v7.6 Functional Analyst Flashcards
The business analyst for the purchasing department of a company is creating a workflow process for purchase requisitions. A requirement is to branch the process to different approval groups based on a cost evaluation. Which method is used to implement this in Workflow Designer?
A. A condition node with an expression.
B. A manual input with a custom action list.
C. An interaction node to review the PR lines.
D. A call out to the purchasing thresholds of the roles.
A. A condition node with an expression.
An administrator needs to enable a prompt in the Organizations application for users to enter the Failure Class when completing or closing work orders. Which option is used to enable this?
A. PM
B. Asset
C. Work Type
D. Safety Plan
C. Work Type
Admin>Org>WOOptions> T
Two prompts available to select: Downtime prompt? Failure prompt?
A company has a requirement to temporarily give a user the privilege to run the application’s manual status change actions and specify this in a workflow process. Which of the following actions would be used?
A. PVSTATUS and NOSTATUS
B. OKSTATUS and PVSTATUS
C. NOSTATUS and OKSTATUS
D. PVSTATUS, NONSTATUS and OKSTATUS
Answer : A
PVSTATUS - Prevent status change event action
NOSTATUS - Register status change event
Wrong:
OKSTATUS - Clear status change event action
A company is creating an ad hoc report indicating the number of days to complete a work order. This field is not in the database. Which feature enables this field to be added to the report?
A. Format
B. Content
C. Calculate
D. Summaries
Answer: C
The calculate tab enables the power user to add calculations or expressions as a column to their ad hoc report
A company is using Process Flow Control and wants to change the default values for Flow Start and Flow Complete statuses. Where can these values be configured?
A. System Properties
B. Work Type settings
C. WOSTATUS Domain
D. Change Work Order Options action
Answer : B
Admin>Org>pickone>WO Options>WorkType> expand>ProcessFlow
A company has a requirement to report on actual labor hours, materials, services and tools used as work progresses on a work order. What is the earliest point in the basic life cycle a user can start reporting?
A. APPR
B. COMP
C. WMATL
D. WAPPR
Answer : A
Reference:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21683844
A maintenance planner is in the process of planning time-sensitive emergency maintenance work orders for a number of assets where items need to be reserved What reservation type should be used?
A. Soft
B. Hard
C. Urgent
D. Critical
B. Hard Urgent and Critical are not reservations. SOFT reservations are not associated with a time-frame whereas HARD reservations are controlled by a need to complete work under the restrictions of time. AUTOMATIC reservation type is used when the urgency of the order at the time is considered.
A company needs to add a unit of measures for items, tools, and services. In which application can this be done? (pick two)
A. Receiving
B. Storerooms
C. Asset Templates
D. Request for Quotations
Answer: A or D
Receiving and Request for Quote Navigation search bar: test each application under actions Understanding: units of measure and conversion are linked.
Receiving is about Purchase Orders hence, the unit of measure required. Request for Quote also needs units of measure. RFQ and Rcv are yin/yang. A Storeroom has Items with cost and stock An Asset Template has PMs, Meters, Spare Parts, Specifications
A company wishes to create a location that is used during the receiving process when inspection occurs. Which type of location is used?
A. A HOLDING Iocation at the SITE level.
B. A CLEARING location at the ORG level
C. RECEIVING location at the SITE level
D. An INSPECTION location at the ORG level.
Answer : A HOLDING is the only one that is a type of location.
Asset>Location>Type
An engineer schedules a very complex asset report developed in BIRT. The engineer needs to set a feature to be able to retrieve the report contents from within Maximo for very large files that are restricted by the email server. Which feature does this?
A. Direct Print
B. Email with a File URL
C. Email with a File Attachment
D. REPORTSCHEDULE cron task
Answer : B
BIRT-Business Intelligence Reporting Tools Report Schedule
Very large files within Maximo are a link to get back into Maximo. Email will not be able to handle the large files attachments. REPORTSCHEDULE is for timing.
What is the reason to specify asset relationships?
A. To deploy assets.
B. To design the asset infrastructure.
C. To define a logical connection between separate assets.
D. To define how assets are allowed to behave when work is performed on them.-
Answer : C https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS3AXP_7.6.0/ com.ibm.lam.doc/overview/c_relationships_application.html
The maintenance supervisor is gathering data to use to build job plans. Only certain job plans will be carried over to the work orders based on the conditions applied. What data can have conditions?
A. Services, Tools, Assets
B. Labor, Tasks, Calendars
C. Labor, Services, Materials
D. Materials, Specifications, Tools
Answer : C
You can set a condition on Materials, Labor, Tools, Task, and Services. (MaLTTS)
*anything on the Job Plan Tab
An administrator has a requirement to create 44 new assets that each share a common configuration. Which application can do this with a single action?
A. Assets
B. item Master
C. Classifications
D. Asset Templates
Answer : D
Reference:http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWK4A_7.5.0/com.ibm.mame.doc/c_e
ssentials_oview.html
Which Report option provides multiple access points for an end-user to run reports including the toolbar shortcuts of Browser View, Direct Print, Direct Print with Attachments, and direct access from application dialogs including Work Order Status Change and Inventory Reorder?
A. ERI
B. BIRT
C. Cognos
D. SQL Server
Answer: B
ERI - External Report Integration
BIRT - Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
A company has a requirement to have items in the storerooms to be reordered automatically. How can this be achieved?
