EPME Questions and Answers
Q: Communication is generally classified into three types,
which include?
✓✓ Verbal, Vocal, Visual
Q: What are the five major elements of communication
✓✓ Sender, receiver, message, transmission medium and
feedback
Q: The barriers to effective communication generally fall into to
three categories, which include?
✓✓ Physical, psychological and space
Q: The ability to focus entirely on what the other person is
expressing is known as?
✓✓ Active listening
Q: A communication model designed to help guide you through
the process of active listening is known as
✓✓ L.E.A.P.S.
Q: L.E.A.P.S. is an acronym which stands for?
,✓✓ Listen
Empathize
Ask
Paraphrase
Summarize
Q: When was the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) established?
✓✓ November 25, 2002
Q: The Homeland Security Act of 2002 established what?
✓✓ Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Q: The Coast Guard transferred from the Department of
Transportation (DOT) to the DHS on what date?
✓✓ March 1, 2003
Q: The Commandant of the Coast
Guard reports directly to who?
✓✓ Secretary of Homeland Security
Q: The rate of petty officer became official in?
✓✓ 1808
,Q: Today's Coast Guard petty officer's rate and rating system
traces its heraldry and the leadership role of the petty officers to
✓✓ The U.S. Navy
Q: Petty officers in the Navy acquire their first rate insignia
when they begin wearing a sleeve device showing an eagle
perched
on an anchor in ?
✓✓ 1841
Q: The specialty or rating marks become official, though petty
officers used them for several years.
✓✓ 1866
Q: The Navy recognizes its three classes of petty officers: First,
Second, and Third. The rating badges were approved by the
Secretary of the Navy on?
✓✓ July 1, 1885
Q: Petty officers wear rate insignia of chevrons with the points
down under a spread eagle and rating mark. The eagle faces left
instead of right as it presently does on?
✓✓ 1886
Q: The Navy establishes the Chief Petty Officer rate and issues
the insignia of three chevrons with an arc and eagle. 1st, 2nd,
, and 3rd class petty officers begin wearing the present insignia
on?
✓✓ 1893
Q: The Coast Guard comes into existence when Congress
combines the Revenue Cutter Service with the U.S. Life Saving
service on?
✓✓ 1915
Q: During World War I, the rates in the Coast Guard become
the same as those in the Navy on?
✓✓ 1917
Q: Insubordinate Conduct Toward an Officer?
✓✓ Article 91
Q: Apprehension?
✓✓ Article 7
Q: Failure to Obey Order or Regulation
✓✓ Article 92
Q: What gives the Coast Guard its law enforcement authority
and establishes who may exercise that authority?
Q: Communication is generally classified into three types,
which include?
✓✓ Verbal, Vocal, Visual
Q: What are the five major elements of communication
✓✓ Sender, receiver, message, transmission medium and
feedback
Q: The barriers to effective communication generally fall into to
three categories, which include?
✓✓ Physical, psychological and space
Q: The ability to focus entirely on what the other person is
expressing is known as?
✓✓ Active listening
Q: A communication model designed to help guide you through
the process of active listening is known as
✓✓ L.E.A.P.S.
Q: L.E.A.P.S. is an acronym which stands for?
,✓✓ Listen
Empathize
Ask
Paraphrase
Summarize
Q: When was the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) established?
✓✓ November 25, 2002
Q: The Homeland Security Act of 2002 established what?
✓✓ Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Q: The Coast Guard transferred from the Department of
Transportation (DOT) to the DHS on what date?
✓✓ March 1, 2003
Q: The Commandant of the Coast
Guard reports directly to who?
✓✓ Secretary of Homeland Security
Q: The rate of petty officer became official in?
✓✓ 1808
,Q: Today's Coast Guard petty officer's rate and rating system
traces its heraldry and the leadership role of the petty officers to
✓✓ The U.S. Navy
Q: Petty officers in the Navy acquire their first rate insignia
when they begin wearing a sleeve device showing an eagle
perched
on an anchor in ?
✓✓ 1841
Q: The specialty or rating marks become official, though petty
officers used them for several years.
✓✓ 1866
Q: The Navy recognizes its three classes of petty officers: First,
Second, and Third. The rating badges were approved by the
Secretary of the Navy on?
✓✓ July 1, 1885
Q: Petty officers wear rate insignia of chevrons with the points
down under a spread eagle and rating mark. The eagle faces left
instead of right as it presently does on?
✓✓ 1886
Q: The Navy establishes the Chief Petty Officer rate and issues
the insignia of three chevrons with an arc and eagle. 1st, 2nd,
, and 3rd class petty officers begin wearing the present insignia
on?
✓✓ 1893
Q: The Coast Guard comes into existence when Congress
combines the Revenue Cutter Service with the U.S. Life Saving
service on?
✓✓ 1915
Q: During World War I, the rates in the Coast Guard become
the same as those in the Navy on?
✓✓ 1917
Q: Insubordinate Conduct Toward an Officer?
✓✓ Article 91
Q: Apprehension?
✓✓ Article 7
Q: Failure to Obey Order or Regulation
✓✓ Article 92
Q: What gives the Coast Guard its law enforcement authority
and establishes who may exercise that authority?
