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COB 300 Operations TopHat Raktim Pal Questions and Answers 100% Pass Among the following, which one is the latest? - Mass Customization Managing the supply chain has become more important as a result of firms increasing their levels of: - Outsourcing Which of the following is NOT a reason for...

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COB 300 Operations TopHat
Raktim Pal Questions and Answers
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Among the following, which one is the latest? - ✔✔Mass Customization


Managing the supply chain has become more important as a result of firms increasing their levels of: -

✔✔Outsourcing


Which of the following is NOT a reason for poor performance of our organization in the marketplace? -

✔✔Taking advantage of strengths/opportunities and recognizing competitive threats


Which of the following is least likely (relative to the other choices) to affect the cost an organization incurs

in producing its products or services? - ✔✔Price


Which of these factors would be least likely to affect productivity? - ✔✔Advertising


Which of the following is true? - ✔✔Functional strategies are shaped by organizational strategy.


Years ago in the overnight delivery business, providing package-tracking capability gave some firms a

competitive advantage. Now, all firms must offer this capability simply to be in this line of business. This

is an example of ________ becoming _________ over time. - ✔✔Order Winners; Order Qualifiers




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ABC Corporation has a plant in Baltimore area that uses 200 tons of raw materials, 300 hours of labor,

and 500 units of electricity to make 50 tons of a particular type of chemical per week. Annual overhead

cost is $26,000. The cost of labor is $20 per hour and the cost of electricity is $2 per unit. It costs $30 to buy

1 ton of raw materials. Assume 52 weeks in a year. Based on the given information, find the following.

The multifactor productivity (tons of chemical produced per dollar spent) of this company on a weekly

basis is: - ✔✔0.0037


XYZ Corporation likes to increase its productivity by 20% by reducing amounts of inputs used in its

finished good. Amount of inputs used should be reduced by: - ✔✔None of the above (not 10, 15, 20, or

25%)


A clinic in Harrisonburg is open from 8 AM to 5 PM (no break) and sees approximately 10 patients in

each hour. Due to increasing demand, the clinic decided to take more appointments and would see

approximately 16 patients per hour during 8 AM - 10 AM and 4 PM - 5 PM. The total number of patients

served per day would increase by: - ✔✔20%


The main focus of concurrent approach is to - ✔✔Reduce the time required to complete all design

functions


A machine is made of three key components: A, B, and C. Reliabilities of A, B, and C are 0.96, 0.95, and

0.98 respectively. There is an additional component, B", which has a reliability of 0.9 and works as a

backup unit for component B. What is the overall reliability of the machine? - ✔✔93.61%


In which variant of the generic product development process are the cleaning products? - ✔✔Process-

intensive products


The main focus of quality function deployment (QFD) is: - ✔✔To get the voice of the customer into the

design of a product



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Consider a business that can be run using either a make-to-stock or a make-to-order process. The

manufacturing lead-time is quite short. The approximate demand is 10,000 per month and it is spread out

evenly throughout the month. The processing capacity is 15,000 per month. Based on information, which

one would you choose? - ✔✔Make-to-order


A financial institution's back office processes credit applications. Each application goes through four

stages (in a sequence) as shown in the figure below. One person works at each stage and the time that

person takes (at each stage) to process one application is shown in the figure. If the office needs to start

working on a new application every five minutes on an average, which of the following stage(s) will be

blocking? - ✔✔Stage 3 (the one not allowing the previous one to move on when finished)


A financial institution's back office processes credit applications. Each application goes through four

stages (in a sequence) as shown in the figure below. One person works at each stage and the time that

person takes (at each stage) to process one application is shown in the figure. What is the maximum

number of applications that can be processed in an eight-hour shift? - ✔✔80 (# of times the bottleneck

stage can be completed in 8 hours)


A financial institution's back office processes credit applications. Each application goes through four

stages (in a sequence) as shown in the figure below. One person works at each stage and the time that

person takes (at each stage) to process one application is shown in the figure. Now the office has decided

to put TWO (2) persons (each with equal capacity as before) instead of ONE at stage 3. If the office needs

to start working on a new application every five minutes on an average, how many work-in-progress

applications are expected to be accumulated in front of Stage 3 after 5 hours of work (if 2 persons work at

Stage 3)? - ✔✔None (zero)


Currently, a retailer receives a particular item once every 30 days from its supplier. Each item costs $12

and in each year approximately 21,600 items are sold. The retailer tries to keep few extra items as safety



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