Multiple Choice Questions

Which of these statements regarding time-cost tradeoffs in CPM networks is true?
  • Marketing, production/operations, and finance/accounting
  • Pursuing stockholder approval ratings
  • Crashing shortens the project duration by assigning more resources to one or more of the critical tasks.
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
WBS stands for which of the following project management tools?
  • Work breakdown structure
  • Free trade zones in Mexico
  • Decreases input 15
  • All of the above are true:
Which of the following tasks within an airline company are related to operations?
  • Crew Scheduling
  • Global warming
  • Decreases input 15
  • Mass customization
The ability of an organization to produce goods or services that have some uniqueness in their characteristics is:
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
  • Pursuing stockholder approval ratings
  • Immediate rivals, potential entrants, customers, suppliers, and substitute products.
  • Competing on differentiation.
Advantages of ourstourcing do NOT include:
  • Functional strategies are shaped by corporate strategy.
  • Planning, scheduling, and controlling.
  • PERT employs three time estimates for each activity
  • Potential creation of future competition.
A business's stakeholders, whose conflicting perspectives cause ethical and social.......
  • Competing on differentiation.
  • All of the above
  • Immediate rivals, potential entrants, customers, suppliers, and substitute products.
  • Assembly line oeprations
A small metal shop operates 10 hours each day, producing 100 parts/hour. If productivity were increased 20, how many hours would the plant have to produce 1000 parts?
  • Multidomestic strategy
  • Decreases input 15
  • Contract manufacturing
  • Between 8 and 9 hours
Which of the following is the best example of a pure service
  • Crew Scheduling
  • All of the above
  • Counseling
  • Decreases input 15
Which of the following statements regarding time-cost tradeoffs in CPM networks is false?
  • Crashing shortens the project duration by assigning more resources to one or more of the critical tasks.
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
  • Mass customization
  • A firm produces its product with less raw material waste than its compeitotrs do.
Reasons to study operations management include learning about:
  • Decreases input 15
  • All of the above are true:
  • Work breakdown structure
  • All of the above
Porter's Five Forces Model is used to evaluate competition based on which 5 aspects?
  • Assembly line oeprations
  • Made progress in providing equal protection of intellectual property among nations.
  • Immediate rivals, potential entrants, customers, suppliers, and substitute products.
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
Which of the following is NOT a limitation of PERT?
  • On a specific project, there can be multiple critical paths, all with exactly the same duration.
  • Only one time estimate can be used for each activity.
  • All of the above are elements of experience differenetation.
  • Proving PERT probability calculations.
Which of the following statements concerning CPM activities is false?
  • All of the above are elements of experience differenetation.
  • A firm produces its product with less raw material waste than its compeitotrs do.
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
  • The late finish of an activity is the earliest late start of the preceding activities.
Which of the following are among the 10 strategic operations management decisions?
  • Crew Scheduling
  • Marketing, production/operations, and finance/accounting
  • A firm produces its product with less raw material waste than its compeitotrs do.
  • D
An SWOT analysis determines:
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
  • Functional strategies are shaped by corporate strategy.
  • Internal strengths and weaknesses and external oppurtunities and threats.
  • Potential creation of future competition.
Which of the following are the primary functions of all organizations?
  • A firm produces its product with less raw material waste than its compeitotrs do.
  • Functional strategies are shaped by corporate strategy.
  • Marketing, production/operations, and finance/accounting
  • A firm's products are introduced into the market faster than its competitors do.
Henry Ford is noted for his contributions to:
  • All of the above are true:
  • Labor, capital,, and management
  • Free trade zones in Mexico
  • Assembly line oeprations
Which of the following is an example of competing on quick response?
  • Proving PERT probability calculations.
  • The late finish of an activity is the earliest late start of the preceding activities.
  • A firm's products are introduced into the market faster than its competitors do.
  • Marketing, production/operations, and finance/accounting
Three commonly used productivity variables are:
  • Proving PERT probability calculations.
  • Free trade zones in Mexico
  • All of the above are true:
  • Labor, capital,, and management
A foundry produces circular utility access hatches (Manhole covers). Currently, 12-......
  • Crew Scheduling
  • Global warming
  • All of the Above
  • 14.4. covers/hr
The difference between AON and AOA network is that:
  • All of the above
  • All of the above are true:
  • All of the above are elements of experience differenetation.
  • Free trade zones in Mexico
Which of the following is NOT one of the 10 strategic operations management decisions?
  • Mass customization
  • Decreases input 15
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
  • Global warming
Which of the following environment factors has not contributed to Microsoft's changing strategy?
  • All of the above
  • Mass customization
  • Global warming
  • Counseling
Which of the international operations strategies uses the existing domestic model globally?
  • All of the above
  • Multidomestic strategy
  • Pursuing stockholder approval ratings
  • Crew Scheduling
The phases of project management are:
  • PERT employs three time estimates for each activity
  • Planning, scheduling, and controlling.
  • Pursuing stockholder approval ratings
  • Free trade zones in Mexico
The time an activity will take assuming very unfavorable condition is:
  • Decreases input 15
  • Mass customization
  • The pessimistic time.
  • Multidomestic strategy
Which of the following did the authors NOT suggest as a reason for globalizing operations?
  • Pursuing stockholder approval ratings
  • Proving PERT probability calculations.
  • Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
  • Multidomestic strategy
Which of the following statements regarding critical paths is true?
  • The late finish of an activity is the earliest late start of the preceding activities.
  • A firm's products are introduced into the market faster than its competitors do.
  • Only one time estimate can be used for each activity.
  • On a specific project, there can be multiple critical paths, all with exactly the same duration.
The term maquiladora is most synonymous with
  • All of the above are true:
  • Labor, capital,, and management
  • Free trade zones in Mexico
  • The pessimistic time.
Which of the following is NOT performed by Microsoft Project?
  • All of the above are elements of experience differenetation.
  • Pursuing stockholder approval ratings
  • A firm's products are introduced into the market faster than its competitors do.
  • Proving PERT probability calculations.
Which of the following best describes experience differentiation?
  • A firm's products are introduced into the market faster than its competitors do.
  • Only one time estimate can be used for each activity.
  • Marketing, production/operations, and finance/accounting
  • All of the above are elements of experience differenetation.
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