SAP PM Interview based questions

SAP PM Interview based questions:

1. We have cost center in Main Work Center as well as in equipment master? What is the purpose of maintaining cost center at both places? 

2. What is concept of equipment numbering? 

3. Why do you need an equipment and functional location both? 

4. Is it possible to change the structure indicator of functional location? 

5. What is the business purpose of field authorization object in equipment master and functional location master? 

6. How equipment master is integrated with asset master in FI module? 

7. What is the purpose of user status in notification? As a consultant what do you recommend to your client on the use of this facility? 

8. What is refurbishment process? 

9. Which configuration setting allow a Calibration order to trigger an inspection lot from maintenance order? 

10. How breakdown maintenance and corrective maintenance are different from each other? 

11. How a general task list is different from equipment and functional location? 

12. Is it possible to install an equipment to a functional location without data transfer from function Location to equipment? 

13. What is difference between activity type and maintenance activity type? 

14. What is difference between single cycle plant and maintenance strategy plan? 

15. What is maintenance plan? Name all types of maintenance plans. 

16. What are scheduling parameters? 

17. What is call horizon? Explain with example. 

18. What is shift factor? Explain with example. 

19. How maintenance strategy plan is different from multiple counter plan. 

20. If I want to trigger a maintenance order from a maintenance plan on every 7 day of a month, then what settings will I do in the maintenance plan other than a maintenance cycle of 1 month. 

21. I have scheduled a maintenance plan but I am unable to see the all due (Plan) dates of maintenance order in schedule overview. Which setting will I check in maintenance plan?

22. Which t code can give you the list of all pending preventive maintenance order for the coming month? 

23. Is it possible to trigger a notification from maintenance plan? How? 

24. What is purpose of offset entry in single cycle maintenance plan? 

25. Is it possible to create and schedule a maintenance plan without task list? 

26. What is maintenance item? 

27. Can we assign more than one maintenance item to a maintenance plan? 

28. Can we assign one maintenance item to more than one maintenance plan? 

29. What is item category? 

30. What is control key? 

31. Explain use of each control key with example. 

32. A reservation is triggered from a maintenance order and user is trying to issue material from warehouse with reference to the reservation. But system is not allowing goods issue? What I need to check? 

33. Which goods movement is used to issue material with reference to a reservation triggered from a maintenance order? 

34. How can you get the maintenance cost separately for labor, external services and material in a maintenance order? 

35. Explain the refurbishment process? 

36. What is settlement profile? 

37. What action will you take if inspection lot is not generated from calibration order? Which setting will you check? 

38. What configuration required in MM module for refurbishment process? 

39. What if maintenance failed refurbish a material, how will you handle such situation in SAP? 

40. Is it possible to enable permit approval in maintenance order? How? 

41. What is value category? 

42. What are different reports related to Catalog in SAP PM ? 

43. On the notification initial screen we select the notification type using IW21 t code. Is there any t code using which we can skip the initial screen and directly open the notification main screen? 

44. What is business purpose of equipment BoM? 

45. What is purpose of serial numbers in SAP PM Module? 

46. In which business process you can use serial numbers? 

47. Is it possible to enter measurement document for a measuring point without any numeric value? Such as Yes/ No or OK/ Not OK. How? 

48. What is completion confirmation? 

49. Why completion confirmation is important for business? 

50. What is deadline monitoring? 

51. How does actual cost of maintenance come on maintenance order? 

52. What are MTTR and MTBR reports? 

53. Is it possible to assign user status to a sub-operation in maintenance order? 

54. What is purpose of sub-order? What is the t code to create a sub-order? 

55. How PM module is integrated with QM module? 

56. How PM module is integrated with MM module? 

57. How PM module is integrated with PS module? 

58. How PM module is integrated with FI module? 

59. How PM module is integrated with CO module? 

60. How PM module is integrated with EHS module? 

61. Suppose there is a measuring point for temperature and while recording the values of temperature there is a deviation of values from given limits? Is it possible to throw a warning or error message? What is the configuration setting available?

62. How will you make a field mandatory in maintenance notification for a certain notification type? 

63. Which price of material is fetched while calculating material price in planned and actual cost in maintenance order? 

64. What is service entry sheet? Why it is important for plant maintenance module? 

65. What is reference functional location? 

66. Suppose there is a difference between the planned and actual hours of internal manpower where will you document the reason/ cause of this variance. Is there any standard SAP facility available to address such situation.