Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) — Requirements & Free Practice

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Eligibility: Complete the CMRP application, pay fees, and do not sit again within six months; the handbook states no education or experience requirement to sit.
Scheduling: After approval, schedule with Pearson VUE, subject to availability, and sit within six months of payment.

Provider: Pearson VUE
Format: Computer-based, closed-book multiple-choice examination
Exam questions: Total questions: 110; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit: 2.5 hours

Examination outline

Business and Management
- Create Strategic direction and plan for M&R operations
- Administer Strategic plan
- Measure Performance
- Manage organizational plan
- Communicate with stakeholders
- Manage environmental-health-safety risk
Manufacturing Process Reliability
- Understand the applicable processes
- Apply process improvement techniques
- Manage effects of change to processes and equipment
- Maintain processes per applicable standards and regulations
Equipment Reliability
- Determine equipment reliability expectations
- Evaluate equipment reliability and identify improvement opportunities
- Establish a strategic plan to assure reliability of existing equipment
- Establish a strategic plan to assure reliability of new equipment
- Cost-justify selected plans for implementation
- Implement selected plans to assure equipment reliability
- Review reliability of equipment and adjust reliability strategy
Organization & Leadership
- Determine organizational requirements
- Analyze organizational capability
- Develop the organization structure
- Develop personnel
- Lead and manage people
Work Management
- Identify, validate, and approve work
- Prioritize work
- Plan work
- Schedule work
- Execute work
- Document work
- Analyze work and follow-up
- Measure work management performance
- Plan and execute projects
- Use information technologies effectively
- Manage resources and materials

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