ICGB Online Practice Questions and Answers

When a Belt applies the practice of Poka-Yoke to a project challenge she is attempting to make certain the activity is _______________ .

A. Well documented

B. Removed from the line

C. Mistake proofed

D. Highly visible

Due to excessive pollution, GREEN Solutions Inc. is considering subsidizing public transportation to work for its employees. According to the manager it takes an average weekday commute of 39 minutes with a Standard Deviation of 7 minutes for the employees to get to work while they use their personal vehicles for their office commute while the management set a policy of not more than 40 minutes for their daily one-way commute. A survey conducted one day on 70 employees showed an average of 34 minutes commuting time using the metro public transportation system with a Standard Deviation of 21 minutes. Assuming a Normal Distribution for the commute times by either personal or public transportation, which of these is true?

A. The probability that they would arrive on time using personal vehicles is much higher than using the metro public transportation system (MPTS)

B. The probability that they would arrive on time using the MPTS is much higher than using their personal vehicles

C. The two probabilities are about the same excepting in one case the consistency is higher than the other

D. We need to compile more data around weekends to incorporate for traffic differences

E. When Standard Deviation is higher the probability goes down and so the MPTS is worse

Skewed, or Mixed, Distributions occur when data comes from several sources that are supposed to be the same yet are not.

A. True

B. False

Hypothesis Testing can help avoid high costs of experimental efforts by using existing data.

A. True

B. False

Training cost is $4,000 and a project required an initial investment of $30,000. If the project yields monthly savings of $2,000 beginning after 3 months, what is the payback period in months (before money costs and taxes)?

A. 10

B. 20

C. 27

D. 33

The very best way to begin an effort to map a process is to do which of these?

A. Interview the process owner

B. Interview the manager of the department

C. Walk the actual process from beginning to end D. Take pictures of the factory floor at each shift

Significant variation in process performance is a consequence of several causes that can be classified using terminologies shown here. (Note: There are 2 correct answers).

A. Common

B. Random

C. Uneducated

D. Special

E. Vital

According to the definition of Rolled Throughput Yield which of the following items best describe the purpose of RTY?

A. A function of Y=f(x)

B. Determines incremental Growth

C. Isolates the increase throughput

D. Accounts for rejects and reworks

What is the Cycle Time, in minutes, for a process having a Throughput of 360 units per hour?

A. 0.167

B. 0.333

C. 0.667

D. 1.333

Use of the ________ approach is the most classic arrangement when constructing a Fishbone Diagram.

A. Chronological

B. 6M

C. 5M

D. Alphabetical