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Certified Maintenance and Reliability Examination Mock Test

Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) Sample Test

Time 60 Minutes

1. Which one of the following is generally true? Pillar 1

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
preconstruction stage to determine the maintenance plan
D) Most mechanics can easily alternate between doing capital project work and
doing equipment diagnosis and repair work
2. What is the best criterion for changing a known and controlled variable to meet a
new customer requirement? Pillar 4
A) Engineering analysis
B) Operator and maintainer experience
C) Senior management directive
D) Reliability and maintainability analysis
3. From the choices below, select the formula for Reliability, R: Pillar 3
A) R = e- (MTTR/t)
B) R = e- (t/MTBF)
C) R = Downtime/(Downtime + Uptime)
D) R = MTBF / (MTBF + MTTR)
4. 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: Pillar 4
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

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5. If a machine is run for 500 hours and five failures are observed during this period,
what is the Mean Time Between Failure? Pillar 3
A) 500 hours
B) 0.01 hours
C) 2500 hours
D) 100 hours
6. Which of the following most effectively makes up the members of a Manufacturing
Team? Pillar 4
A) Sales/Customer/Production/Supplier/Senior Management
B) Maintenance/Engineering/Production/Human Resources
C) Production/Maintenance/Supplier/Engineering
D) Senior Management/Production/Human Resources
7. What is the most important purpose of performing risk evaluations? Pillar 1
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
8. Of the following, what is the best method for measuring employee skills and training? Pillar 5
A) Create and maintain a skills inventory tracking database
B) Ask employees to keep a training notebook
C) Keep records of all formal training courses taken
D) Have employees complete annual self-evaluations
9. When training maintenance workers, it is best to first: Pillar 5
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
10. What relationship should Maintenance and Reliability Teams have with customers
and suppliers for optimum effectiveness? Pillar 1
A) Purchasing should be the only communicators with suppliers
B) Supervision 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

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11. Which of the following metrics definitions is not accurate? Pillar 1

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
12. Which of the following does not support people development? Pillar 4
A) Providing feedback only when asked
B) Defining result areas, goals, and measurements
C) Coaching, feedback, and encouragement
D) Defining training and skills goals
13. From the following list, which is not a critical structural element of a strategic plan for
maintenance and reliability? Pillar 4
A) Current levels of performance
B) Benefits available through implementation
C) Historical direction of the business
D) Vision of the future state
14. Which performance result best shows a maintenance and reliability manager that
the scheduled maintenance activities being implemented are effective? Pillar 5
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
15. When the time period between the testing which detects a failure and the failure
actually occurs is highly variable, and the life expectancy is highly variable, a good
approach is: Pillar 3
A) More frequent periodic predictive testing
B) Structured preventive maintenance
C) On-line condition monitoring
D) Time based rebuild or change out
16. Thermographic imaging can be used in determining faults in: Pillar 5
A. Mechanical Equipment
B. Electrical panels
C. Insulation and refractories
D. All of the above
E. None of the above

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17. In vibration spectrum analysis, peaks matching multiples of rotational speed

are called: Pillar 5
A. Periodic
B. Cyclic
C. Harmonic
D. Synchronous
18. A machine fails 3 times in a year, the first failure is repaired in 3 hours, the second
failure is repaired in 8 hours and the third failure is repaired in 1 hour. The Mean Time To
Repair for this machine is: Pillar 2
A. 3 hours
B. 4 hours
C. 12 hours
D. 0.125 hours
19. A mechanical technician makes a mistake while replacing a component on a
critical piece of machinery, the mistake causes the machine to fail shortly after
reinstating. As his manager you: Pillar 4
A. Fire him
B. Report him to HR for disciplinary action
C. Review the repair procedure with him and correct as needed
D. Run a root cause analysis to determine where the problem is and correct it
20. Planning is an activity that answers the questions “what, when, Where and How”. Pillar 5
A. True
B. False
C. Not Sure
D. 21. A rolling schedule is ideally: Pillar 5
E. 2 Days
F. 6 – 8 Weeks
G. 3 Years
None of the above
22. You have been set a goal to reduce the overall maintenance cost by 10%, you: Pillar 1
A. Revisit your maintenance strategy to determine what activities can be modified
to reduce cost
B. Reduce you inventory of MRO spares
C. Cut out the most expensive tasks in your PM program
D. Reduce labor
E. A&B
F. C&D
23. Your new equipment is being commissioned and you want to determine what
group of maintenance activities will be most cost effective, you: Pillar 4
A. Conduct an FMEA
B. Develop a balanced maintenance strategy using engineering techniques
C. Use vendor manuals and site experience
D. Conduct an RCM study on your most critical equipment

