EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Select the best measure of maintenance effectiveness from the following list.

Question2: What are the three most significant constraints when developing a Maintenance and Reliability-organization?

Question3: Which of the following is least likely to be linked to Maintenance and Reliability process improvements?

Question4: When acquiring mission-critical, major machinery, it is usually appropriate to use a detailed equipment specification to assure the best equipment is selected and purchased. Which of the following is the most appropriate approach to developing an equipment specification for a piece of equipment?

Question5: Motor Circuit Analysis (MCrA) on a low (450-600) voltage 3 Phase motor reveals significantly higher capacitance-to-ground than baseline values. Resistance-to-ground readings are good. What does this indicate and/or what should you do?

Question6: Grouping of data into families and eliminating statistical outliers from a statistical alarm calculation:

Question7: Which ofthe following answers is not a critical factor in identifying customer requirements in developing a Maintenance and Reliability Program?

Question8: Return on Assets (ROA) is determined by:

Question9: Inwhich of the following circumstances might it be appropriate to conduct a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis?

Question10: Your plant (facility) is in a sold-out position You just told a visiting senior manager from the head office that the reason you place so much emphasis and spend so much money on maintenance planning is that it not only sales money, but it makes money for the business. He asks: How can it make money for the business? Your most comprehensive answer is:

Question11: 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

Question12: 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, butit makes money for the business. He asks: How can it make money for the business? Your answer is:

Question13: The Maintainability of a machine may be measured by:

Question14: 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:

Question15: Arrange the following cascading indicators in descending order:
1.Schedule compliance
2.Return on Invested Capital
3.Uptime
4.Equipment reliability
5.Plant (Facility) Profitability
6.Production volumes

Question16: What would dictate the basicminimum skill requirements for new Maintenance and Reliability employees?

Question17: Surveys have shown that plants (facilities) with good planning and scheduling systems and good predictive and preventive programs have which ratios of maintenance tasks? (Does not include service to operations or capital projects or turnarounds)

Question18: You are the maintenance manager for a manufacturing plant (facility) that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The product is selling well. The business is healthy. Which consideration will bring the most value to your business when planning your next major shutdown of your operating area?

Question19: 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:

Question20: One of our five pumps fails each month. We have been getting 45 days of service out of our dryer belts. We have to fix five piping leaks per month. We have had to replace three of our 25 air cylinders in the last two years. If a Pareto diagram was created for this failure data, which equipment type would show the highest failure frequency?

Question21: Business excellence requires that in most companies the following things be done well andintegrated effectively:

Question22: Which of the following is not a typical element of a performance agreement between maintenance and operations?

Question23: What most strongly influences the development of people skills in a Maintenance and Reliability organization?

Question24: What is the preferred method of obtaining failure information from operator rounds when the consequences of failure are severe and there is reason to doubt whether the tasks will be done without a formal reminder?

Question25: Who should be responsible for communicating and enforcing company policy from management to the shop-floor?

Question26: In a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program what is autonomous maintenance?

Question27: In lean Manufacturing environment which formula most accurately defines profit?

Question28: The interval between condition based maintenance (CBM) tasks should be determined based on:

Question29: With regard toquality of goods and serviceswhich of the following is true in all economies?

Question30: Which one of the following work order characteristics add the most to the business?

Question31: Two common reliability specifications to include in purchase orders for equipment are:

Question32: What is the best way for a Maintenance and Reliability Program to use process parameters?

Question33: Which of the following cannot be considered on-condition technique?

Question34: Quantitative analyses, such as break even analysis, can be oversimplifications of the problem because:

Question35: One way to stimulate and motivate your team member is to understand what drives human beings. Which desire does not motivate most of the time?

Question36: There are many ways to improve reliability in the design stage of rotating machinery development. Eight basic ways are: minimize the static loading, minimize dynamic loading, minimize cyclic effects, reduce operating temperatures, remove stress raisers, reduce friction, design for accurate assembly, and isolate corrosive and erosive effects. In regards to applying these principles to a machine that is already in service:

Question37: Why may two different materials, both with the same surface temperature, appear to havedifferent temperatures when viewed with a thermal imager?

Question38: In what order should you consider tasks to defend against failure?

Question39: 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?

Question40: Examples of workplace ethics issues include everything except:

Question41: Motor current analysis reveals an unbalanced motor current in excess of 40% when the motor is loaded to over
70% of its nameplate full bad ampere rating. What should you suspect and or what should you do?

Question42: 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)?

Question43: What is the importance of the P - F Curve with respect to condition monitoring?

Question44: 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?

Question45: Which of the following statements best represents the primary objective of an inventory controlsystem for maintenance materials?

Question46: 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?

Question47: Nearly all infrared imaging systems detect radiation in two distinct radiation bands, shortwave (2-6u) and longwave (8-14u). This would be due to:

Question48: Which of the following is the least productive way to gain employee ownership in a maintenance or reliability task?

Question49: A plant (facility) has acquired three new screw pumps to replace centrifugal pumps. Within two months of installation it is found the seals have deteriorated allowing the release of hazardous chemicals into the work place. Which of the following is the best step that the maintenance or reliability leader could have taken to prevent this failure from occurring?

Question50: Which one of the following metrics definitions is not accurate?

Question51: For maximum effectiveness maintenance tasks should be allocated to:

Question52: Which of the following failures, when avoided,is considered a"best practice" for industrialmaintenance?

Question53: In the broadest view, a maintenance planner:

Question54: To be trusted by all members of a group, afacilitator must:

Question55: What is defined as "the supervision of a process designed to alter and improve the function of a business"?

Question56: 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:

Question57: How do you avoid the pitfall of the Maintenance and Reliability Program appearing to have littlevalue to the organization?

Question58: 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?

Question59: For the oil in a pressurized lubrication system, oil samples for analysis and trending should be taken from:

Question60: The maintenance function should be viewed in value added terms and should be associated with profit and the optimization of maintenance costs. When developing the maintenance budget, it is important to:

Question61: Which of the following is a directly controllable leading performance indicator?

Question62: The two primary costs in the classical inventory management models that are utilized to determine the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) are the acquisition cost of inventory and the inventory possession cost.
Which of the following best describes the relationship of these costs with the number of inventory turns peryear as the number of turns per year increases?

Question63: For a reliability engineer, identify the appropriate key performance indicator below that he/she should receive (Le„ that they can best influence or control and are accountable for):

Question64: Why is change management essential to the implementation of a Maintenance and Reliability Program?

Question65: The 'Karl Fischer Method' measures:

Question66: When initiating change to an existing process or program,the best practice is to: