Total Quality Management MCQ
1. Dr. ishikawa is best known for developing a popular quality improvement tool called _____.
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Cause-and-effect diagram.
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2. What type of quality standard do the SAE Aerospace Standards enforce?
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Aerospace quality
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3. What is the name of an Aerospace standard?
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Aerospace Standards
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4. What is the term used by the healthcare industry to refer to any kind of incident that occurs in the context of operations?
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Adverse event
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5. What is the purpose of APQP?
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Guarantee quality
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6. What type of planning ensures quality?
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Advanced Product Quality Planning
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7. What is the name of a planning process using an arrow diagram?
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Activity network diagram
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8. What type of costing is based on the total costs of the product?
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Activity-based costing
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9. What does the term "activity based costing" mean?
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The total cost of designing, ordering, and manufacturing a product
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10. What is the process of certification that an organization can deliver specific services safely and competently?
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Accreditation
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11. What constitutes an acceptable or unacceptable item?
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Items sampled
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12. What type of sampling plan defines the number of items sampled?
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Acceptance sampling plan
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13. What is the Acceptance quality limit?
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The acceptance number averaged over a series of lots
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14. What does exceeding the Acceptance quality limit mean?
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The process is no longer satisfactory
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15. What number is allowed for defects in a sampling lot?
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Acceptance number
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16. What does exceeding the allowable number of defects mean?
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The lot is not acceptable
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17. What is needed to achieve conforming products or services?
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The conditions within the company infrastructure
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18. What does the term "traceability" mean?
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The ability to track the history of a part or service
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19. What is the ability to track the history of a part or service called?
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Traceability
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20. What type of material might be scrapped?
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Nonconforming
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21. What is a decision to dispose of nonconforming material that is unusable in any form called?
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22. What does the term 'risk' mean?
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The result of uncertainty
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23. What is the result of uncertainty?
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24. What is an example of a nonconformity product or service?
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25. What are the specific goals designed to support the Quality Policy?
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Quality objectives
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26. What is a document that defines the scope of an organization's quality management system?
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The Quality Manual
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27. What does the Quality Manual define the scope of?
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Quality management system
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28. What does the Quality Manual provide a description of?
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How the processes of the QMS interact
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29. What is a Quality Management System sometimes called?
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30. A quality management system is defined by policies, processes, documented procedures and what other things?
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31. An overall system could be considered to be smaller, what type of process?
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Interrelated processes
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32. What could improving individual processes be a much easier and more effective way to control and improve?
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The entire system
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33. What is a list of steps to take to make a process work properly?
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Procedure
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34. Procedures need not be what if they are specified?
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Documented
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35. What is the term for taking the same steps as a corrective action?
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Preventive Action
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36. What do the initials PDCA stand for?
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Plan-Do-Check-Act
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37. Who popularized the PDCA cycle?
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Edward Deming
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38. Who originated the PDCA cycle?
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Walter Shewhart
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39. What is an example of an infrastructure piece?
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Process equipment
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40. What is the term for the physical surroundings required for a business?
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Infrastructure
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41. A process can be effective, but if it takes too many what to achieve the results, the process may not be considered efficient?
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Resources
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42. What can the effectiveness be used for in ISO 9001?
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Assessing a process outcome against the plan for the process
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43. What is a common plan for assessing process outcomes against a process plan?
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ISO 9001 QMS
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44. What is the act of taking the design outputs and comparing them to the design inputs?
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Design verification
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45. What does it mean to correct the root cause?
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The actions taken to correct the root cause of a problem are called a corrective action
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46. When a nonconformity occurs, there are steps taken to correct what?
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The immediate problem
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47. What does correction mean when a nonconformity occurs?
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Steps taken to correct the immediate problem
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48. What is the ability of a process output to satisfy the requirements it is desired to meet?
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Conformity
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49. What do competence requirements of a job include?
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Employee skills
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50. What is the ability of an employee's known skills and experience to satisfy the requirements of the job?
