Exam 3: Certified Quality Engineer

The audit team normally advises the auditee immediately upon the discovery of a finding during an audit. Which of the following items is (are) valid reasons for taking this action?

For TQM success, what structure sequence should be followed?

The following measurements for a sample with dimension X are representative of a process known to be in statistical control 42, 52, 64, 45, 53, 56, 70, 57, 49, 62 Which of the following values BEST approximates the upper and lower control limits of the process capability.

When trying to find all possible causes of a problem, which of the following tools would be useful?

Which of the following are likely to be positive actions in obtaining a supplier's commitment to quality improvement?

Which of the following control charts are more efficient than an X-bar chart at detecting small shifts in the mean?

A process is in control with a defect rate of 0.2%. A sampling plans calls for 30 items to be selected at random, and for the process to be shut down and corrected if any defects are found. How often will the process be shut down without a change in the defect rate?

Given that the population standard deviation is 6.8, what sample size is required to be 90% confident that the estimated mean has an error less than 0.02?

The term "quality audit" can refer to the appraisal of the quality system of

Of the services listed below, which one performed by design engineering is of particular interest to QA personnel?

A process is turning out end items that have defects of type A or type B or both. If the probability of type A defect is 0.1 and of a type B is 0.2, the probability that an end item will have no defect is

Which of the following parties, traditionally initiates an audit?

An audit will be viewed as a constructive service to the function which is audited when it

The probability of an accident for the head event "H" given below is:

Which of the following is the BEST statement to make regarding the relationship between product precision and product production?

You are requested by top management to establish an audit program of the quality systems in each branch plant of your firm. Which of the following schemes would you use in selecting the audit team to optimize continuity, direction, availability, and technology transfer?

Which of the following is NOT considered a prevention cost?

A bin contains 40 pills with a weight of 3.1 gm. each, 30 pills weighing 3.2 gms each and 10 pills weighing 3.3 gms each. The weight of an average pill is found from

What distribution is used to determine the OC curve for an attributes sampling plan?

When requesting "worst case" design analysis, you expect the reliability group to