CMRP Practice Questions

1. What is the most important Purpose of Performing Risk Evaluations?

a. To determine What Level of Response is Cost Justified?
b. To clearly define activities required to contain Risks
c. To identify what events may have Serious Consequences
d. `To assure compliance with Company Policies

2. Which of the following Metrics Definitions is not accurate?

a. Uptime - % of time you run producing quality product at Design Rate
b. Schedule Compliance - how often mechanics are pulled off their current work to another task
c. MTBF - a measure or Indicator of Equipment Life Expectancy
d. Backlog - how long it takes to fix broken equipment

3. Which List of elements below are the most important to be evaluated and coordinated during the
Planning Phase of a major Shutdown of your Operating Area (i.e. Annual Turnaround)?
a. Historical turnaround maintenance days, operations desired work list, prior turnaround work lists
b. Available turnaround budget, equipment condition, budgeted down-days
c. Condition and remaining life of critical equipment, value of production throughput, labor and materials
availability and cost
d. Heavy lifting equipment availability, labor cost and availability, operations requested down-days

4. A In a manufacturing facility, to identify Sources of Waste and Inefficiencies or Process Losses so

that Corrective Action can be taken to improve the process, which type of KPI is most representing
for their need?
a. OEE
b. TEEP
c. Availability
d. Reliability

5. What process should be implemented for tracking skills inventory for employees?
a. Asking employees about their track when we need to know.
b. Asking supervisors to keep a skill track for their subordinates.
c. Apply performance analysis and depend on it.
d. Maintaining company skills and training database.

6. What is the Statistical Average and the Population Standard Deviation of the following Series of
Numbers? 1.30, 1.25, 1.50, 1.12, 1.35, 1.38
a. Statistical average = 1.32; Standard Deviation= 0.128
b. B. Statistical average = 1.50; standard deviation= 0.25
c. Statistical average = 1.32; standard deviation= 1.50
d. Statistical average = 0.128: standard deviation= 1.32
7. The most Effective Way to highlight and stop Any Manipulation of Data
a. Clarity and ethical environment should be promoted.
b. Multiple Dimensions KPIs should be established.
c. Solid punishment system should be exiting.
d. A fair and ambitious rewarding system should be evident.

8. MTBF can be considered as a -------- indicator to Manufacturing Performance.

a. Leading
b. Lagging
c. Key
d. It has no indication to manufacturing performance

9. What is the Relationship between Leading Indicator Metrics and Lagging Indicator Metrics in the
Field of Maintenance and Reliability?
a. Lagging indicators are measures that reflect accomplishment of goals, while leading indicators are
measures of what must be done to improve results.
b. Leading indicators are measures that reflect accomplishment of goals while lagging indicators are
measures of what must be done to improve results.
c. Leading indicators are low level measures that reflect accomplishment of goals, while lagging indicators
are measures of what must be done to improve results.
d. Leading indicators are used by management, while lagging indicators are used by personnel on the
shop floor.

10. In Healthy Maintenance & Reliability Organizations, PM & PDM Tasks:

a. Should be the only existing maintenance philosophies
b. Should be developed using FMEA/RCM methodologies
c. Should be existing as per OEM Recommendations
d. Should be applies on all organization physical assets

11. A Skills Audit is undertaken to:

a. Help an organization understand skills in its industry.
b. Help an organization understand skills it requires.
c. Benchmark skills against other companies.
d. Develop employee training plans for the next year.

12. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding effective inventory management:
a. The goal of inventory management is to ensure maximum service level of plant equipment.
b. A high turn ratio on spare parts could indicate a reliability issue and/or reactive maintenance culture.
c. A low stock out and low turn ratio would suggest that inventory levels are too high.
d. Setting up stocking parameters and prioritizing inventory supports work planning and scheduling
processes.
13. Routine Review and Discussion of Maintenance Plan Progress will:
a. Ensure needed training and required skills will be available.
b. Provide an opportunity to make adjustment to the organization plan.
c. Ensure team commitment and needed support will be available.
d. Enable setting the correct goals and measures.

14. When assigning work that needed to be executed today it should include:
a. Critical equipment that has reached potential failure.
b. Planned Proactive Maintenance Strategies Work.
c. Enhancements to safety work.
d. All corrective maintenance work.

