NEW QUESTION 64
You are carrying out an audit at a single-site organisation seeking certification to ISO 9001 for the first time.
The organisation manufactures
cosmetics for major retailers.
You are interviewing the Manufacturing Manager (MM).
You: “I would like to begin by looking at the cleaning controls.”
MM: “We record the cleaning of the equipment at the end of every batch. This document details the minimum cleaning frequency and the procedures to follow for all areas and each item of equipment. The person who carries out the cleaning puts their initial on the document and records the time and date alongside.” Narrative: You sample production records over 3-days and note down evidence of nonconformity as per the table below.

NEW QUESTION 65
An internal auditor of a manufacturer of polystyrene packaging products for the electronics industry raised a nonconformity against section 10.3 of ISO 9001 in Report IA202. The nonconformity (NC 3) stated:
“The reject rate of the finished product of 9.7% needs improvement as it doesn’t meet the stated objective of top management of 5%.” As the third-party auditor reviewing the internal audit process, you come across the nonconformity. For corrective action, the Quality Manager conducted an investigation into the reject rates. He reported that the collection baskets for products ejecting from the moulding machines were not large enough. About 6% of products fell onto the wet and dirty factory floor. Management stated that replacing the baskets was too costly and ordered the Maintenance Manager to ensure that the floor was kept clean and dry to prevent rejects. The auditor later checked the factory floor, which was wet and dirty in places.
From the following nonconformities, select three that the auditor could raise to ISO 9001.

NEW QUESTION 66
Below are four of the seven principles on which ISO 9000 series are based. Match a potential benefit to each of the quality management principles (QMP).

NEW QUESTION 67
ABC is a fast food shop that receives orders by phone or the internet. The normal menu includes 15 different types of hamburgers; however, in the last two days, due to a shortage of a special type of meat, they can only prepare six of the 15 varieties.
You are performing a third-party audit of ABC; you observed that the menu offering food on the website is still the normal one, with 15 different hamburgers. During a 30-minute period, you observed several customers reluctantly accepting other than the hamburger they preferred. You decided to raise the following nonconformity as follows:
“There is evidence that ABC has not reviewed the ability to provide customers the offered products”.
The restaurant manager does not accept the nonconformity. She says that ABC had an extensive training programme for all personnel, which you have already seen when auditing Human Resources. This shortage of some hamburgers cannot be considered a management system failure.
Which one would be your answer from the following options?

NEW QUESTION 68
An audit team of three people is conducting a Stage 2 audit to ISO 9001 of an engineering organisation which manufactures sacrificial anodes for the oil and gas industry in marine environments. These are aluminium products designed to prevent corrosion of submerged steel structures. As one of the auditors, you find that the organisation has shipped anodes for Project DK in the Gulf of Mexico before the galvanic efficiency test results for the anodes have been fully analysed and reported as required by the customer. The Quality Manager explains that the Managing Director authorised the release of the anodes to avoid late delivery as penalties would be imposed. The customer was not informed since the tests rarely fall below the required efficiency. You raise a nonconformity against clause 8.6 of ISO 9001.
During the audit team meeting in preparation for the Closing meeting, the second auditor disagreed with the clause of ISO 9001 selected for the above nonconformity. He thinks it should be clause 9.1.1.
Choose three options for how the audit team leader should best respond to the situation:

NEW QUESTION 69
Whistlekleen is a national dry cleaning and laundry organization with 50 shops. You are conducting a surveillance audit of the Head Office and are sampling customer complaints. You find that 80% of complaints originate from five shops in the same region. Most of these complaints relate to damage to customer laundry.
The Quality Manager tells you that those are the oldest shops in the organization. The cleaning equipment needs replacing, but the organization cannot afford it now. Complaining customers are offered a financial incentive to close the complaint.
On raising the matter with senior management, you are told that there are plans to replace the equipment in these shops over the next five years.
Select the one option which correctly describes the non-conformity to be raised against ISO 9001.

NEW QUESTION 70
Which of the following is a record related to the audit program that should be managed and maintained?

NEW QUESTION 71
What is reliability in the context of service quality?

