Maintenance: Definition and Categories

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Corrective maintenance aims to enhance the system's performance.

False

Palliative maintenance is a type of permanent repair.

False

Curative maintenance is aimed at restoring the system to its initial state for a long term.

True

Hardware maintenance includes adapting the system to a new environment.

False

Preventative maintenance aims to prevent risks and errors in the system.

True

Palliative maintenance must always be followed by corrective maintenance.

True

Preventive maintenance aims to correct system failures after they occur.

False

Predictive maintenance involves analyzing system parameters to predict faults and prevent them.

True

Software maintenance includes correcting design errors and adding new features.

True

Corrective maintenance aims to adapt the software to a new technical environment.

False

Perfective maintenance involves modifying the system without changing its functions to improve user satisfaction.

True

Preventive maintenance aims to search for faults and correct them after system failures occur.

False

Study Notes

Types of Maintenance

  • Corrective maintenance enhances the system's performance.
  • Palliative maintenance is a type of permanent repair, but it must always be followed by corrective maintenance.
  • Curative maintenance restores the system to its initial state for a long-term basis.
  • Preventative maintenance prevents risks and errors in the system.

Hardware Maintenance

  • Hardware maintenance involves adapting the system to a new environment.

Software Maintenance

  • Software maintenance involves correcting design errors and adding new features.
  • Corrective maintenance adapts the software to a new technical environment.

Proactive Maintenance

  • Predictive maintenance analyzes system parameters to predict faults and prevent them.
  • Perfective maintenance modifies the system without changing its functions to improve user satisfaction.

Misconceptions

  • Preventive maintenance does not correct system failures after they occur, but rather prevents risks and errors.
  • Preventive maintenance does not search for faults and correct them after system failures occur, but rather takes proactive measures to prevent them.

This quiz covers the definition and categories of maintenance, including repairing systems, enhancing them, and adapting to new environments. It explores different types of maintenance for hardware and software.

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