15. As the Maintenance Manager at a New Plant (facility) you are developing the maintenance
workforce strategy for start-up. Select the best workforce attributes for Maximum Effectiveness,
Assuming that Unit Labor Costs are equal?
a. An annual bid and selection of a maintenance labor contractor is performed, using unit costing of tasks
normally required.
b. A managing contractor is brought on site to handle all aspects and provision of maintenance labor.
c. Multi skilled mechanical crafts (trades) and instrument electrical crafts (trades) are hired and developed.
d. Operations performing minor maintenance and company multi-skilled technicians performing complex
maintenance tasks.

16. If Two Pieces of Equipment go down at the Same Time, and You only have One Crew to repair them,
which one do you send the crew to first?
a. Crews should be assigned according to Equipment Criticality.
b. Crews should be assigned according to Job Priority.
c. Crews should be assigned according to fastest one to repair.
d. Crews should be assigned according to equipment history.

17. From the choices below, select the formula for Reliability, R:
a. R = e- (MTTR/t)
b. R = e- (t/MTBF)
c. R = Downtime/(Downtime + Uptime)
d. R = MTBF / (MTBF + MTTR)

18. Preventive Maintenance is defined as: Maintenance tasks, including inspection, service and or
replacement, conducted at regular, scheduled intervals of calendar or operating time established to
avoid failure based on average statistical anticipated lifetime. There are cautions regarding the
application of PM: No more than "A" percent of total failures are time based, wear out, in nature. ....
thus. PM is an ineffective avoidance action for about *'B" percent of probable failures.
a. A = 20; B = 80
b. A = 40; B = 60
c. A = 60; B = 40
d. A = 80; B = 20
19. When MTBF increases:
a. Failure Rate decrease
b. Reliability of the equipment decrease
c. Downtime increase
d. Maintenance cost increase

20. Which should be most considered when creating Asset Management Strategy and Plan:
a. Effect of the new strategy and plan on market demand.
b. Effect of the new strategy and plan on legal environmental situation.
c. Effect of new strategy and plan on employee’s health and local environment.
d. Effect of new strategy and plan on financial requirements for maintenance department.

21. Which of the following does not support people development?

a. Providing feedback only when asked
b. Defining result areas, goals, and measurements
c. Coaching, feedback, and encouragement
d. Defining training and skills goals

22. Which one of the following is generally True?

a. Construction contractors are usually equally skilled at performing all maintenance tasks
b. Maintenance is often reduced through project designs that provide in-place spares for all rotating
equipment and heat exchangers
c. Reliability Centered Maintenance can be applied on capital projects in the pre-construction stage to
determine the maintenance plan
d. Most mechanics can easily alternate between doing capital project work and doing equipment
diagnosis and repair work

23. Hidden Failure is :

a. Failure that cannot be discovered by operation & maintenance.
b. Failure that is not naturally evident to operations & maintenance.
c. Failure that doesn’t have known cause to operation & maintenance.
d. Failure that doesn’t have any effect on plant operation & maintenance.

24. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a method to achieve Maximum Equipment Effectiveness
through:
a. Transforming operators into skilled tradesmen.
b. Developing an effective maintenance program.
c. Employee involvement through small group activities.
d. Designing an effective workplace with minimum allowable breakdowns.
25. What is the Vendor-managed inventory?
a. A Phrase used to describe type of inventory that has an automated procurement cycle agreed with its
supply vendor.
b. A Phrase used to describe agreed policy with original OEM inventory vendor to store this item in his
stores and supply it when needed.
c. A Phrase used to describe the process of a supplier managing the inventory levels and purchases of the
materials he supplies.
d. A Phrase used to describe a strategy of following vendor recommendation for identifying inventory
min, max and reorder level.

26. What would be needed to be executed first when we are going to establish maintenance & asset
management strategic plan:
a. Identify today's Performance and Key results areas
b. Identify long-term goals and what must be achieved
c. Create agreement on improvement progression model
d. Create resource and benefits plan

27. What relationship should Maintenance and Reliability Teams have with customers and suppliers for
Optimum Effectiveness?
a. Purchasing should be the only communicators with suppliers
b. Management should be the only communicators with customers and suppliers
c. Team members should be involved in communicating with customers and suppliers
d. Sales should be the only department communicating with customers.

28. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct regarding Maintenance & Reliability?
a. Preventive maintenance is not the optimum maintenance strategy for asset maintenance
b. Some assets can be left run until failures without preventive or predictive maintenance.
c. Reliability can be improved easily after a maintenance plan has been put into operation.
d. Most of process downtime are related to latent causes not reliability causes.

29. Total Capital Equipment Life Cycle Cost includes:

a. Depreciation expense
b. Initial purchase expense
c. Future replacement price
d. Manufacturer’s standard warranty price.

30. In a critical process plant, which of the following can be used as a measure of equipment
performance between planned shutdowns.
a. Inherent Availability
b. Achieved Availability
c. Operational Availability
d. Asset utilization
31. Turns are defined as a basic measure of Efficiencies in:
a. Management
b. Vendor Delivery
c. Financial Control
d. Inventory Control

32. Which of the following Statements about Reliability is True?

a. Reliability of a system or equipment can be improved as a result of administration or legislation
b. A reliable system can be designed from unreliable components if enough redundancy is used.
c. Reliability of a system or equipment can be improved as a result of testing.
d. Increasing the amount of maintenance cannot improve reliability above the level established by the
design of a system.

33. As OEE increased, Safety Incidents Rate:

a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Oscillate
d. Will not be affected (has no relation)

34. Using Predictive Technologies, approximately what percent of Failures in Rotating Equipment can
be found?
a. 80%
b. 60%
c. 40%
d. 20%

35. Maintenance Manager found that a Rework percentage of 5 % was resulted through Last Year
Maintenance Work. What should he do?
a. He should consider maintenance work procedures development or revision.
b. He should assign a penalty on maintenance crew until this percentage to be corrected.
c. He should consider creation of new maintenance monitoring system to evaluate the problem.
d. He shouldn’t do anything, this percentage is in acceptable range.

36. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding Change Management:
a. Change management review includes management, engineering, maintenance, safety, production,
environmental, and possibly others.
b. Management of change process doesn’t end after approving the proposed change through the stated
documented cycle.
c. Temporary changes don’t need to be processed in the change management cycle.
d. Planners may have potential liability that an individual make an unapproved change.
37. Replacement Asset Value (RAV) is defined as :
a. The original cost that the facility was designed, procured and constructed.
b. The cost that would be incurred to replace the facility and equipment in its original configuration.
c. The cost that would be incurred to replace the facility and equipment in its current configuration.
d. The cost that would be incurred to replace the facility and equipment in with new design and
configuration.

38. In 'which of the following circumstances might it be appropriate to conduct a Failure Modes and
Effects Analysis?
a. A custom-made production machine, critical to meeting production requirements, has failed for a third
time in six months. The Maintenance Department has carefully inspected the machine after each failure,
and each failure has been attributed to a loss of lubrication of the machine's bearings.
b. Corporate downsizing has reduced the staff of the Maintenance Department to two Reliability
Technicians and two foremen for each craft (trade). These foremen will now manage contracted
maintenance crews for all plant (facility) maintenance activities.
c. The Maintenance Department has assumed responsibility for maintenance of the equipment in a small
production line acquired after buyout of a smaller competitor. The competitor uses equipment that is
different from the company's existing equipment.
d. The Production Department has added a third production shift to meet increased sales. The new shift
will be staffed mostly of new employees whose training consists of two weeks working with the day
shift. Adding the third shift also increases equipment operating hours by 50%

39. When developing, and presenting a New Strategic Plan to Stakeholders, which of the following is
the most important?
a. Implementation timetable
b. Craft (trade) flexibility
c. Establishment of a common goal
d. Gaining the Trust of Stakeholders

40. When an Organization outsourced its maintenance execution function to an external contractor, Lack
of existing skilled contractor Labor Skills can be considered as:
a. A Threat that may affect maintenance work quality
b. A Weakness that need to be corrected to improve work quality
c. A Fact that need to be dealt with and mitigate its consequences.
d. An Opportunity to have maintenance contract with low cost.

