CRE: ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer - Full: Question Results
CRE: ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer - Full: Question Results
Question Results
Question: Score 1 of 1
Response:
Product quality.
Customer satisfaction.
Market value.
Question: Score 0 of 1
Which of the following functions are normally accepted reliability engineering tools?
Response:
I and II only
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Question: Score 1 of 1
The first phase in the operation life history of a population of product units is typically called:
Response:
Debugging phase.
Transition phase.
Question: Score 1 of 1
In a life test of 4 batteries, failures were observed after 10, 30, and 40 hours. The 4th battery was
tested 75 hours without failure, at which time the test was terminated.
What are the estimated Mean-Time-To-Failure (theta) and failure rate (lambda)?
Response:
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A failure which prevents the system from performing its mission would be classified as:
Response:
A major failure.
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A critical failure.
An independent failure.
A minor failure.
Question: Score 0 of 1
What is the Z value needed to conduct a two tail test in a statistical inference problem, specifying
90% level of confidence?
Response:
1.28
2.24
1.96
1.65
Question: Score 1 of 1
Response:
Probability.
Statistics.
Reliability.
Certainty.
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Response:
I and II only
Question: Score 0 of 1
A fractional design is said to be saturated when the design only allow the estimation of which of
the following?
Response:
Question: Score 1 of 1
Which of the following is the reason the bathtub curve has an increasing failure rate during the
wear-out period?
Response:
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Question: Score 1 of 1
The department having the authority to sign all deviations pertaining to the design of the product is
normally:
Response:
Contractual
Design engineering.
Manufacturing engineering.
Inspection
Question: Score 1 of 1
The proper software tool for software development projects can help reduce test time. The software
tools used to measure internal test coverage are called.
Response:
Test harnesses.
Assertion processors.
Test verifiers.
Static analyzer.
Question: Score 1 of 1
Derating a component to 50 percent of its operating value will generally decrease its failure rate by
a factor of:
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Response:
Question: Score 0 of 1
For the exponential model, the reliability at mean time to failure is about:
Response:
67 percent.
50 percent.
73 percent.
37 percent.
Question: Score 1 of 1
Eliminating hazards can be accomplished several ways. Which of the following does NOT eliminate
a hazard?
Response:
Contingency analysis
FMEA
Fault-tree analysis
Procedure analysis
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Question: Score 1 of 1
Typical statistical distributions or confidence limits can be determined for accelerated tests. In the
case of a step-stress test, the proper estimated distribution would be which of the following?
Response:
Weibull
Lognormal
Exponential
Question: Score 1 of 1
Response:
Question: Score 0 of 1
Response:
It analyzes the manufacturing operation and how manufacturing failures affect the product
operation.
It analyzes a system design and how failure modes affect the system.
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Question: Score 1 of 1
Response:
Question: Score 0 of 1
Response:
Question: Score 1 of 1
According to the definition of reliability, performance, over the expected or intended life, is one
criterion. In order to obtain a measurement for reliability, the actual life (t) must be compared to
which of the following?
Response:
MTBF
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Test cycles.
Probability of failures.
Required life
Question: Score 0 of 1
The probability of an accident for the head event "H" given below is:
Response:
0.0700.
0.1125.
0.1100.
0.0689.
Question: Score 1 of 1
A design review committee has recommended changes to a proposed design. Whose job is it to
investigate and incorporate the ideas that will aid product reliability?
Response:
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Question: Score 0 of 1
One method of evaluating the design reliability is to analyze the design assuming the worst case.
Which of the following techniques is NOT applicable for worst case analysis?
Response:
Root-sum squared.
Extreme value
Monte Carlo
Eyring model
Question: Score 0 of 1
Which of the following analysis is used to quantify various human error risks?
Response:
Quality analysis
FMECA.
Process analysis
Worst-case analysis
Question: Score 0 of 1
Which of the following statements is NOT true in regards to X bar control charts?
Response:
If the process is in control, 1/2 the points will fall below the center line.
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The width of the limits is inversely proportional to the square root of the sample size.
The limits are usually set at the observed mean plus or minus 3 standard deviations of the process.
If the process is in control, 2700 points per million will fall outside the control limits.
Question: Score 0 of 1
Response:
I, II and III
I only
II only
Question: Score 1 of 1
Which of the following block diagrams MOST simply represents the system reliability when Unit C
is functioning?
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Response:
option D
option C
option B
option A
Question: Score 1 of 1
Response:
Question: Score 1 of 1
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Detection of trends of product failure is MOST important when system failure are
Response:
Safety-related.
Hard to identify.
Expensive.
Question: Score 1 of 1
refer to a situation in which satellites in synchronous orbits around Earth are hit by meteors large enough to
cause failure once every five years on average
Response:
0.82
0.67
0.33
0.55
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Parts in use during the "wear out" portion of the part life cycle curve will exhibit:
Response:
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Question: Score 1 of 1
A life test was conducted on 10 units of a product. The average failure time of the units is 100
hours, and the standard deviation is 5 hours. If the failure time follows a normal distribution, what
is the 90% confidence interval of the mean failure time for this product?
Response:
(86.87, 113.13)
(97.10, 102.90)
(98.42, 101.58)
(95.85, 104.15)
Question: Score 1 of 1
Response:
Wear
Derate
Crack
Fatigue
Question: Score 1 of 1
Response:
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Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
A component fails on the average of once every 4 years with 75% of the failures
observed to occur during stormy weather.
If there are 12 hours of stormy whether to every 240 hours of good weather, what are the failure
rates for stormy and good weather respectively?
Response:
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(skipped)
If the reliability goal for a 4 - hour mission is 0.9999 for a complex system, what
system MTBF is required?
Response:
55 hours.
2,500 hours.
10,000 hours.
40,000 hours.
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Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
Root cause failure analysis is necessary to identify and correct basis problems.
Usually a priority of failure mode is established. This classic or traditional approach to
improvement results in which of the following?
Response:
Zero defects.
Defect reduction.
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
A reliability test was terminated after 171 hours based upon a pre-established plan.
An estimate of mean-time-to-failure of 57 hours was obtained. The lower 95 percent confidence
bound on the true population mean-time-to-failure is:
Response:
125 hours.
22 hours.
27 hours.
11 hours.
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
If a component has a known constant failure rate of 0.0037 failures per hour ; the
reliability of two of these components in a series alignment would be:
Response:
99.63 percent.
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(skipped)
The ratio of the total operating time to the total number of failures is:
Response:
Maintainability.
Failure rate.
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
It is reliability's job to see that all the tasks outlined in the reliability program are:
Response:
Doing those jobs that the primary responsible departments are incapable of doing.
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
The hazard rate function h(t) for a device is given by the relationship on the left,
where t is time in hours. What is the reliability of this device at t = 2 hours?
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Response:
0.638
0.368
0.486
0.238
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
Product safety standards do NOT include:
Response:
Question: Score 0 of 1
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A plastics plant operates 8 extruders producing plastic film. Production volume
requirements cannot be met if less than 6 extruders are operating. There is a .30 probability that a
machine stopping malfunction will occur.
What is the probability that 6 extruders can remain operating throughout the day?
Response:
0.5783
0.4482
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0.5518
0.8059
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
Censoring of reliability data indicates which of the following?
Response:
I and IV only
II and IV only
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(skipped)
One equation used to estimate MTTR is:
Response:
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Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
In establishing a budget for a new maintainability program, you should allocate more
maintainability funds during which of the following periods?
Response:
Operational phase.
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(skipped)
What is the probability of failure if the stress on a component is 20,000 psi with a
standard deviation of 1000 psi and the strength is 25,000 psi with a standard deviation of 2000 psi?
Response:
2.24 %
1.25 %
2.50 %
5.32 %
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
In standby parallel systems, imperfect switching means :
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III. The reliability of the system is less than with perfect switching.
IV. The secondary unit has the same reliability as the primary unit.
Response:
I and II
I, II and III
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(skipped)
TAAF is BEST performed at which stage of the product life-cycle?
Response:
Concept/planning.
Design/Development.
Production/Manufacturing.
Operation/Repair.
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(skipped)
There is a subtle difference between a standard parts program and a standardization
program. A standardization program tends to emphasize:
Response:
Limited suppliers.
Limited sizes.
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Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
The effectiveness of a maintenance program is affected MOST by:
Response:
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
What percentage of the material is expected to fail?
Response:
1.4%
2.0%
2.3%
8.1%
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(skipped)
When reliability goals are being developed, reliability predictions are initially used to
Response:
Estimate potential performance of hardware and software with respect to reliability requirements
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Measure customer needs and provides a means of defining quantitative reliability goals.
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(skipped)
The failure data collection, analysis, and corrective action system:
I. Should include failures due to equipment failure and those due to human error in designing,
manufacturing, and operating the equipment.
II. Should include elapsed operating time (or cycles) prior to failure.
III. Should include all failures from initial development through acceptance testing.
Response:
II, III
I, III
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Which answer mathematically expresses the reliability of an active parallel system in
which all component reliabilities are unequal?
