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d) The activity of producing

1 What is operations management? products & services in an
organisation
Processes are central to
2 b) Transformation
the operations system.
Preparing the maintenance schedule of
3 machineries becomes difficult in a) Continuous
manufacturing system.
4 Inputs in a production system includes d) Men, Materials
Which kind of production system is undertaken
5 c) Repetitive processing
by JIT (Just In Time) production?
What type of process would a paper mill be
6 a) Continuous flow
most likely to use?
7 Which of the following is not a type of operations? d) Price Reduction
The process of putting together the components
8 of a product is b) Product Assembly
operations Strategy
The extent to which a firm will produce goods or
9 a) Make or Buy Decisions
provide services in – house or go for outsourcing
The act of assessing the future & make
10 b) Forecasting
provisions for it is known as
Low-capacity utilization is a signal
11 b) Industrial Sickness
of .
refers to the arrangement of
12 d) Plant layout
machinery, equipment & other industrial facilities
Which of the following is the first step in making b) Decide the criteria for
13
a correct location choice? evaluating location alternatives
Regional factors for location planning include
14 d) Attitudes
all of the following EXCEPT:
Which of the following facility layout is best
suited for the intermittent type of production,
15 b) Process layout
which is a method of manufacturing several
different products using the same production line?
b) Product is very heavy
16 Fixed position layout is adopted when involving assembly of large
number of parts
involves anticipating bottlenecks in advance
17 & identifying steps that will ensure a smooth flow a) Production planning
of production.
Regulating the production process to ensure
18 b) Production control
an orderly flow of materials is the objective of
b) Fixing up starting & finishing
19 Scheduling deals with: times of each operation in doing
a job
………… is the process of selection of path,
20 a) Routing
which each part of the product will follow
A company that engages in upstream vertical a) Purchase the manufacturing
21
integration of Supply Chain strategy is likely to facilities of its suppliers
Strategy defines how products or
22 c) Channel Strategy
services will be delivered to buyers or end users
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Which is also called press tender is published
23 in Newspaper, Trade Journals etc., for c) Open-tender
procuring materials of desired specifications.
c) Materials Requirements
24 MRP stands for
Planning
A master production schedule contains b) Quantities & required delivery
25
information about dates of final products
c) Stock on hand, Master
26 Three inputs for every MRP system are Production Schedule,
Bill of Materials
a) When a firm acquires or
27 When does horizontal integration occur?
merges with a major competitor
is the scientific technique for
planning the ordering & usage of materials at
28 b) MRP
various levels of production & for monitoring
the stocks during Inventory Management.
The list of quantities of components, ingredients
29 a) Bill-of-materials
& materials required to produce a product is the
c) Supply chain Management
Which statement about Supply chain
30 is synonymous with Logistics
Management is not true?
Management
a) To ensure that item cost
31 One use of inventory is
is maximized
Inventory carried for the purpose of providing
flexibility to each decision-making unit to manage
32 d) Decoupling inventory
its operations independently kept near each
operational unit is known as
In Inventory cost, the term ––––––––– implies
33 the foregone profit due to inability of company a) Stock out cost
to produce.
Which one of the following refers to the length
34 b) Work measurement
of time needed to complete a job?
35 Objective of Work Study is to improve -------- b) Productivity
c) Recognizing the need
36 The first activity of Purchasing cycle is
for procurement
is the task of buying goods of right
37 quality, in the right quantities, at the right time & b) Purchasing
at the right price.
Buying according to the instant requirements
38 b) Hand to mouth buying
of an organisation is called
Formal methods of work measurement
39 d)Systems approach
EXCLUDE which of the following?
Activities related to coordinating, controlling
40 & planning activities of flow of inventory are c) Inventory management
classified as
…………………………is the degree to which the
design specifications for a product or service are
41 appropriate to its function & use & the degree to b) Quality
which a product or service conforms to its design
specifications
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is a process through which a business
42 seeks to ensure that product quality is c) Quality control (QC)
maintained or improved.
What do you understand by the inspection
43 conducted on all non-reworkable jobs prior d) Salvage inspection
to their movement to the scrap yard?
What type of control chart is used to monitor
44 c) c-chart
the number of defects per unit?
A manufacturer has been receiving excessive
numbers of defective standard machine parts
45 from a vendor on a regular basis. What is the c) Statistical quality control
most effective way to design a formal
inspection system for incoming parts?
46 Fishbone diagram is an example of b) Cause & effect diagram
47 The chart used to monitor attributes is c) p-chart
48 Which is NOT an objective of maintenance is c) To satisfy customers
Which from the following represents the c) Initiating → Planning →
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correct project cycle? Executing → Closing
need to see each project schedule, priority
50 & use of resources to determine the most a) Project manager
efficient use across the organization.