CVS Study Guide 2026
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📋 CVS Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CVS Topics to Study (55)
✍️ Sample CVS Questions & Answers
1. In the value equation, which action would NOT improve value?
Paying more for the same function performance lowers the function-to-cost ratio and therefore reduces value.
2. The concept of 'value' in Value Engineering is expressed as:
Value = Function/Cost means that value improves by either increasing function (performance) or decreasing cost, or both simultaneously.
3. A project team reduces a component's cost by 20% but the change causes the product to fail a key customer requirement. According to value methodology philosophy, what happened to value?
Value is the relationship of function to cost, so cutting cost at the expense of required function lowers value.
4. A manufacturer applies value analysis to a consumer appliance and combines three stamped brackets into one molded part. This is an example of which VE outcome?
Combining parts that perform related functions reduces material, assembly, and inventory costs while preserving function.
5. In the Function Analysis Phase, a team builds a FAST diagram and tests logic by asking 'How?' Moving in which direction on the diagram answers this question?
In FAST diagramming, asking 'How?' moves left to right toward more specific supporting functions, while 'Why?' moves right to left.
6. In FAST diagramming, functions that happen 'all the time' and are shown above the critical path scope line are classified as:
Continuous supporting functions are placed above the critical path and labeled all-the-time functions.