What was the C2010-570 exam?
C2010-570 was “IBM Maximo Asset Management V7.5 Implementation,” the exam leading to IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Maximo Asset Management V7.5. Per IBM’s own test index, it ran 105 minutes with 66 questions and a 69 percent passing score. IBM’s objectives listed sections covering Planning, Asset, Preventive Maintenance, Inventory, Contracts, Purchasing, Work Management, and Other Configuration Options. The exam is retired, but Maximo remains a current IBM product.
Maximo Is Still Here
Unlike much of IBM’s portfolio from this era, Maximo did not get sold, discontinued, or quietly wound down. It continues as IBM Maximo Application Suite, and it remains a leading enterprise asset management platform.
That matters because it makes this credential unusually relevant among retired certifications. The product you learned still exists, does the same job, and is still bought by the same kinds of organisations.
Enterprise asset management is a specific discipline: managing physical assets through their lifecycle, the maintenance performed on them, the parts consumed doing it, and the contracts and purchasing behind those parts. Maximo customers are typically asset-heavy organisations, utilities, transport operators, manufacturers, facilities managers, and defence, where equipment failure has real operational and safety consequences.
What the Exam Covered
IBM’s published objectives for this exam map the functional footprint precisely:
Planning, the implementation groundwork of organisational structure and configuration decisions.
Asset, the asset register itself: hierarchies, locations, classifications, and the relationships between assets and the systems they belong to.
Preventive Maintenance, scheduled maintenance driven by time or by meter readings, which is the core of proactive asset management.
Inventory, the storerooms and spare parts that maintenance consumes, including reorder logic.
Contracts, covering warranties, service agreements, and vendor contracts attached to assets.
Purchasing, the procure side of keeping parts available.
Work Management, the work order lifecycle from request through planning, scheduling, execution, and completion. This is where most Maximo users spend their day.
Other Configuration Options, the platform-level configuration underneath.
The Deployment Professional title marks it as an implementation credential: you configured Maximo for customers rather than simply using it.
Note the companion exam in the same family, C2010-501 “IBM Maximo Asset Management V7.5 Infrastructure Implementation,” which covered the technical infrastructure side, and C2010-571, “IBM Tivoli Process Automation Engine V7.5 Implementation,” which covered the platform Maximo was built on.
What Changed Since V7.5
Maximo Application Suite is the current form, delivered as a containerised suite running on Red Hat OpenShift rather than as a traditional application server deployment. That is a substantial change to how it is installed and operated, though far less of one to how it is configured functionally.
IoT and condition monitoring became central. The V7.5 era assumed maintenance was scheduled by calendar or by simple meter readings. Modern Maximo integrates sensor data and supports condition-based and predictive maintenance, changing the maintenance strategy conversation rather than the work order mechanics.
The user interface moved on, and mobile work order execution became standard rather than an add-on.
The underlying process automation engine continued, which is why the older Tivoli Process Automation Engine knowledge is not wasted.
What This Credential Is Worth Today
As a current certification, it is expired, being version-locked to V7.5.
As evidence of enterprise asset management capability, it holds up well, because the functional discipline barely changed and the product still exists.
What transferred:
Asset hierarchy design is the same problem. Deciding how granular to make the asset register, and how assets relate to locations and systems, determines whether the data is useful or unusable, and getting that wrong is the most common failure in EAM implementations.
Work management process design is unchanged. The lifecycle of a work order, and the approval and planning steps around it, is the same in current Maximo.
Preventive maintenance strategy still rests on the same trade-off between maintaining too often, which wastes money, and too rarely, which risks failure.
The integration between maintenance, inventory, and purchasing is unchanged, and understanding that intersection is what separates competent EAM consultants from people who know one module.
What needs updating: the OpenShift-based deployment model, IoT and condition-based maintenance capabilities, and the modern interface and mobile experience.
How to present it. Name it with the version: “IBM Certified Deployment Professional, Maximo Asset Management V7.5.” If you have worked on Maximo Application Suite since, lead with that, since the deployment change is the main gap employers screen for.
For implementation consultants, project history matters most: which industries, how many full implementations, and whether any involved the suite.
Where the Path Leads
If you still work with Maximo, current certification is on Maximo Application Suite, and your functional knowledge carries over almost entirely. The learning curve is the containerised platform, not the application.
If you work on EAM generally, the discipline transfers to competing platforms. Asset hierarchies, work management, and preventive maintenance strategy are universal, and Maximo is one of the more thorough implementations of them, which makes it good background.
If you moved toward IoT or reliability engineering, your maintenance background is the foundation. Condition-based maintenance is only useful if someone understands what the maintenance strategy should be, and that understanding comes from exactly this kind of work.
Verify current IBM certification requirements directly with IBM, since its catalogue is dynamically generated and older exam pages are no longer published.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I still take C2010-570? No. The exam is retired and version-locked to Maximo Asset Management V7.5.
What certification did it lead to? IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Maximo Asset Management V7.5.
What was the exam format? Per IBM’s test index: 105 minutes, 66 questions, 69 percent passing score.
What did it cover? IBM’s objectives listed Planning, Asset, Preventive Maintenance, Inventory, Contracts, Purchasing, Work Management, and Other Configuration Options.
Does Maximo still exist? Yes. It continues as IBM Maximo Application Suite, now delivered as a containerised suite running on Red Hat OpenShift, and remains a leading enterprise asset management platform.
How does it differ from C2010-501? C2010-570 covered the functional implementation. C2010-501, Maximo Asset Management V7.5 Infrastructure Implementation, covered the technical infrastructure side including configuration and performance tuning.
References
IBM. Professional Certification Program: Test Information by Number. Archived August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140801000000/http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/test_index.shtml (Primary source for the exam name, 105-minute duration, 66 questions, 69 percent passing score, and the certification it counted toward)
IBM. Test C2010-570: IBM Maximo Asset Management V7.5 Implementation. IBM Professional Certification Program, archived 2014. (Primary source for the exam objectives sections: Planning, Asset, Preventive Maintenance, Inventory, Contracts, Purchasing, Work Management and Other Configuration Options)
IBM. IBM Maximo Application Suite. https://www.ibm.com/products/maximo (Current product, confirming Maximo continues as an IBM offering)
IBM. IBM Training and Certification. https://www.ibm.com/training/certification (Current IBM certification catalogue)