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21. According to research, Japanese companies had prospered because they had acquired knowledge through: (a) Meditation during working hours (b) Deep involvement with the objects they work with (c) Purely by chance and what made sense to them (d) All of the above Answer: 22. If documented knowledge is organized and stored in logical (semantic) pattern, it is easier to retrieve it through multiple paths. (Yes/No) Answer: 23. The more different knowledge items are inter-connected the lesser its value. (Yes/No). Answer: 24. Story telling is a waste of time as stories do not provide any knowledge. (Yes/No) 25. As per research, when people need solutions to their problems, what is their preferred source of knowledge: (a) Search in Google (b) Refer books (c) Contact people (d) All of the above Answer: 26. Skill mining is: (a) Helpful to identify who has knowledge on a specific issue (b) Suitable for technical subject areas (c) Similar to data mining (d) All of the above Answer: 27. CoP benefit the organizations, individual members of CoPs, and the Community itself? (Yes/No) Answer: 28. Benefit of the CoP are: (a) Facilitate ideas (b) Share best practices and lessons learned (c) Develop working skills of the members (d) Building community bond (e) All of the above Answer: 29. Under Social Network Analysis (SNA), it is analyzed: (a) Money allocated to CoP and spent by CoP (b) Interaction between the CoP members (c) Qualifications of CoP memebrs (d) None of the above Answer: 30. More the documented best practices and lessons learned are used by the employees more successful KM of an organization is? (Yes/NO) Answer: B. The below questions offer 1 point each (Maximum: 10 points) 31. According to Bloom, what are the hierarchies of Learning: (a) Acquisition of knowledge and hoarding (b) Comprehension of knowledge and application (c) Creation of knowledge and divestment (d) All of the above Answer: 32. If users of knowledge are identified with the help of technical footprints, breadcrumbs and push technologies, they can be profiled for: (a) Removing them from job (b) Promoting in the job (c) Understanding their knowledge needs (d) None of the above Answer: 33. “The sale of GE Water & Process Technologies is the next step in GE Power’s business strategy and portfolio transformation,” said GE Power President and CEO Russell Stokes. “By creating a more simplified and focused business we’ll be better positioned to leverage Power’s strengths across the entire electricity value network to serve our customers and position the business for growth moving forward.” (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171001005073/en/GE-Completes-Sale-Water-Process-Technologies-Business) As per the above news, what did GE do with the technology it does not need any more? (a) Archived (b) Divested (c) Discarded (d) All of the above Answer: 34. "Before I got through, I tested no fewer than 6,000 vegetable growths, and ransacked the world for the most suitable filament material. "The electric light has caused me the greatest amount of study and has required the most elaborate experiments. I was never myself discouraged, or inclined to be hopeless of success. I cannot say the same for all my associates. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." (https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/edisons-lightbulb) From the above statements of Thomas Edison, answer how did he create knowledge about light bulb. (a) By chance (b) By flash (c) From vegetables (d) None of the above Answer: 35. The electric tattooing machine was officially patented on Dec. 8th, 1891 by a New York tattoo artist named Samuel O'Reilly. But even O’Reilly would be the first to admit that his invention was really an adaptation of a machine invented by Thomas Edison—the Autographic Printing Pen. O’Reilly witnessed a demonstration of the electric pen, a sort of writing drill that Edison had built to allow documents to be etched into stencils and then copied. The electric pen was a failure. The tattooing machine was an unqualified, worldwide smash. (https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-tattoo-machine-1991695) How did Samuel Reilly invent the tattoo gun? (a) Through externalization (b) Through socialization (c) Through internalization (d) All of the above Answer: 36. Number theory (also called as partition theory; for example: 4 can be partitioned in different ways: 1+1+1+1 = 4 or 1+3 = 4 or 1+2+1 = 4) has baffled mathematicians for ages; they could not come up with a standard formula to partition any number. A shipping clerk, Ramanujan, who did not have any formal training in mathematics wrote a letter to the then world renowned mathematician Hardy of Cambridge University that he has the formula. Ramanujan died in 1920 at the age of 32. His formula was later used in many other theories. (Source: 20th Century Mathematics – Hardy and Ramanujan. Retireved from: http://www.storyofmathematics.com/20th_hardy.html) You do not need to understand Ramnujan’s formula, which is provided formula: In the context of the above story, which of the following statements is correct: (a). It shows the necessity to codify the knowledge (b). Hardy and Ramnujan codified the tacit knowledge of Ramanujan (c). If not codified, his tacit knowledge would have not been available to other mathematicians/scientists/mankind as explicit knowledge (d) All of the above Answer: 37. Match the appropriate relevance next to each of the story lines: Story Relevance (write the appropriate letter from the below Relevance table) ( i) Xerox and Steve Job (ii) Alexander Fleming (discoverer of penicillin) (iii) Canon copier maintenance and beer can (iv) Amazon Prime Membership Relevance (a) Creation of knowledge in a flash (b) Junior engineer’s idea (c) Merely having knowledge is not power but using it (d) Knowledge can be created through serendipity 38. Match the appropriate description against each source of knowledge Source of Knowledge Description ( i) Ad hoc sessions (ii) Interviews (iii) Roadmaps (iv) Action learning ( v) Fables Description (a) Experts (b) Organized sessions (c) Research (d) Informal (e) Short stories 39. Match the below people with proper Community of Practice: People/Nature of Work CoP ( i) SQL Programmer (ii) Researcher (iii) Industrialist (iv)Pharmacist CoP (a) Scientific CoP (b) SQL CoP (c) Medical CoP (d) Business CoP 40. Spencer Silver of 3M had accidentally created tacit knowledge about light adhesive. He had externalized his knowledge to his colleagues, including Art Fry. Art Fry had a problem. He had approached Spencer Silver with his perception on how light adhesive could be enhanced. They both had experimented further and created more tacit knowledge, which had been documented. The above process is called as: (a) KM Stages (b) KM Spiral (c) KM Movement (d) All of the above Answer:

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21, The Japanese companies have grown tremendously because they had the deep understanding of the objects that they worked with. During the World War II, the Japan was crumbled due to the nuclear attacks carried out by the US both economically and psychologically. They have used that incident as a lesson and have grown from there because they shifted their focus on the areas of growth in which they wanted to grow. After the world war II, they saw the opportunities that the world need goods to reconstruct itself and they decided that they can produce it in a cost effective manner. That is mostly because of their understandings. Thus, they have emerged as one of the biggest manufacturing countries of all times.

22, Yes. If there is a logic to the arrangements, we can retrieve through multiple channels. The database software MySQL, Oracle, etc works on the same logic. We can retrieve the data through multiple paths. The SQL scripts can be written using R, Python etc to bring the data from the database at ease because they were ordered in a logical format.

23, No, the value of knowledge is measured in terms of the its effectiveness to solve the given problem. Bigger the problem, the value of the knowledge increases exponentially. Inter-connecting the knowledge doesn't decrease its value, on the other hand it increases. Google can be a great example in this instance. When we type our query in google, it gets us the relevant information and it helps us find a solution.

24, No. Story telling is an art and it provides us with knowledge. Our ancestors used stories to pass on the knowledge that they have learnt in their life and keep them alive for generations to come. According to a study , the kids who were told stories when they were younger turns out to be more intelligent than those who weren't told. Stories are used as one of the medium of transferring knowledge through generations.