FDNY F-07 Test Questions and All Actual
Answers 2026-2027 Updated.
Building Occupants - Answer All persons in the building, including employees, tenants,
building staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - Answer A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected
premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY
Evacuation - Answer the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response to a fire
or an emergency
Emergency Preparedness Plan - Answer The fire safety and evacuation plan/emergency action
plan
Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff - Answer The individuals identified in the emergency
preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of such plan
Fire Drill - Answer A training exercise by which building occupants are familiarized with and/ or
practice the procedures for the safe, orderly and expeditious in-building relocation, partial
evacuation or evacuation, as applicable to the occupancy or building type, in accordance with
the fire safety and evacuation plan.
Fire Protective System - Answer Approved devices, equipment and systems or combinations of
systems used to deter a fire, activate an alarm, extinguish or control a fire. Includes fire
extinguishers, sprinkler systems and standpipe systems
In-Building Relocation - Answer The controlled movement of building occupants from an
endangered area of a building to an in-building relocation area with-in the same building in
response to a fire or non-fire emergency
In- Building Relocation Area (IBRA) - Answer A designated area in a building to which building
occupants may be relocated to in accordance with the emergency preparedness plan for the
premises
Manual Fire Alarm Box - Answer A manually operated device used to initiate an alarm signal
Mixed Occupancy Building - Answer Buildings that have multiple occupancies. These are
referred to as "mixed occupancies" and the different parts will be required to meet the fire code
for each specific area. An example of this is a shopping mall with underground parking. The
, shopping area itself is Group M (mercantile), while the parking area would qualify as Group S
(storage)
Non-Fire Emergency - Answer A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release
(explosion, natural disaster or other emergency affecting premises)
Non-Fire Emergency Drill - Answer Training exercise practice procedures for evacuation
Off-line - Answer Those periods of time when a Central Station Company will, at the request of
a building owner, not transmit fire alarm signals received from a building to the Fire
Department. Fire alarm systems can be taken "off-line" only for Fire Department approved
purposes associated with the prevention of unnecessary and unwarranted alarms.
One-Way Voice Communication - Answer Make announcements from lobby to building
occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc.
Owner - Answer the fee owner or lessee of the building
Partial Evacuation - Answer the emptying of a building of some but not all building occupants
in response to a fire or an emergency.
Public Address System - Answer an electronic sound amplification and distribution system with
a microphone, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to allow a person to address a large public.
Public Address systems enable voice communications from a central location, usually in the
building lobby.
Regular Business Hours - Answer refers to any time and any day in which the referenced
building is open to the public or business is being conducted. For a more complete definition,
please refer to Section 402 of the 2008 Fire Code.
Shelter in Place - Answer the precaution of directing building occupants to remain indoors at
their present location
Two-Way Communication - Answer a form of transmission in which both parties
involved have the ability to transmit information. This enables the FEDC, staff, or Fire
Department personnel to communicate with building occupants or each other throughout the
building. This is especially useful during an emergency, and allows staff members to report the
conditions of a fire emergency from the fire floor back to the FEDC in the lobby at the fire
command center.
Answers 2026-2027 Updated.
Building Occupants - Answer All persons in the building, including employees, tenants,
building staff, and visitors
Central Station Company - Answer A facility that receives alarm signals from a protected
premise and re-transmits or otherwise reports such alarm signals to the FDNY
Evacuation - Answer the emptying of a building of all building occupants in response to a fire
or an emergency
Emergency Preparedness Plan - Answer The fire safety and evacuation plan/emergency action
plan
Fire and Emergency Preparedness Staff - Answer The individuals identified in the emergency
preparedness plan as responsible for the implementation of such plan
Fire Drill - Answer A training exercise by which building occupants are familiarized with and/ or
practice the procedures for the safe, orderly and expeditious in-building relocation, partial
evacuation or evacuation, as applicable to the occupancy or building type, in accordance with
the fire safety and evacuation plan.
Fire Protective System - Answer Approved devices, equipment and systems or combinations of
systems used to deter a fire, activate an alarm, extinguish or control a fire. Includes fire
extinguishers, sprinkler systems and standpipe systems
In-Building Relocation - Answer The controlled movement of building occupants from an
endangered area of a building to an in-building relocation area with-in the same building in
response to a fire or non-fire emergency
In- Building Relocation Area (IBRA) - Answer A designated area in a building to which building
occupants may be relocated to in accordance with the emergency preparedness plan for the
premises
Manual Fire Alarm Box - Answer A manually operated device used to initiate an alarm signal
Mixed Occupancy Building - Answer Buildings that have multiple occupancies. These are
referred to as "mixed occupancies" and the different parts will be required to meet the fire code
for each specific area. An example of this is a shopping mall with underground parking. The
, shopping area itself is Group M (mercantile), while the parking area would qualify as Group S
(storage)
Non-Fire Emergency - Answer A biological chemical or nuclear ingredient or release
(explosion, natural disaster or other emergency affecting premises)
Non-Fire Emergency Drill - Answer Training exercise practice procedures for evacuation
Off-line - Answer Those periods of time when a Central Station Company will, at the request of
a building owner, not transmit fire alarm signals received from a building to the Fire
Department. Fire alarm systems can be taken "off-line" only for Fire Department approved
purposes associated with the prevention of unnecessary and unwarranted alarms.
One-Way Voice Communication - Answer Make announcements from lobby to building
occupants in their apartments, offices, classrooms, etc.
Owner - Answer the fee owner or lessee of the building
Partial Evacuation - Answer the emptying of a building of some but not all building occupants
in response to a fire or an emergency.
Public Address System - Answer an electronic sound amplification and distribution system with
a microphone, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to allow a person to address a large public.
Public Address systems enable voice communications from a central location, usually in the
building lobby.
Regular Business Hours - Answer refers to any time and any day in which the referenced
building is open to the public or business is being conducted. For a more complete definition,
please refer to Section 402 of the 2008 Fire Code.
Shelter in Place - Answer the precaution of directing building occupants to remain indoors at
their present location
Two-Way Communication - Answer a form of transmission in which both parties
involved have the ability to transmit information. This enables the FEDC, staff, or Fire
Department personnel to communicate with building occupants or each other throughout the
building. This is especially useful during an emergency, and allows staff members to report the
conditions of a fire emergency from the fire floor back to the FEDC in the lobby at the fire
command center.
