Match the items of
List I and
List II and indicate the correct answer.
List-I (Operations Management Functions) List-II (Activities)
a. Capacity planning
1. Setting policy guidelines and procedural details of making a watch
b. Quality management
2. The steering of the cars loaded in trucks reaches the assembly line every morning and evening
c. Process design
3. Establishing rules and policies of which tablets are to be accepted and others not to be
d. Location and layout of facilities
4. A hospital can largely serve 500 patients at any time
A. a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2
B. a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2
C. a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
D. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
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The upper control limit for an R-chart is
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The hybrid layout is a combination of
A. plant layout and product layout
B. process layout and product layout
C. process layout and plant layout
D. plant layout and cost layout
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Which of the following characteristics apply to queueing system?
A. Customer population
B. Arrival process
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
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The design of a factory building is based on
A. flexibility
B. expandability
C. size of production
D. all of these
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Which of the following jobs/decisions of production/operations management are related to short time horizon?
A. 1, 3 and 4
B. 1, 2 and 4
C. 3, 5 and 6
D. 2, 5 and 6
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Which of the following is/are advantage(s) of multi storey buildings?
A. Use of gravity flow
B. Lowcost of ventilation and heating
C. Better use of cubic space
D. All of the above
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If we were to use opportunity cost value for an unused cell to test optimality, it should be
A. equal to zero
B. most negative number
C. most positive number
D. any value
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The operations file is updated by the
A. production control system
B. MRP system
C. shipping system
D. all of the above
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In a 6 × 6 transportation problem, degeneracy would arise, if the number of filled spots were
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If there were 'n' workers and 'n' jobs, there would be
A. n! solutions
B. (n -1)! solutions
C. (n!)n solutions
D. (n - 1) solutions
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The merits of a well designed layouts includes
A. minimum investment in work in progress
B. better production control
C. early detection of mistakes or badly produced items
D. all of the above
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Priority queue discipline may be qualified as
A. finite or infinite
B. limited or unlimited
C. pre-emptive or non-premptive
D. None of the above
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Which of the following factors affects the process design decisions?
A. Nature of product/service demand
B. Degree of vertical integration
C. Product volume flexibility
D. All of the above
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Which of the cost estimates and performance measures are not used for economic analysis of a queueing system?
A. Cost per server per unit of time
B. Cost per unit of time for a customer waiting in the system
C. Average number of customers in the system
D. Average waiting time of customers in the system
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Match the items of
List I with the items of
List II regarding operations research models and their bases of categorisation and indicate the code of their correct matching.
List-I (Type of Model) List-II (Basis of Categorisation)
a. Analogue model
1. Nature of environment
b. Descriptive model
2. Method of getting the solution
c. Deterministic model
3. Structure
d. Simulation model
4. Utility
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
C. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
D. a-4, b-2, c-3, d-1
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The correct sequence of operations in production planning and control is
A. Routing - Scheduling - Dispatching - Follow-up
B. Scheduling - Routing - Dispatching - Follow-up
C. Dispatching - Routing - Scheduling - Follow-up
D. Routing - Scheduling - Follow-up - dispatching
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An activity that consumes no time but shows precedence among activities is known as
A. slack activity
B. successor activity
C. dummy activity
D. critical activity
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Match the items of
List I with those of
List II .
List-I List-II
a. X
1. Sampling risks measurement
b. C Chart
2. Potential capability measurement
c. OC Curve
3. Variable measurement
d. 6σ Chart
4. Attribute measurement
A. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
B. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2
C. a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2
D. a-4, b-2, c-3, d-1
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Quality in manufacturing means that at a . . . . . . . ., all production must be within specification limits and the . . . . . . . . Variation from the nominal, the better the quality.
A. minimum, less
B. minimum, more
C. maximum, less
D. maximum, more
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