Teaching students in accordance with the federal state educational standards (FSES) requires new approaches to the realization of their final examination. This paper dwells on professional activity and requirements for students of engineering level of training (“Automobiles and automobile operation”) and bachelor degree (“Exploitation of transport and technological machines and complexes”). The final certification of bachelor students, the approaches to the formation of the themes and structure of a final qualifying work, their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. According to the authors the optimal variant of the overall theme of a final qualifying work are is offered. The typical structure of a bachelor diploma work is presented.