Six Sigma Practice Test and Answer Key

These Lean Six Sigma practice tests are designed to help you prepare your for your IASSC or ASQ certification exam. You can even use these question sets to test your own students for a certification exam given by your own company.

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• true/false
• multiple choice
• multiple response
• fill in the blank
• sequencing

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Six Sigma Practice Test Sample Questions

A process operating at 6 Sigma will only generate 3.4 defects per million opportunities?

[   ]   True

[   ]   False

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DPU is calculated by dividing the number of defects by the number of units

[   ]   True

[   ]   False

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A hypothesis test is a statistical method in which a specific hypothesis is formulated about the population, and the decision of whether to reject the hypothesis is made based on sample data.

[   ] True

[   ] False

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To achieve Six Sigma the DMAIC methodology follows which approach

[   ]   Brainstorm possible factors then randomly analyze them to find the significant ones

[   ]   Use SME knowledge & experience to quickly find solutions

[   ]   Use the transfer function Y=f(x)

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Who is credited as being the father of Six Sigma?

[   ]   Bob Galvin

[   ]   Mikel Harry

[   ]   Jack Welch

[   ]   Bill Smith

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What type of muda is waste from working more than required, scheduling more capacity than necessary or using resources that are overkill?

[   ]   Inventory

[   ]   Over-Production

[   ]   Motion

[   ]   Waiting

[   ]   Transportation

[   ]   Over-Processing

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From the following, select those that are characteristics of a Lean Enterprise

[   ] Pull Systems

[   ] Flow

[   ] Zero Waste

[   ] Availability

[   ] Flexibility

[   ] Value Add

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A well written problem statement contains all of the following except

[   ] Baseline

[   ]  Goal

[   ] Gap

[   ] COPQ

[   ] Timeline Reference

[   ] Project Plan

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Which are common sources of variation in most measurement systems?

[   ] Part to part variation

[   ] Measurement instrument

[   ] Repeatability

[   ] Reproducibility

[   ] Humidity

[   ] Altitude

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__________ is the difference between the observed value and the true value of a measurement.

 

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The __________ chart is used to visualize sources of variation.

 

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To reduce β risk, we should increase the __________.

 

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Put these 5S's into the proper order of execution

[   ] Set in Order

[   ] Sort

[   ] Shine

[   ] Sustain

[   ] Standardize

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Arrange these C&E process steps into the correct order of execution.

[   ] Affinitize or group the causes

[   ] Brainstorm all potentials causes

[   ] Evaluate

[   ] Identify & define the effect

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