STCW STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What are the basic classifications of bulkheads? - ✔✔Class A - Prevents the
passage of flame and smoke for 1 hour
Class B - Prevents the passage of flame for 30 min
Class C - no requirement as far as the passage of smoke
✔✔what is the PASS method for a fire extinguisher? - ✔✔Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
✔✔What are 4 types of doors? - ✔✔1. Individual dogged
2. Quick-acting
3. Hatches
4. Power-driven
✔✔A firefighter may carry some or all the following equipment/tools during firefighting
operations: - ✔✔1. Flashlight
2. Life line - used as a signaling device
3. Pass Device - personal alert safety system
4. Atmospheric Meter - to determine if they are in a dangerous environment
5. Spanner wrench - used to loosen hose couplings
✔✔What is the spanned wrench for? - ✔✔Loosening hose couplings only
✔✔What are the 2 kinds of hose couplings? - ✔✔Male and female
✔✔What is an adapter used for? - ✔✔To attache hoses with the same couplings
✔✔What is a gated way used for? - ✔✔to turn a 2 and 1/2 in hose into (2) 1 and 1/2
inch hoses
✔✔What 5 things are required for a fire station? - ✔✔1. Fire Station #
2. Control value
3. Nozzle
4. Fire hose
5. Spanner wrench
✔✔You hear the alarm for a fixed CO2 flooding system. What is minimum amount of
time you have to escape? - ✔✔20 seconds
✔✔What is the fire triangle? - ✔✔heat, fuel, oxygen
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What are the basic classifications of bulkheads? - ✔✔Class A - Prevents the
passage of flame and smoke for 1 hour
Class B - Prevents the passage of flame for 30 min
Class C - no requirement as far as the passage of smoke
✔✔what is the PASS method for a fire extinguisher? - ✔✔Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
✔✔What are 4 types of doors? - ✔✔1. Individual dogged
2. Quick-acting
3. Hatches
4. Power-driven
✔✔A firefighter may carry some or all the following equipment/tools during firefighting
operations: - ✔✔1. Flashlight
2. Life line - used as a signaling device
3. Pass Device - personal alert safety system
4. Atmospheric Meter - to determine if they are in a dangerous environment
5. Spanner wrench - used to loosen hose couplings
✔✔What is the spanned wrench for? - ✔✔Loosening hose couplings only
✔✔What are the 2 kinds of hose couplings? - ✔✔Male and female
✔✔What is an adapter used for? - ✔✔To attache hoses with the same couplings
✔✔What is a gated way used for? - ✔✔to turn a 2 and 1/2 in hose into (2) 1 and 1/2
inch hoses
✔✔What 5 things are required for a fire station? - ✔✔1. Fire Station #
2. Control value
3. Nozzle
4. Fire hose
5. Spanner wrench
✔✔You hear the alarm for a fixed CO2 flooding system. What is minimum amount of
time you have to escape? - ✔✔20 seconds
✔✔What is the fire triangle? - ✔✔heat, fuel, oxygen
