APICS CPIM Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APICS CPIM Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  Electric data interchange enables customers and suppliers to electromagnetically exchange transaction information.

  A. True
  B. False
  B. False

• Question 2:

  What includes the functions of establishing specifications, selecting suppliers, price determination, and negotiation?

  A. Supplier scheduling
  B. Competitive follow-up
  C. Procurement
  D. None of the above
  C. Procurement

• Question 3:

  Which of the following are the types of sourcing?

  A. Sole, multiple, single
  B. Multiple, single
  C. Group, multiple, single
  D. Sole, Group
  A. Sole, multiple, single

• Question 4:

  What must decide the market segment to be served, the product features and quality level expected by that market, the price, and the expected sales volume?

  A. Product design
  B. Product planning
  C. Product manufacturing
  D. Product quality
  B. Product planning

• Question 5:

  An index of the relative priority of an order to other orders at a work center is referred to as:

  A. Aspect ratio
  B. Critical ratio
  C. Priority ratio
  D. Schedule ratio
  B. Critical ratio

• Question 6:

  The ranking of jobs for the dispatch list is created through the application of which of the following priority rule?

  A. First come, first served
  B. Earliest operation due date
  C. Shortest process time
  D. All of the above
  D. All of the above

• Question 7:

  Which four primary plant types are defined, and they are used to specify the flow of materials through a production process?

  A. I-plant, A-plant, B-plant, G-Plant
  B. I-plant, A-plant, V-plant, T-Plant
  C. C-plant, K-plant, B-plant, S-Plant
  D. A-plant, D-plant, B-plant, F-Plant
  B. I-plant, A-plant, V-plant, T-Plant

• Question 8:

  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 9:

  The message in which the planner must tell the MRP software of all actions taken that will influence the MRP records called

  A. Exception messages
  B. Transaction messages
  C. Bottom-up re-planning
  D. None of the above
  B. Transaction messages

• Question 10:

  The orders are automatically scheduled and controlled by the computer are the orders called:

  A. Planned orders
  B. Computer generated order
  C. Firms planned order
  D. All of the Above
  A. Planned orders