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Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Exam Question and Answers

Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Exam

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Questions 1

Which of the following statements are true about the differences between training and education?

I. Training focuses more on doing, whereas education focuses more on thinking.

II. Training is typically provided by employers, whereas education might be funded but not provided.

III. Training teaches students to acquire new knowledge, whereas education teaches new skills.

IV. Training is more job focused, whereas education is more theoretical.

Options:

A.  

I and III only

B.  

II and IV only

C.  

I, II, and IV only

D.  

II, III, and IV only

Discussion 0
Questions 2

The mission statement for a quality function would best focus on:

Options:

A.  

Reducing defects.

B.  

Assessing the performance of production workers.

C.  

Companywide and departmental activities that collectively result in product and/or service quality.

D.  

Leading small teams that break down barriers and reach higher organizational goals.

Discussion 0
Questions 3

Three hospitals are located within the same metropolitan are a. One hospital determined that both its cafeteria and its gift shop ranked lower in variety and convenience than the other two hospitals. Which of the following actions would be most appropriate?

Options:

A.  

Normalize the data based on any significant differences in the customers being served (for example, economic strata).

B.  

Subcontract the cafeteria and gift shop to outside sources that can provide greater attention to these nonmedical aspects of the hospital operations.

C.  

Colocate the cafeteria and the gift shop in order to share resources, reduce costs, simplify access, and allow a greater investment in variety.

D.  

Look at customer purchasing patterns and profit margins to maximize investment payback.

Discussion 0
Questions 4

Which of the following is not generally a characteristic of communication in hierarchical organizations?

Options:

A.  

Communication is constrained by chain of command.

B.  

Messages are distorted many times by different frames of reference.

C.  

Competitive opportunities might be missed because of time delays.

D.  

Different functional departments communicate at a different pace.

Discussion 0
Questions 5

Which of the following is not usually a role of a manager?

Options:

A.  

Selects people to fill job vacancies

B.  

Mentors a potential candidate for management

C.  

Determines the legality of a supplier–partnership agreement

D.  

Organizes the work to be done

Discussion 0
Questions 6

A new process improvement team has just flowcharted how a process currently works. The value to the team is to:

Options:

A.  

Document and retain records demonstrating how work activities were performed at a specific moment in time.

B.  

Gain consensus on how information and materials currently flow through the organization.

C.  

Validate baseline performance data collected before a change is implemented.

D.  

Assess the level of compliance against a quality standard.

Discussion 0
Questions 7

Which of the following is the biggest problem in cost–benefit analysis?

Options:

A.  

It is easier to accurately estimate benefits than costs.

B.  

It is easier to accurately estimate costs than benefits.

C.  

It is an elaborate tool requiring extensive computer support.

D.  

It is too difficult to compute the time value of money.

Discussion 0
Questions 8

A modification of Lewin’s unfreezing-moving-refreezing model may provide support for change. According to this model there are following ways to reduce change resistance Except:

Options:

A.  

Understand the emotional impact of change

B.  

Understand the impact of change to intellectual property

C.  

Be consistent in responding to resistance

D.  

Be flexible, be patient and be supportive

Discussion 0
Questions 9

Bottom-to-top communication techniques include all the following except:

Options:

A.  

Employee suggestion boxes.

B.  

Quality circles.

C.  

Performance reviews.

D.  

Employee satisfaction surveys.

Discussion 0
Questions 10

The role of supply chain management is to:

Options:

A.  

Ensure that the right product/service, in the right quantity, of the right quality, gets to the right customer at the right time.

B.  

Control the performance of every organization involved in the supply chain.

C.  

Be totally responsible for the input from upstream suppliers to ensure that downstream customers receive outputs that conform to end users requirements.

D.  

Reduce inventory.

Discussion 0
Questions 11

A chairperson may be a leader and/or manager, depending much upon the influence he or she may have on an organization and the decision authority granted. There are many roles a manager may perform. As an organizer he/she:

Options:

A.  

Organizes, people, ideas and things to achieve the enterprise’s objectives

B.  

Builds an enterprise structure that supports the strategic goals and objectives

C.  

Embraces the principles, morals, and norms of the society in which organization impacts

D.  

Imparts knowledge and teaches skills to others

Discussion 0
Questions 12

Drucker identifies four tasks of management Excluding:

Options:

A.  

The task of economic performance

B.  

The task to make work productive and worker achieving

C.  

The task to managing the social impacts and social responsibilities of the enterprise

D.  

The task of managing within the dimension of budget

Discussion 0
Questions 13

A condition under which a supplier appearing on the customer ’s “OK to buy from” list would not be issued an order would be:

I. Item needed is not available from any of OK’d suppliers.

II. Supplier ’s quality rating has dropped below acceptable standards on last two shipments.

III. OK’d supplier does not have the capacity to fulfill the customer ’s demands for the item needed.

IV. One or more factors from the selection criteria will not now be met by the supplier.

Options:

A.  

