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What is GAQM Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification?

Updated: Jun 21, 2019

GAQM Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification questions and exam summary helps you to get focused on the exam. This guide also helps you to be on CLSSBB exam track to get certified with a good score in the final exam.

The GAQM Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt is a professional who can teach Six Sigma conceptions and principles, including supporting systems and tools. A Black Belt should show team leadership, understand team dynamics and assign team member roles and responsibilities. Black Belts have a thorough knowledge of all phases of the DMAIC model following Six Sigma principles.


GAQM Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB) Certification Summary

GAQM Lean Six Sigma Black Belt(CLSSBB) Certification Exam Syllabus


1. Organizational Roadblocks and Lean Management:

  • Organizational roadblocks

  • Resistance Analysis

  • Overview of all Continuous Improvement approaches

  • Overview of Lean

  • Overview of Six Sigma

  • Lean Management explained — TAKT Time, Cycle Time, PCE, Lead Time, SWIP, Setup time, Changeover time

  • Lean Tools explained — 5S, Kaizen, SMED, Heijunka

2. Pre-define DMAIC and Define:

A) Pre-define

  • DMAIC versus DFSS

  • Pre-define Pre-requisites and Qualifications

  • Project Prioritization Matrix

  • Introduction to Enterprise Wide view versus LOB view

B) NPV and IRR

C) Define

  • Champion’s transfer of project

  • Team dynamics and facilitation

  • Project Charter’s role

  • SIPOC/COPIS map

  • VOC/VOB/VOP

  • CTQ, CTC, CTS

  • VOC – CTQ Tree

  • Kano Model

  • Quality Function Deployment

  • Baseline performance of Y

  • Business Metrics for Y

  • Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY)

  • Statistical Definition of Six Sigma

3. Measure:

  • Objectives of Measure Phase

  • Types of Data and Data Distribution models (Normal, Binomial and Poisson Distribution discussed)

  • Scales of Data

  • Measures of Central Tendency

  • Measures of Dispersion

  • Measurement Systems Analysis

  • Variables GAGE RR

  • Attribute RR

  • Stability Check — Importance of Stability

  • Capability Check — Cp, Cpk, Cpkm explained, How to understand Attribute Capability

  • Variations, Variability and Capability

  • Graphical tools to understand Data distribution

  • Understanding Weibull (2 Parameter, 3 Parameter and Rayleigh) Distribution

  • Correlating Calculations to Business Measures

  • Checking Normality of Data (Anderson Darling, Ryan Joiner and Kolmogorov Smirnov)

4. Analyze:

  • Objectives of Analyze

  • Simple Linear Regression

  • Multiple Linear Regression

  • Curvilinear Regression

  • Fishbone Diagram

  • Pareto Charts

  • Demarcating Common Causes and Special Causes

  • Hypothesis Tests (Parametric and Non-Parametric tests)

  • Statistical Validation

5. Improve:

  • Objectives of Improve

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis

  • Solutions Prioritization Matrix

  • Pugh Matrix

  • Design of Experiments

  • Introduction to DOE

  • Basics of DOE

  • Replication, Randomization and Blocking

  • Main Effects and Interaction effects

  • Full factorial experiments

  • Fractional factorial experiments

  • Screened Designs

  • Response Surface Designs

  • DOE with Regression

  • DOE with example

6. Control:

  • Taguchi’s Loss Function

  • Control Charts (Variable Control Charts and Attribute Control Charts)

  • Measurement System Re-analysis

  • Control Plan and Project Storyboard Transfer

  • Project Closure

  • Introduction to Total Productive Maintenance

7. Lean Process Improvement:

  • Understanding Lean

  • The Toyota Production System

  • The Toyota Production System House

  • The Five Critical Improvement Concepts

  • Understanding Value with the Kano Model

  • Types of Waste

  • Creating a Lean Enterprise

  • Understanding Lean

  • The Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) Cycle

  • Using the R-DMAIC-S Model

  • Lean Thinking Tools

  • Kaizen Events

  • Data Gathering and Mapping

GAQM Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB) Certification Questions


GAQM Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Sample Questions:


Que.:01. Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) can be classified as Visible Costs and Hidden Costs. Which of these items is a Visible Cost?


Options:

a) Lost Customer Loyalty

b) Time Value of Money

c) Returns

d) Late Delivery


Que.:02. For a process having an average throughput of 7,200 units per hour, what is the average Cycle Time per unit in seconds?


Options:

a) 2

b) 0.32

c) 0.34

d) 0.42

e) 0.5


Que.:03. Much of the Six Sigma methodology is used to identify and remove causes for _____________ .


Options:

a) Process Variation

b) Material Costs

c) Excess Inventory

d) Lost Sales


Que.:04. Control charts and their limits are the?


Options:

a) Voice of the employee

b) Voice of the process

c) Voice of the customer

d) Voice of the team


Que.:05. In a Fishbone Diagram the 6M’s stand for Methods, ____________, Machine, Man, Mother Nature and Materials.


Options:

a) Measurements

b) Merger

c) Management

d) Medical


Que.:06. A kurtosis of -1,2754 indicates?


Options:

a) Platykurtic (flat with a short tail)

b) Leptokurtic (peaked with long tails)

c) Multi-modal (more than one distribution)

d) Kanban Model


Que.:07. Special Cause Variation falls into which two categories?


Options:

a) Natural & Unnatural

b) Short Term & Long Term

c) Assignable & Pattern

d) Attribute & Discreet


Que.:08. A two-sample T-test does which of the following?


Options:

a) Compares the medians to determine if sample 1 is statistically difference from sample 2

b) Subtracts the mean of sample 1 from sample 2 and compares the difference to zero to determine if they are equal

c) Compares the means to determine if sample 1 is statistically difference from sample 2

d) test of the difference between two population medians


Que.:09. Appropriate measures means that measurements are ______________.


Options:

a) Representative

b) Sufficient

c) Contextual

d) Relevant

e) All of these answers are correct


Que.:10. An operator is measuring the distance between two points. Which is most likely to be influenced by the operator?


Options:

a) Precision of the measurement

b) Accuracy of the measurement

c) Calibration of the instrument

d) All of these answers are correct


Answers:

Question: 01 Answer: c

Question: 02 Answer: e

Question: 03 Answer: a

Question: 04 Answer: b

Question: 05 Answer: a

Question: 06 Answer: a

Question: 07 Answer: c

Question: 08 Answer: c

Question: 09 Answer: e

Question: 10 Answer: d


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