KUET 2023 Question Paper M.Sc. Disaster Management

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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SCIENCES

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1. Etymologically the term ‘Disaster’ comes from the 4. Joshimath, also known as Jyotirmath, a town and a
following languages : municipal board recently in news for land subsidence
(i) French is situated in which of the following districts in the
(ii) Greek Indian state of Uttarakhand?
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(A) Chamoli
(iv) Latin
(B) Nainital
Choose the correct answer from the options given
(C) Rudraprayag
below:
(A) (i), (ii), (iii) (D) Uttarkashi

(B) (i), (ii), (iv) 5. Match List I with List II
(C) (ii), (iii), (iv) List I (Disasters) List II (Year)
(D) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
1. Fukoshima Double Disaster (i) 2019
2. Etymologically the term ‘Hazard’ comes from one of
the following languages 2. Chernobyl Disaster (ii) 2004
(A) French 3. Asian Tsunami (iii) 2011
(B) Greek 4. Australian Forest Fire (iv) 1986
(C) Italian
Choose the correct answer from the options given
(D) Latin
below:
3. Risk perception is understood as
(i) Awareness of risk (A) 1 (ii), 2 (iv), 3 (iii), 4 (i)

(ii) Dependency on certain subjective and objective (B) 1 (i), 2 (iii), 3 (ii), 4 (iv)
factors (C) 1 (iii), 2 (iv), 3 (ii), 4 (i)
(iii) Insignificant role of media
(D) 1 (iv), 2 (iii), 3 (ii), 4 (i)
(iv) Personal experience of disasters
6. Which is nodal ministry for management of Biological
(v) Non-belief in prevention and fatalistic attitude
Disasters in India?
Choose the correct answer from the options given
(A) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
below:
(A) (iii), (iv) Only (B) Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate

(B) (i), (iii), (v) Only Change

(C) (i), (ii), (iii) Only (C) Ministry of Home Affairs
(D) (i), (ii), (iv) Only (D) Ministry of Defence

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Approaches for vulnerability analysis are
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(C) (iii), (iv) Only
(B) (ii) & (iii) Only
(D) (iv), (v) Only
(C) (iii) & (iv) Only
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human- induced hazards and vulnerable conditions’. 11. Golden Hour in disaster means

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12. Given below are two statements: 16. Disaster management has variety of action items.
Statement I: Community is a natural ordered entity
Which of the following is the overarching goal of
typified by the family, implies cultural understanding
of living communities disaster management?
Statement II: Society is unstructured and lacking (A) Collection of valuable data for future
institutionalized organizations
management objectives
In the light of the above statements, choose the most
appropriate answer from the options given below (B) Resettling people in the closest unaffected urban
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true area
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false (C) Restoring community services, facilities and
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
residences to pre-disaster levels
(D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true
13. During which phase of disaster cycle should (D) Strengthening sewage and drinking water
surveillance of health problems be conducted? treatment facilities to resist the impact of a future
(A) Preparedness disaster
(B) Response
17. The United Nations Disaster Assessment and
(C) Recovery
Coordination (UNDAC) is part of the international
(D) Mitigation
14. Microearthquakes which are usually not felt by people emergency response system for sudden-onset
and only recorded by seismographs have a magnitude emergencies. Which of the following is not part of
(Richter scale)
UNDAC?
(A) Less than 1.0
(A) Equipment
(B) Between 1.0 and 2.0
(C) Between 2.0 and 3.0 (B) Methodology
(D) Between 3.0 and 4.0 (C) Staff
15. Which of the following is incorrect about the
vulnerability profile of India? (D) Training

(A) About 12% (over 40 million hectares) of its land 18. Which of the following does NOT belong to the
is prone to floods and river erosion category of nuclear disaster?
(B) About 68% of its cultivable area is vulnerable
to droughts (A) Chernobyl disaster
(C) Around 59% of the landmass is prone to (B) Fukushima disaster
earthquakes of moderate to very high intensity
(C) Love canal disaster
(D) Close to 7,516 km long coastline is prone to
cyclones and tsunamis (D) Three-mile Island accident

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19. As per ‘Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a 22. One of the global targets as per Sendai Framework,
Safer World’, what elements contribute to and gain
2015 is
from implementation of Sustainable Development
Policies? (A) To substantially reduce global disaster mortality

(A) Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, Preparedness by 2030, aiming to lower the average per

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20. Arrange the
Risk Reduction, in order of the Latest to the Oldest: to 2010-2020
(i) International Conference on DRR, Sendai (C) To substantially reduce global disaster mortality
(ii) International Decade for Natural Disaster by 2025, aiming to lower the average per
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(B) (i), (v), (iv), (iii), (ii) 2020-2030 compared to the period 2005-
(C) (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (i) 2015.
(D) (ii), (v), (iv), (iii), (i)
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24. The essential elements of disaster as per Section 2(d) 27. In the Tribal Area, as referred to in the Sixth Schedule
of Disaster Management Act, 2005?
to the Constitution, the Co- Chairperson of the District
(i) Catastrophe, mishap, calamity or grave
Disaster Management Authority will be
occurrence affecting any area
(ii) Arising only from natural causes (i.e. does not (A) Chief Executive Member of the district
cover man-made causes) (B) Chief Medical Officer of the district
(iii) Arising only from accident or negligence
(C) Elected representative of the local authority
(iv) Beyond coping capacity of society
Choose the correct answer from the options given (D) Superintendent of Police
below: 28. The fellow citizens of country have given the following
(A) (i), (ii) name to the rescuers of National Disaster Response
(B) (i), (ii), (iii) Force (NDRF)
(C) (i), (iii), (iv)
(A) Aapda Mitra
(D) (i), (iv)
25. National Disaster Management Act, 2005 proposes (B) Angels in Disaster
National Plan for disaster management for the whole (C) Disaster Warriors
of the country. As per the Act, the National Plan shall
(D) Garud Commandos
be reviewed and updated
(A) Annually 29. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was
(B) Biennially constituted under the statutory provision of Disaster
(C) Every Five years Management Act, 2005. In 2005, the NDRF was
(D) Every Ten years constituted with 8 Battalions, however, today the
26. As per Section 2(e) of National Disaster Management number of Battalions are increased to
Act, 2005 essential elements for disaster management
are (A) 15

