ASQ CSSBB Exam Preparation

I strongly recommend Quality Council of Indiana’s ASQ CSSBB primer.  In addition their CD Rom containing ~600 questions is also helpful in preparing for the exam.

Quality Council’s offerings for CSSBB are outstanding.

Stan,
Did you pass the exam just by prparing for two hours?

I cordially disagree.
With 15+ years of statistical experience and quite a bit of quality experience, I purchased the QCoI BB Primer and studied on my own quite hard during evenings for at least 2-3 weeks. Heck, it took nearly that long to read through all the materials with just the evenings.
My advice is to give yourself at least four weeks study time (assuming you’re working during the day). Depending on your own style of learning I can see where the ASQ course would help – but I suppose it would be expensive.
I found the exam tough for three reasons:
1. My weakest area is the quality stuff (details on gurus, etc . . .). I just don’t have a lot of background in that area. The studying really raised my awareness.
2. The question wording often tended to be confusing – even in areas in which I am VERY strong.
3. The stats stuff relyed on hand calculation – I found that wasted a lot of test time and added substantial risk of silly miscalculations. The alternative answers often included results from common miscalculations.
Don’t forget to get the practice questions from QCoI too – they were VERY close to the style used in the SSBB exam.
The primer has my highest recommendation!!
Oh, and I passed the most recent exam.

Stan and BB are both right! The exam consist of two parts: one is Quality stuff and the other is the stat stuff.
I took the October’01 exam and found them easy for two reasons: I have prior CQE certification and I also have pretty solid understanding of the basic statistics. I used CQM prep software (sorry, do not remember the name) that had a lot of questions for the “boring” part and that worked well. For stats part I used mainly Air Academy “Basic Statistics” on the exam. And statistics on the exam are fairly simple but if you only  used software for all of your stat calculations than you may be in trouble. The exam requires some simple calculations and stat understanding on some questions.
Hope that helps !  

I was trained and certified by George Group, don’t really know if this is meaningfull or not.  My question is, BB’s are trained in 6s toolbox, how to apply the tools to different problems within a process.  What does an exam that has questions on quality gurus have to do with BB certification/

Mayukh, the post you are responding to is over 6 years old. Do you really think those in the string haven’t dealt with the issue of testing yet?