You are leading a research project that will require between 10 and 20 aerospace engineers. Some senior-level aerospace engineers are available. They are more productive than junior-level engineers, who cost less and who are available as well. You want to determine the optimal combination of senior- and junior-level personnel. In this situation, the appropriate technique to use is to

Which of the following statements best describes attribute sampling versus variable sampling?

Rank ordering of defects should be used to guide corrective action. This is the

underlying principle behind

Your quality assurance department recently performed a quality audit of your project and identified a number of findings and recommendations. Once recommendation seems critical and should be implemented because it affects successful delivery of the product to your customer. If the recommendation is not implemented, the product will not conform to requirements. Your next step should be to

Six sigma refers to the aim of setting tolerance limits at a 6 standard deviations from the mean, whereas the normally expected deviation of a process is

The “rule of seven” as applied to statistical process control charts means that

You work as a project manager in the largest hospital in the region. Studies have shown that patients have to wait for long periods before being treated. To assist in identifying the factors contributing to this problem, you and your team have decided to use which of the following techniques?

Results of quality control testing and measurement are used

The quality management plan describes all the following except the

Which of the following is NOT a part of quality

A PM is using a histogram to analyze defects found by the team during inspection activities. What process is being performed?

Which of the following is NOT an example of Cost of Quality?

Which of the following is NOT part of the quality management plan?

Which of the following tools and techniques is used to show which categories of defects are most common?

You’re managing a highway construction project. The foreman of your building team alerts you to a problem that the inspection team found with one of the pylons, so you use an Ishikawa diagram to try to figure out the root cause of the defects. What process is being performed?

Which tool or technique is used to analyze trends?

You’re a PM at a wedding planning company. You’re working on a large wedding for a wealthy client, and your company has done several weddings in the past that were very similar to the one you’re working on. You want to use the results of those wedding as a guideline to make sure you your current project’s quality is up to your company’s

standards. Which tool or technique are you using?

The project team working on a project printing 3,500 technical manuals for a hardware manufacturer can’t inspect every single manual, so they take a random sample and verifty that they have been printed correctly. This is an example of:

What’s the difference between Perform Quality Control and Perform Quality Assurance

You’re a PM for a company that provides toys. You overhear from your project team members that there was a chemical leak in the paint of the toys. You know that it is not toxic but you discover that one of them says, “it’s only a .004 % chance that someone will get sick.” However, it’s holiday season and this would significantly impact sales. What do you do?

You’re managing a project to install 13,000 light switches in a new strip mall. You hire a team of inspectors to help your lead electrician find any defective light switches. They check a sample of 650 light switches, and find that 15% of them are defective. You ask your lead electrician to produce results that shows the defects, by category, by order of importance. What tool is used?