AP Ward Welfare and Development Secretary Previous Questions with Official Key

Ward Welfare and Development Secretary previous exam was held in September 2019. That was the first exam with new syllabus and exam pattern. Following are the questions from that exam along with final official key released by Government of AP. We are also offering online exams, mock tests for the candidates appearing Ward Sachivalayam Ward Welfare and Development Secretary posts in 2020 and thereafter.

Who propounded the functional theory of stratification?

  1. Radcliffe – Brown and Malinowski
  2. Davis and Moore
  3. Davis and Johnson
  4. MacIver and Page
    ANSWER: 2

Which of the following is an achieved status

  1. Son
  2. Daughter
  3. Father
  4. Doctor
    ANSWER: 4
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Competition is a / an

  1. open conflict
  2. silent conflict
  3. regulated conflict
  4. 1, 2 and 3 are not correct
    ANSWER: 3

Occupational theory of caste was propounded by

  1. Robert Redfield
  2. Herbert Risley
  3. Nesfield
  4. G.S Ghurye
    ANSWER: 3

Under the constitution of India, certain tribes have been specified as

  1. hill tribes
  2. scheduled tribes
  3. backward tribes
  4. 1, 2 and 3 are not correct
    ANSWER: 2

Ethnography is the study systematic study of

  1. specific cultures
  2. two cultures
  3. three cultures
  4. gatherers
    ANSWER: 1

The recent geographical period is

  1. pleistocene
  2. holocene
  3. mesozoic
  4. pliocene
    ANSWER: 2

Archeology is the study of

  1. modern history
  2. medieveal history
  3. ancient history
  4. kingdoms
    ANSWER: 3

Which of the following is responsible for the growth of cities?

  1. industrialization
  2. trade and commerce
  3. transport and communication
  4. 1, 2 and 3 are correct
    ANSWER: 4

Over-urbanisation is due to which of the following factors?

  1. urban pull
  2. urban push
  3. urban push and pull
  4. 1, 2 and 3 are not correct
    ANSWER: 1

Urban renewal means

  1. demolishing old buildings and constructing new ones
  2. reclaiming land in the city outskirts
  3. reclaiming water bodies in the cities
  4. equipping the city with modern facilities
    ANSWER: 1

The economist who stated the concept of differential tax incidence is

  1. JR Hicks
  2. JM Buchanan
  3. JM Keynes
  4. RA Musgrave
    ANSWER: 4

SIDBI comes under the category of

  1. regional rural banks
  2. development banks
  3. commercial banks
  4. cooperative banks
    ANSWER: 2

Indian agriculture is typically characterised as

  1. land surplus and labour scarce system
  2. land surplus and labour surplus system
  3. land scarce and labour surplus system
  4. land scarce and labour scarce system
    ANSWER: 3

According to Keynes, the macroeconomic equibrilium is
I. full employment equilibrium
II. under-employment equilibrium
III. short run equilibrium
IV. long run equilibrium

  1. Only I and III
  2. Only II and III
  3. Only II and IV
  4. Only I and IV
    ANSWER: 2

Which of the following given statements are correct?
I. per capita income is a better measure of walfare than GNP
II. GNP is always higher than GDP
III. disposable income is less than personal income

  1. Only I
  2. Only II
  3. I and II
  4. I, II and III
    ANSWER: 4

In the second stage of demographic transition, the following situation prevails

  1. birth rate increases
  2. birth rate decreases
  3. both birth rate and death rate decline
  4. birth rate increases and death rate declines
    ANSWER: 4

AP Sachivalayam Exams – Engineering Assistants, Amenities Secretary Previous Questions with Key

Engineering Assistants / Ward Amenities Secretary exam was held in September 2019 for the first time with new syllabus and exam pattern. Following are the questions with official final key of that exam. The questions are from Engineering subject (PART – B) and will be useful for the candidates appearing for Grama / Ward Sachivalayam exams in 2020 and thereafter in Andhra Pradesh. We are also offering online exams / model papers covering all the syllabus which will help you in your preparation and success in the exam. See the details below:

