ASQ CMQ-OE Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

ASQ CMQ-OE Online Questions & Answers

• Question 261:

  Long-range trend analysis is typically used in performing which of the following activities?

  A. Control charting
  B. Management review
  C. Internal auditing
  D. Design review
  B. Management review

• Question 262:

  From a business perspective, which of the following facts about teams makes them crucial to an organization's success?

  A. Members can react quickly if the team loses its focus.
  B. Members gain mutual support from one another.
  C. Teams can gather and analyze data more cheaply than individuals can.
  D. Teams use shared knowledge to make better decisions than individuals can.
  D. Teams use shared knowledge to make better decisions than individuals can.

• Question 263:

  All except one of the following is a technique used in assessing training needs. Which one is not?

  A. Critical incident analysis
  B. Focus group
  C. Task analysis
  D. Performance problem analysis
  D. Performance problem analysis

• Question 264:

  A quality manager finds that the company's performance appraisal system is causing declining employee involvement in team activities, and membership on cross-functional or process improvement teams is directly linked to organizational objectives. To change this situation, the manager should recommend adjusting the appraisal system to:

  A. include behavioral metrics
  B. include short-term production results
  C. increase rewards for meeting individual productivity goals
  D. increase the weighting for team participation
  D. increase the weighting for team participation

• Question 265:

  When managing virtual teams across virtual offices, a quality manager will often question the traditional:

  A. paradigm of workday and workplace
  B. paradigm of quality management
  C. structure of a business organization
  D. concept of training needs
  A. paradigm of workday and workplace

• Question 266:

  Which of the following is the first step in the start-up of a capital project?

  A. Obtain resource commitments from line organizations
  B. Obtain authorization from management to proceed
  C. Establish contracts for services to be purchased
  D. Train project leaders,
  B. Obtain authorization from management to proceed

• Question 267:

  Throughput is defined as the:

  A. range within which a process is able to operate
  B. expensive of services or manufacturing finished goods
  C. rate at which an organization generates money through sales of products or services
  D. cycle time it takes to produce one unit of product or one service transaction
  C. rate at which an organization generates money through sales of products or services

• Question 268:

  Which of the following steps should be completed first when a quality manager is developing a plan for quality training?

  A. Develop the training curricula
  B. Determine the training needs
  C. Create a list of employees who need training
  D. Calculate the total cost of the training
  B. Determine the training needs

• Question 269:

  Which of the following is the first step in managing risk for a project?

  A. Determine the probability of risk events occurring
  B. Calculate the acceptable level of uncertainty for the project
  C. Identify where potential risks exist or might occur
  D. Develop detailed predictive methods to reduce the impact of the risk
  C. Identify where potential risks exist or might occur

• Question 270:

  Water is delivered to ice-cube trays that are placed in freezers at less than -6?centigrade. The trays are removed from the freezers after six hours. If the water has not completely frozen, the trays are returned to the freezer until freezing is complete. The ice-cubes are then removed from the trays, inspected, and placed in bags. Defective cubes are discarded. The bags filled with cubes are kept in storage freezers. Alarms are sounded if a freezer's temperature goes above -6? centigrade. It has been shown that water in the ice-cube trays will freeze in six hours at -6?centigrade or less. Which of the following changes to the quality process would result in the most cost-effective improvement?

  

  A. Conducting early in-process inspections for accepting good products and rejecting bad products
  B. Scrapping the complete tray when one or more cubes is defective
  C. Conducting a root-cause analysis when a tray fails to freeze within six hours
  D. Decreasing in-process inspections to reduce appraisal costs
  A. Conducting early in-process inspections for accepting good products and rejecting bad products