APICS CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM-MPR Online Questions & Answers

• Question 401:

  Which of the following is the most important consideration when designing an information system to control shop floor operations?

  A. Supporting differentiation between functional areas and production operations
  B. Providing staff specialists with the information needed to control production operations
  C. Allowing factory personnel to manage their own production operations
  D. Encouraging users to operate independently with a minimal amount of training
  C. Allowing factory personnel to manage their own production operations

• Question 402:

  Which of the following is the characteristic to flow manufacturing?

  A. Routings are variable
  B. work centers are dedicated to produce a limited range of similar products
  C. Materials flows from one workstation to another using some form of realistic transfer
  D. Capacity is variable by the line
  B. work centers are dedicated to produce a limited range of similar products

• Question 403:

  Transportation Distribution inventory Warehousing Packaging Material handling Order Entry These are the activities of:

  A. physical supply Distribution system
  B. Virtual supply and distribution system
  C. Distribution details
  D. None of these
  A. physical supply Distribution system

• Question 404:

  Which costs can be avoided by leveling production, that is, by producing items in slack periods for sale in peak periods?

  A. Capacity-associated control
  B. Production cost
  C. Purchase order cost
  D. Stock-out cost
  A. Capacity-associated control

• Question 405:

  A company ships barbecues fully assembled. The average line-haul cost per shipment is $12.50 per mile, and the truck carries 100 assembled barbecues. The company decides to ship the barbecues unassembled and figures it can ship barbecues in a truck. Calculate the line-haul cost per barbecue assembled and unassembled. If the average trip is 300 miles, calculate the saving per barbecue?

  A. $0.126, $0.125 and $30.00
  B. $0.127, $0.124 and $30.00
  C. $0.125, $0.125 and $30.00
  D. $0.125, $0.125 and $30.00
  A. $0.126, $0.125 and $30.00

• Question 406:

  is used to protect against timing uncertainty by planning order releases and order receipts earlier than required.

  A. Fast order release
  B. Safety lead time
  C. Direct release
  D. Lead command
  B. Safety lead time

• Question 407:

  What uses cost determined before production begins?

  A. Standard cost
  B. Cost of quality
  C. Average cost
  D. Analysis cost
  A. Standard cost

• Question 408:

  Providing a routine method for regularly updating item forecasts is known as:

  A. Regular smoothing
  B. Exponential smoothing
  C. Steady smoothing
  D. Stable trend smoothing
  B. Exponential smoothing

• Question 409:

  What is the updated forecast, utilizing exponential smoothing, given the following data? Old Forecast = 100, actual demand = 80, alpha = 0.2, tracking signal = 0.9

  A. 80
  B. 96
  C. 100
  D. 104
  B. 96

• Question 410:

  A control chart for averages and ranges tracks which critical characteristics of a frequency distribution?

  A. center and spread
  B. control and tolerance
  C. specification limit and center
  D. shape and spread
  A. center and spread