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  • Question
  • A dummy activity becomes a critical activity when its earliest start time (EST) is same as its latest finishing time (LFT).


  • Options
  • A. Correct
  • B. Incorrect

  • Correct Answer
  • Correct 


  • Industrial Engineering and Production Management problems


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    • 1. Time study is carried out to determine the time required to complete job by

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    • A. a slow worker
    • B. a fast worker
    • C. an average worker
    • D. an apprentice
    • Discuss
    • 2. In manufacturing management, the term 'Dispatching' is used to describe

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    • A. dispatch of sales order
    • B. dispatch of factory mail
    • C. dispatch of finished product of the user
    • D. dispatch of work orders through shop floor
    • Discuss
    • 3. Earliest finish time can be regarded as

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    • A. earliest start time + duration of activity
    • B. earliest start time - duration of activity
    • C. latest finish time + duration of activity
    • D. latest finish time - duration of activity
    • Discuss
    • 4. Slack may be positive, zero or negative.

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    • A. Agree
    • B. Disagree
    • Discuss
    • 5. In jobbing production

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    • A. highly skilled workers are needed
    • B. unit costs are high
    • C. operations are labour-intensive
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. In process layout

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    • A. handling and back-tracking of materials is too much
    • B. production control is more difficult and costly
    • C. routing and scheduling is more difficult
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 7. The most important function of inventory control is

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    • A. stock control system
    • B. to run the stores effectively
    • C. technical responsibility for the state of materials
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. A feasible solution to the linear programming problem should

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    • A. satisfy the problem constraints
    • B. optimise the objective function
    • C. satisfy the problem constraints and non-negativity restrictions
    • D. satisfy the non-negativity restrictions
    • Discuss
    • 9. Generally PERT is preferred over CPM for the purpose of project evaluation.

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    • A. Yes
    • B. No
    • Discuss
    • 10. Service time in queuing theory is usually assumed to follow

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    • A. normal distribution
    • B. Poissons distribution
    • C. Erlang distribution
    • D. exponential law
    • Discuss


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