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1. Which quality management system seeks to achieve perfection in manufacturing operation?

a. Linear programming

b. Ishikawa's Seven Basic Tool of Quality

c. Balanced scorecard

d. Six Sigma

2. 1.A doctoral student is surveying chief executive officers (CEOs) to understand their relationships with their governing boards. The student receives responses to a survey with 10 questions that rates the respective relationships. Which statistical concept should be used to measure the data set of responses for each specific question?

a. Bell curve

b. Median

c. Standard deviation

d. Mean

3. Which two examples show appropriate uses of performance measures in given settings? Choose 2 Answers.

A. A nonprofit company analyzes the charity walk distance to determine effectiveness of sponsor recognition

B. A retail chain review sales-per-square-foot in all of its stand-alone stores

C. A hospital evaluates the process of out-patient registration for time improvement

D. A school reviews number of students purchasing lunch to measure attendance

3. What is the basic difference between the evaluation of cost-benefit in the public and private sectors?

a. The revenue generated by public projects is considerably high

b. The benefit of government projects is the general public welfare

c. The costs associated with public projects are minimal

d. The benefits of public projects are easily quantifiable

4. Which common analytic used in health care counts only new cases of a disease that occur in a particular time period compared to the population?

a. Morbidity rates

b. Prevalence

c. Incidence rate

d. Cumulative incidence

5. The unknown population mean number of advertising or solicitation emails a retail customer received per day is 7.2. An advertising company wants to estimate the population number of solicitation e-mails a customer received per day. Which action should the company avoid taking according to the central limit theorem?

a) Perform many samples of customers

b) Include a maximum of ten customers in each sample

c) Calculate the mean of the sample averages

d) Use large sample sized

6. Which two are associated with control charts? Choose 2 Answers

a. The reason for variation

b. Special cause variation

c. Common cause variation

d. Reliability index

7. What does standard deviation indicate?

a. Measure of correlation

b. Measure of spread

c. Square root of the mean

d. Square of the variance