MCQ of Production & Operation Chapter 1 To 5
MCQ of Production & Operation Chapter 1 To 5
MCQ of Production & Operation Chapter 1 To 5
2. __________________ is the process in which resources or inputs are converted into more
useful products.
Material Management
Inventory Management
Operations Management
Logistic Management
8. All of the following decisions fall within the scope of operation management except for_____.
Financial analysis
Design of products & processes
Location of facilities
Quality management
10. Production department is depends on which department in order to take decision about
‘Investment made in physical facilities like machines’.
Finance
Human Resource
Marketing
None of the above
13. In which production system, goods are constantly produced according to the demand
forecast?
Intermittent Production System
Continuous Production System
Job Production
All of above
15. Which production system is used when two or more components are combined to
manufacture a finished product?
Assembly Production
Job Production
Mass Production
Batch Production
16. In which production system, break even point is easy to achieve as well as capital investment
is less?
Intermittent Production System
Continuous Production System
Mass Production
Assembly Production
Chapter – 2 – Plant Layout and Material Handling
1. If all the processing equipment and machines are arranged according to the sequence of
operations of a product, the layout is known as ____________.
Product Layout
Process Layout
Fixed Position Layout
Combination Layout
2. The following type of layout is preferred to manufacture a standard product in large quantity.
Product Layout
Process Layout
Fixed Position Layout
Combination Layout
3. The following type of layout is preferred for low volume production of non standard products.
Product Layout
Process Layout
Fixed Position Layout
Combination Layout
11. Which of the following layout is used when the production being processed is very big,
heavy or difficult to move?
Product Layout
Process Layout
Fixed Position Layout
Cellular Layout
14. Departments are created by grouping similar type of machines together is called________
Layout.
Process
Product
Fixed Position
Cellular
4. The items stored in the warehouse of a store or a factory to reduce the impact of unexpected
shocks is called which types of inventories?
Decoupling Inventory
MRO Inventory
Buffer Inventory
All of the above
8. Which of the following inventory costs represents the cost of loss of demand due to shortage
in supplies?
Unit Cost
Stockout Cost
Procurement Cost
Carrying Cost
9. Classifying items in A,B & C categories for selective control in inventory management is done
by arranging items in the decreasing order of:
Total Inventory Costs
Annual Usage Value
Item Value
Item Demand
11. The following classes of costs are usually involved in inventory decisions except______.
Cost of Ordering
Carrying Cost
Cost of Shortages
Machining Cost
16. An item can be purchased for Rs. 100. The ordering cost is Rs. 200 and inventory carrying
cost is 10% of the item cost per annum. If the annual demand is 4000 units, the EOQ is?
50
100
200
400
17. The order cost per order of an inventory is Rs. 400 with an annual carrying cost of Rs. 10 per
unit. The EOQ for an annual demand of 2000 units is?
400
440
480
500
18. Cost of identifying need of material is which type of inventory cost?
Basic Cost of Material
Ordering Cost
Carrying Cost
Shortages Cost
19. The costs arise on account of maintaining the stocks and the interest paid on the capital
associated with stock is called as______________.
Basic Cost of Material
Ordering Cost
Carrying Cost
Shortages Cost
20. All items are not required with the same frequency – some are required regularly, some
occasionally and some once in a while then which inventory technique is used for classification
of inventory?
ABC Analysis
VED Analysis
FSN Analysis
EOQ Analysis
21. Which is not the assumption of EOQ model?
Annual demand of an item ‘D’ is known accurately and remains constant
P, the price of the material does not change with time or with change in order quantity, Q.
Lead time of purchase is known accurately and remains constant.
There is shortage and hence shortage cost or stock out cost
1. ________ sets the quantity of each finished product to be completed in each time period of
short range planning horizon.
Capacity Requirement Planning
Material Requirement Planning
Master Production Schedule
Aggregate Production Planning
2. It is a technique of determining the quantity and timing of acquiring dependent demand items
(raw material, other input material) needed to satisfy the production schedule set by MPS.
Capacity Requirement Planning
Material Requirement Planning
Master Production Schedule
Bill of Material
3. It is a technique to determine what labour and equipment capacities are needed to meet
production objective specified by the MPS and MRP.
Capacity Requirement Planning
Material Requirement Planning
Master Production Schedule
Aggregate Production Planning
7. It is the file provides the information regarding all the materials, parts and sub assemblies that
go into end product.
Inventory Status File
Bill of Material File
Inventory Transaction File
All of the above
8. Which of the following is NOT an input in the capacity requirement planning process?
Planned orders and released orders
Work centre status report
Routing Report
Work load report
10. In which method of capacity adjustment, it is possible that some other organization having
similar capacity can carry out some production operation for us.
Overtime of existing workers
Hiring of temporary labour
Sub Contracting or Outsourcing
Adjustment during lean season
11. ______________ is about analysis and determine the time required to perform each
operation.
Routing
Scheduling
Loading
Sequencing
14. In which scheduling concept, procurement of material and operations start as soon as the
customer requirements are known?
Forward Scheduling
Backward Scheduling
Detailed Scheduling
All of the above
20. To convert n/3 problem ton/2 problem and apply Johnson’s rule to get optimal sequence,
which condition has to met_____.
Smallest duration on machine-1 is at least as great as the largest duration on machine-2
Smallest duration on machine-1 is at least as less than largest duration on machine-2
Smallest duration on machine-3 is less than largest duration on machine-2
None of the above
21. Statistical Quality Control techniques are based on the theory of________________.
Quality
Statistics
Probability
All of the above
Chapter – 5 – Work Study
1. This chart is a graphic representation of all the production activities occurring on the shop
floor.
Operation Process Chart
Flow Process Chart
Templates
All of the above
3. Which of the following method is used for recording path of movement during method study?
Chronocycle graph
SIMO chart
Two handed process chart
Therbling
14. It is an element which does not occur in every work cycle but takes place at regular or
irregular interval..
Repetitive element
Occasional element
Variable element
Constant element
16. It is an element which occurs during study observations but does not form the part of job.
Machine element
Foreign element
Governing element
Occasional element
17. These allowances are given to the worker because during certain stage of production, worker
has to remain idle as the machine is automatically working.
Interference Allowances
Process Allowances
Contingency Allowances
Periodic Activity Allowances
18. It is extra time for a worker attending two or more machines and the worker is busy on one of
the machines resulting in idleness of other machines is called which allowance of time study?
Interference Allowances
Process Allowances
Contingency Allowances
Periodic Activity Allowances
19. These are delay because of non-repetitive activities of the worker is called which allowances
of time study?
Process Allowances
Contingency Allowances
Start up Allowances
Cleaning Allowances