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PMP Quality Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Quality management plan - Quality metrics - Quality checklists - Process improvement plan - Project document updates
Inputs into the Perform Quality Control Process
Rule of Seven
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
A good quality management plan
2. Quality control measurements - Validated changes - Validated deliverables - Organizational process assets - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates
W. Edwards Deming
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
Project Quality
Planning Processes (Process Group)
3. 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
Control Charts (Tool)
Grade
Six Sigma
Fitness for Use
4. 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
Process Improvement Plan
Internal Failures
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Specification
5. Cause and effect diagrams - Control charts - Flowcharting - Histogram - Paneto chart - Run chart - Scatter diagram - Statistical sampling - Inspection - Approved change requests review
Control Charts (Tool)
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Control Process
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Sampling Plan
6. Typically defined within the project charter - this type of quality is usually expressed in terms of meeting stated schedule - cost and scope objectives. It can also be addressed in terms of meeting business objectives that have been specified in the
Flowcharting (Technique)
Variable
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Project Quality
7. Management commitment - measurement - zero defect planning - goal setting - quality awareness and quality councils.
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8. Describes how the project managment team will implement it's quality policy and will provide input to the overall project management plan.
Quality Management Plan (Output/Input)
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Three well-known process improvement models
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
9. An approach to quality which involves sustained gradual change for improvement. The plan-do-check act cycle developed by Deming is the basis for this approach.. *It focuses on making small improvements and measuring their impact.
Inputs into the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Grade
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
10. 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.
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
Process improvement
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
11. Assurance that the products are fit for use or the customer receives compensation. It could cover downtime and maintenance costs.
Nominal Group Techniques
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Tool/Technique)
Warranties
Crosby's 4 absolutes of quality
12. Rework - Scrap - Inventory costs - Warranty costs
Process Quality
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
Process Improvement Plan
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
13. A continuous strategy based on ongoing incremental betterment within an organization.
Inputs into the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Process improvement
Inputs into the Plan Quality Process
Control Limits
14. An approach to improving quality: - Plan - Improve - Control
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15. The measured value is very close to the true value.
Control Charts (Tool)
Non-proprietary approaches to quality
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
Accuracy
16. Organizational process assets updates - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates
Conformance to Requirements
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Outputs of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
17. Diagrams of the forces for and against change. (Additional quality planning tool)
A good quality management plan
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Force Field Analysis
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
18. Technique that allows ideas to be brainstormed in small groups and then reviewed by a larger group. (Additional quality planning tool)
A good quality management plan
Seven primary strategies for TQM as defined by Kerzner
Nominal Group Techniques
Crosby's 4 absolutes of quality
19. 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
Variable Sampling
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Run Charts (Tool/Technique)
Trend
20. Design control - Document control - Purchased material control - Material identification control - Inspections - Test control - Measuring and testing equipment control - Corrective actions - Quality assurance records - Quality audits - Process improv
A good quality management plan
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Affinity Diagrams
21. (Technique) A method of determining the costs incurred to ensure quality. Prevention and appraisal costs (cost of comformance) include costs for quality - planning - quality control (QC) - and quality assurance to ensure compliance to requirements (i
Cost of Quality (COQ)
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Rule of Seven
Variable
22. Costs of nonconformance associated with scrapping or reworking the product before it reaches the end customer.
Force Field Analysis
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
Specification Limits
Internal Failures
23. The change of rejecting a good lot prior to selling to the customer. (Sampling Definition)
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24. 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
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
Run
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
25. 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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26. Means the value of repeated measurements are clustered and have little scatter. Not necessary accurate. *The degree of reproducibility.
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Precision
Grade
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
27. Identifying which Quality Standards are relevant to the project and product and determining how to satisfy them. - Benchmarketing past projects to find ideas for improvements and to establish quality performance measures. - Using Cost Benefit Analysi
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
Quality Policy
Plan Quality (Process)
28. Plan quality and perform quality control tools and techniques - Quality audits - Process analysis
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Cycle
Precision
W. Edwards Deming
29. Costs of nonconformance associated with those that have reached the customer. Includes costs associated with handling and resolving customer concerns.
Flowcharting (Technique)
Statistical Sampling (Tool/Technique)
Specification
External Failures
30. Cost benefit analysis - Cost of quality - Control charts - Benchmarking - Design of experiments - Statistical sampling - Flowcharting - Proprietary quality management methodologies - Additional quality planning tools
Cause and Effect Diagram (Tool/Technique)
Attribute
Inputs into the Perform Quality Control Process
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
31. Pattern in control chart in which a series of consecutive points have an increasing or decreasing pattern.
Six Sigma
Conformance to Requirements
Trend
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
32. Concept developed by Joseph Juran - looks at three components of quality: - Quality of Design (design may have many grades) - Quality of Conformance (determined by choice of process - training - adherence to program and motivation) - Quality Characte
Pareto Chart (Tool)
Quality Policy
Fitness-for-use
Quality Objective
33. Includes the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives - and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
Crosby's 4 absolutes of quality
Control Limits
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
34. Total Quality Management (TQM) - Continuous Improvement Process (CIP or Kaizan) - Six Sigma - Lean Sigma
Non-proprietary approaches to quality
Rule of Seven
Producer's Risk
Planning Processes (Process Group)
35. 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
Loss functions
Quality Control Measurements (Output/Input)
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Tool/Technique)
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
36. Pattern in control chart in which there is a repeating pattern of points.
Plan Quality (Process)
Planning Processes (Process Group)
Quality Policy
Cycle
37. Looking at how much your quality activities will cost versus how much you will gain from doing them.
W. Edwards Deming
Lean Six Sigma
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Tool/Technique)
Cost of Quality (COQ)
38. (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.
Perform Quality Assurance
Variable
A good quality management plan
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
39. 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
Precision
Conformance to Requirements
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Producer's Risk
40. 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
Juran's trilogy
Scatter Diagrams (Tool/Technique)
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
Cause and Effect Diagram (Tool/Technique)
41. The change of accepting a bad lot after purchase.(Sampling Definition)
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42. Quality training - Studies - Surveys - Validation and audits
Rule of Seven
Run
Costs of conformance (prevention costs)
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
43. Specific to the type of product produced and the customer requirements - this type of quality measures the extent to which the end product(s) of the project meets the specified requirements. It can be expressed in terms that include - but are not lim
Perform Quality Assurance
Product Quality
Quality Objective
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
44. Pattern in control chart in which a series of consecutive points are on the same side of the mean.
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
Statistical Sampling (Tool/Technique)
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Run
45. 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
Perform Quality Assurance
Quality
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
Warranties
46. Diagrams that are used to visually identify logical groupings based on natural relationships. (Additional quality planning tool)
Affinity Diagrams
W. Edwards Deming
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
47. 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
Statistical Sampling (Tool/Technique)
Cause and Effect Diagram (Tool/Technique)
Six Sigma
Outputs of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
48. Comparing actual or planned project practices to those of comparable projects to identify best practices - generate ideas for improvement - and provide a basis for measuring performance.
Inspection (Technique)
Grade
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Six Sigma
49. Well known for his four-step cycle to improve quality: Plan - Do - Check - Act (PDCA).
W. Edwards Deming
Quality Control Measurements (Output/Input)
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Three well-known process improvement models
50. 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
Consumer's Risk
Perform Quality Assurance
Plan Quality (Process)
Histograms (Tool/Technique)