Operations Management Questions and Answers in Quiz Form 12 for Practice

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

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

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

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

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

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

169. Qualitycircle is a group of

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

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

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

171. Safety stock is related to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

177. Lillian and Frank Gilbreth are responsible for principles of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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