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1. Determining the optimal replacement time for spares (spare parts) with an unacceptable
interval, needs to account for:

The cost of borrowing versus interest lost

A B The value of money changing over time.
on operating funds.

The interest charges for capital

C D The depreciated value of the equipment.
expenditures.

2. What is a standard methodology to change the frequency of a PM inspection?

(SMRP) Society of Maintenance &

A B (RBI) Risk Based Inspection
Reliability Professionals

(ASME) American Society of Mechanical (ANSI) American National Standards

C D
Engineers Institute

3. Who should be responsible for communicating and enforcing company policy from
management to the shop-floor?

Upper management is responsible for

Middle management should be
communicating and enforcing company
A B responsible for communicating and
policy, in the presence of the
enforcing company policy directly to staff
maintenance manager.

The maintenance supervisor should be

Middle management is responsible for
the primary means of communicating
communicating and enforcing company
C and enforcing company policy directly to D
policy, in the presence of the
his subordinate maintenance personnel
maintenance supervisor.
with lace-to- lace communications.

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4. A maintenance superintendent (manager) has just joined the company and has read the
company's statement of strategic direction in which it says.
"Our most important goal is to increase the return on capital investment in our plants
(facilities). All management incentive compensation will be reflected in the achievement
of this goal".
The new superintendent (manager) has asked the plant (facility) manager for a copy of
the plan to achieve the company's goal.
The plant (facility) manager explains that such a plan does not exist, nor is there time to
do one. The best next step for the superintendent (manager) should be to:

Wait until the plant (facility) manager

Discuss the role of maintenance in
develops a plan to improve return on
A improving return on capital investment B
capital investment and then develop the
with the head of manufacturing.
maintenance plan.

Develop and present a maintenance plan Develop a program to defer maintenance

C to increase return on capital investment D tasks to reduce expenses and increase
to management. return on capital investment.

5. Of the choices below, which is the best way to evaluate the effectiveness of a Safety
Program?

Review health and safety performance as Solicit feedback about safety

A B
required performance from employees

Measure the number of safety slogans Periodic safety audits of work processes
C D
and bulletins posted in the field

6. Which of the following tasks should be used to incorporate changes to process and
equipment?
1.Use an accepted risk analysis process when a change is made 2.Use a database to
record equipment failures
3.Use change procedures and policies to document changes
4.Use cross-functional teams to conduct safety, operability. and maintainability reviews

A 1, 2, 4 B 2, 3, 4

C 1, 3, 4 D 1, 2, 3

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7. In which of the following circumstances might it be appropriate to conduct a Failure

Modes and Effects Analysis?

A custom-made production machine,

The Maintenance Department has
critical to meeting production
assumed responsibility for maintenance
requirements, has failed for a third time
of the equipment in a small production
in six months. The Maintenance
A B line acquired after buyout of a smaller
Department has carefully inspected the
competitor. The competitor uses
machine after each failure, and each
equipment that is different from the
failure has been attributed to a loss of
company's existing equipment.
lubrication to the machine's bearings.

The Production weeks working

Corporate downsizing has reduced the
Department has added a with the day
staff of the Maintenance Department to
third production shift to shift. Adding
two Reliability Technicians and two
meet increased sales. the third shift
C foremen for each craft (trade). These D
The new shift will be also increases
foremen will now manage contracted
staffed mostly of new equipment
maintenance crews for all plant (facility)
employees whose operating
maintenance activities.
training consists of two hours by 50%.

8. Which of the following manufacturing improvement tools uses statistical process control
techniques and design of experiments as a primary method?

A Supply chain management B Predictive maintenance

C Six Sigma D Root Cause Analysis

9. After examining the work order history, a maintenance manager finds 25% of the work
orders were written and executed on the same day (unscheduled); 60% were formally
scheduled the day before they were started; 20% of the work orders have emergency
priority; 10% were on the schedule for about a week; and 5% were on the schedule for
about a month or more. Your planners are responsible for expediting materials. The
Maintenance Coordinator meets with your planners each afternoon to make the next
day's schedule. Operations does (Operations do) a good job of preparing equipment for
the day's scheduled work. Maintenance costs seem high relative to the value of the
equipment being maintained. What should be done first?

