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QUESTION 1 Jersey Warehouse packs and ships customer orders for three large on-line retailers. Jersey Warehouse normal operates continuously, but is planning to shut down next week to replace its computer servers. This highly sensitive project consists of four tasks, described in the table below: Task Description Immediate Predecessors Optimistic Time (O) Most Likely Time (M) Pessimistic Time (P) none 1 hour 2 hours 3 hours Shut down warehouse system and remove old servers from server room 1 hour 2 hours 9 hours Install new computer servers in server room Reconfigure warehouse terminals 2 hours 4 hours 6 hours none Band C B and C Reboot warehouse system and run diagnostics 2 hours 6 hours 16 hours What is the expected completion time of this project? a. 11 hours b. 12 hours c. 9 hours d. 8 hours O e. 10 hours QUESTION 2 A clothing manufacturer produces clothing in 5 locations in the North America. In a move to vertical integration, the company is planning a new fabric production plant which will supply fabric to all 5 clothing plants. The clothing plants have been located on a coordinate system as follows: Clothing Plant Coordinates (XY). 4,5 6.1 Suppose shipments of fabric to each plant per week were the following: plant A 200 units: plant B 400 units; plant C 300 units; plant D 400 units; plant E 100 units. Which of the following is the closest to the optimal location for the fabric plant? OOOOO a. 3.1, 4.3 5.5, 3.1 C. 4.3, 7.7 d. 7.7, 4.3 e. 3.1, 5.5 QUESTION 3 Speedy Aircraft Maintenance is a regional provider of aircraft repair services. Speedy Aircraft is preparing to replace all its business computers, working from a budget of $1,000,000 to be spent over the next four years. Four suppliers have been identified that could bid on this replacement project: Quick Fix, a local computer sales firm and their largest customer spends around $200,000 a year with them. Dellta, a multinational computer manufacturer favored by governments and large retail chains, with their largest customers spending around $20,000,000-$50.000.000 with them annually. Kiata, a multinational computer firm currently breaking into the US market, and their largest current customer worldwide provides about $5.000.000 a year in sales revenue. Electronics Express, a consumer electronics firm whose sales include computers, although their most successful product lines are smart phones, smart watches, and related personal devices. While individual retail stores, the typical customers of Electronics Express, spent an average of $500,000 each last year, only an average of about $1,700 of that was computers. Speedy Aircraft Maintenance believes the Supplier Preferencing model would be helpful in this situations, the underlying framework of which looks like this: SUPPLIER PREFERENCING MATRIX Low Value of Business High According to the Supplier Preferencing model, which of these four suppliers is most likely to consider Speedy Aircraft Maintenance to be a "Nuisance", meaning this supplier is least likely to even answer an invitation to bid on Speedy Aircraft Maintenance's replacement project? a. Kiata b. Dellta c. all these suppliers are equally likely to bid d. Electronics Express e. Quick Fix QUESTION 4 There are four activities on the critical path, and these activities have standard deviations of 1, 2, 4, and 2 days, respectively. The standard deviation of this critical path is then: a. 3 days b. 5 days C. 16 days d. 25 days e. 9 days QUESTION 5 A manufacturing firm is choosing a new location based on six factors. It considers all these factors to be equally important. What weights should it assign each factor in a factor rating analysis? a. 0.5000 b. 0.3333 C. 0.2000 d. 0.4000 e. 0.1667 QUESTION 6 PowerBright must decide between two locations on which to build a new power station to provide 60 megawatt hours of electricity a month. Location A would have a variable cost of $1,000 per megawatt hour and Location B would have a variable cost of $1,500 per megawatt hour. A power station at Location A would also require a fixed cost of $70.000 a month, although an estimate of the monthly fixed cost at Location B has not been made available yet, due to ongoing negotiations with a land owner there. At what fixed cost for Location B would PowerBright be indifferent to the choice of either of these two locations? a. $70,000 b. $20,000 c. $40,000 d. $10,000 e. $50,000