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Total Quality Management MCQ

1. The total quality management (tqm) philosophy involves all employees in ________.

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Correct Answer: Continuous product quality improvement

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2. Along with customer health, what is important to the FDA?

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Correct Answer: Safety

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3. Whose guidelines are food and beverage manufacturers required to follow?

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Correct Answer: FDA

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4. How many people are in a group if they represent the customer base?

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Correct Answer: Ten

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5. How many people can make up a group?

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Correct Answer: Up to ten

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6. A process diagram shows what?

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Correct Answer: Steps in boxes

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7. What is the first pass yield?

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Correct Answer: The ratio of products that pass inspection to total products produced

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8. What is the first in, first out system used for?

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Correct Answer: Inventory management system

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9. What is the name of the FIFO inventory management system?

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Correct Answer: First in, first-out

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10. What are lines that feed into the main assembly area called?

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Correct Answer: Feeder lines

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11. What are the feeder lines called?

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Correct Answer: Tributary assembly lines

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12. What is the process of mapping out potential product failures and their ramifications called?

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Correct Answer: Failure mode effects analysis

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13. What is the term for the costs incurred when a product or component is defective?

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Correct Answer: Failure cost

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14. What type of defect originating outside of the manufacturer would be considered an external failure?

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Correct Answer: Any defect or nonconformance

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15. What is the purpose of an experiment?

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Correct Answer: To find a better outcome

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16. A quality process that involves changing variables such as tools and conditions to find a better outcome is what?

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Correct Answer: Experimental design

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17. What is the purpose of error proofing?

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Correct Answer: The process of creating an improved product design that prevents errors from being made in the first place

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18. What is the process of creating an improved product design that prevents errors from being made in the first place?

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Correct Answer: Error proofing

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19. What's the purpose of a system that identifies defective products or components?

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Correct Answer: Error detection

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20. What type of quality management system is eQMS?

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Correct Answer: Any software-based

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21. What is a type of quality management system based on software?

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Correct Answer: EQMS

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22. What is the term for how often a piece of equipment can run?

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Correct Answer: Equipment availability

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23. What did an organization do to mitigate their environmental impact?

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Correct Answer: Environmental management system

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24. What is EHS software used for?

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Correct Answer: Any software that helps companies measure their impact on the environment

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25. EHS software helps companies measure their impact on the environment and track their progress towards meeting what goals?

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Correct Answer: Environmental impact

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26. What type of software do many companies use to train their employees?

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Correct Answer: Employee training management software

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27. What is eighty to twenty called?

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Correct Answer: Pareto principle

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28. What is a document control system used for?

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Correct Answer: Creating, revising, approving, and retracting critical documents

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29. What is the general type of Document Control Software?

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Correct Answer: Any software system that assists the process of creating, revising, approving, and retracting critical documents

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30. What does the process of creating, revising, approving and retracting critical documents involve?

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Correct Answer: Document Control Software

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31. What is the process of creating, revising, approving, and retracting critical documents such as training materials or operating instructions related to the manufacturing environment?

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Correct Answer: Document Control

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32. What does the term "diagnosis" mean?

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Correct Answer: The process of determining the root cause of a deficiency

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33. What does deviation mean in statistical terms?

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Correct Answer: The gap between a data point and the central tendency of a data set

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34. What is the name of the gap between a data point and the central tendency of a data set?

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Correct Answer: Deviation

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35. How can a product or machine be said to be dependable?

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Correct Answer: To the full extent of its designed functionality

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36. A product or machine is what to the extent that it can be used to the full extent of its designed functionality at any random time?

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Correct Answer: Dependable

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37. A product or machine is dependable to the extent that it can be used to the full extent of its what?

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Correct Answer: Designed functionality

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38. What are ranked by class and range from cosmetic to catastrophic?

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Correct Answer: Defects

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39. What are defects ranked by?

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Correct Answer: Class and range from cosmetic (class four) to catastrophic (class one).

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40. What does the Decision Matrix do?

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Correct Answer: Help teams choose a method for solving problems

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41. What is the name of a data visualization designed to help teams solve problems or optimize processes?

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Correct Answer: Decision matrix

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42. The physical charts and related software designed to collect data and display it in an interpretable context are called what?

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Correct Answer: Data collection and analysis tools

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43. What is the process of selecting data and methods for analytics?

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Correct Answer: Data collection and analysis

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44. What is the process that selects data and methods for analytics?

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Correct Answer: Collection and analysis

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45. What is the timeframe to complete a single cycle?

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Correct Answer: Cycle time

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46. What is a cycle?

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Correct Answer: Any workflow designed to repeat—once an hour, once a day, once a week, or as needed

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47. What does "Cycle" mean to the workflow designer?

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Correct Answer: Any workflow designed to repeat

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48. When is CRM used?

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Correct Answer: To gather intelligence about customers

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49. What is a discipline that deals with gathering intelligence about customers?

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Correct Answer: Customer relationship management

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50. The CGMP regulations are enforced by the what?

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Correct Answer: United States Food and Drug Administration

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51. What is the acronym for good manufacturing practices?

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Correct Answer: CGMP

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52. How many of the top 10 processes are considered critical?

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Correct Answer: Any process

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53. What type of analysis involves interviewing personnel that were involved in a critical event?