A. Reorder Escalation
B. Reorder CronTask
C. Reorder - Reorder Items
D. Reorder Direct Issue Items/Services
Answer : B CronTask
A user has created a request for quotation and sent it to vendors. After receiving the responses from the vendors, the user will need to create a purchase order. What action must be performed before a purchase order can be created?
A. Purchase requisitions must first be created.
B. status of the request for quotation must be APPR.
C. Request for quotation lines must be awarded to a vendor.
D. Vendor quotation receipt transactions must be completed.
Answer : C
??? The user wants to have a new job plan reference an existing job plan so that the data in the existing job plan will be available without re-entering it. What is the name of this feature?
A. Nested job plans
B. Job plan revisions
C. Job plan sequences
D. Attachment job plans
Answer : A
??? this is B in the second list
A company has users which perform a variety of roles from Planning, Purchasing, Maintenance and Management. The administrator needs to define which security groups to access which KPIs. What application is used for this?
A. Users
B. KPI Manager
C. KPI Templates
D. Security Groups
Answer : D
The planner identified that the pump required four widgets as material on the work plan. An electrician was issued a quantity of four widgets from the storeroom and was able to complete the work using only two of the four widgets The two unused widgets were recorded as returned. How would this be reflected on the Actuals Tab of the Work Order?
A. There would be a single line Item entry with a Transaction Type of ISSUE
B. There would be a single line item entry with a Transaction Type of RETURN
C. There would be a single line Item entry with a Transaction Type of ISSUE/RETURN
D. There would be two line items entries one with a Transaction Type of ISSUE and another with a Transaction Type of RETURN
Answer : D
The supervisor has specified that the job plans be constructed so that the tasks on the work order will automatically start when the preceding task is complete. What function on a job plan makes this possible?
A. Workflow
B. Conditions
C. Revisioning
D. Flow Control
Answer : D
A planner is creating a list of various types of records that will eventually be added to work orders on the Plans tab to provide technicians with the required components to complete their work. What types of non-set related records can be added? (Choose two )
A. Items
B. Tools
C. Services
D. Materials
E. Standard Services
Answer : C,D
What is the reason to specify asset relationships?
A. To deploy assets.
B. To design the asset infrastructure.
C. To define a logical connection between separate assets.
D. To define how assets are allowed to behave when work is performed on them.
Answer : C
A company has users which perform a variety of roles from Planning, Purchasing, Maintenance and Management. The administrator needs to define which security groups to access which KPIs. What application is used for this?
A. Users
B. KPI Manager
C. KPI Templates
D. Security Groups
Answer : D
The planner identified that the pump required four widgets as material on the work plan. An electrician was issued a quantity of four widgets from the storeroom and was able to complete the work using only two of the four widgets The two unused widgets were recorded as returned. How would this be reflected on the Actuals Tab of the Work Order?
A. There would be a single line Item entry with a Transaction Type of ISSUE
B. There would be a single line item entry with a Transaction Type of RETURN
C. There would be a single line Item entry with a Transaction Type of ISSUE/RETURN
D. There would be two line items entries one with a Transaction Type of ISSUE and another with a Transaction Type of RETURN
Answer : D
A user has created a work order against asset ABC. A technician determines that asset ABC is faulty and it needs to be replaced. The technician replaces asset ABC at the operating location with asset XYZ from a repair location. What happens after the swap?
A. Asset locations have been swapped.
B. Asset identifiers have been swapped
C. Inventory locations of the assets have been swapped
D. The faulty asset ABC status at the operating location gets updated to OBSOLETE.
Answer : A
A custom field has been added to the Work Order Tracking application to identify the inspector for the environmental impacts of each work order. What type of role is used to assign the work order to the environmental inspector?
A. Person
B. Person Group
C. A set of data related to the record
D. A set of data related to the login user
Answer : A
A store manager needs to make changes to an asset via the Move/Modify action. Which of the following changes can be made? (Choose two.)
A. Features
B. Storeroom
C. Asset’s location
D. Class description
E. Parent/child relationship
Answer: C and E
A company has a requirement to have labor certificates defined. In which application can this be done?
A. Crews
B. People
C. Certifications
D. Qualifications
Answer : D
A company requires that laborers record the actual time they spent on a work order. The labor hours recorded are not automatically approved and the connection does not want the laborer to have access to the Work Order Tracking application. Which application would the laborers use?
A. Invoicing
B. Time Sheets
C. Labor Reporting
D. Activities and Tasks
Answer : C
What can be performed in the Assignments tab of Work Order Tracking?
A. initiate an assignment into STARTED status.
B. Reassign from one person group to another.
C. Find an available crew for a type requirement
D. Split an assignment to the labor code’s next working shift
Answer : C
A supervisor has a requirement to group labor transactions by work order number while creating invoices in Labor Reporting. How can this be achieved?
A. Check the Consolidate by Work Order checkbox for each transaction
B. Enter the work order number, then enter each associated transaction.
C. Check the Group Labor by Work Order checkbox for each transaction.
D. Create an invoice for each work order, then enter each associated transaction.
Answer : B
A workflow process has been revised and the new revision made active. What happens to records that had already been routed into that workflow process before this was done?
A. They continue running in the earlier revision.
B. They are removed from workflow and must be restarted manually.
C. They switch to running in the new revision as that is the only active revision.
D. They are removed from workflow and are started in the new revision by a cron task.
Answer : D