IQF Six Sigma Study Guide and Exam

Study Guide

The IQF Study Guide CD contains software which follows the exact format of the IQF Six Sigma Exam, so it is indispensable for studying to pass the exam! The Study Guide also includes a help system that provides explanations of the various concepts that are being tested, with interactive examples.

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Exam

The IQF Six Sigma Exam is CD-based, which offers two advantages: the exam may be taken at your leisure (rather than at pre-determined times and locations), and it encourages the use of analytical software in developing your response. In this way, the testing is a bit more realistic than multiple choice exams. Participants, and their Sponsoring Organizations, generally appreciate the added challenge of the real-world problem solving exercises. The exam may also be site-licensed by companies for their continued use.

Exam scores are retrieved via the internet using files containing your responses, stored on your computer. You must provide Quality America with your IQF Member Number in order to obtain your exam code and to retrieve the exam results. There is no cost for membership. Go to www.iqfnet.org and click the "Join IQF" button to join. Provide this IQF member number to Quality America to receive a password for retrieving your Exam results.

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Exam Format

The exam consists of 2 sections; a Fundamentals section and an Applications section.  The examinee is given 4 hours to complete each section of the exam. The Fundamentals section is design to test the examinee's understanding of basic statistical methods. The Fundamentals section consists of the following types of questions.

Question Type	Number of Questions
Six Sigma Process	5
Discrete Distributions	3
Continuous Distributions	3
Statistical Inference	3
Measurement Assurance	3
SPC	3
Process Capability	3
Regression	3
One-Way ANOVA	2
Multi-Factor ANOVA	2

The Applications section of the exam is designed to test the examinee's business methods and problem solving capability. The problems in the Applications section are more involved and may take up to an hour to complete. Because the questions in the Applications section vary in the level of difficulty, the questions are weighted when the exam in scored. The Applications section consists of the following types of questions.

Question Type	Number of Questions	Question Weighting
Process Cost Optimization	1	5
Process Target Optimization	1	10
Process Variance Optimization	0	10
Project Value	3	1
Project Management	1	4

About the IQF

The IQF is an all-volunteer organization of quality practitioners and subject matter experts that saw the need for standardization in the Six Sigma field. They have administered several hundred exams thus far, 80- 90% employer monitored and endorsed. Employers using the exam include Boeing, Visteon, and others. More information about the IQF and its certification process is available at www.iqfnet.org.