1. What is SAP Plant Maintenance?

2. Which all modules you can integrate with SAP PM?

3. What are the key responsibilities in SAP Plant Maintenance?
4. Explain the life cycle of SAP Plant Maintenance Notification process?
5. What is a Technical object in Plant Maintenance?
6. What is Maintenance Plant in Plant Maintenance?
7. What is Maintenance Planning? What are different types of Maintenance Planning?
8. What is different between Centralize and decentralize Maintenance Planning?
9. What do you understand by object related structuring of Technical Objects?
10. What do you understand by Functional Structuring of Technical Objects?
11. What is Equipment Master Record?
12. What are the functions of using Equipment master?
13. When to represent an object as Equipment or as Functional Location?
14. When you mistakenly enter wrong master data for an equipment, how do you manage this?
15. What do you understand by data transfer between Technical Objects?
16. What do you understand by Horizontal and Hierarchical data transfer?
17. What is a Milestone Confirmation?
18. Can we change Equipment category once defined?
19. Explain the use of use of item number in maintenance order?
20. What is Breakdown Maintenance?
21. When do you perform Breakdown Maintenance?
22. What is the order type for Breakdown Maintenance?
23. What is Corrective Maintenance?
24. What is difference between Corrective Maintenance and Preventive Maintenance?
25. What is order type for Preventive Maintenance?
26. How is Corrective maintenance different from Breakdown maintenance?
27. What is Preventive Maintenance and key submodules under this?
28. What is the task list in Preventive Maintenance?
29. What is Planned Maintenance?
30. What is an Ongoing Maintenance?
31. What are different components under Maintenance Planning?
32. What is the Maintenance Plan? Different type of Maintenance Plans?
33. Is Maintenance strategy mandate for Maintenance Plans?
34. Which Maintenance plan type is suitable for performing annul service of a car?
35. What is multiple counter maintenance plan?
36. Where do we use multiple counter maintenance plans? Explain with an example?
37. Which maintenance plan is suitable for managing outline service agreement and what call
objects are required?
38. What is Equipment category for Laboratory equipment in PM?
39. How do you create Activity type in Plant Maintenance?
40. What is Maintenance Event Builder? What are the key functions of MEB?
41. What is Refurbishment process?
42. What is the movement type to move the material to a Warehouse in Refurbishment?
43. Explain the key steps performed in Refurbishment process?
44. What is the use of Warranty Claim Processing function?
45. Do you have any idea about mobile applications for EAM? What are the advantages?
46. In an Organization, work place safety depends on which all factors?
47. What is the use of CATS?
48. What are the different common roles in Plant Maintenance process?
49. Which task lists are Object based?
50. What are the different reports under Plant Maintenance in Information System?
51. What do following TCodes in SAP- PM mean?
a.)IA07
b.) IW32
c.) ME21N
d.) IE05
e.) QS42
f.) CS03
g.) MB31
h.) IW8W
i.) CA85
j.) IK08
52. Situation -
a.) You want to set warrant and partner screen in equipment master data. List the steps you will
take.
b.) You want to make zip code field mandatory in a maintenance order. How would you do that?
List the steps you will take.
53. List the standard MIS reports available in PM.

54. Situation
a.) You want to find out all the transparent tables related with SAP-PM module. How will you do
that?
b.) You want to find a table which gives you user status with the notification number. What steps
will you take?

55. Which table would you use to extract the equipment hierarchy installed under functional location?

56. Which table would you use to extract the equipment and class information?

57. Differentiate between Equipment Master and Material Master. On what basis do we decide which
one should we create?

58. Why would you maintain Functional Location BOM?

59. How would you define equipment/material loaned to a customer?

60. Situation -
a.) You want to distinguish between an equipment that has been charged or not charged for
service. How would you do that?
b.) You want to block service to a customer. How would you do that?
c.) You want to show equipment's characteristics in a list. How would you do that?
 11. How would you attach a drawing to the equipment master data?
12. Differentiate between:
a.) Work center and main work center.
b.) Cost center and work center
c.) Control keys PM02 and PM03.

