1. With reference to Preventive Maintenance, which of the following are true?

a. The Preventive Maintenance functionality is integrated with Controlling (CO) for cost allocations.
b. Single Cycle Plans & Multiple counter Plans have their own maintenance strategy defined.
c. The system uses maintenance plan scheduling to generate the corresponding maintenance orders for
all maintenance
items affected at the due date.
Answer:
a, c

Explanation:
Preventive maintenance is an instrument for avoiding system breakdowns or the breakdown of other
objects, which in
addition to the repair costs, often create much higher costs through the resultant breakdown in
production.
Preventive maintenance is the generic term used for inspections, maintenance and planned repair tasks,
in other words,
maintenance tasks that are repeated regularly.
The following types of maintenance plan are available:
Maintenance plan with maintenance strategy
In the individual maintenance packages that are maintained within the strategy, you define the concrete
time or
performance cycles, within which the maintenance activities should be performed.
Single cycle plan
No maintenance strategy is defined for single cycle plans. Here, you define exactly one time-based or
performancebased maintenance cycle, in which you specify the interval at which the maintenance plan should be
performed.
Multiple counter plan
Multiple counter plans do not have their own maintenance strategy either, but they have cycle sets. They
contain a
combination of time-based and performance-based cycles.
In the maintenance plan, you enter one or more maintenance items for each planned maintenance task.

You can create task lists to describe tasks repeated on objects.

In the task lists, you describe the individual work steps that must be executed for inspections, preventive
maintenance
and repairs.
For strategy-based plans, you can assign each work step to one or more maintenance packages.

2. Which of the following statements regarding Reburbishment in Plant Maintenance are true?
a. High value components are refurbished using a separate order.
b. Refurbishment process is integrated with MM, CP and PS
c. After refurbishment, both the stock value of the repairable material in the warehouse and the charges
to the cost
center change.

Answer:
a, b, c

Explanation:
High value components are often used at production plants or other technical objects (for example,
pumps, motors) and
are replaced by a repairable spare in the event of a malfunction and then refurbished using a separate
order.
This scenario is of particular interest to companies for which system availability plays a crucial role (for
example, process
industry, oil extraction and processing, steel manufacturing and so on), and who keep repairable spares
in stock to
ensure a high system availability.
In the Refurbishment in Plant Maintenance scenario, you use integrated business functions from the
following R/3
application components:

R/3 Component Functions

Plant Maintenance (PM) Execution of maintenance tasks on company-internal technical systems
Materials Management (MM) Procurement of non-stock materials,
Inventory management and withdrawal of materials in stock,
Order settlement to material
Project System (PS) Order settlement to a project or WBS element
Controlling (CO) Order settlement to a controlling object (for example, a cost center)

Refurbishment orders are created for defective repairable spares. These refer to:
Individual repairable spares (pieces of equipment)
Non-individual repairable spares (material)
The refurbishment order can be used to plan and execute the transition of the repairable spare from its
initial defective
condition to a new target condition. Each of these orders can refer to one or more repairable spares that
have to be
refurbished from the same initial condition to the same final condition.
You generally plan dates and resources before executing a plannable, non-ad hoc maintenance task. You
can evaluate
the capacity situation and, if necessary, perform capacity leveling during any phase of order processing.
Goods Movements
The goods movements involved in this scenario are:
Goods receipts of defective repairable spares that are to be refurbished from production into the
repairable spares
warehouse
Goods issues of defective repairable spares that are to be refurbished from the repairable spares
warehouse to
refurbishment
Goods issues of spares and materials that are required for refurbishment
Goods receipts of refurbished repairable spares in the repairable spares warehouse
Goods issues of refurbished, functional, repairable spares from the repairable spares warehouse to
production

After refurbishment, both the stock value of the repairable material in the warehouse and the charges to
the cost center
change:
In inventory management, the stock assets will have increased in value after the refurbishment.
By withdrawing the defective material, a material debit is created; by returning the refurbished material,
a credit
memo is applied to the order.
The account assignment object (for example, the warehouse as the receiving cost center) receives a
credit memo to the
amount of the difference minus the resources required (internal service, other spare parts, external
services and so on).

