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What are the objectives of the NAMP?
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Achieve and maintain maximum material readiness, safety, and conservation of material in the maintenance of aircraft.
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What is the purpose of the Aircraft Maintenance Department within an organization?
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To maintain assigned aircraft in a state of full mission capability (FMC).
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What are the major types of aircraft maintenance?
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Rework and upkeep.
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The restorative or additive work performed on aircraft, equipment, or support equipment is what type of maintenance?
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Rework maintenance.
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Standard rework is also known as what type of maintenance?
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Standard depot-level maintenance (SDLM).
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What is work done to aircraft, equipment, or support equipment to improve or change its capability to perform special functions?
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Special rework.
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Upkeep maintenance is performed by what activities?
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Operating units and SE activities.
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Standard upkeep is also known as what type of maintenance?
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Scheduled maintenance.
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Maintenance performed on aircraft without regard to operating hours or calendar is known as what type of maintenance?
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Special upkeep or unscheduled maintenance.
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Aircraft maintenance functions are divided into how many distinct levels?
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Three.
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What are the distinct levels of aircraft maintenance?
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Organizational, intermediate and depot.
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What level of maintenance is performed by an operating activity on a day-to-day basis in support of its own operations?
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Organizational-level maintenance.
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What level of maintenance includes the manufacture of non-available parts?
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Intermediate level.
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Depot-level maintenance is performed in what type of facility?
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Industrial type.
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The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has what responsibilities to the Naval Aviation
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The CNO sponsors and directs the NAMP.
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Who is responsible for providing material in support of the operation and maintenance of aeronautical equipment?
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Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP).
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What type of relationship exists between a superior and subordinate within both staff and line segments of the organization?
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A “line” relationship
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A relationship that exists between an advisory staff supervisor and a production line supervisor is known as what type of relationship?
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A staff relationship.
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Who is responsible to the commanding officer for the accomplishment of the maintenance department’s mission?
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The aircraft maintenance officer.
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What are the functional management responsibilities of the aircraft maintenance officer?
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Planning, production, and control.
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What subordinate officers assist the aircraft maintenance officer in the management of the maintenance department?
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Assistant aircraft maintenance officer (AAMO), maintenance/material control officer (MMCO), and aircraft division and branch officers.
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What officer is responsible for ensuring that staff divisions conform to established policies?
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Assistant aircraft maintenance officer (AAMO).
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In addition to material support, what is the maintenance material control officer's direct responsibility?
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The overall productive effort of the maintenance department.
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What is the concept of quality assurance?
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To prevent the occurence of defects from the onset of a maintenance operation through its completion.
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The achievement of quality assurance depends on what factors?
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Prevention, knowledge, and special skills.
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What is the purpose of the system administrator/analyst (SA/A) at the organizational maintenance level?
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Monitor, control, and apply the Maintenance Data System within the activity.
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Who has the responsibility, as well as many other responsibilities, to identify material deficiencies and high man-hour consumption trends?
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System administrator/analyst (SA/A).
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What work center plans, schedules, and provides positive control of all maintenance performed on or in support of the activity’s assigned aircraft?
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Maintenance control.
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What branches or work centers make up the aircraft division?
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Power Plants, Airframes, and Aviators Life Support Systems (ALSS)
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The avionics/armament division consists of what work centers?
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Electronics branch, electrical and instrument branch, and the armament branch.
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What is the purpose of the production control work center?
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Production control, the central point of the entire maintenance effort, plans and schedules the IMA’s workload.
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At the intermediate maintenance activity, who provides qualitative and quantitative analytical information to the AMO?
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The maintenance data base administrator/analyst.
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At the I-level, power plants, airframes, avionics, armament equipment, support equipment, and aviators’ life support equipment are known as what type of divisions?
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Production divisions.
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What is the purpose of NALCOMlS?
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NALCOMIS provides OMA, IMA and ASD activities with a modern, real time, responsive, computer based management information system.
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If an I- or O-level activity does not yet operate under NALCOMIS, under what system do they document their maintenance?
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Visual Information Display System (VIDS).
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What element is important to ensure successful operation of the Visual Information Display System (VIDS)?
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Communication between maintenance/production control, workcenters, and material control.
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VIDS board verification should take place with maintenance control at what minimum frequency?
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Daily.
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Upon initiation of a VIDS/MAF at the organizational level, where are the individual copies forwarded?
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Copies 1 and 5 are forwarded to the work center.
Copy 2 is forwarded to QA. Copy 3 remains in Maintenance Control. Copy 4 is placed in the ADB. |
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What must be done if a maintenance action results in the requirement of a check flight?
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Notify quality assurance.
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Upon the completion of a maintenance action and when the VIDS/MAF is completed, which copy is forwarded to maintenance control?
