Operations Research Questions and Answers in Quiz Form 9 for Practice

121. There is a great scope for.........................working as a team to solve problems of defence by using the Operations Research approach

1. Economists
2. Administrators
3. Statisticians and Technicians
4. All of the above

122. This innovative science of Operations Research was discovered during

1. Civil War
2. World War I
3. World War II
4. Industrial Revolution

123. This method of formal calculations often termed as Linear Programming was developed later in which year?

1. 1947
2. 1988
3. 1957
4. 1944

124. To find the optimal solution, we apply.........

1. LPP
2. VAM
3. MODI Method
4. Rim

125. To make an unbalanced assignment problem balanced, what are added with all entries aszeroes?

1. Dummy rows
2. Dummy columns
3. Both A and B
4. Dummy entries

126. Transportation algorithm can be used for minimizing the transportation cost of.........................fromO origins and D destinations

1. Goods
2. Products
3. Items
4. None of the above

127. VAM stands for............

1. Vogeals Approximation Method
2. Vogels Approximate Method
3. Vangels Approximation Method
4. Vogels Approximation Method

128. What aims at optimizing inventory levels?

1. Inventory Control
2. Inventory Capacity
3. Inventory Planning
4. None of the above

129. What are the main questions before a production manager?

1. Which commodity/ commodities to produce
2. In what quantities
3. By which process or processes
4. All of the above

130. What can be defined as a useful idle resource which has economic value eg; raw materials, spare parts, finished items, etc?

1. Inventory Control
2. Inventory
3. Inventory Planning
4. None of the above

131. What do we apply in order to determine the optimum solution ?

1. LPP
2. VAM
3. MODI Method
4. None of the above

132. What enables us to determine the earliest and the latest times for each of the events and activities and thereby helps in the identification of the critical path?

1. Programme Evaluation
2. Review Technique (PERT)
3. Both A and B
4. Deployment of resources

133. What has always been very important in the business and industrial world, particularly with regard to problems concerning productions of commodities?

1. Linear Programming
2. Production
3. Decision – making
4. None of the above

134. What have been constructed for Operations Research problems and methods for solving the models that are available in many cases?

1. Scientific Models
2. Algorithms
3. Mathematical Models
4. None of the above

135. What is also defined as the non.negative variables which are added in the LHS of the constraint to convert the inequality < into an equation?

1. Slack variables
2. Simplex algorithm
3. Key element
4. None of the above