QUESTION 340
Which of the following factors is most likely to affect a project’s cost?

QUESTION 341
Water is delivered to ice-cube trays that are placed in freezers at less than -6° centigrade. The trays are removed from the freezers after six hours. If the water has not completely frozen, the trays are returned to the freezer until freezing is complete. The ice-cubes are then removed from the trays, inspected, and placed in bags. Defective cubes are discarded. The bags filled with cubes are kept in storage freezers. Alarms are sounded if a freezer’s temperature goes above -6 centigrade. It has been shown that water in the ice-cube trays will freeze in six hours at -6′”‘ centigrade or less. Which of the following correctly depicts the flowchart for the process?

QUESTION 342
A service y has decided to expand the current focus of its regional territory to all of North Americ a. This decision is an example of

QUESTION 343
Which of the following is a benefit of using quality function deployment (QFD)?

QUESTION 344
Rank in order, from first lo last, the following steps for deploying the strategic plan throughout the organization.
1. Development of quality goals and strategies by upper management
2. Implementation of action by line departments
3. Establish focus on customer needs
4. Translate strategies into the annual business plan

QUESTION 345
Which of the following approaches should be used to ensure that a training program will help solve a particular problem?

QUESTION 346
Which of the following best describes the differences between cross-functional and matrix organizations?

QUESTION 347
Which of the following methods is considered a non-routine communication between a supplier and a customer?

QUESTION 348
Who is responsible for establishing goals for a comp that is in the early stages of developing a quality system?

QUESTION 349
When Cp and Cpk valuers of a process are equal, the process average will be

QUESTION 350
A manager who uses a different leadership style for subordinates depending on the task-related maturity of those subordinates is employing what type of leadership style?

QUESTION 351
What is the first phase in initiating a benchmarking plan?

QUESTION 352
In preparation for strategic planning, organizations should look closely at their industry to determine:
I. The amount of excess capacity.
II. Which competitors might join forces and become a greater threat.
III. How employees perceive competitor advertisements.
IV. What changes in regulatory requirements are likely to occur.

QUESTION 353
Which of the following factors is most critical when deciding between manual data collection and automated data collection for monitoring a production line in an organization?

QUESTION 354
During a process improvement effort, the team discovers that machine X is underutilized, but it is not a bottleneck in the operation. Under the theory of constraints, the team should make which of the following recommendations?

QUESTION 355
For this question, please refer to the following flow diagram of a company ‘ s forecasting and internal ordering process.

On the basis of this diagram, which of the following conclusions can be drawn?

QUESTION 356
Typical tools used as aids in selecting members for a process improvement team are:

QUESTION 357
A modification of Lewin’s unfreezing-moving-refreezing model may provide support for change. According to this model there are following ways to reduce change resistance Except:

QUESTION 358
Organization X installs new machine learning technologies to identify latent key performance indicators (KPIs). What quality technique could be used to determine the KPIs to enhance the value of the short, medium, and long term strategic planning efforts?

QUESTION 359
Which of the following tools should HR use to monitor the number of hours lost due to worker absenteeism?

QUESTION 360
A team with representatives from internal customers and internal suppliers has been established to identify and implement improvements in incoming and outgoing processes from the production department. Who is responsible for developing the measurement needed to monitor this change?

QUESTION 361
Which of the following tools should a trainer use to identify the existing levels of employee knowledge?

QUESTION 362
Which of the following statements driven organization?

QUESTION 363
Strategic planning should begin with:

QUESTION 364
Throughput is defined as the