WGU C720 UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔A clothing retailer sends out evaluations to customers to rate quality as
"outstanding," "good," "average," and "bad."
If the retailer wants to know the annual frequency of each evaluation category, which
tool should the retailer use? - ✔✔Histogram
✔✔An appliance manufacturer has two factories located around the world, each with its
own capacity:
• F1 can make 8 appliances per day.
• F2 can make 10 per day.
The factories can deliver to two different distribution centers. Every day each distribution
center must receive 9 appliances each.
The cost to deliver appliances from each factory to each distribution center is listed in
the table below:
Distribution Center 1 Distribution Center 2
F1 $4 $3
F2 $8 $3
Using the factory production constraints and the delivery costs in the above matrix, what
is the lowest cost to deliver all 18 appliances to the distribution centers? - ✔✔$67
✔✔A children's clothing retailer is looking to build a store in a city that happens to be
close to one of the company's distribution centers. The retailer opens a retail store on
this city's busiest street, which also has other clothing retailers and a department store.
Which two factors were influential in opening this store at this location?
Choose 2 answers - ✔✔Proximity to customers and Proximity to competitors
(clustering)
✔✔A manager is planning staffing needs for a seasonal ice cream stand. The manager
expects to have the following number of customers per day each month:
January: 20
February: 23
March: 30
April: 60
May: 90
Jun: 120
July: 130
August: 150
, September: 100
October: 80
November: 60
December: 30
Which capacity planning strategy should the manager use to achieve this customer
demand? - ✔✔Match
✔✔The original capacity in each process for a computer manufacturer's operations is as
follows:
Parts inventory: 500 units available per day
Assembly: 300 units assembled per day
Delivery: 450 units processed per day
After the computer manufacturer upgrades the assembly system, it can assemble 550
units per day.
According to this information, what is the throughput for this computer manufacturer? -
✔✔450 units/day
✔✔A rental company has a fleet of 50 cars that can be rented daily if all vehicles have
been washed and inspected and are free of mechanical and electrical defects. Due to
maintenance requirements and late returns by customers, the rental company is, in
general, able to prepare 45 cars per day for rental. On average, 30 cars are rented
daily.
What is the efficiency rate for this company? - ✔✔67%
✔✔A company makes garage door tracks for residential and commercial customers.
The production manager prefers to run all the footage for residential requirements first
each day and then change over for the commercial size after the residential orders are
completed. The tooling is changed back to the residential size before the end of
business each day.
Which process strategy is this company using? - ✔✔Batch processing with some
product variety on moderately flexible equipment
✔✔An auto service center that specializes in oil changes has two service bays that
serve, on average, a total of 24 cars per eight-hour business day. On average, each bay
can finish one oil change in 30 minutes.
What is the design capacity? - ✔✔32 oil changes
✔✔An oil refinery receives crude oil on a regular basis, which must be refined into five
different octane-rated gasoline formulas and diesel. Demand for these fuels is easy to
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔A clothing retailer sends out evaluations to customers to rate quality as
"outstanding," "good," "average," and "bad."
If the retailer wants to know the annual frequency of each evaluation category, which
tool should the retailer use? - ✔✔Histogram
✔✔An appliance manufacturer has two factories located around the world, each with its
own capacity:
• F1 can make 8 appliances per day.
• F2 can make 10 per day.
The factories can deliver to two different distribution centers. Every day each distribution
center must receive 9 appliances each.
The cost to deliver appliances from each factory to each distribution center is listed in
the table below:
Distribution Center 1 Distribution Center 2
F1 $4 $3
F2 $8 $3
Using the factory production constraints and the delivery costs in the above matrix, what
is the lowest cost to deliver all 18 appliances to the distribution centers? - ✔✔$67
✔✔A children's clothing retailer is looking to build a store in a city that happens to be
close to one of the company's distribution centers. The retailer opens a retail store on
this city's busiest street, which also has other clothing retailers and a department store.
Which two factors were influential in opening this store at this location?
Choose 2 answers - ✔✔Proximity to customers and Proximity to competitors
(clustering)
✔✔A manager is planning staffing needs for a seasonal ice cream stand. The manager
expects to have the following number of customers per day each month:
January: 20
February: 23
March: 30
April: 60
May: 90
Jun: 120
July: 130
August: 150
, September: 100
October: 80
November: 60
December: 30
Which capacity planning strategy should the manager use to achieve this customer
demand? - ✔✔Match
✔✔The original capacity in each process for a computer manufacturer's operations is as
follows:
Parts inventory: 500 units available per day
Assembly: 300 units assembled per day
Delivery: 450 units processed per day
After the computer manufacturer upgrades the assembly system, it can assemble 550
units per day.
According to this information, what is the throughput for this computer manufacturer? -
✔✔450 units/day
✔✔A rental company has a fleet of 50 cars that can be rented daily if all vehicles have
been washed and inspected and are free of mechanical and electrical defects. Due to
maintenance requirements and late returns by customers, the rental company is, in
general, able to prepare 45 cars per day for rental. On average, 30 cars are rented
daily.
What is the efficiency rate for this company? - ✔✔67%
✔✔A company makes garage door tracks for residential and commercial customers.
The production manager prefers to run all the footage for residential requirements first
each day and then change over for the commercial size after the residential orders are
completed. The tooling is changed back to the residential size before the end of
business each day.
Which process strategy is this company using? - ✔✔Batch processing with some
product variety on moderately flexible equipment
✔✔An auto service center that specializes in oil changes has two service bays that
serve, on average, a total of 24 cars per eight-hour business day. On average, each bay
can finish one oil change in 30 minutes.
What is the design capacity? - ✔✔32 oil changes
✔✔An oil refinery receives crude oil on a regular basis, which must be refined into five
different octane-rated gasoline formulas and diesel. Demand for these fuels is easy to
