FMEA objective type questions

1. What is FMEA ?
a. Fast moving engineered automotive
b. Foreign made electrical article
c. Failure mode and effect analysis
d. Firozabad municipal electric association
2. FMEA is a
a. Problem solving tool
b. Reliability improvement tool
c. Fault finding tool
d. Team name
3. Types of FMEA
a. AFMEA & BFMEA
b. DFMEA & PFMEA
c. CFMEA & DFMEA
d. PFMEA & QFMEA
4. What is DFMEA ?
a. Deputy FMEA
b. Director FMEA
c. District FMEA
d. Design FMEA
5. What is RPN ?
a. Rajasthan port notation
b. Rashtriya pradhamantri nigam
c. Risk priority number
d. Registered project number
6. RPN is
a. Sum of Severity (S), Occurrence (O) & Detection (D)
b. Maximum of Severity (S), Occurrence (O) & Detection (D)
c. Minimum of Severity (S), Probability (P) & Detection (D)
d. Product of Severity (S), Occurrence (O) & Detection (D)
7. Lab tests, Field tests and other inspections are
a. Process controls
b. Error proofing methods
c. Routine QA inspections
d. Design controls
8. The probability of a failure mode occurring due to its related cause is
a. Severity (S)
b. Occurrence (O)
c. Detection (D)
d. Probability (P)
9. Consequences of failure as perceived by the customer is
a. Potential effects of failure
b. Occurrence (O)
c. Detection (D)
d. Severity (S)
10. RPN is high
a. No concern
b. Moderate concern
c. High concern
d. All of the above
11. When to use FMEA?
a. Concept generation or selection
b. Preliminary design
c. Design improvement programs
d. All of the above
12. Insufficient Material thickness, vibration, contamination, temperature, tolerance build-up,
interference, insufficient bond, environment, insufficient material strength, overload,
insufficient coating/plating, electric power interrupt are
a. Examples of Failure mode
b. Examples of potential causes of failure
c. Examples of effect of failure
d. All of the above
13. The manner in which a system, subsystem, or component could potentially fail to meet the
design requirements- is
a. Failure mode
b. Cause
c. Effect
d. All of the above
14. An assessment of the seriousness of the failure on the system performance. 1 is a small effect,
10 is the endangerment of the customer is
a. Potential effects of failure
b. Occurrence (O)
c. Detection (D)
d. Severity (S)
15. The objectives of a PFMEA
a. minimizing production process based failure effects on the system
b. minimizing variation around the design specs due to the process
c. minimizing occurrence of a failure
d. All of the above
16. A failure mode has high severity (S) 10. Performing preventive maintenance will
a. Not affect severity (S)
b. Reduce severity to 0
c. Reduce severity to 1
d. None of the above
17. A failure mode has Severity 9, Occurrence 2 & Detection 1. Its RPN is
a. 9
b. 12
c. 18
d. None of the above
18. The ability of design controls to detect failure modes- is
a. Potential effects of failure
b. Occurrence (O)
c. Detection (D)
d. Severity (S)
19. Risk Priority Number is
a. used to prioritize product concerns
b. product of severity, occurrence, and detection
c. the greater the number, the greater the concern
d. All of the above
20. A failure mode can physically hurt end user, the Severity (S) is
a. 10
b. 1
c. 3
d. 0
True or False

21. An FMEA is primarily considered a problem-solving tool - True / False

22. A DFMEA evaluates the potential failure modes and causes associated with the manufacturing
of a product- True / False
23. The use of data to verify the relationships between root causes and effects is one of the critical-
to-success factors in the FMEA process True / False
24. At the DFMEA level, it is usually recommended to study each subsystem separately, and each
component separately True / False
25. A failure mode has high severity (S) 10. Performing preventive maintenance will reduce it to
1- True / False