41. Which of the following is NOT part of ARV components?

a. Building Envelop.
b. Improvements applied to the plant.
c. Capitalized Engineering Costs
d. Value of Land
42. What is the best criterion for changing a known and controlled variable to meet a New Customer
Requirement?
a. Engineering Analysis
b. Operator and maintainer experience
c. Senior management directive
d. Reliability and Maintainability Analysis

43. A Typical Organizational Structure should contain:

a. Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships and Governance.
b. Roles, Responsibilities, Methods and Targets.
c. Roles, Responsibilities, Structure and Risk.
d. Roles, Responsibilities, Accountabilities and Information.

44. A Reliability Leader has noted that the air supply to the pneumatic drill and stamping center is
intermittently inadequate, resulting in costly process interruptions. Three potential solutions have
been identified: 1) Purchase a new, larger air compressor for $40,000 2) Perform and overhaul of the
existing compressor for $10,000 3) Contract a performance investigation of the air system for $3,500.
Which is the best alternative and why?
a. Overhaul the existing compressor to see if that solves the problem
b. Buy a new compressor because Mean Time Between Failure is guaranteed by the supplier
c. Buy a new air compressor because the existing compressor seems too small
d. Investigate System performance to determine the root cause of the problem

45. Regarding Critical Equipment in Continuous Production Environment:

a. Concentrating on preventive maintenance is required to ensure removing failure causes.
b. More consideration for condition based maintenance is required to maintain equipment as soon as
potential failures appear.
c. Following OEM recommendations for maintenance program is needed to ensure equipment operating
context.
d. Using condition monitoring and maintaining assets during agreed shutdowns and turnarounds is the
best strategy for this case.

46. To achieve improved OEE

a. Operation department should maintain operational availability
b. Engineering department should study how to improve assets maintainability
c. Operations and Maintenance must work as a Team.
d. Maintenance department should implement effective maintenance strategy.

47. Typical sorted steps for change cycle are:

a. Denial – Anger – Acceptance – Recovery
b. Denial – Anger – Refuse – Recovery
c. Denial – Bargaining – Guilt – Recovery
d. Denial – Bargaining – Refuse – Recovery
48. The safety stock of an inventory item is 100. The supply lead-time is two weeks and the average
weekly demand is 100 units. Which of the following is the re-order level?
a. 100
b. 200
c. 300
d. 400.

49. Which performance result best shows a Maintenance and Reliability Manager that the scheduled
maintenance activities being implemented are effective?
a. Hours spent on unscheduled maintenance have decreased
b. Maintenance cost per unit of production has decreased
c. Total annual maintenance cost has decreased
d. Production rate has increased

50. When support is required in change for initiation of a New Strategic Plan
a. Maintenance & Reliability Professionals should practice strong communication skills.
b. Positioned Champions are required to lead the effort and enlist needed support.
c. Routine review and discussion of progress will ensure team commitment and provide buy in.
d. Clear roles and responsibilities with strong enforcement is needed to ensure success.

51. The best method of measuring the Reliability of an asset is:

a. By counting unplanned downtime events.
b. By incorporating asset performance measuring tests.
c. By calculating its reliability based on design parameters.
d. By measuring its performance rate.

52. The Primary Purpose of Operations involvement in the Maintenance Program is to:
a. Increase the skill levels of operations.
b. Reduce maintenance workforce staffing and maintenance costs.
c. Increase stakeholder contributions to asset maintenance.
d. Improve plant (facility) housekeeping and decrease contractors.

53. Weibull (Life Data) Analysis is Primarily used for:

a. Maintainability Analysis
b. Probability of Failure Determination
c. Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
d. On Time Ratio Calculations
54. As the Maintenance Manager for a Manufacturing Company, you have conducted a study that reveals
the mechanics, on average, spend four hours per Ten Hour Shift on wrench time (Tool Turning Time).
Your first action should be:
a. Improve planning and scheduling to increase Wrench Time (Tool Turning Time)
b. Encourage your planners to develop more aggressive job estimates.
c. Inform management that four hours wrench time (tool turning time) per day is considered good.
d. Investigate the barriers causing loss of wrench time (tool turning time).

55. What is needed to obtain the intended Vertical Alignment through the Organization?
a. Top management to focus clear business direction.
b. Line managers to identify the required values to be delivered.
c. Reliability leadership connects values with execution.
d. Maintenance execution assures value delivery.

56. When would a Strategic Plan for Maintenance and Reliability be most appropriately required?
a. Planning and scheduling are not being property implemented at that plant (facility).
b. Improved plant (facility) throughput is required to allow the business to commit to the requirements of
a new customer.
c. The markets that the company operates in are changing on a weekly basis.
d. Fixed costs need to be reduced by 20% within the next year.

