Periodic- every so many hours

Phased- HPO, BPO, PE jobs

Isochronal- UTE Rate, days programmed maint

Who determines if additional requirements needed to be added to the 30 or 90 day calendar inspections?

Which term is not a level of maintenance?

A. Base

B. Depot

C. Intermediate

D. Organizational

What level of maintenance does the 2LM approach seek to modify or eliminate?

A. Base

B. Depot

C. Intermediate

D. Organizational

What is considered the highest level of maintenance for more complex repairs?

A. Base

B. Depot

C. Intermediate

D. Organizational

1. Collect Data- process of identifying info

2. Verify- Understand the information and sources

3. Manipulate/Compute- Formatting the data as product

4. Compare- to past standards and data

5. Review- providing additional info if needed

6. Analyze- Use a logical thinking process

7. Problem solving- Step by step problem solving

8. Research- Gathering all info from all sources

9. Investigate- Evaluate all obtained info

10. Identify- Identify deficiencies causing problem

11. Reccomend- Choose best solution for problem

12. Follow up- track implementation, see effective.

Which method of inspection is used when maintenance of operational requirements are such that the inspection muct be performed at the equipment location?

A. Prevenative

B. In-place

C. Delayed

D. In-dock

Which category of maintenance consists of those tasks that cannot be done on the end item but are within the capability and equipment possessed by a unit?

A. On-equipment, AFMC

B. Off-equipment, AFMC

C. On-equipment, operating command

D. Off-equipment, operating command

Which category of maintenance pertains to correcting those discrepancies discovered during flight?

A. Unscheduled

B. Preventative

C. Debriefing

D. Scheduled

Which method is a "thorough and searching inspection of the entire aircraft?"

A. Major

B. Minor

C. Preflight

D. Thruflight

How many calendar inpections are required for aircraft no matter what inspection concept the aircraft is under?

A. One

B. Two

C. Three

D. Four

Which inpection status is affected by the 30 or 90 day inspection?

A. Preflight

B. Thruflight

C. Hourly postflight

D. Homestation check

What changes to baseline computer programs are normally announced by a TCTO?

A. Price only

B. Software only

C. Hardware only

D. Contractor specific

Which type of item is modified using the TCTO Process?

A. Civil Engineering Equipment

B. General Purpose Vehicle

C. Special Purpose Vehicle

D. Medical Equipment

What are the levels of maintenance authorized for the completion of TCTO

A. Depot, intermediate, squadron

B. Squadron, organizational, depot

C. Depot, intermediate, organizational

D. Intermediate, organizational, squadron

Exceeding what time factors normally causes a TCTO to be classified as a depot level maintenance?

A. 8 clock or 25 man hours

B. 8 clock or 35 man hours

C. 16 clock or 25 man hours

D. 16 clock or 35 man hours

How many basic TCTO categories are authorized?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

What are the authorized types of TCTOs?

A. Safety, routine, urgent

B. Immediate, safety, urgent

C. Immediate, routine, safety

D. Immediate, routine, urgent

In order to permit simultaneous release of two or more TCTOs requiring work in the same general area, procuring activities are authorized to withhold the release of non safety routine action TCTOs for a maximum of

A. 30 days

B. 60 days

C. 90 days

D. 120 days

What kind of TCTO is issued specifically for part or serial numbered items?

A. Interim

B. Routine

C. Commodity

D. Mission essential

What indications of a unit's ability to do system reliability and capability rates reveal?

Fuel, oil, lube, supply, food, shelter, etc.

What action taken code(s) is/are not included for on-equipment repair actions? For off equipment repair actions?

Type 1. is inherient, type 2. is controllable

Which logistics indicator shows a unit's ability to keep equipment in a ready status?

A. System reliability

B. Airframe capability

C. Base level repair capability

D. Maintenance scheduling effectiveness

The data to calculate system capability rates is obtained from

A. MAJCOM

B. Debriefing

C. Materiel Supply Liason

D. Weekly Maintenance Plan

Who forward an item to contact maintenance or AFMC depot if repair is not authorized at base level?

A. Supply

B. Workcenter

C. Maintenance Analysis

D. Plans and Scheduling

Which maintenance codes are used to compute the base level capability rate?

A. Action Taken

B. System Status

C. Aircraft Status

D. System Capability

What action Taken codes are used to compute base repair capability rates?

