SSI ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR EXAM 2026-2027
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• The Customer Loyalty Cycles describes the process for:
Acquiring and retaining customers
Convincing customers to visit new dive sites
Selling equipment to customers
All answers are correct -✓✓ANSWER: Acquiring and retaining customers
• Which of the following is a benefit of affiliating with a Dive Center/Resort?
Access to marketing and student acquisition resources
Access to equipment and training resources
Interactions with more-experienced instructors
All answers are correct -✓✓ANSWER: All answers are correct
• What are the four components of the Diver Diamond?
Knowledge, Skills, Equipment, Experience
Skills, Equipment, Experience, Time
Experience, Equipment, Commitment, Acquisition
Equipment, Experience, Travel, Retail -✓✓ANSWER: Knowledge, Skills,
Equipment, Experience
• Developing the SSI Network benefits dive centers by:
Only increasing the flow of new divers to dive resorts
Increasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Decreasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Only increasing the flow of new students to dive centers -✓✓ANSWER: Increasing
communication between dive centers and dive resorts
• Local dive centers usually:
Focus on traveling divers from other destinations
Focus on training and developing a community of local divers
Have easy access to exciting open water dive sites
Only provide continuing education programs -✓✓ANSWER: Focus on training and
developing a community of local divers
,• Resorts usually:
Focus on taking destination divers to exciting dive sites
Only provide entry-level training programs
Focus on developing a local dive community
Have no access to open water dive sites -✓✓ANSWER: Focus on taking
destination divers to exciting dive sites
• SSI was founded in 1970 by:
Dive retailers
Amateur dive clubs
Equipment manufacturers
The RSTC -✓✓ANSWER: Dive retailers
• Which of the following has the greatest effect on a student's attitude toward an
SSI program?
The cost of the program
The dive professional conducting the program
The quality of the training materials
The length of time required for the program -✓✓ANSWER: The dive professional
conducting the program
• Allowing free time for students to practice a skill or play underwater games at
the end of a pool/confined water session is associated with which learning
domains?
Psychomotor and Affective Learning Domains
No answer is correct
Affective and Cognitive Learning Domains
Psychomotor and Cognitive Learning Domains -✓✓ANSWER: Psychomotor and
Affective Learning Domains
• The statement, "Adults want to connect the relevance of what they learn to
what they want to achieve," relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults need respect
Adults are practical
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need to feel that things are relevant -✓✓ANSWER: Adults need to feel that
things are relevant
,• Which learning domain includes a learning activity that consists of removing,
replacing, and clearing a mask?
The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Affective Learning Domain
The Psychomotor Learning Domain -✓✓ANSWER: The Psychomotor Learning
Domain
• Which learning domain includes a learning activity that requires the student to
describe the effects of pressure change on the air spaces in the body?
The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Psychomotor Learning Domain
The Affective Learning Domain -✓✓ANSWER: The Cognitive Learning Domain
• Using facilitated training strategies to guide learners through the process of
connecting their past experiences to current knowledge and skill-based learning
activities relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need respect
Adults are autonomous and self-directed
Adults accumulate personal life experiences -✓✓ANSWER: Adults accumulate
personal life experiences
• Treating everyone as an equal, and creating a training environment where
learners are free to voice their opinions in class relates to which adult learning
characteristic?
Adults are practical
Adults need respect
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults are autonomous and self-directed -✓✓ANSWER: Adults need respect
• Acting as a facilitator who encourages and guides students through the process
of acquiring knowledge relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults are autonomous and self-directed
, Adults accumulate personal life experiences
Adults need respect -✓✓ANSWER: Adults are autonomous and self-directed
• The three learning domains are:
Knowledge Development, Skill Development, Competency Development
Skill Development, Attitude Development, Competency Development
Skill Development, Knowledge Development, Attitude Development
Skills, Knowledge, Competency- -✓✓ANSWER: Skill Development, Knowledge
Development, Attitude Development
• What is the purpose of the final exam?
All answers are correct
To prepare the student for continuing education programs
To evaluate the student's understanding of program knowledge
To ensure the student is ready for open water training -✓✓ANSWER: To evaluate
the student's understanding of program knowledge
• Printable training records are found:
In the dive center's MySSI account
In the dive professional's MySSI download area
At the SSI Service Center
In the student's MySSI account -✓✓ANSWER: In the dive center's MySSI account
• The components of the Total Teaching System:
Can be adapted using the SSI Flexibility Rule
Are used to teach any training program
Work as an integrated system
All answers are correct -✓✓ANSWER: All answers are correct
• Dive logs:
Must only be completed by entry-level students
Only include information for recording experience dives
Should be kept by every diver, regardless of experience level
Must be kept in digital and print form -✓✓ANSWER: Should be kept by every
diver, regardless of experience level
• The program instructor manual:
| UPDATED VERSION | CORRECT ANSWERS
• The Customer Loyalty Cycles describes the process for:
Acquiring and retaining customers
Convincing customers to visit new dive sites
Selling equipment to customers
All answers are correct -✓✓ANSWER: Acquiring and retaining customers
• Which of the following is a benefit of affiliating with a Dive Center/Resort?
