RPST exit exam questions and answers — Set 3
Set 3 of the Refresher Personal Survival Techniques (RPST) exit exam bank — 30 of 185 questions, with the correct option marked. This bank is answer-only: the source published no usable explanations for it, so there are none here either. 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 3 — 30 RPST exit exam questions with answers
1. Which of the following actions should be done before throwing this type of inflatable life raft just over the size
- A. Inflate it on deck and then launched it clear below
- B. Take the top off the container to enable life raft to inflate once in the water if all clear throw raft over side
- C. Disconnect the painter and launch it checking that all is clear below
- D. Check that the painter is made fast to a secure point and that the sea below is clear
2. Which one of the listed requirements regarding immersion suits do not correspond to the present regulations. The immersion suit shall be made of waterproof materials and constructed such that
- A. It will have sufficient built in buoyancy to avoid the use of life jacket
- B. It will cover the whole body with the exception of the face
- C. It can be unpacked and donned without assistance within 2 minutes
- D. It is provided with arrangements to reduce free air in the legs of the suit
3. Match the term immersion suit with most suitable answers given below
- A. Davit launch
- B. Navigation bridge
- C. Protection against cold
- D. HRU
4. The number of lifebuoys on a ship is depends on
- A. What owners provide
- B. Minimum of 10
- C. Minimum of 15
- D. Length of the vessel
5. Ship specific LSA information is provided in
- A. SOLAS
- B. MARPOL
- C. Verbal Instruction
- D. SOLAS Training Manual
6. Which of the following requirements for immersion suits is correct
- A. Donned in 2 minutes
- B. Allow the wearer to jump from 4.5 meters
- C. Allow the wearer to climb down a vertical ladder of 5 meters
- D. All of the above
7. The number of lifebuoys on a cargo ship of length less than 100 meters is
- A. 8
- B. 6
- C. 4
- D. 10
8. How much faster does the human body lose heat in the water
- A. 10
- B. 20
- C. 26
- D. 36
9. Which of the listed requirements regarding enclosures of totally enclosed life boats do not correspond to the present regulations ?
- A. Have automatic self righting abilities
- B. Have self bailing arrangements
- C. Have safety belts to be designed to hold a person of 100 kg securely in a place with the lifeboat in a capsized position
- D. Automatically at and opposition in damaged condition providing an above water space for its occupants
10. When firing the line throwing apparatus should be held at
- A. 30 degree to the horizontal
- B. 45 degree to the horizontal
- C. 60 degree to the horizontal
- D. 75 degree to the horizontal
11. According to LSA code chapter 7, regulation 7.1 the line throwing appliances, every line throwing appliances shall
- A. Be capable of throwing a line with reasonable accuracy
- B. Include not less than 4 projectiles each capable of carrying the line at least 230 meters in calm water
- C. Include not less than four lines each having a breaking strength of not less than 2KN
- D. All of the above
12. Every inflatable life raft, inflatable life jacket and hydrostatic release units shall be serviced
- A. Every 36 months
- B. Every 18 months
- C. Every 12 months
- D. Every 24 months
13. Inspection of LSA items on board shall be carried out
- A. Weekly
- B. Monthly
- C. Yearly
- D. Half yearly
14. How many SART transponders (SART) are required to be carried on board a ship for use in survival crafts?
- A. one on each side of the ship
- B. one in each lifeboat
- C. 2 on new builds only. Old ships have to comply by Aug 95
- D. Two on each side of the ship
15. The additional life jackets are kept in ?
- A. Conspicuous places on deck or at muster station
- B. Inside the bridge
- C. On the bridge wings
- D. In engine room
16. A life raft should be inflate in
- A. 3 to 4 minutes
- B. 30 to 60 seconds
- C. 1 to 2 minutes
- D. 30 minutes
17. The master is responsible for all crew participating in monthly emergency drills. If 25% of the crew or more has not participated in such drill during the last month, what is the time limit to conduct such a drill after the vessel has left a port
- A. Within 6 hours
- B. Within 12 hours
- C. Within 24 hours
- D. Within 36 hours
18. Maximum length of a rescue boat
- A. 2.5 meter
- B. 3.8 meter
- C. 5.8 meter
- D. 8.5 meter
19. Equipments of lifeboat
- A. Buoyant oars
- B. Sea anchor
- C. Radar reflector
- D. All of the above
20. The number of lifebuoys on a cargo ship of less than 200 meters in
- A. 6
- B. 8
- C. 12
- D. 16
21. Which of the following requirements for life jacket is correct
- A. Minimum requirements of 8
- B. Minimum requirements of 10
- C. Minimum requirements of 12
- D. Donned within 1 minute
22. Luminous intensity of rocket parachute flare should be not less than
- A. 15000 CD
- B. 20000 CD
- C. 25000 CD
- D. 30000 CD
23. Life buoy outer diameter should be not more than
- A. 200 mm
- B. 400 mm
- C. 600 mm
- D. 800 mm
24. Lifebuoy light shall have a source of energy capable of providing luminous intensity of ____ for a period of ____.
- A. 1 CD/ 1 hour
- B. 2 CD/ 2 hours
- C. 3 CD/ 3 hours
- D. 4 CD/ 4 hours
25. Life raft must be stowed in such a way that they can be launched within ____ minutes
- A. 10
- B. 5
- C. 15
- D. 12
26. How much water for per person in lifeboat
- A. 1 litre
- B. 2 litres of water each
- C. 3 litres
- D. 750 ml
27. What is the full form of SART
- A. Search and rescue radio transponder
- B. Search and rescue radar transponder
- C. Search and rescue radio transmitter
- D. Search and risk radio transponder
28. The number of lifebuoy on a passenger ship of length above 240 metre
- A. 14
- B. 16
- C. 24
- D. 36
29. Requirements of child life jacket on cargo ship is ______
- A. 20%
- B. 10%
- C. 30%
- D. 15%
30. Once you hear General Emergency Alarm proceed to
- A. Muster station
- B. Sleep in cabin
- C. Wait for further information
- D. None of the above
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