APICS CPIM-MPR Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM-MPR Online Questions & Answers

• Question 501:

  Because of its labor contracts, a company must hire enough labor for 100 units of production per week on one shift or 200 units per week on two shifts, it cannot hire, layoff, or assign overtime. During the fourth week, workers will be available from another department to work part or all of an extra shift (up to 100 units). There is a planned shutdown for maintenance in the second week, which will cut production to half. Develop a production plan. The opening inventory is 200 units, and the desired ending inventory is 300 units.

  

  If the opening backlog is 500 units, forecast demand is 700 units. And production is 800 units, what will be the ending backlog?

  A. 400 units
  B. 500 units
  C. 600 units
  D. All of these
  A. 400 units

• Question 502:

  Utilization can be determined from:

  A. Historical records
  B. Work sampling study
  C. Efficiency
  D. Both A And B
  D. Both A And B

• Question 503:

  When a job might be expanded to include a sequence of activities instead of only one activity, this is called

  A. Horizontal enlargement
  B. Vertical enlargement
  C. Parallel expansion
  D. Correspondence expansion
  A. Horizontal enlargement

• Question 504:

  Which of the following would be manufactured in a continuous-production process?

  A. combines
  B. clothing
  C. vitamins
  D. gasoline
  D. gasoline

• Question 505:

  Which one of the following tools that cannot be used to evaluate feasibility of a strategy?

  A. Cash flow analysis and forecasting
  B. Break-Even analysis
  C. Resource deployment analysis
  D. None of these
  D. None of these

• Question 506:

  The process of placing the exploded requirements in their proper periods based on lead time is called

  A. Offsetting
  B. Exploding the equipments
  C. Production plan
  D. Where-used reports
  A. Offsetting

• Question 507:

  Intermittent process layout is sometimes called product layout because the system is set up for a limited range of similar products.

  A. True
  B. False
  B. False

• Question 508:

  What serves as a means of identifying the product in a way not possible from its outward appearance?

  A. Package
  B. Boundary
  C. Frontier
  D. Container
  A. Package

• Question 509:

  Which tactic would successfully reduce cycle stock?

  A. Increase annual usage of an item
  B. Reduce ordering costs
  C. Reduce carrying costs
  D. Increase setup costs
  B. Reduce ordering costs

• Question 510:

  A manufacturer's decision to extend the degree of forward integration should be influenced by its desire to do which of the following?

  

  A. I only
  B. III only
  C. I and II only
  D. I, II, and III
  C. I and II only

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