The curve below plots failure rate against time for a population of components. Which region is marked B, and what characterizes it?\

Useful life, where the failure rate is constant

Infant mortality, where the failure rate is falling

Wear-out, where the failure rate is rising

Burn-in, where defective units are screened out

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ASQ CQPA Reliability Concepts Practice Quiz

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Q1.Repair records for one machine are summarized below.

$\begin{array}{l|c} \hline \textbf{Quantity} & \textbf{Value} \\ \hline \text{Number of repairs} & 9 \\ \text{Total repair hours} & 45 \\ \text{Operating hours} & 3{,}600 \\ \hline \end{array}$

What is the MTTR?
- A.400 hours
- B.80 hours
- C.9 hours
- D.5 hours✓ Correct answer
Explanation
MTTR divides total repair time by the number of repair events:

$MTTR = \frac{\text{total repair hours}}{\text{number of repairs}}$

Substituting the tabulated values:

$MTTR = \frac{45}{9} = 5\ \text{hours}$

The distractor $400$ is the MTBF for this machine, $3{,}600 / 9$ , which is the figure that comes from reaching for the operating hours row instead of the repair hours row.
Reference: CQPA BoK III
Q2.The curve below plots failure rate against time for a population of components.

Which region is marked B, and what characterizes it?\
- A.Infant mortality, where the failure rate is falling
- B.Wear-out, where the failure rate is rising
- C.Burn-in, where defective units are screened out
- D.Useful life, where the failure rate is constant✓ Correct answer
Explanation
The flat middle span is the useful life region, in which early defects have been screened out and wear mechanisms have not yet taken hold, so failures arrive randomly at a steady rate. Burn-in is the deliberate distractor: it is the screening activity applied during region A rather than a region of the curve.
Reference: CQPA BoK III

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Basic reliability terminology
Reliability versus quality
Failure and failure rate concepts
Mean time to failure (MTTF)
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Mean time to repair (MTTR)
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Repairable versus nonrepairable systems
Series and parallel system reliability
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