EMT Practice Test

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Question1: The first and most important step, in establishing a good corporate quality plan is

Question2: If a sample size of 16 yields an average of 12 and standard deviation of 3, estimate the 95% confidence interval for the population (assume a normal distribution).

Question3: What is the highest form of partnering with employees?

Question4: Which of the following is the BEST statement to make regarding the relationship between product precision and product production?

Question5: When used together for variables data, which of the following pair is the MOST useful in preparing control charts?

Question6: In obtaining Total Customer Satisfaction, management should NOT undertake which of the following activities?

Question7: A quality control program is considered to be

Question8: What is the standard deviation of the values below?
4.5, 5.1, 6.2, 2.1, 3.9

Question9: Two advantages of process mapping are the ability to
I. Visualize the process being described.
II. Discover manufacturing problems only.
III. Discover quality problems only.
IV. Check current processes for duplication or redundancy.

Question10: Which of the following statements describes discrete data?

Question11: During the performance of an audit, which of the following are key considerations?
I. What sampling plans may be necessary?
II. Is the audit schedule progressing as planned?
III. Is there a need for a technical specialist?
IV. Is the level of compliance satisfactory?

Question12: Corrective action requests are primarily

Question13: A company is planning to completely change its employee performance, appraisal and reward system. Which of the following is NOT viable for consideration in the new system?

Question14: The equation below represents the:

Question15: Consider the following statement:
"A defect which might affect the appearance or general function of essential parts" This definition describes a seriousness classification described as

Question16: The steeper the OC-curve, the

Question17: Which of the following nondestructive testing methods can be used to evaluate sub-surface discontinuities in aluminum bar stock?
. Microwave.
. Magnetic particle.
. Pulse echo.
. Eddy current.

Question18: An X-bar and R chart with n=5 has been plotted for some time and has demonstrated random variation. Upon review of the last 30 plot points, the expected number of runs around the centerline on the X-bar chart is expected to be approximately which of the following?

Question19: Which of the following would be considered the WEAKEST reason to initiate an audit?

Question20: What is the highest form of partnering with employees?

Question21: The "least squares method" is used in

Question22: What is the key ranking difference between the Deming philosophy and the Malcolm Baldrige award criteria?

Question23: When using a control chart, a point plotting within the limits on the chart is

Question24: An operation requires shipments from your vendor of small lots of fixed size. The attribute sampling plan used for receiving inspection should have its OC curve developed using

Question25: Reliability prediction is
. The process of performance estimation.
. The process of estimating the probability that a product will perform its intended function for a stated time.
. The process of telling "how you can get there from here".

Question26: The primary advantage of the Latin square design, compared to the factorial design, is that

Question27: Consider the following statement:
"A defect which might affect the appearance or general function of essential parts" This definition describes a seriousness classification described as

Question28: The power of efficiency in designed experiments lies in the

Question29: In most cases, an improvement team facilitator will NOT normally:

Question30: Measurement gaging is preferable to go, no-go gaging of a quality characteristic because

Question31: Which of the following is NOT considered a prevention cost?

Question32: In the failure rate model shown below, which one of the sections represents the period when catastrophic failures are likely to occur?

Question33: Maintainability is

Question34: A comprehensive corrective action program is initiated at a large company. Input for CARs are received from customers, internal and external audits, material review reports and other sources. Which two of the following groups would usually administer and control the CAR process?
. Management review team.
. Quality department.
. Corrective Action Board.
. Material Review Board.

Question35: Which of the following tools can provide a ranking of things to be done?

Question36: When planning quality control functions, which one of the following is MOST directly related to production of a quality product?

Question37: The probability of an accident for the head event "H" given below is:

Question38: A process has been experiencing problems lately. The operators charting the process have identified the cause to be due to a change in incoming materials. This problem is

Question39: The primary reason that nonconforming material should be identified and segregated is

Question40: One-way analysis of variance is MOST similar in its objectives to

Question41: As the scatter of points about a regression line becomes less, r2 will

Question42: If the probability of a success on a single trial is 0.2 and 3 trials are performed, what is the probability of at least one success?

