Exam Code: C1000-205
Exam Name: IBM Maximo Manage v9 Work Management - Associate
Price: $68.00 $58.88
Exam Questions: 200 Q&As
Last Updated: 2026-08-31
Prepare for the IBM Maximo Manage v9 Work Management Associate exam with practice focused on the complete work order lifecycle.
C1000-205 measures whether you can create, assign, execute, and complete work in Maximo Manage, use role-based applications and dashboards, and maintain the user settings that support daily work.
This associate certification is for users responsible for the daily creation, management, and processing of work in IBM Maximo Manage v9. It tests the decisions a planner, supervisor, or technician makes as a work order moves from request and planning through execution and completion.
The exam is narrower than a Maximo deployment certification. You do not need to design the whole platform, but you must understand standard work management applications, status behavior, labor and crew assignments, plans and actuals, safety information, role-based applications, and personal settings.
IBM associate-level exams are intended for candidates with foundational product knowledge and practical experience. Spend time performing routine work order tasks in Maximo Manage v9 so that fields, tabs, status changes, and application differences are familiar rather than memorized in isolation.
Identify the user's role, the work order status, and whether the question is asking about planned work, assigned work, or recorded actuals. Many distractors name a real Maximo feature but place it in the wrong phase of the lifecycle.
Create work orders with the correct asset, location, classification, priority, job plan, relationship, owner, labor, crew, and scheduling information. Know how assignments differ from planned labor and how child, related, and follow-up work orders serve different purposes.
This is the largest domain. Follow approved work into progress, review safety requirements, record labor, materials, tools, failures, meter readings, and downtime, and distinguish planned values from actual execution data.
Verify that required actuals, failure information, and completion details are present before changing status. Understand what remains editable at COMP and which conditions or follow-up needs should be handled before closure.
Use the applications and views designed for technicians, supervisors, and other work management roles. Recognize dashboard cards, work queues, common actions, and when a role-based experience is faster than the full Work Order Tracking application.
Manage personal defaults and preferences that affect how a user works in Maximo. Although this is the smallest domain, its settings can influence sites, storerooms, labor, language, display behavior, and the records a user sees first.
Plans versus actuals: planned labor and materials describe the expected job; actuals record what was used. Assignment versus ownership: an owner is accountable for the record, while assignments schedule laborers or crews to perform work. COMP versus CLOSE: completion indicates operational work is finished; closure is a later lifecycle state with tighter restrictions.
Days 1 and 2: work order creation, relationships, job plans, ownership, and assignments. Days 3 and 4: status changes, safety, labor, materials, tools, downtime, meters, and failure reporting. Day 5: completion and follow-up work. Day 6: role-based applications, dashboards, and profiles. Day 7: complete a timed 41-question set and review every wrong distractor.
Choose the option that matches both the requested outcome and the current phase of the work order. These are independent practice questions, not official IBM exam questions.
Why is it important to report downtime during the execution phase of a work order?
Correct answer: A
Explanation: Downtime records when an asset is unavailable because of the work event. Accurate start and end information supports availability, reliability, and maintenance performance reporting.
Work management checkpoint: Confirm that the downtime applies to the affected asset and that its timing reflects the actual service interruption, not simply the technician's labor hours.
Common mistake: Treating downtime as another form of labor reporting. Labor actuals measure effort; asset downtime measures lost operating availability.
Why the other options are wrong: B is handled through labor actuals and related time processes. C is not an automatic result of reporting downtime. D requires the completion process and is not triggered by a downtime entry alone.
When a technician is performing a Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedure on a work order, what is the role of a precaution?
Correct answer: B
Explanation: A precaution defines a measure used to reduce exposure to a hazard. In a safety plan, hazards, precautions, hazardous materials, and tag-out steps work together to communicate how the job can be performed safely.
Work management checkpoint: Do not confuse a general precaution with the ordered steps and device details of a tag-out procedure. Both may appear in the safety context, but they serve different functions.
Common mistake: Selecting A because personal protective equipment may sound like a tool. A precaution expresses the protective action or condition, not the planned tool list.
Why the other options are wrong: A belongs with planned tools. C is approval or responsibility information. D is scheduling information and does not mitigate the hazard.
In the Work Order Tracking application, which tab is used to view assignments made to individual laborers or crews?
Correct answer: C
Explanation: The Assignments tab shows the laborers or crews assigned to perform the work. It supports the connection between the work order and the resources scheduled for execution.
Work management checkpoint: Read the noun in the question carefully. "Assignments" asks who is assigned; "planned labor" asks what craft or effort was estimated; "actual labor" asks who reported time.
Common mistake: Choosing Plans because an assignment can be made before work begins. The Plans tab holds planned labor, material, service, and tool requirements, not the assignment record requested.
Why the other options are wrong: A contains planned requirements. B records actual consumption and labor. D holds communications and work log entries.
Within the Technician role-based application (RBA), a user sees a blue plus (+) icon. What is the primary function of this button?
Correct answer: A
Explanation: The blue plus icon provides a quick creation action in the Technician experience. It allows a technician to report new work by creating a work order or service request without leaving the role-based workflow.
Work management checkpoint: Role-based applications use simplified cards and action icons. Learn what each action starts and which fields remain available in the fuller Work Order Tracking application.
Common mistake: Interpreting a familiar interface icon generically. In this context, plus means create a record, not change the display.
Why the other options are wrong: B would require an explicit deletion action and appropriate permissions. C is an accessibility or browser function. D is unrelated to record creation in the Technician application.
Which action must be performed to make a safety plan available for selection on a work order?
Correct answer: B
Explanation: Associating the safety plan with the work order's asset or location makes it relevant to that maintenance context and available for selection from the applicable plans.
Work management checkpoint: Verify both the record's usable status and its relationship to the target asset or location. The question asks for the action that connects the plan to this work order context.
Common mistake: Selecting A without reading "available for selection on a work order." Status can be a general eligibility condition, but association supplies the asset or location context requested here.
Why the other options are wrong: A alone does not establish relevance to the work order's asset or location. C is not the stated availability mechanism. D starts execution too late; safety planning should be available before work begins.
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