Free Air Traffic Skills Assessment (ATSA) Exam Questions and Answers

A clerk can work on only one job at a time and cannot pause a job once it starts. Job P takes 4 minutes and is due in 5 minutes. Job Q takes 6 minutes and is due in 12 minutes. Job R takes 2 minutes and is due in 7 minutes. All times are measured from now. In which order should the clerk do the jobs so that every deadline is met?

• AA. R, P, Q
• BB. Q, P, R
• CC. P, R, Q
• DD. P, Q, R

Passage: A shift supervisor must submit a written report within 24 hours of any equipment failure that stops work for more than 15 minutes. A failure that stops work for 15 minutes or less is recorded only in the shift log. On Tuesday, a conveyor belt stopped for exactly 15 minutes. Later that shift, a pallet lift stopped for 40 minutes. Which statement is supported by the passage?

• AA. Only the conveyor belt failure requires a written report
• BB. Both failures require a written report within 24 hours
• CC. Only the pallet lift failure requires a written report
• DD. Neither failure requires a written report or a log entry

Aircraft A is flying level on a heading of 270 (due west). Aircraft B is due south of Aircraft A and 1,000 feet lower. From the cockpit of Aircraft A, where does Aircraft B appear?

• AA. To the left and below
• BB. To the left and above
• CC. To the right and below
• DD. To the right and above

A warehouse has four bays. Bay 1 holds 6 pallets and has a blue label. Bay 2 holds 4 pallets and has a green label. Bay 3 holds 9 pallets and has a blue label. Bay 4 holds 2 pallets and has a green label. A worker then moves 3 pallets from Bay 3 to Bay 2. After the move, how many pallets are in the bays with green labels?

• AA. 6
• BB. 9
• CC. 12
• DD. 15

A technician records these sensor readings in order: S1 = 40, S2 = 25, S3 = 60, S4 = 35. The technician then re-reads S2 and corrects its value to 45. Which sensor now has the second-highest reading?

• AA. Sensor S3
• BB. Sensor S1
• CC. Sensor S2
• DD. Sensor S4

A dispatcher handles one request at a time. Requests are handled by priority: safety requests first, then urgent requests, then routine requests. Within the same priority level, the request that has waited longest goes first. The current queue is: R1: routine, waiting 14 minutes R2: urgent, waiting 6 minutes R3: safety, waiting 3 minutes R4: urgent, waiting 10 minutes The dispatcher begins handling R3. While R3 is in progress, a new safety request, R5, arrives. Which request is handled third?

• AA. Request R2
• BB. Request R4
• CC. Request R1
• DD. Request R5

Aircraft M is flying on a heading of 225 (southwest). Aircraft N is at the same altitude, due west of Aircraft M. Relative to the nose of Aircraft M, where is Aircraft N?

• AA. Behind and to the left
• BB. Behind and to the right
• CC. Ahead and to the left
• DD. Ahead and to the right

Passage: An employee may hold no more than three tools from the tool crib at one time. Each power tool requires its own signed form. A hand tool requires no form. Rae checked out two hand tools and one power tool, with a signed form for the power tool. Later she returned one hand tool and asked to check out a second power tool. Which statement is correct?

• AA. She may not take it until she has returned every tool she holds
• BB. She may take it with no new form because her earlier form is still on file
• CC. She may take it once a signed form for that tool is submitted
• DD. She may not take it because she already holds one power tool

Start with A = 14, B = 9 and C = 6. Apply these steps in order: 1. A decreases by 4. 2. B is set equal to the current value of A. 3. C increases by the current value of B. 4. A is cut in half. What is the value of C + A?

• AA. 15
• BB. 20
• CC. 21
• DD. 26

Aircraft A is flying on heading 270 (due west) at 6,000 feet. Aircraft B is at the same altitude, 5 nautical miles due south of A. From the cockpit of aircraft A, where does aircraft B appear?

• AA. Off the right wing
• BB. Off the left wing
• CC. Directly behind
• DD. Directly ahead