Question43: What order do the following corrective action steps normally take for nonconforming product?
I. Analyze the problem.
II. Assign responsibility.
III. Take preventive action.
IV. Evaluate potential importance.
V. Investigate possible causes.

Question44: Which of the following statements describes discrete data?

Question45: Which of the following distributions have the set of all real numbers as their domain?

Question46: Which of the following are the MOST logical reasons for providing source inspection?
I. The supplier has consistently shown poor out-going quality.
II. The key inspection points are hidden after assembly at the suppliers' plant.
III. The supplier requests the inspection to save them potential shipping expenses.
IV. The criticality of the product warrants it.

Question47: Four ingredients are blended to make a final product. Using the data below, what is the expected weight and variation of the final product?
Ingredient A 70 ± 3.00 grams
Ingredient B 20 ± 1.73 grams
Ingredient C 15 ± 1.73 grams
Ingredient D 10 ±- 1.00 grams

Question48: When asked to make recommendations on how to correct any deficiencies noted in the exit report, the auditor(s) should

Question49: The expression below is which of the following?

Question50: A box contains 27 black and 3 red balls. A random sample of 5 balls is drawn without replacement. What is the probability that the sample contains one red ball?

Question51: The existence of a quality control manual at your key supplier means

Question52: An experiment with two factors, in which all levels of one variable are run at each level of the second variable, is called a

Question53: 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?

Question54: What is the standard deviation of the values below?
4.5, 5.1, 6.2, 2.1, 3.9

Question55: In the failure rate model shown below, which one of the sections represents the period when catastrophic failures are likely to occur?

Question56: Which of the following quality system provisions is of the greatest concern when preparing an audit checklist for a vendor qualification system audit?

Question57: What is the lower control limit for proportion defective if the average daily production is 5000 units and the average fraction defective is 0.02?

Question58: What is the standard deviation of the following data?
3.2, 3.1, 3.3, 3.3, 3.1

Question59: The probability of accepting a lot of unacceptable quality is known as

Question60: What distribution is used to determine the OC curve for an attributes sampling plan?

Question61: In most cases, an improvement team facilitator will NOT normally:

Question62: The hypergeometric distribution should be used instead of the binomial distribution when

Question63: Which of the following parties, traditionally initiates an audit?

Question64: The equation below represents the:

Question65: A lot is known to be 1.2% defective. Five units are randomly selected from the lot, and the lot is accepted if 1 or fewer defects are found. What is the probability of the lot being rejected?

Question66: The value for t, when making a two-tailed paired t test, with samples of 13 and alpha =0.05, is

Question67: Corrective action requests are primarily

Question68: You have been asked to sample a lot of 500 units from vendor whose past quality has been about 2% defective. A sample of 40 pieces is drawn from the lot and you have been told to reject the lot if you find two or more parts defective. What is the probability of finding two or more parts defective?

Question69: A graph of a data set, composed of a series of rectangles, each proportional in width to the range of values in a class and proportional in height to the number of items or fraction of items falling in these classes, is called which of the following?

Question70: Which of the following statements BEST describes a bimodal distribution?

Question71: Which of the following is a valid null hypothesis?

Question72: 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?

Question73: A company is planning to completely change its employee performance, appraisal and reward system.
Which of the following is NOT viable for consideration in the new system?

Question74: The ideal results of a quality training effort would NOT include which of the following?

Question75: In nonparametric statistics:
I. No assumptions are made concerning the distribution from which the samples are taken.
II. The parameters of the distribution do not relate to the parameters of the sample.
III. The sample and the distribution must have no parameters in common.

Question76: A box contains 27 black and 3 red balls. A random sample of 5 balls is drawn without replacement. What is the probability that the sample contains one red ball?

