013-2018)?

    1. Sartaj Aziz
    2. Lt Gen (R) Naseer Janjua ✓
    3. Lt Gen (R) Akram Durrani
    4. None

62. 62. What is meant by kinetic military action ?

    1. Nuclear Deterrence
    2. Active warfare to use lethal force ✓
    3. Conventional warfare with soft force
    4. None

63. 63. Which political leader in Pakistan is known non-violent movement?

    1. Liaqat Ali Khan
    2. Bacha Khan ✓
    3. Fatima Jinnah
    4. None

64. 64. Gomal-Zam dam is constructed in which district of Pakistan?

    1. D. I. Khan
    2. Bannu
    3. South Waziristan ✓
    4. None of these

65. 65. Ormur language is spoken by which Pashtun tribe of Pakistan?

    1. Afridi
    2. Swati
    3. Burki ✓
    4. Wazir

66. 66. The largest district of Pakistan by area is:

    1. District Dera Ghazi Khan
    2. District Dadu
    3. District Chagai ✓
    4. District Karachi

67. 67. The first Hindu who publicly proposed for the separate state of the Muslims almost 16 years before the All India Muslim League adopted the idea of separate state for the Muslims was:

    1. Lala Lajpat Raj
    2. Mahatma Gandhi ✓
    3. Vallabhai Patel
    4. None of them

68. 68. When someone judges a person based on the superficial characteristics such as their apparent social class, sex, and ethnicity is called_____.

    1. Self fulfilling
    2. Social identity
    3. Labelling ✓
    4. None of these

69. 69. A system of verbal systems through which humans communicate ideas, feelings, experiences is known as

    1. Values
    2. Norms
    3. Culture
    4. Language ✓

70. 70. Cultural Diffusion means the spread of _________ from one group or society to another.

    1. Cultural norms
    2. Cultural shocks
    3. Cultural values ✓
    4. None of these

71. 71. The division of people socio-economically into different layers termed as:

    1. Social Stratification ✓
    2. Ethnicity
    3. Race
    4. None

72. 72. Which of the following is the primary institution of the socialization of children?

    1. School
    2. Media
    3. Family ✓
    4. Peer groups

73. 73. Appeals to humor, appeals to sex, and effects of repetitions are the three techniques of:

    1. Persuasive advertising ✓
    2. Persuasive propoganda
    3. Persuasive Radio and TV shows
    4. None of the above

74. 74. The more a person will make his/her needs by media, the more that very media would play role in his/her real life. This idea depicts which theory?

    1. Media Dependency theory ✓
    2. Uses and Gratification theory
    3. Transmission belt theory
    4. Cultivation theory

75. 75. The process in which the media attends to some issues and not others, therefore altering the benchmarks by which people evaluate election candidates is known as:

    1. Priming process
    2. Altering proces ✓
    3. Propagation Process
    4. Cultivation Perspective

76. 76. A short History of the Saracens is a book authored by Syed Ameer Ali. This book is written on the history of __________.

    1. Arab Muslims ✓
    2. Sindhi Muslims
    3. Muslims of Serbia
    4. None

77. 77. The concept of "Alienation" was first coined by:

    1. Antonio Gramsci
    2. Karl Marx ✓
    3. Emile Durkheim
    4. Max Weber

78. 78. Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi refused to prostrate when he entered the court of Mughal Emperor _____.

    1. Akbar ✓
    2. Aurangzeb
    3. Jahangir
    4. None of the above

79. 79. The first military war fought by the East India Company against the local Indians was:

    1. Anglo Maratha War
    2. Battle of Plessey ✓
    3. Anglo Mysor War
    4. None

80. 80. When People Republic of China bacame the member of the United Nations_________?

    1. 1972 ✓
    2. 1980
    3. 1977
    4. 1960

81. 81. The united states promulgated present constitution and became a federation in:

    1. 1777
    2. 1780
    3. 1789 ✓
    4. 1790

82. 82. Total number of members in the European Union at present are?