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24. A KPI is a tool to track and measure: Pillar 1

A. Organizational change
B. Performance
C. Metrics
D. Behavior
E. B&D
F. All of the above
25. Your organization is about to roll out a new initiative to optimize maintenance
activities which involves changing the way work is done. You should develop a: Pillar 4
A. Culture change program
B. Management of change procedure
C. Do nothing
D. A&B
26. Tracking maintenance performance is best done by using which KPI(s) Pillar 5
A. Availability
B. Workorder % compliance
C. % Rework
D. Cost of maintenance
Select all applicable
27. Machine condition detection technologies are used to identify various aspects of
machine condition, select all applicable MCD technologies for mechanical
equipment below: Pillar 5
A. Vibration analysis
B. Lube oil analysis
C. Thermographic imaging
D. Ultrasound technologies
E. Motor Current Signature Analysis
28. Your department decided to adopt a more non-intrusive approach to
maintenance, you want your management’s approval to purchase condition
monitoring equipment worth $500,000 to develop your program. Your current
maintenance budget is $5,000,000 and is 60% preventive 40% reactive. You
calculate an expected savings of 50% if you make the change. Pillar 1
A. You show your management a cost benefit analysis
B. You argue the technical merits of switching to PdM from PM and CM
C. You request a larger budget to accommodate for the desired purchase(s)
D. None of the above
29. Root cause analysis is the study that determines the root causes of problems
(events) and finds remedies to eliminate these root causes. The triggers of RCA are: Pillar 2
A. Repetitive issues
B. Severe incidents
C. A&B
D. Any even

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30. Maintenance backlog is: Pillar 5

A. Amount of differed maintenance work
B. Amount of emergent maintenance work
C. Amount of maintenance work scheduled without spare parts available
D. % of work completed VS issued
31. If a machine has a mean time between failure of 5000 hours and a mean time to
repair of 100 hours, its availability would be: Pillar 3
A. 95%
B. 97%
C. 98%
D. 99%
32. In a hydraulic circuit, the ideal location to extract an oil sample is: Pillar 3
A. The oil reservoir
B. Downstream of the filter
C. Downstream of the pump
D. Upstream of the filter
33. A maintenance engineer has a list of pump failure modes and the frequency of
occurrence, which of the following diagrams can help prioritize maintenance
actions: Pillar 3
A. Ishikawa diagram
B. Reliability trend diagram
C. Pareto chart
D. Bathtub curve
34. For a parallel system, the rate of increase in reliability with each additional
component decreases as the number of components______________ Pillar 2
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Remain the same for prolonged periods
D. Exceed more than three
35. A plot is a simple power curve of cumulative time and cumulative failures. The data
when plotted on log-log paper, usually results in straight lines. What is this plot
called? Pillar 2
A. Reliability trend diagram
B. Bathtub curve
C. Crow AMSAA plot
D. Ishikawa diagram

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36. What is the name of the below curve?

Pillar 2 / Pillar 3

A. Bathtub curve
B. Weibull distribution
C. Crowe ASMAA plot
D. Ishikawa Diagram
37. A machine has 3 components that must work together to perform a function. If any
of the components fails, the machine will not function properly. If the reliability of
each component is 0.95. what is the reliability of the machine? Pillar 3
A. 0.8574
B. 0.5874
C. 0.95
D. 0.3167
38. Which rolling element bearing cannot handle any thrust loa? Pillar 3
A. Needle bearing
B. Spherical roller bearing
C. Deep groove ball bearing
D. Tapered roller bearing
39. Which one of the following is not a major test method for a membrane filter? Pillar 3
A. Bubble point test
B. Pressure hold test
C. Pressure leak test
D. Forward flow test
40. Which one of the following is the most common qualitative test method for water in
oil? Pillar 3
A. Crackle test
B. Gravity separation test
C. Vacuum dehydration test
D. ASTM water particulate test
41. A weight loaded accumulator will: Pillar 3
A. Lose pressure as fluid discharges
B. Stay at the same pressure as fluid discharges
C. Have an unstable / erratic pressure as accumulator discharges
D. Gain pressure as fluid discharges
42. What is it called when during mounting, the internal clearance of a tapered roller
bearing is removed? Pillar 3
A. Preload
B. Cone / cup fit
C. Interference fit
D. Slack adjustment