Question77: A comprehensive corrective action program is initiated at a large company. Input for CARs are received from customers, internal and external audits, material review reports and other sources. Which two of the following groups would usually administer and control the CAR process?
I. Management review team.
II. Quality department.
III. Corrective Action Board.
IV. Material Review Board.

Question78: The critical value of the t-distribution is

Question79: The term "quality audit" can refer to the appraisal of the quality system of
I. An entire plant or company.
II. One product.
III. One major quality activity.

Question80: The Shewhart or Deming cycle is often referred to as

Question81: One-way analysis of variance is MOST similar in its objectives to

Question82: The use of 100% inspection normally means

Question83: The critical value of the t-distribution is

Question84: Given the data below, what is the 90% confidence interval for the variance?
22, 23, 19, 17, 29, 25

Question85: Which of the following distributions have the set of all real numbers as their domain?

Question86: Applications for surface plate includes which of the following?
. Referencing plane for length measurements.
. Referencing plane for parallelism measurements.
. Establishing a datum plane for dimensional layout.
. Waiting place for delicate parts.
. Keeping extra gages when not in use.

Question87: The distribution of a characteristic is negatively skewed. The sampling distribution of the mean for large samples is:

Question88: Analysis of data on all product returns is important because
I. Failure rates change with length of product usage.
II. Changes in design and in customer use are often well reflected.
III. Immediate feedback and analysis of product performance becomes available.

Question89: Which of the following are TRUE statements regarding the use of visual inspection?
I. Reference standards can be used.
II. It provides consistency between inspectors.
III. It is relatively expensive.
IV. It can be quickly performed.

Question90: The Dodge-Romig tables are designed to minimize which of the following parameters?

Question91: Measurement gaging is preferable to go, no-go gaging of a quality characteristic because

Question92: Findings and observations are audit terms. The best relationship between these terms is which of the following?

Question93: Which of the following quality gurus was very critical of merit-pay and individual bonuses?
He discouraged management by objectives and the ranking of employees by performance.

Question94: The power of efficiency in designed experiments lies in the

Question95: An improvement in quality costs is MOST clearly indicated when:

Question96: Writing and establishing process control procedures is

Question97: Which of the following actions or techniques is MOST useful in determining the original fundamental cause of a product or process nonconformance?

Question98: The Malcolm Baldrige award is open for competition among which of the following?
. Large manufacturing businesses.
. Large and small manufacturing businesses.
. Service organizations.
. Large service companies.

Question99: The ideal results of a quality training effort would NOT include which of the following?

Question100: Which of the following quantitative methods does NOT apply to the assessment of actual system/component reliability?

Question101: The Shewhart or Deming cycle is often referred to as

Question102: What distribution is used to determine the OC curve for an attributes sampling plan?

Question103: Maintainability is

Question104: An X-bar chart has shown control for a long time. You see that points for the last 50 samples are all very near the center line on the chart. In fact, they are all within one sigma of the center line. This probably indicates that

Question105: The failure rate model above is used to show a typical relationship of many parts between their failure rate and the time in service. The reliability function for period "B" is BEST represented by

Question106: Regardless of the distribution of the individuals, the distribution of the average of n samples will follow which distribution as n becomes large?

Question107: Which of the following control charts are more efficient than an X-bar chart at detecting small shifts in the mean?
. CUSUM.
. EWQR.
. EWMA.

Question108: The use of 100% inspection normally means

Question109: The sample size for a product quality audit should be

Question110: Which of the following parties, traditionally initiates an audit?

Question111: Information that is received by upper management, is often distorted. Which of the following actions is effective in countering this problem?
. Stop killing the messenger.
. Establishing an open door policy.
. Practice management by walking around.

Question112: When planning quality control functions, which one of the following is MOST directly related to production of a quality product?

Question113: 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.

Question114: During the performance of an audit, which of the following are key considerations?
. What sampling plans may be necessary?
. Is the audit schedule progressing as planned?
. Is there a need for a technical specialist?
. Is the level of compliance satisfactory?

Question115: How many outcomes are possible when performing a single trial of a binomial experiment?