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Copy 1 of the VIDS/MAF is sent to maintenance control.
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What does a red signal tab on an I-level VIDS board or VIDS/MAF indicate?
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The component inducted is expeditious repair.
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Upon induction of a non-RFI component to an I-level activity, where are individual copies of the VIDS/MAF routed?
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Copy 1 - forwarded to the work center.
Copy 2 - forwarded to SSC Copy 3 - retained in PC Copy 4 - remains with the gear. Copy 5 - retained by the work center. |
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At the I-level, what happens to a repairable component for which parts have been ordered?
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The component should be properly preserved, packaged and sent to the AWP unit managed by supply personnel.
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What is the result of inaccurate or incomplete information documented in the Maintenance Data System (MDS)?
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Loss of effectiveness of the data and the MDS in general.
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At both the I and O levels of maintenance, what is the purpose of NALCOMIS or VIDS/MAFS?
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Documentation of on-equipment maintenance actions.
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What term describes the portion of a special, conditional, corrosion, periodic, phase, acceptance or transfer inspection that involves the search for defects?
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The "look phase" of an inspection.
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What components create the Job Control Number (JCN)?
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The organization code, the last three digits of the Julian date, an activity assigned sequence number, and a suffix (if required).
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What is indicated by a JCN suffix?
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A subassembly repair action completed separately from the major component repair action.
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What code is a one, three, five, or seven character numeric or alphanumeric code which identifies the system, subsystem, set, component or part of the end item being worked on?
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A Work Unit Code (WUC).
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What code describes the maintenance performed on an item identified by a WUC?
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Action Taken Code.
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What is the proper name for what most technicians refer to as the Manufacturer’s code?
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Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE).
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Which code is a three character, alphanumeric code used to describe the malfunction occurring on or in an end item?
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A Malfunction code.
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How many positions complete the Time/Cycle block on a VIDS/MAF?
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Five (an alphabetic prefix and four numbers).
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What form is used to document preservation of support equipment?
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SE Custody and Maintenance History Record, OPNAV 4790/51.
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Are SE Custody and Maintenance History Records, OPNAV 4790/51, used to document rework maintenance on an engine test cell?
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No. Test cells have their own records.
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Who retains the latest completed copy of the SE Custody and Maintenance History Record, OPNAV 4790/51?
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Reporting custodian.
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What is the major provision of the Monthly Maintenance Plan?
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The MMP provides scheduled control of all predictable maintenance.
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At the O level, when is the Monthly Maintenance Plan for March required to be distributed?
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By the 25th of February.
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Where can you find a list of current I-level collateral duty inspectors?
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The IMA Monthly Maintenance Plan.
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What is the purpose of the Maintenance Training Improvement Program (MTIP)?
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The MTIP identifies training deficiencies, at both the O and I levels of maintenance, through diagnostic testing procedures.
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An important objective of the NAMP is to achieve and maintain maximum material readiness. What are the additional objectives of the NAMP?
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Safety and conservation of material
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What is the purpose of the Aircraft Maintenance Department within an organization?
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Maintain assigned aircraft in a Full-Mission-Capable state in support of the unit’s mission
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What are the major types of aircraft maintenance?
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Rework and upkeep
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Restorative work performed on an item of support equipment is considered what type(s) of work?
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Rework and upkeep maintenance
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A comprehensive depot-level inspection of selected aircraft structures and materials and correction of any critical defects is what type of maintenance?
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Standard rework
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Maintenance performed on aircraft or equipment to improve its specific function is known as what type of maintenance?
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Special rework maintenance
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Preventive, restorative, or additive work performed on aircraft, equipment, and support equipment by an operating unit is what type of maintenance?
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Upkeep
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Scheduled work is performed on an aircraft as a result of its completing a prescribed number of flying hours. What type of maintenance is this?
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Standard upkeep
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What type of maintenance changes the ability of an aircraft to perform its mission by alteration without regard to flying hours?
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Special upkeep
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Aircraft maintenance is divided into what total number of maintenance levels?
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Three
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Centralized local maintenance is performed by which of the following activities?
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FRCs and AIMDs.
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Work performed by an operating unit on a day-to-day basis in support of its own operations is known as what type of maintenance?
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Organizational-level maintenance
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Servicing aircraft and preflight inspections are actions that are performed at what level of maintenance?
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Organizational
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Work performed in a centrally located facility within a geographical area is known as what type of maintenance?
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Intermediate-level maintenance
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Work performed at an industrial-type facility is known as what type of maintenance?
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Depot-level maintenance
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The Naval Aviation Maintenance Program is sponsored and directed by what command?
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Chief of Naval Operations (CNO).
