ASQ CMQ-OE Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

ASQ CMQ-OE Online Questions & Answers

• Question 531:

  A process engineer has calculated that the purchase of a new $150,000 cutter for machines would enable the assembly area to increase output by 30% or more, without additional resource cost. The purchase would exceed the quality budget for the year but would reduce the total operating cost of the assembly department. If the process engineer, the quality manager, and the manager of the machining department collaborate to decide whether to buy the new cutter, they would be using which of the following type of management styles?

  A. Total quality management
  B. Functional management
  C. Cross-functional management
  D. Management by objective
  C. Cross-functional management

• Question 532:

  Assessing and identifying exposure to risks should:

  I. Be done prior to investing in a major capital expenditure.

  II. Be a continual process.

  III. Be undertaken as part of the feasibility analysis prior to purchasing another business.

  IV.

  Include financial, physical, safety, security, health, product liability, and proprietary information risk exposures.

  A. I, III, IV only
  B. I, III only
  C. I, II, III, and IV
  D. I only
  C. I, II, III, and IV

• Question 533:

  Which of the following tools should be used to determine how material is handled and who should handle it?

  A. Flowchart
  B. Pareto chart
  C. PDCA cycle
  D. Process decision program chart (PDPC)
  A. Flowchart

• Question 534:

  Which of the following actions is most likely to cause a delay in a project?

  A. Revisions to cost estimates
  B. Expansion of the project scope
  C. Overestimates of task timelines
  D. Customer confirmation of the project design
  B. Expansion of the project scope

• Question 535:

  Categorizing the cost of quality into failure costs, appraisal costs, and prevention costs is essential to be able to:

  A. Reduce the total cost of quality to as near zero as possible.
  B. Allocate efforts to effectively balance reduction of failures with detection of failures, as well as preventing failures.
  C. Substantially increase appraisal costs to detect failures before shipment.
  D. Virtually eliminate appraisal costs by adding to prevention efforts.
  A. Reduce the total cost of quality to as near zero as possible.

• Question 536:

  All but one of the following is a job aid type instructional tool. Which one is not?

  A. A programmable electronic calculator with programmed formulas
  B. Embedded "help" screens in a computer program
  C. Preprinted instructions on a form
  D. A signal light indicating that an error has occurred
  D. A signal light indicating that an error has occurred

• Question 537:

  Considering the maturity factor, the task and relationship behaviors comprise four leadership styles. These styles are: High task; low relationship, High task; High relationship, High relationship; Low task, Low relationship; Low task. Leadership style where decisions are explained and where there is opportunity to clarify and ask questions is :

  A. High task; low relationship
  B. High task; High relationship
  C. High relationship; Low task
  D. Low relationship; Low task
  B. High task; High relationship

• Question 538:

  A college professor gives weekly quizzes to a class, partially as a means of measuring learning effectiveness. The following chart is plotted for the top five students in the class. Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the professor to take in response to the chart?

  

  A. Throw out the grade for week 9 when calculating final grades for all of the students
  B. Advise the top students to study harder to make up for their poor performance
  C. Determine whether the quiz for week 9 was poorly written
  D. Have the top students retake the week 9 quiz in week 11
  C. Determine whether the quiz for week 9 was poorly written

• Question 539:

  A stakeholder analysis would:

  A. Determine the appropriate dividend amount to be distributed to shareholders.
  B. Assess the feasibility of a partnership with a key supplier.
  C. Provide the basis to recommend the best strategy for dealing with pressure from a competitor.
  D. Delineate the outputs and outcomes needed by customers and regulatory agencies affecting the business.
  D. Delineate the outputs and outcomes needed by customers and regulatory agencies affecting the business.

• Question 540:

  Which of these circumstances might reasonably prompt a reevaluation of an organization's policies and strategic objectives?

  I. The retirement of the CEO

  II. A merger with another company

  III. Divestiture of a major division

  IV.

  Obsolescence of a major technology

  A. I, II, III, and IV
  B. II, III, and IV only
  C. I, II, and IV only
  D. II and III only
  A. I, II, III, and IV