DEP PQS COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔O-6 - ✔✔Captain
✔✔O-7 - ✔✔Rear Admiral (lower half)
✔✔O-8 - ✔✔Rear Admiral (upper half)
✔✔O-9 - ✔✔Vice Admiral
✔✔O-10 - ✔✔Admiral
✔✔W-2 through W-4 - ✔✔Chief Warrant Officer
✔✔Adrift - ✔✔Loose from moorings and out of control (applied to anything lost, out of
hand or left lying about)
✔✔Aft-end - ✔✔Near or toward the stern of the vessel
✔✔All Hands - ✔✔The entire ship's company, both officer and enlisted
✔✔Allotment - ✔✔an amount of money a member has coming out of his regular pay
✔✔Aye-Aye - ✔✔Reply to an order or command meaning 'I understand and will comply'
✔✔Barracks - ✔✔building where sailors live
✔✔Below - ✔✔downstairs
✔✔Brightwork - ✔✔Brass or shiny metal kept polished rather than painted
✔✔Bunk or Rack - ✔✔Bed
✔✔Buoy - ✔✔An anchored float used as an aid to navigation or to mark the location of
an object
✔✔Carry on - ✔✔An order to resume work or duties
✔✔Cast off - ✔✔to throw off; to let go; to unfurl
✔✔Chain locker - ✔✔Compartment in which anchor chain is stowed
, ✔✔Chit, Chit book - ✔✔coupon or receipt book
✔✔Chow hall (Mess deck) - ✔✔Place to eat
✔✔Colors - ✔✔Raising or lowering of a national flag, ceremonies held at 0800 and
sunset for hoisting and hauling down the national ensign
✔✔Deep six - ✔✔to dispose of by throwing over the side
✔✔Ensign - ✔✔National flag; commissioned officer between the rank of Chief Warrant
Officer and Lieutenant Junior Grade
✔✔Fast - ✔✔Snugly secured
✔✔Fathom - ✔✔A unit of length equal to 6 feet used for measuring the depth of water
✔✔Field day - ✔✔General cleaning day, usually the day before an inspection
✔✔First lieutenant - ✔✔Officer responsible to the XO of the deck department/division
aboard ship, or the command maintenance
✔✔Flag officer - ✔✔Any commissioned officer in pay grade O-7 or above
✔✔Galley - ✔✔Kitchen
✔✔Gangway - ✔✔An opening in a bulwark or lifeline that provides access to a brow or
accomidation ladder; an order meaning clear the way
✔✔Gear locker - ✔✔Storage room
✔✔Geedunk - ✔✔Candy, gum or cafeteria
✔✔General quarters - ✔✔Battle stations
✔✔Ground tackle - ✔✔all the equipment used in mooring or anchoring a ship
✔✔Hatch - ✔✔Door
✔✔Head - ✔✔Bathroom
✔✔Jack box - ✔✔Access box to sound-powered phone circuitry
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔O-6 - ✔✔Captain
✔✔O-7 - ✔✔Rear Admiral (lower half)
✔✔O-8 - ✔✔Rear Admiral (upper half)
✔✔O-9 - ✔✔Vice Admiral
✔✔O-10 - ✔✔Admiral
✔✔W-2 through W-4 - ✔✔Chief Warrant Officer
✔✔Adrift - ✔✔Loose from moorings and out of control (applied to anything lost, out of
hand or left lying about)
✔✔Aft-end - ✔✔Near or toward the stern of the vessel
✔✔All Hands - ✔✔The entire ship's company, both officer and enlisted
✔✔Allotment - ✔✔an amount of money a member has coming out of his regular pay
✔✔Aye-Aye - ✔✔Reply to an order or command meaning 'I understand and will comply'
✔✔Barracks - ✔✔building where sailors live
✔✔Below - ✔✔downstairs
✔✔Brightwork - ✔✔Brass or shiny metal kept polished rather than painted
✔✔Bunk or Rack - ✔✔Bed
✔✔Buoy - ✔✔An anchored float used as an aid to navigation or to mark the location of
an object
✔✔Carry on - ✔✔An order to resume work or duties
✔✔Cast off - ✔✔to throw off; to let go; to unfurl
✔✔Chain locker - ✔✔Compartment in which anchor chain is stowed
, ✔✔Chit, Chit book - ✔✔coupon or receipt book
✔✔Chow hall (Mess deck) - ✔✔Place to eat
✔✔Colors - ✔✔Raising or lowering of a national flag, ceremonies held at 0800 and
sunset for hoisting and hauling down the national ensign
✔✔Deep six - ✔✔to dispose of by throwing over the side
✔✔Ensign - ✔✔National flag; commissioned officer between the rank of Chief Warrant
Officer and Lieutenant Junior Grade
✔✔Fast - ✔✔Snugly secured
✔✔Fathom - ✔✔A unit of length equal to 6 feet used for measuring the depth of water
✔✔Field day - ✔✔General cleaning day, usually the day before an inspection
✔✔First lieutenant - ✔✔Officer responsible to the XO of the deck department/division
aboard ship, or the command maintenance
✔✔Flag officer - ✔✔Any commissioned officer in pay grade O-7 or above
✔✔Galley - ✔✔Kitchen
✔✔Gangway - ✔✔An opening in a bulwark or lifeline that provides access to a brow or
accomidation ladder; an order meaning clear the way
✔✔Gear locker - ✔✔Storage room
✔✔Geedunk - ✔✔Candy, gum or cafeteria
✔✔General quarters - ✔✔Battle stations
✔✔Ground tackle - ✔✔all the equipment used in mooring or anchoring a ship
✔✔Hatch - ✔✔Door
✔✔Head - ✔✔Bathroom
✔✔Jack box - ✔✔Access box to sound-powered phone circuitry
