Capsim Exam|114 Complete Questions
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Product Manager - -Responsible for one of the five sensors in your starting
product line
-Segment Manager - -Responsible for one of the five market segments
-Functional Manager - -Responsible for R&D, Marketing, Production or
Finance
-Competitive Intelligence Officer - -Responsible for Predicting the behaivor
of one or more of yoru competitors
-What are the 4 roles of the team? - -Product Manager, Segment Manager,
Functinoal Manager, Competitive Intelligence Officer
-What is the Industry Conditions Report - -OUtlines the business
environment including customer buying criteria
-Where is the Industry Conditions Report Located - -available from
simulation dashboard.
-Rehearsal Tools - -Tutorial that demonstrates how to invent and revise
products, make marketing decisions, schedule production and buy/sell
equipment and ensure the company has the financial resources it needs for
the upcoming year.
-Capstone Courier - -The industry newsletter, which is an extensive year-
end report of the sensor industry. This report includes: Customers Buying
Patterns, Product Positioning, and Public Financial Records. This is where
your team will evaluate their company's performance or analyze their
competitors (i.e. other companies within the sensor industry).
-If you want to evaluate your company's performance or analyze
compatitors, where do you start? - -Capstone Courier
-When opening the Excel Version of Capstone, YOu should do what to
Macros? - -Enable
-If there are two identical products, one that has 100% accessibility and one
that has 0% accesibility - -The product with 100% accesibiloity will outsell
the other 2 to 1 providing all other attributes are identical.
, -How many products does every team start with? - -Five Products
-What are the five segments - -traditional, low, high, size, performance
-A segment manager's task is to - -verify the products entering and leaving
a segment, the margin potential for those products, capacity level and the
distribution system as compared to competitors
-What is the difference between the market segments at the beginning of
the round to the final round? - -The fine cuts overlap in the beginning and in
year 8, only the rough cuts overlap.
-In order for a team to win at CapSim they need to - -have a proactive
strategy, contingency plan, open communications, strong knowledge of the
industry and have a strong understanding of the analyst report.
-After you have uploaded your decisions to the website, you can change
your official decisions as many times as you want prior to the processing
date and time of the round. - -True
-Once you upload your official decisions during a round, how many times
can you change them before the end of the round? - -As many as you want.
-What trendf can be explicitly observed in the industry in which your
company is operating? - -Products become smaller and smaller
-The economic environment for this simulation game will include - -a
favorable environment featuring modest growth, low inflation and reasonable
interest rates
-MTBF is measured in - -hour increments
-Customers that wnat low prices are willing to sacrifice miniaturization and
performance are in the - -low end segment
-Customers that want small products and are willing to sacrifice
performance are in the - -size segment
-In Capstone, pricing standards are set by - -Customers (Market Segment)
-In the rough cut buying stage, reliability is expressed in terms of - -mean
time between failure
-MTBS measures what? - -Reliabilityt
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Product Manager - -Responsible for one of the five sensors in your starting
product line
-Segment Manager - -Responsible for one of the five market segments
-Functional Manager - -Responsible for R&D, Marketing, Production or
Finance
-Competitive Intelligence Officer - -Responsible for Predicting the behaivor
of one or more of yoru competitors
-What are the 4 roles of the team? - -Product Manager, Segment Manager,
Functinoal Manager, Competitive Intelligence Officer
-What is the Industry Conditions Report - -OUtlines the business
environment including customer buying criteria
-Where is the Industry Conditions Report Located - -available from
simulation dashboard.
-Rehearsal Tools - -Tutorial that demonstrates how to invent and revise
products, make marketing decisions, schedule production and buy/sell
equipment and ensure the company has the financial resources it needs for
the upcoming year.
-Capstone Courier - -The industry newsletter, which is an extensive year-
end report of the sensor industry. This report includes: Customers Buying
Patterns, Product Positioning, and Public Financial Records. This is where
your team will evaluate their company's performance or analyze their
competitors (i.e. other companies within the sensor industry).
-If you want to evaluate your company's performance or analyze
compatitors, where do you start? - -Capstone Courier
-When opening the Excel Version of Capstone, YOu should do what to
Macros? - -Enable
-If there are two identical products, one that has 100% accessibility and one
that has 0% accesibility - -The product with 100% accesibiloity will outsell
the other 2 to 1 providing all other attributes are identical.
, -How many products does every team start with? - -Five Products
-What are the five segments - -traditional, low, high, size, performance
-A segment manager's task is to - -verify the products entering and leaving
a segment, the margin potential for those products, capacity level and the
distribution system as compared to competitors
-What is the difference between the market segments at the beginning of
the round to the final round? - -The fine cuts overlap in the beginning and in
year 8, only the rough cuts overlap.
-In order for a team to win at CapSim they need to - -have a proactive
strategy, contingency plan, open communications, strong knowledge of the
industry and have a strong understanding of the analyst report.
-After you have uploaded your decisions to the website, you can change
your official decisions as many times as you want prior to the processing
date and time of the round. - -True
-Once you upload your official decisions during a round, how many times
can you change them before the end of the round? - -As many as you want.
-What trendf can be explicitly observed in the industry in which your
company is operating? - -Products become smaller and smaller
-The economic environment for this simulation game will include - -a
favorable environment featuring modest growth, low inflation and reasonable
interest rates
-MTBF is measured in - -hour increments
-Customers that wnat low prices are willing to sacrifice miniaturization and
performance are in the - -low end segment
-Customers that want small products and are willing to sacrifice
performance are in the - -size segment
-In Capstone, pricing standards are set by - -Customers (Market Segment)
-In the rough cut buying stage, reliability is expressed in terms of - -mean
time between failure
-MTBS measures what? - -Reliabilityt
