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SAP PM Interview Questions –Tricky one apart from the Common:

Normally interview session starts with your intro and your years of
experience.

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If you have implementation, support experience questions will flow accordingly

..But sometimes Interviewer doesn’t get free flow conversation with your past
projects then need to go through below tricky and must asked questions.

Yesterday I had an interview and below were the questions:

Tell me about your career and SAP Projects?
What are business process in PM module you have worked on?
How many implementations, rollouts, support projects you have been part of?
Now starts the real game
Whatever you say the questions will be followed on it (so prepare well and deliver your
every word wisely)
This is the time you can click and own the interview room

Let’s say implementation:

1. How many implementations?
2. What was your role in implementation project?
3. Which all business processes who have implemented?
4. Now wait focus on Few differences (Breakdown and general work order /
corrective and preventive)
5. What was the enterprise structure you defined? Always answer with live example
Get back to any word you said about HANA implementation?
Below are the questions waiting for you:
1. Which version of HANA was implemented?
2. Do you know difference between cloud /on premise?
3. What is public and private cloud
4. How do you know which version is deployed in your client?
Ok let’s move back to SAP PM area—
1. What are the different master data you have worked on?
2. Let’s say I am business how will you explain what is FLOC and Equipment in SAP?
3. How will you plan to map business requirement in SAP?
4. Which methodology you used to implement SAP HANA?
5. Activate /ASAP what’s difference
6. Have you done agile methodology?
7. What is predictive maintenance? have you heard or used it?
8. What are some key performance indicators (KPIs) used to measure the
effectiveness of maintenance processes in SAP PM?
9. Can you provide an example of a real-world maintenance project you've worked on
using SAP PM?
10. What challenges did you face, and how did you overcome them?

Back to SAP scenario-based Question:

1. What is preventive order? can you explain with the process flow, master data
involved?
2. What are scheduling indicator and parameter
3. What are different scheduling indicators explain each
4. When do you use call horizon and shift factor?
5. When to use completion requirement checkbox?
6. What all objects can be created using Maintenance plan?
 7. How to schedule? What is planned date and call date? What is manual call why do
we use it (any business reason)
8. Have you seen checkbox in breakdown notification? What is the use of it?

9. Have you done refurbishment work order —

10. Explain the process flow
11. What is the pre-requisite for refurbishment order?
12. How do we do subcontract? how do we send machine outside our plant (explain
the process with sap language)
13. Where is cost settled
14. What is serialisation how it is used?
15. Why do refurbishment cost settle to material?
16. Where do you find the cost of material?
17. How many costs type is there? Standard and variable (what’s the difference) when
to use which cost in material
18. Can we create refurbishment order with general transaction? Why not?
19. What the basic configuration we need to perform for refurbishment?
20. What are the movement type used in refurbishment?

Once this ends second favourite business process comes in Calibration -

1. What is calibration? when do we use it? Explain as an end user why you need
calibration in business
2. If the test recording fails what next? What happens to work order?
3. How is work order generated for Calibration process
4. Which transaction you will use to record result?
5. What is the basic PM configuration in SAP for calibration?

These are from another interview:

1. Can you describe the concept of breakdown maintenance and how it is handled in
SAP PM?
2. What is a notification in SAP PM, and how does it differ from a maintenance order?
How many notification types? explain the use of each?
3. How does cost flow in work order? Explain how planned cost moves too actual?
4. How is labour and material cost calculated?
5. How can you use SAP PM to track equipment history and maintenance activities?
6. What is the role of maintenance work centres in SAP PM, and how are they
configured?
7. What is integration and how is PM integrated with modules?
8. What is SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and how does it relate to SAP
PM?

9. Can you describe the process of asset master data creation and maintenance in SAP
PM?
10. What are different master data in SAP PM? what will be sequence to load it in SAP?
11. Which tool you will use to load data?
 12. What were the business cases which could not fit in standard and have you created
any custom solution for the business?
13. Explain? Have you worked on Interfaces, report what kind of interface reports you
have created give live project examples?

