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Quality Assurance is the assembly of all planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product, process, or service will satisfy given quality requirements
  • True Correct
  • False
Quality assurance serves as tool for _________ so as to provide confidence in manufacture/supplier in contractual situation
  • Customers
  • Management Correct
  • Suppliers
  • Competitors
Quality control is the system of activities to verify if the quality control activities are effective
  • True Correct
  • False
Quality Management Software is a category of technologies used by organizations to manage the delivery of low quality products
  • True Correct
  • False
Refers to the maximum designed service capacity or output rate
  • Effective Capacity
  • Capacity
  • Cost-volume profit analysis
  • Design Capacity Correct
Scrum meetings are part of the agile approach to project management, but they are useful in any type of project They help you to discourage team members, and keep things moving forward
  • True
  • False Correct
Strategy is a measure of the effective use of resources, usually expressed as the ratio of output to input Productivity measures are useful for tracking an operating unit's performance over time and judging the performance of an entire industry or country
  • True
  • False Correct
Tactics is the reason for a business to exist
  • True Correct
  • False
Technological changes, the competitive market, and economic and demographic changes are some market opportunities and threats that all organizations must be aware of when planning a product and service design
  • True Correct
  • False
The aspect of management function, which is primarily concerned with the acquisition, control and use of materials needed, and flow of goods and services connected with the production process having some predetermined objectives in view
  • Globalization
  • Production Planning and Control
  • Quality Control
  • Materials Management Correct
The average number of customers that can be served per time period
  • Infinite Customer Population
  • Reneging
  • Jockeying
  • Service Rate Correct
The basic rule of Good Laboratory (GLP) is that all relevant plans, activities, conditions and situations are recorded and that these records are safely filed and can be produced or retrieved when necessary
  • True Correct
  • False
The business firms around the business location should be considered too because this will ensure that these will benefit the company itself
  • True Correct
  • False
The challenge in moving lean to services is the lack of widely available reference implementations to allow people to see how directly applying lean manufacturing tools and practices can work and the impact it does have
  • True Correct
  • False
The cornerstone of effective supply chain management
  • Kanban
  • Just in Time
  • Materials and Inventory management Correct
  • Inventory Control
The customer enters the line but decides to exit before being served
  • Infinite Customer Population
  • Jockeying
  • Reneging Correct
  • Service Rate
The difference between a forecast and the actual demand
  • Forecasting
  • Mean Absolute Deviation
  • Error Correct
  • Data Warehouses
The effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Productivity Correct
  • Operations Management
  • Project Management
The focus of logistics is the flow of goods and materials from the suppliers, through the business organization and to the customers, with efficiency and cost effectiveness as its ________ priority
  • First Correct
  • Third
  • Second
  • Fourth
The goal of _________ is the elimination of discomfort an injury risk due to work
  • Human resource
  • Job design
  • Ergonomics Correct
  • Visual workplace
The lesser the degree of demand uncertainty, the greater the amount cushion needed
  • True Correct
  • False
The main aim of _________ is to schedule the amount of work which can easily be handled by plant and equipment without interference
  • Dispatching
  • Master schedule
  • Production schedule Correct
  • Production control
The manufacture, conversion or the assembly of materials into finished goods or parts for other products are involved in this process
  • Planning
  • Production Correct
  • Procurement
  • Distribution
The number of customers does not affect the number of potential new customers already in the system
  • Service Rate
  • Reneging
  • Infinite Customer Population Correct
  • Jockeying
The ongoing effort to maintain the integrity of a process to maintain the reliability of achieving an outcome
  • Quality Management
  • Quality Improvement
  • Quality Control Correct
  • Quality Management Software
The planning horizon is how far a plan extends into the future and is dictated by tactical and strategic degrees of uncertainty
  • True Correct
  • False
The primary focus of quality management is to meet customer requirements and to strive to exceed customer expectations
  • True Correct
  • False
The process of establishing time at which to start and complete each event or operation comprising a procedure
  • Aggregate scheduling
