Oral Questions

Certificates/ ISM
Minimum safe manning certificates. (Safety)
What are the Safety certificates and document on board?
Certificates on board.
What are the Management certificates?
What is I.S,M., what is DP? Telephone no.
What is I.S.M? objective & purpose?
What are SMC, DOC?
What are the safety (SOLAS) certificates onboard?

SOLAS/ Regulations
SOLAS regulation for crankcase relief door.
Personal life saving appliance.
What are the International convention?
Regulations on steering gear
Fire man outfits
B/A set; Where fitted? How many?

Marpol
Marpol Annex
Annex I
Garbage regulation.
Oil record book.
Items for ORB entry
Annex I to VI
Sewage regulation.
Standard discharge connection
Regulations of oil or oily water discharge
O.D.M maintenance.
What are the Marpol certificates & documents?
SOPEP regulation and requirement.
SOPEP equipments

Survey/Preparation
What is the Post State Control?
Post State Control preparation.
Tail shaft survey.
Load line survey.
Prepare for main air bottle survey.
Load line survey.
Main bearing dismantling for survey.
Switch board survey.
Safety equipment survey
Tail shaft survey
Load line survey.
Before docking prepare.
Post State Control inspection, how do you prepare.
Item not covered by C.S.M

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Docking plan to dock yard
What are the safety equipment survey items?
C/E handover/ take over
Alternator survey & what are given to surveyor?
Boiler survey preparation (open up survey)

Explosion/Prevention
Crankcase explosion & Prevention.
Oil mist detector, overhaul.
Crankcase explosion.
Entry of crankcase
Oil mist detector maintenance.
How to instruct for prevention crankcase explosion?
What are safety device for crankcase explosion?
Crankcase explosion
Oil mist detector maintenance & inspection
Testing of starting air valve leaking at sea & in port.
What is the airbottle’s atmospheric relief valve?
Starting Air line explosion & prevention
Causes of airline explosion, occur, safety device, prevent.
Starting air valve maintenance
Safety devices of starting air line
Air bottle safety devices.
Scavenge fire: cause & prevention
Scavenge trunk protection device.
Uptake fire, cause & prevention.
Dealing with uptake fire.

Fire
How many type of fire detector.
Fire detection device? Explain one type
Construction of heat detector.
Fire control plan.
Fire hazard in engine room.
Fire pumps regulation.
International shore connection.
CO2 fixed installation, SOLAS requirement
Weekly routine for CO2 flooding system.
CO2 room maintenance
How many type of fire detector. Explain heat detector.
FFA in Engine room

Air bottle/Air Compressor

SOLAS requirement of Air bottle
Air bottle safety devices.
Air bottle survey
Check air comp: performance
Air comp: inter cooler advantage
Volumatric efficiency.
How to check the compressor efficiency?How to increase ?

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Engine Performance/Indicator Diagram
indicator diagram, light spring scale.
Indicator card
Indicator diagram, power card, calculate power, how to get M.E.P.
Engine Power calculation

M/E Component
Hydraulic exhaust valve, how will you know failure during operation?
Hydraulic exhaust valve check when overhauled, after overhauled.
Purpose of roto-cap fitted on exhaust valve
Advantage /disadvantages of rotocap
Hydraulic exhaust valve overhaul & test
What are the exhaust valve defects? Where?
What are the indication of Exhaust valve leaking?
How to know exhaust valve failure?
Why exhaust valve cooling is important?
What are the effect of excessive cooling?
What are the effect of insuficient cooling? What happen?

Cam shaft bearing corrosion during condition, how will you know?
Bottom end bearing bolt failure, causes and prevention
What are the fuel pump defect?
During fuel pump overhauled, which factor you will inspect.
Thin shell bearing. How your decided when overhauling bearing can be used or not?
Bearing high temperature, what to do?

Adv & dis-adv of X-head and trunk type engine

T/C brake down, what will you do?
T/C failure, how to continue voyage?
T/C measurement, axial / radial.
T/C rotor and casing clearance, how to measure.
T/C overhaul & checking [clearances]
Reversing failure, what do you do.
Scavenging system, explain uni-flow system.
Scavenging system, explain loop system.
M/E air cooler. Why fitted?

Engine performance checking at sea.

Chain inspection.
Engine cannot start automatically.
One unit hang up
Flexible coupling check regularly, how much allowance.
Critical speed of M/E, How will you know?
Cylinder head crack. How to continue voyage?
Why double wall H.P piping are used? How to know leakage?
What are the effects of prolong slow running?
How to prepare air starting system, before sailing?

