Business Industry

Business Industry

103 questions · IT Passport · 51–103

Practice

Which of the following goal can be expected to be achieved by the introduction of Just In Time?

Which of the following is the system that is used to record sales information when a sales transaction was made at the store, and also to collect, accumulate, and analyze sales information for each item sold?

In order to reduce the number of in-process or in-stock items between processes, production is carried out in each process according to the requests from the subsequent process and only the required number of the required items are supplied at the required time to the subsequent process. Which of the following performs this type of production?

Which of the following is supported by a CAD system?

When the processes from product development to shipment are divided into development, production planning, production, and shipment, which of the following is an appropriate process that can result in labor saving and improved efficiency by the introduction of the Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)?

Which of the following is the most appropriate as a use case of IoT?

Which of the following is a method for analyzing the behavior of a visitor to a Web site based on information such as the number of accesses and the browsing history within the Web site?

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of sales strategy that is based on long tail?

When the planned production quantity of Product A and the total required quantity and the inventory quantity of Component B are as shown in the table below, what is the minimum order placement quantity I of Component B required in Week 2?

[Conditions]•The lead time (the period from the start of work until the completion of work) for Product A is ignored.•Two (2) of Component B are required for the production of one (1) of Product A, and Component B is only used for the production of Product A.•An order for Component B is placed after the end of production each week, and it is delivered before the start of production in the next week.•The safety stock for Component B is 25% of the total required quantity of Component B for the relevant week.•The inventory quantity of Component B before the start of production in Week 1 is 100.
Unit: Number of products/componentsWeek 1Week 2Week 3Planned production quantity of Product ATotal required quantity of Component BInventory quantity of Component B(After end of production)Order placement quantity of Component B atthe end of production40402080804020INote: The content of the shaded portion is not shown.

One (1) piece of Product P consists of two (2) pieces of Part Q, and Part Q consists of four (4) pieces of Part R. When there is one (1) piece of Part Q and there are three (3) pieces of Part R in the inventory, how many more pieces of Part R are needed to produce six (6) pieces of Product P?

Product X is manufactured under the conditions described below. When the yield of Component Y and Component Z is as shown in the table below, what is the required raw material input amount A of Component Y in kilograms for manufacturing 300 units of Product X? Here, the yield of Product X is 100%, and all components are newly manufactured.

[Manufacturing conditions of Product X]•One (1) assembled product X consists of three (3) units of Component Y and one (1) unit of Component Z.•Component Y and Component Z are manufactured from respective raw material.•One (1) unit of Component Y or Component Z can be manufactured from one (1) kilogram of the raw material respectively.
ComponenttypeRaw materialinput amountYieldNumber ofcompletedcomponentsYZAkg90%600 kg50%300 unitsNote: The shaded part is not shown.

Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning SEO?

Which of the following examples of e-business sales methods is based on the concept of the long tail?

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of IoT?

Against a background of issues such as population decline and aging, attempts are being made to use ICT in order to streamline the functions and services of cities and regions and make them more advanced in order to solve regional problems, and rejuvenate regions. Which of the following is the most appropriate term or phrase to describe such a solution for community development?

Which of the following is an appropriate case example that corresponds to traceability?

Which of the following is an appropriate case example of improvement in business operations using CAD?

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of using SNS in marketing?

Which of the following is an explanation of affiliate that is one of the advertisement methods on the Internet?

Which of the following is an appropriate explanation of POS terminals (or POS cash registers) in a supermarket and other such places?

A factory is engaged in assembly production of product P that consists of components A and B. The processing of component A requires component C, and the processing period is one week. The delivery lead times of purchased components B and C are two weeks and three weeks, respectively. Product P can be assembled in one week only after components A and B are both delivered. What is the minimum number of weeks required to produce one unit of product P, including the delivery periods of the components? Here, there is no stock of any of the components.

Which of the following describes EDI?

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of a system that uses IoT?

Which of the following lists all and only the appropriate matters to be noted in utilizing AI?

AThe possibility that unintended behavior of AI causes harm to human life, body, or the likeBThe possibility that a judgment by AI contains discriminatory contentCThe possibility that a judgment by AI contains content that infringes privacy

Which of the following is the most appropriate purpose of adopting concurrent engineering?

Which of the following is the most appropriate means of achieving automation and improved efficiency by having a software robot take over routine office work such as slip input processing?

Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning listing advertisement, which is one of the techniques of Internet advertisement?

Among the risks related to commercial transactions on the Internet, which of the following is an appropriate risk that can be reduced by using an escrow service?

Among muri (overburden), mura (unevenness), and muda (waste), which are the viewpoints of business improvement in the lean production system, which of the following is the most appropriate as an example of muda?

Among the descriptions concerning the handling of data used in machine learning of AI, which of the following lists all and only the appropriate measures that can be considered for reducing bias and ensuring the quality of data?

AConfirm that the data is suitable for the purpose of training.BConfirm the source and creation history of the data.CPerform the annotation of data in line with the purpose of training.DExclude data for image recognition that is considered difficult to identify even with the human eye.

Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System), which is also used in smart factories?

Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning RPA?

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of applying blockchain?

The levels of automated driving are generally divided into “Level 1” through “Level 5.” Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning the level of automated driving indicated by “Level 3,” which is called “conditional driving automation”?