3. SAP provides Integration between Plant Maintenance & Funds Management.

Which of the following statements are true?
a. The link between the plant maintenance process and FM is established by entering an FM account
assignment
(commitment item, funds center, and fund) when you create a maintenance order.
b. You must enter the FM account assignment manually always.
c. If the order completion confirmation and order settlement transactions are to be integrated in FM, you
must
activate these in the Funds Management IMG by choosing Integration Integration with Cost and
Project Controlling
Choose business transactions for integration.
Answer;
a, c

Explanation:
Integration between the Plant Maintenance (PM) and Funds Management (FM) components enables you
to monitor

budget-relevant plant maintenance processes in FM.

The link between the plant maintenance process and FM is established by entering an FM account
assignment
(commitment item, funds center, and fund) when you create a maintenance order. This means that the
system
automatically takes this account assignment from the maintenance order during subsequent processes
triggered
automatically by the maintenance order, such as purchase requisitions.
You must enter the FM account assignment manually. If, however, you have maintained the assignments
of FM account
assignments to CO account assignments, the system determines the FM account assignment from the
cost center which
is assigned to the main work center of the maintenance order.
The FM account assignment determined using the FM-CO assignment table appears as the default
value.
You can implement an alternative default logic (example: from the cost center assigned to the responsible
work center in
the plant maintenance order) by means of a user exit (enhancement SAPLFRC4, component
EXIT_SAPLFRC4_001,
development class FMFS).
When you create the maintenance order, the fields for the FM account assignment (commitment item,
funds center,
fund) must be ready for input.
You make the necessary settings in the Funds Management IMG by choosing Integration Maintain
field status for
assigning FM account assignments. You must flag the fields there as either optional entries or required
entries.
If the order completion confirmation and order settlement transactions are to be integrated in FM, you
must activate
these in the Funds Management IMG by choosing Integration Integration with Cost and Project
Controlling Choose
business transactions for integration.
RKL Order completion confirmation
KOAO Order settlement


4. . Planning plants should always be used if maintenance planning is carried out centrally in one plant for
several
plants. If every plant is independent in maintenance terms, then each plant is also a planning plant at the
same time.
a. True
b. False

Answer;
a

Explanation:
In Plant Maintenance, a distinction is made between the organizational units "planning plant" and
"maintenance plant".
Maintenance plant
In a maintenance plant, you can manage technical objects and main work centers.
Planning plant
In the planning plant, maintenance task lists are defined for the respective maintenance plants, material
planning is
carried out on the basis of bills of material in task lists and orders, maintenance plans are managed and
scheduled,
maintenance notifications are created and maintenance orders can be handled.
Technical objects and main work centers can be created in the planning plant just as in the maintenance
plant.
Planning plants should always be used if maintenance planning is carried out centrally in one plant for
several plants. If
every plant is independent in maintenance terms, then each plant is also a planning plant at the same
time.
When configuring the system for Plant Maintenance, there are many areas that overlap with the
implementation of the
modules 'MM' (Materials Management) and 'PP' (Production Planning).

If you encounter settings which are not relevant to Plant Maintenance, you should only change or delete
these after
conferring with the appropriate project groups.

5. You need to activate Stock Determination in PM/CS Orders.

Which of the following activities are required?
a. In the material master, you have assigned a stock determination group to the MRP2 view and a
checking group
for the availability check to the material in the MRP3 view.
b. You have assigned a stock determination rule to a PM/CS order in Customizing(order type-specific)
c. You have assigned a stock determination rule either in the application (customer-specific/ sales orderspecific/
WBS element-specific)

Answer;
a, b,c

Explanation:
You can use the Stock Determination function to implement various strategies when withdrawing material
for goods
issues and stock transfers in PM/CS orders.
You configure these strategies in Customizing. Based on the material requirements entered, the system
determines from
which storage locations and stock the material should be withdrawn.
When planning your material requirements, it is not always possible for you to define the stocks and
storage locations
from which the materials are later to be withdrawn.
Automatic stock determination takes care of this decision for you, thus preventing you from defining these
parameters

too early and restricting your business processes unnecessarily.

