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Manufacturing, DFM & DFT — question 3 of 10

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On the production line, an in-circuit tester (bed-of-nails) reports intermittent failures on a board that works fine when you test it by hand with a multimeter and an external power supply. The board has an edge connector but no dedicated test pads on the power rail. What's your first hypothesis, and how would you confirm it?

How sure are you?

Being confidently wrong costs more mastery than admitting a guess — that is deliberate, and it is how misconceptions get found.

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