CLEP Principles of Management Exam Prep - Question List

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41. Kaoru Ishikawa worked with other quality professionals such as W.E. Deming to advance quality management. Among his philosophies was for a company to put quality as its greatest priority and not short term profits. Ishikawa is also credited with the development of:
  1. CTQ diagram
  2. kaizen diagram
  3. SWOT analysis
  4. cause-and-effect diagram
42. Six Sigma is a fact-based, rigorous methodology in process and quality improvement that aims for defect prevention in products rather than defect detection. Six Sigma quality performance means there are ____ defects per million opportunities.
  1. 1.5
  2. 5.1
  3. 4.3
  4. 3.4
43. Which quality management professional is referred to as the father of statistical quality control (SQC)?
  1. Walter Shewhart
  2. W. Edwards Deming
  3. Joseph Juran
  4. Philip Crosby
44. In Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), a probability score is assigned to the likelihood that current controls in a business or industrial process will become aware of the causes of a failure. What is this FMEA element referred to?
  1. probability of occurrence
  2. severity of impact
  3. likelihood of detection
  4. length of delay
45. Taaichi Ohno is a well-known Japanese businessman who was one of the early pioneers of lean manufacturing. Which one of the following concepts is Ohno associated with:
  1. FMEA
  2. CTS
  3. CTP
  4. TPS

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