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An operational quantity is a procedure \(a\) assigning to every (bounded linear) operator \(T\) of one Banach space into another a nonnegative number \(a(T)\). It~is called left if \(\{a(T|M): M\in S(X)\}\) is bounded for every \(T:X\to Y\), and \(s\)-increasing (\(s\)-decreasing) if \(a(T|M)\leq a(T|N)\) whenever \(M,N\in S(X)\) and \(M\subset N\) (\(N\subset M\)); here and below \(S(X)\) and \(S^*(X)\) stand for the set of all finite-dimensional and finite-codimensional subspaces of \(X\), respectively. Examples of operational quantities are the norm \(n(T)=\|T\|\) and the injection radius \(j(T)= \inf \{\|Tx\|: \|x\|=1\}\). To any left operational quantity \(a\) one can associate four other left operational quantities, \[ \begin{aligned} ia(T) &= \inf \{a(T|M): M\in S(X)\} , \\ sa(T) &= \sup \{a(T|M): M\in S(X)\} , \\ i^*a(T) &= \inf \{a(T|M): M\in S^*(X)\} , \\ s^*a(T) &= \sup \{a(T|M): M\in S^*(X)\} . \end{aligned} \] In the paper under review, several descriptions of kernels etc.~of these operational quantities are obtained: for instance, for any left operational quantity \(a\) such that \(j\leq a\leq n\), \(sa(T)=0\) iff \(T\) is not left semi-Fredholm, \(ia(T)=0\) iff \(T\) is strictly singular, and if \(a\) is also \(s\)-decreasing (\(s\)-increasing), then \(s^*a(T)=0\) iff \(T\) is not left semi-Fredholm and \(sa(T)=0\) iff \(T\) is strictly singular (\(ia(T)=0\) iff \(T\) is left semi-Fredholm, and \(T\) compact \(\implies i^*a(T)=0\implies T\) is strictly singular). Similar assertions for right operational quantities and a number of results concerning perturbations are also obtained.