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This document offers 100 multiple-choice questions with correct answers from Exam 2 of MQM 227 – Operations Management at Illinois State University. It comprehensively assesses knowledge across key operational areas, including Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma tools and DMAIC phases, quality cost classifications (prevention, appraisal, internal and external failure), and quality pioneers such as Crosby, Deming, and Juran. The exam also includes a strong focus on lean production systems, covering topics like Kanban, waste elimination, level scheduling, backflushing, and supplier coordination. Additional sections evaluate understanding of forecasting techniques—simple and weighted moving averages, causal relationships, time series analysis—as well as aggregate operations planning strategies, including level and chase plans, cut-and-try method, and workforce/inventory balance. Students will also engage with process flow analysis, Little’s Law, cycle and flow time, buffer placement, and identifying starving and bottlenecks in multi-step processes. This is an essential exam resource for students in operations management, business administration, supply chain, and industrial engineering. Keywords: operations management, MQM 227, TQM, Six Sigma, lean systems, DMAIC, forecasting, Kanban, process flow, cycle time, Cp, Cpk, Malcolm Baldrige, EOQ, process bottleneck, Little’s Law, backflush, chase strategy, quality costs, forecasting models, quality control

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MQM 227 Exam 2 MCQ Questions and
Answers 100% Correct

The philosophical leaders of the quality movement, Philip Crosby, W.

Edwards Deming, and Joseph M. Juran, had the same general message

about what it took to achieve outstanding quality. Which of the following

was not part of that message?

a. Quality is free

b. Leadership from senior management

c. Customer focus

d. Total involvement of the workforce


e. Continuous improvement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a. Quality is free

,The philosophical leaders of the quality movement, Philip Crosby, W.

Edwards Deming, and Joseph M. Juran, had the same general message

about what it took to achieve outstanding quality. Which of the following

was part of that message?

a. Fourteen steps for quality management

b. Quality is free

c. Customer focus

d. Zero defects


e. Six Sigma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔c. Customer Focus


A flowchart as part of a Six-Sigma quality improvement process might be

found in which DMAIC category?

a. Define

b. Measure

c. Analyze

d. Improve


e. Control - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a. Define

, A fishbone diagram as part of a Six-Sigma quality improvement process

might be found in which DMAIC category?

a. Define

b. Measure

c. Analyze

d. Improve


e. Control - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔c. Analyze


An opportunity flow diagram as part of a Six-Sigma quality improvement

process might be found in which DMAIC category?

a. Define

b. Measure

c. Analyze

d. Improve


e. Control - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔d. Improve


Which of the following is an analytical tool used in Six-Sigma quality

improvement programs?



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