    1. 25
    2. 26
    3. 27 ✓
    4. 28

83. 83. Which country hosted the summit of G20 November 2020?

    1. Qatar
    2. India
    3. Britian
    4. Saudia Arabia ✓

84. 84. We will fight for a thousand year for Kashmir in a United Nation session, Who said those words:?

    1. Zia-ul-Haq
    2. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ✓
    3. General Ayub Khan
    4. None

85. 85. Recently who replaced Dr. Maliha Lodhi as the Permanent Representative of Pakistan from the United nations?

    1. Zulfi Bukhari
    2. Munir Akram ✓
    3. Syed Ibn-e-Abbas
    4. None of them

86. 86. Vietnam War was ended in:

    1. 1970
    2. 1973 ✓
    3. 1975
    4. 1977

87. 87. The next Presidential elections are due in the United States of America in ________.

    1. November 2019
    2. November 2020 ✓
    3. December 2020
    4. February 2020

88. 88. In the last session of the United Nation General Assembly, three Heads of States expressed their serious conserns about the situation in Kashmir, which were they:

    1. Saudi, Iranian and Turkish
    2. Turkish, Chinese and Malaysian ✓
    3. Turkish, Chinese and Indonesian
    4. None of these

89. 89. Viewing Mass Communication as merely a process of disseminating messages to control people is an idea called:

    1. Transmissional Perspective ✓
    2. Power Perspective
    3. Ritual Perspective
    4. None

90. 90. When Pakistan was fighting the War of 1971 against India, who was the prime minister of Pakistan?

    1. Yahya Khan ✓
    2. Nur ul Amin
    3. Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
    4. None

91. 91. Total number of members of Pakistan Senate has been changed after the merger of FATA into KPK, they are now:

    1. 82
    2. 95
    3. 101
    4. 104 ✓

92. 92. Who is the new chairman of Kashmir Committee in Pakistans Paliment ?

    1. Shafqat Mahmood
    2. Syed Fakhar Imam ✓
    3. Asad Omar
    4. None of them

93. 93. The first time All India Congress accepted the demand of Indian Muslims for seperate electorate was in:

    1. 1907
    2. 1940
    3. 1916 ✓
    4. 1927

94. 94. In the present Constitution of Pakistan, the lists of powers are given for the division of powers between the provinces and the federation?

    1. 1
    2. 2 ✓
    3. 3
    4. 4

95. 95. Pakistan and India signed the Indus Basin Treaty in which year:

    1. 1960 ✓
    2. 1961
    3. 1962
    4. 1963

96. 96. During 1930 and 1940, most of the researchers employed which communication model in their ideas regarding media effects?

    1. Authoritarian model of communication
    2. Hypodermic needle model of communication ✓
    3. Libertarian model of communication
    4. None of these

97. 97. What is the total number of members in the European Union at present in:

    1. 25
    2. 26
    3. 27 ✓
    4. 28

98. 98. FATAs merger into the KPK was realized in which year:

    1. August 2017
    2. May 2018 ✓
    3. December 2017
    4. December 2018

99. 99. Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan addressed which United Nation General Assemblys Session?

    1. 72
    2. 73
    3. 74 ✓
    4. 75

100. 100. If a graph is a complete graph with m vertices, then how many spanning trees a complete graph can have? Where n is the number of nodes in the graph.

     1. n(n+1)
     2. (n+1)
     3. n(n+2) ✓
     4. n2

101. 101. Regular expression for all strings starts with xy and ends with xxy is given as:

     1. xyx*y*xxy
     2. xy(xy)*xxy ✓
     3. xxy*yx*yx
     4. xy(x+y)*xxy

102. 102. Which of the following binary search tree has a property in which the sub-trees of every node differ in height by at most one?

     1. Heap Tree
     2. Red-Black Tree
     3. AVL Tree ✓
     4. None of these

103. 103. Which of the underlying layers provides an interface for the end-user operating a device connected to a network?

     1. Transport Layer
     2. Applicaton Layer ✓
     3. Session Layer
     4. Network Layer

104. 104. Following are the basic operations supported by an array except:

     1. Blaze
     2. Search
     3. Deletion ✓
     4. Update

105. 105. Which of the following regular expression does not represent strings that end in a double letter?