Response:
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Rs = Ra + Rb + Rc - RaRbRc
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(skipped)
According to Taguchi, robustly designed experiments should employ all of the
following techniques EXCEPT
Response:
Signal-to-noise ratios.
Linear graphs.
Fold-over capabilities.
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(skipped)
In determining the allocation of function to humans and equipment:
Response:
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Failure data are analyzed and a proportion of items survive to the end of the test.
Data on these types of samples are referred as:
Response:
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Parameter data
Non-parameter data.
Control data
Censored Data.
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(skipped)
Reliability can be specified in terms of all of the following EXCEPT:
Response:
Cost of failure
Stress to failure.
Time to failure.
Cycles to failure.
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(skipped)
Preventive maintenance is characterized by:
Response:
I only
II only
I, II and III
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(skipped)
During system testing a failure is observed that could never occur in the field. This
type of failure is considered to be:
Response:
A minor failure
A system failure.
A nonrelevant failure.
An operational failure.
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Which of the following is NOT considered good practice in reliability design?
Response:
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System and cost effectiveness analysis outputs:
Response:
Can be used to determine the best balance of system performance, cost and schedule.
In most cases will not identify the degree to which innovations should be pursued.
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Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
Root cause analysis provides a common sense approach to evaluating a problem.
Align the following action steps in proper sequence from start to finish.
Response:
V, I, III, II, IV
I, V, III, IV, II
V, III, I, IV, II
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(skipped)
A substantial fraction of the usual design effort need NOT be devoted to a reliability
program.:
Response:
Question: Score 0 of 1
(skipped)
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A component has a constant failure rate of 0.0005 failures per hour. What is the
reliability for 1,000 hours of operation assuming wearout is not a factor?
Response:
0.995
0.500
0.373
0.607
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(skipped)
A company is in a multi-products, competitive market. Which of the following is the
MOST appropriate strategy to help capture the maximum market share?
Response:
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If a test shows three failures in 50 hours of operation, how many failures will it show
in 1000 hours of operation if the failure rate is constant?
Response:
150
20
333
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An engineer must design a product with a probability of success 99%. Assume that
both the strength and stress are normally distributed and that the standard deviations are the
same.
If the stress is known to be 3000 lbs with a standard deviation of 100 lbs, what must be the
approximate designed strength?
Response:
4020 lbs.
3730 lbs.
3330 lbs.
3100 lbs.
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(skipped)
According to the Reliability Analysis Center, which of the following design objectives
is NOT supported by reliability and maintainability contributing tasks?
Response:
Design validation.
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What functions can normally be expected to be assigned to the Reliability
Engineering Department of a company that emphasizes product reliability?
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Response:
I and II only
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(skipped)
What is this system‘s reliability at 3000 hours?
Response:
0.017
0.014
0.047
0.029
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(skipped)
When a defense is prepared for a product liability action, all of the following would be
considered elements of the assumption of risk the plaintiff must have EXCEPT:
Response:
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(skipped)
The comparative financial effects of reliability over the designed operating time T of
two systems built to perform the same function can be obtained by comparing the
I. Failure rates.
Response:
I, II and III
II only
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Which of the following techniques is MOST applicable when estimating how much
additional testing is required to demonstrate a reliability goal?
Response:
Reliability growth.
Weibull testing.
Mistaking-proofing.
Hypothesis testing.
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Which of the following techniques is MOST efficient when two nuisance variables are
to be averaged out in an experimental design?
Response:
Full factional.
Fractional factorial.
Latin square
Paired test.
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50 resisters from a lot of 75,000 were tested. The average was 3,306 ohms with a
variance of 21,609 ohm 2 . From this information, we may conclude with 99% confidence, that at
least 95% of this lot will have resistance values in the range of
Response:
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FMECA is:
Response:
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(skipped)
Using complete field-based data, a reliability engineer has analyzed the reliability growth of
a repairable system over the last 24 months. The analysis suggests a "no growth" condition, and that
finding is reported to management.
Due to a pending multimillion dollar order, management requests that a line be drawn to show growth
where none actually exists. The engineer's department manager directs the engineer to comply with
management request.
In this situation, which of the following should be of primary concern to the engineer?
Response:
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A system is principally dependent upon the operation of one particular critical units.
It was therefore designed with three additional such units in standby redundancy, where a standby
unit goes into operation as soon as the preceding unit fails. Each of these units has a constant
failure rate during operation.
The units fail independently and the system fails when the last standby unit fails. An appropriate
time-to-failure distribution for this system is the:
Response:
Lognormal.
Exponential.
Gamma.
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Weibull.
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The chi square goodness-of-fit test can be used to determine how well the data fit
which of the following types of distributions?
Response:
Exponential only.
Nornal only.