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Competence
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51. Performance standards depicted by Crosby aim to reduce what in order to directly increase profits?
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52. What does world-class quality represent?
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Best of the best
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53. What is a term used to indicate a standard of excellence?
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World-Class Quality
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54. What does world-class quality indicate?
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A standard of excellence: best of the best
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55. What is the name of the part of a machine or equipment that is being worked on and not yet processed?
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Items between machines or equipment waiting to be processed
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56. Items between machines or equipment waiting to be processed are called what in the manufacturing world?
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Work in process Items
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57. What are several examples of items that may be prioritized by weighed voting?
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Issues, ideas or attributes
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58. What does the Japanese word for waste translate to in English?
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59. What is the purpose of verification confirmation?
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By examination and provision of objective evidence that specified requirements have been fulfilled
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60. What sort of evidence is required to prove the requirements of a visa have been fulfilled?
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Objective
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61. What is the process of providing evidence that a requirement has been fulfilled called?
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Verification Confirmation
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62. What type of evidence may be used to confirm the requirements?
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Objective
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63. What is a type II error?
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Incorrect decision to accept something when it is unacceptable
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64. What is the name of the type of error that a decision to reject something is?
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Type II error
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65. Type I error is called what in statistics?
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An incorrect decision to reject something
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66. What does a Type I error signify?
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Incorrect decision to reject something
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67. What is the name of the error that results in rejecting a lot of products?
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Type I error
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68. What is the English meaning of the Japanese word jidoka?
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Automation with a human touch
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69. Where does Toyota Production System fall under?
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Lean manufacturing
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70. What is the first concept in the Toyota Production System called?
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71. What is the acronym for a comprehensive and structured approach to organizational management?
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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72. What is the rate the system generates money through sales?
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Throughput
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73. Throughput is the rate the system generates money through sales or the conversion of what into shipped product?
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Inventory
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74. What is the German word for "cycle time"?
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75. What does the German word taktzeit translate to?
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Cycle time
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76. What is the average time required to produce a unit of product for a given rate of demand?
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Takt time
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77. What is an example of a system?
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System A set of interrelated / interacting processes
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78. What is another word for "System"?
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79. How many activities are needed to achieve supplier confidence?
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80. Who stated nine primary activities are needed to achieve supplier quality assurance?
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Joseph M. Juran
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81. What is the name of the program that HACCP and ISO processes are incorporated into?
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SQF Incorporates both HACCP and ISO processes
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82. What does SQF stand for?
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Safe Quality Food
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83. What is the term for provisions of objective evidence?
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84. What kind of evidence must be provided when SPC is used?
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Objective
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85. Who administered the Sarbanes Oxley Act?
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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86. What type of company is required to follow Sarbanes Oxley Act rules?
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Public companies
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87. SMED is also known as what?
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Quick Changeover
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88. What kind of diagram shows all the elements of a process?
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89. Who uses SIPOC diagrams?
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Six Sigma process improvement teams
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90. What is the Japanese word for the practice of numbering part purchases?
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91. What does the kanji for seiban mean?
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Manufacturing
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92. What does the Japanese word ban mean in the term seiban?
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93. What type of diagram shows pattern relationships between two variables?
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Scatter Diagram
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94. When are scatter diagrams used to determine correlations?
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To demonstrate what happens to one variable when another is changed
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95. What type of chart shows data points plotted in the order they occur?
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Line graphs
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96. What is an identified reason for a defect or nonconformance that, if eliminated, will prevent reoccurrence?
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Root cause
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97. What is an example of an activity included in risk management?
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Assessment
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98. What is an example of an activity that could be included in risk management?
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Prioritization and control
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99. What is the result of the evaluation of the risk?
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Whether or not this risk is acceptable
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100. What tool or process is used to identify hazards and determine risk?
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Risk Management Software
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101. What are the two methods used to assess risk?
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Manually or with assistance of risk management software
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102. What does the word "Risk" mean in general terms?
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103. What is the term for the potential for loss?
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