You can then perform stock determination again to examine the stock situation between creating the
maintenance order
and releasing it.
Note: This stock determination can only be used for PM/CS orders.
In order to define Automatic Stock Determination, you must do the following;
In the material master, you have assigned a stock determination group to the MRP2 view and a checking
group for the
availability check to the material in the MRP3 view.
You have assigned a stock determination rule either in the application (customer-specific/ sales orderspecific/ WBS
element-specific) or in Customizing (order type-specific).
Assign a stock determination rule to specific customer numbers, sales orders, or WBS elements in one of
the following
ways:
On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Logistics --> Plant Maintenance -->Maintenance Processing
-->Environment -> Stock Determination Rules for Special Stock. Maintain or create the following:
1. For customer stock, enter a customer number (only in DIMP)
2. For sales order stock, enter a sales document number and item
3. For project stock, enter a WBS element

6. With reference to Maintenance strategy which of the following are true?

a. Maintenance strategies are optional.
b. A maintenance strategy defines the rules for the sequence of planned maintenance work.
c. A maintenance strategy contains maintenance packages in which you can define the cycle in which the
individual
work should be performed.

d. Maintenance strategy is required to be defined with a Multiple counter plan

Answer;
a, b, c

Explanation:
A maintenance strategy defines the rules for the sequence of planned maintenance work. It contains
general scheduling
information, and can therefore be assigned to as many maintenance task lists (PM task lists) and
maintenance plans as
required.
A maintenance strategy contains maintenance packages in which the following information is defined:
The cycle in which the individual work should be performed (for example, every two months, every
3,106.86 miles,
every 500 operating hours)
Other data which affects scheduling
From Release 4.0A, maintenance strategies are optional.
If you want to perform simple preventive maintenance in your company, for which one maintenance cycle
is sufficient,
then you can work with single cycle plans. In contrast, you use strategy plans to show complex
maintenance cycles.
You create some maintenance plans with a maintenance strategy.
The following table shows which maintenance plan types require a maintenance strategy.
Maintenance Plan Type Maintenance Strategy
Single cycle plan, time-based No
Single cycle plan, performance-based No
Strategy plan, time-based Yes
Strategy plan, performance-based Yes
Multiple counter plan No

If you want to use time-based or performance-based strategy plans in your company, you must first
define:
Where regular maintenance is required (shown in the system as a maintenance item)
The frequency of these maintenance tasks in terms of performance or time (shown in the system as
maintenance
packages)
For this, you must compare the legal requirements, manufacturer recommendations and costs of
preventive
maintenance with the cost of a breakdown. You should also consider how you can set up the tasks in a
maintenance
plan, so that scheduling and maintenance activities are combined most effectively.
Once you have determined the optimum cycles for preventive maintenance, you can define a suitable
maintenance
strategy.
Using the PM application component, you can create strategies which represent the scheduling rules for
all the
preventive maintenance tasks required within your company. As these strategies contain general
scheduling information,
they can be assigned to as many different maintenance plans as required.
By using maintenance strategies containing general scheduling information, you can:
Reduce maintenance plan creation time
You do not need to create the same scheduling information for each maintenance plan.
Update scheduling information easily
Maintenance packages are referenced. In other words, when you make changes in the maintenance
strategy (for
example, delete packages, change the preliminary or follow-up buffer), the changes are also valid for the
assigned
maintenance plans.
However, the scheduling parameters are copied into the respective maintenance plan.