Weibull only.
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While testing a new design, you experienced 3 failures in 100 tests. What is the lower
confidence limit for the unit's tested reliability based on a confidence level of 0.90?
Response:
0.962
0.950
0.935
0.925
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In the classification of defectives, such as DOD-STD-2101, if an item will produce a
significant degradation in performance, the classification would be:
Response:
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Incidental
Minor
Critical
Major
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When a bathtub curve is used, one characteristic of the flat center portion of the
curve is that during this period
Response:
The time of the next failure is predictable from the time of the last failure.
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What is the CORRECT measurement of reliability to use for nonrepairable systems?
Response:
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A fault tree analysis (FTA) differs from a failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) in (skipped)
that an FTA:
Response:
Does not take into account human factors such as incorrect operation.
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What is the failure rate of a system composed of three components, each of which
can cause a system failure, and which have the following information?
Response:
0.00192 f/hr
0.00258 f/hr.
0.00913 f/hr.
0.00671 f/hr
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Pascal's triangle presents a simple means of determining which of the various terms
of the binomial expansion?
Response:
Exponents
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Coefficients
Combinations
Permutations
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Given the sample data: 5, 15, 10, 7, 20. What is the unbiased estimator of the sample
variance?
Response:
27.50
29.84
37.30
46.62
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The optimum cost point for total life cycle costs occurs:
Response:
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Which of the following techniques provides a means of translating customer
requirements into appropriate technical requirements?
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Response:
Concurrent engineering.
Benchmarking.
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Which of the following is a model used for monitoring reliability growth?
Response:
Duane
Arrehenius
Normal
Lognormal
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Human will perform more reliably if:
Response:
I and II only
II and IV only
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I and IV only
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In an elevated-temperature test on an electronic system, which of the following
models is used to calculate the acceleration factor?
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Arrhenius model.
Lognormal model.
Exponential model.
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For the ANOVA Table on the left, what is the F table value for α = .01?
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0.999
5.44
5.70
6.63
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Which of the following actions would usually be performed FIRST after receiving a product failure
from the field?
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Verification of failure.
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Human reliability is defined as the probability that a human will:
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Which of the following is the MOST appropriate reason for selecting accelerated life
testing for an expensive product to determine adherence to design requirements?
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The test time to provide adequate reliability assurance under normal operating conditions is too
long.
The current sample size and the life distribution show wear-out is likely
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The probability density function of the product follows either a log normal or a Weibull distribution.
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What is the difference between an active parallel system and a shared load parallel
system?
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In the shared load parallel system, the load is equally shared between the two parallel components.
The failure rate of the remnant component increases in the shared load parallel system on first
component failure.
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A satellite has two redundant control systems, each has a failure rate (lambda) =
1×10 -6 failures/hour. If one of the systems fails, the failure rate for the remaining system increases
to 2×10 -5 failures/hour. What is the reliability of the redundant control systems at 175,000 hours?
Response:
0.8609
0.7796
0.690
0.2507
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Feedback channels for the planning, management and assessment of product safety
should include:
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Response:
II only
I, II and III
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Which of the following is TRUE about the self-assessment a team uses when
implementing concurrent engineering?
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Human factors field testing:
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Which of the following techniques is MOST beneficial in tracking a process to
determine whether corrective action should be taken?
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Pareto analysis.
Control charting.
Trend analysis.
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Which of the following activities is MOST effective in increasing reliability during a
product's life cycle?
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In order to sustain a high system reliability in the field, it is BEST to:
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The failure rate for an IC chip is 0.0023 per hour of operation. Calculate the MTBF
given that the failure rate is constant.
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37.6 hrs
43 hrs
434.78 hrs
486 hrs
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In order to enhance the reliability of an extruder producing plastic film, the applied
operational and environmental stresses should be:
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The function below has a density distribution where X is a continuous random variable. What is the
probability that X = 4.0?
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0.00
0.20
0.30
0.40
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Nonrelevant failures include all of the following EXCEPT:
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Unverified failures.
Mishandling failures
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Which of the following action will help eliminate the effects of extraneous factors in a
designed experiment?
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Who should be chairperson of a design review committee?
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As the reliability engineer of a medium sized firm, you have developed a reliability
test plan for the shop. The shop manufactures products on a medium batch size basis. The batches
range from 30 to 500 pieces per order. The test plan should include all of the following
consideration EXCEPT
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Extrapolation is a method of reliability prediction which involves primarily:
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Engineering judgment.
FRACAS techniques.
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The reliability centered maintenance (RCM) approach has potential for use in many
areas of industry, having been successfully employed in the aircraft and nuclear power industries.
