APICS CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM-MPR Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  Every operation producing a product or service is a series of linked processes and each process has a specific capacity to produce the given defined output for the operation, this is called:

  A. Theory of constraints
  B. Managing constraints
  C. Drum-Buffer-Rope
  D. Scheduling Bottlenecks
  A. Theory of constraints

• Question 12:

  Alter the load or the change the capacity awareness. These are the two ways of:

  A. Balancing capacity
  B. Balancing capacity required
  C. Balancing capacity available
  D. All of these
  C. Balancing capacity available

• Question 13:

  Delivery lead time is the longest in case of:

  A. Make-to-order
  B. Make to-stock
  C. Assemble-to-order
  D. None of these
  D. None of these

• Question 14:

  The objective of the MRP is to have:

  A. Material available when it is needed and not before
  B. Orders for material should not be released until the planned order release date arrived
  C. Order should not normally released until the planned order is in the current week
  D. All of the above
  D. All of the above

• Question 15:

  It should be recognized that order winners and qualifiers for any product market combination are not static. not only will customers change perspectives as competitors jokey for position but the order winners and qualifiers will often change based on the concepts of:

  A. Product life cycle
  B. Economic changes
  C. Government regulation
  D. Market needs
  A. Product life cycle

• Question 16:

  Projected available balance is calculated in which one of the following ways?

  A. PAB=prior period PAB or on-hand balance + MPS ?customer orders
  B. PAB=prior period PAB + MPS ?greater of customer orders or forecast
  C. Both of these depending on whether the period is before or after the period is before or after the demand time fence
  D. None of these
  C. Both of these depending on whether the period is before or after the period is before or after the demand time fence

• Question 17:

  Which of the following points are related to bills of material?

  A. The bill of material shows all the parts required to make one of the items
  B. Each part or item has only one part number
  C. A part is defined by its form, fit or function. if any of these changes , then it is not the same part and it must have a different part number
  D. All of the above
  D. All of the above

• Question 18:

  Each distribution center first determines what it needs and when, and then places orders in central supply, in:

  A. Decentralized system
  B. Competency system
  C. Advancements system
  D. Demand ordering system
  A. Decentralized system

• Question 19:

  If the cost of manufacturing (direct material and direct labor) is 60% of sales and profit is 10% of sales ,what would be the improvement in profit if, through better planning and control, the cost of manufacturing was reduced from 60%of sales to 50%of sales?

  A. 100%
  B. 70%
  C. 50%
  D. 10%
  A. 100%

• Question 20:

  A tracking signal can be used to monitor the quality of forecast.

  A. True
  B. False
  A. True