1. What are different types of Garments Sample made for Buyer?

2. What is approved sample?

Answer: When a sample is made, according to follow all the required condition, that buyer
provided and buyer reply that is ok then it calls the approved sample.

2. What do you think is the most important aspect of merchandising?

3. Which aspects of products influence your chances of buying them?

4. Describe three product purchases you made that were disappointing.

4. Why do you want to be a merchandiser?

5. What can you tell me about merchandising?

6. If you sell the same item as one of your competitors and both items have the same price but
your competitor is selling more, what else may contribute to these sales?

6. How is our company different from our competitors?

7. Why is product price important in your work?

9. How to do price negotiation process

10. What can you tell about our major products?

11. How does this job position help you work toward your career goals?

12. Mention garments Size scales lowest to highest and size grade or group?

13. What's Grs /GG... and use for which items.

14. If tk 3500.00 is cut from your Salary as PF at 7% of Basic salary, then What's the basic
salary?

15. What are the payment process for Suppliers?

16. What is LC/TT/FDD/RTGS and which one used for which?

17. What's LC / TT expiry date and how many days last from the date of opening?

17. What's Amendment and why it's done?

18. What's Acceptance.

19. What's mean Buyer /Vendor /Factory??

20. What's call Fastener? Mention name of some fasteners. In what sense these are called
fastener?
20. What's call zipper? What's it's main purpose?

21. When Snowtex starts journey?

22. How many and what types of Factories Snowtex have?

23. What's green factory and what's mean leed certificate?

24. What's Lead-Time, MOQ, MCQ, Sarcharge/Up charge in regards of order placement?

25. What's are different LC Terms?

26. What's FOC, Ex-Factory, FCA, FOB while doing shipment?

27. Pls define PO, PI, CI, PL, AWB, BL, ETD, ETA, CONSIGNMENT, Cut off date, Berthing,
UNSTAFFING, Mother vessel, Fidder vessel, Shipping Marks.

28. What's HS CODE and why it's required

29. What's Sales Contract, B2B LC

30. What's the sense and belief of Snowtex

31. What is GSM, which it refers to? Which have higher GSM?

32. What's are Wash symbols. Which label belongs to it

33. What's the common test requirement for colour items plastic items.
34. What is (oz/yd) and (g/m^2) refers to?

35. What is CPM & CM?

36. What is accessories & trims and swatch / trim card?

50 Short Questions for Merchandisers

1. The size ratio of an order of 900 pieces is XS:S:M:L:XL::1:2:3:2:1. According to this
ratio, average fabric consumption for the style was 1.2 meters (woven fabrics). Every size
increase increases consumption by 10 cm. Due to some reasons, the buyer dropped the Size XS
and keeps the order quantity the same. The new size ratio is S:M:L:XL::2:3:3:1. What will be the
new average fabric consumption?

a. 1.25 meters
b. 1.20 meters
c. 1.23 meters
d. 1.30 meters

2. Suppose an order of 6000 pieces has four different size ratios as follows. Arrange them in
descending order average consumption?

a. S:M:L:XL:: 1:2:2:1
b. XS:S:M:L:: 1:1:2:2
c. XS:S:M:L:: 1:2:2:1
d. S:M:L:XL:: 2:2:1:1
3. A shipment is passed with 2.5 AQL by a buyer QA. Suppose after receiving the shipment
buyer do re-inspection of the same shipment at their warehouse. What will be the %defective in
this inspection?

a. Less than 2.5%

b. More than 2.5%
c. Exactly 2.5%
d. Could be more or less than 2.5%

4. Suppose the average ratio of FOB factors

areFabric:Print&Emb:CMT:Overhead:Margin ::12:1:3:1:3. FOB of order is Rs. 400.00.
Suddenly, fabric price is hiked by 5% and all other costs remain same. Once FOB is fixed you
cannot change it. In this situation what will be the reduction in margin for this order?

a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 30%
d. 50%

5. Match the following left column to the right column

a) Cutting
i) Size grading
b) Sampling
ii) TOP sample
c) Finishing
iii) Pre-production meeting
d) Sewing
iv) Bundling
e) Merchandising
v) Spotting

6. The finishing manager can’t able to decide whether he will pack the altered pieces or not
and he had shorted the garment according to the problems. He asks for decision on following
issues from the merchant before handing over the shipment for inspection. Which garment you
will permit to add to shipment?

a. Garments with shade variation at sleeve and body

b. Garments with visible mending work
c. Garments with extra length
d. None of the above

7. Color fastness to washing is rated on a scale of ----- to -------

a. 0 to 10
b. 1 to 10
c. -5 to 5
d. 1 to 5

8. The lower the ‘color fastness to wash’ rating, the better the fabric quality.

a. True
b. False

9. What is the full form of AQL,

a. Acceptable Qualification Level

b. Acceptable Quality level
c. Acceptable Quantity level

10. What does CPM stand for? _________________

a. Critical Path Method

b. Crucial Path Method
c. Common Proposed Method

11. Which one of the following paths determines the overall duration of a project in CPM:
a. Longest Path
b. Shortest Path
c. Both together