(i) Prevention of danger or threat of any disaster (B) 18
(ii) Declaration of standard of disaster risk free (C) 21
infrastructure
(D) 25
(iii) Building back better
(iv) Rehabilitation and reconstruction 30. Who among the following is known for contributions
Choose the correct answer from the options given in Indian Nuclear Sciences?
below: (A) Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
(A) (i), (ii)
(B) Homi Jehangir Bhabha
(B) (ii), (iii)
(C) (i), (iv) (C) Meghnad Saha

(D) (iii), (iv) (D) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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31. Which of the following is the world’s most powerful 35. The scale designed to describe the effects of an
space observatory that has turned its gaze on planets, earthquake at a given place, on natural features, on
stars and galaxies in infrared light, which is invisible to industrial installations and on human beings :
the human eye?
(A) Hadean scale
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32. Covaxin produced by the Indian Company Bharat
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relationships between objects and events is called
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39. Which of the following disaster databases is with 43. The Forest Survey of India has been monitoring India’s
regional coverage (and not global coverage)? forest and tree resource through periodic assessment
(A) Dartmouth and presenting the findings in its biennial publication.
The first State of Forest report was brought out in the
(B) DesInventar
year
(C) EM-DAT
(A) 1982
(D) NatCatSERVICE
(B) 1986
40. Which of the following continents/regions has the
(C) 1987
maximum percent share of global river runoff?
(D) 1991
(A) Africa
44. As per India State of Forest Report (2021), which of
(B) Asia the following states has the highest percentage of forest
(C) North and Central America cover w.r.t. total geographical area of the state?
(D) South America (A) Maharashtra
41. As per the India Seismic Zone Map of India, which (B) Manipur
of the following combinations is NOT explained? (C) Meghalaya
(A) Zone I, Zone II, Zone III (D) Mizoram
(B) Zone II, Zone III, Zone IV 45. According to the World Air Quality Report 2021,
(C) Zone II, Zone IV, Zone V India is home to following number of the 100 most
(D) Zone III, Zone IV, Zone V polluted cities, with New Delhi named as the capital
with the worst air quality in the world :
42. Match List I with List II
(A) 39
List I (Reservoir) List II (River) (B) 51
1. Bhakra (i) Beas (C) 63
2. Gandhi Sagar (ii) Ramganga (D) 75
3. Kalagarh (iii) Sutluj 46. A document, Desertification and Land Degradation
4. Pong (iv) Chambel Atlas reporting increase in land degradation and
desertification was published by
Choose the correct answer from the options given (A) Defence Research & Development Organisation
below: (DRDO)
(A) 1 (i), 2 (iv), 3 (ii), 4 (iii) (B) Indian Agricultural Research Institute
(B) 1 (iii), 2 (iv), 3 (ii), 4 (i) (C) Indian Council of Forestry Research and
(C) 1 (iv), 2 (iii), 3 (i), 4 (ii) Education
(D) l (iii), 2 (ii), 3 (iv), 4 (i) (D) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

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47. The Kashmir Valley lies between the following thrusts, 51. The book The Wealth of Nations is written by
making it very vulnerable to earthquakes : (A) Karl Marx

(A) Karakoram thrust and Ladakh thrust (B) Adam Smith
(C) Alfred Marshall
(B) Ladakh thrust and Pir Panjal thrust
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(B) Kamal Nath
(A) Bangalore
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56. Which of the following Union Territories has the 59. Lunglei Fire Station (LFS), which shared Subhash
minimum population density (persons per sq.km) as
Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puruskar with
per Census 2021?
(A) Andaman and Nicobar Islands Odisha State Disaster Management Authority
(B) Dadra and Nagar Haveli (OSDMA) for the year 2023 in the field of Disaster
(C) Jammu and Kashmir
Management belongs to the following state :
(D) Ladakh
57. Which of the following United Nations (UN) (A) Manipur
organization ensures that all countries and international
(B) Mizoram
and regional organizations have access to and develop
the capacity to use all types of space-based (C) Nagaland
information to support the full disaster management
cycle? (D) Tripura
(A) UN-ESCAP 60. Mr. António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres the
(B) UN-SPIDER
Secretary-General of the United Nations was earlier
(C) UNIDIR
(D) UNOOSA Prime Minister of :
58. Who among the following is the Director General, (A) Brazil
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)?
(A) Amit Prothi (B) France
(B) Kamal Kishore (C) Portugal
(C) Rajendra Singh
(D) Spain
(D) Vinod Kumar Sharma

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