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2) A test procedure that is insensitive to deviation from its underlying assumptions is described as
a) unbiased b) robust
c) efficient d) statistically valid
3) A designer has derated a component. This means he has assigned the component to operate at
5) A life test is run on 5 power supplies. The total exposure is 50,000 hours. All failed items were replaced immediately
with new items. Failures are distributed. If 4 failures occur during the testing, what is the 90% lower confidence limit
on the MTTF ?
a) 7,465 b) 5,465
c) 6,452 d) 6,255
6) Data showing failures is analyzed and a proportion of the units tested survive the entire test cycle. Data on these
types of samples are called
7) The reliability of A unit in the diagram below is 0.990. The other four units ( B ) have equal reliability values. The
system reliability goal is 0.9896. Find the minimum reliability for each of the B units in order to attain this reliability goal.
B B a. 0.980
b. 0.985
A
c. 0.995
d. 0.990
B B
8) A hazard is defined as
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10) A certain aircraft fuel line has a normally distributed failure rate ( due to corrosion ) with a mean of 15 years and a
standard deviation of 3.5 years. Find the probability that the fuel lines will survive a 10 year period.
11) A typical use of the Duane method is to assess the amount of test time required to attain a
12) An automotive bracket has a mean strength of 2,800 N and a standard deviation of 370 N, and is . The applied load
is also with a mean of 1,600 N and a standard deviation of 180N. Find the reliability of the bracket.
13) 15 power transformers were tested for 1200 cumulative hours, with 4 failures. The test was then failure truncated.
If the failure rate is constant, what is the 95% lower confidence limit for the MTBF ?
14) A study of repair times is being conducted at a FAA Repair Station. Data reduction resulted in a mean of natural
logarithms of 5 with a standard deviation of 0.4. Find the maintainability for a time of T = 248 minutes.
16) Which method should NOT be used for screening failures in a new product early in the development process ?
18) Find the lowest mission reliability that will give a system effectiveness value of 0.90 if OR is 0.975, and DA is 0.965.
20) 1000 electrical components are tested until 15 fail. The 15 that failed had an average life of 50 hours to failure. The
largest failure time was 80 hours. No failed parts were replaced. With 90% confidence, the true MTBF is what value ?
( Assume a ).
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23) Human error risks are quantified using which analysis method ?
24) During burn in – electrical components typically exhibit a ______________ hazard rate.
25) A complex cargo door lock system has a reliability goal of 0.995. The predicted reliability is 0.999 when
one of the subsystems is functioning, and 0.90 when that subsystem is not functioning. Find the minimum reliability
for the subsystem to meet the system reliability goal.
26) A four way switch has a reliability of 0.92 for 10,000 hours. If five switches are tested, what is the probability that 4
will survive ?
29) Find the inherent availability for a robot having a MTBF of 2000 hours and a MTTR of 2 hours:
30) When a Weibull distribution has a = 2 , distribution closely resembles a _______________ distribution.
31) The best phase ( in terms of cost effectiveness ) to eliminate a potential hazard is in the ______________ phase.
32) Which type of control can quickly detect slight shifts in the degradation phenomena ?
a) Fault isolation b) Fault detection c) False alarm rate d) Fault repair rate
35) The potential loss of property or critical human safety may be analyzed using which method ?
37) A life test is performed in an accelerated manner with an acceleration factor of 4. The MTTF under accelerated
conditions is found to be 800 hours. If the TTF is , find the reliability at 2K hours.
38) Often, standard store purchased electronic components are used in place of custom components in assemblies.
Which of the following is true regarding this situation ?
39) An automated test / measuring system provides which of the following advantages ?
40) Which of the following reports is of most value when concerning reliability activities ?
a) SPC Reports b) Weibull analysis reports c) Financial reports d) Corrective Action Reports
41) Electronic components in the burn – in phase will exhibit a _____________ failure rate.
42) Which failure type is NOT used for constructing a fault tree ?
43) A power supply has a failure free life of 200 hours with an increasing hazard rate following. If the Reliability engineer
recommends a scheduled replacement every 300 hours – this will result in which of the following ?
