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MQM 227 – Operations Management | 50 True/False Exam Questions on Services, Quality, Projects, SPC | Illinois State University

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This document presents 50 True/False exam questions with 100% verified correct answers for MQM 227 – Operations Management at Illinois State University. The questions span critical areas of service operations, project management, statistical process control (SPC), and quality management. Topics include customer contact and inefficiencies, the Service-Profit Chain, front-office vs. back-office operations, and distinctions between implicit and explicit services. Quality concepts cover poka-yoke, SERVQUAL, ISO 9000, Baldrige Award criteria, internal vs. external failure costs, and control chart interpretation. Project management coverage includes forward/backward pass logic, critical path analysis, PERT assumptions, crashing, and work breakdown structures. Students are also tested on lean vs. Six Sigma, process shifts, and the proper use of quality tools like histograms and control charts. This is an excellent revision and testing resource for students in operations management, service systems, quality engineering, and project-based operations courses. It helps reinforce conceptual clarity and prepares students for T/F-heavy exam formats. Keywords: operations management, MQM 227, true/false questions, service operations, customer contact, quality management, project management, critical path, SPC, ISO 9000, SERVQUAL, Baldrige Award, poka-yoke, control charts, Six Sigma, lean, variation, process shift, quality tools

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MQM 227 T/F Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Correct

The customer is a part of the service delivery process and may introduce

inefficiencies into the service delivery system. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True


Implicit service is also known as tangible service. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False


Service guarantees are only for consumers outside the firm, and do not

apply to internal customer relationships within a firm. - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔False


High-contact services are more likely to be front office operations and low-

contact services are more likely to be back office operations. - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔True

, A small improvement in customer loyalty can substantially improve the

profitability of a service firm. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True


Co-routed services offer a larger amount of choices to customers than do

customer-routed services. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False


According to the service profit chain, employees are more likely to be

satisfied when management works to improve internal service quality. - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔True


The major difference between the service delivery system matrix and the

product-process matrix is that service process design generally does not

vary with customer volume - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True


A forward pass is required while computing the early start and early finish

times of activities. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True


Critical path method (CPM) network scheduling assumes a second order

(non-linear) time-cost tradeoff exists. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔False


The early start and late start times are equal for an activity on the critical

path of a network. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True

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