Package Question List: UPT Periode Exam Code Level Package Code
Package Question List: UPT Periode Exam Code Level Package Code
Package Question List: UPT Periode Exam Code Level Package Code
2. Is there any special area under MARPOL where it is forbidden to pump out any sludge or oil residues?
a. There are special areas where it is forbidden to pump out any sludge or oil residues
b. There are 3 special areas: the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea where it
is forbidden to pump out any sludge or oil residues
c. There are 4 special areas: the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and Black Sea where
it is forbidden to pump out any sludge or oil residues
d. There isn’t any special area where it is forbidden to pump out any sludge or oil residues
3. MARPOL - Annex I. Your vessel sailed from Bahrain heading for Singapore. 2 days after departure, you would like to empty
your machinery space bilges. What will be the correct procedures in this connection?
a. Call the bridge and request for position and permission to discharge overboard through oily
water separating and filtering equipment
b. Discharge overboard through oily-water separating and filtering equipment without calling the
bridge
c. Call the bridge and request for position and permission to discharge directly overboard
d. Wait till after darkness and discharge in most convenient way
4. MARPOL - Annex IV. Your ship has in operation an approved sewage treatment plant certified by the Administration. During
discharge, while vessel is awaiting pilot off Cape Henry, USA, the surrounding water is iscoloured. What kind of action would
be appropriate to take?
a. Stop discharge
b. Continue discharge since the treatment plant is of an approved type
c. Reduce discharge rate in order to have less discolouration of surrounding water
d. Continue discharge since Annex IV of MARPOL is internationally not yet in force
5. MARPOL - Annex V. Disposal of garbage outside "Special Areas". After unpacking spares, you are left with a limited amount
of packing materials. Is this prohibited, if not, what will be the nearest distance to land for disposal into the sea of these
materials?
a. This is prohibited
b. 3 miles
c. 12 miles
d. 25 miles
6. MARPOL - Annex V. Disposal of garbage. Your vessel is in the Red Sea (Special Area) and the Chief Cook is requesting to
have some food waste burned in the incinerator. Due to problems with incinerator, you decide to have the waste ground in the
Grinder (Lump size max. 25 mm) and disposed off into the sea. Is this prohibited, if not, how far from nearest land is this
legal?
a. 12 miles
b. This is prohibited
c. 3 miles
d. 25 miles
a. Human error
b. Equipment failure
c. Major casualties
d. Unforeseeable circumstances
8. New MARPOL regulations came into effect from July 93 stating that the previous instantaneous rate of discharge of oil content
(60 litters per nautical mile) was changed to:
a. Once a month
b. Once a week
c. Once a year
d. Once every six months
11. Ships of 10.000 tons gross tonnage and more, shall be fitted with oil filtering equipment, complying with Reg.14 (7) of
MARPOL for the control of machinery space bilges. What would be the maximum oil content of oily-water mixture to pass
through the filter?
a. 15 ppm
b. 100 ppm
c. 30 ppm
d. 60 ppm/n.m
12. Small oil spills on deck can be kept from going overboard by doing what?
14. What does the term DISCHARGE mean, as used in the Oil Pollution Regulations?
16. What is the best way to avoid pollution from small oil-spills aboard a ship?
a. The chemicals make it difficult to remove the oil from the water
b. The water gets a white colour, which makes it easy to detect the oil-spill
c. It is difficult to apply the chemicals if the oil drifts away from the ship's side
d. It is difficult to apply chemicals if there is any wind
18. What is the purpose of the O.D.M.E. (Oil Discharge Monitoring Equipment) printer ?
19. What should you do with the ashes from your vessels incinerator which had burned garbage containing plastics?
20. What would be the preferred colour to use when maintaining the paint on shell, plating, structure and bottom/tanktopp in the
engine room?
a. White or light grey to ensure all minor spills and leakages are noticed and dealt with
b. Dark brown/red colour to camuflage any minor leakages and oil spills
c. Whatever paint is available
d. Whatever paint is available
21. When a pollution incident occurs there is a plan for actions to be undertaken. State which of following priority sequences to be
considered:
a. Stop pumps - report - clean up?
b. Clean up - report - stop pumps?
c. Report - stop pumps - clean up?
d. Stop pumps - clean up - report?
22. Which of the connections you are shown, are the dedicated shore connection (MARPOL-connection) for discharging of sewage
?
a. 4
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
23. Which of the following would be considered pollution, when discharged overboard, under the US water pollution laws?
a. 15 PPM
b. 100 PPM
c. 50 PPM
d. 0 PPM
26. Why shall a duly qualified officer supervise any potential polluting operation?
a. To avoid pollution
b. To relieve the master
c. To inform the authorities
d. To restrict pollution
27. You are on a vessel 10 nautical miles off the coast of Algeria, in the Mediterranean Sea. Are you allowed to dump food waste
overboard?
