Quality Management FAQs

1:20 above

I think it should be 1:1, because quality is every ones responsibility and it is not limited to Quality personnels only.

Risk Priority Number

C) Risk priority number

Risk priority numbers are calculated by muliplying Severity, Occurrence and Detection.

RPN = S * O * D. 

A) True

A process is a vehicle of communication, specifying the methods used to produce a product or service. It is the set of activities that represent the way work is to be performed.The statement Process m...

A) True

TRUE

ISO follows primarily Audit System while CMMi is about assessing maturity of processes followed by an organization. ISO is Generic and is good enough for Non IT centric businesses, while CMMi is very...

State of art in QA is an answer type in "The need for Semantic Inference in QA".Some features for such Answer type are:
>Labels questions with answer type based on a taxonomy
>Classifies questions (e.g. by using a maximum entropy model)

Different QA certifications are ISTQB - Foundation Level , ISTQB - Advance Level , CSTP , CSTQ

For certification in QA, there is only one certification named ISQTB.
It further include advance level too.
You can do ISQTB for certification in QA.

mistake proofing

a &b

TQM stands for Total Quality Management

TQM = Total Quality Management

The productivity of a software product can not be calculated in terms of software lines of code per unit of effort (SLOC / effort).  This metric is used to calculate software development producti...

Any productivity can be calculated by : Productivity= Output/Input required to produce the same output S/W Productivity= (Size of the s/w in LOC, FP etc.)/Effort spendExample: Suppose the total size...

1) The quality of a software product is measured in a number of ways and the method really depends on the aspect of quality you wish to measure.  Nevertheless, if you want to measu...

Quality can be measured by various metrics in the projects. you have Code Coverage metrics to measure how much of code is getting tested with your test cases. Test reports indicating the number of bu...

A) Profound KnowledgeThe System of Profound Knowledge explains how complex organizations work.  In particular, every manager should know how his own organization works in order to impro...

A) Plan-Do-Check-Act

Later, Dr. Deming changed this to Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA).

A) Plan, Do, Check and Act

In my opinion, Deming, Juran, and Crosby are all prophets of quality.   However, if I have to select one, I choose:

A) Dr. W. Edwards Deming 

A) Edward Deming

A) Simultaneous engineering

Concurrent engineering is a business strategy which replaces the traditional product development process with one in which tasks are done in parallel and there is an early consideration for every aspe...

A) True

B) FalseBenchmarking can lead to improved customer satisfaction, but the act of benchmarking does not improve customer satisfaction.  Benchmarking is the process of comparing your own business pr...

True

A) TrueGap analysis studies a particular business operation in order to understand the differences between your own practices and those of another company who have proven more succ...

Benchmarking is one of the improvement technique where organization compare it's process/product/service's performance with other (benchmarking partner) party to know the Gap between the performances....

B) FalseBenchmarking is the process of comparing an organization's business processes and performance metrics with those of another.  Benchmarking alone will not make any organ...