Operation Research - Quiz 1

The act of obtaining the best results under any given circumstances is known as ____________.

• Promising  

• Optimizing  

• Guarantying

• None of these

The main purpose of O.R is to do preparative calculations that helps the ____________.

• Planning process

• Controlling process

• Decision-making process

• Directing process

The main goal of all ____________ is to maximize the benefits and to minimize labour and time.

• Planning

• Decisions

• Controlling

• Centralization

The main objective of O.R is to provide a ____________ to the decision maker.

• Scientific basis                

• Ground

• Platform

• Base

A government can use O.R for framing future ____________ and ____________.

• Social, Economic policies 

• Planning, Controlling

• Directing, Co-ordination

• Controlling, Co-ordination

The three phases of O.R. are judgment phase, ______________ and action phase.

• Thinking phase

• Pre-action phase

• Research phase

• Communicating phase

____________ Models are also called symbolic, allocation, sequencing and replacement model.

• Iconic

• Analogue

• Mathematical

• Queuing

____________ has several objective functions, each having a target value.

• Linear programming.

• Inventory model.

• Queuing model

• Goal programming

_____________ Acts as an indicator for the achievement of the optimal solution.

• Decision variables

• Objective function

• Constraint function

• None of these

___________ is a Mathematical representation of the problem by lines and nodes.

• Line analysis

• Function analysis.

• Nodes analysis

• Network analysis