28. You are on a vessel 10 nautical miles off the coast of Nigeria, West Africa. Are you allowed to dump empty glass bottles
overboard ?
a. Yes, the bottles can be dumped if they are ground so that the resulting particles can pass
through a screen with 25 mm openings
b. No, glass bottles can not be dumped overboard
c. Yes, glass bottles can be dumped overboard
d. Yes, the bottles can be dumped if they are ground so that the resulting particles can pass
through a screen with 50 mm openings
29. You are onboard a vessel off the West African coast. You want to dump a mixture of food waste, glass bottles and floating
packing materials. Is this allowed? and if so, how far off the coast would you have to be?
a. This is prohibited
b. 3 nautical miles off the coast
c. 12 nautical miles off the coast
d. 12 nautical miles off the coast
30. You are taking fuel on your vessel in the US when you notice oil on the water around your vessel. You are to stop taking fuel
and:
a. Gas detector
b. Emergency fire pump
c. Fire pump
d. Fire control plan
a. CO2 horn
b. Area protected by CO2
c. CO2 portable fire extinguisher
d. Gas detector
a. Sprinkler horn
b. Halon horn
c. Water monitor gun
d. CO2 horn
a. Smoke detector
b. Hose box with spray set
c. Powder hose and handgun
d. Hose box
a. Fire station
b. Flame detector
c. Fire pump
d. Smoke detector
a. A class division
b. B class division
c. C class division
d. Primary means of escape
a. Foam installation
b. Sprinkler installation
c. Portable foam installation
d. Powder installation
a. Between 3% and 6%
b. Between 50 and 100%
c. This operation is done automatically and in relation to the foam
d. over 100%
1. A 6-men inflatable liferaft shall be carried as far forward as is reasonable and practicable. Where is the best stowing position?
2. A davit-launched liferaft on board a ship is so arranged to be boarded by its full complement of persons in less than:
a. 3 min
b. 2 min
c. 1 min
d. 4 min
a. 4,50 m
b. 3,50 m
c. 5,50 m
d. 6,50 m
a. Cut it with the safety knife stowed on the exterior of the canopy close to the painter attachment
point
b. Let go the quick release toggle
c. Cut it with the axe provided
d. Wait for it to break as it is provided with a weak link
9. How many buoyant smoke signals are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS A pack?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 6
d. Nil
10. How many buoyant smoke signals are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS B pack?
a. 1
b. 4
c. 6
d. Nil
11. How many hand held distress flares are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS B pack?
a. 3
b. 2
c. 4
d. Nil
12. How many hand held distress flares are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS A pack?
a. 6
b. 2
c. 4
d. Nil
13. How many rocket parachute flares are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS B pack?
a. 4
b. 6
c. 12
d. Nil
14. How many rocket parachute flares are carried in each liferaft with SOLAS A pack?
a. 4
b. 6
c. 2
d. Nil
15. How many thermal protective aids are carried in each liferaft?
a. 10% of the number of persons the liferaft is designed to carry, or two, whichever is more
b. The number of persons the liferaft is permitted to accommodate
c. 6
d. Nil
17. How much food per person is supplied on a liferaft marked SOLAS B PACK?
18. How much water per person is provided in a liferaft equipped with a desalting apparatus?
a. 1 litre
b. 2.5 litres
c. 5 litres
d. 15 litres
19. How much water per person is provided in a liferaft not equipped with a desalting apparatus?
a. 1.5 litre
b. 5 litre
c. 2 litre
d. 3 litre
20. How should the hook be released from a davit lowered liferaft?
a. Just prior to reaching the water, the lanyard should be pulled. This sets the hook which
will automatically release once the raft is waterborne
b. Unscrew the shackle pin
c. Wait until the raft is waterborne, then pull the lanyard
d. Cut the weak link on the wire with the axe provided
21. How should the painter of a liferaft which is fitted with a hydrostatic release be secured to the ship?
22. If conditions permit, which is the best way to board a liferaft that is floating close to the ship?
a. Use a rope ladder close to the raft to climb down and board
b. Wearing a lifejacket, jump into the water close to the raft and then swim to it
c. Jump onto the raft itself
d. Jump into the water close to the raft, without a lifejacket, as this will make it easier to swim and
board the liferaft
23. In the life raft, the manually controlled inside lamp must be capable of working at minimum for a period of:
a. 12 h
b. 6 h
c. 18 h
d. 24 h
24. On a dark night with a clear atmosphere, the outside manually controlled lamp of a liferaft is visible at minimum at a distance
of:
a. 2 mile
b. 0.5 miles
c. 4 miles
d. 8 miles
25. The breaking strength of the painter in a liferaft permitted to accommodate 6 persons is at least:
a. 7.5 kN
b. 5 kN
c. 2.5 kN
d. 10 kN
27. The weak link of a float-free arrangement for liferafts must break under a strain of:
a. 2,2 kN ± 0,4 kN
b. 0,7 kN ± 0,4 kN
c. 4,2 kN ± 0,4 kN
d. 9,7 kN ± 0,4 kN
28. Which of air and water is the fluid that transfers the greatest amount of heat during the same time, given that the fluid is not
flowing along the immersed body?
a. Water
b. Air
c. Both are transferring equally
d. Air if the temperature of the fluid is 10°C; water if temperature of the fluid is < 10°C
29. Which part of the fresh water quantity provided for each person the liferaft is permitted to accommodate may be replaced by a
de-salting apparatus?
