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Question 1

The current trend in operation management is to move from :
a) Standard products to mass customization
b) partners for supply to purchase the cheapest offer
c) Short product development to long product development
d) multi-skilled and empowered to specialized employees.

Answer 1

a) Standard products to mass customization

Question 2

What is the most appropriate tool to identify the causes of a problem?
a)Pareto diagram
b)Quality function deployment
c) Fishbone diagram (Ishikawa)
d) Poka-yoke

Answer 2

c) Fishbone diagram (Ishikawa)

Question 3

Customers can configure the products to their “liking” and manufacturers can reduce costs, these characteristics…
a) Mass production
b) mass Customization
c) Batch production
d) Personalization by project

Answer 3

b) mass Customization

Question 4

Applying the TOC (Theory of constraints), the best point to control the product quality is :
a) Before the bottleneck
b) at the end of the process
c) after the bottleneck
d) when receiving the raw material

Answer 4

a) Before the bottleneck

Question 5

What was Federick W. Taylor’s great contribution to production processes at the time?
a) The assembly line
b) The division of labor and separation of tasks
c) The use of standardized and interchangeable parts
d) Time and motion study

Answer 5

d) Time and motion study

Question 6

How long will the project take if there is no delay in any activity?
a) 13
b) 15
c) 14
d) 16

Answer 6

b) 15

Question 7

Reverse engineering is the process carried out with the aim of:
a) design more robust products
b) Build a product from recycled raw materials
c) disassemble a product extracting information about it
d) re-design the product, reducing components and costs.

Answer 7

c) disassemble a product extracting information about it

Question 8

What characteristics corresponds to services
a) tangible products
b) low interaction with the client
c) production generally separated from consumption
d) They can not be stored in the output of the process

Answer 8

d) They can not be stored in the output of the process

Question 9

Who proposed the principles of scientific management and motion studies in surgical procedures?
a) Frank Gilbreth
b) Henry Ford
c) Eli whitney
d) Frederick Taylor

Answer 9

a) Frank Gilbreth

Question 10

What is Eli Whitney’s great contribution to production processes at the time?
a) The division of labor and separation of tasks
b) time and motion study
c) the use of standardized and interchangeable parts
d) the assembly fine

Answer 10

c) the use of standardized and interchangeable parts

Question 11

Product is a composition of
a) goods and services
b) clients and suppliers
c) inputs and outputs
d) costs and added value

Answer 11

a) goods and services

Question 12

What characteristic corresponds to goods
a) high interaction with the client
b) Production usually separated from consumption
c) can not be inventoried at the entrance of the process
d) They are not transportable or re-salable

Answer 12

b) Production usually separated from consumption

Question 13

In relation to capacity planning and capacity utilization, when productive capacity exceeds demand we can…
a) increase prices, scheduling a longer delivery time
b)Increase production capacity to achieve economies of scale
c)Produce products with complementary demand patterns
d) Layoffs and plant closures to adjust production to meet demand

Answer 13

d) Layoffs and plant closures to adjust production to meet demand

Question 14

In relation to capacity planning and capacity utilization, when demand exceeds production capacity we can…
a) reduce demand by raising prices and increasing lead times
b) Reduce the price to stimulate consumption and sell cheaper
c) Layoffs and plant closures to adjust production to meet demand
d) Produce products with complementary demand patterns

Answer 14

a) reduce demand by raising prices and increasing lead times

Question 15

Choose the best reason to work with diseconomies of scale
a) seek to reduce unit cost to a minimum
b) reduce inventory by selling more
c) seek a higher market share but with lower profits
d) “Eliminate” the competitor at any cost

Answer 15

a) seek to reduce unit cost to a minimum

Question 16

Developing and producing products with different seasonal demands makes it possible to…
a) balancing the use of productive resources
b) reduce the impact of failures on the production line
c) Balancing and eliminating the bottleneck
d) Reducing global warming

Answer 16

a) balancing the use of productive resources

Question 17

In the inventory model with fixed order quantity (EDQ), The economic lot is determined when….
a) the cost of storage is minimal
b) Storage cost is the same as ordering cost
c) The cost of ordering is minimal
d) demand is dependent

Answer 17

b) Storage cost is the same as ordering cost

Question 18

Which method is the most appropriate to define location, when there are several factors with different importance?
a) center-of-gravity method
b) factor-rating method
c) random method
d) break-even analysis

Answer 18

b) factor-rating method

Question 19

The break-even point occurs when…
a) fixed costs plus variable costs equal zero
b) total costs equal total revenue
c) fixed costs equal variable costs
d) total costs are the same at the point of economy of scale

Answer 19

b) total costs equal total revenue

Question 20

ABC is a method of inventory classification and management that allows the identification of…
a) items that have a significant impact on overall value
b) the most sold items are therefore the most important ones
c) the most expensive items and therefore the most important ones
d) the items with the largest quantity in inventory and that i must sell first

Answer 20

a) items that have a significant impact on overall value

Question 21

A factory sells tires for a factory that produces 5,000 bikes/month. It sells another 500 to bicycle spare parts stores.
a)5,500
b)10,000
c) 500
d) 10,500

Answer 21

b)10,000

Question 22

The book “the goal” considers that the best point to control the quality of the product is…
a) upon receiving raw materials
b) before the bottleneck
c) after the bottleneck
d) at the end of the process

Answer 22

b) before the bottleneck

Question 23

In the book “The goal” the boy herbie is the “bottleneck” of the system’s boy-scout excursion because…

a) he is the laziest and does not want to carry any load
b) he is the smartest and does not want to carry a load
c) he is chubby and carries more load than all
d) he is the one with the most medals and does not want to carry any load

Answer 23

c) he is chubby and carries more load than all