7/28/25, 7:20 PM ISYE 6644 Midterm 1 Exam (Simulation) | Actual Exam Questions and Correct Answers | Simulation and Modeling for Engineering …
ISYE 6644 Midterm 1 Exam (Simulation) | Actual
Exam Questions and Correct Answers | Simulation
and Modeling for Engineering and Science |
Georgia Institute of Technology
Terms in this set (82)
What are some 1. Discrete (vs. continuous)
characteristics of 2. Stochastic (vs. deterministic)
simulation models? 3. Dynamic (vs. static)
Simulation is the imitation of a real-world process of
system over time.
What is simulation?
Simulation involves the generation of an artificial
history to draw inferences concerning the operating
characteristics of the real system that is represented.
1. Describe / analyze real or conceptual system
behavior.
What is simulation good
2. Ask "what if" questions.
for?
3. Aid in system design and optimization
4. Can simulate almost anything
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,7/28/25, 7:20 PM ISYE 6644 Midterm 1 Exam (Simulation) | Actual Exam Questions and Correct Answers | Simulation and Modeling for Engineering …
1. Will the system accomplish its goals?
2. Current system won't accomplish its goals, now
what?
What are the reasons to 3. Need incremental improvement.
simulate? 4. Create a specification or action plan
5. Solve a problem, like a bottleneck.
6. Resolve disputes
7. Sell an idea
1. Can study models too complicated for analytical /
numerical treatment
2. Study detailed relations that might be lost in the
analytical or numerical treatment
What are the advantages 3. Use as a basis for experimental studies of systems
of simulation? 4. Use to check results and give credibility to
conclusions obtained by other methods.
5. Reduce design blunders
6. Really nice demo method
7. (sometimes) very easy
1. Sometimes not so easy
2. Sometimes very time consuming / costly
What are the
3. Simulations give "random" output (and lots of
disadvantages of
misinterpretation of results is possible)
simulation?
4. To do a certain problem, better methods than
simulation may exist
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, 7/28/25, 7:20 PM ISYE 6644 Midterm 1 Exam (Simulation) | Actual Exam Questions and Correct Answers | Simulation and Modeling for Engineering …
We are interested in (a) (because events such as arrivals and service
modeling the arrival and completions only happen once in a while, as opposed
service process at the to continuously); and (c) (because customer arrival
local McBurger Queen times, service times, shift changes, etc., are all
burger joint. Customers random).
come in every once in a
while, stand in line,
eventually get served, and
off they go. Generally
speaking, what kind of
model are we talking
about here? (More than
one answer below may be
right.)
A) Discrete
B) Continuous
C) Stochastic
D) Deterministic
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ISYE 6644 Midterm 1 Exam (Simulation) | Actual
Exam Questions and Correct Answers | Simulation
and Modeling for Engineering and Science |
Georgia Institute of Technology
Terms in this set (82)
What are some 1. Discrete (vs. continuous)
characteristics of 2. Stochastic (vs. deterministic)
simulation models? 3. Dynamic (vs. static)
Simulation is the imitation of a real-world process of
system over time.
What is simulation?
Simulation involves the generation of an artificial
history to draw inferences concerning the operating
characteristics of the real system that is represented.
1. Describe / analyze real or conceptual system
behavior.
What is simulation good
2. Ask "what if" questions.
for?
3. Aid in system design and optimization
4. Can simulate almost anything
1/20
,7/28/25, 7:20 PM ISYE 6644 Midterm 1 Exam (Simulation) | Actual Exam Questions and Correct Answers | Simulation and Modeling for Engineering …
1. Will the system accomplish its goals?
2. Current system won't accomplish its goals, now
what?
What are the reasons to 3. Need incremental improvement.
simulate? 4. Create a specification or action plan
5. Solve a problem, like a bottleneck.
6. Resolve disputes
7. Sell an idea
1. Can study models too complicated for analytical /
numerical treatment
2. Study detailed relations that might be lost in the
analytical or numerical treatment
What are the advantages 3. Use as a basis for experimental studies of systems
of simulation? 4. Use to check results and give credibility to
conclusions obtained by other methods.
5. Reduce design blunders
6. Really nice demo method
7. (sometimes) very easy
1. Sometimes not so easy
2. Sometimes very time consuming / costly
What are the
3. Simulations give "random" output (and lots of
disadvantages of
misinterpretation of results is possible)
simulation?
4. To do a certain problem, better methods than
simulation may exist
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, 7/28/25, 7:20 PM ISYE 6644 Midterm 1 Exam (Simulation) | Actual Exam Questions and Correct Answers | Simulation and Modeling for Engineering …
We are interested in (a) (because events such as arrivals and service
modeling the arrival and completions only happen once in a while, as opposed
service process at the to continuously); and (c) (because customer arrival
local McBurger Queen times, service times, shift changes, etc., are all
burger joint. Customers random).
come in every once in a
while, stand in line,
eventually get served, and
off they go. Generally
speaking, what kind of
model are we talking
about here? (More than
one answer below may be
right.)
A) Discrete
B) Continuous
C) Stochastic
D) Deterministic
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