Work with the scheduling group to put Move the expediting function to the
A B
work orders on the schedule earlier purchasing organization

Nothing - this is a perfectly acceptable Concentrate on doing more Predictive

C D
situation and Preventive Maintenance

10. Which of the following is not part of a well-developed training strategy?

A Definition of skill requirements B Assessment of current skills

C Performance reviews D Gap closure plan

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11. Which of the following methods best identifies maintenance problems caused by
maintenance or operating work processes?

A Root Cause Failure Analysis B Pareto Analysis

C Weibull Analysis D Bottleneck Analysis

12. Which one of the following work order characteristics add the most value to the business?

A Closed in a timely manner B Correct charge codes used

C Proper authorization D Work completed is well-documented

13. A reliability block diagram is used in the analysis of plant machinery:

A Productivity B OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).

C Downtime. D Availability.

14. What is defined as "the supervision of a process designed to alter and improve the
function of a business"?

A Incremental Management B Change Management

C Strategic Planning D Commitment Management

15. Which one of the following work order characteristics add the most to the business?

A Accurate estimate of time and cost B Correct equipment number used

All parts ordered and received before Properly categorized - expense versus
C D
work begins capital

16. After management leadership and employee involvement, what is the next step in
creating a good safety and health program?

Finding the right person to be the safety Getting employee engagement and buy-
A B
and health manager in

Examination and analysis of work Kick-off event such as a safety and health
C D
processes and working conditions lair

17. The primary purpose of operation’s involvement in the maintenance program is to:

Improve plant (facility) housekeeping and

A Increase the skill levels of operations. B
decrease contractors.

Increase stakeholder contributions to

C Reduce D
asset maintenance.

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18. The measured units used for Mechanical Ultrasound are:

A KHz B VAC

C Hz D MHz

19. Which of the following answers is not a critical factor in identifying customer
requirements in developing a Maintenance and Reliability Program?

A Identify and prioritize requirements B Validate customer requirements

C Establish standard operating procedures D Define customer needs

20. Examples of workplace ethics issues include everything except:

A Workplace privacy. B Whistle-blowing.

C Conflicts of interest. D Pay raises.

21. Shutdown Work Ratio is defined as the:

Amount of work in manhours that a Amount of available work time key

maintenance team actually achieved in a resource person(s) can work relative to
A B
shutdown relative to the amount of work the actual calendar time of the
it could achieve. shutdown.

The amount of estimated labor hours

The amount of planned labor hours for
that a maintenance team can devote to
C key resource person(s) relative to actual D
an outage relative to the total downtime
labor hours worked during an outage.
scheduled.

22. The best way to achieve employee buy-in acceptance of the Maintenance and Reliability
Program is to:

Link employee to his job, link the job to Begin a campaign to recruit volunteers to
A the process, and link the process to the B participate in the Maintenance and
organizational goals. Reliability program

Sub-contract all maintenance work and

Develop a pay structure that rewards
C D have existing employees become
reactive maintenance performance.
inspectors.

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23. Your plant is in a sold-out position. You just told a visiting senior manager from the
corporate office that the reason you place so much emphasis and spend so much money
on maintenance planning is that it not only saves money, but it makes money for the
business. He asks: How can it make money for the business? Your answer is:

It improves quality yield through reduced It ensures the mechanics are productive
A B
process disruptions. all day long.

It enables effective maintenance thereby It reduces finished product inventory

C D
increasing production capability. through incasing reliability.

24. Which of the following criteria is not normally used to determine if a piece of equipment
is critical?

Its failure will trigger the start-up of the

A Its failure will result in loss of production. B
spare.

Its failure may result in the breach of The cost of repair or replacement is very
C D
environmental high.