57. Which percentage of Maintenance Personnel’s (Craft) Time should be scheduled:

a. 75%
b. 85%
c. 95%
d. 100%

58. When Training Maintenance Workers, it is best to first:

a. List all the tasks the workers need to perform
b. Check the budget to set how much to spend per worker
c. Review the list of classes already taken by the workers
d. Give classes to all workers on basic skills

59. A Crucial Step in any Process Improvement effort is to identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
that:
a. Are specific, measurable, attainable and time bound.
b. Identify the progress of maintenance accomplishments.
c. Are in an easy context to be understood by employees.
d. Align with the business goals of the organization.
60. Return on Assets (ROA) is determined by:
a. Net income/Total assets
b. Gross income/Total assets
c. Revenue/Total assets
d. Net income/Maintenance costs

61. Which of the following are leading tools or techniques to identify Maintenance and Reliability
Process Improvements?
1. Total Productive Maintenance
2. Reliability Centered Maintenance
3. Historical Analysis of spending patterns
4. Process benchmarking with industry leaders
a. 2, 3, 4
b. 1, 3, 4
c. 1, 2, 4
b. 1, 2, 3

62. An effective work identification process employs objective methods to :

a. Identify unplanned work and machine functional faults.
b. Identify potential failures and manage to prevent them.
c. Classify jobs as per their type and equipment criticality.
d. Identify and manage both planned and unplanned work.

63. Which of the following sentences regarding Organizational Leadership is commonly true?
a. Main leadership attribute that determine his leadership level is the charisma.
b. Ensuring resource availability is not from leadership qualities. It is manager’s responsibility.
c. One of main leadership qualities is creating organization mission and vision.
d. Leadership is influencing others in any mean to achieve organization vision and goals.

64. A Machine with design capacity of 200000 ton/year, last year’s production data was as shown in the
below table.
Last year actual performance was 200000 Ton.
When calculating OEE for that year, what is this machine performance percentage that will be used?
a. 80.1%
b. 90.9%
c. 100 %
b. 110.6%
65. For oil in a pressurized lubrication system, oil samples for analysis & trending should be taken from:
a. The center of flowing oil line upstream of the oil filter, to assure that the sample is representative of the
oil leaving the lubricated components.
b. The center of a flowing oil line downstream of the oil filter, to assure that the sample is representative
of the oil being supplied to the lubricated components.
c. A low point in the oil sump, to assure that the sample includes wear particles, water, and other
contaminants that may have settled out of the oil.
d. The oil sump at a point above the bottom, to assure that the sample does not include wear particles,
water, and other contaminants that may have settled out of the oil.

66. Which of the following should be considered during scheduling maintenance work?
a. Due or overdue Preventive Maintenance
b. Work content and task details
c. Required spare parts and materials
d. Last week finished work

67. Which departments most important to be involved in setting and agreeing on Maintenance and
Reliability Goals?
a. Maintenance, operations and engineering disciplines.
b. Maintenance, engineering and information technology disciplines.
c. Maintenance, financials and training disciplines.
d. Maintenance, projects and engineering disciplines.

68. A basic component of an Effective Change Management Program is:

a. All unintentional changes to the process must be submitted and approved before the change can occur.
b. All intentional changes to the process must be submitted and approved while change can proceed.
c. All intentional changes to the process must be submitted before the change can occur.
d. All intentional changes to process must be submitted and approved before the change can occur.

69. Organizational requirements needed to be considered to align to the organizational strategic plan
contains:
a. Setting a representative set of KPIs to measure strategic goals achievement.
b. Understanding how to execute jobs and precision maintenance requirements.
c. Analyzing business conditions and the overall capability of the facility.
d. Following industry trends and opportunities using current organizational capabilities.

