ASQ CMQ-OE Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

ASQ CMQ-OE Online Questions & Answers

• Question 581:

  When a company wide professional development program is being planned, which of the following factors should be considered first?

  A. Areas of customer dissatisfaction
  B. Organizational job descriptions
  C. Resources available for education
  D. Corporate mission and strategy
  D. Corporate mission and strategy

• Question 582:

  A project leader is experiencing a situation in which team members do not seem to be working well together and are instead questioning the project goals. This team is most likely at what stage of development?

  A. Forming
  B. Storming
  C. Norming
  D. Performing
  B. Storming

• Question 583:

  Stratified sampling is an appropriate method to use in which of the following circumstances?

  A. The inspector is examining product from a single lot.
  B. The lot contains product from different machines, production shifts, or operators.
  C. The samples are drawn from a continuous flow of product.
  D. The plan requires samples to be drawn from random containers.
  B. The lot contains product from different machines, production shifts, or operators.

• Question 584:

  The best tool for analyzing the relationship, over time, between quantitative data from two variables suspected to influence one another, is a:

  A. Pareto chart
  B. Scatter diagram
  C. Interrelationship digraph
  D. Affinity diagram
  B. Scatter diagram

• Question 585:

  Which of the following tools shows the distribution of data and the frequency of measurements that fall within specified intervals?

  A. Histogram
  B. Pareto diagram
  C. Bar chart
  D. Pie chart
  A. Histogram

• Question 586:

  The chart below shows planned costs and actual expenditures. Between times 4 and B the chart indicates which type of cost?

  A. Overrun
  B. Out of control
  C. Benefit
  D. Control
  C. Benefit

• Question 587:

  The process of requisitioning, ordering, and obtaining purchased material has been causing conflicts among three different departments. Representatives of each department have formed a cross-functional team that will use process mapping to define all elements of the process and to redesign the process, if necessary.

  As the team first starts meeting, its members have widely varying views of how the process works and the purpose of the mapping procedure. In the first few meetings, the team should place considerable emphasis on

  A. documenting individual views of the existing process
  B. deciding which analytical tools to use
  C. establishing a sense of team cooperation
  D. determining general characteristics of the revised process
  A. documenting individual views of the existing process

• Question 588:

  Brainstorming is a tool used primarily for:

  A. Generating new ideas.
  B. Analysis of data.
  C. Organization of a list of items.
  D. Deciding among a list of items.
  A. Generating new ideas.

• Question 589:

  When benchmarking is being considered for process improvement, which of the following is the most appropriate starting point?

  A. Performing an analysis of competitors' products
  B. Establishing target goals for the process
  C. Identifying what is to be benchmarked
  D. Selecting a benchmarking partner
  C. Identifying what is to be benchmarked

• Question 590:

  Managing change is particularly complex due to the fact that much of what must be changed often consists of intangibles such as beliefs, behavior s and policies. These types of constraints are more difficult to identify. We can get help from:

  A. GATT chart
  B. PERT chart
  C. A force-field analysis
  D. None of these
  C. A force-field analysis