A. A,F,G,K,L,V,Z

B. A,F,G,K,L,Z

C. A,F,G,K,L,Z

D.A,F,G,K,L,B,P

B. A,F,G,K,L,Z

NO V YES Z

I KNOW V SOUNDS RIGHT--- Z NO V

Personnel capability is measured in terms of

A.military per operational unit

B. base personnel per operational unit

C. civilian personnel per operational unit

D. maintenance personnel per operational unit

Facility capability is computed to determine

A. What type of aircraft can fit in the docks

B. How many dock facilities can be built on base

C. How many flying hours the inspection docks can support

D.How many buildings can be built on the maintenance ramp

Weights are usually assigned when computing maintenance scheduling effectiveness rates to show

A. The degree of importance of a task

B. The sequence of task accomplishment

C. How many tasks are scheduled next month

D. How many tasks were scheduled last month

Where can you get the information for computing maintenance scheduling effectiveness rates?

A. Analysis report

B. Inspection schedule

C. Monthly Maintenance plan

D. Montly maintenance summary

The mission capability status code that is the sum of NMCS and NMCB and reflect total NMC aircraft limitations due to supply is called?

A. PMC

B. FMC

C. NMCB

D. TNMCS

All raw data used to compute mission capability comes from

A Supply

B. Debriefing

D. Plans and Scheduling

D. the AVS report

What are the two most common types of chargable deviations?

A. Operation and Supply

B. Operation and Weather

C. Maintenance and Supply

D. Maintenance and Operation

The total number of cancellations can be obtained from the

A. Daily Flying Schedule

B. Operational Event Report

C. Monthly Maintenance Plan

D. AUR

If the number of deviations increases, the flying scheduling effectiveness rate will

A. go up

B. go down

C. not be used

D. remain the same

Which one is not a factor for computing manhour per flying hour?

A. Flying hours

B. Operating hours

C. On equipment man hours

D. Off equipment man hours

Which rate is used to measure speed of repair and of equipment maintainablity?

A Fix rate

B. Break rate

C. Utilization rate

D. Mission capable rate

What maintenance status code is entered in IMDS when an aircraft lands with a code 3 landing status

A. FMC

B. PMC

C. NMC

D. Cap Code 3

What are the three time frames in hours used in the fix rate formula?

A. 2,4,8

B. 4,6,8

C. 4,8,10

D. 4,8,12

A more accurate decription of 20 percent break rate is 2 out of 10

A. Aircraft will break

B. Aircraft will not break

C. Aircraft landed with a landing code 3

D. Sorties landed with a landing code 3

When a sortie has to make an emergency landing due to an equipment failure, what type of abort is it?

A. Air

B. Ground

C. Emergency

D. Maintenance

The total abort rate is a combination of

A. Air and ground abort

B. Air abort, late takeoff, and ground abort

C. Air abort, total deviations, and ground abort

D. Air abort, ground abort, and maintenance cancellation

Computation of the cannibalization rate includes number of

A. Sorties flown

B. Scheduled sorties

C. Sorties flown minus deviations

D. Scheduled sorties minus sorties flown

What action taken code means "removed for cannibalization"

A. C

B. R

C. T

D. U

When determining aircraft utilization effectiveness, the minimum time period (in month/months) of data should beat at least

A. 1

B. 3

C. 4

D. 6 

Which command uses the departure reliability rate?

A. ACC

B. AMC

C. Air Force Space Command

D. Air Force Materiel Command

The standard for on-time departure when used for the dparture reliability rate is within

A. 10 minutes of scheduled departure time

B. 14 minutes of the scheduled departure time

C. 20 minutes of the scheduled departure time

D. 24 minutes of the scheduled departure time

What factor represents a historical percentage of scheduled sorties lost to causes outside of unit control?

A. Abort

B. Spare

C. Attrition

D. Utilization

If you have 100 sorties required to fly for the month and the attrition rate is 8 percent, how many total sorties will you show on the flying schedule?

A. 92

B. 98

C. 109

D. 115

Spares are used to compensate for which unit controlled factors?

A. Maintenance cancellations, supply cancellations, and ground aborts

B. Operations additions, operations aborts, and operations cancellations

C. Scheduling additions, training sorties, and higher headquarters tasking

D. Maintenance additions, flight testing additions, and higher headquarters additions

In determining the spare factor, what is compared to the number of historical sorties scheduled?