44) Which tool is most often used in the design phase for manufacturing of electronic components ?
45) Which theory states that energy absorption is proportional to operating time at different levels ?
47) A reliability of 0.99 is required. Find the sample size that will provide a confidence level of 95% that there will be no
failures ?
a) 89 b ) 298 c) 71 d) 367
c) assuring that failures do not effect the environment d) providing early reliability data
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49) The FMEA and FTA differ in the fact that FTA
a) begins with system failure effects or top events first b) is used along with a Fishbone
c) begins with individual or combined lower level failures first d) does not address human factors
50) Which data source is most reliable for actual failure modes and mechanisms ?
a) Field data b) Qual – Test data c) FMEA data d) Functional Test data
51) Time based life data is categorized as Right censored when its failures are known to be
52) 10 units have a Weibull scale parameter of 6.2 days with a shape parameter of 0.7.
Predict the reliability of these units after 10 days of testing.
a) 0.632 b) 0.198
c) 0.368 d) 0.247
53) ) A lot of 300,000 resistors is to be sampled prior to acceptance. Failure of a sampled resistor to pass the ATP will
reject the entire lot. Find the minimum sample size in order to achieve 90% confidence that atleast 85% of the untested
resistors are acceptable.
a) 32 b) 15
c) 19 d) 37
54) Assume the number of equipment breakdowns during a given time period follow a Poisson distribution with the
expected number of failures per hour = 0.40. Find the probability of having two breakdowns in an 8 hour period.
a) 0.21 b) 0.05
c) 0.30 d) 0.025
a) 0.999 b) 0.997
c) 0.996 d) 0.998
a) 0.995 b) 0.997
c) 0.996 d) 0.998
57) Find the lowest mission reliability value which will give a system effectiveness value of 0.90 if operational readiness is
0.975 and design adequacy is 0.965.
a) 0.957 b) 0.920
c) 0.967 d) 0.968
58) A security camera system has a system = 0.02 /hr. An identical unit can be switched on if the first camera fails to
record. Assuming 100% reliable switching, find the reliability for any random day.
59) An electronic system has four components in series with ’s = 5k, 6k, 4.5k, and 2k hours respectively.
Find the 200 hour system reliability. ( ’s are distributed ).
a) 0.989 b) 0.898
c) 0.832 d) 0.804
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60) A flight system contains two units, both must function to enable the system to work. The system reliability / availability
goal is 0.975. The first unit is non-repairable, having an availability of 0.99. The second unit is repairable, with a constant
failure rate of 1.5E-4. Find the minimum MTTR to meet the required availability goal.
c) HASS d) RCM
63) Which tool is used to determine the amount of additional testing needed to reach a reliability goal ?
64) Components are situated in series. Which tool is used to determine the overall tolerance needed for the serial combination ?
65) A PRAT plan is employed in an assembly area. The design / discrimination ratio is expressed as the ratio of
c) consumer’s risk / producer’s risk d) upper test MTBF / lower test MTBF
a) 8.1 % b) 2.0 %
c) 2.3 % d) 1.4 %
x = 150 y = 160
x = 3 y = 4
67) Find the Factor of Safety for the material shown above.
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70) A new scanner has a constant failure rate of 1 error every 17 days of constant usage. Find the probability that the
scanner can operate failure free for 5 hours.
71) Thirty Fuel Control Valve are tested for 50 hours each, and two fail the functional test. Find the reliability at the 95%
lower one-sided confidence level.
73) Pre production and final product data differ. Which tool is best used for evaluating the reliability in this case ?
a) Accelerated testing b) Field use c) Monte Carlo modeling d) Force field analysis
74) A system consists of 500 solar cells. The failure rate for the system is 0.003 failures per hour. The solar panel
system is in use for 20 hours per day. Find the spare systems requirement for a 30 day period with 99% confidence.
a) 9 b) 8 c) 4 d) 5
75) A reliability plan should contain which element as its first element in the plan ?
a) Sample size b) Product life target c) Test equipment d) Cost estimate for testing
76) Assuming perfect switching and perfect start ups. Which of the following systems will exhibit the longest mean
life if each system consists of n units with identical reliability ?
