Quiz Facts 6/ Business - Decision Science

Describe each component of the URL http://www.csub.edu/~hbidgoli/books.html

The following are brief explanations of each part of the URL:

http—Stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the protocol used for accessing most Web sites.

www.csub.edu—The www stands for WWW, World Wide Web, or the Web. The csub stands for California State University at Bakersfield. And the .edu is the suffix for educational institutions. Together, csub.edu uniquely identifies this Web site.

/~hbidgoli—This part is the name of the directory in which files pertaining to the books the author has written are stored. A server can be divided into directories for better organization.

books.html—This part is the document itself. The .html extension means it is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document. Servers that do not support long extensions display just .htm; other servers display .html.

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Expressing profits through the relationship among unit price, fixed costs, and variable costs is an example of

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Location decisions of goods-producing companies often assume that costs are relatively constant for a given area; therefore, the revenue function is critical

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Describe four techniques used in a genetic algorithm (GA) system

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SAP's NetWeaver platform is a collection of modules. Which module gives users complete access to all their work on a single screen, using links to connect users to all the major applications needed to perform their jobs?

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Which of the following sets of priorities is not the same as {P1=5, P2=2, and P3=2}?

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Latest start time (LS) is the latest time by which a specific activity must be

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Many B2B transactions take place over ____ networks.

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The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model is not well suited for understanding the complexities of the electronics and consumer goods industries.

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One way of encouraging project team development is to talk about the importance of self-development at project team meetings

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Scheduling hourly work times using the "first-hour principle" ensures that no excess labor will be used during the work shift.

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Organization ________ refers to a system of shared norms, beliefs, values, and assumptions which bind people together, thereby creating shared meanings.

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Pareto Analysis is an inventory model used to determine the optimal order size that minimizes total annual inventory costs

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A mathematical model of a business problem allows a manager to evaluate both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the problem.

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In ____, project team members can inform the project manager and the functional manager

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A company can produce a small lot of products the first time at a cost of $3,000. If their 65 percent learning curve allows them to reduce their costs on each lot, what is the cost of producing the 20th lot?

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As the firm grows, the process of creating and disseminating the desired culture tends to become increasingly difficult because the entrepreneur is no longer involved in the day-to-day activities of the organization

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Briefly discuss the application of import tariffs

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Describe the benefits and consequences of the project evaluation team reviewing each project against the project evaluation criteria before the committee meeting

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

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Sampling error is evident when:

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Job _____ is a technique by which individual workers learn several tasks by moving from one task to another

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Given an activity's optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic time estimates of 3, 7, and 11 days respectively, compute the expected time for this activity

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The effect of a lean system on employees can best be described as

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Utilization will always be lower than efficiency because:

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The INSTR function is used to return a portion of a character string

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The three basic production strategies for addressing the aggregate planning problem are the chase production strategy, the level production strategy, and the mixed production strategy

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When complete, the risk register presents the results of both qualitative and quantitative risk analysis as well as risk response planning

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According to Table M7-1, all of the resources are being used. If the amount of resource B were changed from 96 to 97, then the maximum possible total profit would be

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Regarding the design of a quality control system, which of the following statements is correct?

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An output of MRP is a bill of materials (BOM) file.

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Which of the following is a picture, drawing, or chart of reality?

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Key points in a project, such as when a major activity or phase should be completed, are referred to as lodestones

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In order to show all the activities of a single agent or organizational unit together, a activity diagram contains what construct?

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You are a consultant specializing in estimating the costs after the employees learn how to do a job more efficiently by repetition. Your client can produce a product the first time at a cost of $2,500. If their 65 percent learning curve allows them to reduce their costs on each product, what is the total cost of producing 400 units of the new product?

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The ____ stage of the transaction processing cycle is when you would request a correction if data editing reveals invalid data.

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The _____ of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) modelspecifies the electrical connections between computers and the transmission medium and is primarily concerned with transmitting binary data, or bits, over a communication network

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In a waiting-line problem, increasing advertising expenditures, increasing the number of promotions, or changing the price of a service is most likely to affect:

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Quiz Facts 6/ Business - Decision Science

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