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Correct Answer: An advanced root cause analysis technique

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54. Who is involved in a critical event?

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Correct Answer: Personnel

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55. What is the purpose of a CPG quality management system?

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Correct Answer: Promote and improve consumer packaged goods manufacturing quality

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56. A quality management system designed specifically to promote and improve what?

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Correct Answer: Consumer packaged goods manufacturing quality

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57. What type of manufacturing is the CPG Quality Management system designed to improve?

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Correct Answer: Consumer packaged goods

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58. CPG are regularly used and replaced by whom?

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Correct Answer: Consumers

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59. What is another name for consumer packaged goods?

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Correct Answer: CPG

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60. What is another name for a per unit chart?

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Correct Answer: A control chart variant evaluating process stability by averaging the number of quality events within a sample

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61. How does a control chart variant evaluate process stability?

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Correct Answer: By averaging the number of quality events within a sample

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62. What does a count chart evaluate by counting?

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Correct Answer: Process stability

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63. What is the cost of poor quality?

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Correct Answer: The cost—including fines, loss of revenue, and remediation

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64. What does the acronym "COPQ" stand for?

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Correct Answer: Cost of poor quality

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65. What is not to be confused with causation?

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Correct Answer: Correlation

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66. Correlation is not to be confused with what?

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Correct Answer: Causation

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67. What does corrective action also mean?

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Correct Answer: The act of mitigating a problem

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68. What is the act of repairing a process, a supplier, a product design or more?

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Correct Answer: Corrective action

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69. To what is balance added in corporate governance?

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Correct Answer: Competing priorities

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70. What are the competing priorities in corporate governance?

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Correct Answer: Quality, productivity, revenue, customer satisfaction

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71. What is the name of the process that a manufacturing system is to be maintained?

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Correct Answer: Control plan

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72. A graph of what values over time shows a process becoming more or less stable?

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Correct Answer: Productivity, defects, or other values

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73. How is the continuous sampling plan different from a random sampling plan?

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Correct Answer: A sampling process in which every product is inspected as it’s produced

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74. What does the term "Continuous sampling plan" mean?

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Correct Answer: A sampling process in which every product is inspected as it’s produced.

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75. What process continues until a certain number of products pass inspection in a row?

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Correct Answer: Continuous sampling plan

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76. What is the meaning of the term continuous improvement?

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Correct Answer: A quality management philosophy in which quality is not held static

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77. What is a quality management philosophy that requires that each aspect of quality must show improvement as time goes on?

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Correct Answer: Continuous improvement

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78. How many stations in a batch?

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Correct Answer: One

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79. What term is used to describe a manufacturing process where components are moved from one station to another in batches of one?

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Correct Answer: Continuous flow production

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80. What does an organization need to change in order to lower the risk of receiving a defective product?

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Correct Answer: Sampling and inspection procedures

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81. What does an organization change by changing its sampling and inspection procedures?

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Correct Answer: Consumer’s risk

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82. A customer receives a product that doesn't meet what?

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Correct Answer: Specifications or function as designed

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83. What can prevent a system from increasing the amount of throughput or productivity?

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Correct Answer: A bottleneck

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84. What prevents a system from increasing its productivity or throughput?

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Correct Answer: Constraint

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85. What is the act of assessing whether a product or service can pass inspection and meet its legal, contractual, and regulatory obligations?

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Correct Answer: Conformity assessment

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86. Conformity assessment is the act of assessing whether a product or service can pass what?

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Correct Answer: Inspection

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87. What is the process of a product or service that has passed inspection and met its legal, contractual, or regulatory obligations?

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Correct Answer: Conformance

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88. What kind of obligations does a product or service need to meet if they are in conformance?

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Correct Answer: Legal, contractual, or regulatory

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89. What type of engineering is "Concurrent engineering"?

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Correct Answer: The process of speeding up the design of a new product by developing multiple systems simultaneously

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90. What is the process of speeding up the design of a product by developing multiple systems at once called?

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Correct Answer: Concurrent engineering

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91. What is another term for compliance?

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Correct Answer: Compliance: The process of adhering to regulations, governance, standards, specifications, and more

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92. What does the term "Compliance" mean?

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Correct Answer: The process of adhering to regulations, governance, standards, specifications, and more

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93. Compliance is the process of adhering to what?

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Correct Answer: Regulations, governance, standards, specifications, and more

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94. What kind of complaints management software is designed to help the service desk collect and respond to customer complaints?

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Correct Answer: A software system

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95. What are the main features of a complaints management system?

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Correct Answer: Collect and respond to customer complaints

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96. What is used by the service desk to help collect customer complaints?

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Correct Answer: Complaints management software

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97. What is the process of collecting internal or customer complaints?

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Correct Answer: Complaint tracking

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98. What are internal users?

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Correct Answer: Customers

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99. What type of system is required to handle complaints?

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Correct Answer: Complaint handling system

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100. What can cause a process to vary?

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Correct Answer: Any inherent qualities

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101. What can cause an outcome to vary?

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Correct Answer: Any inherent qualities of a process

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102. Any inherent qualities of a process that can cause the outcome to vary are known as what?

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Correct Answer: Causes

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103. What is a software-based quality-management system designed to be hosted in?

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Correct Answer: The public or private cloud

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