Operations Management MCQ Multiple Choice Questions Answers for Practice

Q: 3. The concept of Job enrichment is a contribution by........

Correct Answer is: Frederick Herzberg

Q: 4. ...............is a graphical and algebraic representation of the relationships among volume of output, cost, and revenues.

Correct Answer is: Break-Even Analysis

Q: 6. ...............is the process of randomly inspecting a sample of goods and deciding whether to accept the entire lot based on the results

Correct Answer is: Acceptance sampling

Q: 8. 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

Correct Answer is: Material handling

Q: 9. Operation process chart is also called as

Correct Answer is: Outline process chart

Q: 10. ...............aims at visualizing and identifying deviation before they actually occur.

Correct Answer is: Predictive control

Q: 11. ...............is a system that is used to maintain a desired level of quality in a product or service.

Correct Answer is: Quality control

Q: 13. 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.

Correct Answer is: Multiple activity charts

Q: 15. Which of the following is not a key way in which business organizations compete with one another?

Correct Answer is: Product duplication

Q: 16. ...............is an assigning job to work centres without considering the work centres capacity

Correct Answer is: Infinite loading

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

Selling
Pricing
Purchasing
Distributing

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

median
Mode
Mean
None of these

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

Frederick Herzberg
FWTaylor
CK Prahlad
Peter F Drucker

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

Break mechanism
Break-Even Analysis
Fixed analysis
None of these

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

Controlling
Management
Planning
Co-ordination

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

Statistical process control
Acceptance sampling
a and b
None of these

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

Alteration
Inspection
Storage
Bargaining

8. 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

VED analysis
ABC Analysis
Material handling
None of these

9. Operation process chart is also called as

Online chart
Outline process chart
a and b
None of these

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

Predictive control
Concurrent control
Operational Control
All of these

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

Economic ordering quantity
Quality control
Knowledge management
Manpower planning

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

Inspection
Pricing
Alteration
None of these

13. 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.

Single activity chart
Multiple activity charts
Charting
None of these

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

WA Shewart
HFDodge&HGRoming
PMBlacker& others
John Mauchlly and JPEckert

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

Production cost
Product duplication
Flexibility
Quality

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

Infinite loading
Finite loading
a and b
None of these

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

Operational planning
Operational control
a and b
None of these

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

Productionmanagement
Finance control
Employee development
all of these

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

Line
Functional
Informal
None

20. Operations management is applicable

Mostly to the service sector
Mostly to the manufacturing sector
to manufacturing and service sectors
To services exclusively

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

To reduce breakdown of machineries
To keep the machines and other facilities in a good condition
To keep the plant in good working condition
all of these

22. ...............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.

Money chain
Value analysis
Supply chain
None of these

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

Mass technology
Group Technology
Independent technology
None of these

24. ...............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

Product design
Product development
a and b
None of these

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

Process production
Job production
Both of these
None of these

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

Eli Whitney
Whitney Houston
Sergio Farmerson
Lillian Gilbreth

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

Tangibility
Can be stored
Physical shape
Intangibility

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

Surplus items
Deficit items
a and b
None of these

29. ...............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.

A flexible automated system
A fixed automated system
a andb
None of these

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

Plant lay out
Plant locations
a and b
None of these

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