At financial institutions, for individuals and corporations that are the same customer and hold multiple accounts, work is performed to aggregate the accounts by using clues such as the name or corporate name, the date of birth or date of establishment, the telephone number, and the address or location, and to grasp accurately the total amount of deposits for each customer. Which of the following is the most appropriate term that represents the procedure of putting together the multiple accounts held by a customer in this way for each customer and managing them centrally?

Which of the following is the most appropriate work to which RPA can be applied?

Which of the following is the most appropriate term that represents a service or mechanism that mediates, via the Internet, the lending of idle assets such as residences that are owned by individuals or companies?

When introducing RPA software for the first time, Company A plans to proceed in three (3) stages: the planning phase, the pilot introduction phase, and the full-scale introduction phase. Among the following, which of the following lists all and only the appropriate tasks to be performed in the planning phase?

AA proof of concept is conducted to assess the applicability of the RPA software.BProcedure manuals for the introduction and operation are created in order to roll out the RPA software company-wide.CThe RPA software is introduced in a narrowed-down range of departments and business operations, and its effects are actually measured.

Among the following case examples, which of the following lists all and only those in which the work efficiency of business operations was improved by introducing AI?

ACompany A, a specialized food trading company, reduced the time for clerical work by automatically reading the characters written on handwritten invoices whose format differs for each business partner, and converting them into data.BCompany B, a textile manufacturing company, introduced a tool that automates the routine PC operations for ordering raw materials from business partners, and reduced the staff of the administrative department.CCompany C, a non-life insurance company, shortened the time that operators spend handling inquiries to its call center by having a voice chatbot ask about the inquiries before they are connected to an operator.DCompany D, a logistics company, reduced misdeliveries by attaching an electronic tag to each package to be delivered, writing the delivery destination to the electronic tag at the time of shipment, and checking it at the time of delivery.

Which of the following lists all and only the examples of services that are realized by a contactless IC chip built into a smartphone and an external RFID reader?

ADuring a call while moving, the base station is switched automatically so that the call is maintained.BIt is used as a commuter pass when passing through an automatic ticket gate at a station.CEven overseas, the same services as in one’s home country, such as e-mail, are used.DA QR code is read in order to obtain payment procedure information.

Which of the following lists all and only the appropriate examples of the use of natural language processing, which is one of the fields of utilization of AI?

AOn a website, when text in Japanese is entered, it is immediately translated into another language.BText information posted on SNS at the time of a disaster is collected in real time, and place names, disaster information, and so on are analyzed to grasp the damage situation.CA smart speaker is used to operate home appliances and play music by voice.DA camera installed at the entrance and exit of a parking lot photographs license plates and performs character recognition processing, and when a vehicle that has completed payment approaches the gate, the gate opens automatically.

There is a mechanism in which communication equipment built into a beverage vending machine installed in a residential area and a computer that monitors the vending machine remotely send and receive data via a network, so that inventory management is realized. Like this, which of the following is a mechanism in which machines exchange information with each other via a network, so that advanced control and operation are performed autonomously?

Company A, an assembly manufacturer that also sells its products, has decided to introduce the kanban system as a strategy for improving management efficiency, in order to reduce its parts inventory to the absolute minimum. Which of the following is the most appropriate information system that Company A links online with its inventory management system to realize this strategy?

Here, Company A also manages its parts inventory with the inventory management system. In addition, it is assumed that currently no other system is linked with the inventory management system.

Which of the following is the most appropriate term to express a mechanism that expands business through means such as mutually using data and software via published interfaces that link the systems of various companies, and creating new services while promoting collaboration with those companies?

To produce one (1) unit of product A, two (2) units of part a and one (1) unit of part b are required. Part a is a purchased part with an order quantity of 150 units per order and a procurement period of 1 week, and part b is a purchased part with an order quantity of 100 units per order and a procurement period of 2 weeks. When the 6-week production plan for product A and the on-hand inventory quantities of part a and part b in week 1 are as shown in the table, in which week at the latest do the parts need to be ordered? Here, the ordering and delivery of parts are each performed at the beginning of a week, and delivered parts can be used for production immediately.

Week123456Production quantity of product A04040404040080808080802500150PartaRequired quantityOn-hand inventory quantityOrder quantityPartbRequired quantityOn-hand inventory quantityOrder quantityNote: The shaded parts are not shown.

Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning the initiatives that have become prominent since Industry 4.0?

Which of the following makes it possible to provide various information to the driver in real time by linking sensors and display devices mounted on a moving body such as an automobile with communication systems and information systems?

Which of the following is the most appropriate characteristic of RPA (Robotic Process Automation)?

Which of the following is the most appropriate example of FinTech?

Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning crypto assets?

Which of the following realizes a distributed ledger that is used as a fundamental technology of crypto assets, in which multiple computers hold data with the same content and each computer verifies and ensures the validity of the data, so that it becomes difficult to tamper with the data without inconsistency?

Company A, which runs a nationwide chain of convenience stores, has accumulated at its head office detailed sales data of each store over the past 10 years. The company wants to build a system that analyzes the relationship between this sales data, weather data for the past 10 years, and information on events in the neighborhood of each store, grasps the correlation between weather conditions, event information, and the sales volume of products, and forecasts the sales of each store with higher accuracy from weather forecasts up to one week ahead and event information. Which of the following is the most appropriate technology to be used in this case?

Which of the following is a mechanism that unifies the formats of business transaction information and the communication procedures between companies, and exchanges information electronically?