KVS, NVS, DSSSB, RSMSSB & Other Competitive Exams Practice Set-25

KVS, NVS, DSSSB, RSMSSB & Other Competitive Exams Practice Set: These multiple choice practice sets intend to help aspiring Library Professionals to prepare for various job-oriented competitive exams conducted by several agencies time to time. It is hoped that these objective questions sets will serve a useful purpose and help a large number of LIS professionals to qualify and get better job opportunities.

KVS, NVS, DSSSB, RSMSSB & Other Competitive Exams Practice Set-25

1.Which among the following ethical guidelines for library professionals does not come under ‘Seven Lamps of Conduct’?

(A) Split mind
(B) Privacy
(C) Service before self
(D) Scholarship

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Answer: (B) Privacy

2. The method of knowing the information searching behavior of the users is __.

(A) User education
(B) User’s study
(C) Communication study
(D) User behavioral studies

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Answer: (B) User’s study

3. Who among the following was the chairman of the committee on National Network System for Universities/ Libraries?

(A) Dr. S. R. Ranganathan
(B) Dr. N. Seshagiri
(C) C. R. Karisidappa
(D) Prof. Yash Pal

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Answer: (D) Prof. Yash Pal

4. Who among the following was the chairman of the Working Group on Modernization of Library Services and Informatics, constituted by the Planning Commission?

(A) Dr. S. R. Ranganathan
(B) Dr. N. Seshagiri
(C) C. R. Karisidappa
(D) R. P. Rastogi

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Answer: (B) Dr. N. Seshagiri

5. Indian Library Association is a member of __.

(A) IFLA and Commonwealth Library Association
(B) American Library Association and Library Association (LA)
(C) Library Association and Commonwealth Library Association
(D) FID and IFLA

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Answer: (A) IFLA and Commonwealth Library Association

6. The techniques in cryptography that uses different encryption and decryption keys is called:

(A) Modern Cryptography
(B) Secret Key Cryptography
(C) Traditional Cryptography
(D) Public Key Cryptography

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Answer: (D) Public Key Cryptography
Notes: Cryptography, the art and science of secret writing is of two types. Symmetric key cryptography that relies on one key for both encryption and decryption, while asymmetric cryptography or Public Key cryptography is an encryption method that uses two different set of keys - a public key and a private key. The public key is used to encrypt and the private key is used to decrypt the data or message.

7. How Total Quality Management (TQM) be employed in libraries and information centres?

(A) By applying ISO-3903
(B) By applying ISO-9000
(C) By applying ISO-3901
(D) By applying ISO-9002

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Answer: (B) By applying ISO-9000

8. What is meant by knowledge management?

(A) All activities of information management are mixed in it
(B) All activities of management
(C) It is the same as information management
(D) All activities of information management along with some other special activities are also mixed up in it

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Answer: (D) All activities of information management along with some other special activities are also mixed up in it

9. The fields in MARC-21 which contains DDC number is ___

(A) 082
(B) 085
(C) 080
(D) 020

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Answer: (A) 082

10. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (Patna) was established in the year __.

(A) 1878
(B) 1891
(C) 1869
(D) 1871

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Answer: (B) 1891