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1. Quality assurance ensures all requirements are being met and all activities are contributing to the continuous improvement of current and future projects.

2. the objective of the review process is to understand what happened, to learn lessons that can be applied to other projects, and to avoid repeating mistakes.

3. ________ is the continuous process of monitoring, evaluating, and adopting corrective measures so that the planned quality is achieved. The process verifies that ________ activities are being performed using approved quality plans and  project requirements and standards are being met.

4. The quality control process includes inspections to verify the quality of the deliverables and their acceptance tests met the customer specifications.

5. A ¨Deviation¨ is a temporary gap from the specifications, at difference than a ¨Modification¨ that is any permanent change to the specifications.

6. When product quality requirements follow industries standards, the main criterion for choosing a supplier is the price.

7. Configuration management represents policies and procedures for monitoring and tracking design information and changes. It ensure everyone involved with the project and the operation of the end-item has the most current information possible.

8. Policies and procedures of the configuration management system should be included as a section in the quality plan.

9. Two aspects of configuration management are identification and control.

10. Configuration identification is an inherited part of system design that involves defining the structure of the system, its subsystems, and components.

11. Configuration Item (CI) is any subsystem, component, or part that is to be tracked and controlled as an individual entity throughout the life cycle of the system.

12. Where multiple units are produced and modifications and improvements are introduced over time, the specific configuration for each individually produced unit must be known, which requires that each specific CI in the product must be traceable to its specification.

13. Traceability is necessary, so that, for example, the correct spare part, training, and operating manuals can be supplied, and problems can be traced in the event of accidents, customer complaints, or claims regarding product liability.

14. Design reviews provide confirmation of the data usage during the design process, user’s requirements, and the inherited assumptions have been correctly identified.

15. The reviews should involve subject matter experts from all disciplines and users who are or will be connected to the end-item throughout its lifecycle.

16. In addition to the formal review, the project manager should encourage many informal reviews.

17. The design review process also provides networking experience, innovative ideas provided by others, gain of knowledge, and the reduction of risk.

18. Audits focus strictly on verifying that the work is being performed as required by corroborating the management processes compliance with prescribed processes, procedures, and specifications, as well as authenticating the status of the project.

19. Audits are also performed to verify that technical processes follow prescribed procedures.

20. Risk priority number (RPN) = Severity (SEV)  x Probability (Pro) x Detectability (Det.)