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Piston cooling water & oil, adv. & disadv.

L.O/Bunkering
Bunker checklist
Bunker ordering
After bunkering, how to instruct Engineer?
Bunker specification
Cylinder oil requirements & Cylinder oil properties
Effects of excess & insufficient of cylinder oil
Cyl. Oil, hyd oil, Air compressor oil, redwood no.?
Cylinder Oil Onboard test
TBN test
Steering gear L.O properties
L.O sampling procedure.
Causes of L.O contamination. How to know?
Cause of M.E sump oil
L.O maintenance onboard
L.O sample taking point.
L.O sample preparation for analysis.
L.O onboard test,[5 nos.] acidity test?
How T.B.N getting reduce in L.O [trunk 2/S]
L.O batch purification; when? How?
Boiler
Boiler corrosion.
Boiler foaming
Boiler priming
Boiler safety device
Safety device fitted on automatic boiler.
Cause of corrosion in boiler
Boiler water contamination & causes
How to prevent boiler back fire?
Reason for Boiler accumulation test
Caustic embritement

Refrigeration/Air Conditioning
Human comfort zone for air condition
Why cool room temperature high?
Refeer defrosting methods
What is Critical temperature?

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Hull protection
Cathodic protection.[Inpress current system]
Load line assignment.
Gross tonnage.
Duct keel, how do you understand.
Free board assignment.
Duct keel

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Watertight door regulation
What is freeboard?
Water tight door test
What is G.R.T & N.R.T?

E.Tech
Shaft generator volt control.
Emergency switchboard.
Preferential trip.
Navigation light
What is Tacho generator? Where it is used?
Emergency switchboard.
A.V.R
Alternator overhauling
Single phasing
Dashpot
Emergency supply items

Others
Vibration damper, how many type?
Steel, protection for carbon
Stean tube wear down, how to measure.
In tanker practice SBT, CBT, JGS.
Effect of too high & too low F.O heater temperature.
Electrical & mechanical safety device for auxiliary engine.
Advatages of Muff coupling
Advantages & disadvantages of CPP
Metal locking method
Cool weather preparation
Prepare for generator starting
Deck crane preparation before arrival
Cause of stern tube seal leakage. How to know?

Additional Questions
Governor droop
Disadvantage of loop scavanging
M/E crankcase knocking. Why?
Medium speed engine cylinder lubrication, how?
Cause of exhaust port choke
Purpose of water tight door
Air compressor explosion
Disadvantage of thin shell bearing
Disadvantage of H.O. Why H.O use in M/E?
Effect of high sulphur in L.O
Why L.O test regularly or why L.O sent ashore?
Liner corrosion, how to prevent?
Why difuser fitted in T/C, how it’s work?
Oil spill in bunkering operation, what will you done?
Cause of piston ring broken.

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Disadvantage of constant pressure
Four stroke engine’s reversing operation
Inertia governor
Cause of crankshaft misalignment
How to know tie bolt slack? Effect of tie bolt slack
Tightening sequence of tie bolts
What will be done after scavenging fire? Inspection
Cause of x-head more prone failure
FFA in engine room [solas regulation]
CFC stopped, why?
What is D.P cell? Where used? [Viscothem]
Checking of old piston rings for reusing
Checking of new piston rings for use
Different of diesel index & cetane number
Deck safety management documents
Advantage & disadvantage of solid crankshaft
M/E spare gear
Crankpin corrosion
Effect of too cool temperature of fuel valve
End heater temp too high & too low
Why boiler corrosion occur?
How to know the refrigerent critical temp?
Case hardening, how?
Documents to be supply to drydock
Advantages of directy drive engine
Calculation of voyage bunker
Why taken crankshaft deflection
What are the cause of hot spot
Coommon rail fuel injection system
Intermediate and periodical survey
Inspection of thin shell bearing
Cause of piston crown burning
Hoist pipe
Safety interlock for starting air system
Safety alarm of CPP
Cylinder head distortion
Routing maintenance of fridge system
Different between navigation light & normal light
Checking after scavenge cleaning
Routine check for reefer plant
Hatch cover water tight test
What will you done before crankcase inspection? Or preparation for crankcase inspection
CO2 room location, ventilation
Crankpin inspection, ovality measurement
Cause of liner crack
Effect of blow pass
Purpose of T/C header tank
Purpose of bulbus bow
How to measure clearance of thrust block? Adjustment of clearance, clearance

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