A. Number of flyable aircraft

B. Number of non-flyable aircraft

C. Number of 1st sortie logistics losses

D. Number of 2nd sortie logistics losses

When measuring MTTR, how is it expressed?

A. Seconds

B. Minutes

C. Hours

D. Days

When computing for MTTR, what item is ignored when accounting for repair hours?

A. Crew size

B. Equipment

C. ATC

D. First position of work unit code

when computing for on and off equipment MTTR, the first position of the

A. WUC is equal to zero

B WUC is not equal to zero

D. ATC is equal to zero

D. ATC is not equal to zero

Which mission performance indicator is used to measure the average time between failures of mission essential systems?

A. MTTR

B. MTBCF

C. MTBDE

DMTBMA

What are the two types of failure indicated by MTBF?

A. Critical and non critical

B. Failure and non failure

C. Inheirent and induced

D. True and false

What is the maximum number of days allowed in the IMDS for MTBF calculation?

A. 30

B. 60

C. 90

D. 180

The MTBCF gives us the

A. Rate of failure of critical systems

B. Percentege of critical failure in a given time

C. Average equipment operating time of critical systems

D. Average time between failure of mission essential systems.

When computing for the MTBMA, what maintenance events are included?

A. Scheduled only

B. Unscheduled only

C. Both scheduled and unscheduled

D. On equipment and off equipment

The two cornerstones of maintenacne metrics are fleet availability and

A. Airlift Capability

B. Maintenance Capability

C. Program Execution

D. Deployment Execution

Which statement is a lagging indicatior under fleet availability?

A. Mission capable rate

B. Code 3 break rate

C. 8 hour fix rate

D. Air abort rate

Which statement is a lagging indicator under fleet availability

A. Mission capable rate

B. Code 3 break rate

C. 8 hour fix rate

D. Air abort rate

What is the overall indicator for a flying program?

A. Abort rate

B. UTE Rate

C. Mission Capable Rate

D. Logistics Departure Reliability Rate

Which fix time interval is reported for all aircraft other than fighters?

A. Four

B. Eight

C. Twelve

D. Fourteen

Which one gives us the average time for end items and is and indication of componet overall performance

A. MTTR

B. MTBF

C. MTBCF

D. MTBMA

Which mission capable rate does maintenance want to keep low by consolidating feasible CANNS to a few aircraft when practical?

A. FMC

B. PMC

C. TNMCB

D. TNMCS

Concerning C-E equipment, training equipment is considered

A. Active
B. Inactive

C. Amber

D. Red

Concerning C-E equipment what is the number of hours during which the system cannot be used for a specified purpose?

A. Active

B. Inactive

C. Downtime

D. Posessed

The C-E mean downtime is also expressed as the average time to complete

A. full downtime hours

B. a maintenance action

C. restoration to mission capable status

D. restoration to PMC status

In order to compute for an equipment's operational availability, you need its

A. Active and inactive hours

B. Active and downtime hours

C. Operation and inactive hours

D. Operation and downtime hours

The C-E mean downtime is also expressed as the average time to complete

a. full downtime hours

b. a maintenance action

c. restoration to mission capable status

d. restoration to PMC status

What type of maintenance is excluded when calculating C-E operational dependability?

A. 2 level maintenance

B. 3 level maintenance

C. Scheduled maintenance

D. Unschedulded maintenance

Which is not an issue that affects equipment downtime?

a. manning level

b. experience level

c. IMDS downtime

d. Support equipment availability

The measuere of the average on equipment corrective maintenance in an operational enviornment is the C-E mean

a. downtime

b. repair time

c. time to repair

d. time between failure

The C-E MRT starts when the technician

a. leaves his workcenter

b. arrives at the equipment

c. completes troubleshooting

d. receives notification of a workorder

The average operating time between any failure of the system is measured by the C-E mean time

a. to repair

b. between failure

c. between critical failure

d. between maintenance actions

What is excluded when computing the C-E MTBF?

a. critical system failure

b. non critical system failure

c. scheduled maintenance

d. unscheduled maintenance

When computing for the C-E MTBF, the operating hours come by the total

a. system downtime

b. equipment downtime

c. system operating time

d. equipment operating time

Which C-E mission performance indicator is a valuable indicator of equipment or system maintainability and speed of repair?

