DECISION MAKING PRACTICE BANK BY VYASA IAS
Decision Making Practice Bank
Q.1) Delphi Technique is related to which of the
following?
A) Organizing
B) Staffing
C) Planning and Decision Making
D) Controlling the subordinates
Answer: Option C) Planning and Decision Making
Explanation:
• Delphi Technique is related to Planning and
Decision Making.
• Delphi method/technique aims at soliciting the
views of experts through a series of strategically
designed questionnaires interspersed with
information and opinion feedback so as to
converge their responses to a consensus.
Q.2) Which of the following are not one of the
qualitative techniques of decision making?
A) Delphi Technique
B) Brainstorming
C) Didactic Interaction
D) Network Analysis
Answer: Option D) Network Analysis
Explanation:
• Various qualitative decision-making techniques
are –
➢ Delphi Technique
➢ Brainstorming
➢ Didactic Interaction
➢ Nominal Group Technique
➢ Multi-Voting
Q.3) Which of the following has developed the Delphi
Technique, one of the qualitative techniques of decision
making?
A) Olaf Helmer
B)Norman Dalker
C) B. Aubrey Fisher
D) Both A & B
Answer: Option D) Both A & B
Explanation:
• Delphi Technique was developed way back in
1950s by Olaf Helmer and Norman Dalker at the
RAND Corporation to forecast the impact of
technology on warfare.
Q.4) Which of the following has proposed the concept
and term OODA Loop?
A) Olaf Helmer
B) Norman Dalker
C) B. Aubrey Fisher
D) John Boyd
Answer: Option D) John Boyd
Difficulty: Moderate
Explanation:
• The term and the concept “Observe-OrientDecide-Act” Loop were proposed by the
military strategist and member of the United
States Air Force, Colonel John Boyd.
• The theory underlying the OODA loop is that
decision making within our minds happens
according to the way in which the recurring
loops of observation, orientation, decision and
action happen in response to a situation.
• The basic premise is that decision makers must
be agile and alert to the situations and have a
clear head and cool mind to take a decision
lucidly and cogently.
Q.5) Which of the following has given the term
“Bounded Rationality”?
A) Herbert A. Simon
B)Norman Dalker
C)John Boyd
D) B. Aubrey Fisher
Answer: Option A) Herbert A. Simon
Explanation:
• Herbert A. Simon proposed bounded rationality
as an alternative basis for the mathematical
modeling of decision-making, as used in
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