EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following activities will enhance a successful suppliercustomer lean relationship?

Question2: When a certified supplier's delivery performance declines, a company should respond initially by:

Question3: An order that moves into a work center on schedule following completion of a previous operation will move:

Question4: A company with stable demand that uses exponential smoothing to forecast demand would typically use a:

Question5: A part is sold as a service part, and it is also used as a component in another part. Which ofthe following statements aboutthe planning for this part is true?

Question6: Which of the following observations in a manufacturing plant best illustrates the poka-yoke technique of process design?

Question7: The most appropriate production output reporting method for repetitive manufacturing is:

Question8: The cumulative available-to-promise (ATP) method is based on an assumption that available inventory in a period can becommitted to demand in that period and:

Question9: Marketing has requested a significant change in the mix for a product family. The requested change falls between thedemand and the planning time fences. The most appropriate action by the master scheduler is to:

Question10: Which of the following actions will result in lower inventory levels?

Question11: Adopting a lean approach to manage supply chain throughput rather than a more traditional approach means that:

Question12: A benefit of the ISO 9000 series of specifications is that:

Question13: Which of the following is an example of implosion in distribution requirements planning (DRP)?

Question14: In a lean environment, one uses material requirements planning (MRP) processing primarily to:

Question15: A 58 environment should be maintained for which of the following reasons?

Question16: Which of the following circumstances would cause a move from acceptance sampling to 100% inspection?

Question17: "We have observed the inventory system does not handle plastic parts well." Whatshould be added to the problemstatement to make it more useful?

Question18: Fishbone diagrams would help a service organization determine:

Question19: A customer requests an order of 100 units in Period 1. The master schedule for the item indicates an available-to-promise (ATP) of 85 units for Period 1. Which of the following approaches is the most appropriate course of action?

Question20: Which of the following stock location systems would you use in a repetitive manufacturing, lean environment?

Question21: A focused differentiation strategy is best chosen with:

Question22: Which of the following factors may be used to calculate available capacity?

Question23: One way to mitigate liability risk in the supply chain is to:

Question24: Which of the following conditions is required for an effective single-sourcing relationship?

Question25: The most relevant measure of customer service performance is:

Question26: The master production schedule (MPS) and final assembly schedule (FAS) are most closely linked in which production strategy?

Question27: A manufacturer wishes to decrease the time-to-market for a new product family. Which of thefollowing strategies should beused?

Question28: A company has prioritized customers A, B, and C, filling orders in that sequence. What are the impacts to customer servicelevels for customers B and C?

Question29: Ergonomic workstation design should incorporate:

Question30: Components of an organization's immediate industry and competitive environment include:

Question31: An organization has seen inventory increase every month for the past year and financial performance has net met expectations. Which of the following processes would mostappropriately address correctingthe problem?

Question32: An advantage of activity-based costing (ABC) is:

Question33: Which of the following activities represents waste in a system?

Question34: Which of the following trade-offs should be evaluated when determining where to place inventory in a multi-echelon supplychain network?

Question35: Which of the following tools is used to evaluate the impact that a production plan has on capacity?

Question36: A statistical safety stock calculation would be appropriate for:

Question37: An example of a cradle-to-cradle sustainability model would be:

Question38: Compared to traditional supplier relationships, a more strategic view of supplier relationships would require:

Question39: Given the information below, reducing which measure by 10% would contribute most to shortening the cash-to-cash cycletime?

Question40: Which of the following factors typically would distort a sales forecast that is based solely on shipment history?

Question41: Operations strategy:

Question42: A company's competitive business strategy is based on offering customized products or features and a rapid response tomarket shifts. The company's process technology and equipment should be characterized by which of the followingcombinations?

Question43: What is the shortest manufacturing lead time required for 10 units of Item A assuming that it must complete Operations10,20, and 30 in a work cell, and these operations require no set up time"?

Question44: Shop backlogs remain constant when:

Question45: Risk pooling would work best for items with:

Question46: Which of the following situations is most likely to occur when using a push system?

Question47: Which of the following techniques would be most appropriate to use to develop a forecast?

Question48: Which of the following strategies can improve the effectiveness of a company's customer value proposition and enhance itsdifferentiation in the market?

Question49: A process capability study would be necessary in a laboratory when:

Question50: An outlier has been identified in the demand data for an item. The most appropriate next step would be to:

Question51: A balanced scorecard is a performance measurement approach that involves:

Question52: In a make-to-stock (MTS) environment, which of the following actions would improve thetrade-off between the cost ofinventory and the level of customer service?

Question53: What priority control technique is most appropriate for a firm using a cellular production system?

Question54: A life cycle assessment (LCA) would be used to determine:

Question55: Which of the following outcomes is a benefit of mixed-model scheduling?

Question56: Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR) typically would be most effective for a:

Question57: Which of the following priority rules is most consistent with the objective of meeting due dates?

Question58: A product family consists of 46 items, each having 5 features available and 6 options available. At which level of the bill ofmaterial (BOM) would it be most appropriate to forecast?

Question59: What is the purpose of a buffer in the theory of constraints (TOC)?

Question60: The benefits of standardized work include:

Question61: Which of the following environments would benefit most from full pegging?

Question62: In which of the following environments is capable-to-promise (CTP) more appropriate than available-to-promise (ATP)?

Question63: Increased use of third-party logistics (3PL) services is likely to have which of the following effects on a firm's balance sheet?

Question64: Safety capacity in lean environments is:

Question65: An effective process to create meaningful change begins with: