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Teachers' Professional License – Subject Test: Administrative Sciences: free practice test

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01A manager replaced the old printing machine with a faster one because the old machine was slow and used more time and resources for the same work. This decision shows the manager seeking:

Past exam question Unit: Management

  1. AEffectiveness

    Effectiveness concerns reaching the goal; here printing is already achieved and the problem is the cost of achieving it.

  2. BDecision centralization

    Centralization concerns how authority is distributed and has nothing to do with replacing a machine.

  3. COrganizational creativity

    Organizational creativity is producing new ideas and methods, whereas the manager simply bought a known machine to save time and resources.

  4. DEfficiency ✓ Correct answer

    Efficiency is getting work done with less time and fewer resources, which the faster machine achieves.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.1 (basic concepts and modern trends in management), indicator 1, p. 8

02An employee received an order from his manager to give a customer a discount, then an order from another manager to cancel it. This situation violates which basic organising principle?

Past exam question Unit: Management

  1. ADivision of work and specialisation

    Division of work distributes tasks by specialisation; the situation is not about distributing tasks.

  2. BUnity of command ✓ Correct answer

    Unity of command means an employee takes orders from one superior only, and receiving two conflicting orders violates it.

  3. CParity of authority and responsibility

    Parity of authority and responsibility links authority to duties; the problem here is having more than one superior.

  4. DSpan of supervision

    Span of supervision is about the number of subordinates, whereas the situation is about who issues the order.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.2 (management functions and organisational functions in business), indicator 2, p. 8

03When the choice between two goods is shown as a straight line on the production possibilities curve, the opportunity cost is:

Past exam question Unit: Economics

  1. Aincreasing

    Increasing opportunity cost appears as a curve bowed outward, not as a straight line.

  2. Bconstant ✓ Correct answer

    A straight line means giving up one unit of a good always yields the same number of units of the other.

  3. Cdecreasing

    Decreasing opportunity cost implies a curve bowed inward, not a straight line.

  4. Dzero

    Giving up one good to get another always has a cost, so opportunity cost is never zero here.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.3 (microeconomics and labour economics), indicator 3, p. 8

04Which of the following transactions is recorded in the Saudi current account?

Past exam question Unit: Economics

  1. AA Saudi individual buying a house on US soil

    Buying property abroad is an investment recorded in the capital and financial accounts.

  2. BA Saudi individual buying a car made in China ✓ Correct answer

    Correct: importing a car is merchandise trade, recorded in the current account as an import.

  3. CA Saudi bank selling US bonds to another Saudi bank

    A deal between two Saudi residents creates no flow with the rest of the world, so it is not in the balance of payments.

  4. DA Saudi company building an oil refinery in China

    Building a refinery abroad is foreign direct investment, recorded in the financial account.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.5 (international trade), indicator 4, p. 9

05Sara bought a machine for 10,000 riyals, and three years later its market value rose to 13,000 riyals. It stays recorded in the trial balance at 10,000 riyals under the principle of:

Past exam question Unit: Accounting

  1. AHistorical cost ✓ Correct answer

    Historical cost requires recording an asset at its actual acquisition cost, unchanged by market value rises.

  2. BDisclosure

    Disclosure means presenting material information in the statements; it does not set the recorded amount of an asset.

  3. CConsistency

    Consistency means applying the same accounting methods from period to period.

  4. DRevenue recognition

    Revenue recognition fixes when revenue is recorded, not an asset's value.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.6 (accounting concepts, characteristics and assumptions), indicator 3, p. 9

06If a firm's assets are SAR 270 thousand and its liabilities equal two thirds of its assets, what is owners' equity?

Past exam question Unit: Accounting

  1. ASAR 180 thousand

    This is the value of liabilities, not equity.

  2. BSAR 90 thousand ✓ Correct answer

    Liabilities = 270 x 2/3 = 180 thousand, so equity = 270 - 180 = 90 thousand.

  3. CSAR 270 thousand

    This is total assets; equity is lower by the amount of liabilities.

  4. DSAR 450 thousand

    This adds assets and liabilities, which the equation does not do.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.7 (the accounting system and recording transactions), indicator 3, p. 9

07Hotel services are seasonal: demand rises in summer and many rooms stay empty in winter, an unused capacity that cannot be kept. This shows which service characteristic?

Past exam question Unit: Marketing

  1. Aperishability (cannot be stored) ✓ Correct answer

    A room empty tonight cannot be sold tomorrow or stored, so its capacity is lost; that is perishability.

  2. Bintangibility (cannot be seen or touched)

    Intangibility means the service cannot be seen or touched before purchase, which does not explain unused capacity.

  3. Cheterogeneity (varying service quality)

    Heterogeneity means service quality varies from one occasion to another.

  4. Dinseparability (production tied to consumption)

    Inseparability means delivery is tied to the provider and customer being present; it is not about seasonal demand.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.9 (marketing fundamentals), indicator 4, p. 10

08A customer received an unjustifiably high telecom bill and decided never to buy a data plan from that company again. This decision results from the process of:

Past exam question Unit: Marketing

  1. Aperception

    Perception is selecting and interpreting information; here a real experience changed the behaviour.

  2. Blearning ✓ Correct answer

    Learning is a change in buying behaviour caused by past experience, which is what happened here.

  3. Cmotivation

    A motive is an inner need pushing a person to buy; it does not explain refusing after a bad experience.

  4. Dbelief

    A belief is a thought held about a product; a behaviour change caused by experience is learning.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.10 (consumer behaviour, segmentation and the marketing mix), indicator 7, p. 10

09If net profit is SAR 200,000 and there are 10,000 ordinary shares, earnings per share equals:

Past exam question Unit: Financial Management

  1. ASAR 20 ✓ Correct answer

    EPS = net profit ÷ number of shares = 200,000 ÷ 10,000 = SAR 20.

  2. BSAR 200

    200 would result from dividing by 1,000 shares, or from misplacing a decimal.

  3. CSAR 180

    180 comes from subtracting 20 from 200, confusing subtraction with division.

  4. DSAR 210

    210 comes from adding 10 to 200, which is not the EPS formula.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.12 (Financial management fundamentals), indicator 2, p. 10

10The school principal attends a class taught by an administrative sciences teacher. The teacher poses a discussion question, the argument between students becomes heated, and the teacher does not step in to organize the dialogue. The most likely cause is:

Past exam question Unit: Teaching Methods for Administrative Sciences

  1. Aphrasing the question as a closed question

    A closed question ends in a short fixed answer and would not be expected to provoke a heated argument.

  2. Bunclear lesson objectives

    Unclear objectives weaken focus but do not explain the teacher's missing role in controlling the dialogue.

  3. Cusing the flipped classroom

    The flipped classroom is a way of dividing learning between home and class, not a cause of heated arguments.

  4. Dthe teacher's weak management of the discussion ✓ Correct answer

    Good discussion management sets dialogue rules, distributes turns and steps in when emotions rise; their absence explains the heated argument.

Reference: ETEC Administrative Sciences Teacher Standards (2020), Standard 6.29.16 (methods for teaching administrative sciences), indicator 1, p. 11

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