Operations Management Questions and Answers in Quiz Form 9 for Practice

121. Locating the plant nearer to the market is preferred if:

1. The products are subject to spoilage
2. After sales services are promptly required very often
3. a and b
4. None of these

122. Which of the following is not a control chart for attributes?

1. P chart
2. C chart
3. X chart
4. None of these

123. In management literature TQM stands for

1. Total quality management
2. Total quantity management
3. Total quantity maintenance
4. None of these

124. Industrial buildings may be grouped under

1. Single-storey buildings
2. Multi-storey buildings
3. a and b
4. None of these

125. ...............is a group of workers from the same area who usually meet to discuss their problems, investigate, recommend solutions and to corrective actions

1. Quality problems
2. Quality circle
3. Quantify value
4. None of these

126. Which of the following is not an advantage of single story building?

1. There is a greater flexibility in layout
2. Expansion is easily ensured by the removal of walls
3. low cost of transportation and material handling charges
4. More land is required for building construction

127. Which of the following is not a limitation of multi-story building?

1. Materials handling becomes very complicated
2. A lot of floor space is wasted on elevators stairways and fire escapes
3. Natural lighting is poor
4. Less land is required

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

1. To improve quality
2. To improve productivity
3. Trading on equity
4. None of these

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

1. Customer focus
2. Continuous improvement
3. Team approach
4. Black marketing

130. Which of the following is not a quality of good plant layout?

1. To reduce material handling cost
2. To provide enough production facility
3. To reduce labour efficiency
4. To provide ease of supervision

131. ...............is the systematic recording and critical examination of existing and the proposed way of doing work as a means of developing effective methods.

1. Method study
2. Time study
3. Time booking
4. None of these

132. Which of the following is not anobjective of good plant layout?

1. To improve productivity
2. To provide safety to employees
3. Toincrease the number of accidents
4. to provide easy supervision

133. The costs of all activities incurred to prevent poor quality in products and services.

1. Prevention cost
2. Appraisal cost
3. Failure cost
4. None of the above

134. Which of the following is not an objective of MRP?

1. Reduction in inventory cost
2. Meeting delivery schedule
3. Improve the performance of production
4. To decrease production efficiency

135. This cost is the cost associated with measuring evaluating, or auditing products or services to assure conformance to quality standards and performance requirements

1. Prevention cost
2. Appraisal cost
3. Failure cost
4. None of the above