Six Sigma Green Belt
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Exam: SSGB
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Which lean concept is also known as the heartbeat of the lean organization?
A. Single-piece flow
B. Takt time
C. Value stream
D. Single Minute Exchange of Dies
Ultimately, who defines a product's value?
A. Managers
B. Customers
C. Engineers
D. Salespeople
A study is being performed on the effects of video games on boys and girls. The x-axis on the chart represents time playing video games and the y-axis represents hyperactivity. Points are plotted along a line for boys and a separate line is plotted for girls. Which data plot in the following exhibit represents a significant main effect for the gender?
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Which tool is used as a form of quality control and is deployed during process baseline estimation to monitor the variables and parameters occurring within a particular process?
A. Flow charts
B. Histograms
C. Process maps
D. SPC charts
A Six Sigma improvement project has reduced the risk associated with a critical portion of a production process. The project team must now focus on the next highest priority risk in the process. How can the next highest priority risk be found?
A. Hold a brainstorming session.
B. Develop a control plan.
C. Perform a measurement system capability re-analysis.
D. Perform a failure modes and effects analysis.
A failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has identified four issues and their probability of occurrence, severity, and the effectiveness of control measures currently in place to catch the issue. These issues, and the appropriate weighted index values, are presented in the following FMEA Results table.
Which issue should be addressed first?
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Which of the following activities would be performed as part of project closure?
A. Review opportunities
B. Feasibility study
C. Value stream mapping
D. SWOT analysis
Which type of team is best suited for handling issues related to an organization's policies, practices, and operations?
A. Six Sigma teams
B. Quality teams
C. Project Teams
D. Cross functional teams
DFSS projects are appropriate for which type of situation?
A. Acquiring new customers
B. Modifying existing products
C. Creating new products
D. Changing existing procedures
Which quality pioneer created the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) problem solving technique?
A. W. Edward Deming
B. Armand V. Feigenbaum
C. Philip B. Crosby
D. Kaoru Ishikawa
While reviewing an X-bar control chart, you notice a set of seven consecutively decreasing points. You check previous control charts and notice that this is not a regular occurrence. What could have caused this behavior?
A. Machine deterioration
B. Incorrectly calculated control limits
C. Process is over-controlled
D. New machine operator
Four police dogs are being evaluated for use on a drug detection team. To test the dogs, 20 packages of drugs are hidden throughout a lot of luggage. The results of the test appear in the Drug Finding Test Results table.
You need to determine whether there is a significant difference between the dogs' ability to find drugs based on this test. You decide to use the chi-squared test. Given a confidence interval of 95%, what is the critical value (X-squared)?
A. 7.81
B. 5.99
C. 0.1026
D. 0.352
Which quality pioneer is best known for developing engineering methods for robust product design?
A. Kaoru Ishikawa
B. Walter A. Shewhart
C. Joseph M. Juran
D. Genichi Taguchi
Review the chart type in the following exhibit. Which chart type is being presented?
A. Gantt chart
B. Flow chart
C. Pareto chart
D. Process map
A sample of 50 computer chips is taken from a continuous process. The current defect rate for this process is 5%. What is the probability of finding four defects in the sample using the Poisson distribution?
A. 76.57%
B. 13.36%
C. 39.06%
D. 2.50%
When evaluating the cost of poor quality (COPQ), what is an example of an internal failure cost?
A. Restocking costs
B. Equipment calibration
C. Excess inventory
D. Procedure reviews
Which lean concept refers to mistake-proofing a process?
A. Poka-yoke
B. Pull
C. Process flow chart
D. Queue time
Which step of a 5S program includes ensuring that all tools are present and put away in the proper location?
A. Seiton
B. Shitsuke
C. Seiso
D. Seiketso
Which type of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is used to study and evaluate manufacturing and assembly?
A. System
B. Service
C. Design
D. Process
What are the five steps in Six Sigma's DMAIC process?
A. Design, Measure, Automate, Improve, Control
B. Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
C. Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Correct
D. Define, Monitor, Analyze, Improve, Control
After the customers and their needs are identified, what is the next step in collecting Voice of the Customer (VOC) data?
A. Collect and analyze data
B. Determine critical to quality characteristics
C. Refine customer needs
D. Create specifications
For which type of information would informal communication, such as rumors, be an appropriate delivery mechanism?
A. News of an employee's willing retirement
B. An employee's second reprimand for an offense
C. Six Sigma being adopted as a strategic initiative
D. A business agreement with another company
Where in the house of quality would you find a list of customer needs and desires?
A. Left wall
B. Roof
C. Foundation
D. Right wall
Which chart type is presented in the following exhibit?
A. Fishbone diagram
B. Control chart
C. Scatter diagram
D. Pareto chart
Which hypothesis test can be used to detect a difference in three or more population means?
A. Paired t test
B. ANOVA
C. F test
D. Z test
Which document can be used as a communication tool to demonstrate root causes of problems, outline actions, and identify results?
A. Project charter
B. Status report
C. A3 report
D. Management review
Which tool is used in a Six Sigma process improvement project to identify relevant elements such as process inputs and outputs before work begins?
A. Process FMEA
B. SIPOC diagram
C. Kanban
D. Visual factory
An activity that adds no value for the customer to a process or product describes which lean concept?
A. Level loading
B. Muda
C. Just-in-time
D. Perfection
Which method of quantifying measurement errors combines repeatability and reproducibility together in the analysis system?
A. Range method
B. Average and Range method
C. Analysis of Variance method
D. ANOVA method
Which customer would influence the company at the operations level?
