Operations Management MCQs Quiz Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

1. ...............is an organized creative approach which has its objective, the efficient identification of unnecessary costùcost which provides neither quality nor use nor life nor appearance nor customer features.

1. None of these
2. Money chain
3. Value analysis
4. Supply chain

2. ...............is the analysis and comparisons of items to group them into families with similar characteristics

1. None of these
2. Mass technology
3. Group Technology
4. Independent technology

3. ...............refers to the development of the concept or idea of a product in terms of specifications which are required for transforming the idea in to product

1. None of these
2. Product design
3. Product development
4. a and b

4. Production facilities are arranged as per the sequence of production operations from the first operations to the finished product. This method is called

1. None of these
2. Process production
3. Job production
4. Both of these

5. The person most responsible for popularizing interchangeable parts in manufacturing was

1. Lillian Gilbreth
2. Eli Whitney
3. Whitney Houston
4. Sergio Farmerson

6. Which of the following statement is not true in the case of goods?

1. Intangibility
2. Tangibility
3. Can be stored
4. Physical shape

7. ...............are those materials and equipments which have no immediate use but have accumulated due to faulty planning, forecasting and purchasing.

1. None of these
2. Surplus items
3. Deficit items
4. a and b

8. ...............is one that is capable of producing a variety of products (or parts) with virtually no time lost for changeovers form one product to the next.

1. None of these
2. A flexible automated system
3. A fixed automated system
4. a andb

9. ...............is the configuration of departments, work centres and equipment in the conversion process.

1. None of these
2. Plant lay out
3. Plant locations
4. a and b

10. The Father of Scientific Management is

1. Walther Shewhart
2. Frank Gilbreth
3. Frederick WTaylor
4. W Edwards Deming

11. Which of the following is an objective of quality assurance?

1. all of these
2. To improve quality
3. To reduce cost
4. to increase productivity

12. Which of the following is not an objective of operations management?

1. Employee punishment
2. Customer satisfaction
3. Profitability
4. Timeliness

13. ...............is a recording technique for micro motionstudy.

1. None of these
2. Simultaneous Motion Cycle chart
3. Simultaneous Master Cycle Chart
4. a and b

14. Fixed position layout is also called as ............... of layout

1. None of these
2. Project type
3. Product type
4. a andb

15. ISO 9000 is a ...............

1. None of these
2. International standard
3. National standard
4. Local standard

16. Walter Shewhart is listed among the most important people of POM because of his contributions to

1. Just-in-Time inventory methods
2. assembly line production
3. Measuring productivity in the service sector
4. Statistical quality control

17. Which of the following is not a part of scientific management principles?

1. Coercion
2. Replacement of rule of thumb
3. Scientific selection of employees
4. Supervise each worker in detail

18. Which of the following is theobjective of plant layout

1. all of these
2. Streamline the flow of materials through the plant
3. Facilitate the manufacturing process
4. Minimise materials handling cost

19. ...............is a priority rule that gives top priority to the waiting job whose operation time at a work center is shortest.

1. None of these
2. Material shortage
3. Shortest-processing-time rule
4. a and b

20. ...............is the level of output volume for which total cost equals total revenues

1. all of these
2. Profit
3. Breakeven point
4. sales

21. All of the following are differences between manufacturing and service operations EXCEPT

1. Accumulation or decrease in inventory of finished products is more applicable to manufacturing operations
2. Quality is more easily measured in service operations
3. Productivity is easier to measure in manufacturing operations
4. Contact with customers is more prevalent with persons working in service operations

22. Henry Ford is noted for his contributions to

1. Standardization of parts
2. Quality control
3. Assembly line operations
4. Scientific management

23. is an information management system that connects all departments and disciplines within a company making them an integrated unit.

1. None of these
2. Enterprise asset management
3. Entrepreneurship development
4. Manpower planning

24. Which of the following is the objective of motion study?

1. None
2. To eliminate all non-productive and ineffective motions
3. To develop more effective and productive patterns of movements
4. a and b

25. ...............is a Computer software programs that allow a designer to carry out geometric transformations rapidly.

1. None of these
2. Tally
3. Computer-aided design
4. a andb

26. ...............is measure of the quantity of output per unit of input.