61.

13. What do you mean by following?

a.) Measuring Point
b.) Counter
c.) Reverse Counter
d.) Measuring point tables

62. Situation:
a.) You want to activate change documents functionality in order to know who changes PM order.
How would you do that?
b.) You want to remove the task list data marked for deletion completely from the system. What
steps would you take?
c.) You want to control the SAP PM Order type. How would you do that?

63. Explain:
a.) TECO
b.) Business Completion

63. In the Plant Maintenance Info Structures, is it possible to modify the update mode?
Listed below are the steps for modifying the update mode in the Plant Maintenance Info
Structures:
User Runs the transaction OMOS
Positions cursor on the relevant info-structure name
User Presses F2 or the menu option 'Edit - Parameters'
Selects the new update mode
Presses 'enter' or selects the green check
User acknowledges the popup thus confirming the change
64. How can a user find "commit work" statement in the PM orders (T-code IW32)?
The following steps can be done for finding the “commit work” statement in the PM order:
User goes to IW32 and fills the order number
Presses /h (enter into debug mode) in the command field:
Creates a breakpoint at statement:
User fills in 'commit work' at the field ‘Breakpoint at statement’:
Presses the 'F8' button for continuing
65. How can the user delete historical maintenance/service orders in the Plant Maintenance?
Using transaction IW38, users can delete the historical orders successfully.
66. How can a user differentiate simply between an equipment which has been charged and not
charged for a service?
A user defines the various equipment categories. The standard equipment reference
groups for 'Internal Machines' and 'Customer Equipment' exist.
67. Define equipment/material loaned/leased to a customer?
Please refer to the documentation on 'Structuring Technical Systems' in 'Plant
Maintenance / Service management' modules. User would be required to define the sales area
(sales org/dist channel/division) for an equipment with an equipment category being the one for
which the equipment reference has been categorized as 'Customer Equipment'.
68. Can we block service to a customer? This has been done through the FL, as most of the
Equipment belongs to the company and has been loaned to the customer.
By Deactivating the FL. This does not permit any further creation of the transaction data
(service orders, etc.). However, the orders which are already existing can be processed as well
as closed. Later, the deactivation can be reversed.
69. Where is a Service Contract allocated to a portion of an equipment?
The service contract is typically allocated to a material. The material is allocated to the
equipment in the equipment master. This functionality is not meant for managing the equipment
which has been bought from the vendors (where the user gets the service instead of providing the
service).
70. Does the purchasing information (date of purchase, vendor etc.) copied from MM to the
equipment on creation?
The purchasing information is not copied in the standard system. However, this can be
done with the help of the ABAP batch jobs.
71. When the user maintains an assembly in a piece of equipment, can we derive the maintenance
history of the assembly? Does the user have to create it as a piece of equipment?
As we know that the maintenance orders can be created only for FL/equipment only
therefore maintenance history can be tracked by us only at specific level it cannot be tracked at
assembly level. Assemblies are only structuring devices having spare parts linked to any
equipment in an extremely organized manner. However, in PM orders, the assembly can be listed
along with the FL/Eq. All varying on the user’s reporting needs, an ABAPer could utilize the 'PM
Assembly' field in the PM orders.
72. Define the usage of the field 'Standing order'? Explain the kind of order?
Standing orders are utilized for performing the on-going maintenance jobs and settling
them during month-end instead of creating a fresh PM order every time. By utilizing the order
hierarchies, the user can attach the sub-orders to the standing order and then settle them to the
standing order for providing oneself with a more accurate recording of maintenance costs at the
sub-order level and a budget monitoring at the standing order level.
73. Can the user collect the maintenance history for an assembly (not a part of an equipment) for
which there is no equipment record?
The user cannot collect the maintenance history for an assembly, however, if the
assembly is encompassed in an FL BOM, then the PM orders at the FL can be utilized for
performing the maintenance at an assembly level (no equipment is required in that case).
74. How are cost calculated in plant maintenance?
Go to cost Centre to view your planned and actual costs of labour and materials or it can
be also seen in work center.