Step 2. Prepare for the exam.
ASQ designed these resources to help you get ready to take the exam. Have you already reviewed these items? Are you ready to choose an exam date?
Take a look at the body of knowledge.
Review a list of references that provide the basis for the exam questions. These items give you a better idea of the material covered in the exam.
Take an interactive sample exam to receive additional feedback on the questions that appear in the sample exam. Print out the paper-and-pencil sample exam (PDF, 243 KB) to see the actual test format, including instructions and test questions from past exams.
ASQ offers many training opportunities to help you prepare.
Training
- Certified Quality Process Analyst
- Certified Quality Process Analyst Question Bank: CQPA Certification Preparation
- Charting Process Behavior (SPC)
- Concepts of Control Charts
- Data Collection
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Executive Overview
- FMEA for Beginners
- Guide to Process Improvement and Change
- Improvement Tools & Techniques: Charts, Controls, Diagrams, Improvement Methods Sampling and Problem Solving
- Lean Kaizen: A Simplified Approach to Process Improvements
- Measurement Systems Analysis
- Measurement Systems Analysis Executive Overview
- Process Capability
- Process Capability Analysis
- Process Capability Analysis Executive Overview
- Process Control for Project Teams
- Quality Tools
- Root Cause Analysis
- SPC Implementation
- SPC-TIP Basics-Online
- SPC-TIP Comprehensive-Online
- Systematic Problem Solving for Sustained Improvements with Quality Tools
- Need more training options? ASQ Sections and ASQ Forums/Divisions offer more training opportunities.
Books
- The Certified Quality Process Analyst Handbook
- Glossary and Tables for Statistical Quality Control, Fourth Edition
- The Quality Toolbox, Second Edition
- Root Cause Analysis: Simplified Tools and Techniques, Second Edition
- Quality Audits for Improved Performance, Third Edition
- Concepts for R&R Studies, Second Edition
- Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data, Fourth Edition
- Business Process Improvement Toolbox, Second Edition
- The Process Auditing Techniques Guide
- The Team Handbook, Third Edition
- A Practical Application of Supply Chain Management Principles
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