NEW QUESTION 72
An internal auditor of a manufacturer of polystyrene packaging products for the electronics industry raised a nonconformity against section 10.3 of ISO 9001 in Report IA202. The nonconformity (NC 3) stated:
“The reject rate of ‘finished’ product of 9.7% needs improvement as it doesn’t meet the stated objective of top management of 5%.” Just before the Closing meeting of a third-party audit, the audit team leader is invited to a meeting with the Quality Manager. He tells the audit team leader that a member of the audit team was seen taking photographs of the factory on his phone during the day and wants him suspended from the Closing meeting with any nonconformities raised by him rescinded. The issue of photographs was not discussed during the opening meeting.
Select the three options for how the audit team leader might deal with this situation.

NEW QUESTION 73
The following are stages of an audit, put them in the order they would be conducted.

NEW QUESTION 74
Noitol is an organisation specialising in the design and production of e-learning training materials for the insurance market. During an ISO 9001 audit of the development department, the auditor asks the Head of Development about the process used for validation of the final course design. She states that they usually ask customers to validate the product with volunteers. She says that the feedback received often leads to key improvements.
The auditor samples the design records for a recently completed course for the 247 Insurance organisation.
Design verification was carried out but there was no validation report. The Head of Development advises that this customer required the product on an urgent basis, so the validation stage was omitted. When asked, the Head estimates that this occurs about 50% of the time. She confirms that they always ask for feedback and often make changes. There is no record of feedback in the design file for the course.
The auditor decides to review the training course design process in more depth.
Select three options that provide a meaningful audit trail for this process.

NEW QUESTION 75
Scenario 6: Davis Clinic (DC) is an American medical center focused on integrated health care. Since its establishment DC was committed to providing qualitative services for its clients, which is the reason why the company decided to implement a quality management system (QMS) based on ISO 9001. After a year of having an active QMS in place, DC applied for a certification audit.
A team of five auditors, from a well-known certification body, was selected to conduct the audit. Eva was appointed as the audit team leader. After three days of auditing, the team gathered to review and examine their findings. They also discussed the audit findings with DC’s top management and then drafted the audit conclusions.
In the closing meeting, which was held between the audit team and the top management of DC. Eva presented two nonconformities that were detected during the audit. Eva stated that the company did not retain documented information regarding its outsourced services for an analysis laboratory and regarding the conducted management reviews. During the closing meeting, the audit team required from DCs top management to come up with corrective action plans within two weeks. Although the top management did not agree with the audit findings, the audit team insisted that the auditee must submit corrective actions within the given time frame in order for the audit activities to continue.
Once the action plans were evaluated, the audit team began preparing the audit report. Eva required from the team to provide accurate descriptions of the audit findings and the audit conclusions. The report was then distributed to all the interested parties involved in the audit, including the certification body Based on the report, the certification body together with Eva, as the audit team leader, made the certification decision.
Based on the scenario above, answer the following question:
According to Scenario 6, the audit team required DC’s top management to submit corrective action plans within two weeks. Is this action acceptable?

NEW QUESTION 76
Scenario 5: Mechanical-Electro (ME) Audit Stages
Mechanical-Electro, better known as ME, is an American company that provides mechanical and electrical services in China. Their services range from air-conditioning systems, ventilation systems, plumbing, to installation of electrical equipment in automobile plants, electronic manufacturing facilities, and food processing plants.
Due to the fierce competition from local Chinese companies and failing to meet customer requirements, ME’s revenue dropped significantly. In addition, customers’ trust and confidence in the company decreased, and the reputation of the company was damaged.
In light of these developments, the top management of ME decided to implement a quality management system (QMS) based on ISO 9001. After having an effective QMS in place for over a year, they applied for a certification audit.
A team of four auditors was appointed for the audit, including Li Na as the audit team leader. Initially, the audit team conducted a general review of ME’s documents, including the quality policy, operational procedures, inventory lists, QMS scope, process documentation, training records, and previous audit reports.
Li Na stated that this would allow the team to maintain a systematic and structured approach to gathering documents for all audit stages. While reviewing the documented information, the team observed some minor issues but did not identify any major nonconformities. Therefore, Li Na claimed that it was not necessary to prepare a report or conduct a meeting with ME’s representatives at that stage of the audit. She stated that all areas of concern would be discussed in the next phase of the audit.
Following the on-site activities and the opening meeting with ME’s top management, the audit team structured an audit test plan to verify whether ME’s QMS conformed to Clause 8.2.1 (Customer Communication) of ISO 9001.
To do so, they gathered information through group interviews and sampling. Li Na conducted interviews with departmental managers in the first group and then with top management. In addition, she chose a sampling method that sufficiently represented customer complaints from both areas of ME’ s operations.
The team members were responsible for the sampling procedure. They selected a sample size of 4 out of
45 customer complaints received weekly for electrical services and 2 out of 10 complaints for mechanical services.
Afterward, the audit team evaluated the evidence against the audit criteria and generated the audit findings.
After reviewing the documented information, Li Na claimed that it was not necessary to report the minor nonconformities that were identified; instead, they would be discussed in the next audit phase. Is this acceptable?