25. The "quality function" used in leading organizations to achieve "fitness for use or
purpose" of a product or service is:

The resultant of the work of all The resultant of the work of all
departments of the organization as departments of the organization is the
A enforced by the quality control B responsibility of the manufacturing
inspectors who oversee activities within department or the department providing
each specialized department. service to the client.

The resultant of the work of all

The resultant of the work of all departments of the organization is the
C departments of the organization D responsibility of upper level
regardless of their specialty. management and the quality assurance
department that reports directly to it.

26. Which answer is not one of the steps in performing an RCA (Root Cause Analysis)?

A Define the problem or the failure. B Identify possible mitigating factors.

Track the recommended solutions to Develop solutions and

C D
ensure effectiveness. recommendations.

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27. Root Cause Failure Analysis has determined that 30% of premature equipment failures
are due to human errors. As the maintenance manager, what would be your first step to
begin improving this performance?

Increase inspection of all equipment

A Implement a refresher training program B
repairs

Attach assembly diagrams to all work Conduct a skills assessment of the craft
C D
orders (trade) workforce

28. Which of the following is the best definition of a work-team?

Supervision provides all work direction

The team defines direction and conducts
A B and holds the team accountable for
peer performance
results.

Supervision defines mission, direction,

The team defines mission and direction
and assesses performance. The team is
C Supervision and the team are D
largely self-governing and is responsible
responsible for accomplishing the goals.
for accomplishing goals.

29. For a very stable and capable manufacturing process that is centered around the product
specification, extremely low levels of detects may be identified by using:

A Process stability charts. B Process control charts.

C Process visual inspections. D Process automated inspections.

30. Total quality management focuses all employees on producing products that meet
customer needs. This is done by:

Developing a high level of expertise in all Balancing the needs of all stakeholders in
A B
employees the organization

Eliminating processes that waste time Sharing information with all levels in the
C D
and materials organization

31. What is a high-level metric used to evaluate the overall effectiveness of a Safety Program?

A Lost time injury frequency B First aid case frequency

number of job hazard analyses

C Near miss report submissions D
completed

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32. After plotting your failure data (six points) for a single piece of equipment in a Weibull
chart (log-log x log), you notice that the data forms a line with a dog leg (two intersecting
straight lines). This means:

The failure pattern is a classic bathtub

A The trend indicates improving reliability. B
curve.

There is not enough data to interpret the

C There are two modes of failure occurring. D
failures.

33. Which of the following is the least productive way to gain employee ownership in a
maintenance or reliability task?

Allow the employee to develop programs

Ask the employee to develop programs
on assets that have die largest impact on
A on assets identified as critical, and B
the organization, according to their
validate with them
experience

Ask the employee to attend a

Assign the work with details about how,
C D Maintenance and Reliability conference
where, and when it is to be done
to obtain buy-in

34. While performing an inspection of a machinery type it is noticed that the attached
structure has more vibration that the actual equipment type. This is an example of what?

A Transmitted Hz B Transmitted harmony

C Resonance D Spectral radiance

35. What are the three most significant constraints when developing a Maintenance and
Reliability- organization?

A Engineering/Human/Resources/Budget B Culture/People/Resources

C Culture/Engineering/Budget D Budget/Operations/People

36. In lean Manufacturing environment which formula most accurately defines profit?

A Profit = (price-cost) X volume B (Price-Cost-Waste)/Volume

C Profit = (Price-Cost)/Volume D Profit = Price - Cost

37. The Weibull distribution with a shape factor less than 1 is associated with burn in or early
life failures that could be caused by:

A Irregular loading. B Improper assembly.

C Poor quality assurance. D Increasing strength.

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Answer Key

1.b 2.b 3.c 4.c

5.d 6.c 7.b 8.c

9.b 10.c 11.a 12.d

13.d 14.b 15.b 16.c

17.a 18.a 19.c 20.d

21.a 22.a 23.c 24.b

25.a 26.c 27.d 28.d

29.b 30.a 31.a 32.c

33.c 34.c 35.b 36.b

37.a

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