1. None of these
2. Productivity
3. Marketability
4. Sociability

27. ...............is the process of testing the feasibility of master production schedules in terms of capacity.

1. all of these
2. Rough-cut capacity planning
3. Manpower planning
4. Financial planning

28. Which of the following is not an objective of operation management?

1. Trading on equity
2. To improve product quality
3. To reduce cost of production
4. Material cost control

29. Which of the following records quantity of material only

1. None of these
2. Bin card
3. Stores ledger
4. Bill of materials

30. Which one of the following is not an objective of maintenance management?

1. all of these
2. To reduce breakdown of machineries
3. To keep the machines and other facilities in a bad condition
4. To keep the plant in good working condition

31. ...............is the arrangement of a facility so that equipment used to make similar parts or families of parts is grouped together.

1. None of these
2. Cellular layout
3. Product lay out
4. a and b

32. Hawthorne studies were related with

1. None of these
2. Scientific management
3. Human relations movement
4. Marketing management

33. ...............is a technology concerned with the application of mechanical, electronic, and computer based systems to operate and control production

1. Supervision
2. Automation
3. Manpower
4. Motivation

34. ...............is the term used to describe the set of statistical tools used by quality professionals for the purpose of quality control

1. none of these
2. accounting standards
3. statistical quality control
4. population study

35. ...............is the art of applying tests, preferably by the aid of measuring appliances to observe whether a given item or product is within the specified limits of variability or not.

1. None of these
2. Inspection
3. Planning
4. Leading

36. Specialization of labour in manufacturing is associated with

1. Frederick WTaylor
2. Henry fayol
3. Eli Whitney & others
4. Charles Babbage

37. Interchangeable parts, cost accounting is associated with

1. Frederick WTaylor
2. Adam Smith
3. Eli Whitney & others
4. Charles Babbage

38. Which of the following is TRUE about business strategies?

1. An organization should stick with its strategy for the life of the business
2. All firms within an industry will adopt the same strategy
3. Well defined missions make strategic development much easier
4. Strategies are formulated independently of SWOT analysis

39. ...............is the process of selection of path, which each part of the product will follow

1. Dispatching
2. Routing
3. Scheduling
4. Follow-up

40. Division of labour by skill; assignment of jobs by Skill; basics of time study are contributed by

1. Frederick WTaylor
2. Adam Smith
3. Eli Whitney & others
4. Charles Babbage

41. ...............isthe fixation of time and date for each operation as well as it determines the sequence of operations to be followed.

1. all of these
2. Dispatching
3. Scheduling
4. Routing

42. Scientific management, time study and work study are associated with

1. Frederick WTaylor
2. Adam Smith
3. Eli Whitney & others
4. Charles Babbage

43. ...............is the process of verification or correction in the quality of the product when the deviations in the quality are found to be more than expected.

1. None of these
2. Policies
3. Quality control
4. Quantity measurement

44. Motion of study of jobs in production management is contributed by

1. Elton Mayo
2. Frank B Gilbreth
3. Henry L Gantt
4. FW Harris

45. Scheduling techniques for employees, machines Jobs in manufacturing are associated with

1. Elton Mayo
2. Frank B Gilbreth
3. Henry L Gantt
4. FW Harris

46. Which of the following is true? The impact of strategies on the general direction and basic character of a company is

1. Medium range
2. Long range
3. Short ranged
4. Minimal

47. Economic lot sizes for inventory control is developed by

1. Elton Mayo
2. Frank B Gilbreth
3. Henry L Gantt
4. FW Harris

48. Which of the following is true?

1. External conditions are shaped by corporate mission
2. Corporate strategy is shaped by functional strategies
3. Corporate mission is shaped by corporate strategy
4. Functional strategies are shaped by corporate strategy

49. Human relations; the Hawthorne studies is developed by

1. Elton Mayo
2. Frank B Gilbreth
3. Henry L Gantt
4. FW Harris

50. The fundamental purpose of an organizations mission statement is to

1. Define the functional areas required by the organization
2. Define the organizations purpose in the society
3. Define the operational structure of the organization
4. Generate good public relations for the organization