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PMP Quality Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rework - Scrap - Inventory costs - Warranty costs






2. Technique that allows ideas to be brainstormed in small groups and then reviewed by a larger group. (Additional quality planning tool)






3. Quality improvement cycle popularized by W. Edwards Deming and used by a lot of Kaizen practitioners.based on making small improvements - and measuring how much benefit they make before you change your process to include them. This cycle is the basis






4. A continuous strategy based on ongoing incremental betterment within an organization.






5. Is about making sure that the product you build has the best design possible to fit the customer's needs.






6. Cost benefit analysis - Cost of quality - Control charts - Benchmarking - Design of experiments - Statistical sampling - Flowcharting - Proprietary quality management methodologies - Additional quality planning tools






7. Anything measured. (Sampling Definition)






8. Involves choosing part of a population for inspection for the purpose of accepting or rejecting the entire lot. The results can be depicted through the use of variety of charting methods such as histograms - scatter diagrams or Pareto diagrams.






9. The area - on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service. This area may be greater than or less than the area defined by the control limits.






10. Organizational process assets updates - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates






11. Pattern in control chart in which a series of consecutive points are on the same side of the mean.






12. Independent evaluations of quality performance to ensure that intended quality will be met; products are safe and fit for use; laws and regulations are followed; data systems are adequate; corrective action is taken if needed; improvement opportuniti






13. Diagrams that are used to visually identify logical groupings based on natural relationships. (Additional quality planning tool)






14. A quality theory popularized after World War II that states that everyone in the company is responsible for the quality and is able to make a difference in the ultimate quality of the product. Applies to improvements in the processes and in the resul






15. A popular philosophy of quality management that focuses on achieving very high levels of quality by controlling the process and reducing the defects. An organized process that utilizes quality management for problem resolution and process improvement






16. Quality training - Studies - Surveys - Validation and audits






17. The process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes. *This is where you look at each deliverable and inspect it for defects.






18. A category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use (e.g. - "hammer") but do not share the same requirements for quality (e.g. - different hammers may need to withstand difference amounts of force). *Describes how much peop






19. The depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system. Means coming up with a graphical depiction of the process you're doing so that you can anticipate where quality activities might






20. Means the value of repeated measurements are clustered and have little scatter. Not necessary accurate. *The degree of reproducibility.






21. The document that details the activities to analyze processes - including project management processes in order to improve value. *Is a plan for improving the process you are using to do the work.






22. Tool that is commonly used in statistics as a graphical display of tabulated frequencies. The categories are usually denoted on the x-axis with the height of the bar displaying the proportion of cases that fall into each category. *Great for helping






23. Tool that gives a graphical display of results of a process over time. Include a defined upper and lower control limit - a mean and a visual pattern indicating out-of-control conditions such as outliers (points outside upper [UCL] or lower [LCL] cont






24. Total Quality Management (TQM) - Continuous Improvement Process (CIP or Kaizan) - Six Sigma - Lean Sigma






25. Form of sampling where ether a work result conforms to quality or it does not.






26. Quality is conformance to requirements - The system of quality is prevention - The performance standard is zero defects - The measure of quality if the price of nonconformance

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27. Concept developed by the Japanese where materials are provided only when they are needed in manufacturing environments.






28. Quality control measurements - Validated changes - Validated deliverables - Organizational process assets - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates






29. (Process) The process of auditing quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used. *Tracking the way you work and improving it all the time.






30. Well known for his four-step cycle to improve quality: Plan - Do - Check - Act (PDCA).






31. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Work performance information - Quality control measurements






32. The area composed of three standard deviations on either side of the centerline or mean - of a normal distribution of data plotted on a control chart that reflects the expected variation in the data.






33. The kinds of measurements you'll take throughout your project to figure out its quality. You need to write down the formulas you'll use - when you will do the measurements - why you are taking them - and how you will interpret them.






34. A concept developed by Dr. Genichi Taguchi - as variation for the target increases - losses will also increase. His rule for manufacturing is based on the concept that the best opportunity to eliminate variation is during the design of a product and






35. Where you apply the scientific method to create a set of tests for your project's deliverables. It's a statistical method - which means you use statistics to analyze the results of your experiments to determine how your deliverables best meet the req






36. The change of accepting a bad lot after purchase.(Sampling Definition)

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37. Form of sampling that measures how well something conforms to quality.






38. The change of rejecting a good lot prior to selling to the customer. (Sampling Definition)

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39. Characteristic of the product that is appraised in terms of whether or not it exists. (Sampling Definition)






40. Describes how the project managment team will implement it's quality policy and will provide input to the overall project management plan.






41. All the results of your inspections: the number of defects you've found - number of tests that passed or failed - etc.






42. A document that specifies - in a complete - precise - verifiable manner - the requirements - design - behavior - or other characteristics of a system - component - product - result - or service and - often - the procedures for determining whether the






43. Management commitment - measurement - zero defect planning - goal setting - quality awareness and quality councils.

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44. Quality control tool that shows how various causes and subcauses relate to create problems and effects. Used to figure out what caused a defect. You list all the categories of the defects that you have identified and then write the possible causes of






45. The processes performed to establish the total scope of the effort - define and refine the objectives - and develop the course of action required to attain those objectives.






46. Pattern in control chart in which a run of points is close to the control limits.






47. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Quality checklists - Work performance measurements - Approved change requests - Deliverables - Organizational process assets






48. Line graphs showing data points plotted in the sequence of occurrence. It is used for analysis in trends over time. Can be used for technical performance such as measuring errors or defects - or cost and schedule performance through the use of earned






49. A statement of principles for what the organization defines as quality. This policy is usually endorsed by senior management and can be adopted or adjusted to fit the needs of the project.






50. A statement written for the project by the project team of desired results to be achieved within a specified time frame.