Lesson Two: Basic Input and Display

Question 1

Queue status indicator background colour indicates priority of what?

Answer 1

Highest priority message

Question 2

Queue status indicator, normal priority condition is indicated by what colour background?

Answer 2

Grey

Question 3

Which of the following in NOT a location from which the Aircraft Messages window may be opened?

• Workstation window
• Datablock menu
• Coordination window
• VSP List window

Answer 3

VSP List window

Question 4

Which Queue are Messages-in-error displayed in?

Answer 4

The Error Queue

Question 5

What window is used to send messages externally from OCS?

Answer 5

MRCC Window

Question 6

What is the purpose of the AFN window?

Answer 6

Displays connection and status of datalink aircraft

Question 7

Describe two examples of how an OCS controller may open a window that is profiled with an aircrafts callsign and all of it relevant flight data?

Answer 7

Any window opened from the APS, list line, flight strip, etc.

Question 8

Which queues does the controller have access to?

Answer 8

Supervisor, Sector, Coordination and Error

Question 9

How are messages in Sector queue sorted?

Answer 9

EM, UR, NM, with oldest message within the priority at the top

Question 10

How are messages in Aircraft Messages window sorted?

Answer 10

No priority order, with newest message at the top

Question 11

How many people can work on the same message in a error queue at a time?

Answer 11

One

Question 12

If a REQ message was accidentally deleted from the Sector Queue, name the two windows that this message could be retrieved from:

Answer 12

Aircraft messages and Recycle bin

Question 13

Which of the following statement is true, regarding messages in the Error Queue?

• They have not been processed into the OCS
• They can always be found in aircraft messages
• They will always have syntax errors which will need fixing
• The message priority will be urgent

Answer 13

They have not been processed into the OCS