• Next comes the difference between HANA and ECC? And specifically, in regards to
SAP PM
• How does IP30H differs from IP30?
• Have you heard about role-based maintenance?
• What are cutover activities? Have you performed any?
• What is fiori ? have you used Fiori application?
• Name some PM fiori apps ?

Q. What is t code for deadline monitoring?

A. IP30 and IP30H (in HANA)

Q. Is it possible to schedule an individual plan? What is the t code?

A. Yes, it is possible to schedule an individual plan. You may use t code IP10

Q. Can you use call horizon and shift factors in multiple counter plan?
A. No, there is no such option. Call horizon and shift factors are assigned in Single Cycle
Plan and Maintenance strategy plan not in Multiple Counter plan.

Q. Suppose I have two counters in a multiple counter plan. One is 1000 kms and another is
2000 running hours.

If I want to trigger a maintenance order when both criteria are full fill or if any one of the
criteria full fills. Do I need to make an enhancement in system or there is an SAP standard
setting to achieve this?

A. There is an standard facility in Multiple counter plan where we can assign two counters
and put the condition whether we want both conditions to satisfy or any one condition to
satisfy to trigger the maintenance order. To check this facility you have to run t code IP43.
Then enter desired information and go to tab “Maintenance Plan Scheduling Parameters“.
Under this tab there is a box with title “Operation Type“, here we have two radio buttons
‘AND’ & ‘OR’. Please refer below screenshot:

Operation type AND & OR

If we select radio button ‘OR‘, it means that any of the counters cross the threshold value the
maintenance order will trigger from Multiple Counter plan.
If we select radio button ‘AND‘, it means that both counters must cross the threshold value to
trigger the maintenance order.

Please note that above concept is applicable in only Multiple Counter Plans. Q.

What is Maintenance Plant?

A. Maintenance Plant is the place where all the technical objects (structure and machinery)
are physically installed. In SAP it is a 4 digit alphanumeric key Q. How do you create a
maintenance plant?

A. We do not create a maintenance plant in system. When plant is created in configuration

automatically a logical maintenance plant gets created in PM module. Q. What is a
planning plant?

A. Planning plant is the place where all the maintenance planning activities are carried out.
In SAP it is a 4 digit alphanumeric key. Q.

What is a planner group?

A. Planner Groups is a term in SAP that represents a group of employees in a company who
are responsible for planning, processing, and maintenance tasks in a plant.

For example:
Planner group can be created according to different departments:

ELE – Electrical
MEC – Mechanical CVL – Civil
INS – Instrumentation

Planner group can also be created as per shift because many times activities are planned for
each shift:

SHA – A shift PG SHB – B Shift PG SHC – C Shift PG

There are lot of standard SAP Reports which can help tracking maintenance activities, history
and cost at planner group level.

Q. Is maintenance plan a master data?

A. Yes, Maintenance Plan is also a master data

Q. What is purpose of Technical ID field in equipment master data?

A. Technical id field should have the technical id of equipment according to engineering

drawing. For example: There is an equipment 10002745, now operations and maintenance
department cannot find out this id in engineering drawing. Therefore, there should be some
field in master data where we can maintain technical id.

Normally this field is used to mark the Equipment number as maintenance department
language/terminology.

Q. What is t code to create a catalo code and code group?

A. QS41
Q. You tried to install an equipment on a functional location but system gives you an error.
What could be the possible reason?

A. There are four important settings which must be check before installing an equipment.
Although the error messages are self explanatory, but we can check few settings in SPRO
and master data

Installation allowed checkbox should be checked in FLOC master data

Single installation is active -please this setting in FLOC

Different maint plant in FLOC and EQUIP

Define Installation at FLOC—Check box should be checked in the Installation at FLOC

dependent on Equipment category configuration
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