Maximo Fundamentals

Question 1

IBM® Maximo® Manage is an ___ lifecycle and ___ process management application that manages your asset operations and business processes and integrates with your existing enterprise applications.

Answer 1

IBM® Maximo® Manage is an asset lifecycle and workflow process management application that manages your asset operations and business processes and integrates with your existing enterprise applications.

Question 2

IBM® Maximo® Manage is an asset lifecycle and workflow process management application that manages your asset operations and business processes and integrates with your existing enterprise applications.

Answer 2

IBM® Maximo® Manage is an asset lifecycle and workflow process management application that manages your asset operations and business processes and integrates with your existing enterprise applications.

Question 3

With Maximo Manage, you can manage your asset operations and business processes. You can also integrate with your existing applications.

Answer 3

With Maximo Manage, you can manage your asset operations and business processes. You can also integrate with your existing applications.

Question 4

System requirements depend on your operating system, database platform, and site configuration.

Answer 4

System requirements depend on your operating system, database platform, and site configuration.

Question 5

Maximo Manage supports various database servers, including:
Db2®
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Serve

Answer 5

Maximo Manage supports various database servers, including:
Db2®
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Serve

Question 6

What is the difference between modules and applications?

Answer 6

Applications are inside Modules

Question 7

How do you make a GL account inactive?

Answer 7

Module: Finance
Application: Chart of Accounts
Action: set expiration date in the past.

Question 8

How do you apply a price adjustment to an APPROVED labor rate contract?

Answer 8

Module: Contracts
Application: Labor Rate Contracts
Action: Change status to Draft, Waiting Approval, Pending Revision > make the change rate

Question 9

How many modules are there?

Answer 9

21

Question 10

What occurs in a follow-up WO when the Create WO action is used?

Answer 10

Module: Work Order
Application: Work Order Tracking
Action: The Originating Record field is populated

Question 11

What are Classifications as applied to Work Orders?

Answer 11

Module: Work Order
Application: Work Order Application
Action: Specifications Tab > specify a classification

Question 12

What are Attributes as applied to Work Orders

Answer 12

Module: Work Order Module
Application: Work Order Tracking Application
Action: Specifications Tab > Classification > Attributes

Question 13

What occurs by default when a Desktop Requisition with one direct issue line is submitted?

Answer 13

Module: Self-Service Module
Desktop Requisitions Module
Application: Create Requisition Application
Action: A Purchase Requisition is created

Question 14

What is the difference between a purchase requisition and a purchase order?

Answer 14

Module: Self Service Module / Desktop Requisition Module
Application:
Action:

A purchase requisition is not yet purchasing anything, it only asks for internal permission. a purchase order is for an actual purchase and actually leaves the organization.

Question 15

Modules List: AAA B CC F III PPP R SSSSS T W

Answer 15

Module:
Application:
Action:

Admin
Analytics
Assets

Change
Contracts

Financial

Integration
Inventory
IT Infrastructure

Planning
Preventative Maintenance
Purchasing

Release

Security
Self Service
Service Desk
Service Level
System Configuration

Task Management

Work Orders

Question 16

Which 2 inventory usage transactions are considered when calculating the current balance?

Answer 16

Module: Inventory
Application:
Action:

Question 17

What is a rotating asset?

Answer 17

A rotating asset is an interchangeable asset that you can move in and out of service as needed. The term applies to assets that can be repaired or refurbished rather than replaced.

Rotating assets can be items such as pumps and motors, fire extinguishers, motors and transmissions, and notebook computers and network printers.

Question 18

Where is Failure Reporting

Answer 18

Module: Assets Module
Application: Failure Codes Application
Action: Failure Reporting Tab in Work Order
Why: Because you report failures when doing Work Orders. Failures apply to the asset or the location from the work order

Question 19

You can use the Quick Reporting application or the Work Order Tracking application to record asset failures and location failures on work orders

Answer 19

Module:
Application:
Action:

You can report from Quick Reporting or Work Order tracking bc you are either doing work or quick-see/report

Failure reporting in on Assets or Location bc you see a failure by asset or location.

Question 20

The Self Service Module is made up of what two modules?

Answer 20

Desktop Requisitions Module
Service Requests Module

Question 21

What is the difference between Service Requests and Desktop Requisitions

Answer 21

Desktop Requisitions become POs for parts
Service Request are for equipment repair or configuration and for RFIs

Question 22

In a ticket templated under the Service Desk Application, you can create a ticket template. Optionally, you can add a ___ to the template to use and existing set of activities

Answer 22

Job Plan

Question 23

When you apply a template to a ticket, the system automatically generates the following Work Orders: ___ and ___

Answer 23

• Generates a child activity work order for each activity defined in the template
• If a job plan is defined, then a child activity work order is generated that is based on the attributes defined in the job plan.

Question 24

What is the Item Master application used for?

Answer 24

to define items that are stocked in your storerooms.

Question 25

In the Item Master application, you can group items in an item set that can be…

Answer 25

shared by the organizations that use the item set.

Question 26

A rotating item is a ___ asset, such as a pump or notebook, that you define with a common ___. You designate the items as rotating because it shares properties of both ___ and ___.

Answer 26

serialized
item number
items
assets

Question 27

The Meter Group field is only associated with ___.
The Meter field is only associated with ___.

Answer 27

Rotating items
Non-Rotating items

Why:

Question 28

What are the three meter types?

Answer 28

Gauge, Continuous, Characteristic

Question 29

What is the only meter type that can be used on an item?

Answer 29

Continuous

Question 30

The Continuous Meter tracks the consumption of a material or asset. Example: the amount of fuel used on a vehicle.

Question 31

Meter Group Example: MOWER with two Continuous meters, one for fuel and one for recording the odometer mileage.

Two tools called Mower with 2 continuous meters

more later

Question 32

Meter Groups are for rotating items

Answer 32

Why: because a pump is a rotating item and it would have a standard set of gages (meters)

Question 33

Meters are for non-rotating items

Answer 33

Why:

Question 34

A rotating item is a serialized asset, such as a pump or a notebook, that you define with a common item number. You designate an item as rotating because it shares properties of both items and assets.

Question 35

A rotating item can have an inventory value and an issue cost. A rotating item is an inventory item with a generic item number, a current balance, and multiple instances that can be used in various locations around a plant.

Question 36

A rotating item cannot be consumed, and is maintained as an asset. After creating an item and adding it to a storeroom, you can either use the Assets application to create the asset record for the item you want to track, or create a purchase order for the rotating item and serialize it when you receive it.

Question 37

Rotating assets are assets that are interchangeable,

Question 38

Rotating assets have both a unique asset number and an inventory item number

Question 39

You can use the item number to track assets as a group as assets are moved in and out of inventory and other types of locations.

Question 40

Non-rotating assets do not move in and out of storerooms. A non-rotating asset has a unique asset number, but does not have an item number because it is not tracked in inventory.

Question 41

What are the Inventory Usage Statuses

Answer 41

Entered
Staged
Shipped
Complete
Cancelled

Question 42

Failure codes are specified on ___ records and ___ records.

Answer 42

Asset
Location

Question 43

Failure codes are linked in ___ relationships to from a failure heirarchy.

Answer 43

parent-child