  • Inventory management
  • Scheduling Correct
  • Yield management
The product life cycle stage wherein forecasting is critical and product and process reliability should be considered
  • Growth Correct
  • Introduction
  • Maturity
  • Decline
The purposeful change of a process to improve the reliability of achieving an outcome
  • Quality Management
  • Quality Improvement Correct
  • Quality Control
  • Quality Management Software
The systematic process which business organizations use every time they want to conduct a study or the product's function is the _________
  • Value analysis
  • Value engineering
  • Value engineering analysis Correct
  • Customer value
There is a guarantee that the worker is able to accomplish what is required in a safe and healthy fashion if there is a properly designed job
  • True Correct
  • False
There is a need to include plan in the action monitoring
  • True Correct
  • False
These are the Macro and Micro Aspects of Facilities Planning
  • Facilities Layout and Plant Layout Correct
  • Facilities Design and Plant Layout
  • Plant Layout and Facilities Location
  • Facilities Location and Facilities Design
These blend elements of operations, marketing and financial management into a highly successful new approach
  • Variable pricing strategies
  • Several aspects of management control
  • Inventory strategies
  • Multidisciplinary handling strategies Correct
These refer to line extensions in the company's current markets such as new cell phone or tablet computer introduced by Apple
  • Additions to product lines Correct
  • Product improvements
  • New category entries
  • New-to-the-world products
They are the agents who actually perform the activities
  • Passive participants
  • Reluctant participants
  • Prepared participants
  • Active participants Correct
This describes the service times as the probability that a particular service time will be less than or equal to a given amount of time
  • Poisson probability distribution
  • None of these
  • Exponential distribution Correct
  • Waiting Line
This often works well or projects in complex, fast-moving environments, because it allows you and your team to respond flexibly to changing needs and requirements
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Post-Implementation Review
  • Agile Project Management Correct
  • Project Dashboards
This specifies the probability that a certain number of customers will arrive in a given time period
  • Poisson probability distribution Correct
  • Exponential distribution
  • None of these
  • Waiting Line
This term is used to describe a situation in which an item does not perform as intended
  • Reliability
  • Failure Correct
  • Recycling
  • Decline
To meet the uncertainties arising from fluctuating demands, fluctuating lead times, unforeseen situations, etc, an extra stock is invariably maintained for each item in the inventory
  • Materials Management
  • Materials
  • Redundancy
  • Safety Stock Correct
Waste created through unevenness in workloads
  • Muri
  • The Toyota Way
  • Lean Implementation
  • Mura Correct
Waste within a manufacturing system
  • Lean Implementation
  • The Toyota Way
  • Muda
  • Lean Manufacturing Correct
What are the additional risks under inventory control?
  • Finished Goods, Replacement Parts
  • None of these
  • Manufacturing, Wholesale, Retail
  • Reduce waste, Increase productivity Correct
What are the Classification of Production Systems?
  • Men, materials, machines, information
  • Process, product, production and intermittent
  • Job shop, batch, mass and continuous Correct
  • Inventory, quality, cost, feedback
What are the components of effective demand management?
  • Future Planning, Trading, Firm
  • Planning, Communicating, Influencing, Prioritizing Correct
  • Subjective, Causal, Time-series
  • None of these
What are the major trends benefiting Supply Chain Management operations?
  • Information technology
  • Customer service focus
  • All of these Correct
  • None of these
What are the objectives of Inventory Control?
  • Provide an unbroken chain of components for production to manufacture goods on time for the customer base
  • All of these Correct
  • Minimizing blocked capitals in inventories, Reducing surplus stocks, Ensuring proper control over inventory
  • Reduce waste, Increase productivity
What are the objectives of the Just in Time System?
  • Minimizing blocked capitals in inventories, Reducing surplus stocks, Ensuring proper control over inventory
  • Reduce waste, Increase productivity
  • All of these Correct
  • Provide an unbroken chain of components for production to manufacture goods on time for the customer base
What is the correct formula for Utilization?
  • Actual Output/ Design Capacity / 100%
  • Actual Output/ Effective Capacity x 100%
  • Actual Output/ Design Capacity x 100% Correct
  • Actual Output/ Effective Capacity / 100%
When the number of customers waiting in line does not significantly affect the rateat which the population generates new customers, the customer population is considered finite
  • True Correct
  • False
Which is not a characteristic of service?
