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Question : 21

Early movers often lose the plot when they begin to make ill-informed _____________ between scale and customer satisfaction (often by sacrificing customer satisfaction for scale) or revenue growth and profitability (sometimes sacrificing profitability for growth – and sometimes viceversa). _____________ early mover advantage can be built only if there is a deep knowledge of customer and business/domain trends. Winners use this knowledge and insight _____________ the kind of thrusts a new entrant could make to snatch market share and constantly strengthen their armour at precisely these spots. At times, this could involve proactively investing in technology and analytics, and _____________ it could be about opening a new line of business or service. A late entrant with deeper pockets can try and imitate, and even better your strategy. So, think about what you are doing that someone with access to funds cannot easily imitate. What is positively difficult to imitate is the culture. What is also positively difficult to imitate is IP. And, in a complex business that is not necessarily IP driven, the quality of execution is equally difficult to imitate.

a) trade-offs - Sustainable – to be anticipated - at other times

b) trade-offs - Sustainable - to anticipate - at other times

c) balance - Sustained - to anticipate - at better times

d) trade-offs - Sustainable - to be anticipated - at better times

e) balance - Sustainable - to anticipate - at other times

Question : 22

There are many ironies investing the _____________ of Nepal’s new Constitution. President Ram Baran Yadav, who formally signed the charter on September 20, is a Madhesi. His community is unhappy about the Constitution. Who are the Madhesis? They _____________ the southern plains of Nepal. Many have familial connections on the Indian side of the border. Why are they unhappy? Because they feel, with good reason, that the Constitution will not do them much good. On the other hand, the manner of _____________ of provinces, they are convinced, will work to their disadvantage. The Tharus, another _____________ who mostly inhabit the western reaches of the Nepal plains, have similar apprehensions. The violence that has been unleashed by these unhappy elements has already claimed close to 50 lives.

a) promulgated - inhabit - delineation - ethnic group

b) promulgation - inhabit - delineation - ethnic group

c) promulgation - inhibition - delineation - ethnic group

d) promulgation - inhabit – delineated by - ethnic group

e) promulgation - inhabit - delineation - minority group

Question : 23

No matter how great you think your product is, it will always improve _____________ if you go beyond India to tap other markets and find other users who will try it. In Singapore, we learnt a lot about how healthcare is practiced in a developed country, how responsive and scalable our infrastructure _____________. We took a lot of these learnings and put them back into our product so that the next version was 10x better. What we also did was to not build a ‘Singapore version’ – we decided that if we go to a country and learn something that is better, we will _____________ our product globally _____________ that, not do isolated versions for each country.

a) significantly - needs to be - upgrade - to reflect

b) significant – need to - upgrade - to reflect

c) significant – need to - upgrade - to reflect

d) significantly - needs to be - enhance - to glimpse

e) significantly - needs to be - enhance - to glimpse

Question : 24

What is likely to be debated over a far longer time is whether a government has the right to _____________ decide what kind of food products are to be sold and consumed. But, most importantly, what must not be forgotten is the impact this ‘meat ban’ issue _____________ and such prohibitions in general can have on business in India. Such signals are especially _____________ for any kind of attempts being made to improve ‘ease of doing business’ in India. Used frequently as a battle cry for progress, ‘ease of doing business’ has become a slogan that the central government proudly and frequently flaunts and promises to better. But _____________helping India become an easier place to do business — meat, online retail, F&B, anything — the government’s priorities seem misplaced. A much publicised ‘Will shops be closed or will they remain open?’ discourse can deliver a big blow to India’s already lackadaisical image for doing business.

a) unilateral – more specific - retrogressive - instead of

b) unilateral – more specific - retrogressive - instead of

c) unilaterally - in particular - retrogressive - instead of

d) unilaterally - in particular - progressive - although

e) unilaterally - in particular - progressive - although

Question : 25

They’re trying to disrupt (even create) industries, and emerge as the ‘mutations’ of this decade. This mindset has been further _____________ the sudden ease in raising large amounts of venture capital funding, even compared to just three years ago. But the problem with growth is that it blinds you. It makes you feel that it’s the only thing that _____________. The infamous fall of Fab.com is a _____________ to all startups which think they can just keep expanding categories and geographies by throwing money at the problem. What these startups don’t realise is that they’re growing just for the sake of growth. And with this approach, they will never win the battle. Only those few startups which understand how to ‘grow naturally’ will _____________. The rest will become extinct.

a) fuel by - matters - testament - survive

b) fuelled by - matters - testament - survive

c) fuelled by – matter of importance - testament - survive

d) fuelled by - matters – tested example - survive

e) fuelled by - matters - testament – survival of