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1 CORRECT Scheduling is primarily concerned with the timing of operations.

A)True

B)False

2 CORRECTJob shop schedule by priority rules is inherently deterministic in nature; the scheduler must plan as if both the orderof processing and the amount of time each job would take in each work center were known exactly.

A)True

B)False

3 INCORRECT The assignment method will solve a wide variety of problems that have to do with flow systems.

A)True

B)False

4 CORRECT The hierarchy of decisions in production operations is, in order: (1) long-term capacity planning, (2) aggregateplanning, (3) material requirements planning, (4) capacity requirements planning, (5) schedulingA)True

B)False

5 INCORRECT Johnson's rule, the assignment method, and loading and priority rules are all appropriate methods of scheduling forjob shops.A)True

B)False

6 INCORRECT Which one of the following is not an appropriate job-shop scheduling rule?

A)Due date

B)Assignment method

C)First come first served

D)Shortest processing time

E)Johnson's rule

7 CORRECT Which one of the following is an optimizing technique?

A)Shortest processing time

B)Assignment method

C)First come first served

D)Loading

E)None of these

8 INCORRECT A major disadvantage of the SPT rule is:

A)it tends to make long jobs wait.

B)it results in high in-process inventories.

C)long jobs tend to delay other jobs.

D)it does not take processing time into account.

E)none of these.

9 CORRECT Which statement is correct?

A)Vertical loading involves infinite loading.

B)Horizontal loading involves infinite loading.

C)Vertical loading involves finite loading.

D)a. and b. are correct.

E)b. and c. are correct.

10 CORRECT Finite loading, as compared to infinite loading, assumes that:

A)There are a finite number of jobs to be done.

B)Work centers can be loaded without regard to their capacity.

C)Work centers' capacity must be taken into account.

D)Work centers' capacity may be taken into account, but it's not required.

E)none of the above

11 INCORRECT In a task assignment situation, in how many different ways can five jobs be assigned to five machines?

A)1

B)5

C)25

D)120

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