A. A member of the company's top management
B. A supplier of raw material for the company's product
C. A shareholder owning stock in the company
D. A customer who purchases the company's product
A bag contains 20 blue poker chips, 35 green poker chips, and 24 red poker chips. What is the probability of pulling out a blue chip, followed by a green chip, followed by a red chip?
A. 5.9%
B. 3.5%
C. 3.4%
D. 2.1%
Which option best describes an analytical study?
A. An observation is made about the location, spread, and shape of data distribution around a central tendency.
B. Descriptive statistics are used to describe a current process.
C. The nature of what is occurring in a given process is described.
D. A sample is used to make judgments about a population.
Using the Z test, how is a left one-tailed test denoted?
A. The sign for the alternate hypothesis is <.
B. The sign for the alternate hypothesis is !=.
C. The sign for the null hypothesis is <.
D. The sign for the null hypothesis is =.
Which method is used to clean the work environment as part of waste elimination?
A. Poka-yoke
B. SMED
C. Kaizen
D. 5S
What is the correct order of control plan phases as defined by the Advanced Product Quality Planning and Control Plan Reference Manual?
A. Pre-launch, prototype, production
B. Production, pre-launch, prototype
C. Prototype, pre-launch, production
D. Production, prototype, pre-launch
What is known as "the team stage where the team members start working effectively as a group to complete tasks"?
A. Performing
B. Storming
C. Forming
D. Norming
Which option is defined as "having an operator make similar measurements close to the same time"?
A. Nominal
B. Precision
C. Calibration
D. Accuracy
Where in the house of quality would you find a list of benchmarks or target values?
A. Foundation
B. Roof
C. Right wall
D. Left wall
Which test examines the variance of multiple sample means?
A. Student's t Test
B. F Distribution
C. MUDA
D. ANOVA
Given the following Data Set table, which measure of central tendency is equal to 2?
A. Mean
B. Mode
C. Range
D. Median
Which option describes a paired t test inference test?
A. The variances of two samples' data are compared for equality.
B. The difference in means is calculated from two samples with unknown, but assumed equal, variances.
C. The difference in means is calculated from two samples with unknown, but assumed unequal, variances.
D. The difference in means is calculated from data collected in tandem from two samples.
You have created a Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer (SIPOC) diagram for your business system. You notice that the output of your process has changed but there has been no change in the suppliers, inputs, or the process. What information can be derived from this scenario?
A. Changes in output are not controlled by the suppliers, inputs, or the process.
B. The suppliers, inputs, and the process are unstable.
C. The SIPOC diagram is not complete.
D. Changes in output are not related to changes in suppliers, inputs, or the process.
Refer to the exhibit. Which step is identified with an X?
A. Analyze
B. Identify
C. Communicate
D. Track
You are constructing an X-bar control chart for a process that produces lengths of pipe. During sampling, you acquire the following data, as presented in the Control Chart Sample Data table.
What are the UCL and LCL for the X-bar control chart?
A. UCL = 1.336, LCL = 0.000
B. UCL = 13.410, LCL = 12.350
C. UCL = 13.410, LCL = 0.000
D. UCL = 12.350, LCL = 1.336
Which tool is used to translate general customer requirements into specific requirements?
A. Critical to quality tree
B. Affinity diagram
C. Kano analysis
D. Quality function deployment
Which type of control chart is appropriate for attribute data?
A. Median chart
B. MX-bar - MR chart
C. np chart
D. X-bar - R chart
What is an example of variable data?
A. Depth of a cut
B. Scrapped parts
C. Welds per unit
D. Number of scratches
Data about the current process is collected in which step of the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC) process?
A. Control
B. Analyze
C. Define
D. Measure
Which project documentation tool graphically displays the start date, end date, and duration of project activities?
A. PERT chart
B. Pareto diagram
C. Gantt chart
D. Work breakdown structure
Semi-finished products are an example of which category of muda?
A. Repair
B. Inventory
C. Motion
D. Overproduction
Which statement describes TPM?
A. A proactive quality tool that helps you to identify, define, prioritize, and eliminate known or potential failures of the design, system, or manufacturing process
B. An approach that orders product, service, or process design to minimize the potential for flaws or errors that may be built into a design
C. A proactive approach with the goal of removing deficiencies from machines to minimize or eliminate defects and downtime
D. A high-level process map that depicts the suppliers, inputs, processes, outputs, and customers of a process
What is an advantage of manual project management methods versus automatic project management methods?
A. Automatic project management methods are not easily transportable
B. Manual project management methods make displaying large projects easier
C. Manual project management methods are easy to learn
D. Automatic project management methods do not support changes in reporting formats
You are part of a Six Sigma team. You create a scatter diagram of the amount of snowfall against the number of skis sold. A correlation coefficient of 0.9 is calculated. What can be inferred by this result?
A. An increase in the amount of snowfall causes an increase in the number of skis sold.
B. When the amount of snowfall increases, the number of skis sold decreases
C. An increase in the amount of snowfall causes a reduction in the number of skis sold.
D. When the amount of snowfall increases, the number of skis sold increases.
In creating a customer satisfaction survey, you want to measure the strength of the respondent's opinion while limiting the number of answer choices available to them. Which question format would be most appropriate?
A. Open-ended
B. Fill-in-the-blank
C. Likert scale
D. Yes/No
Which project management and planning tool is originally known as an arrow diagram and incorporates many practices from the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) and the critical path method (CPM)?
A. Interrelation diagraphs
B. Activity network diagram
C. Affinity diagram
D. Prioritization matrix
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