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BUS 515 FINAL EXAM PART 1 (FOUR VERSIONS) 100 QUESTIONS

Question 1

In what area does General Motors earn its highest return on capital?

selling cars

selling logo merchandise

financing

selling racing 

post-sales parts and service 

Question 2

A key feature of scientific management is that workers are limited only by __________.

machinery

co-workers

their job description

their tools

their physical ability

Question 3

Decisions regarding which of the following are not part of the production process structure?

management policies

facilities

robots

flow of goods and services through the facility

flexible manufacturing system (FMS) machines

Question 4

Suppose that a plant has a daily productivity of 0.85 parts per employee? What can we conclude? 

the plant must be very labor-intensive

the plant is not earning profits

the plant must be highly automated

the plant should lay off workers

nothing

Question 5

Highly labor intensive services are called _____________ .

pure services

mixed services

mixed manufacturing

quasi-manufacturing

quasi-services

Question 6

What is a type of automation system that provides the flexibility of intermittent operations with the efficiency of repetitive operations?

CAD

AGV

AS/RS

FMS

CAM

Question 7

Which of the following is not an argument in favor of having multiple suppliers?

The Just-in-time philosophy can be better utilized.

Supplier capacity is less important.

Volume flexibility is obtained.

Risks may be spread.

New suppliers may more easily be tested.

Question 8

A constant concern within purchasing departments is the issue of ethics in managing _______________.

customers

web sites

inventory

suppliers

entry-level employees

Question 9

Increases in international trade during the 1980s created a need for the development of ____________ standards of quality.

universal

country-specific

lower

metric

bilingual

Question 10

For a cause-and-effect diagram, causes could be related to all of the following except

Analysis

Materials

Measurements

Machines

Workers

Question 11

What are preset ranges of acceptable quality characteristics?

Control limits.

Product specifications.

Six-sigma limits.

AQC limits.

R-chart limits.

Question 12

What measures the central tendency of a set of data?

Coefficient of variation

Variance

Standard deviation

Mean

Range

Question 13

Causes of variation that can be identified and eliminated are called what?

Random

Assignable

Identifiable

Stochastic

Common

Question 14

What are the two types of control charts for attributes?

p and c

x-bar and p

x-bar and R

R and c

p and R

Question 15

The Six Sigma approach is organized around a _______ plan known as ________.

four step, PDAC

four step, DMAC

five step PDACR

five step DMAIC

five step, DMCRA

Question 16

With JIT a company’s relationship with its suppliers includes

Competitive bidding

Being in partnership with them

Buying parts from the cheapest supplier

Short-term relationships

Having as many suppliers as possible

Question 17

Quality in just-in-time is centered on building quality into the

Product 

Maintenance of equipment

Process

Distribution system

Workforce

Question 18

What is the term for an adjustment of a machine after making one product type so that production can begin for another product type?

Level assembly schedule

Group technology

Setup

Cycle time

Automation

Question 19

One of the greatest benefits of JIT would be

increasing waste and improving responsiveness

longer lead times and increased productivity

decreased machine utilization and improved quality

competing based on schedules

eliminating waste, improving responsiveness and competing based on time

Question 20

The role of production employees in JIT includes all of the following except

Be actively engaged in improving the production process

Monitor quality

Record data

Follow clearly defined and limiting work rules

Act on the information they have

Question 21

The OM supervisor informs you, the researcher, that the data has a large standard deviation. What data pattern would you expect to observe once you generated a time series trend?

horizontal

seasonal 

positive/negative trend

cycle

insufficient information to derive a valid response

Question 22

Which of the following is a causal forecasting method?

Naïve

Moving average

Weighted moving average

Trend adjusted exponential smoothing

Linear regression

Question 23

What does the linear regression line do?

