Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) Free Practice Test

Question 1

The level of detail in strategic business plan is:

A. Both of these

B. None of these

C. Concerned with general market and production requirements

D. Not so high

Correct Answer: A

Question 2

What the following figure shows:

A. None of the above

B. Quantity and parts relationship

C. The parent -component relationship

D. Identification of the parts

Correct Answer: C

Question 3

A load made up of a number of items or bulky material, arranged or constrained so the mass can be picked up or moved as a single unit too large for manual handling in called:

A. Unit load

B. Package load

C. Pallet load

D. Contemporary load

Correct Answer: A

Question 4

Considering the above question how much would sales have to increase in profits?

A. 10%

B. 50%

C. 20%

D. 25%

Correct Answer: D

Question 5

Which of the following statements is true about obtaining a high level of accuracy for inventory records?

A. It is not necessary to achieve because of safety stocks and safety lead time.

B. It would result in savings that are likely to be small and difficult to determine.

C. It would usually lead to a reduction of inventory levels.

D. It is probably impossible to achieve and will be costly to obtain.

Correct Answer: C

Question 6

If demand shifts between models, the assembly line can respond daily, this is called:

A. miscellaneous scheduling

B. variable-model scheduling

C. mixed-model scheduling

D. Shifting scheduling

Correct Answer: C

Question 7

Qualitative techniques are productions based on judgment, intuition, and informed opinions.

A. False

B. True

Correct Answer: B

Question 8

A work center has 3 machines and is operated for 8 hours a day and 5 days a week. What is the available time?

A. 90 hours per week

B. 100 hours per week

C. 120 hours per week

D. 80 hours per week

Correct Answer: C

Question 9

Capacity needs to be measured on at which of the following level?

A. Plant, which can be considered as a group of different work centers

B. Work center

C. Machine or individual worker

D. All of the above

Correct Answer: D

Question 10

Following is an example of:

A. Lead time schedule

B. Wait time schedule

C. Routing file

D. Shop calendar

Correct Answer: D

Question 11

A good MRP system generates exception messages:

A. When the manufacturing process is under control

B. Both A & C

C. When there are problems that need the attention of the planner

D. To advise the planner when some event needs attention

Correct Answer: B

Question 12

A routing file should exist for every component manufactured and contain which of the following information?

A. Standard times

B. Work centers to be used

C. All of the above

D. Tooling needed at each operation

Correct Answer: C

Question 13

On the overage a company has 12week of work-in-process (WIP) inventory and annual cost of goods sold of 36$ million. Assuming the company works 50 weeks per year.
What is the dollar value of the WIP?

A. $4, 22,000

B. $423,000

C. $4, 32,000

D. $4, 33,000

Correct Answer: C

Question 14

The costs of correcting problems after goods or services have been delivered to the customer are called internal failure costs.

A. False

B. True

Correct Answer: A

Question 15

The removal of outliers from demand data to provide a reasonable historical base from which to forecast is called:

A. regression

B. filtering

C. time series decomposition

D. smoothing

Correct Answer: B

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