Operations Management MCQs Quiz Multiple Choice Questions & Answers Page 4

151. ...............is a process used to determine the maintenance requirements of any physical asset in its operating context?

1. Reliability Centered Maintenance
2. Preventive cost
3. Unavoidable cost
4. None of these

152. Dispatch provides official authorization for

1. Movement of materials to different work stations
2. Movement of tools and fixtures necessary for each operation
3. beginning of work on each operation
4. all of these

153. ...............is the application or techniques designed to establish the time for a qualified worker to carry out a specified job at a defined level or performance

1. Work measurement
2. Work delay
3. Work atmosphere
4. None of these

154. Which of the following is not an objective of quality circle?

1. To improve quality
2. To improve productivity
3. Employee retrenchment
4. none of these

155. ...............deals with decision-making related to production processes 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.

1. Production management
2. Marketing management
3. Financemanagement
4. Capital structure

156. Which of the following is not a principles of TQM?

1. Customer focus
2. Continuous improvement
3. Team approach
4. Producer focus

157. ...............is the part of an organization that produces the organizations physical goods and services.

1. Operating system
2. Marketing system
3. Financial system
4. all of these

158. Which one of the following is not an objective of materials management?

1. To maximise material cost
2. To purchase receive transport and store materials efficiently
3. To reduce material costs through simplification standardisation
4. To minimise material cost

159. Which of the following is not a characteristic of intermittent production system?

1. The flow of production is intermittent
2. The volume of production is generally small
3. A single product is manufactured in bulk
4. None of these

160. Which of the following is used for issuing materials to different production departments

1. Material requisition
2. Purchase requisition
3. Purchase order
4. None of these

161. Continuous stock taking is a part of

1. Annual stock taking
2. Perpetual inventory
3. ABC analysis
4. None of these

162. Which of the following is an input in manufacturing system?

1. capital
2. Material
3. Human resource
4. all of these

163. Stores department issues materials to the production department on the basis of

1. Goodsreceived note
2. Purchase requisition
3. Stores requisition
4. Material transfer note

164. Which of the following is not a part of production system?

1. Input
2. Output
3. Transformation process
4. Politics

165. Recording of time spent by a worker on different job is called

1. Time keeping
2. Time booking
3. Job card keeping
4. Job order costing

166. Which of the following is not a part of product life cyclestage?

1. Introduction phase
2. Competition phase
3. Maturity and saturation phase
4. None of these

167. The difference between the actual cost and standard cost is called

1. Profit
2. Loss
3. Sales
4. Variance

168. Which of the following is not an objective of quality assurance?

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

169. Qualitycircle is a group of

1. Operatives
2. Supervisors
3. Management trainees
4. Top management

170. Which of the following is not a function of purchasing department?

1. Receive purchase requisition
2. Supplier selection
3. Order placement
4. Employee selection

171. Safety stock is related to

1. Inventory control
2. Quality control
3. Employeecontrol
4. Strategic control

172. Which of the following is not the objective of plant layout?

1. Streamline the flow of materials through the plant
2. Facilitate the manufacturing process
3. Enhance materials handling cost
4. None of these

173. ..............is undertaken to find out the one best way of doing the thing

1. Job Analysis
2. Merit rating
3. Job enrichment
4. None

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

1. To reduce product quality
2. To reduce cost of production
3. Material cost control
4. None of these

175. Which of the following is not an objective of quality control?

1. To produce qualitative items
2. To reduce companies cost through reduction of losses due to defects
3. Toenhance quality variation among same product category
4. None of these

176. ...............refers to the transformation of the state of input in to output

1. Transportation
2. Alteration
3. Inspection
4. all of these

177. Lillian and Frank Gilbreth are responsible for principles of

1. Sociotechnical systems
2. Zeroinventory
3. Motion study
4. Interchangeable parts

178. The risk or probability of incorrectly concluding that the conversion process is out of control.

1. Type 1 error
2. Type 2 errors
3. a and b
4. None of these

179. ...............involves theactivities relating to procuring materials and supplies consumed during production

1. Selling
2. Pricing
3. Purchasing
4. Distributing

180. ...............is the sum all the observations and divided by the total number of observations?

1. median
2. Mode
3. Mean
4. None of these

181. The concept of Job enrichment is a contribution by........

1. Frederick Herzberg
2. FWTaylor
3. CK Prahlad
4. Peter F Drucker

182. ...............is a graphical and algebraic representation of the relationships among volume of output, cost, and revenues.

1. Break mechanism
2. Break-Even Analysis
3. Fixed analysis
4. None of these

183. ...............is the process of comparing actual performance with the standard and taking corrective Action.

1. Controlling
2. Management
3. Planning
4. Co-ordination

184. ...............is the process of randomly inspecting a sample of goods and deciding whether to accept the entire lot based on the results

1. Statistical process control
2. Acceptance sampling
3. a and b
4. None of these

185. ...............refers to preserving goods in a protected environment.

1. Alteration
2. Inspection
3. Storage
4. Bargaining

186. Moving of materials from the store room to the machine and from one machine to the next machine during the process of manufacture is called

1. VED analysis
2. ABC Analysis
3. Material handling
4. None of these

187. Operation process chart is also called as

1. Online chart
2. Outline process chart
3. a and b
4. None of these

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

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

189. ...............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

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

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

191. 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

192. 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

193. 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

194. ...............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

195. ...............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

196. ...............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

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

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

198. Operations management is applicable

1. Mostly to the service sector
2. Mostly to the manufacturing sector
3. to manufacturing and service sectors
4. To services exclusively

199. Which one of the following is an objective of maintenance management?

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

200. The book Creative Experience was written by

1. Henry Fayol
2. FW Taylor
3. Mary Parker Follet
4. None of these