70. A large manufacturing company installed some asset monitoring device on some large motors that
were deemed critical equipment. The monitoring devices provide engineering with vibration data,
acoustic data, as well as operational performance data. What asset management strategy has the
company selected for the motors?
a. OBM (Operational Based Maintenance/CM (Corrective Maintenance)
b. PM (Preventive Maintenance/OBM Operator Based Maintenance)
c. CBM (Conditioned Based Maintenance)/PDM (Predictive Maintenance)
d. CBM (Condition Based Maintenance/CM (Corrective Maintenance)
71. The 'Karl Fischer Method' measures:
a. The count in parts per million (ppm), of coliform bacteria in a sample of cooling tower water.
b. The viscosity of an oil sample based on its flow rate through a calibrated orifice.
c. The conductivity in micro-ohms, of a sample of cooling tower water.
d. The amount of water in a sample of oil, in ppm.

72. When developing, and presenting a New Strategic Plan to Stakeholders, which of the following is
the most important?
a. Implementation timetable
b. Gaining the trust of stakeholders
c. Craft (trade) flexibility
d. Establishment of a common goal

73. On Monday, the maintenance manager sent an e-mail memo to the production manager saying that
the date and time of the next planned outage would be on the third shift of the coming Friday. When
the maintenance manager arrived at the unit on Friday third shift, the equipment was still operating
at full capacity. The operator said he knew nothing of a planned outage and he had to make up
production on this shift. Which of the following is the most likely reason the equipment was still
running?
a. The maintenance manager did not know if the production manager had communicated the plan to the
shift leader.
b. The maintenance manager did not know if the production manager received his e-mail communication.
c. The maintenance manager made a unilateral decision it was time to do the outage.
d. The maintenance manager did not know if the production schedule allowed for the planned downtime.

74. Which of the following is more essential to design a Maintenance Strategy for an asset to prevent or
predict failure?
a. Having a complete history records for past failures
b. Knowing the operation performance parameters of this asset
c. Understanding the known and likely causes of failures
d. Having the most updated technologies to be applied in building this strategy

75. In order to obtain the support and resources required to implement the Strategic Plan:
a. Maintenance & Reliability Professionals should practice strong communication skills.
b. A cost benefit analysis should be developed as part of business case.
c. A set of clear and achievable goals and objectives should be in place.
d. First line managers should participate in developing the strategic plan.

76. When Reliability of Equipment maintained :

a. Safety incidents that can result from maintenance activities increase.
b. Safety incidents that can result from Maintenance Activities decrease.
c. Safety incidents don’t have a relation with equipment reliability.
d. Safety incidents with relation to machine operating uptime will increase.
77. An IR Thermography Inspection is an Effective Method to :
a. Satisfy NFPA 70E arc flash requirements.
b. Satisfy ISO 55001 Requirements.
c. Satisfy JE 1011 RCM requirements
d. Satisfy OSHA's permissible exposure limit (PEL) in dBA.

78. Which of the following sentences is NOT correct regarding Maintenance & Reliability?
a. It is important for operations to agree on maintenance and reliability goals and the measures used to
quantify them
b. The relationship between the plant and the market demand for its product has a considerable influence
on maintenance strategy.
c. Most of asset life cycle costs relate to operation & maintenance phase not asset acquisition including
its price.
d. Creating a reliability culture from a reactive mode can be accomplished in a short period of time if
enough resources are made available.

79. What is ABC Stratification?

a. A method used to prioritize equipment based on their importance to production and operation.
b. A method used to identify stepped way in developing maintenances plans & work instructions.
c. A Method used to categorize inventory into groups based upon certain activity characteristics.
d. A method used to organize steps in a certain root cause failure analysis and problem solving.

80. Which of the following sentences is true regarding Statistical Process Control?
a. Every output measure has a target value and a level of accepted variation
b. SPC uses all existing measures to estimate the mean and variation
c. We can use SPC charts in identifying root causes of problems
d. SPC gives you the ability to closely quantify only the selected sample quality.

81. In Strategic Maintenance Plan, to ensure the engagement of the Stakeholders, Effective
Communication Plan should provide methods of:
a. Sharing information only inside the organization.
b. Receiving feedback about customer’s satisfaction.
c. Providing input to decision-making Processes.
d. Identifying stakeholders needs and requirements.

82. Which of the following can be considered as key to the Success of Prioritization Program?
a. Having a computerized system to facilitate the proper execution and control of prioritization process.
b. Having competent work order gate keeper that have the capability to differentiate between work
priorities.
c. Having clear RACI chart that identify roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and control of such
prioritization process.
d. Having performance metrics in place to measure compliance with the prioritization of critical tasks and
activities.
83. Reliability Predictions are often expressed in terms of Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) or its
Reciprocal the Reciprocal is known as the:
a. Failure Rate
b. Failure Mode
c. Mean Time to Failure
d. Service Life.

