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CMRP SMRP Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

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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.

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?

A.

Nothing - this is a perfectly acceptable situation

B.

Concentrate on doing more Predictive and Preventive Maintenance

C.

Move the expediting function to the purchasing organization

D.

Work with the scheduling group to put work orders on the schedule earlier

A maintenance manager has a spreadsheet list of all of the equipment failures that have occurred at the plant (facility) over the past three years. Which of the following analytical methods or tools might be used to sort and prioritize the list?

A.

Root Cause Failure Analysis

B.

Life Cycle Cost Analysis

C.

Total cost of ownership

D.

Pareto Analysis

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

You are new to the job of maintenance manager. As you start reviewing the work done by your five planners you find that, on average, they are dividing their time as follows:

5% Interviewing area personnel to scope out jobs

2% Creating pipe sketches and other small drawings

9% Ordering materials through the Computerized Maintenance Management System

(CMMS)

5% Creating work order estimates

15% Researching what spare parts are needed and where to find them

25% Expediting materials that have not come in yet

5% Creating material kits for future jobs and maintaining the kitting area

1% Creating formal job steps in the work order record in the CMMS

10% Checking on field progress of the larger jobs

15% Talking with mechanics to explain the details of work they are to perform

8% Closing work orders and other data clean up tasks in the CMMS

In which two areas should you concentrate onto make the planners more productive?

A.

Eliminate the practice of job materials kitting or staging and purchase a different computerized maintenance and materials system

B.

Encourage the planners to create more detailed job instructions in the work order record and hire another designer draftsman

C.

Increase the planning horizon and improve the quality of bills of material in the computerized maintenance and materials system

D.

Improve their communication skills through training and train all planners on proper estimation methods

What is the responsibility of a leader?

A.

Influence others to accomplish an objective.

B.

Inspire and carry out team vision and mission.

C.

Recognize the skills, talents, and abilities of those working for him.

D.

Provide regular feedback to each employee.

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.

A decision is made to accompany the vibration technician on adata collection route. What arethe most important things the observer should be watching for in the technician's performance?

A.

That measurements are collected in the proper route sequence, allowing for machines that are shut down or not warmed up.

B.

That measurements are recorded on all equipment that is operating on the route, regardless of sequence.

C.

That the technician observes and notes other conditions such as leaks, loose bolts, dirty oil, failed gages, etc.

D.

That measurements are taken in displacement and velocity as well as acceleration units.

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

A.

Accurate estimate of time and cost

B.

Correct equipment number used

C.

All parts ordered and received before work begins

D.

Properly categorized - expense versus capital

A well-developed business case will have statement of problem, opportunity or need, description of options available, and should also include the:

A.

financial impact.

B.

health and safety impact.

C.

environmental impact.

D.

customer impact.

What is the best way for a Maintenance and Reliability Program to use process parameters?

A.

Justify replacement equipment purchases

B.

Assist in the explanation of failures

C.

Assign detects to equipment and systems

D.

Correlate to changes in equipment condition

For which of the following elements is the maintenance manager directly responsible?

A.

Equipment failure probability

B.

Equipment operating practices

C.

Life cycle costs of equipment

D.

Optimization of maintenance costs

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).

When forming teams to address reliability issues, four stages of team development should be recognized and managed by the reliability professional In the Performing stage, team members should not:

A.

Complete problem analysis.

B.

Begin to improve and control

C.

Make changes to the process.

D.

Swing from optimism to uncertainty.

One way to catch up on back log hours in PM's is to hire outside contractors to complete backlog work tasks. What should a reliability engineer do when making this decision?

A.

assure contractor personnel have many years of experience

B.

assure contractors have training programs and documentation from other plant operations

C.

assure contractors have proper safety paperwork on file

D.

assure contractors have been trained in work tasks

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

A.

The maintenance supervisor should be the primary means of communicating and enforcing company policy directly to his subordinate maintenance personnel with lace-to-lace communications.

B.

Middle management should be responsible for communicating and enforcing company policy directly to staff

C.

Middle management is responsible for communicating and enforcing company policy, in the presence of the maintenance supervisor.

D.

Upper management is responsible for communicating and enforcing company policy, in the presence of the maintenance manager.

What is the first method that should be considered for controlling noise exposure?

A.

personal protective equipment

B.

reduction of noise transmitted

C.

reduction of noise at its source

D.

develop noise transmission standards in equipment specifications

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

Why is change management essential to the implementation of a Maintenance and Reliability Program?

A.

To create an appropriate paradigm shift where required

B.

To explain past mistakes and lost profits

C.

To overcome the "program-of-the-month" syndrome

D.

Because management systems are slow to react

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

A.

(ANSI) American National Standards Institute

B.

(RBI) Risk Based Inspection

C.

(SMRP) Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals

D.

(ASME) American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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