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OPERANDI 2013

1. Activity sequencing (or logic) depends upon

(a)technological constraints or restrictions due to the method

(b)normal availabilities of resources

(c)managerial choice

(d)all of the above

(e)a & c only

2. A quality circle is

(a) an appointed place in a manufacturing plant, where quality characteristics of the materials

being processed are checked

(b) a government-appointed body to check and control the quality of output in sensitive

industries such as defense-related materials, drugs and pharmaceuticals

(c) a small voluntary group of employees, in a company, who discuss and try to improve the

quality of output and other work-related matters

(d) the circular phenomenon whereby there is a constant feedback regarding the quality

between the management and the workers.

3. Just-in-time techniques are applicable to

(a) Purchasing

(b) Production

(c) Distribution

(d) a & b(e) all of the above

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4. Which of the charts or diagrams below shows relationships to reveal problem causes?

(a) Pareto diagram.

(b) x-bar chart

(c) range chart

(d) Fishbone Diagram(e) histogram

5. The concept of variability is recognized by which offollowing concepts or philosophies?

(a) TOC

(b) ABC

(c) JIT

(d) a & b

(e) a&c

6. With respect to project costing, which of the following is NOT true?

(a) The process of reducing project duration by reducing some of the activity

times is called crashing.

(b) Subcontracting, using the services of overtime labor and adding an extra

shift are some of the approaches for crashing the project time.

(c) As the project crashing approaches are expensive, managers need to make an

analysis of time-cost tradeoffs that reduce the project duration with a

minimum increase in cost.

(d) We select the critical activity that has the minimum completion time.

(e) None of these

7. An Apple store has a customer arrival rate of 15 per hour. The salesperson can service acustomer every 3 minutes. Assuming Poisson arrivals and exponential service, find the

utilization of the salesperson?

(a) 70 %

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(b) 72.5 %

(c) 75 %

(d) 133.33 %

(e) None of these

8. Bajaj scooters manufacturing unit works for 25 days in a month, 18 hours each day. The

monthly demand is 7000 scooters per month. What is the takt time for the unit? Will the

demand be met if the process is designed for 240 sec/unit?

(a) 231 sec/unit, no

(b) 231 sec/unit, yes

(c) 115.7 sec/unit, no

(d) 115.7 sec/unit, yes

(e) None of these

9. Operations are concerned with ___________while marketing is concerned

with____________.

(a) demand, quality

(b) efficiency, cost

(c) supply, demand

(d) demand, supply

(e) efficiency, supply

10. Job shops

(a) are the same as batch(b) do not relate to service operations

(c) often have large percentages of their inventory as work in process.

(d) are generally set up for repeat business

(e) b & d

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11. Productivity can be improved by

(a) increasing inputs while holding outputs steady

(b) decreasing outputs while holding inputs steady

(c) increasing inputs and outputs in the same proportion

(d) decreasing inputs while holding outputs steady

(e) all of the above

12. Anil and Apoorva are the team leaders of an R&D team which prepares project status

report on at the end of each month. The team leaders submit the reports to the Director on

the first Monday of each next month. Unfortunately, they forgot to check their calendar onemonth until late Friday evening. To their surprise, they discovered that the month ended on

Sunday and the reports were due the following Monday morning. As they had not started

writing them, they decided to come to work early Saturday morning, so they could finish

the reports before Monday morning. They split the work as follows: Anil writes and edits

the reports while Apoorva collates data and draws all the necessary graphs. Assume that

Apoorva starts her work on a report as soon as Anil is finished with it and that Anil works

continuously. Times for the reports (in hours) are as follows:

Projects Anil Apoorva

A 4 2

B 3 5

C 5 1

D 7 3

E 8 6

What is the order of the tasks using Johnson's rule?

(a) B-D-E-A-C

(b)B-E-A-C-D

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(c) B-E-D-A-C

(d)B-E-D-C-A

(e) B-D-E-C-A

13. How many hours will it take them to finish all the reports?

(a) 26

(b) 52

(c) 28

(d)56

(e) 104

14. 3 productivity variables which are commonly used -

(a) quality, external elements, and precise units of measure

(b) technology, raw materials, and labor

(c) education, diet, and social overhead

(d) labor, capital and management

(e) quality of the student, efficiency of the student to work and money

15. The method that considers several variables that are related to the variable being predicted

is

(a) Causal forecasting

(b) Exponential smoothing

(c) Weighed moving average

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the above

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16) XYZ is a perfume making company. The profits of the company have increased by 10%

this year. The demand for perfumes has increased at a higher level and the customers now

expect faster delivery. Which of the following manufacturing strategies should the company

adopt to ensure immediate delivery of the perfumes?

(a) Make-to-order

(b) assemble-to-order

(c) make-to-stock

(d) service

(e) None of the above

17) Name the common link:

______ distribution

______ principle

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18) FOOD FOR THOUGHT

2 tablespoons olive oil or oil from sun-dried tomatoes in the jar

6 slices bacon, chopped

2 large onions, chopped

3 cloves garlic, crushed

1kg / 2 lb lean ground beef

2 large glasses of red wine

2x400g cans chopped tomatoes

1x290g jar antipasti marinated mushrooms, drained

2 bay leaves fresh or dried

1 teaspoon dried oregano coffee or a small handful of fresh leaves, chopped1 teaspoon dried thyme or a small handful of fresh leaves, chopped

Drizzle with balsamic vinegar

12-14 halves of sun dried tomatoes in oil

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

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(a) increase in net income

(b) decrease in net income

(c) increase in return on investment.

(d) decrease in return on investment

(e) a & c both

22) FUNDE DAAL

23) Number of hours available per day - 10

Item Daily Demand Cycle Time (min) Run Time (Min) Set-up Time1 100 1.0 100 20

2 225 1.0 150 30

3 325 0.5 250 10

Find the EPEI per day.

(a) 1.4

(b) 0.4

(c) 0.6(d) 1.66

(e) None of these

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24) Find the correct option

(a) AJ411, BJ37,CJ110,DJ211,EJ521

(b) AJ318, BJ25,CJ410,DJ513,EJ115

(c) AJ111, BJ27,CJ412,DJ317,EJ513

(d) AJ511, BJ39,CJ415,DJ219,EJ113

(e) AJ511, BJ49,CJ315,DJ119,EJ213

25) Find the total cost using LCEM

D1 D2 D3 D4 Capacity

S1 19 30 50 10 7

S2 70 30 40 60 9

S3 40 8 70 20 18

Requirement 5 8 7 14

(a) 1015

(b) 1227

(c) 995

(d) 814

(e) 772

J1 J2 J3 J4 J5

A 11 17 8 16 20

B 9 7 12 6 15

C 13 16 15 12 16

D 21 24 17 28 26

E 14 10 12 11 13