Access to marketing and student acquisition resources
Access to equipment and training resources
Interactions with more-experienced instructors
All answers are correct -✓✓ANSWER: All answers are correct
• What are the four components of the Diver Diamond?
Knowledge, Skills, Equipment, Experience
Skills, Equipment, Experience, Time
Experience, Equipment, Commitment, Acquisition
Equipment, Experience, Travel, Retail -✓✓ANSWER: Knowledge, Skills,
Equipment, Experience
• Developing the SSI Network benefits dive centers by:
Only increasing the flow of new divers to dive resorts
Increasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Decreasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Only increasing the flow of new students to dive centers -✓✓ANSWER: Increasing
communication between dive centers and dive resorts
• Local dive centers usually:
Focus on traveling divers from other destinations
Focus on training and developing a community of local divers
Have easy access to exciting open water dive sites
Only provide continuing education programs -✓✓ANSWER: Focus on training and
developing a community of local divers
,• Resorts usually:
Focus on taking destination divers to exciting dive sites
Only provide entry-level training programs
Focus on developing a local dive community
Have no access to open water dive sites -✓✓ANSWER: Focus on taking
destination divers to exciting dive sites
• SSI was founded in 1970 by:
Dive retailers
Amateur dive clubs
Equipment manufacturers
The RSTC -✓✓ANSWER: Dive retailers
• Which of the following has the greatest effect on a student's attitude toward an
SSI program?
The cost of the program
The dive professional conducting the program
The quality of the training materials
The length of time required for the program -✓✓ANSWER: The dive professional
conducting the program
• Allowing free time for students to practice a skill or play underwater games at
the end of a pool/confined water session is associated with which learning
domains?
Psychomotor and Affective Learning Domains
No answer is correct
Affective and Cognitive Learning Domains
Psychomotor and Cognitive Learning Domains -✓✓ANSWER: Psychomotor and
Affective Learning Domains
• The statement, "Adults want to connect the relevance of what they learn to
what they want to achieve," relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults need respect
Adults are practical
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need to feel that things are relevant -✓✓ANSWER: Adults need to feel that
things are relevant
,• Which learning domain includes a learning activity that consists of removing,
replacing, and clearing a mask?
The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Affective Learning Domain
The Psychomotor Learning Domain -✓✓ANSWER: The Psychomotor Learning
Domain
• Which learning domain includes a learning activity that requires the student to
describe the effects of pressure change on the air spaces in the body?
The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Psychomotor Learning Domain
The Affective Learning Domain -✓✓ANSWER: The Cognitive Learning Domain
• Using facilitated training strategies to guide learners through the process of
connecting their past experiences to current knowledge and skill-based learning
activities relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need respect
Adults are autonomous and self-directed
Adults accumulate personal life experiences -✓✓ANSWER: Adults accumulate
personal life experiences
• Treating everyone as an equal, and creating a training environment where
learners are free to voice their opinions in class relates to which adult learning
characteristic?
Adults are practical
Adults need respect
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults are autonomous and self-directed -✓✓ANSWER: Adults need respect
• Acting as a facilitator who encourages and guides students through the process
of acquiring knowledge relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults are autonomous and self-directed
, Adults accumulate personal life experiences
Adults need respect -✓✓ANSWER: Adults are autonomous and self-directed
• The three learning domains are:
Knowledge Development, Skill Development, Competency Development
Skill Development, Attitude Development, Competency Development
Skill Development, Knowledge Development, Attitude Development
Skills, Knowledge, Competency- -✓✓ANSWER: Skill Development, Knowledge
Development, Attitude Development
• What is the purpose of the final exam?
All answers are correct
To prepare the student for continuing education programs
To evaluate the student's understanding of program knowledge
To ensure the student is ready for open water training -✓✓ANSWER: To evaluate
the student's understanding of program knowledge
• Printable training records are found:
In the dive center's MySSI account
In the dive professional's MySSI download area
At the SSI Service Center
In the student's MySSI account -✓✓ANSWER: In the dive center's MySSI account
• The components of the Total Teaching System:
Can be adapted using the SSI Flexibility Rule
Are used to teach any training program
Work as an integrated system
All answers are correct -✓✓ANSWER: All answers are correct
• Dive logs:
Must only be completed by entry-level students
Only include information for recording experience dives
Should be kept by every diver, regardless of experience level
Must be kept in digital and print form -✓✓ANSWER: Should be kept by every
diver, regardless of experience level
• The program instructor manual:
