ASQ ASQ Certification CQE Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  Given the data below, what is the 90% confidence interval for the variance? 22, 23, 19, 17, 29, 25

  A. 4.21 - 99.07

  B. 15.32 - 28.66

  C. 8.27 - 79.88

  D. 16.87 - 56.52

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 32:

  What are the major disadvantages of having an improvement team that is too large?

  . Difficulty in having constructive input from the entire group.

  . Difficulty in arriving at consensus.

  . Difficulty in finding large meeting facilities.

  . Difficulty, on the part of the recorder, in keeping up with more paperwork.

  A. Ionly

  B. IandIIonly

  C. I,IIandIIIonly

  D. I, II,IIIandIV

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 33:

  Which of the following is NOT considered a prevention cost?

  A. Writing operating procedures.

  B. Training.

  C. Data acquisition and analysis.

  D. Calibrating test equipment.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 34:

  The difference between setting alpha equal to 0.05 and alpha equal to 0.01 in hypothesis testing is A. With alpha equal to 0.05, we are more willing to risk a type I error.

  B. With alpha equal to 0.05, we are more willing to risk a type II error.

  C. Alpha equal to 0.05 is a more "conservative" test of the null hypothesis.

  D. With alpha equal to 0.05, we are less willing to risk a type I error.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 35:

  In nonparametric statistics:

  . No assumptions are made concerning the distribution from which the samples are taken. . The parameters of the distribution do not relate to the parameters of the sample. . The sample and the distribution must have no parameters in common.

  A. I only

  B. IIonly

  C. IIIonly

  D. IIandIIIonly

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 36:

  The value for t, when making a two-tailed paired t test, with samples of 13 and alpha =0.05, is

  A. 1.782

  B. 2.179

  C. 2.064

  D. 1.711

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 37:

  The "least squares method" is used in

  A. The central limit theorem

  B. Calculating 2

  C. Calculating2and s2

  D. Calculating a best fit regression line.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 38:

  The primary advantage of the Latin square design, compared to the factorial design, is that

  A. In most circumstances, it requires less data.

  B. It eliminates the need for interaction analysis.

  C. It allows higher significance levels.

  D. It does not require homogeneity of variance.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 39:

  An experiment with two factors, in which all levels of one variable are run at each level of the second variable, is called a

  A. One-way experiment.

  B. Latin square experiment.

  C. Factorial experiment.

  D. Fractional factorial experiment.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 40:

  How many outcomes are possible when performing a single trial of a binomial experiment?

  A. 1

  B. 2

  C. 3

  D. 4

  Correct Answer: B