BSAT 382 test 1

Marketing depends on operations for information regarding:

In addition to operations, which of the following is considered a "line" function?

Managing the supply chain has become more important as a result of firms increasing their levels of:

Technology choices seldom affect:

If one organization is better able than most to respond to changes in demands or opportunities, we say that organization exhibits higher:

Which of the following would tend to increase the importance of supply chain management?

Dealing with the fact that certain aspects of any management situation are more important than others is called:

Operations and sales are the two ________ functions in businesses.

Which of the following refers to service and production processes that use resources in ways that do not harm ecological systems

Which of the following is not a type of operations?

Which of the following is not a factor that affects productivity?

The key to successfully competing is understanding what customers want and then __________ satisfy those wants.

Which of the following factors would tend to reduce productivity?

Unique attributes of firms that give them a competitive edge are called:

Time-based approaches of business organizations focus on reducing the time to accomplish certain necessary activities. Time reductions seldom apply to:

Scheduling personnel is an example of an operations management:

Competitiveness doesn't include:

Which of the following is not a key factor of competitiveness?

Years ago in the overnight delivery business, providing package tracking capability gave some firms a competitive advantage. Now, all firms must offer this capability simply to be in this line of business. This is an example of ______________ becoming ____________ over time.

For an organization to grow its market share, it must:

Concerning PERT and CPM:

A PERT/CPM activity has an optimistic time estimate of three days, a most likely time estimate of eight days, and a pessimistic time estimate of 10 days. The expected time (in days) of this activity is:

To _____ an activity means to shorten the time it will take.

Which of the following is not characteristic of good risk management?

Which of the following is not an element of the project management triangle?

A hierarchical listing of what must be done in a project is called a:

Which of the following stages is that one in which the project's expected costs, benefits, and risks are assessed?

Once a project is underway, the project manager usually is not responsible for effectively managing:

A method used for establishing a logical framework for identifying the required activities for the project is called:

Shortening activity durations is called:

One upside to terminating a project that is not going as well as planned is that: