IFSTA Fire Officer II (Fifth edition) Exam Questions and Answers
Company officer two's may interact with? - Answer- Their organization's upper levels and with their local and regional government agencies.
Company officer two's supervise? - Answer- Other officers
Company officer two's act as _______ change agents within their organization - Answer- Change
Prerequisite knowledge for for Fire Officer two? - Answer- 1. The organization of thier local government
2. The enabling and regulatory legislation and the law-making process at the local, state
and national level.
The level two Fire Officer must perfom the following duties: - Answer- 1. Evaluate personnel and create an environment to maximize employee performance.
2. Prepare projects and division budgets.
3. Develop budgets.
4. Evaluate the resource needs of assigned units.
Understand the purchaseing process.
5. Maintain records on purchases.
6. Conduct a preliminary investigation of a fire scene to include analyzing information and determining the point of orgin and cause of the fire.
7. Develop preincident plans for multiunit operations.
8. Assign resources to effectiviely control incidents.
9. Conduct postincident analysis using inforamtion gathered from all responding units.
10. Assist with the development of organizational policies and procedures.
11. Provide the media with emergency incident or department activity information.
12. Apply planning concepts and project needed resources.
The fire officer two responsabilites regarding safety and health include: - Answer- analyzing unit accidents and injury reports and directing actions and or recommending steps to prevent thier reoccurance.
The company officer two must interact personally with superiors, peers and subordinates to accomplish? - Answer- Organizational goals and tasks.
The company officer two may be required to develop? - Answer- Written reports, press releases, memos, policies and procedures. Local governments affects emergency services organizations in two primary ways. - Answer- 1. allocating funds, approving.disapproving purchases, staffing requests, ordinances related to fire protection.
2. Local government oversee other department and agencies with which their emergency services organizations must interact.
Who may enact local legislation? - Answer- City council, commisioners, or board with authority over the jurisdiction
What are the three functional branches of government? - Answer- Legislative, executive
and Judicial.
What four states are considered commonwealth - Answer- Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia and Puerto Rico
What is a commonwealth state? - Answer- A state in which the government functions with the common consent of the people
What territiories does the US currently administer. - Answer- Guam, Midway, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories? - Answer- Ten Provinces and three territories.
Canada has three branches of the government. - Answer- Unicameral legislative assembly, executive branch and judicial branch
The following agencies may influence fire and emergency services. - Answer- Fire marshal, fire training programs, commisioners, EMS services, forestry, homeland security, OSHA and fish and game.
Other agencies that we may interact with. - Answer- FEMA, USFA, NFA, EMI, coast guard, USDA, USFS, HUD, DOI, DOL, OSHA, CDC, NIOSH, DOT, DOJ, CPSC, NRC
Examples of Internal resources. - Answer- Street dept, public works, L.E. EMS,
What is an Area Contigency Plan (ACP)? - Answer- A procedure to be put into effect should an emergency occur within a given region or area.
What is NRP? - Answer- National Response Plan- created to integrate federal government prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation plans into one
all discipline, all hazard approach to domestic incident management
What is formative evaluation? - Answer- Ongoing, repeated assesment conducted over time to evalute an employee's performance against an organizations standards. What is Summative evaluation - Answer- The company officer's final assesment of the individuals performance. Typically done at the end of probation, annually as part of a performance review and for performance improvement or disciplinary purpose.
It is likly that the __________ willbe the individual who implements change at the operations level. - Answer- Company officer
Change can originate from two forces. - Answer- Internal and external
Change can cause people to go through four stages - Answer- Denial, resistance, exploration and commitment.
The types of change that an organization may have to undergo are? - Answer- Strategic, structure, technology and people.
What are the reasons to resist change? - Answer- Uncertainty, loss of control or power, fear of loss, self-interest, learning anxiety, lack of trust, lack of shared vision,
Resistance to change can be overcome using the following 7 steps. - Answer- Create a climate for change, plan for change, communicate the advantages and effects of change, meet the needs of both the organizationand employees, involve employees in the change process, provide support for employees during the change and seek the input and support of "opinion leaders" in the organiztion.
what does a change agent person do? - Answer- They define, research, plan, build support and carefully select members of a change team.
A model for change has been defined into five steps. - Answer- Recognize the need for change, identify resistance and address it, plan the change intervention, implement the change and control the change.
There are 8 reasons that change processes fail - Answer- To complex, lacks universal support, no clear vision and not understanding the importance of having one, failure to communicate the vision and change process, not planning for and recognizing tge short term results, declaring completion if the change process prematurely and failure to make the change a permanent part of the organization's culture.
What is the NFPA standard for Fire Officer two - Answer- NFPA 1021
What oral communication skills is necassary as part of the company officer duties - Answer- Giving presentations
A critical component of how governments function that a level two company officer must
know is? - Answer- Applicable regulatory and enabling legislation
An example of local government - Answer- County
