Mock Exam A

1) According to the PADI Member Code of Practice as PADI member you agree to:

a. Put the safety of diving clients and students as your first priority and responsibility.
b. Perform a personal readiness self assessment before you teach or lead others on dives.
c. Employ effective group control measures in the water, particularly when supervising novices and children.
Carry out frequent head counts.
d. All of the above.

2) Within _______ days of a student finishing all course requirements a PIC (envelope or online) or the appropriate application should be submitted to PADI and either a temporary or permanent certification
card issued to the student.
a. 1
b. 7
c. 14
d. 28

3) True or False. A criminal conviction involving abuse of a minor either during or prior to PADI Membership is grounds for denial or termination of PADI Membership.

4) Generally, at the beginning of a PADI course (and before any in-water activities), have student divers review, complete and sign:

a. PADI Release of Liability/Assumption of Risk/Nonagency Acknowledgment Form – General Training or PADI Statement of Risk and Liability/Nonagency Acknowledgment Form – General Training EU Version
b. PADI Standard Safe Diving Practices Statement of Understanding.
c. PADI Medical Statement (RSTC Medical form)
d. All of the above.

5) True or False. Maintain training completion records for each student diver/ participant for seven years or longer (as required locally).

6) True or False During the Discover Scuba Diving program, if a PADI Instructor conducts and ensures that participants master Open Water Diver course Confined Water Dive 1 skills, participants are eligible for Confined Water Dive 1 credit.

7) During any confined open water or open water training dive that includes 10 and 11-year-olds, the maximum student diver-to-instructor ratio is :

a. 2:1 You may not increase this ratio with the use of certified assistants.
b. 4:1 You may increase this ratio to 8:1 with the use of certified assistants.
c. 4:1 with no more than two children in the group. This ratio can not increase by adding a certified assistants.
d. 8:1 You may increase this ratio to 12:1 with the use of certified assistants.

8) A PADI member in __________ status is authorized to teach PADI courses and certify PADI Divers as long as Teaching status requirements are met.

a. Administrative Hold.
b. Review.
c. Suspended.
d. None of the above.

9) True or False. Waivers to deviate from PADI standards do not expire once issued.

10) Confined open water is an open water site offering swimming-pool-like conditions with respect to :

a. Clarity, calmness and depth. It has both shallow water and water sufficiently deep to allow student divers to meet all skill performance requirements.
b. Salinity and temperature.
c. Water movement.
d. All of the above.

11) True or False. During the PADI Open Water Diver Course, Knowledge Development section, student divers complete all five knowledge development segments, including successfully completing Knowledge Reviews and Quizzes and the Final Exam. For digital learners, have student divers complete any
assessments that were not completed online. Administer the Open Water Diver Online Quick Review to student divers who completed all assessments online.

12) PADI Scuba Divers must successfully complete Open Water dives 1 and 2 from the PADI Open Water Diver course including which Dive Flexible Skills?

a. Only the Dive Flexible Skill, Snorkel to Regulator Exchange.
b. Only the Dive Flexible Skills; Snorkel to Regulator Exchange, Tired Diver Tow and Cramp Release.
c. Snorkel to Regulator Exchange, Cramp Release, Inflatable Signal Tube/DSMB Deployment and
Emergency Weight Drop.
d. All Dive Flexible Skills.

13) After certification, Scuba Divers are qualified to :

a. Dive with a buddy independent of supervision, within the limits of their training and experience.
b. Dive under the indirect supervision of a PADI Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor, within the limits of their training and experience.
c. Dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor, to a maximum depth of 12 metres.
d. Plan, conduct and log open water no stop (no decompression) dives when properly equipped and when accompanied by a buddy in conditions with which they have training and/or experience.

14) When should Open Water student divers demonstrate that they can comfortably maintain themselves in water too deep in which to stand by completing a 10-minute swim/ float without using any swim aids.
a. Before Open Water Dive 4.
b. Before Open Water Dive 3.
c. Before Open Water Dive 2.
d. At some point before certification.

15) True or False. When teaching the PADI Open Water Diver Course, you will find the latest required forms; Liability Release and Assumption of Risk Agreement or EU – Statement of Risk and Liability (including
Non-Agency Disclosure and Acknowledgment Agreement), Medical Statement and Standard Safe Diving Practices Statement of Understanding on the Pros’ Site at padi.com.

16) Open Water student divers who successfully complete Knowledge Development 1 and Confined Water Dive 1 may participate in Open Water Dive 1. The maximum ratio is:

a. 4:1 instructor, or 6:1 instructor with a certified assistant.
b. 6:1 instructor, or 8:1 instructor with a certified assistant.
c. 8:1 instructor, or 10:1 instructor with a certified assistant.
d. 8:1 instructor, or 12:1 instructor with 2 certified assistants.

17) When receiving a referred diver from another training organization for Open Water Diver Course completion, which PADI materials should you use to pre-assess the referred diver’s knowledge?
a. The ReActivate Quick Review.
b. The Open Water Diver Course Final Exam.
c. The Open Water Diver Online Quick Review.
d. Any of the above.

18) Open Water student divers may participate in a maximum of 3 open water dives in a single day, except when:

a. open water dives follow confined water dives in the same day, then they may complete no more than two open water dives.
b. the dives are made from a liveaboard boat.
c. the dives are made in an inland quarry.
d. daylight allows you to make more open water training dives.

19) True or False. An Adventure Dive completed on the same day as Open Water Diver course Dive 4 is covered by the Open Water Diver course documentation.

20)
The certification requirements for Adventure Diver are:
a. Complete three Adventure Dives.
b. Complete the three Knowledge Reviews for the completed Adventure Dives.
c. Complete Thinking Like a Diver Knowledge Development section.
d. All of the above.

21) The PADI Specialty Diver courses that can be taught concurrently with the Open Water Diver course are :

a. Only Project AWARE and AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation.
b. Only Navigation and Deep.
c. Altitude, Boat, Dry Suit, Enriched Air, Digital Underwater Photography level 1, DSMB, Full Face Mask, Sidemount, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Project AWARE and AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation.
d. All Specialty Diver courses.

22) A PADI Instructor must directly supervise student divers on :

a. The Deep Adventure Dive.
b. Any Adventure Dive conducted deeper than 18 metres, unless all divers have successfully completed the Deep Adventure Dive.
c. The Digital Underwater Imaging Adventure Dive.
d. a & b are correct.

23) A certified Adventure Diver has completed a minimum of _____ Adventure Dives.

a. 1
b. 3
c. 5
d. 8

24) True or False. The Emergency Oxygen Provider Specialty course can replace Rescue Diver Rescue Exercise 9 – First Aid for Pressure-related injuries and Oxygen Administration.

25) True or False. PADI Open Water Divers may participate in the Rescue Diver course. They can participate in Knowledge Development and Rescue Exercises in confined water.