Response:
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A test machine detects 95% of the defective parts in a production line. To improve
product quality, a second test machine (from a different manufacturer) is installed in series with the
first machine.
The second machine is capable of detecting 90% of defects that escape the first machine. If
defective parts are removed after detection, what is the incremental improvement of the two
machines in series over the single machine?
Response:
4.5%
5%
9.5%
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14.5%
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A system consists of 4 parallel units each having a reliability of 0.80. The system can
still complete its mission with only 2 units functioning. If the failure rate is constant and failures are
independent, then the system reliability will be
Response:
0.4096
0.5376
0.8192
0.9728
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What is System Effectiveness, if Operational Readiness is 0.89, Design Adequacy is
95%, Availability is 98%, Maintainability is 0.93, and Mission Reliability is 0.99?
Response:
0.763
0.881
0.837
0.820
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The two principal measures of failure during risk assessment are which of the
following?
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Which of the following reliability tools is MOST likely to be employed in the design
phase of a project?
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Step-stress
Burn-in
Fatigue testing
Thermal analysis
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Which answer BEST describes the events and operating conditions an item
experiences from mission initiation to completion?
The events may include the research and development phase, product manufacturing,
warehousing, and so on, to mission completion.
Response:
Operational readiness.
Mission profile.
Design adequacy.
Mission reliability.
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A randomly failing component is tested to r failures, and n observations are made.
Degrees of freedom for calculating confidence limits on the mean should be:
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2r + 2
2r
n-1
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The lifetime of a mechanical lifter is normally distributed with a mean of 100 hours
and a standard deviation of 3 hours. What is the reliability of the lifter at 106 hours?
Response:
0.0228
0.0570
0.9430
0.9772
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Of the following, which is the MOST important reliability principle?
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If a company monitors field reliability using both three month and yearly MTBF
moving averages, a comparison of the averages will generally show that the yearly moving
averages:
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of testability?
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Which of the following measures can be used to find a quick approximation of the
availability of a system?
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In which of the following distribution is the standard deviation equal to the mean?
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Negative binomial.
Binomial.
Exponential.
Poisson.
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A device has a MTBF of 400 hours. Assuming an exponential distribution of time to
failure, what is the maximum time of allowable operation if a reliability of .995 is required?
Response:
20 hours
0.02 hours
0.2 hours
2 hours
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Human factors in product safety planning are assessed for which of the following (skipped)
reasons?
Response:
III only
I and II only
I, II and III
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One of the descriptions of component failures can be explained by a mathematical
model with a formula showing that the rate of chemical reaction varies exponentially with a rise in
operating temperature. This law is known as the:
Response:
Planck Law.
Pareto Law
Arrhenius Law.
Poisson Law
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Which of the following activities has the greatest impact on product reliability?
Response:
Design.
Manufacturing
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Service.
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A go/no-go device is tested until it fails. If X is the number of tests to first failure with
no wear out present, and the probability of success on each test is .99, then the probability that X is
greater than 5 is:
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0.9510
0.9410
0.9310
0.9610
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How is the level of significance defined?
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A reliability test of 12 pumps is terminated at 1000 hours. There were 5 failures as
follows, what is the median rank % for the 4th failure ?
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40.00%
29.84%
25.62%
24.48%
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Which of the following is a key element of an effective reliability growth program?
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Redundant components are used because:
Response:
Reliability of parallel components is higher than the highest reliability component in parallel.
Reliability of parallel components is higher than the lowest reliability component in parallel.
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Reliability of parallel components is lower than the highest reliability component in parallel.
Reliability of parallel components is lower than the lowest reliability component in parallel.
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What kind of failure would MOST likely result from insufficient hardware debugging?
Response:
Random failure.
Early failure.
Catastrophic failure.
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Which of the following is the most valuable in Human Engineering?
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FMECA
Monte-Carlo analysis
ANOVA
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An exclusive "or" gate produces an output only if:
Response:
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Preventive maintenance time includes:
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Delay time such as meals and awaiting spares from off-site or remote location.
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A vendor must perform tests on parts to determine which of the following?
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Cost.
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All of the following information is required to calculate reliability EXCEPT the
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Failure rate.
Failure mechanism.
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Preventive maintenance is defined as:
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Production error by human operators may be caused by:
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I and II
II
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A product - design team is in the material-selection phase for a new product. The
following four treatments need to be considered:
Response:
11
48
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What is the probability of performing a repair within 10 hours, if the MTTR is 10
hours?
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0.368
1.00
0.632
0.500
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Which of the following enters into the definitions of reliability?
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I. Mission time.
Response:
III only
I and II only
I, II and III
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