Minimizes sum of errors

Minimizes product of squared errors

Minimizes sum of squared errors

Minimizes product of errors

Minimizes sum of absolute value of errors

Question 24

Qualitative forecasting methods

are made objectively by the forecaster

are made subjectively by the forecaster

are made using existing data sources

are based on mathematical models

are only used in parallel with quantitative models

Question 25

Suppose that you are using the four-period simple moving average method to forecast sales, and sales have been decreasing by 10% every period. How will your forecasts perform?

Forecasts will be lower than actual.

Forecasts will be higher than actual.

Forecasts will equal actual.

Forecasts will be increasing.

Forecasts will be decreasing by 2.5% every period.

VERSION 2

Question 1 

Operations management personnel perform a variety of functions, including all of the following except ___________________.

analyzing production problems

analyzing potential mergers

developing forecasts

developing employee schedules

monitoring inventory

Question 2 

Which of the following concepts is linked the least with Henry Ford?

scientific management

mass production

mass customization

technology

interchangeable parts

Question 3 

What are the two key components of the operations strategy of Federal Express?

they own their own fleet of tractor trailers, and they use a sophisticated bar code technology

they own their own fleet of tractor trailers, and they have a large warehouse in every state

they own their own fleet of airplanes, and they have a large warehouse in every state

they use a sophisticated bar code technology, and they have a large warehouse in every state

they own their own fleet of airplanes, and they use a sophisticated bar code technology

Question 4 

A manager has just replaced three workers with a machine that is cheaper to operate than the cost of the three replaced workers. Output is expected to remain the same. Which of the following is true?

labor productivity will decrease

machine productivity will increase

multifactor productivity will decrease

multifactor productivity will increase

the value of output will decrease

Question 5 

Which type of operational function represents an Assemble-to-Order?

wedding invitations

corporate training

vacation packages

airline flights

legal services

Question 6 

Vertical integration is a good strategic option for a manufacturing company when

it uses distributed processing

it needs one input material in large volumes

its facilities are obsolete

it needs several different parts and subassemblies

it makes many different products

Question 7 

Which of the following is least likely to be a benefit of implementing barcode scanners at retail store checkout registers?

Improved forecasting

More efficient packaging of customer orders

Improved inventory control

Faster checkout for customers

More accurate checkout for customers

Question 8 

Which type of technology provides “point-of-sale information?”

Automatic guided vehicles (AGV)

Automatic storage and retrieval systems (ASRS)

Barcode scanners

Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS)

Computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM)

Question 9 

Which of the following is not attributed to Philip Crosby?

The concept of the quality trilogy

The phrase “Do it right the first time.”

Stressed the idea of prevention of defects

The notion of zero defects

The phrase “Quality is free.”

Question 10 

The Japanese term for continuous improvement is

Poka-yoke

Kaizen

Kanban

Muda

Automation

Question 11 

P-charts are used to measure:

continuous variation

intermittent random variation

proportion of items in a sample that is defective

the count of defective parts

proportion of items in a sample that are good

Question 12 

What is a graph that shows the probability or chance of accepting a lot given various proportions of defects in the lot?

S curve

Z-chart

OC curve

p-chart

R-chart

Question 13 

Six-sigma quality implies how many average defects per million?

3.4

6

2600

Question 14 

The range is an example of what?

Traditional statistical tools

Fishbone diagramming

Acceptance sampling

Experimental design

Statistical process control

Question 15 

Single sampling plan is when 

a non-random sample is drawn from every lot.

a random sample is drawn from every lot.

a second lot is sampled due to the first sample inconclusive results.

only one time is tested.

a sample plan used once and discarded

Question 16 

The ultimate goal of JIT is to produce products in a lot size of

100 or fewer

N = (DT(1+X))/C

The inverse of the carrying cost

One

The capacity of the factory

Question 17 

JIT is often mistakenly assumed to 

refer to the final assembly schedule only

dictate the product standards specification

refer to only just-in-time manufacturing

be a core element of ISO 9000 requirements

be driven by the finance department long range spending plan

Question 18 

The manufacturing process in JIT starts with the

final assembly schedule

schedules for individual machines

vendor deliveries

prioritization of lots

forward scheduling

Question 19 

JIT is a __________ system.