84. When forming teams to address Reliability Issues, Four Stages of Team Development should be
recognized and managed by the Reliability Professional. These stages in order are:
a. Warming/Absorbing/Performing/Norming.
b. Forming/Absorbing/Storming/Performing.
c. Forming/Storming/Norming/Performing.
d. Warming/Swarming/Absorbing/Norming.

85. What are the Three Most Significant constraints when developing a Maintenance and Reliability
Organization?
a. Culture / People / Resources
b. Budget / Operations / People
c. Engineering / Human Resources / Budget
d. Culture / Engineering / Budget

86. Which of the following criteria is not normally used to determine if a piece of equipment is critical?
a. Its failure will result in loss of production.
b. Its failure will trigger the start-up of the spare.
c. Its failure may result in the breach of environmental regulations.
d. The cost of repair or replacement is very high.

87. Of the following, what is the best method for measuring employee skills and training?
a. Maintain a skills inventory and tracking database
b. Ask employees to keep a training notebook
c. Keep records of all formal training courses taken
d. Have employee’s complete annual self-evaluations

88. If a machine is run for 500 hours and five failures are observed during this period, what is the Mean
Time Between Failure?
a. 500 hours
b. 0.01 hours
c. 2500 hours
d. 100 hours
89. Maintenance Strategic Plan should include all the following EXCEPT:
a. Clear purpose and demonstrated need
b. Defined goals and ways for measuring them
c. Technical details of how to achieve defined Goals
d. Expected benefits and returns to the organization

90. The correct sequence for dealing with gaps in performance resulted from benchmarking of the
reliability program is to be:
a. Identified, quantified, interpreted, corrected and communicated.
b. Identified, quantified, interpreted, communicated and corrected.
c. Identified, quantified, communicated, interpreted and corrected.
d. Identified, communicated, quantified, interpreted and corrected.

91. What would dictate the task minimum skill requirements for new Maintenance and Reliability
employees?
a. The skills available in the general workforce
b. The current level of Plant (facility) Technology
c. The content of the apprenticeship program
d. The educational demographics of the region

92. When the time period between the testing which detects a failure, for failures with significant
economic consequences, and when life expectancy is highly variable, a good approach is:
a. More frequent periodic predictive testing
b. Structured preventive maintenance
c. On-line condition monitoring
d. Time based rebuild or change out

93. Total Quality Management focuses all employees on producing products that meet customer needs.
This is done by:
a. Sharing information with all levels in the organization
b. Developing a high level of expertise in all employees
c. Eliminating processes that waste time and materials
d. Balancing the needs of all stakeholders in the organization

94. Which of the following is part of process Safety Management System?

a. Risk based inspection work orders
b. Long term maintenance strategy
c. Mechanical integrity controls
d. Instrument and control calibration plan
95. Failure to an asset is :
a. The inability of this asset to deliver its output.
b. The inability of this asset to perform as designed.
c. The inability of this asset to deliver its minimum accepted requirements.
d. The inability of this asset to work successfully in a given period of time.

96. One of the most important benefits of Work Planning is:

a. Having job packages for every maintenance work.
b. Balanced work load and effective execution.
c. Producing business value by lowering costs.
d. Increased efficiency and effectiveness of Plant Equipment.

97. Which of the following metrics definitions is not accurate?

a. Uptime - % of time you run producing quality product at design rate
b. Schedule compliance - how often mechanics are pulled off their current work to another task
c. MTBF - a measure or indicator of equipment life expectancy
d. Backlog - how long it takes to fix broken equipment

98. What attribute of a Maintenance and Reliability Professional is Essential for Future Success?
a. Accept standard operating or maintenance practices
b. Attain expert knowledge of specific equipment and technology
c. Stay abreast of current and emerging technologies
d. Obtain multiple memberships in industry craft (trade) associations

99. First Step in assessing organizational capability is:

a. Applying performance analysis to current condition.
b. Knowing which capabilities are needed to cover existing gaps.
c. Maintaining a database for capabilities inventories.
d. Identifying a set of KPI to measure training effectiveness.

