BSOP 588 Final Exam - Package for 2 Versions..................(BSOP 588 Managing Quality - DeVry)

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BSOP 588 Final Exam - Version 1 (Taken 2014)

  • Multiple Choice
  1. Question: (TCO E) Determining how customers will value your products can be assessed by all of the following EXCEPT:
  2. Question: (TCO D) All of the following are stages in developing an improvement plan EXCEPT:
  3. Question: (TCO C) Terms such as kanban, single-minute exchange of dies, and visual controls are most closely associated with:
  4. Question: (TCO C) Which one of the following would not be a primary step in the poka-yoke process?
  5. Question: (TCO B) _____ measures are generally tracked by senior leadership to gauge overall organizational performance.
  6. Question: (TCO I) The cost associated with unplanned machine downtime, when operators halt the production line after identifying an unacceptably high rate of defective output, should be classified as:
  7. Question: (TCO A) Lean approaches focus on:
  8. Question: (TCO B) Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed a balanced scorecard which had four perspectives. Which one of the following is NOT one of them?
  9. Question: (TCO D) ISO 9000 requires that all the elements required for a quality system, such as control processes, measuring and test equipment, and other resources needed to achieve the required quality of conformance, be documented in a _____, which serves as a permanent reference for implementing and maintaining the system.
  10. Question: (TCO H) Determining the most likely causes of defects occurs during which DMAIC phase?
  • Essay Type
  1. Question: (TCO B) Explain why it is difficult to obtain a single, universal definition of quality. Be specific in your response.
  2. Question: (TCO I) Identify three aspects of managing and using performance data so that it is useful to the organization. Provide an example of each aspect. Be specific in your response.
  3. Question: (TCO G) Discuss how the corporate culture is displayed and its role on quality management behavior. Please provide multiple examples.
  4. Question: (TCO F) What could be the reason(s) for failed quality management strategies?
  5. Question: (TCO H) Explain the process of design failure mode and effects analysis and describe how it could be applied to the cashier checkout stand at a supermarket. Make sure you provide at least three examples. 
  6. Question: (TCO C) Some have argued the Six Sigma programs are merely repackaged versions of older quality improvement programs that originally accompanied TQM initiatives in the 1980s. Present arguments both support and refute this view. Make sure you link your discussion with examples of the older quality improvement programs (i.e. Deming, Juran, and so forth).
 

BSOP 588 Final Exam - Version 2 (Taken 2012)

Multiple Choice

  1. Question: (TCO E) Suggested reasons why many customer satisfaction efforts fail include all of the following EXCEPT:
  2. Question: (TCO D) The Six-Sigma problem solving approach contains the phases of:
  3. Question: (TCO C) Terms such as “kanban”, “single minute exchange of dies”, and “visual controls” are most closely associated with:
  4. Question: (TCO C) Poka-yoke focuses on two aspects:
  5. Question: (TCO B) _____ measures are generally tracked by senior leadership to gauge overall organizational performance.
  6. Question: (TCO I) The cost of purchasing copies of a textbook on quality for employees as part of their training program in process improvement methods is considered:
  7. Question: (TCO A) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a Six Sigma project?
  8. Question: (TCO B) A set of financial, market, operational, and employee performance measures for management review and use is an example of:
  9. Question: (TCO D) The Baldrige Award criteria, as a tool for self-assessment:
  10. Question: (TCO H) Focusing on how to maintain improvements occurs in which DMAIC phase?

Essay Type

  1. Question: (TCO B) Explain why it is difficult to obtain a single, universal definition of quality. Be specific in your response.
  2. Question: (TCO I) What criterion is used to classify a failure cost as “internal” versus “external”? Give three examples of an internal failure cost and three examples of an external failure cost.
  3. Question: (TCO G) Discuss the three major reasons why companies adopt total quality. Also, discuss the initial key steps are involved in the adoption process.
  4. Question: (TCO F) Explain in detail why change is necessary in organizations. Describe the effects that change can have on quality management with respect to employee commitment and quality levels.
  5. Question: (TCO H) Describe the six basic steps required to build the House of Quality. Describe, in general, where in the House are customer and technical requirements located. Also explain why it is important that each area of the House is “linked” with the others.
  6. Question: (TCO C) Some have argued the Six Sigma programs are merely repackaged versions of older quality improvement programs that originally accompanied TQM initiatives in the 1980s. Present arguments that both support and refute this view. Make sure you link your discussion with examples of the older quality improvement programs (i.e. Deming, Juran, etc)
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