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This set of Total Quality Management TQM Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Total Quality Management Set 17

Q1 | The key to quality is to design and build to the requirements and avoid attempts to inspect quality into the product. There is a need, however, to conduct inspections a critical junctures in the assembly process to ensure defective items are identified prior to making a costly interface or concealing a physical attribute that cannot be inspected at a later time. Inspection plan will identify the points at which examinations of processes, materials, or assemblies are required. However, inspection plans normally do not include ______________.
  • examining the vendor's quality procedures
  • examining surfaces
  • testing personnel skills
  • witnessing destructive and nondestructive tests
Q2 | Which of the following is not part of the Total Quality Approach?
  • holistic thinking
  • focus on short-term financial performance
  • focus on desirability
  • team thinking
Q3 | The majority of advertisers appeal the public on thebasis of which of the following?
  • Quality of product
  • Quality of staff
  • Inferiority of product
  • Inferiority of service
Q4 | Learn how to tell when nothing can be gained from further discussion. This refers to which of the following discussion skills in meetings?
  • Acting as gatekeepers
  • Closing the discussion
  • Asking for clarification
  • Testing for consensus
Q5 | The job characteristic of quality professionals is:
  • Educating others
  • Achieving personal targets
  • Consultative work with other departments
  • None of the above
Q6 | ______________ is a graphic tool for defining the relationship between customerdesires and the firm/product capabilities.
  • House of Quality
  • Affinity diagram
  • Arrow diagram
  • None of the give option
Q7 | Tools and techniques used during the Quality Planning process include:
  • Benefit / cost analysis
  • Benchmarking
  • Quality audits
  • a and b
Q8 | Quality is:
  • Zero defects found
  • Conformance to requirements
  • The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs
  • b and c
Q9 | 80% of the problems are found in 20% of the work is a concept of:
  • Edward Deming
  • Philip Crosby
  • Juran
  • Pareto
Q10 | All of the following statements about control charts are true except:
  • Control charts can be used to establish as well as maintain process control
  • Control charts are used to determine acceptance limits when no limits are stipulated by the product specification; otherwise, one should use the limits dictated by the specification
  • All data points outside the control chart limits are variations explained by
  • B and C
Q11 | The Japanese Quality Control (QC) Circle movement motivated its participants in many ways. Which of the following represents the most important motivation for the QC circle participant?
  • Improving the performance of the company
  • Self-Improvement
  • Financial Incentives
  • Recognition among co-workers
Q12 | Which are the best two charts to show trends in a process?
  • Pareto and Control
  • Control and Run
  • Histogram and Run
  • Gantt and Pert
Q13 | The process of determining that technical processes and procedures are beingperformed in conformance with scope requirements and quality plans is called quality:
  • management
  • assurance
  • process review
  • control
Q14 | You are sampling items from a batch and plotting the results on a control chart. How will an increase in the number of items sample affect the value of the standard deviation used to set the control limit?
  • increase it
  • decrease it
  • no effect on it
  • first increase it, then decrease it
Q15 | From a high level perspective, quality:
  • is ensured by having inspectors
  • cannot be quantitatively measured
  • and productivity are inconsistent objectives
  • is primarily (85 - 95%) a management problem
Q16 | The project management teams for quality should:
  • extend beyond the completion of the project
  • stop at the point of delivery
  • be significantly reduced by a good warranty
  • be ignored by the project manager
Q17 | From the project manager's viewpoint, quality assurance involves:
  • conducting studies to determine if design methods will support quality requirements
  • identifying applicable laws, ordinances and regulations that the project must comply with
  • monitoring inspection activities to ensure that the work is performed as specified
  • A and C
Q18 | The quality management tool that can be described as "a diagram that rank anddisplays defects in order of frequency of occurrence (from left to right)" is a:
  • control chart
  • vertical bar chart
  • histograms
  • Pareto chart
Q19 | The ISO 9000 series is:
  • a set of instructions for preparing control charts
  • a set of guidelines for quality
  • a set of forms and procedures to ensure quality
  • an international standard that describes a recommended quality system
Q20 | Quality control is the technical processes that ______________ the project's progressagainst the performance standards.
  • inspect, certify, and verify
  • examine, analyze, and report
  • inspect, examine, and determine
  • identify, measure, and report
Q21 | When data is plotted on the control charts, the data is of two types: R and -bar. The R data represent points of a ______________ while the X-bar data represent points of a (n) ______________.
  • random sample; cross-matrix sample
  • real sample; simulated sample
  • 100 percent sampling; 10 percent sampling
  • sampling run; average of several runs
Q22 | A quality program within a project should be based on ______________ of errors toimprove productivity along with quality levels.
  • early detection
  • early correction
  • late detection
  • prevention
Q23 | Trend charts reflect the relative status of a program. Trend charts are effectivemeans of ______________.
  • visibility reinforcing the growth of quality improvements to the workers
  • reflecting the precise status of quality failures
  • identifying to customers the failure rates of products
  • setting standards and goals for acceptable levels of quality
Q24 | As one of its goal the project organization has quality to specified performance measures. When compared with the functional organization, the project organization ______________.
  • achieves higher levels of quality
  • is always tailored to meet the specific quality goals
  • is less disciplined in the implementation of quality
  • is more disciplined in the implementation of quality
Q25 | In a quality management information system, there is a need to collect data and format such data into an information output that is useful to the project manager. In developing such an information system, it is good to remember that an optimum system does not supply all the information because ______________.
  • there is never enough information collected
  • the system is incapable of processing all the required information
  • some information costs more to collect than it is worth
  • most information relies on related data to generate the proper output