CPIM Quiz

Each month in this section, we will feature five sample questions from one of the five modules in the CPIM Certification Program. For more information on the CPIM Certification process, call Rich Hopkins at 978-282-2339.

This month's questions are taken from the Execution and Control of Operations module:

1. Standardized work practices include which two of the following?

I. Flexible flow paths
II. Common sequencing of operations
III. Alternate operations
IV. Reproducible conditions

(A) I and III
(B) I and IV
(C) II and III
(D) II and IV

2. JIT training should increase capabilities of operations supervisors to do all of the following EXCEPT:

(A) balance workload in cells
(B) plan area production
(C) maintain high equipment utilization
(D) coordinate preventive maintenance

3. Company A is implementing a JIT/TQC manufacturing approach and has decided to use the necessary statistical process control techniques. Which of the following groups should most actively use them?
(A) the line workforce
(B) the quality control department
(C) executive management
(D) the industrial engineering department

4. The use of failsafe work methods implies that a company has

(A) sophisticated, in-line inspection equipment
(B) statistical process control
(C) highly trained workers
(D) immediate detection of errors

5. Which of the following software capabilities is used so that transaction costs are minimized when Just-in-Time is implemented in an MRP environment?

(A) pegging
(B) backflushing
(C) forecasting
(D) lot sizing