7. Within a maintenance strategy, you can use different scheduling indicators to specify the type of
scheduling you
require.
Which of the following are valid scheduling indicators?
a. Time-based scheduling indicators
b. Time based by key date scheduling indicators
c. Space based scheduling indicators
d. Space based by key date scheduling indicators

Answer;
a, b

Explanation:
Within a maintenance strategy, you can use different scheduling indicators to specify the type of
scheduling you require
or to define a cycle set:
Time-based (for example, every 30 days)
Time-based by key date (for example, every 30 days on the 30th day of the month)
Time-based by factory calendar (for example, every 30 working days)
Performance-based (for example, every 50 operating hours)

Maintenance activities that must be performed at a particular date or point in time are combined into
maintenance
packages.
These contain, for example, the cycle duration and unit of measurement.
For example, with reference to the figure below, you can create a maintenance strategy with three

packages for
maintaining a pressurized tank.

You can assign several packages with different cycle durations to a strategy. All packages must have the
same
dimensions, for example, 'time', 'weight', or 'length'.
The packages or maintenance cycles within a strategy have a common basic unit of conversion. This unit
corresponds to
a particular dimension, for example, 'time', weight, or length.
Packages within one strategy may have different cycle units, but they all have the same dimension.
A strategy contains three packages:
o Every two weeks
o Every 4 months
o Annually
Here, the dimension 'time' has the cycle units 'week', 'month', 'year'.
If you work with hierarchies for packages and several packages are due on the same date, note that one
year and twelve
months are considered to be of different length in the SAP System.
1 year = 365 days; 12 months = 360 days (12 x 30)

8. A maintenance item describes which preventive maintenance tasks should take place regularly at a
technical
object or a group of technical objects.
With reference to Maintenance Item, which of the following statements are true?
a. A maintenance plan always automatically contains at least one maintenance item.
b. Maintanance items may have an object assigned.
c. Maintenance items may not have an object assigned.
d. You cannot assign multiple technical objects to a Maintenance item.

Answer;
a, b, c

Explanation:
A maintenance item describes which preventive maintenance tasks should take place regularly at a
technical object or a
group of technical objects.
A maintenance item could, for example, be "perform safety test". You then assign exactly the objects (for
example,
equipment, functional locations or assemblies) at which you want to perform the maintenance task "safety
test" to a
maintenance item.
For some call objects, (for example, maintenance order or service order), you can describe the activities
that are
necessary for the maintenance item "Perform safety test" using a maintenance task list, which you assign
to the
maintenance item.
If, for example, the system generates a service order for a due date, the operations will be copied from
the task list to the
service order.
Maintenance Plan with Maintenance Items

You can assign one or more maintenance items to a maintenance plan. A maintenance plan always
automatically
contains at least one maintenance item. Maintenance plans for service procurement and maintenance
plans which refer
to an outline agreement have only one maintenance item.
You can assign maintenance items to a maintenance plan in the following ways:
You create a maintenance plan and create a maintenance item directly in the maintenance plan by
entering the
required data in the tabstrip Item.
You create additional maintenance items in a maintenance plan.
You create a maintenance item without assignment and subsequently assign it to a maintenance plan.

The following rules apply if you assign a maintenance item to a maintenance plan:
o A maintenance item can only be assigned to one maintenance plan.
o You must have created the maintenance item you want to assign to a single cycle plan or multiple
counter plan

without reference to a maintenance strategy.

o The maintenance item you assign to a strategy plan must have the same maintenance strategy as the
maintenance plan.
o The maintenance item you assign to a strategy plan must have the same maintenance plan category as
the
maintenance plan.
The easiest way is to create maintenance items directly in the maintenance plan.
Reference Objects for Maintenance Items
You assign the reference object(s) to a maintenance item at which you want to perform the maintenance
task "safety
test".
Maintenance items can also be object-independent, that is, you can create them without a reference
object.
Maintenance Items with Reference Object
You can create maintenance items with a reference object, that is, object-specific maintenance items, for
example, for
the following reference objects:
Functional locations
Pieces of equipment
Assemblies for a piece of equipment
Materials
Material and serial numbers
Maintenance Items Without Reference Object
You can also create maintenance items that do not refer to a technical object, that is, object-independent
maintenance
items.
You can maintain both location data and account assignment data individually for such maintenance
items.
This allows you to define regular preventive maintenance tasks without having to specify the technical
objects for which
the tasks are to be performed. This is particularly useful for smaller maintenance tasks, such as
"cleaning", "lubricating"
and so on.

