IMSA TRAFFIC SIGNAL TECHNICIAN
ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED
APLUS
●● IMSA stands for:
Answer: International Municipal Signal Association
●● Which of the following is NOT an IMSA certification?
Answer: Y: Traffic Signal Level II Design/Engineer Technician
Y: Traffic Signal Level II Field Technician
Y: Traffic Signal Level II Bench Technician
N: Traffic Signal Level III Bridge Design Technician
●● Which of the following are potential safety hazards?
Answer: Overhead and underground power
Gas
Aerial lift equipment
●● What are the sections of a ramp meter signal?
Answer: Circular red, circular green
,●● PPE stands for:
Answer: Personal Protective Equipment
●● Which of the follow is an example of adequate fall protection during
the operation of aerial lift equipment?
Answer: Full body harness
Safety belt
Rails of a platform lift
●● Work Zone Supervisor is responsible for which of the following
tasks?
Answer: Ensure advance warning devices have not been removed or
relocated
●● Which of the following is NOT a sentence type in the MUTCD?
Answer: Y: Standards; requirements that have to be followed
Y: Guidance; recommendations that are to be followed unless there is a
good reason not to
N: Objectives; reasons behind the standards and guidance
y: Support; additional information to clarify the standards and guidance
, ●● Which of the following is an example configuration of an
Emergency-Vehicle Traffic Control Signals:
Answer: Three-section traffic signal with circular red, circular yellow,
and smaller circular yellow indications
●● The following phases are typically assigned to the major street
through movements:
Answer: 2 and 6
●● The green interval is made up which three components?
Answer: Minimum green, passage time, maximum green
●● What are the three types of recall features of a traffic signal
controller?
Answer: Minimum, maximum, pedestrian (+soft)
●● In a coordination plan, what is the number of seconds given to each
phase at the intersection?
Answer: Split (g,y,r)
●● Which of the following traffic signal coordination method is
typically least expensive?
Answer: Time-based coordination
ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED
APLUS
●● IMSA stands for:
Answer: International Municipal Signal Association
●● Which of the following is NOT an IMSA certification?
Answer: Y: Traffic Signal Level II Design/Engineer Technician
Y: Traffic Signal Level II Field Technician
Y: Traffic Signal Level II Bench Technician
N: Traffic Signal Level III Bridge Design Technician
●● Which of the following are potential safety hazards?
Answer: Overhead and underground power
Gas
Aerial lift equipment
●● What are the sections of a ramp meter signal?
Answer: Circular red, circular green
,●● PPE stands for:
Answer: Personal Protective Equipment
●● Which of the follow is an example of adequate fall protection during
the operation of aerial lift equipment?
Answer: Full body harness
Safety belt
Rails of a platform lift
●● Work Zone Supervisor is responsible for which of the following
tasks?
Answer: Ensure advance warning devices have not been removed or
relocated
●● Which of the following is NOT a sentence type in the MUTCD?
Answer: Y: Standards; requirements that have to be followed
Y: Guidance; recommendations that are to be followed unless there is a
good reason not to
N: Objectives; reasons behind the standards and guidance
y: Support; additional information to clarify the standards and guidance
, ●● Which of the following is an example configuration of an
Emergency-Vehicle Traffic Control Signals:
Answer: Three-section traffic signal with circular red, circular yellow,
and smaller circular yellow indications
●● The following phases are typically assigned to the major street
through movements:
Answer: 2 and 6
●● The green interval is made up which three components?
Answer: Minimum green, passage time, maximum green
●● What are the three types of recall features of a traffic signal
controller?
Answer: Minimum, maximum, pedestrian (+soft)
●● In a coordination plan, what is the number of seconds given to each
phase at the intersection?
Answer: Split (g,y,r)
●● Which of the following traffic signal coordination method is
typically least expensive?
Answer: Time-based coordination
