20/08/2019 Quiz: Week 5 Homework
Week 5 Homework
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Quiz Instructions
Question 1 1 pts
(Lesson 4.1: Steps in a Simulation Study.) Which steps are regarded as essential for a
successful simulation study? (There may be more than one correct answer.)
a. Problem formulation
b. Model validation
c. Model verification
d. Experimental design
e. Output analysis
f. Attendance at a Justin Bieber concert
Question 2 1 pts
(Lesson 4.1: Steps in a Simulation Study.) Suppose that I have modelled the arriving calls
to a call center as a Poisson process. What do I have to carry out in order to determine if
that’s indeed a reasonable model assumption?
a. Problem formulation
b. Model validation
c. Model verification
d. Attend a Justin Bieber concert
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Question 3 1 pts
(Lesson 4.2: Some Useful Definitions.) Which of the following times could be regarded as
events? (There may be more than one correct answer.)
a. Customers arrive at Justin's concert venue
b. Justin forgets a lyric
c. Justin sings the wrong note
d. Angry customers depart the venue
e. A customer is 11 years old
Question 4 1 pts
(Lesson 4.2: Some Useful Definitions.) TRUE or FALSE? Customer waiting times are
activities because these are typically explicitly specified in the simulation.
True
False
Question 5 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? The simulation clock time is
a variable.
True
False
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Question 6 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? The simulation clock time
always equals real time.
True
False
Question 7 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? In this class, time always
moves forward.
True
False
Question 8 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? A fixed-increment time-
advance mechanism is used primarily in continuous-time models such as those involving
differential equations.
True
False
Question 9 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? A next-event time-advance
mechanism is typically used in queueing models involving customer arrivals, services,
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and departures.
True
False
Question 10 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? The future events list
contains all known upcoming events, including arrival times, departure times, and
machine breakdown times.
True
False
Question 11 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? The FEL can be updated
any time an event occurs.
True
False
Question 12 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? It is possible for the system
state to change between consecutive event times.
True
False
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Question 13 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? In a simulation using the
“next-event” time-advance mechanism, the simulation clock moves to the most-imminent
event.
True
False
Question 14 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? When a new event occurs,
the simulation may update the chronological order of the FEL’s events by inserting new
events, deleting events, moving them around, or even doing nothing.
True
False
Question 15 1 pts
(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? Almost every discrete-event
computer simulation language maintains a FEL somewhere.
True
False
Question 16 1 pts
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(Lesson 4.3: Time-Advance Mechanisms.) TRUE or FALSE? In Arena, you are
responsible for maintaining the language’s FEL.
True
False
Question 17 1 pts
(Lesson 4.4: Two Modeling Approaches.) Which is generally the easier simulation
modeling approach — Event-Scheduling or Process-Interaction?
a. Event-Scheduling
b. Process-Interaction
Question 18 1 pts
(Lesson 4.4: Two Modeling Approaches.) Which is the modeling approach adopted by
Arena — Event-Scheduling or Process-Interaction?
a. Event-Scheduling
b. Process-Interaction
Question 19 1 pts
(Lesson 4.4: Two Modeling Approaches.) TRUE or FALSE? A simulation language
incorporating the P-I approach considers the events that a generic customer undergoes
as it passes through the system, and then automatically does the bookkeeping to keep
track of how all such customers interact with each other.
True
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False
Question 20 1 pts
(Lesson 4.5: Simulation Languages.) How many simulation languages are there?
a. Just a few.
b. 5-10.
c. 10-50.
d. >>50.
Question 21 1 pts
(Lesson 4.5: Simulation Languages.) Where can you learn about simulation languages?
(There may be more than one correct answer.)
a. Right here, right now!
b. Simulation language textbooks
c. The Winter Simulation Conference
d. Vendor short courses
e. The Justin Bieber School of Hard Knox. (Nice spelling, Justin.)
Question 22 1 pts
(Lesson 4.5: Simulation Languages.) When selecting a simulation language, what
characteristics do you have to take into consideration?
a. Cost
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b. Ease of use
c. Modeling “world view” (e.g., event-scheduling or process-interaction)
d. Random variate generation capabilities
e. Output analysis capabilities
f. All of the above
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