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SOM 306 Sample Midterm Questions

  1. Operations management is the business function that plans, coordinates, and controls the resources needed to produce a company’s
  1. Services and information
  2. Information and financial statements
  3. Financial statements and products
  4. Products and information
  5. Products and services
  1. What is the Hawthorne effect?
  1. Workers responding to the attention they are given
  2. Stop watch time studies leading to time standards
  3. The use of quantitative methods for solving management problems
  4. The use of interchangeable parts
  5. More lighting increases productivity
  1. Which of the following is not considered one of the four broad categories of competitive priorities?
  1. Technology
  2. Cost
  3. Quality
  4. Flexibility
  5. Time
  1. Suppose that in week 1 a company produced 1000 units using 60 labor hours. For which of the following values in week 2 would labor productivity decrease?
  1. Units = 2000, hours = 120
  2. Units = 1500, hours = 95
  3. Units = 1000, hours = 58
  4. Units = 500, hours = 30
  5. Units = 2000, hours = 100
  1. The ease with which the product can be made is its
  1. Manufacturability
  2. Repeatability
  3. Readiness for manufacturing
  4. Reliability
  5. Accountability
  1. Buying a competitor’s new product and studying its design features by disassembling it and analyzing its parts and features is
  1. Reengineering
  2. Disaggregation
  3. Redesign
  4. Benchmarking
  5. Reverse engineering
  1. Birdie Par owns a company that makes golf gloves. She is thinking about introducing a new glove, which would require an additional fixed cost of $20,000 per year. The variable costs for the new glove have been estimated to be $5 per glove. If she sells the new glove for $15, how many must she sell to break even?
  1. 1,000 gloves
  2. 2,000 gloves
  3. 3,000 gloves
  4. 4,000 gloves
  5. 5,000 gloves
  1. Employees of the organization who receive goods or services from others in the company are
  1. Internal customers
  2. Ultimate customers
  3. Downstream customers
  4. Operators
  5. External customers
  1. Under TQM, if suppliers meet preset quality standards
  1. They are given a bonus
  2. They are allowed to participate in competitive bidding
  3. Their contract is renewed
  4. They are nominated for an award
  5. Their materials do not have to be inspected upon arrival
  1. To compete for the Baldridge Award, companies must
  1. Be nominated by their senator
  2. Submit a lengthy application
  3. Use e-mail regularly
  4. Use statistical process control
  5. Be a Fortune-500 company
  1. Assuming that data exhibit a normal distribution, control limits set at  3 standard deviations from the mean capture how much common variation?
  1. 50.00%
  2. 80.00%
  3. 95.44%
  4. 99.74%
  5. 99.99%
  1. What is a control chart that monitors the proportion of defects in a sample?
  1. X-bar chart
  2. R chart
  3. P-chart
  4. C-chart
  5. OC chart
  1. Six-sigma quality implies how many average defects per million?
  1. 3.4
  2. 6
  3. 2600
  4. 3
  5. 6
  1. Each day for two workweeks (10 days total), George weighs 4 bags from that day’s production. If the average of the means is 14 oz. and the average range is 0.4 oz., what is the lower control limit for an x-bar chart for this process?
  1. 13.708 oz.
  2. 13.876 oz.
  3. 14.291 oz.
  4. 12.800 oz.
  5. 13.590 oz

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