Questions and Notes for Solus Pro Certification Name (You may use these notes on certification test) What is the CF card used for? What does the Yes button do? What does the No button do? What do you use the programmable super S button for? How do you make the screen brighter? How can you customize the S button to always save a screen shot as a picture? What is the Utilities tool drawer used for? What will the scan tool do for you as a technician?
Where is the DLC connector on an OBDII car? Why is it important to know where the DLC is located? What is the first step in Scanner basic menu flow? What are the basic types of software (called tool rooms)? How many Previous Vehicles are stored in the SolusPro? How many Vehicle Control Modules can the scan tool access on the Demo vehicle? What does the Codes menu do? What are the 4 types of functional tests? What does the Troubleshooter do?
How would you change units of measurement from kpa to psi? When will the units of measurement return to the default value? What type of data does the Solus Pro collect? Why would you create a custom data list? What are three modes to capture and save data stream (PID) information? Explain the three ways to display captured PID data? How much data can the Solus Pro collect?
How does the CLEAR function affect data collection? PIDS may be sorted 3 ways. Name them. In PID View, how would display only 2 PIDS? How many PIDs can you lock in the PID List view? What is the purpose of graphing one PID from the data stream? What is the purpose of viewing multiple graphs? What button would you access to see a digital reading for any point on the graph? When in Graph Mode, how many PID triggers can be set on SOLUS Pro? You are reviewing a Frozen Saved graph. What does a BLUE line mean? You are reviewing a Frozen Saved graph What does a Green line mean? You are reviewing a Frozen Saved graph. What does a Grey line mean?
What type of PIDs can you graph? How many PIDs can you display in the Graph view? How many PIDS can you lock in graph view? How can you get the fastest refresh rate for data stream (PID) data? List 2 reasons to create a Custom Data list and then view those PIDS in Graph view (vs Text or PID data) You are trying to access the codes and data and get a message stating Waiting to Communicate What might cause this? Why might you want to look at Freeze Frame/Failure Records? Why would you look at the DTC Status? What type of information does DTC Status display? (be specific)
You are diagnosing a vehicle and find it has a Code P0102 Mass Air Flow Circuit Signal Low. What do you do now? You have a car does not start. There are no codes. Where do you look for diagnostic procedures? What does Fast Track Data Scan tell you? Some codes will not appear until a specific OBDII monitor has run. That code monitor may not run until certain driving conditions are met. Where do you look to learn how to drive the car to get the monitor to run? You follow Code Tips and read "see REF G119 for schematic". Where do you find reference G119? How do you get to all 10 modes of the Global OBDII? What does Mode $0A stand for?