EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Manufacturing resources planning (MRP II) was developed from material requirement planning (MRP). Which of the following is the additional input that is available in MRP II but does not ap-pear in MRP?

Question2: Ranger Mobile Ltd is a emerging smartphone manufacturer. The manufacturer adopts the just-in-time method: First, the customers make orders, then it will decide which components to be pur-chased according to the bill of materials. These components are known as which of the following?

Question3: A manager who is concerned about the environmental impact of packaging should do which of the following?

Question4: XYZ Ltd has been adopting MRP system for years. The system helps the company improve effi-ciency greatly and generates huge cost-savings. However, MRP system is only limited to produc-tion process management and XYZ management team would like to have better insights into re-sources required across the organisation as a whole. Which software system would help XYZ management team achieve the above objective?

Question5: An organisation always obtains negative cash flow regarding removal and disposal of assets. Is this statement true?

Question6: Which of the following is the Japanese word for 'billboard' or 'signboard'?

Question7: Which among the following are the tools for reducing acquisition costs in purchasing?
1. Procurement card
2. Automated Storage & Retrieval System
3. Porter's value chain
4. P2P system

Question8: Which costs in the following list are categorised as operation costs in the total cost of ownership model? Select TWO that apply.

Question9: Which of the following best describes available inventory (also known as inventory position)?

Question10: In ABC analysis, category C is also known as...?

Question11: Which of the following are the different types of inventory that a manufacturing company usually has?
1. Work in progress
2. Economic order quantity
3. Raw materials
4. Finished goods

Question12: Which of the following is another name for scheduled (routine) maintenance?

Question13: Which of the following are main objectives of warehouse operations? Select TWO that apply.

Question14: What is the stock turn for a store holding products to the value of £250,000 with annual sales of these products amounting to £1,000,000?

Question15: Objective forecasting techniques must be based on which of the following?
1. Opinions
2. Figures
3. Facts
4. Jugdement

Question16: Which of the following statements about radio frequency identification (RFID) is NOT true?

Question17: To improve the security of a warehouse, alarm systems are commonly used. Which of the following is an important part of these systems?

Question18: Which of the following allow the operators to access higher levels in warehouse facility? Select TWO that apply:

Question19: The amount of inventory available at the start of an accounting period is known as...?

Question20: A manufacturer aims at increasing the service levels to 99% from 97% through expanding the safety stock. Safety stock can be used to accommodate which of the following?
1. Variability of stock turn
2. Variability of holding costs
3. Variability of demand
4. Variability of lead time

Question21: Which of the following is a forecasting technique?

Question22: Among different types of costs associated with inventory, the costs of obtaining purchase approvals are...?

Question23: Among different types of costs associated with inventory, the opportunity cost of the investment tied up in inventory belongs to which of the following?

Question24: Which of the following is the most suitable container of fasteners (screws, nails, nuts and bolts,...)?

Question25: Practice of unloading goods from inbound delivery vehicles and loading them directly onto out-bound vehicles is known as ...?

Question26: Which of the following purchases are most likely to have low acquisition costs? Select TWO that apply.

Question27: Which of the following are the key elements of total productive maintenance?
1. Reactive maintenance
2. Quality maintenance
3. Deferred maintenance
4. Autonomous maintenance

Question28: International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique international identification system for each product form or edition of a monographic publication published or produced by a specific publisher. ISBN is an example of...?

Question29: The minimal total cost is always achieved when there is only one warehouse. Is this statement true?

Question30: Which of the following is the formula for calculating the re-order level?

Question31: A pharmaceutical firm offers a new drug called NC-01. After analysing the market, the firm realises that the demand is largely variable. But they still have to forecast the customer demand for the next production cycle. The new drug NC-01 is best described as which type of item?

Question32: To make loading/unloading more effective and efficient, which feature should be included in vehi-cle dock design?

Question33: A supermarket calculates that the average holding cost for an item is $1.50 per cubic meter per day. A beer pallet which has volume of 0.5 cubic meter will be stored for 5 days. What is the holding cost of this beer pallet?

Question34: Do all types of warehouses require access to daylight to reduce the cost of electricity?

Question35: XYZ Ltd is a major distributor of electrical equipment protection products in the United States. XYZ found that there was a lack of communication between the company and its key supplier, leading to the supplier trying to predict distributor needs and distributor attempting to estimate lead times. Essentially, both the supplier and the distributor have different sets of information, spending time and money trying to predict what the other will do. To deal with this problem, XYZ Ltd decides to implement new inventory management method in which the supplier manage the replenishment of items for sale. Both parties are obliged to share information on variations in demand and stock levels for goods used for or sale. Which inventory management method is XYZ Ltd implementing?

Question36: The purchase-order lead time is the...?

Question37: XYZ Ltd is a large retailer who offers a range of products with different margins. The warehouse manager suggests that different product groups should have different level of safety stock. The appropriate level of safety stock is typically determined by...?

Question38: A manufacturer is making a plan for strategic safety stock. To do so, they must analyse the proba-bility of a stock out occurring and the cost impacts if it does. Which of the following are typical costs the manufacturer may incur in 'out of stock' event? Select TWO that apply.

Question39: Which of the following are typical characteristics of 2D barcodes? Select TWO that apply.

Question40: Which of the following best defines 'exponential moving average'?

Question41: A major investment bank is planning to purchase a complex banking system that will interface with multiple applications at varying times of the day. Before deploying the system, there are various levels of testing that must be performed through joint testing between the in-house team and off-shore testing consultants. The testing will be performed in a resource-constrained shared environment and managed by the on-shore development team. The costs for testing are generally classified as...?

Question42: A group of items which are stacked together for more convenient movement is called...?

Question43: ANTA Logistics is looking for a place to build a new, integrated cold chain facility, "Chill Hub", to its customers. Which of the following need to be considered when selecting the location of the new facility? Select TWO that apply.

Question44: Which of the following is the material handling equipment which uses the suction force to lift an item?