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Total Quality management MCQ

1. Dr. ishikawa is best known for developing a popular quality improvement tool called _____.

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Correct Answer: Cause-and-effect diagram

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2. What is a quality-management system that can be hosted in the public or private cloud?

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Correct Answer: Cloud QMS

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3. How are defects ranked in terms of seriousness?

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Correct Answer: Least to most

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4. What is meant by "check sheet"?

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Correct Answer: A basic data collection tool

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5. What is a basic data collection tool that allows workers to understand the output of a process or a workflow?

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Correct Answer: Check sheet

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6. What is typically included in a checklist?

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Correct Answer: A list of items individuals must check off

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7. What kind of list is a checklist?

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Correct Answer: A list of items

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8. What type of changeover takes place over time?

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Correct Answer: Routine or unscheduled change

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9. What is the name of the time taken to tear down a process component?

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Correct Answer: Changeover time

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10. What sort of software does change management software assist?

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Correct Answer: Processes changing product designs

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11. What type of software is intended to assist processes changing product designs, processes, or workflows within an organization?

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Correct Answer: Change management software

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12. What is change management?

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Correct Answer: Changing a product design, process, or workflow within an organization

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13. What does the acceptance of a lot depend on besides its sample results?

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Correct Answer: The results of the lots before it

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14. What type of phenomenon is the central tendency?

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Correct Answer: Statistical

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15. What's the purpose of this mark?

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Correct Answer: Designates a product that conforms with regulations allowing it to be sold within European Economic Area

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16. What does the CE marking stand for?

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Correct Answer: Conformitè Europëenne

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17. What type of manufacturing does Cellular manufacturing involve?

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Correct Answer: Cellular manufacturing: A manufacturing process in which capital equipment and operators are placed within a U-shaped cell

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18. What is the typical shape of a cell?

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Correct Answer: U-shaped

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19. What does a cell arrangement typically include?

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Correct Answer: Workers and capital equipment

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20. What is the term for the cause and effect diagram?

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Correct Answer: Fishbone diagram

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21. What is another name for a "fishbone diagram"?

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Correct Answer: Cause and effect diagram

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22. What are some examples of cause?

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Correct Answer: The identifiable origin of a process error or nonconformance

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23. What are the capacity constraint resources?

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Correct Answer: Any constraint on the output of the process

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24. Any constraint on the output of the process, other than a what?

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Correct Answer: Bottleneck

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25. According to the Capability Maturity Model, what is the process of going from immaturity to maturity?

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Correct Answer: Development

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26. A plan that governs the development of software processes from immaturity to maturity and effectiveness is called what?

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Correct Answer: Capability maturity model

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27. How does the amount a process can vary while remaining stable relate to the control charts?

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Correct Answer: Ability

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28. What sort of metric is measure of how a process varies while remaining stable?

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Correct Answer: Capability

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29. What type of program documents corrective action taken after an accident or nonconformance?

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Correct Answer: A program

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30. What is a program designed to implement and document corrective action?

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Correct Answer: CAPA program

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31. Calibration is the act of comparing a measurement tool's output with what?

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Correct Answer: A tool with known accuracy

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32. Calibration is the process of tuning a measurement tool by comparing its output to a tool with what?

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Correct Answer: Known accuracy

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33. Business process re-engineering is the act of reworking what?

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Correct Answer: Business processes

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34. What is a 'breakthrough improvement'?

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Correct Answer: More than a gradual improvement—a sudden and intentional performance increase to a greater quality tier

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35. What type of plot is used to identify statistical outliers?

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Correct Answer: Box and whisker plot

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36. What are outliers highlighted in a Box and Whisker Plot?

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Correct Answer: Information

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37. What is the BSR also responsible for creating?

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Correct Answer: American National Standards

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38. What board is responsible for creating new national standards?

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Correct Answer: Board of Standards Review

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39. A block diagram displaying the components of a workflow is referred to as what?

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Correct Answer: A graphic that displays the operational components

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40. What is the meaning of the term "best practice"?

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Correct Answer: An agreed-upon cross-industry method that supports process improvement within an organization

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41. What type of improvement is best practice?

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Correct Answer: Process

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42. What is a study designed to determine?

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Correct Answer: Whether improving a product costs more than any increase in revenue

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43. A study designed to determine whether improving a product costs more than any increase in revenue because of improved customer satisfaction or functionality what is its name?

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Correct Answer: Benefit-cost analysis

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44. What does benchmarking measure?

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Correct Answer: Level of quality

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45. The process of benchmarking is done to ensure that what is the quality achieved at market leading organizations?

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Correct Answer: The level of quality

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46. What is the process by which an organization determines the level of quality achieved at market-leading organizations and then replicates their processes?

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Correct Answer: Benchmarking

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47. What is the purpose of the Batch and Queue process?

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Correct Answer: The process of intentionally overproducing components and then staging them at the next operational area

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48. What is the purpose of overproducing components and staging them before using them?

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Correct Answer: Batch and queue

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49. What is a common practice to determine product quality?

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Correct Answer: Failure mode and effects analysis

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50. What prevents a resource from stagnation or overuse?

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Correct Answer: Balancing the line

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51. What happens when resources stagnate?