Pull

Push

Lead time

Preventive maintenance

Closed

Question 20 

_________ are groups of workers who are responsible for every aspect of their business.

Focus teams

Staff departments

Partnerships

Self-managed teams

Negotiators

Question 21 

Which of the following is not a step in Forecasting Seasonality?

Calculate a seasonal index for each season of each year

Divide this year’s average seasonal demand by each average seasonal index

Average the indexes by season

Forecast demand for the next year and divide by the number of seasons

Calculate the average demand per season

Question 22 

A causal research model is based on the assumption that

the independent variable is related to the dependent variable

there is a relationship between the time series and the dependent variable

the variable being forecast is related to other variables in the environment

there is a relationship between the time series and the independent variable

the information is contained in a time series of data

Question 23 

Which of the following is a causal forecasting method?

Naïve

Moving average

Weighted moving average

Trend adjusted exponential smoothing

Linear regression

Question 24 

One quantitative forecasting models limitation is

it is objective

they are consistent

they are based on mathematical formulas

they are limited on the quality of available data

they can work around bad data

Question 25 

What is a tracking signal used for?

To identify trends in actual data

To identify seasonality in actual data

To identify the effect of business cycles on actual data

To compute the value of the smoothing constant, α, for exponential smoothing

To identify forecast bias

Version 3

Chapter 6

Multiple Choice Question 19

What measures the central tendency of a set of data?

Coefficient of variation

Variance

Standard deviation

Mean

Range

Multiple Choice Question 39

Consider a p-chart measuring the percentage of defective light bulbs. If the LCL is .04 and a sample has 1% defects, what is the implication?

The process is in a state of control.

The process is out of control even though the variation is “good.”

The value of sigma must be increased.

The process has too many errors.

A calculation error must have occurred.

Multiple Choice Question 16

An OC curve is an example of what?

Traditional statistical tools

Fishbone diagramming

Acceptance sampling

Experimental design

Statistical process control

Multiple Choice Question 25

On a control chart, what separates common from assignable causes of variation?

x-bar lines

Control limits

Specification limits

Production limits

Mean divided by standard deviation

Multiple Choice Question 41

What are preset ranges of acceptable quality characteristics?

Control limits.

Product specifications.

Six-sigma limits.

AQC limits.

R-chart limits.

Chapter 7

Multiple Choice Question 26

According to JIT, __________ is carried to cover up a wide variety of problems, such as poor quality, demand uncertainty, and slow delivery.

Inventory

Excess capacity

A group of back-up workers

Spare equipment

Insurance

Multiple Choice Question 65

Which of the following is not a role of JIT management?

creating a JIT culture

cost and information sharing

serving as coaches and facilitators

developing an incentive system

ensuring multifunctional training occurs

Multiple Choice Question 36

JIT uses a pull system where communication starts with either the customer or with the _________ work station in the production line.

First

Bottleneck

Dominant

Most expensive

Last

Multiple Choice Question 61

JIT production workers are expected to

Cover up quality problems

Ignore data

Take responsibility in getting to the root cause of quality problems

Blame problems on someone else

Have a poor attitude about quality

Multiple Choice Question 70

The benefits of long-term relationships with a small number of suppliers include all of the following except

Always getting the lowest price

Focus on improving process controls

Greater accountability

Develop stable delivery schedules

Eliminate paperwork

Chapter 8

Multiple Choice Question 1

Forecasting is not a function which contributes to:

deciding which business market to pursue

deciding which product to produce

deciding how bonuses should be allocated

deciding how much inventory to carry

deciding how many people to hire

Multiple Choice Question 10

Which forecasting method is particularly good for predicting technological changes and scientific advances?

Market research

Executive opinion

Delphi method

Naïve method

Gamma method

Multiple Choice Question 30

What are the most frequently used forecasting techniques?