77) ) Find the sample size required to demonstrate a reliability of 0.99 with a 95% confidence level with no failures:
78) A component has an . Find the minimum number of units that must survive a 1k hour, failure-free test to attain a
5 year with 99% confidence.
79) Find the 95% lcl on the MTBF for the following component:
80) Find the required MTBF for a 4 hour mission having a reliability goal of 0.9999
81) An electric guard gate has a system = 0.02 /hr. An identical unit can be switched on if the first gate fails to close.
Assuming 100% reliable switching, find the reliability for any random day.
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82) In 1000 independent trials, with the same probability of failure at each trial, 50 failures were observed. Assume a
Poisson distribution. Upper and lower 90% ( symmetrical 80%) confidence limits on the liability:
83) A series system requires a reliability of 0.99 at 1000 hours. What is the approximate subsystem MTBF that must be
achieved to meet this system objective in three identical components are used ?
84) An item was removed from testing after 25 hours without failing. The unit was:
I Right censored
II Suspended
III Truncated
I
II
III
IV
86) If time to fail data were to be collected and analyzed for 4 months, the data would be:
I Left censored
II Right censored
III. Single censored
IV. Annually correlated
87) You are the chief engineer for a revamped internet interface card, which is easy to install and will allow user
modification through software. The initial qualification tests generated 5 failures in 3000 hours. The goals is for an MTBF
of atleast 2000 hours of service. If the value is 0.4, how much total testing is required ?
88) An accelerated test plan is used with an exponential distribution. Given that the acceleration factor is 2.4, a test
provides a MTBF of 80 hours. Determine the reliability under normal operating conditions for a time equal to 200 hours.
89) An electronic device can either succeed or fail on a test. The number of independent trials needed to demonstrate a
0.90 reliability with 0.95 confidence when only one failure is allowed is :
a) 22 b) 45 c) 56 d) 68
91) A series system is made up of 5 subsystems and has a reliability of .95. Four of the subsystems have the following
reliabilities:
92) A life test for a sample of 300 batteries produces 15 failed batteries. Find the 95% confidence interval for the
probability P of a given component surviving the test.
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93) A system contains 4 identical sensors of which 3 of them are in standby redundancy. A standby sensor is switched in
by failure of the preceding sensor. Assume the switching device has a perfect reliability of 1.0 and the sensors have a
constant hazard rate of 0.08 and sensors cannot fail while on standby. The reliability of the system at one unit of time is
approximately
94) A reliability test is being performed. The results will be reported as proportional failing. Which distribution is the best
prior Bayesian distribution when examining this data ?
a) Binomial b) Beta c) Poisson d) Gamma
96) Which of the following is used to show the relationship of failure rate to temperature ?
97) Which of the following is used to predict the future performance of hardware from testing and early
field data sources ?
98) The average of the natural logarithms of the repair time is 4.3 hours with a st. dev. Of 0.7 hour. What is the
maintainability for an allowed repair time of 120 hours ?
99) With a beta shape parameter equal to 1, the ordinate (y value ) of the Weibul distribution will
100) A two level five factor experiment is conducted to optimize the reliability of an electronic control module. A half
replicate of the standard full factorial experiment is used. The number of treatment combinations will be
a) 32 b) 25 c) 16 d) 10 e) 5
101) A system contains many identical parts with varying ages. The failure rates are U distributed. Which of the following
is true concerning the reliability of these parts ?
a) The lambda of the system is given by the product of the individual part failure rates.
b) The oldest part is expected to fail first.
c) The lambda of the system is the product of the individual part reliabilities.
d) Each separate part has the same probability of failure during a given time period.
102) In a PRAT plan, the deign/discrimination ratio is shown by the ratio of:
106) The reliability of a 4 way switch in relation to surviving a 10,000 cycle test in a corrosive environment is .92. If
5 switches are tested, what is the probability that 4 will survive ?
112) Define the formula used for three subsystems in active parallel, non load sharing where, atleast 2 of the 3 must
work in order for the system to function.
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