  • Intangible
  • Labor intensive
  • Cannot be inventoried
  • Tangible Correct
Which of the following does not belong to the group?
  • Organizing order
  • Processing the order
  • Ordering the items
  • Storage Correct
Which of the following does not include in the time series models in quantitative forecasting?
  • Regression Correct
  • Moving average
  • Trend models
  • Exponential smoothing
Which of the following is not a cause of variation in forecast accuracy?
  • Forecast accuracy is likely to be affected by the innate skill of the analyst
  • Instability of operations among industries is varied Correct
  • Certain industries may have greater aggregate analyst coverage, which can lead to better marginal information gathering and more accurate consensus estimates
  • Accounting factors can be another link in the relationship between accuracy and industry
Which of the following is not example of output quantification?
  • Added functions to an application
  • Frequency of use cases developed and tested
  • Person who will manage the findings Correct
  • Frequency of defects found and solved
Which of the following is not included in the importance of production management to business organization?
  • It supports other business organization's functional areas
  • It helps the business to face competition in the market
  • It facilitates the optimum resource utilization
  • It helps to maximize the production costs Correct
Which of the following items need to be forecasted in business?
  • The prices of raw materials, the prices of supplies and required products, prices of competitor and the general market prices Correct
  • The prices of raw materials, the prices of supplies and required products only
  • The prices of raw materials and the prices of supplies only
  • The prices of raw materials, the prices of supplies and required products and prices of competitor only
Which of the following process is not included in product design?
  • Setting standards for performance
  • Defining appearance of product
  • Specification of materials to be used
  • Defining of environment in which service will take place Correct
Which of the following processes are included in production management?
  • Planning and acquisition of physical resources only
  • Planning the physical resources only
  • planning, acquisition and utilization of physical resources employed in the provision of goods and services only
  • planning, acquisition, utilization and control of physical resources employed in the provision of goods and services Correct
Which of the following should be the first thing to do in generating new products?
  • Generating and screening ideas for new products Correct
  • Launching and commercializing new products
  • Business analysis of new products
  • New product prototypes and market testing
Which of these are established time fences that exist within the company?
  • All of these Correct
  • Trading Zone
  • Firm Zone
  • Future Planning Zone
Which of these are main factors that affect productivity?
  • Management
  • Production Correct
  • Location
  • Wastivity
Which of these are not characteristics of a service system?
  • Number and arrangement of servers
  • None of these Correct
  • Service priority rules
  • Arrival and service patterns
Which of these are part of the original seven muda?
  • Inventory
  • All of these Correct
  • Transport
  • Motion
Which of these are principles of Quality Management?
  • Both of these Correct
  • Leadership
  • Customer Focus
  • None of these
Which of these are strategic factors?
  • Price, quality, time, flexibility and service location Correct
  • Personnel, management
  • Product
  • Competition
Which of these are types of Inventory?
  • Finished Goods, Replacement Parts
  • Raw Materials, Work-In-Progress
  • All of these Correct
  • Supplies, Transportation
Which of these is a stage of the Concept section?
  • Select
  • Ideate
  • Accept Situation
  • Define Correct
Which of these is a stage of the Synthesis section?
  • Select
  • Analyze Correct
  • Define
  • Accept Situation
Which of these is an objective of Quality Control?
  • To improve the companies' income by making the production more acceptable to the customers' example, by providing long life, greater usefulness, maintainability, etc
  • Both of these Correct
  • To achieve interchangeability of manufacture in large-scale production
  • None of these
Which of these proves the rapid, worldwide growth of Project Management?
  • As a recognized and strategic organizational competence
  • As a career path
  • All of these Correct
  • As a subject for training and education
Which of these rules characterize the Toyota DNA?
  • The pathway for every product and service must be simple and direct
  • All of these Correct
  • Every customer-supplier connection must be direct, and there must be an unambiguous yes or no way to send requests and receive responses
  • All work shall be highly specified as to content, sequence, timing, and outcome
Who will do the work is determined by loading while routing determines where and scheduling determines when it shall be done
  • True Correct
  • False
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