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1. Define fixed cost and variable cost.






2. TIES Step 2: Design Space Conception






3. What can management do to mitigate the risk associated with infusing new technologies?






4. What are the different types of UTEs?






5. What can be done about uncertainty in requirement?






6. What is the notation for a standard normal distribution?






7. TIES Step 8: Selecting Technology


8. Ratio scale






9. What is the definition of CDF?






10. Why use uniform dist for input variables (Gap Analysis)






11. How is inflation measured?


12. If you have two compatible mature technologies to infuse - or one not mature technology - which will have the most variance?






13. Name the advantages of UTE.






14. What does CLT stand for?






15. What are properties of a CDF?






16. TIES Step 6: Identify Technology






17. Show and explain a pareto frontier






18. What two variables are necessary to define a normal distribution?






19. Why is the normal distribution useful or important?


20. Why are scaling parameters important?






21. How do you get the CDF from the PDF?






22. What is the goal of robust design?


23. Assumptions Used in TOPSis...






24. TIES Step 4: Investigate Design Space






25. Why is learning curve used (or what is it?)






26. What are the four difference life cycle costs?






27. What is the goal of probabilistic design?


28. What is the equation for OEC if X is a benefit (maximize) and N is a cost (minimize)?






29. 8 Steps in TIES






30. You have a group of 5 dice. You roll the groups and sum the results of the 5 dice 4 times. What is the sample size? What are you sampling?






31. 3 Probabilistic Design Methods






32. TIES Step 1: Problem Definition






33. What is the equation for the learning curve?






34. What are K- factors applied to?






35. Indirect Operating Cost






36. Weaknesses of TOPSis...






37. TIF


38. Write down a formula for a normal distribution






39. Is CDF discrete or continuous - if it is discrete give the continuous equivalent - if it continuous give the discrete equivalent.






40. With 15 technologies - what is the number of possible combinations?






41. TIES Step 7: Assess Technology






42. What is another name for a normal distribution?






43. What are the three snapshots of UTE?






44. MADM






45. What is TCM? What is the size and what value can it take?






46. 3 Measures of Central Tendency (& Defs)






47. Name two uncertainties accounted for by UTE. What metric does UTE use to quantify this risk?






48. What is satisficing - what is optimizing?






49. What does CDF stand for?






50. Strengths of TOPSis...