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The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about reliability, availability, and redundancy. The questions cover topics such as defining reliability, performing reliability calculations, explaining redundancy, and availability. They include questions ranging from easy to hard in difficulty and assess remembering, understanding, and applying concepts related to reliability engineering.

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The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about reliability, availability, and redundancy. The questions cover topics such as defining reliability, performing reliability calculations, explaining redundancy, and availability. They include questions ranging from easy to hard in difficulty and assess remembering, understanding, and applying concepts related to reliability engineering.

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ch4s

Student: ___________________________________________________________________________

1. Reliability is the probability that a product or system will function when activated. 
True    False

2. If a system depends on two sub-systems functioning when activated, the reliability of
that system is equal to the lower reliability of the two sub-systems. 
True    False

3. Redundancy is often more cost-effective than increasing individual component


reliability. 
True    False

4. Availability cannot be increased without improving the time between breakdowns. 


True    False

5. Product reliability involves both short-term and long-term perspectives. 


True    False

6. A system consists of two components, each of which must activate if the system is to
activate. One component has a reliability of .99. The other has a reliability of .95. What is
the overall system reliability? 
A. .99
B. .95
C. .94
D. .90
E. Cannot be determined with this information.

 
7. A system consists of two components, each of which must activate if the system is to
activate. One component has a reliability of .99. The other has a reliability of .95. The
components are independent of one another with respect to reliability. What is the
overall system reliability? 
A. .99
B. .95
C. .94
D. .90
E. Cannot be determined with this information.

8. An electrical appliance will not work unless component QK does. Component QK's
reliability is 0.95. Every other part of the appliance is 100% reliable. What would the
reliability of the appliance be if a backup QK were added? 
A. .95
B. .9975
C. .9025
D. .9205
E. .9795

9. The time between failures for an electrical appliance is exponentially distributed with a
mean of 25 months. What is the probability that the next failure won't occur before 30
months have elapsed? 
A. Not in excess of .2
B. In excess of .2 but not in excess of .3
C. In excess of .3 but not in excess of .4
D. In excess of .4 but not in excess of .6
E. In excess of .6

10. Waygate's residential internet modem works well but is sensitive to power-line


fluctuations. On average, this product hangs up and needs resetting every 200 hours. On
average about 45 minutes is needed to reset this product. What is this product's
availability? 
A. Not in excess of .75
B. In excess of .75 but not in excess of .8
C. In excess of .8 but not in excess of .9
D. In excess of .9 but not in excess of .95
E. In excess of .95

 
ch4s Key
 

1. Reliability is the probability that a product or system will function when activated. 
TRUE

The higher the probability, the more reliable the product or system.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking


Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 04s-01 Define reliability.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #1
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 

2. If a system depends on two sub-systems functioning when activated, the reliability of
that system is equal to the lower reliability of the two sub-systems. 
FALSE

The reliability is the probability that both sub-systems will activate.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking


Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability computations.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #2
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 

3. Redundancy is often more cost-effective than increasing individual component


reliability. 
TRUE

Increasing individual component reliability is often much more expensive than simply
adding redundancy.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking


Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 04s-03 Explain the purpose of redundancy in a system.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #3
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 
4. Availability cannot be increased without improving the time between breakdowns. 
FALSE

Reducing the amount of time required to repair a product is also a way of increasing
availability.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking


Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability computations.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #4
Topic Area: Availability
 

5. Product reliability involves both short-term and long-term perspectives. 


TRUE

Reliability involves whether a product will work at a point in time, as well as the
probability that it will work for a given length of time.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking


Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 04s-01 Define reliability.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #5
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 

6. A system consists of two components, each of which must activate if the system is to
activate. One component has a reliability of .99. The other has a reliability of .95. What is
the overall system reliability? 
A. .99
B. .95
C. .94
D. .90
E. Cannot be determined with this information.

Whether these components' reliabilities are independent of one another is not specified
here.

AACSB: Analytic
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Hard
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability computations.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #6
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 
7. A system consists of two components, each of which must activate if the system is to
activate. One component has a reliability of .99. The other has a reliability of .95. The
components are independent of one another with respect to reliability. What is the
overall system reliability? 
A. .99
B. .95
C. .94
D. .90
E. Cannot be determined with this information.

The system reliability is the product of the two component reliabilities.

AACSB: Analytic
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability computations.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #7
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 

8. An electrical appliance will not work unless component QK does. Component QK's
reliability is 0.95. Every other part of the appliance is 100% reliable. What would the
reliability of the appliance be if a backup QK were added? 
A. .95
B. .9975
C. .9025
D. .9205
E. .9795

The reliability is .95 + [(1 - .95)*.95].

AACSB: Analytic
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability computations.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #8
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 
9. The time between failures for an electrical appliance is exponentially distributed with a
mean of 25 months. What is the probability that the next failure won't occur before 30
months have elapsed? 
A. Not in excess of .2
B. In excess of .2 but not in excess of .3
C. In excess of .3 but not in excess of .4
D. In excess of .4 but not in excess of .6
E. In excess of .6

T/MTBF is 1.2. From the chart, the reliability is 0.3012.

AACSB: Analytic
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability computations.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #9
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability
 

10. Waygate's residential internet modem works well but is sensitive to power-line


fluctuations. On average, this product hangs up and needs resetting every 200 hours. On
average about 45 minutes is needed to reset this product. What is this product's
availability? 
A. Not in excess of .75
B. In excess of .75 but not in excess of .8
C. In excess of .8 but not in excess of .9
D. In excess of .9 but not in excess of .95
E. In excess of .95

MTBF is 200 and MTTR is .75. This leads to an availability of 0.996.

AACSB: Analytic
Blooms: Apply
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability computations.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... #10
Topic Area: Availability
 
ch4s Summary

Category #  of  Questi


ons
AACSB: Analytic 5
AACSB: Reflective Thinking 5
Blooms: Apply 5
Blooms: Remember 3
Blooms: Understand 2
Difficulty: Easy 4
Difficulty: Hard 1
Difficulty: Medium 5
Learning Objective: 04s-01 Define reliability. 2
Learning Objective: 04s-02 Perform simple reliability comput 7
ations.
Learning Objective: 04s-03 Explain the purpose of redundan 1
cy in a system.
Stevenson - Chapter 04S... 10
Topic Area: Availability 2
Topic Area: Quantifying Reliability 8

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