I and III only

B.  

I and II only

C.  

I, II, and III only

D.  

I, II, III, and IV

Discussion 0
Questions 14

Of the following core values and concepts, which would be the most critical to apply to a newly mandated state emergency management agency?

I. Visionary leadership

II. Customer-driven excellence

III. Agility

IV. Focus on the future

V. Focus on results and creating value

VI. Management by fact

VII. Managing for innovation

Options:

A.  

I, III, V, VII

B.  

II, V, VI

C.  

I, III, IV, V, VI, VII

D.  

V, VI

Discussion 0
Questions 15

All but one of the following is a job aid type instructional tool. Which one is not?

Options:

A.  

A programmable electronic calculator with programmed formulas

B.  

Embedded “help” screens in a computer program

C.  

Preprinted instructions on a form

D.  

A signal light indicating that an error has occurred

Discussion 0
Questions 16

Which of the following process improvement teams’ projects is likely to be regarded as most successful where on-time deliverables are critical.

Options:

A.  

Deliverables were completed on time, but project incurred a one percent cost overrun.

B.  

Project team worked well together and worked hard but lacked sufficient resources to complete project on time and within budget.

C.  

Project required a reduction in scope in order to finish within planned time and cost and avoid a late penalty.

D.  

Project completed deliverables a week late and incurred a cost overrun but provided unplanned added value.

Discussion 0
Questions 17

Managing change is particularly complex due to the fact that much of what must be changed often consists of intangibles such as beliefs, behavior s and policies. These types of constraints are more difficult to identify. We can get help from:

Options:

A.  

GATT chart

B.  

PERT chart

C.  

A force-field analysis

D.  

None of these

Discussion 0
Questions 18

A more accurate accounting of the costs to produce a product can be achieved with:

Options:

A.  

Traditional cost accounting methods

B.  

Activity-based costing

C.  

Correctly distinguishing between internal and external failure costs

D.  

Correctly differentiating between prevention and appraisal costs

Discussion 0
Questions 19

All organizations have limited resources and opportunities, and must allocate them so as to best accomplish the mission with high efficiency. A possible solution is:

Options:

A.  

To ensure the strategic and operational plans clearly indicate the priorities and strategies for the organization

B.  

To communicate, communicate, and communicate!

C.  

To ensure that authority levels are clearly spelled out for typical situations

D.  

To have employees go outside the organizational walls

Discussion 0
Questions 20

One of the most important customer service principles to apply is:

Options:

A.  

“The customer is always right.”

B.  

When dealing with a problem, thank the customer for bringing the

problem to you and allowing you to help resolve the problem.

C.  

State your organization’s policy regarding handling of such problems.

D.  

Be sure the customer realizes you are not responsible for the problem.

Discussion 0
Questions 21

Uses of a matrix-type chart include:

I. Deploying the voice of the customer throughout the organization.

II. As a spreadsheet to allocate resources by type over time.

III. Analyzing a portfolio of projects against a set of criteria to determine relative priority of each project for implementation.

IV. Displaying the estimated time span of tasks within a project over the duration of the project.

Options:

A.  

II, III, and IV only

B.  

II only

C.  

I, II, III, and IV

D.  

II and III only

Discussion 0
Questions 22

To establish the direction an organization’s first strategic planning initiative should take, the organization should first create:

Options:

A.  

A mission statement.

B.  

Organizational objectives.

C.  

A vision statement.

D.  

Action plans.

Discussion 0
Questions 23

Organizational components that not only support other internal functions but also support external stakeholders are:

Options:

A.  

Information technology and human resources.

B.  

Finance and customer service.

C.  

Engineering and R&

D.  

D.  

Marketing and quality.

Discussion 0
Questions 24

The preferred technique/tool used to determine the strategies of organizations serving the same market as your own organization is:

Options:

A.  

Competitive analysis.

B.  

Benchmarking.

C.  

Industry trade association data research.

D.  

Survey of competitor ’s customers.

Discussion 0
Questions 25

A tool used to assess the readiness of the organization to embrace and institutionalize change is:

Options:

A.  

Management review.

B.  

Hoshin planning.

C.  

Nominal group technique.

D.  

Force-field analysis.

Discussion 0
Questions 26

Which of these circumstances might reasonably prompt a reevaluation of an organization’s policies and strategic objectives?

I. The retirement of the CEO

II. A merger with another company

III. Divestiture of a major division

IV. Obsolescence of a major technology

Options:

A.  

I, II, III, and IV

B.  

II, III, and IV only

C.  

I, II, and IV only

D.  

II and III only

Discussion 0