List the important documents that are required for purchasing products from foreign
suppliers. What are the essential elements of each of these documents?

 Describe the role of material management in performing various functions in an
organization?

 ABC Analysis

 Preventive maintenance

Total Quality Management (TQM)

Zero-based budgeting

Maintenance Audit and control

What are the key issues affecting the maintenance organization structure? Which factors
need consideration for evolving a best maintenance organization for an existing plant?

What is meant by reliability and explain how it is different from quality? “Availability is
a more practical and appropriate measure of equipment performance”. Discuss.

Explain the different types of maintenance strategies (corrective, preventive, predictive,
and condition-based). Compare their advantages and limitations in a manufacturing
environment.

What are the characteristics of planned maintenance? Explain the working of a planned
maintenance management system.

Qualitative research

 Cluster v/s Stratified sampling techniqu

 Regression Analysis

 Primary data v/s Secondary data

. Describe, in brief, the importance of editing, coding, classification, tabulation and
presentation of data in the context of marketing research study. Give the characteristics of a
good table.

 Collecting supermarket sales data only on Tuesdays.

 Discuss the steps of the sampling process in detail and list out the possible sources of errors
in the following procedures:
a. A researcher studies traffic patterns by observing vehicles only during morning rush
hours.
b. A teacher evaluates student performance by checking only the top-performing students’
assignments.

Discuss the steps of the sampling process in detail and list out the possible sources of errors
in the following procedures:

Discuss the importance of research design and explain the various types of research designs
with suitable examples.