ASQ GREEN BELT 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What is the Taguchi Loss Function? - ✔✔The Taguchi loss function is graphical
depiction of loss developed by the Japanese business statistician Genichi Taguchi to
describe a phenomenon affecting the value of products produced by a company.
✔✔What does LSL represent on the Taguchi Loss Function Table? - ✔✔Loss of
customer time
✔✔What does USL represent on the Taguchi Loss Function table? - ✔✔Loss of
Company time
✔✔What does Target represent on the Taguchi Loss Function table? - ✔✔Best Quality
✔✔What does LSL mean in regard to Taguchi Loss Function Table? - ✔✔Lower
Specification Limit
✔✔What does USL mean in regard to Taguchi Loss Function Table? - ✔✔Upper
Specification Limit
✔✔Who is Subir Chowdhury? - ✔✔New Quality Leader; focus on management of
quality systems
✔✔What is a process? - ✔✔A set of interrelated work activities characterized by a set of
specific inputs and value added tasks that make up a procudeure for a set of specific
outputs.
✔✔What are basic components of a process? - ✔✔-Input
-Processing Activities
-Output
✔✔ How do you calculate profit - ✔✔Profit = Revenues-Costs
✔✔What other management efforts does six sigma integrate well with? - ✔✔-Lean
(some organizations use Lean / Six Sigma)
-ISO 9000
-Organizational change initiatives
✔✔Who benefits from six sigma - ✔✔The organization and customers
✔✔How do customers benefit from Six Sigma - ✔✔Six Sigma improvements
, ✔✔How does the organization benefit from Six Sigma? - ✔✔-Reduce losses incurred by
the company (financial,
customer goodwill)
-Increase wealth realized by the company (revenues,
profits, ROI, stock prices)
✔✔What are pitfalls in deployment of Six Sigma? - ✔✔Lack of management
commitment and takes a long time to learn and really understand tools.
✔✔What happens with lack of management commitment? - ✔✔Have trouble getting off
the ground
✔✔What is successful deployment of six sigma? - ✔✔-Clearly visible management
commitment
-Train cadre (small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or
profession) of green belts
-Initial work with starts with small projects and work towards larger ones.
✔✔What inspired the creation of the Quality Specialist/Quality Assurance Specialist? -
✔✔Ensured that production standards were met and
customers were satisfied with the resulting product
✔✔What is the pitfall of the Quality Specialist/Quality Assurance Specialist? -
✔✔Created departmental silos often at
odds/conflict with each other
✔✔What is Kaizan? - ✔✔(or 'continuous improvement') is an approach of constantly
introducing small incremental changes in a business in order to improve quality and/or
efficiency. This approach
assumes that employees are the best people to identify room for improvement, since
they see the processes in action all the time.
✔✔Over the years, What are attempts to ensure quality has had a varied focus: - ✔✔-
Products (ISO 9000, Reengineering)
-Processes (Statistical Process Control)
-Customers (Benchmarking, Balanced Scorecard)
-Business System (Baldrige Award Criteria, Six Sigma,
Lean)
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What is the Taguchi Loss Function? - ✔✔The Taguchi loss function is graphical
depiction of loss developed by the Japanese business statistician Genichi Taguchi to
describe a phenomenon affecting the value of products produced by a company.
✔✔What does LSL represent on the Taguchi Loss Function Table? - ✔✔Loss of
customer time
✔✔What does USL represent on the Taguchi Loss Function table? - ✔✔Loss of
Company time
✔✔What does Target represent on the Taguchi Loss Function table? - ✔✔Best Quality
✔✔What does LSL mean in regard to Taguchi Loss Function Table? - ✔✔Lower
Specification Limit
✔✔What does USL mean in regard to Taguchi Loss Function Table? - ✔✔Upper
Specification Limit
✔✔Who is Subir Chowdhury? - ✔✔New Quality Leader; focus on management of
quality systems
✔✔What is a process? - ✔✔A set of interrelated work activities characterized by a set of
specific inputs and value added tasks that make up a procudeure for a set of specific
outputs.
✔✔What are basic components of a process? - ✔✔-Input
-Processing Activities
-Output
✔✔ How do you calculate profit - ✔✔Profit = Revenues-Costs
✔✔What other management efforts does six sigma integrate well with? - ✔✔-Lean
(some organizations use Lean / Six Sigma)
-ISO 9000
-Organizational change initiatives
✔✔Who benefits from six sigma - ✔✔The organization and customers
✔✔How do customers benefit from Six Sigma - ✔✔Six Sigma improvements
, ✔✔How does the organization benefit from Six Sigma? - ✔✔-Reduce losses incurred by
the company (financial,
customer goodwill)
-Increase wealth realized by the company (revenues,
profits, ROI, stock prices)
✔✔What are pitfalls in deployment of Six Sigma? - ✔✔Lack of management
commitment and takes a long time to learn and really understand tools.
✔✔What happens with lack of management commitment? - ✔✔Have trouble getting off
the ground
✔✔What is successful deployment of six sigma? - ✔✔-Clearly visible management
commitment
-Train cadre (small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or
profession) of green belts
-Initial work with starts with small projects and work towards larger ones.
✔✔What inspired the creation of the Quality Specialist/Quality Assurance Specialist? -
✔✔Ensured that production standards were met and
customers were satisfied with the resulting product
✔✔What is the pitfall of the Quality Specialist/Quality Assurance Specialist? -
✔✔Created departmental silos often at
odds/conflict with each other
✔✔What is Kaizan? - ✔✔(or 'continuous improvement') is an approach of constantly
introducing small incremental changes in a business in order to improve quality and/or
efficiency. This approach
assumes that employees are the best people to identify room for improvement, since
they see the processes in action all the time.
✔✔Over the years, What are attempts to ensure quality has had a varied focus: - ✔✔-
Products (ISO 9000, Reengineering)
-Processes (Statistical Process Control)
-Customers (Benchmarking, Balanced Scorecard)
-Business System (Baldrige Award Criteria, Six Sigma,
Lean)