12. If we have two follow-ups at hand, which of the path’s tasks should be completed on
priority:
a. Task on the Shortest Path
b. Task on the Longest Path
c. Task which is having major problem

13. Sewing thread of 50 TKT is thicker than 120 TKT.

a. True
b. False

14. Fabric (knits) consumption increases when the GSM of the fabric increases.
a. True
b. False

15. If the fabric (woven) width increases from the planned width (while ordering), we could
_________ actual fabric consumption
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Not be affected

16. Color fastness to washing test is being done during ______________

a. GPT
b. FPT
c. In both stages
d. None of the above stages

17. An Industrial Engineering Department cannot help in garment CM costing more accurately.
a. True
b. False

18. A better time and action calendar (TNA) can result in a better control of processes
a. True
b. False

19. What is the full form of SMV?

a. Sewing Minute Value
b. Standard Minute Value
c. Sewing Minute Verified

20. If you book orders more than the factory capacity, then the manufacturing costs are likely
to:
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Remain unaffected
21. Fabric shrinkage testing gives equivalent results as that of garment shrinkage testing.
a. True
b. False

22. In which sample, does the Buyer confirms the workmanship details:
a. Proto Sample
b. Fit Sample
c. PP Sample
d. TOP Sample

23. The grainline on the garment pattern denotes weft of the fabric
a. True
b. False

24. The average consumption of fabric in washed garment should be _____________ as

compared to non-washed same garment?
a. Higher
b. Lower

25. 4 point system of inspection is used to inspect woven garments?

a. True
b. False

26. A bar graph that organizes data in descending order is called _____________ Chart.
a. Bar Chart
b. Pareto Chart
c. Trend Chart
d. Histogram
27. The following wash care instruction, denotes _________

a. Do not Machine Wash

b. Do not Dry-clean
c. Do not Bleach

28. The following wash care instruction denotes _________

a. Machine Wash
b. Tumble Dry
c. Bleach

29. If the Estimated Average at the time of fabric order is greater than the actual production
average, which of the following would be true.

a. Extra fabric than required, would be ordered

b. Relatively higher price would be quoted to the Buyer
c. Both of the above are true

30. If a fabric lot is having 20 penalty points in 100 square yds, the fabric would be
___________
a. Accepted
b. Rejected

31. What is Fabric Dead Stock?

a. Fabric waste in cutting department
b. Stock of fabric remaining after style completion
c. Stock of defective and hold fabric in fabric department
32. ‘Lbs’ is unit of measurement for ________________
a. Length
b. Weight
c. Volume

33. What do you understand by D.H.U?

a. Defective per Hundred Unit
b. Defects Per Hundred Unit
c. Defective per hundred users

34. How can we control the performance of our vendors?

a. Maintain data for quality and timeliness for vendors
b. Debiting vendors for defective units
c. Telling them to improve
d. By negotiating for the best price
e. Maintain data for quality, timeliness, and price for vendors, improving vendor performance,
through data analysis

35. Buyers prefer extra shipping quantity as per original size ratio
a. True
b. False

36. Blister packing can be made with

a. Mix of color
b. Mix of sizes
c. Mix of colors and sizes
d. All of the above options
37. Productivity of a factory can be expressed in terms of :
a. Pieces/machine per day
b. Pieces/hour per person
c. Pieces/man-hour
d. All of the above

38. When a light print is needed on a dark base color with smother hand feel. Which printing
option is mostly used?
a. Khadi print
b. Discharge print
c. Pigment print

39. In Burnt-out printing, which of the following fiber is burnt in the printing process?
a. Polyester
b. Cotton

40. 1 gross button is equal to ----------------------- buttons

a. 140
b. 40
c. 144

41. Generally, the shipping department calculates the volumetric weight of the packed goods
(cartons) for shipping agents. What is the formula for calculating volumetric weight?
a. Total volume of cartons / Total weight
b. Total volume of cartons / 6000
c. Total volume of cartons / 1000

42. If the fabric is having high width variation in the same shade lots, the production average is
likely to:
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Remain same

43. The unit of measure for the ‘size’ of button is:

a. Cm
b. Inch
c. Ligne

44. The Efficiency of a sewing line is calculated as follows:

a. Actual output/ Target output
b. Target output/ Actual Output

45. The problem of pilling is normally in knit garments-

a. True
b. False

46. Give the full form of the following terms:

a) FPT______________
b) GPT_______________
c) CIF _______________
d) LC______________________
e) SKU______________
f) DTM stands for __________________
g) CPL stands for _________________

47. To Sew a Knits Tee which among the following machine is not required
a) Flatlock Machine
b) Overlock Machine
c) Feed off the arm
d) Single needle lock stitch

48. Which is not a summer color

a) Pink
b) White
c) Lemon
d) Black

49. Mark the odd one out :

a) Satin
b) Silk
c) Cotton
d) Nylon

50. The preferred color for baby girl is :

a) Pink
b) Black
c) Blue
d) Orange