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This set of Management Science Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Management Science Set 9

Q1 | The maximise criteria is ...........................
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimistic
  • Neutral
  • None of these
Q2 | Decision making under certainty refers to .............................. situation.
  • Deterministic
  • Probabilistic
  • Competitive
  • None of these
Q3 | ............................is known as father of game theory.
  • Von Neumann
  • A K Erlang
  • George b Dantzig
  • Arnoff
Q4 | Which of the following is an assumption of game theory?
  • The players act rationally and intelligently
  • Each payer has a finite set of possible courses of action
  • The players attempt to maximise gains or minimises losses
  • All of the above
Q5 | Each participant of the game is called...................
  • Strategist
  • Winner
  • Player
  • Loser
Q6 | The outcome of a game is known as....................
  • Profit
  • Loss
  • Pay off
  • None of these
Q7 | A matrix which shows the gains and losses resulting from moves and counter moves iscalled..................................
  • Cost matrix
  • Pay off matrix
  • Both a and b
  • None of these
Q8 | When all the players of the game follow their optimal strategies, then the expected pay off of thegame is called.......................
  • Gain of the game
  • Loss of the game
  • Value of the game
  • None of these
Q9 | The position in the pay off matrix where the maximin coincides with the minimax.
  • Saddle point
  • Break even point
  • Pivot point
  • None of the above
Q10 | A game is said to be fair if the value of the game is.........................
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
  • Zero
Q11 | In a ........................game the amounts won by all winners together is equal to the sum of theamounts lost by all losers together.
  • Non-zero sum game
  • Zero sum game
  • Rectangular game
  • None of these
Q12 | Which of the following method is used to solve mixed strategy problems:
  • Probability method
  • Graphic method
  • Linear Programming method
  • All of the above
Q13 | A queue is formed when the demand for a service:
  • Exceeds the capacity to provide that service
  • Is less than the capacity to provide that service
  • a or b
  • None of these
Q14 | Queuing theory is also termed as ............................
  • Game theory
  • Replacement theory
  • Waiting line theory
  • None of these
Q15 | In queuing theory, ...................... refers to those waiting in a queue or receiving service.
  • Service provider
  • Customer
  • Both a and b
  • None of these
Q16 | In queuing theory, ...................... is a person by whom service is rendered.
  • Customer
  • Server
  • a or b
  • none of these
Q17 | In waiting line theory, number of customers waiting in the queue is referred to as ................
  • Traffic intensity
  • Queuing system
  • Service pattern
  • Queue length
Q18 | Number of customers in the queue per unit of time is called ......................
  • Queuing system
  • Length of queue
  • Average length of queue
  • None of these
Q19 | The ration between mean arrival rate and mean service rate is called ...................
  • Idle period
  • Average length of queue
  • Traffic intensity
  • None of these
Q20 | Commonly assumed probability distribution of arrival pattern is .......................
  • Poisson distribution
  • Binomial distribution
  • Normal distribution
  • None of these
Q21 | Commonly assumed probability distribution of service pattern are .......................
  • Poisson distribution
  • Exponential distribution
  • Erlang distribution
  • b and c
Q22 | a customer’s behaviour of leaving the queue when he does not like to wait in the queue due to lackof time or space is called .....................
  • Jockying
  • Reneging
  • Collusion
  • Balking
Q23 | A customer’s behaviour of leaving the queue due to impatience is called .......................
  • Jockying
  • Reneging
  • Collusion
  • Balking
Q24 | A customer’s behaviour of jumping from one queue to another is called ............................
  • Jockying
  • Reneging
  • Collusion
  • Balking
Q25 | In queuing theory, ............................ stands for mean arrival rate of customers.
  • μ
  • λ
  • t
  • none of these