Linear regression

Simple mean

Exponential smoothing

Weighted moving average

Econometric models

Multiple Choice Question 17

Which of the following is a causal forecasting method?

Naïve

Moving average

Weighted moving average

Trend adjusted exponential smoothing

Linear regression

Multiple Choice Question 74

“Inside information” is most likely garnered through which of the following forecasting methods?

exponential smoothing

seasonal indexes

naïve

Delphi

multiple regression

Chapter 9

Multiple Choice Question 56

The least likely reason for a U.S. firm to choose to locate a factory in a foreign country is _____________.

climate

natural resources

markets

cheaper suppliers

lower labor costs

Multiple Choice Question 55

Issues that need to be considered in location globally include all of the following except______________.

different cultures

FEC accounting requirements

language barriers

different laws

different business practices

Multiple Choice Question 6

Capacity planning is complicated by the fact that ___________________.

capital markets are complex

existing facilities may become obsolete

capacity is difficult to define

capacity is usually purchased in chunks, rather than smooth increments

depreciation must be calculated

Multiple Choice Question 44

Service organizations such as restaurants, movie theaters, and banks focus on locating near ____________.

suppliers 

roads

intersections

their customers

potential workers

Multiple Choice Question 25

Management has decided to add capacity incrementally in smaller chunks as needed, rather than purchasing one large facility. This decision ____________________.

is very risky

will result in low initial costs

will ultimately result in lower costs per unit if demand increases rapidly

positions the company to be well prepared for high demand in the future

can lead to a large amount of excess capacity

Chapter 10

Multiple Choice Question 34

The first step in designing a layout is

identifying the facility

gathering information

selecting the correct layout software package

developing a REL chart

developing a from-to matrix

Multiple Choice Question 65

What is the term for a system in which the product being worked on is physically attached to the line and automatically moved to the next station when the cycle time has elapsed?

cyclical line

paced line

autoline

continuous line

constrained line

Multiple Choice Question 4

Which of the following is not one of the four basic layout types?

product

hybrid

process

fixed position

inverted 

Multiple Choice Question 27

Which company is widely considered to be the leader of just-in-time production?

Ford

Timex

Gateway

Toyota

Sony

Multiple Choice Question 24

A high-volume paper mill is an example of which layout type? 

inverted

circular

process

fixed position

product

VERSION 4

Multiple Choice Question 53

In six-sigma programs, individuals who have extensive training in the use of technical tools and are responsible for carrying out the implementation of Six Sigma are __________________.

black belts

green belts

blue belts

red belts

white belts

Multiple Choice Question 63

Suppose that you want to measure the percentage of candles that are cut longer than 9 inches. Which control chart would be appropriate?

x-bar chart

c-chart

OC chart

p-chart

R-chart

Multiple Choice Question 9

A process chart is a

graph that shows how the population was evaluated

graph of the population failures

graph that shows whether a sample of data falls within assignable causes

graph that show whether a sample falls within the common or normal range

table showing final inspection results

Multiple Choice Question 15

A c-chart is an example of what?

Traditional statistical tools

Fishbone diagramming

Acceptance sampling

Experimental design

Statistical process control

Multiple Choice Question 39

Consider a p-chart measuring the percentage of defective light bulbs. If the LCL is .04 and a sample has 1% defects, what is the implication?

The process is in a state of control.

The process is out of control even though the variation is “good.”

The value of sigma must be increased.

The process has too many errors.

A calculation error must have occurred.

Multiple Choice Question 71

Which of the following is not a good approach for suppliers who are providing JIT services to manufacturers?

Use the “push system” for deliveries

Locate near their customers

Have small warehouses near the manufacturing plant

Use standardized containers

Join together with other suppliers to help each other make small deliveries

Multiple Choice Question 18

By focusing on __________ processes, JIT is able to achieve high-volume production of high-quality, low-cost products.

downstream

upstream

change-over

gateway

value-added

Multiple Choice Question 36

JIT uses a pull system where communication starts with either the customer or with the _________ work station in the production line.

