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According to NFPA, how many levels of fire officers are there? - correct answer...4
Which level of fire officer is generally associated with supervising a single fire company or apparatus? - correct answer...Fi...
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According to NFPA, how many levels of fire officers are there? - correct answer...✔✔4
Which level of fire officer is generally associated with supervising a single fire company
or apparatus? - correct answer...✔✔Fire Officer I
What is the lowest level of fire officer that is qualified for a chief officer position? -
correct answer...✔✔Fire Officer III
Which level of fire officer is generally associated as being the senior non chief officer in
a department? - correct answer...✔✔Fire Officer II
At the Fire Officer I level, emphasis is placed on accomplishing the departments goals
and objectives by work through ________ to achieve the desired results. - correct
answer...✔✔Subordinates
Within the NFPA requirements for Fire Officer I, what are the requirements for
certification as an instructor? - correct answer...✔✔NFPA Fire Instructor I
Which term does the International Association of Fire Chiefs use for Fire Officer I? -
correct answer...✔✔Supervising Fire Officer
Historically, how did the fire service originate in the United States? - correct answer...✔
✔As communities of civilian volunteers.
According to the NFPA, approximately what percentage of fire fighters in the United
States are volunteers? - correct answer...✔✔69 percent
Which type of fire department uses full-time career personnel with volunteer or paid-on-
call to staff the department? - correct answer...✔✔Combination
Although there are four common forms of staffing fire department organizations, most
discussions divide the fire fighters into which two categories? - correct answer...✔✔
Career and Volunteer
Which type of organization do private industries or nongovernmental organizations use
to provide fire protection for factories, processing plants, and large private facilities? -
correct answer...✔✔Brigades
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,In 1871, two major fires occurred that would change the way the United States viewed
and responded to fire. What was one of those fires? - correct answer...✔✔The Great
Chicago Fire
When steam-powered fire engines were introduced in the 1800s, what was the reaction
of many volunteer fire fighters? - correct answer...✔✔Fire fighters were threatened by
the apparatus and resisted their use.
Which devices introduced in the 1850s enabled citizens to send a coded telegraph
signal to the fire department dispatch center? - correct answer...✔✔Public call boxes
What was the first building codes originally developed to prevent? - correct answer...✔
✔Building collapse
Which industry played a major role in the development of the first model building codes?
- correct answer...✔✔The insurance industry
Despite the invention of technical firefighting equipment, what is the most important
resource on a fire scene? - correct answer...✔✔Fire fighters
To which rank do fire fighters report directly? - correct answer...✔✔Lieutenant
Of the following chief officer titles, which is the lowest in rank? - correct answer...✔✔
Battalion chief
Which level of administrative chief fire officer is responsible for managing the activities
of several fire companies within a defined geographic area, usually in more than one fire
station? - correct answer...✔✔Battalion chief
Who has the ultimate administrative responsibility in a fire department? - correct
answer...✔✔Fire chief
Which condition could ensue if it were not for the principle of unity of command? -
correct answer...✔✔Fire fighters could receive multiple, possibly conflicting, orders
from different officers.
Most experts believe that span of control should extend to no more than _______
people. - correct answer...✔✔5
With _______, the specific assignment of a task to an individual makes that person
responsible for completing the task and prevents duplication of job assignments. -
correct answer...✔✔Division of labor
What is the general term for guidelines that a department establishes for fire fighters? -
correct answer...✔✔Discipline
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,All of the following are common ways of organizing a fire department except one.
Choose the exception. - correct answer...✔✔Demographics
Which of the four functions of management deals with developing a scheme, program,
or method that is worked out beforehand to accomplish an objective? - correct answer...
✔✔Planning
Which of the four functions of management does the fire officer use to take the available
people, equipment, structure, and time and develop them into an orderly, functional, and
structural unit? - correct answer...✔✔Organizing
Which of the four functions of management means guiding or directing in a course of
action? - correct answer...✔✔Leading
Which of the four functions of management is used when a fire officer considers the
impact on the budget before making purchases? - correct answer...✔✔Controlling
Which type of organization document is developed by various government or
government-authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed by a
government body? - correct answer...✔✔Regulation
Which type of organization document is developed to provide definite guidelines for
present and future actions? - correct answer...✔✔Policy
Which type of organizational document establishes or prescribes specific operational or
administrative methods to be followed routinely for the performance of designated
operations or actions? - correct answer...✔✔Standard operating procedure
What was the (often corrupt) system called that was used to appoint or promote people
to public jobs prior to the modern use of merit-based system? - correct answer...✔✔
Spoils system
Which legislation enacted in 1883 established the civil service system in the U.S.
federal government? - correct answer...✔✔Pendleton Act
Attributes or qualities that can be described and messed during a promotional
examination are known as _________. - correct answer...✔✔Dimensions
Which legislation was enacted by Congress in response to corruption at Tammany Hall?
- correct answer...✔✔Pendleton Act
What is the term for the ability of a test to ensure what it is intended to measure on a
consistent basis? - correct answer...✔✔Reliability
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, If a promotion eligibility list is rank ordered, how are the candidates typically ranked? -
correct answer...✔✔1, 2, 3, etc.
If a promotion eligibility list is banded, what is typically one of the group headings? -
correct answer...✔✔Qualified
Which of the following is a common post examination promotional consideration? -
correct answer...✔✔Absence of active formal discipline
Which of the following is a common post examination promotional consideration? -
correct answer...✔✔Medically qualified
To be effective in a role-playing exercise, a candidates supervisory decisions should be
strictly based on _________. - correct answer...✔✔Policies and regulations
In the context of job descriptions, what does the A stand for in KSA? - correct answer...
✔✔Abilities
What is done periodically to validate and update the job description and the KSA
technical worksheet associated with a given position? - correct answer...✔✔Individuals
within a classification are surveyed regarding the frequency and importance of job
tasks.
Which term best describes the process of scoring a multiple-choice examination? -
correct answer...✔✔Straightforward
In general, which level of supervisor has the longest and most diverse reading list for its
promotional multiple-choice examinations? - correct answer...✔✔First-level
Which of the following is one of the three opinions for constructing a multiple-choice
knowledge examination? - correct answer...✔✔A consultant is hired to write a specific
examination.
Which type of department would be more likely to turn to an external source for
examination questions? - correct answer...✔✔Smaller
Which disparaging characterization describes the potential for written examinations to
allow candidates to do very well on facts when they cannot apply them in real-life
situations? - correct answer...✔✔Book smart, street dumb
Hidden within the assessment center in-basket papers are usually a few surprises,
including a few _________ items. - correct answer...✔✔Time-sensitive
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