a. C-E utilization rate

b. C-E operational availability

c. C-E MTTRF

d. C-D MTBM

C-E MTTRF measures the averave elapsed time required to restore a system to full operational status after what type of event?

a. system malfunction

b. maintenance action

c. system inspection

d. critical failure

What computation is used as the principal indicator of feliability of C-E system, subsytem, or lower level replacement action?

a. C-E utilization rate

b. C-E operational availability

c. C-E MTBF

d. C-E MTBM

In determining C-E MTBSM, scheduled maintenace includes scheduled maintenance inspections, scheduled time changes, delayed discrepancies, and

a. immediate action TCTOs

b. non immediate action TCTOs

c. operator reported discrepancies

d. repairs as a result of accident or incident

Which type of event is not included when computing the C-E MTBUM

a. scheduled time changes

b. immediate action TCTOs

c. repairs as a result of accident or incident

d. discrepancies discovered during equipment operation

C-E utilization rate is a ratio of

a. active hours to inactive hours

b. active hours to downtime hours

c. active hours to possessed hours

d. inactive hours to possessed hours

When studying an organizational chart, what two important questions about a function must you answer?

According to the analysis process, what are some of the primary responsibilities of an analyst?

When investigating a problem, why should you continue on even if the problem seems to have disappeared?

A. The disapperance may only be temporary

B. It can determine the cost of the action taken

C. You might need this information at a later date

D. All investigations must be closed out and the results filed.

Which statement is a benefit of follow up when doing an analysis?

a. helps to keep the objective in sight

b. helps to build a special studies file

c. identifies deficiencies in the system

d. provides results that generates effective management practices

Information associated with operations of the maintenance organization is classified as

a. external data

b. internal data

c. standards

d. factors

How do you determine if you should retain an office copy of a report?

a. determine if a real need exists for the data

b. decide if a need exists within the command

c. keep until the next version is published

d. keep all reports for no longer than one year

Which statement best describes a pulse point in a unit?

a. a squadron party

b. the debriefing section

c. an informal group meeting

d. conversion of raw data into meaningful statistics

The validity of computer generated data depends on

a. quality of the raw data and the sample size

b. prodedure and accuracy with which the data is analyzed

c. quality of the raw data and the procedure with which it is analyzed

d. prodedure with which it is analyzed, the critical values, and sample size.

What is the most common approach to arrange maintenance data?

a. decending order

b. chronological order

c. order of importance

d. serial number order

The points in a control chart represent

a. paired data

b. distribution

c. cause and effect

d. quality of performance

Pie charts are effective when they represent what percentage of the item under consideration?

a. 25

b. 50

c. 75

d. 100

Who normally performs the investigative work and recommends corrective action when a submitted maintenance analysis referral indicates that a problem does exist?

a. quality assurance

b. deficiency analysis

c. maintenance commander

d. maintenace data systems analyst

The senior maintenance officer reviews the maintenance analysis referral if

a. there is a mishap report attached to it.

b. the referral is upgraded for endorsement

c. it is going to be submitted to the MAJCOM

d. there is a deadlock over the proper corrective action

Which statement best describes a special study?

a. a methodical review of data

b. a feferral report for maintenance managers

c. a study initated by any maintenance personnel

d. an investigation an in depth analysis of any subject

What kind of approach initiates a special study during an equipment analysis

a. critical

b. reactive

c. proactive

d. responsive

When you are establishing the scope of your special study, you are defining your

a. purpose

b. conclusion

c. investigation and findings

d. assumptions and limitations

Which medium is a formal way of presenting a special study?

a. video

b. secure line

c. written report

d. oral presentation

The IMDS Users' Group meets monthly to

a. keep current with IMDS issues

b. prepare a monthly IMDS report

c. establish policies on data integrity

d. advise commanders on the status of IMDS

What personnel are usually required to attend IMDS meetings?

a. subsystem managers

b. all maintenance personnel

c. newly assigned maintenance people

d. people who need remidial IMDS training

The primary objective when you prepare your meeting facility is to

a. make it entertaining

b. support your agenda

c. meet base regulations

d. make a list of attendees

When you are preparing a list of topics to be discussed at a meeting, you  are preparing the

a. agenda

b. briefing

c. minutes

d. presentation

People who missed the meeting can find out a summary of the meeting itself by obtaining a copy of the

a. agenda

b. program

c. minutes

d. briefing