The sheer modulus of most of the materials with respect to modulus of elasticity is

  1. equal to half
  2. less than half
  3. more than half
  4. twice
    ANSWER: 2

The energy stored in a body within elastic limits is known as

  1. resilience
  2. prrof resilience
  3. strain energy
  4. impact energy
    ANSWER: 3
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When the load on the free end of a cantilevel beam is increased, failure will occur

  1. at the free end
  2. at the fixed end
  3. in the middle of the beam
  4. at a distance 2L/3 from the free end
    ANSWER: 2

The shear force diagram for a cantilever beam of length L and carrying a uniformly distributed load l per unit length will be

  1. a right angled triangle
  2. an isosceles triangle
  3. an equilateral triangle
  4. a rectangle
    ANSWER: 1

Two parallel forces equal in magnitude and opposite in direction and separated by a definite distance are said to form a

  1. moment
  2. couple
  3. resultant
  4. equilibrium
    ANSWER: 2

Moment of Intertia does not depend on

  1. angular velocity of the body
  2. mass of the body
  3. distribution of mass in the body
  4. axis of rotation of the body
    ANSWER: 1

A flow whose stream line is represented by a curve is called

  1. one dimentional flow
  2. two dimentional flow
  3. three dimentional flow
  4. four dimentional flow
    ANSWER: 2

Reynolds number is the ratio of inertia force to

  1. pressure force
  2. elastic force
  3. gravity force
  4. viscous force
    ANSWER: 4
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Axial flow pump is started with its delivery valve

  1. kept fully closed
  2. kept fully open
  3. irrespective of any position
  4. kept 50 % open
    ANSWER: 2

Indicator disgram of a reciprocating pump is a graph between

  1. flow vs sept volume
  2. pressure in cylinder vs swept volume
  3. flow vs speed
  4. pressure vs speed
    ANSWER: 2

For a very high discharge at low pressure such as flood control and irrigation applications, the following type of pump is preferred

  1. centrifugal
  2. axial flow
  3. reciprocating
  4. mixed flow
    ANSWER: 2

The percentage slip for a reciprocating pump is defined as the percentage of

  1. actual discharge / theoretical discharge
  2. actual speed / theoretical speed
  3. swept volume / cylinder volume
  4. theoretical discharge – ctual discharge / theoretical discharge
    ANSWER: 4

Which of the following conics has an eccentricity of unity?

  1. circle
  2. parabola
  3. hyperbola
  4. ellipse
    ANSWER: 2
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The straight lines which are drawn from various points on the contour of an object to meet a plane are called as

  1. connecting lines
  2. projectors
  3. perpendicular lines
  4. hidden lines
    ANSWER: 2

In the orthographic projection, projection lines are ……… to each other.

  1. parallel
  2. perpendicular
  3. inclined
  4. diagonal
    ANSWER: 1

……. is a curve generated by a point on the circumfrerence of a circle, as the circle, as the circle rolls without slipping along a straight line.

  1. cycloid
  2. epicycloid
  3. epitrochoid
  4. trochoid
    ANSWER: 1

For a reinforced concrete section, the shape of shear force diagram is

  1. wholly parabolic
  2. wholly rectangular
  3. parabolic above neutral axis and rectangular below neutral axis
  4. triangular
    ANSWER: 1/2/3/4 (Question wrong)

The vertical deflection limits are assumed to be satisfied provided the span to depth ratio for simply supported spans are not greater than

  1. 25
  2. 20
  3. 30
  4. 40
    ANSWER: 2

Which of the following is an example for an obstacle which obstructs chaining but not ranging?

  1. a hill
  2. a lake
  3. a valley
  4. a building
    ANSWER: 2

Cross – staff is used for

  1. measuring contour gradient
  2. setting out right angles
  3. taking levels
  4. measuring distances
    ANSWER: 2

The imaginary line joining the intersection of the cross hairs and the optical centre of the objective is called

  1. latitude
  2. line of departure
  3. line of collimation
  4. magnetic deflection
    ANSWER: 3
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