30. You have abandoned ship in a liferaft. In most cases, which of the following actions should you generally take?
a. Organise a lookout system. Join up with other survival craft if possible. Stream the sea anchor
b. Organise a lookout system
c. Start paddling in the direction of the nearest land
d. Join up with any other survival craft and stream the sea anchor
Competency Contribute to the safety of personnel and ship
Package Code N3.3.19-A
1. As per SOLAS regulations, the general emergency alarm system must be tested:
a. Every week
b. Every 2 weeks
c. Every 3 weeks
d. Every month
2. During test and/or maintenance work of the CO2 system affecting the release system, precautions to ensure that the gas is
not released into the engine room due to a mistake are to be ensured. What precautions should be taken?
3. Every inflatable liferaft , inflatable lifejacket and hydrostatic release units shall be serviced:
a. Every 12 months.
b. Every 24 months.
c. Every 18 months.
d. Every 36 months.
4. How often must the Emergency Steering Gear be tested, and how is this information recorded in the OLB?
a. Every three months. Details of test with signatures of Master and witness
b. Monthly with signature of person carrying out test
c. Fortnightly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness
d. Monthly, with signature of Chief Engineer and witness.
5. How often should the lifeboat wire falls be turned and renewed?
a. Turned at intervals of not more than 30 months and renewed every 5 years
b. Turned every 2 years and renewed every 4 years
c. Turned every 30 months and needs only to be renewed if the wire is in poor condition
d. Renewed every three years
6. On all UMS operated vessels and also on most other vessels the engine room is equipped with fire detectors. What
requirements of testing and checking of the detectors are to be observed?
a.
9. The steps of the embarkation ladder used must be spaced apart by a distance of:
a. Equally spaced and not less than 300 mm or more than 380 mm
b. 300 mm
c. 200 mm
d. equally spaced, not less than 200 mm or more than 280 mm
10. The steps of the embarkation ladder used must be proportioned as it follows:
11. This device can detect a package of drugs inside a large delivery of ship’s stores. What is it?
a. Pallet scanner
b. Vapour detector
c. Security container
d. Access control system
a. A homemade bomb
b. A type of gun
c. An explosive
d. An incendiary device
16. Which of the following areas may be possible restricted areas? (Review all answers)
a. All alternatives
b. The Bridge
c. The Engine control room
d. The Cargo control room
17. Which of the following requirements regarding life-buoys correspond to present regulations? (SOLAS III/7.1)
a. Not less than half the total number of lifebuoys shall be provided with self-ignighting lights
b. At least four life-buoys on each side of the ship shall be fitted with buoyant lifelines
c. All the life-buoys shall be placed in holders with quick-release arrangement
d. At least one lifebuoy with self-activating smoke shall be placed within the vicinity of the stern
18. Which of these actions should crew take if a suspicious object that may be a bomb is located during a search?
a. Confirm with their search partner that the object found is suspicious.
b. Throw the object overboard.
c. Cover the suspicious object with a box or blanket.
d. Place the object in a desk drawer or file cabinet.
a. "The parcel is addressed to no one in particular, arrives unexpectedly and seems heavy for
its size."
b. The parcel smells like chocolate.
c. The parcel came from Joe in the safety department and arrived quicker than expected.
d. "The parcel is wrapped in clean, brown paper and is addressed to a crewmember from hiswife."
20. Which of these are indicators that an individual may be a drug smuggler?
22. Which of these weapons are widely available and commonly used by criminals and terrorists to further their aims?
a. Gun
b. Incendiary device
c. Liquid explosive
d. Vehicle borne device
23. Which one of the listed requirements regarding service and maintenance of life-saving appliances correspond to present
regulations?
a. All prescribed life-saving appliances shall be made of non-combustible or fire retardant material
b. All prescribed life-saving appliances shall be fitted with the manufacturers name and Logo
c. All prescribed life-saving appliances shall be of such a colour that they are in contrast to the
surrounding colour
d. All prescribed life-saving appliances shall have marking in red colour
a. Security Level 3
b. Security Level 1
c. Security Level 2
d. Security Level 4
a. Particulate detector
b. CCTV
c. Water cannon
d. Metal detector
28. "During a bomb search, which of the following is an important principle to follow?"