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Correct Answer: Overuse

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52. What is the purpose of the Balanced Scorecard?

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Correct Answer: Continuous strategic improvement

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53. What is the term for a system for continuous strategic improvement based on top-down management regarding internal workflows?

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Correct Answer: Balanced scorecard

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54. What type of facility is balanced plant?

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Correct Answer: A facility containing exactly enough raw materials to create the exact number of products that the market demands

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55. A facility containing exactly enough what to create the exact number of products the market demands?

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Correct Answer: Raw materials

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56. What is a facility that contains exactly enough raw materials to create the exact number of products that the market demands called?

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Correct Answer: Balanced plant

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57. What does the term "total inspection" refer to?

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Correct Answer: The average of all units inspected in all lots

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58. What is the average of all units inspected in all lots?

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Correct Answer: Average total inspection

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59. What does the acronym "ASN" stand for?

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Correct Answer: Average sample number

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60. What is the name of the metric that denotes the number of inspections that must take place before a shift in magnitude occurs?

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Correct Answer: Run lengths

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61. What is the maximum level of quality that a finished product can achieve based on average incoming quality?

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Correct Answer: Outgoing quality limit

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62. What is the name of the metric that compares the quality of a finished product with the quality of its constituent components?

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Correct Answer: Outgoing quality

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63. How is process stability evaluated using the average chart?

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Correct Answer: Using the subgroup average

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64. What type of average is used to evaluate process stability?

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Correct Answer: Subgroup

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65. What do the machines that inspect products have the authority to do?

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Correct Answer: Shut down production

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66. What are Machines inspecting?

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Correct Answer: Products and components

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67. An automated quality process that inspects products and components is called what?

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Correct Answer: Autonomation

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68. What are the machines inspecting?

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Correct Answer: Products and components

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69. What is the purpose of an automotive quality management system?

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Correct Answer: Any quality management system designed to enforce and improve best practices related to automotive production

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70. The quality management system is to enforce and improve what?

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Correct Answer: Best practices

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71. What term refers to a quality management system for automotive production?

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Correct Answer: Automotive Quality Management System

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72. What are audit software designed to do?

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Correct Answer: Help quality managers respond to audit requests

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73. Quality managers can use audit software to respond to what?

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Correct Answer: Audit requests

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74. What is an audit intended to do?

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Correct Answer: Verify whether an organization, its products, or its services comply with standards set down by a third-party governing body

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75. What does a quality control method use to determine if a unit passes inspection?

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Correct Answer: Measurable attributes

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76. An aggregate of what determines whether to halt or continue an industrial process?

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Correct Answer: Conformance data

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77. What is the aggregate of conformance data that determine whether to halt or continue an industrial process?

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Correct Answer: Attribute data

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78. What is unrelated to random probability an assignable cause?

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Correct Answer: An identifiable source of deviation

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79. What is an identifiable source of deviation?

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Correct Answer: Assignable cause

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80. Quality assessment ensures that what?

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Correct Answer: That an organization or product conforms to a quality benchmark

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81. Quality assessment is the process of ensuring that an organization or product conforms to what?

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Correct Answer: A quality benchmark

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82. What type of benchmark ensures that an organization or product conforms to a quality benchmark?

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Correct Answer: Assessment

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83. What is another name for arrow diagram?

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Correct Answer: Flow chart

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84. What is used to map out workflows?

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Correct Answer: Arrow diagram

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85. How much it costs to determine quality?

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Correct Answer: Appraisal cost

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86. What is the term for determining whether the quality organizations deliver?

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Correct Answer: Appraisal

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87. An organization uses the ANSI ASC X12 to do what?

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Correct Answer: Deliver shipping notifications

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88. What is the ANSI standard that governs how organizations communicate with customers?

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Correct Answer: ANSI ACS X12

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89. What is the ANOVA used for?

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Correct Answer: To point out how a factor or factors contribute to overall variation

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90. What are the main purposes of anom?

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Correct Answer: To help citizen data scientists understand variance when troubleshooting workflows and creating new processes

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91. What is the ANOM chart designed to help citizens understand?

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Correct Answer: Variance

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92. What does ASTD promote for workers being trained for the job?

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Correct Answer: Classroom materials

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93. What organization in the US is ASTD?

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Correct Answer: American Society for Training and Development

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94. What is ASTM's purpose?

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Correct Answer: A nonprofit offering a discussion group

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95. What standards does ASTM create?

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Correct Answer: Voluntary standards

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96. What is the ANSI-ASQ responsible for accrediting?

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Correct Answer: Certifying quality and environmental management systems

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97. What standards are accredited by ANSI?

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Correct Answer: ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

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98. ANSI is responsible for standards within the U.S. what organization is ANSI a member of?

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Correct Answer: International Organization for Standardization

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99. Who represents the United States in the ISO?

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Correct Answer: American National Standards Institute

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100. What company has compiled the USACI index since 1994?

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Correct Answer: American Customer Satisfaction Index

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101. When was the American Customer Satisfaction Index created?

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Correct Answer: 1994

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102. What kind of improvement is emphasized?

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Correct Answer: Continuous

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103. Which type of system is designed to improve aerospace manufacturing?

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Correct Answer: Aerospace Quality Management Systems

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