100. When initiating change to an existing process or program, the best practice is to:
a. Involve key personnel in planning, development of new process or program directives), train affected
personnel, and then implement before a specified compliance date.
b. Issue a directive on the revised process or program, start it and require compliance by a specific date,
then begin training as soon as possible thereafter.
c. Announce the new process or program, issue a draft directive for review and comment then issue the
final with a specific compliance date, and employee review comments and recommendations
incorporated to the maximum extent possible to get "buy-in."
d. Make organizational meetings to plan, train for, and implement change mandatory, but make
participation voluntary to avoid alienating employees who dislike change.
101. Key Performance Indicators can be classified as leading or lagging indicators. An example of a
lagging indicator for manufacturing is?
a. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
b. Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).
c. Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
d. Operating Costs.

102. Time-based PMs percentage should be

a. Less than 20%
b. More than 50%
c. Less than 80%
d. More than 80%

103. The maintenance manager of a bearing manufacturer has asked you to calculate the reorder point
of a spare part item. She has provided you with the following information to facilitate your
calculations. The cost of the spare parties S100. The cost of earning inventory is 20% of the cost of
the part. The cost of placing an order is S40 for which the annual demand is 100,000 units. The
average tad-time for replenishment is two weeks and the buffer stock of 500 units S desired and the
average inventory is 100 units per week. What is the reorder point in units for this spare part?
a. 350 units
b. 600 units
c. 700 units
d. 707 units
e. 1200 units

104. What is defined as the process for approving and selecting the most important work to be planned
first:
a. Planning Process.
b. Scheduling Process.
c. Prioritization Process.
d. Work Identification Process.

105. When changing product specifications to meet new customer requirements, a management of
change procedure should be followed to :
a. Ensure that new customer will be aware by new product specifications.
b. Ensure that company will succeed to fulfill new customer requirements.
c. Ensure that row materials suppliers are prepared for new requirements.
d. No management of change is needed for this case.
106. The failure rate of a component / asset can be calculated by knowing:
a. Number of failures
b. MTBF
c. MTTR
d. Uptime

107. In a major turnaround with technically complex activity, you placed these jobs in the early days of
this turnaround to handle the probable risks from the unknown that can happen when executing
such activities. Which risk handling activity have you used in this situation?
a. Avoidance
b. Mitigation
c. Acceptance
d. Exploit

108. When measuring the temperature of an object using a radiometric imager, which two parameters
have the greatest effect on accuracy of the temperature reading on the instrument?
a. Relative Humidity and Ambient Air Temperature
b. Emissivity and background temperature
c. Aperture and brightness
d. Range and span

109. When establishing a training plan, which of the following to be commenced first:
a. Measure current employee performance.
b. Develop training curriculum.
c. Performing Job Task Analysis (JTA).
d. Assessing skill inventory database.

110. Which of the following most effectively makes up the members of a Manufacturing Team?
a. Sales/Customer/Production/Supplier/Senior Management
b. Maintenance/Engineering/Production/Human Resources
c. Production/Maintenance/Supplier/Engineering
d. Senior Management/Production/Human Resources

111. From the following list, which is not a critical structural element of a Strategic Plan for Maintenance
and Reliability?
a. Current levels of performance
b. Benefits available through implementation
c. Historical direction of the business
d. Vision of the future state
112. Of the choices below, which is the best way to evaluate the effectiveness of a Safety Program?
a. Measure the number of safety slogans and bulletins posted
b. Periodic safety audits of work processes in the field
c. Review health and safety performance as required
d. Solicit feedback about safety performance from employees

113. Percent Overtime Maintenance Labor Hours is:

a. Overtime maintenance labor hours used to maintain assets, divided by the total maintenance labor
hours to maintain assets, expressed as a percentage.
b. Total overtime labor hours, divided by the total scheduled maintenance labor hours, expressed as a
percentage.
c. Total overtime labor hours, divided by the total maintenance labor hours to maintain assets, expressed
as a percentage.
d. Scheduled overtime maintenance labor hours used to maintain assets, divided by scheduled
maintenance labor hours to maintain assets, expressed as a percentage.

114. A manufacturing facility with Big Idle Time. Which KPI can be affected and leads to identifying a
certain deficiency due to this idle time.
a. Availability
b. OEE
c. TEEP
d. MTBM