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Material and technical support for the NAMP are provided by the cognizant systems command and which other command?
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NAVSUP
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What type of relationship exists between a superior and a subordinate?
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Line
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According to directives from higher authority, what officer directs the aircraft maintenance department?
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The aircraft maintenance officer
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The functional management responsibilities for the planning, control, and production of the aircraft maintenance department rest with which of the following officers?
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Aircraft maintenance officer
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Which officer ensures that staff divisions at the organizational level conform to established policies?
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The assistant aircraft maintenance officer
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Assuring that high quality maintenance work is performed is a function of what division in an organizational-level maintenance department?
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Quality assurance
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Which of the following maintenance concepts allows you to regulate events rather than be regulated by them?
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Prevention
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Within an organizational-level maintenance activity, what part of the activity monitors, controls, and applies the MDS?
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System administrator/analyst (SA/A)
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What officer is directly responsible for the overall production effort and material support of the organizational-level maintenance department?
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The maintenance material control officer
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What branch or division is known as the nerve center of an organizational-level maintenance department?
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Maintenance control
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The power plants, airframes, and aviator’s life support equipment branches belong to what division of an organizational-level maintenance department?
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Aircraft division.
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If you work in electronics, instruments, or armament, you are normally assigned to what division of an organizational-level maintenance department?
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Avionics/armament
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In an intermediate-level maintenance activity, what is the central point of the maintenance effort?
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Production control
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Normally, the intermediate maintenance organization has a total of how many production divisions?
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Six
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What system provides organizational and intermediate maintenance activities with a computer-based management information system?
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NALCOMIS
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Maintenance managers need current status information to control the maintenance effort. What system is designed to provide maintenance managers with this information?
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VIDS and NALCOMIS
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The VIDS boards in each work center are verified with the maintenance control VIDS board a minimum of how often?
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Once each day
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After the personnel in maintenance control complete the required blocks of a newly initiated VIDS/MAF, copies 1 and 5 are forwarded to--
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The work center
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If a check flight is required after the completion of a corrective action, notification must be given to what individual?
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The quality assurance division officer
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After a discrepancy has been corrected, what should be done with copies 1 and 5 of the VIDS/MAF?
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Copy 1 should be sent to maintenance control, and copy 5 is placed in the work center files
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At the intermediate level of maintenance, what copies of the VIDS/MAF are forwarded to the work center upon component induction for repair?
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Copies 1, 4, and 5
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A component goes into an AWP status at the intermediate level of maintenance. What action is completed first with regard to the component?
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It is properly packaged and preserved
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Information entered on MDS forms must always meet which of the following requirements?
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Be accurate and complete
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On-equipment maintenance actions are documented via--
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NALCOMIS or a VIDS/MAF
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The portion of an inspection that involves the search for defects is known as what phase?
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Look
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An organizational code, the Julian date, a sequence number, and a suffix are part of what code or control number?
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Job control number
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Maintenance was performed on an item identified by a Work Unit Code. What type of code describes this action?
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Action Taken
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What type of code identifies a subassembly repair action that is completed separately from the major component repair action?
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JCN Suffix
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What type of code identifies the end item of equipment on which work is performed, such as aircraft, engine, or SE?
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Type Equipment code
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What type of code identifies the system, subsystem, set, component and part of the end item being worked on?
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Work Unit Code
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What type of code describes the trouble or cause of trouble in a system or component?
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Malfunction code
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What code is often referred to as the manufacturer’s code?
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CAGE
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An aircraft has 479 flight hours on it since new. You have just removed and replaced a damaged canopy. What entry should you place in the Time/Cycles block on the VIDS/MAF?
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A0479
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A Technical Directive Status code consists of how many characters?
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One
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SE Custody and Maintenance History Record, OPNAV 4790/51, is used for what three purposes?
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To record custody and transfer information
To provide rework and overhaul data To identify applicable / incorporated technical directives |
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Of the following equipment, which one requires an OPNAV 4790/51 card: PME equipment, engine test cells/stands, GB1As, or VAST stations?
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VAST stations
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On initiation of each new OPNAV 4790/51, who retains the latest processed copy from the permanent custodian.
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Reporting custodians
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What document provides scheduled control of the predictable maintenance workload?
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Monthly Maintenance Plan
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At the organizational level, what officer sets the format and arrangement of the monthly maintenance plan?
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The aircraft maintenance officer
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At the organizational level, the MMP is distributed by what day of the month prior to the month to which it applies?
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25th
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What other worthless information is included in the MMP?
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Current list of QARs
High-time components Schedule of technical training |
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To increase technical knowledge levels and enhance and improve existing formal training through diagnostic testing procedures is the primary goal of which of the program?
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Maintenance Training Improvement Program (MTIP)
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