Operations Management Objective Question and Answer
Operations Management MCQ Multiple Choice Questions - Page 4 for Practice
91. The differences between the actual demand for a period and the demand forecast for that period is called:
Correct Answer is: Forecast error
92. All of the following decisions fall within the scope of operations management EXCEPT for
Correct Answer is: Financial analysis
93. Which of the following factors affect the choice of manufacturing process?
Correct Answer is: all of these
94. ...............can be defined as the measurements that detect the onset of a degradation mechanism, thereby allowing causal stressors to be eliminated or controlled prior to any significant deterioration in the component physical state
Correct Answer is: Predictive maintenance
95. Which of the following is a production system?
Correct Answer is: all of these
96. In the case of ............... type of maintenance,no actions or efforts are taken to maintain the equipment as the designer originally intended to ensure design life is reached.
Correct Answer is: Break down maintenance
97. Which of the following is a characteristic of intermittent production system?
Correct Answer is: all of these
98. ...............is defined as the combination of tasks that are required to keep a machine or part of a machine in the desirable condition.
Correct Answer is: Maintenance
99. Which of the following is incorrect in the case of job production?
Correct Answer is: Volume of production is large
100. ...............involves systematically recording, analysing and synthesizing the times required to perform a motion.
Correct Answer is: Time study
101. Which of the following is an advantage of job production?
Correct Answer is: all of these
102. ...............refers to the manufacturing of large volume of a single or a very few varieties of products with a standard set of processes
Correct Answer is: Continuous production
103. Which of the following is a limitation of job production system?
Correct Answer is: all of these
104. ...............is the process of predicting and defining the long-term and the short-term capacity needs of an organisation and determining how those needs will be satisfied.
Correct Answer is: Capacity planning
105. Which of the following is a part of product life cycle
Correct Answer is: all of these
106. ...............is a measure the actual level of output for a process or activity over a period of time.
Correct Answer is: Actual capacity
107. ...............is the process of careful step by step of dismantling of existing product in order to understand its unique underlying concepts
Correct Answer is: Reverse engineering
108. ...............refers to the process of creating new products or modifying the existing ones within a predetermined time frame and cost price
Correct Answer is: Product development
109. Frederick Winslow Taylor is called
Correct Answer is: Father of scientific management
110. In the case of ...............the products are produced as per the specifications of the customers within prefixed time and cost
Correct Answer is: Job production
111. Which of the following technique is employed for measuring work
Correct Answer is: all of these
112. ...............is the process of determining which job to start first and in what order other jobs should be processed on the machine or in work centre
Correct Answer is: Job sequencing
113. ...............is the system in whichitems are processed in lots and a new lot is undertaken for production only when the production on all items of a lot is complete.
Correct Answer is: Batch production
114. ...............is the capacity that specifies a theoretical upper limit above the usual rate of routine operations.
Correct Answer is: Maximum capacity
115. Which of the following factors affect capacity planning?
Correct Answer is: all of these
116. ...............is the highest reasonable output rate which can be achieved with the current product specifications, product mix, work force, plant and equipment.
Correct Answer is: Capacity
117. Which of the following is an objective of scheduling?
Correct Answer is: all of these
118. ...............is a time table for performing activities utilizing resources or allocating activities
Correct Answer is: Scheduling
119. In ..............., machines and other supporting services are located according to the processing sequence of the product
Correct Answer is: Product lay out
120. ...............starts from some data in the future and schedules the required operations in reverse sequence