First

Bottleneck

Dominant

Most expensive

Last

Multiple Choice Question 49

One aspect of flexible resources is

Use of multifunction workers

Relying on special equipment

Use of overtime

Leasing, rather than buying, equipment

Variable work schedules

Multiple Choice Question 4

The philosophy of JIT

Originated in Japan

Was operational at Henry Ford's complex in 1920's

Is a production planning system

Has received little attention in the US

Focuses on direct control of worker activities by management

Multiple Choice Question 3

Which of the following is not a feature common to all forecasting models?

This period’s forecast error is needed to compute next period’s forecast.

Forecasts are rarely perfect.

Forecasts are more accurate for groups of items rather than for individual items.

Forecasts are more accurate for shorter rather than for longer time horizons.

All of the answer choices are correct.

Multiple Choice Question 43

What is a tracking signal used for?

To identify trends in actual data

To identify seasonality in actual data

To identify the effect of business cycles on actual data

To compute the value of the smoothing constant, α, for exponential smoothing

To identify forecast bias

Multiple Choice Question 10

Which forecasting method is particularly good for predicting technological changes and scientific advances?

Market research

Executive opinion

Delphi method

Naïve method

Gamma method

Multiple Choice Question 73

____________________ is a collaborative process between two trading partners that establishes formal guidelines for joint forecasting and planning.

Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)

Supply Chain Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (SCPFR)

Supply Chain Optimization (SCO)

Collaborative Creation of Guidelines (CCG)

Joint Planning and Forecasting (JPP)

Multiple Choice Question 71

Combined forecasting involves a rule that

you must work with different vendors

you need different forecasters

you must always use a quantitative and qualitative method

the results are not comparable to a single forecast

the forecasting methods should be different

Multiple Choice Question 46

Which of the following is least likely to be a consideration in facility location?

the design of the production process

mistakes in choosing a location can be difficult to correct

often there are a number of acceptable locations

expanding capacity at a current location may be an option

location decisions can have a major impact on operating costs and revenues

Multiple Choice Question 34

_____________________ can perform a number of tasks to help a company focus on its core capabilities.

A plant within a plant

Agile manufacturing

Total Quality Management

Just-In-Time

Subcontractor networks

Multiple Choice Question 60

The first step in the factor rating method for evaluating location alternatives is what?

select a scale by which to evaluate each alternative relative to each factor

evaluate each alternative relative to each factor

select the alternative with the highest score

identify dominant factors

assign weights to factors reflecting the importance of each factor relative to the other factors

Multiple Choice Question 25

Management has decided to add capacity incrementally in smaller chunks as needed, rather than purchasing one large facility. This decision ____________________.

is very risky

will result in low initial costs

will ultimately result in lower costs per unit if demand increases rapidly

positions the company to be well prepared for high demand in the future

can lead to a large amount of excess capacity

Multiple Choice Question 45

Location decisions are particularly important because __________________________.

typically they are made rather frequently

they entail a high cost, short-term commitment

there are so many potential locations

they have a major impact on product design

they can have a large impact on operating costs and revenues

Multiple Choice Question 65

What is the term for a system in which the product being worked on is physically attached to the line and automatically moved to the next station when the cycle time has elapsed?

cyclical line

paced line

autoline

continuous line

constrained line

Multiple Choice Question 10

A grocery store is most like which of the following layout types? 

inverted

circular

process

fixed position

product

Multiple Choice Question 48

Warehouse layouts have the key characteristics of process layouts except

number of loads is not a design consideration

location isn’t a major consideration

there is movement between the storage areas

from trips are the only consideration

there is no movement between the storage areas

Multiple Choice Question 6

A company with a pure continuous processing system is most likely to use which layout type?

inverted

product

process

fixed position

hybrid

Multiple Choice Question 73

Which of the following production line shapes is least likely to be found in a factory?

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