     1. (x | y) * (yy | yx)
     2. (x | y) * (xx | (x | y) | yy) ✓
     3. (x | y) * (xx | yy)
     4. None

106. 106. What is the fifth layer of networking OSI (seven-layer ) model?

     1. Transport Layer
     2. Application Layer
     3. Network Layer
     4. Session Layer ✓

107. 107. Following algorithms are based on divide and conquer programming approach except:

     1. Merge sort
     2. Binary sort
     3. Heap sort ✓
     4. Quick sort

108. 108. Which of the following is a technique by which different analog and digital streams of transmission can be simultaneously proccesed over a shared link? It divides the high capacity medium into the low capacity logical medium which is then shared by different streams.

     1. Digitalize
     2. Multiplexing ✓
     3. Analogical
     4. None of these

109. 109. In which of the following windows thread states, a thread enters this state after waiting if it is ready to run but the resources are not available? For example, the threads stack maybe paged out of memory. When the resources are available, the thread goes to the Ready state.

     1. Running
     2. Terminated
     3. Transition ✓
     4. None

110. 110. It is very rare to see a LAN, MAN or a WAN in isolation; they are connected to one another. When two or more networks are connected, the network is called:

     1. Outer network
     2. Intra network
     3. Inter network ✓
     4. None of the above

111. 111. Followings are not the advantages of Data replication:

     1. Quicker Response
     2. Reliability ✓
     3. Reduction in Network Load
     4. None of these

112. 112. Which of the following JavaScript method founds a number upwards to the nearest integer.

     1. exp
     2. asin
     3. ceil ✓
     4. abs

113. 113. Which of the following is Unary incremental operator in javascript?

     1. +
     2. ++ ✓
     3. *
     4. /

114. 114. Which of the following regular expression represent strings that do not have the substring xy?

     1. (y+x)*
     2. (x+y)*
     3. y*x* ✓
     4. x*y*

115. 115. In which of the following mode of data delivery, the transfer of data from servers to clients is initiated by a client pull?

     1. Hybrid
     2. Push-only ✓
     3. Pull-only
     4. Merge

116. 116. In Data Structure and Alogorithm, Data Definition defines a particular data with the following characteristics except:

     1. Atomic
     2. Accurate
     3. Discursive ✓
     4. None

117. 117. In which of the following topology, all devices share a single communication line or cable? This topology may have problem while multiple hosts sending data at the dame time.

     1. Star
     2. Bus ✓
     3. Ring
     4. Tree

118. 118. Which of the following is a technique for producing a set of relations with desireable properties, given the data requirements of an enterprise?

     1. Specialization
     2. Aggregation
     3. Generalization
     4. Normalization ✓

119. 119. The exponentiation operator used in Javascript:

     1. &&
     2. ** ✓
     3. $
     4. /

120. 120. In which battle Jafar bin Abi Tabib was martyred?

     1. Battle of Badar
     2. Battle of Uhad
     3. Battle of Mutah ✓
     4. Battle of Khndaq

121. 121. Hazrat Haleema looked after the Holy Prophet (SAW) for how many years?

     1. 2
     2. 4 ✓
     3. 7
     4. 8

122. 122. The only sagabi whose name is mentioned in Quran Majeed is:

     1. Ali
     2. Zaid ✓
     3. Abu Bakar
     4. Bilal

123. 123. When we make the judgment, the action is good, we imply that the action has some __________ or that it is worthwhile.

     1. Affect
     2. Value ✓
     3. Wisdom
     4. None

124. 124. The Best eatable thing as mentioned in the Holy Quran is _________ .

     1. Honey ✓
     2. Figs
     3. Dates
     4. Grapes

125. 125. Zakat is due on goats as:

     1. 1 goat for every 40 goats ✓
     2. 1 goat for every 50 goats
     3. 1 goat for every 60 goats
     4. 1 goat for every 70 goats