PSF exit exam questions and answers — Set 6
Set 6 of the Passenger Ship Familiarization (PSF) exit exam bank — 30 of 226 questions, with the correct option marked, and 27 of them also carry a one-line explanation. Read it end to end, jump to a single set, or search it — then sit the same bank as a timed paper. The real DG Shipping exit exam is 30 marks with 15 to pass.
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Set 6 — 30 PSF exit exam questions with answers
1. You notice smoke coming from an open laundry room doorway, after activating the fire alarm, which of the following would you do FIRST.
- A. Attempt to determine what is burning
- B. Acquire the nearest self contained breathing apparatus
- C. Break out the nearest fire hose
- D. Wait for the fire team to arrive and assist as directed
2. Fire hose should always be stowed at the fire station in the hose rack.
- A. After the hose has been completely drained
- B. With the nozzle in the solid stream position
- C. So the hose can be connected quickly if a fire occurs
- D. So that nozzle is protected by the hose
3. The powder in a dry chemical fire extinguisher.
- A. Is always ready for use and requires no attention
- B. May cake up and fail to discharge properly if not occasionally agitated
- C. Deteriorates to an unusable condition within three years
- D. Put out the fire with its cooling Acton
4. The state of charge of a stored pressure type dry chemical fire extinguisher can be readily determined by.
- A. Visual inspection of the pressure gauge
- B. Weighing the cylinder
- C. Removing the lid and checking the level of dry chemical
- D. Weighing the CO2 cartridge
5. What should you do with your emergency position indicating radio beacon if you are in a liferaft in a storm?
- A. Bring it inside the liferaft and leave it on
- B. Bring it inside the liferaft and turn it off until the storm passes
- C. Leave it outside the liferaft and leave it on
- D. Leave it outside the liferaft but turn it off
6. Which item of lifeboat equipment would be most suitable for night signalling to a ship on the horizon?
- A. A red parachute flare
- B. A red hand-held flare
- C. A flashlight
- D. A lantern
7. Bridge man overboard smoke maker gives orange smoke for.
- A. 5 minutes
- B. 15 minutes
- C. 10 minutes
- D. 20 minutes
8. Parachute rocket pyrotechnics on ships bridge display.
- A. Smoke signals
- B. A lighted flare
- C. A flashing light
- D. A flag
9. Which shipboard equipment will detect a signal form a SART?
- A. S-Band Radar
- B. A DSC receiver
- C. X-Band Radar
- D. The auto alarm
10. After you activate your emergency position indicating radio beacon you should.
- A. Turn it off for five minutes every half-hour
- B. Turn it off and on at five-minute intervals
- C. Turn it off during daylight hours
- D. Leave it on continuously
11. Hand held red flares expire 42 months from the date of manufacture, floating orange smoke distress signals expire after how many months.
- A. 18 months
- B. 42 months
- C. 24 months
- D. 60 months
12. When should you use distress flares and rockets?
- A. Only when there is a chance of their being seen by rescue vessels
- B. At half-hour intervals
- C. At one-hour intervals
- D. Immediately upon abandoning the vessel
13. What is the required amount of time that a SART's must be able to operate the unit in the standby mode?
- A. 8 hours
- B. 4 days
- C. 2 days
- D. 3 days
14. The number of rocket parachute flares on the bridge are.
- A. 9
- B. 12
- C. 15
- D. 8
15. The number of rocket parachute flares in the boat are.
- A. 3
- B. 4
- C. 5
- D. 6
16. How many hand flares are there on the bridge?
- A. One
- B. Nil
- C. Two
- D. Three
17. The radiotelephone safety message urgently concerned with safety of a person would be prefixed by the word.
- A. Mayday
- B. Pan
- C. Safety
- D. Interco
18. In the passenger ships a distress panel shall be installed at.
- A. The bridge wing
- B. The conning position
- C. In the master cabin
- D. In the ships office
19. The master shall insure that the emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) is.
- A. Secured inside the wheelhouse
- B. Tested annually
- C. Tested monthly
- D. Secured in the emergency locker
20. A vessel in distress should send by radio telephone the two tone alarm signal followed immediately by the.
- A. Distress position
- B. Spoken words "mayday, Mayday, Mayday"
- C. Ship's name
- D. Ship's call letters
21. You are using VHF channel 16 (156.8 MHz) or 2182 KHZ. You need help but are not in danger. You should use the urgent signal.
- A. ASSISTANCE NEEDED
- B. PAN-PAN
- C. MAYDAY
- D. SECURITE
22. Which word is an international distress signal when transmitted by radiotelephone?
- A. Securite
- B. Mayday
- C. Breaker
- D. Pan
23. How can a SART's Effective range be maximized?
- A. The SART should be placed in water immediately upon activation
- B. The SART should be held as high as possible
- C. Switch the SART into the high "power position"
- D. If possible, the SART should be mounted horizontally so that its signal matches that of the searching radar signal
24. On every vessel, distress signals must be stowed.
- A. On or near the navigating bridge
- B. On the flying bridge not closer than 15 feet to any bulkhead
- C. Above the freeboard deck away form heat
- D. In an enclosed space below the freeboard deck away form heat
25. Which is the lifesaving signal for, this is the best place to land?
- A. Red star rocket
- B. Orange smoke signal
- C. Green star rocket
- D. Horizontal motion of a flag
26. The required portable radio shall be stored in the proper location and be.
- A. Equipped with an approved carrying case
- B. Equipped with spare batteries
- C. Readily accessible for transfer to a lifeboat
- D. In a waterproof enclosure
27. The master of a vessel shall make sure the EPIRB is tested.
- A. Daily
- B. Weekend
- C. Month
- D. Every two weeks
28. How can vessel personnel detect the operation of a SART in its vicinity?
- A. A unique radar signal consisting of a blip code radiating outward from a SART's position along its line of bearing
- B. A unique two tone warbling signal heard on VHF-FM-Ch-70
- C. A unique two tone alarm signal heard upon the automatic unmuting of the 2182 KHZ radiotelephone automatic water receiver
- D. The SART signal appears as a target which comes and goes the effect of heavy swells on the SART
29. If you wished to transmit a message by voice concerning the Safety of navigation, you would preface it by the word.
- A. Mayday
- B. Securite
- C. Pan-pan
- D. Safety
30. Which signal would be used by a shore rescue unit to indicate landing here highly dangerous?
- A. The fire of a white star signal
- B. Horizontal motion with a white flag
- C. Vertical motion of a white light
- D. Code letter k by blinker light
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