9. How would you represent an object?

a. As a material
b. As serialized pieces of equipment
c. As Partners
d. As bills of material

Answer;
a, b, d

Explanation:
Depending on your specific requirements, you can represent the objects as follows:
As materials
This is advisable if you are working with a large number of similar or identical objects. You can use the
material number
for inventory management purposes, and to control stock movements.
As pieces of equipment (serialized or non-serialized)
This is advisable if you want to manage and possibly evaluate individual data, or if you want to perform
regular, planned
or unplanned maintenance activities and services.
As functional locations
This is advisable if you want to structure complex customer systems or represent and track pieces of
equipment from a
functional perspective.
As bills of material
This is advisable if you want to further categorize individual devices according to assembly and material.

Serviceable Item as a Material

In the R/3 System, you can represent your serviceable items as materials in various ways. Depending on
your specific
requirements, you can use material master records to represent both object categories, maintenance
assemblies, and
spare parts.
Often, a large number of similar or identical objects are involved in service contracts. In this case you can
use the
material number of the object for inventory management purposes, and to control stock movements.
A number of data fields in the equipment master record may be dependent on the equipment category
and not specific
to an individual piece of equipment. In such a case, the equipment category can be represented using a
material master
record.
The material master record is the reference for a piece of equipment or functional location. When you
create a piece of
equipment or a functional location, you can enter a material as a reference for it in the initial screen. The
system then
automatically enters the relevant material data in the master record of the technical object.
If you are responsible for servicing large numbers of similar objects, it is usually more sensible to use
serial numbers for
the objects.

Serviceable Item as a Piece of Equipment

If you need to represent and manage your serviceable items in individual master records, for example, in
order to
monitor costs and keep records for the individual objects, you can use an equipment master record.
You should always create an equipment master record for a serviceable item if you need to:
Manage individual data for the item
Perform maintenance and service activities, both regular, planned and unplanned, for the item
Keep a record of any service activities performed for the item (for example, for warranty or contract
purposes)
Record data about the item for long-term evaluation purposes
You can assign a serial number to your pieces of equipment, which is advisable if you service a large
number of similar
or identical items.

You can also use the configuration function to configure pieces of equipment.
If you are responsible for servicing equipment belonging to a customer (for example, operational systems,
machines),
you can represent this in the system using the customer equipment master.
If you also have to structure and manage your own equipment in the Plant Maintenance (PM) component,
you need
separate equipment master records for this.
If you want to represent more complex systems and structures, you can use equipment hierarchies to do
this.

Serviceable Item as a Functional Location

The functional location is a logical object, whereas the piece of equipment, which is installed at a
functional location, is a
physical object.
This physical object is considered from the perspective of its use at this functional location (for example,
whether it is
installed or dismantled there). You can use the installation and dismantling functions to dismantle and
replace a piece of
equipment at a customer's.
Functional location labels are structured hierarchically. The hierarchy for these labels is defined in each
company,
according to specific requirements. In this way, the hierarchies can reflect the interrelation of individual
operational
functions within a system.
You should always use functional locations if you want to
Structure complex customer systems
Represent and trace pieces of equipment from a functional perspective

Serviceable Item as a Bill of Material

A bill of material describes the structure of a piece of equipment, material or functional location. It
comprises a complete,
formally structured list of components making up a technical object or assembly.

The individual components can be stock or non-stock spares or assemblies, which in turn can be
described by another
bill of material. Each component is listed with its quantity and unit of measure in the bill of material.
Bills of material have two main uses within maintenance and service:
Structure description
You can use a bill of material to describe the structure of a piece of equipment, functional location or
material, as
regards its individual components.
Assignment of spare parts
You can use a maintenance bill of material to specify the spare parts that are required for performing the
service.
You can use bills of material when processing calls, specifically in order to:
Plan materials and spares (for a service order)
Locate a problem at a technical object (when logging/handling a call)