NEW QUESTION 77
The following list gives examples of records that may be evidence of how an organisation has fulfilled the requirements of clause 8.4 of ISO 9001. Match the records to the appropriate requirement of clause 8.4.

NEW QUESTION 78
According to the ISO 9001 standard, which one of the following is a defined responsibility of top management?

NEW QUESTION 79
During an ISO 9001 audit of an electric cable manufacturer, you are reviewing the customer file for XYZ Construction in the Sales Department. This contract specifies that the installation configuration of the cable runs should meet national fire safety standards for Category A.
You discover that the customer later agreed to the approval of a less stringent Category B configuration instead.
The organization has the following quality policy document displayed in the reception area.
“This organization is committed to providing electric cables to customers’ requirements, in accordance with statutory regulations for their use. Continual improvement is a permanent objective of the organization. This policy shall be communicated to all employees and, where required, to all interested parties.” Referring to the scenario, select the two options for which the organization is meeting its policy commitments.

NEW QUESTION 80
What is the responsibility of the audit committee during an internal audit?

NEW QUESTION 81
Scenario 3:
Fin-Pro is a financial institution in Austria offering commercial banking, wealth management, and investment services. The company faced a significant loss of customers due to failing to improve service quality as they expanded.
To regain customer confidence, top management implemented a QMS based on ISO 9001. After a year, they contacted ACB, a local certification body, to pursue ISO 9001 certification.
The audit team was led by Emilia, an experienced lead auditor, and included three auditors. After an agreement was reached, ACB sent the audit objectives to the audit team.
The audit team began by gathering information about Fin-Pro’s understanding of ISO 9001 requirements.
While reviewing documented information, they noticed missing records of training and awareness sessions. They conducted employee interviews to verify attendance.
The team also reviewed the organizational chart and job descriptions to confirm employee competence.
They observed the company’s working environment (social, psychological, and physical conditions).
The audit team analyzed the evidence and prepared an audit report with findings and conclusions.
In scenario 3, the audit team required access to see the organizational chart and job descriptions to verify the employees’ competence. Based on audit best practices, is this acceptable?

NEW QUESTION 82
Which one of the following is not an ISO 9000:2015 quality management principle?

NEW QUESTION 83
You are conducting an audit at a single-site organisation seeking certification to ISO 9001 for the first time.
The organisation manufactures cosmetics for major retailers and the name of the retailer supplied appears on the product packaging. Sales turnover has increased significantly over the past five years You are interviewing the new Product Development Manager. You note that a software application called SWIFT is used to help control the product development process.
You have gathered audit evidence as outlined in the table. Match the ISO 9001 clause 8.3 extracts to the audit evidence.

NEW QUESTION 84
Who would be defined as a witness during a witness audit?
Choose two of the following options:

NEW QUESTION 85
You are conducting an ISO 9001 audit of a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF). The company processes waste plastics into raw material for plastic bottle manufacturers. You reach the manual picking line where operators are removing contaminant materials from incoming products, such as plastic bags, plastic film and badly contaminated items that would compromise the recycling process.
You interview the line supervisor.
You: “Why are these plastic items being rejected at this stage?”
Auditee: “They do not meet our processing standards.”
You: “What is the reason for that?”
Auditee: “These items are likely to damage the machinery down the line. They can also compromise our quality standards. We need to protect our reputation for good quality output materials.” You: “What happens to the rejected items?” Auditee: “Some get melted down in another process later on and some are disposed of as waste products that cannot be recycled.” You: “What happens to the waste products?” Auditee: “I’m not sure. I suppose they go to landfill.” After further auditing, you have gathered additional evidence.

NEW QUESTION 86
Which of the following three options could be considered potential threats to impartiality in an audit context?