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This set of Operations Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Operations Management Set 4
Q1 | This cost is the cost associated with measuring evaluating, or auditingproducts or services to assure conformance to quality standards and performance requirements
- prevention cost
- appraisal cost
- failure cost
- none of the above
Q2 | This cost is the costs resulting from products or services not conforming torequirements or user needs.
- prevention cost
- appraisal cost
- failure cost
- none of the above
Q3 | …………… is a graphical tool to analyse and time the small, physicalactions of workers and machine in performing a routine, repetitive, worker- machine task so that idle time can be identified
- activity chart
- metrics
- (a) and (b)
- none of these
Q4 | …………is the level of output volume for which total cost equals totalrevenues
- profit
- breakeven point
- sales
- all of these
Q5 | ……………. is a process of representing each item by a number, the digit ofwhich indicates the group, the sub-group, the type and the dimension of the item.
- codification
- classification
- duplication
- none of these
Q6 | …………………….is a Manufacturing systems utilizing computer softwareprograms that control the actual machine on the shop floor.
- complex manufacturing
- computer aided manufacturing
- ( a )and (b)
- none of these
Q7 | ……………is the Japanese concept of continuous improvement in all things.
- kaizen
- marketing myopia
- (a) and (b)
- none of these
Q8 | ………………..is the process of creating and using mathematicalrepresentations of management problems and organizations to predict outcomes of proposed courses of action
- mathematical modelling
- physical modelling
- service queries
- .none of these
Q9 | …………………………is the degree to which the design specifications for aproduct or service are appropriate to its function and use, and the degree to which a product or service conforms to its design specifications
- quantity
- quality
- price
- cost
Q10 | …………………is a process used to determine the maintenance requirementsof any physical asset in its operating context?
- reliability centered maintenance
- preventive cost
- unavoidable cost
- none of these
Q11 | …………………………..is the application or techniques designed to establishthe time for a qualified worker to carry out a specified job at a defined level or performance
- work measurement
- work delay
- work atmosphere
- none of these
Q12 | ………………………… deals with decision-making related to productionprocesses so that the resulting goods or services are produced according to specifications, in the amount and by the schedule demanded and out of minimum cost.
- production management
- marketing management
- financemanagement
- capital structure
Q13 | ………….is the part of an organization that produces the organization’sphysical goods and services.
- operating system
- marketing system
- financial system
- all of these
Q14 | Which of the following records quantity of material only
- bin card
- stores ledger
- bill of materials
- none of these
Q15 | Which of the following is used for issuing materials to different productiondepartments
- material requisition
- purchase requisition
- purchase order
- none of these
Q16 | Continuous stock taking is a part of
- annual stock taking
- perpetual inventory
- abc analysis
- none of these
Q17 | Stores department issues materials to the production department on thebasis of
- goodsreceived note
- purchase requisition
- stores requisition
- material transfer note
Q18 | Recording of time spent by a worker on different job is called
- time keeping
- time booking
- job card keeping
- job order costing
Q19 | The difference between the actual cost and standard cost is called
- profit
- loss
- sales
- variance
Q20 | Qualitycircle is a group of
- operatives
- supervisors
- management trainees
- top management
Q21 | Safety stock is related to
- inventory control
- quality control
- employeecontrol
- strategic control
Q22 | ..............is undertaken to find out the one best way of doing the thing
- job analysis
- merit rating
- job enrichment
- none
Q23 | The concept of Job enrichment is a contribution by........
- frederick herzberg
- f.w.taylor
- c.k. prahlad
- peter f. drucker
Q24 | …………… is the process of comparing actual performance with thestandard and taking corrective Action.
- controlling
- management
- planning
- co-ordination
Q25 | …………………aims at visualizing and identifying deviation before theyactually occur.
- predictive control
- concurrent control
- operational control
- all of these