IAHSS Basic Officer Certification Exam
2025/2026 Healthcare Security and Emergency
Response Questions with Correct Answers
Actual Exam (Score A)-PORTAGE
Which of the following is NOT a valid assumption when developing a plan for response
to a civil disturbance?
a. Availability of adequate staffing may be affected
b. Planning and coordination will be an ongoing activity
c. Outside services such as transportation and deliveries will not be affected
d. Needed response by police and fire may be delayed
c. Outside services such as transportation and deliveries will not be affected
Who should handle any demonstrator action on public sidewalks or streets?
a. Administration
b. Security
c. Facility personnel
d. Local law enforcement
d. Local law enforcement
,During a disturbance, which of these is a critical action to be taken by the facility?
a. Control access and validate all entering the building as necessary
b. Lock all doors so no one can leave or enter
c. Allow free access to building as if business as usual
d. Validate those entering the building only
a. Control access and validate all entering the building as necessary
Which of these is an example of an internal event that could affect your medical
center?
a. Loss of electricity
b. Major vehicle accident
c. Severe weather
d. Wild land fires
a. Loss of electricity
Which of these is NOT a community planning partner regarding the healthcare
organization's emergency program?
a. Health department
b. Sheriff's office
c. Local fire department
d. Local TV station
d. Local TV station
,Which of these does The Joint Commission deem a critical area of the emergency
management plan?
a. Communication
b. Food
c. Mortuary
d. Decontamination
a. Communication
Which of these are required in exercising the organization's emergency management
plan?
a. Monthly testing
b. Two exercises yearly
c. An exercise with actual patients
d. An exercise using a medical evacuation helicopter
b. Two exercises yearly
Which of these is an operational function of security officers during emergency
situations?
a. Patient treatment
b. Crowd control
c. Spokesperson to the media
, d. Initiation of facility evacuation
b. Crowd control
Which of the following categories is NOT part of a bomb threat plan?
a. Establishing authority
b. Searching for the bomb
c. Pretension
d. Receiving the threat
c. Pretension
What is the most common delivery of a bomb threat?
a. Called into the media
b. By phone at the facility
c. By email at the facility
d. Delivered in person to the facility
b. By phone at the facility
Which of the following is NOT a question on the Telephone Bomb Threat Checklist?
a. What does the bomb look like?
b. Where is the bomb?
c. What is your name?
2025/2026 Healthcare Security and Emergency
Response Questions with Correct Answers
Actual Exam (Score A)-PORTAGE
Which of the following is NOT a valid assumption when developing a plan for response
to a civil disturbance?
a. Availability of adequate staffing may be affected
b. Planning and coordination will be an ongoing activity
c. Outside services such as transportation and deliveries will not be affected
d. Needed response by police and fire may be delayed
c. Outside services such as transportation and deliveries will not be affected
Who should handle any demonstrator action on public sidewalks or streets?
a. Administration
b. Security
c. Facility personnel
d. Local law enforcement
d. Local law enforcement
,During a disturbance, which of these is a critical action to be taken by the facility?
a. Control access and validate all entering the building as necessary
b. Lock all doors so no one can leave or enter
c. Allow free access to building as if business as usual
d. Validate those entering the building only
a. Control access and validate all entering the building as necessary
Which of these is an example of an internal event that could affect your medical
center?
a. Loss of electricity
b. Major vehicle accident
c. Severe weather
d. Wild land fires
a. Loss of electricity
Which of these is NOT a community planning partner regarding the healthcare
organization's emergency program?
a. Health department
b. Sheriff's office
c. Local fire department
d. Local TV station
d. Local TV station
,Which of these does The Joint Commission deem a critical area of the emergency
management plan?
a. Communication
b. Food
c. Mortuary
d. Decontamination
a. Communication
Which of these are required in exercising the organization's emergency management
plan?
a. Monthly testing
b. Two exercises yearly
c. An exercise with actual patients
d. An exercise using a medical evacuation helicopter
b. Two exercises yearly
Which of these is an operational function of security officers during emergency
situations?
a. Patient treatment
b. Crowd control
c. Spokesperson to the media
, d. Initiation of facility evacuation
b. Crowd control
Which of the following categories is NOT part of a bomb threat plan?
a. Establishing authority
b. Searching for the bomb
c. Pretension
d. Receiving the threat
c. Pretension
What is the most common delivery of a bomb threat?
a. Called into the media
b. By phone at the facility
c. By email at the facility
d. Delivered in person to the facility
b. By phone at the facility
Which of the following is NOT a question on the Telephone Bomb Threat Checklist?
a. What does the bomb look like?
b. Where is the bomb?
c. What is your name?
