IAAI CFI UPDATED FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Compartmentation - ✔✔A building design feature that aims to limit the fire to its
origin.
✔✔Competent Ignition Source - ✔✔Located at the origin, these should be considered
individually during the development of a cause hypothesis
✔✔Complete PPE - ✔✔This should be donned when dealing with hazardous chemicals
✔✔Conduction - ✔✔An example of heat transfer, when the heating of a steel beam to
an unexposed part of a building results in a fire in that location
✔✔Connection Points - ✔✔Overheating on a circuit is most likely to occur at this
location on a circuit
✔✔Joint Investigation - ✔✔Consensus agreement between interested parties should be
developed prior to the commencement of WHAT?
✔✔Crazing - ✔✔Complicated patterns in glass
✔✔Crime Scenes - ✔✔A type of scene or circumstances, in which fires do NOT always
destroy all physical evidence
✔✔Current (amperage) - ✔✔A factor in OHM's law that can be calculated if you know
resistance and voltage
✔✔Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔The reasoning in the scientific method used to test an
hypothesis
✔✔Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔The reasoning process of moving from generalizations to
particular assertion
(*"Reduce to Deduce"
*Test hypothesis ("deduce")
*Test based on known facts
*More confident assertion than induction)
✔✔Demonstrative Evidence - ✔✔Type of evidence consisting of tangible items
*as opposed to Testimonial Evidence or Documentary (written) Evidence
,✔✔Depth of Char - ✔✔A burn pattern analysis that is MORE useful for evaluating fire
spread, rather than length or intensity of burning
✔✔Differential - ✔✔All voltages are _________________, which means that a battery
or DC generator creates a potential difference that can force charge through a wire
✔✔Diffusion Flame Burning - ✔✔The ordinary sustained burning mode in most fires
✔✔Document and Carefully Move - ✔✔By taking these two steps, an investigator can
obtain the manufacturer's name, model & serial numbers, manufacture date, and any
warnings on an appliance, determined to be in the area of fire origin
✔✔Documentary Evidence - ✔✔What type of evidence is an investigator's report?
✔✔Documentation - ✔✔A key method used by investigators when an appliance is
determined to be in the area of origin, particularly the positioning of all controls and
components.
✔✔DOT Standards - ✔✔The standards that gas cylinders must conform to
(Dept. of Transportation)
✔✔Dual Element Fuses - ✔✔Types of fuses that have one element for overloads and
another element for short circuits
✔✔Dust Explosion - ✔✔A particular type of an explosion that does NOT often result in
pronounced seats of explosion
✔✔Dust Explosion - ✔✔An explosion that most often occurs in confined areas of
relatively wide dispersal, where combustible dust can accumulate in sufficient quantity
to support a propagating reaction.
✔✔Engine Oil Analysis - ✔✔This analysis may be performed to determine the pre-fire
condition of the engine and to establish possible motive for the destruction of the
vehicle.
✔✔Evidence - ✔✔The fire scene itself needs to be considered as WHAT?
✔✔Evidence Collection - ✔✔The process of photographing an item, then collecting,
tagging and putting it in a log
✔✔Evidence Collection and Documentation - ✔✔The importance of this fire
investigative practice is no different in wildfire investigations, compared to structural
fires.
, ✔✔Evidence Custodian - ✔✔The person at a fire scene who manages various aspects
of the evidence collection process, including an evidence log and evidence bagging,
tagging, preservation and storage
✔✔Exigent Circumstances - ✔✔The justification used to enter a property in order to
extinguish a fire
✔✔Final Hypothesis - ✔✔Also known as "Conclusions"
✔✔Fire Death Team - ✔✔A team comprised of a homicide detective, medical examiner,
and fire investigator
✔✔Fire Dynamics Analysis - ✔✔A type of analysis used to predict fire phenomena and
characteristics of the environment
✔✔Fire Effects - ✔✔Observable or measurable changes in or on a material as the result
of a fire
✔✔Fire Growth Rate - ✔✔Once a fuel is ignited in a motor vehicle, any additional fuels
contained in the vehicle have significant effect on WHAT fire factor?
✔✔Fire Intensity - ✔✔In a wildland fire, this fire characterisic is indicated by the degree
of damage to the wildland fuel
✔✔Fire Origin - ✔✔This investigative determination is based on witness information, fire
patterns, arc mapping, and fire dynamics
✔✔Fire Scene Access - ✔✔The fifth and sixth amendments DO NOT answer questions
regarding constitutional protections in relation to WHAT fire investigation aspect?
(4th amendment issue)
✔✔Fire Scene Reconstruction - ✔✔Recreating pre-fire positions of contents
✔✔Fire-rated Door - ✔✔This type of door must be used when installed in a fire-rated
wall.
✔✔First or Second Degree Burns - ✔✔This is the typical extent of thermal injuries
sustained from an explosion flame front, due to the very short duration.
✔✔Flame Spread Rating - ✔✔A system used to rate a material's flame spread potential.
*And these are the categories:
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Compartmentation - ✔✔A building design feature that aims to limit the fire to its
origin.
✔✔Competent Ignition Source - ✔✔Located at the origin, these should be considered
individually during the development of a cause hypothesis
✔✔Complete PPE - ✔✔This should be donned when dealing with hazardous chemicals
✔✔Conduction - ✔✔An example of heat transfer, when the heating of a steel beam to
an unexposed part of a building results in a fire in that location
✔✔Connection Points - ✔✔Overheating on a circuit is most likely to occur at this
location on a circuit
✔✔Joint Investigation - ✔✔Consensus agreement between interested parties should be
developed prior to the commencement of WHAT?
✔✔Crazing - ✔✔Complicated patterns in glass
✔✔Crime Scenes - ✔✔A type of scene or circumstances, in which fires do NOT always
destroy all physical evidence
✔✔Current (amperage) - ✔✔A factor in OHM's law that can be calculated if you know
resistance and voltage
✔✔Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔The reasoning in the scientific method used to test an
hypothesis
✔✔Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔The reasoning process of moving from generalizations to
particular assertion
(*"Reduce to Deduce"
*Test hypothesis ("deduce")
*Test based on known facts
*More confident assertion than induction)
✔✔Demonstrative Evidence - ✔✔Type of evidence consisting of tangible items
*as opposed to Testimonial Evidence or Documentary (written) Evidence
,✔✔Depth of Char - ✔✔A burn pattern analysis that is MORE useful for evaluating fire
spread, rather than length or intensity of burning
✔✔Differential - ✔✔All voltages are _________________, which means that a battery
or DC generator creates a potential difference that can force charge through a wire
✔✔Diffusion Flame Burning - ✔✔The ordinary sustained burning mode in most fires
✔✔Document and Carefully Move - ✔✔By taking these two steps, an investigator can
obtain the manufacturer's name, model & serial numbers, manufacture date, and any
warnings on an appliance, determined to be in the area of fire origin
✔✔Documentary Evidence - ✔✔What type of evidence is an investigator's report?
✔✔Documentation - ✔✔A key method used by investigators when an appliance is
determined to be in the area of origin, particularly the positioning of all controls and
components.
✔✔DOT Standards - ✔✔The standards that gas cylinders must conform to
(Dept. of Transportation)
✔✔Dual Element Fuses - ✔✔Types of fuses that have one element for overloads and
another element for short circuits
✔✔Dust Explosion - ✔✔A particular type of an explosion that does NOT often result in
pronounced seats of explosion
✔✔Dust Explosion - ✔✔An explosion that most often occurs in confined areas of
relatively wide dispersal, where combustible dust can accumulate in sufficient quantity
to support a propagating reaction.
✔✔Engine Oil Analysis - ✔✔This analysis may be performed to determine the pre-fire
condition of the engine and to establish possible motive for the destruction of the
vehicle.
✔✔Evidence - ✔✔The fire scene itself needs to be considered as WHAT?
✔✔Evidence Collection - ✔✔The process of photographing an item, then collecting,
tagging and putting it in a log
✔✔Evidence Collection and Documentation - ✔✔The importance of this fire
investigative practice is no different in wildfire investigations, compared to structural
fires.
, ✔✔Evidence Custodian - ✔✔The person at a fire scene who manages various aspects
of the evidence collection process, including an evidence log and evidence bagging,
tagging, preservation and storage
✔✔Exigent Circumstances - ✔✔The justification used to enter a property in order to
extinguish a fire
✔✔Final Hypothesis - ✔✔Also known as "Conclusions"
✔✔Fire Death Team - ✔✔A team comprised of a homicide detective, medical examiner,
and fire investigator
✔✔Fire Dynamics Analysis - ✔✔A type of analysis used to predict fire phenomena and
characteristics of the environment
✔✔Fire Effects - ✔✔Observable or measurable changes in or on a material as the result
of a fire
✔✔Fire Growth Rate - ✔✔Once a fuel is ignited in a motor vehicle, any additional fuels
contained in the vehicle have significant effect on WHAT fire factor?
✔✔Fire Intensity - ✔✔In a wildland fire, this fire characterisic is indicated by the degree
of damage to the wildland fuel
✔✔Fire Origin - ✔✔This investigative determination is based on witness information, fire
patterns, arc mapping, and fire dynamics
✔✔Fire Scene Access - ✔✔The fifth and sixth amendments DO NOT answer questions
regarding constitutional protections in relation to WHAT fire investigation aspect?
(4th amendment issue)
✔✔Fire Scene Reconstruction - ✔✔Recreating pre-fire positions of contents
✔✔Fire-rated Door - ✔✔This type of door must be used when installed in a fire-rated
wall.
✔✔First or Second Degree Burns - ✔✔This is the typical extent of thermal injuries
sustained from an explosion flame front, due to the very short duration.
✔✔Flame Spread Rating - ✔✔A system used to rate a material's flame spread potential.
*And these are the categories:
