Operations Management Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

11. ...............aims at visualizing and identifying deviation before they actually occur.

1. Predictive control
2. Concurrent control
3. Operational Control
4. All of these

12. ...............is a system that is used to maintain a desired level of quality in a product or service.

1. Economic ordering quantity
2. Quality control
3. Knowledge management
4. Manpower planning

13. ...............refers to the verification of and confirmation towards the requirements of an entity.

1. Inspection
2. Pricing
3. Alteration
4. None of these

14. It is a chart where activities of more than subject (worker or equipment) are each recorded on a common time scale to show their inter-relationship.

1. Single activity chart
2. Multiple activity charts
3. Charting
4. None of these

15. Statistical inference applied to product quality: quality control charts are contributed by

1. WA Shewart
2. HFDodge&HGRoming
3. PMBlacker& others
4. John Mauchlly and JPEckert

16. Which of the following is not a key way in which business organizations compete with one another?

1. Production cost
2. Product duplication
3. Flexibility
4. Quality

17. ...............is an assigning job to work centres without considering the work centres capacity

1. Infinite loading
2. Finite loading
3. a and b
4. None of these

18. ...............is concerned with deciding in advance what is to be produced, when to be produced, where to be produced and how to be produced

1. Operational planning
2. Operational control
3. a and b
4. None of these

19. ...............is the management of all activities directly related to the production of goods and services

1. Productionmanagement
2. Finance control
3. Employee development
4. all of these

20. In ............... type of organization, workers receive instructions from various specialists.

1. Line
2. Functional
3. Informal
4. None