Operations Management MCQ Questions and Answers for Practice

1. ...............is an organized creative approach which has its objective, the efficient identification of unnecessary costùcost which provides neither quality nor use nor life nor appearance nor customer features.

1. Money chain
2. Value analysis
3. Supply chain
4. None of these

2. ...............is the analysis and comparisons of items to group them into families with similar characteristics

1. Mass technology
2. Group Technology
3. Independent technology
4. None of these

3. ...............refers to the development of the concept or idea of a product in terms of specifications which are required for transforming the idea in to product

1. Product design
2. Product development
3. a and b
4. None of these

4. Production facilities are arranged as per the sequence of production operations from the first operations to the finished product. This method is called

1. Process production
2. Job production
3. Both of these
4. None of these

5. The person most responsible for popularizing interchangeable parts in manufacturing was

1. Eli Whitney
2. Whitney Houston
3. Sergio Farmerson
4. Lillian Gilbreth

6. Which of the following statement is not true in the case of goods?

1. Tangibility
2. Can be stored
3. Physical shape
4. Intangibility

7. ...............are those materials and equipments which have no immediate use but have accumulated due to faulty planning, forecasting and purchasing.

1. Surplus items
2. Deficit items
3. a and b
4. None of these

8. ...............is one that is capable of producing a variety of products (or parts) with virtually no time lost for changeovers form one product to the next.

1. A flexible automated system
2. A fixed automated system
3. a andb
4. None of these

9. ...............is the configuration of departments, work centres and equipment in the conversion process.

1. Plant lay out
2. Plant locations
3. a and b
4. None of these

10. The Father of Scientific Management is

1. Frank Gilbreth
2. Frederick WTaylor
3. W Edwards Deming
4. Walther Shewhart

11. Which of the following is an objective of quality assurance?

1. To improve quality
2. To reduce cost
3. to increase productivity
4. all of these

12. Which of the following is not an objective of operations management?

1. Customer satisfaction
2. Profitability
3. Timeliness
4. Employee punishment

13. ...............is a recording technique for micro motionstudy.

1. Simultaneous Motion Cycle chart
2. Simultaneous Master Cycle Chart
3. a and b
4. None of these

14. Fixed position layout is also called as ............... of layout

1. Project type
2. Product type
3. a andb
4. None of these

15. ISO 9000 is a ...............

1. International standard
2. National standard
3. Local standard
4. None of these