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43. What is the use of RPN during failure modes and effects analysis? Pillar 2
A. To help prioritize corrective actions
B. To assess key performance indicators
C. To help improve technician skills
D. To determine that the reliability policy matches corporate vision
44. The maintenance manager of a facility is not happy with his asset performance, He
wants to introduce an asset reliability process to improve the situation. Which one of
these steps must be taken first? Pillar 1
A. Align reliability strategy with business goals
B. Establish asset performance requirements
C. Identify which assets contribute to the business goals
D. Prioritize assets by consequence / relative risk
45. A reliability statement should contain four elements, identify these elements: Pillar 2
A. Equipment, production, maintainability, time
B. Policy, procedure, people, safety
C. Criticality, performance, environment, probability
D. Probability, function, time condition
46. A tool that produces a diagram that displays various conditions that could cause a
particular failure is? Pillar 1
A. FMECA
B. DFMEA
C. FMEA
D. FTA
47. For maintenance planning and scheduling, the amount of time it takes to create a
purchase requisition, order parts and have them delivered to warehouse ready for
use is called: Pillar 5
A. Parts Availability
B. Mean time toi delivery
C. Vendor management time
D. Parts lead time
48. A maintenance activity that is planned and carries out in order to prevent
occurrence of failure that leads to loss of production is defined as: Pillar 5
A. Preventive maintenance
B. Proactive maintenance
C. Predictive maintenance
D. Breakdown maintenance
49. The probability of a system, component or a device to perform its intended function
without failure under current operating environment for a stated period of time is
defined as: Pillar 2 / Pillar 3
A. Reliability
B. Functionality
C. Availability
D. Maintainability

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50. An equipment maintenance strategy where there is no routine maintenance.

Tasks performed are only corrective in nature and only done when the machine has
failed is called: Pillar 2
A. Predictive maintenance strategy
B. Preventive maintenance strategy
C. Run to failure maintenance strategy
D. Condition based maintenance strategy
51. The maintenance cost of a manufacturing plant is considered a________________ of
performance Pillar 4
A. Minor indicator
B. Soft indicator
C. Leading indicator
D. Lagging indicator
52. A maintenance team observe that a new gear box that was recently installed has
failed. Further investigation revealed that the gear teeth were misaligned during
installation. What category will this failure mode fall under on the bathtub curve? Pillar 2 / Pillar 3
A. Random failure
B. Wear our failure
C. Infant mortality failure
D. Undetermined because more data is needed.
53. A systematic planning and control of a physical asset throughout its life, including
specifications, design, construction, operation, maintenance and disposal is a
definition for? Pillar 4
A. Maintenance management
B. Reliability management
C. Life cycle
D. Asset management
54. All the following are considered lagging key performance indicators except: Pillar 1
A. Percentage of work orders completed versus work orders planned
B. Maintenance cost
C. Mean time to repair
D. Mean time between failure
55. A maintenance manager has all the following as his targets (Deliverables) except: Pillar 1
A. Increasing MTTR
B. Increasing availability
C. Reducing downtime due to stockouts
D. Increasing MTBF

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Model Answers
1. C
2. A 39. C
3. B 40. A
4. D 41. B
5. D 42. A
6. C 43. A
7. A 44. A
8. A 45. D
9. A 46. D
10. C 47. D
11. D 48. A
12. A
49. A
13. C
50. C
14. A
51. D
15. C
16. D 52. C
17. D 53. D
18. B 54. A
19. D 55. A
20. A
21. B
22. E
23. B
24. E
25. D
26. A,B,C,D
27. A,B,C,D,E
28. A
29. C
30. A
31. C
32. B
33. C
34. A
35. C
36. A
37. A
38. A

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