HAZMAT OPS EXAM FINAL EXAM LATEST 5 VERSIONS
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A
What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific
federal or state agency? - CORRECT ANSWER Laws
What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the law?
- CORRECT ANSWER Regulation
NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - CORRECT ANSWER
Standards
What establishes a single comprehensive national incident
management system (NIMS) and Presidential Policy Directives? -
CORRECT ANSWER Homeland Security Presidential Directives
What has the goal to secure and resilient nation with the capabilities
required across the whole community to prevent, protect against,
mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that
pose the greatest risk? - CORRECT ANSWER Presidential Policy
Directives
What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous
materials? - CORRECT ANSWER Hazardous Materials Transportation
Act (1974)
What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit
system for treatment, storage, and disposal? - CORRECT ANSWER
Resource Conservation Recovery Act (1976)
What law is known as a superfund, and made responsible parties pay
for cleanup of scenes, and created a notification system for spills? -
CORRECT ANSWER Comprehensive Environmental Response
Compensation Liability Act (1980)
,What law required OSHA to develop health and safety standards that
eventually brought about 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste
Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)? - CORRECT
ANSWER Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
Title 1
What law is also known as the emergency planning and community
right to know act and created state emergency response commission
and local emergency planning committees? - CORRECT ANSWER
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3
What law requires facilities to submit an emergency and hazardous
chemical inventory to SERC, LEPC, and local fire departments? -
CORRECT ANSWER Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
(SARA) Title 3
What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders dealing
with Hazmat operations? - CORRECT ANSWER NFPA 472
What is a plan that should be consistent with local emergency
response plan and within the capabilities and training level of the
team, and trained on and examined and updated frequently? -
CORRECT ANSWER Standard Operation Guideline (SOG)
What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? -
CORRECT ANSWER Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate, Terminate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you deny
access, control egress, stage incoming companies, and establish
hazard zones after gathering information? - CORRECT ANSWER
Isolate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you find
the occupancy and location, container shapes and sizes, markings and
colors, placards and labels, shipping papers/MSDS, monitoring/senses,
and find the principle responsible party? - CORRECT ANSWER
Identify
,What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you get
more personnel, get more equipment, and get outside agencies to
come help? - CORRECT ANSWER Notify
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you have
non-intervention approach, offensive approach, and defensive
approach? - CORRECT ANSWER Mitigate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
debrief, document, do medical evaluations, recover costs, replace
equipment, and critique? - CORRECT ANSWER Terminate
In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be controlled by
the initial responding units? - CORRECT ANSWER Level 1
In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is moderate incident that
encompasses a greater potential threat to the surrounding area or
community? Could possibly require evacuation. - CORRECT ANSWER
Level 2
In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is a major incident with
extreme hazards over large geographic zones. These incidents
typically require intervention of multiple resource agencies. -
CORRECT ANSWER Level 3
What is a boiling liquid/expanding vapor explosion; an explosion that
occurs when pressurized liquefied materials inside a closed vessel are
exposed to a source of high heat? - CORRECT ANSWER BLEVE
What is the temperature when a liquid changes its phase into a vapor
or gas? - CORRECT ANSWER Boiling point
What is the ability of a chemical to undergo an alteration in its
chemical make-up, usually accompanied by a release of some form of
energy? - CORRECT ANSWER Chemical reactivity
What is the combined process of emission, transmission, and
absorption of energy traveling by electromagnetic wave propagation
, between a region of higher temperature and a region of lower
temperature? - CORRECT ANSWER Radiation
What is an expression of a fuel/air mixture, defined by upper and lower
limits, that reflects an amount of flammable vapor mixed with a given
volume of air? - CORRECT ANSWER Flammable Range
What is the minimum temperature at which a liquid or a solid releases
sufficient vapor to form an ignitable mixture with air? - CORRECT
ANSWER Flash point
What is the minimum temp required to cause self-sustained
combustion in absence of any source of ignition? - CORRECT ANSWER
Ignition/Autoignition
What refers to solids and is usually expressed in microns or percent
passing through a meshed screen? - CORRECT ANSWER Particle Size
What is the length of time a chemical agent stays as a liquid? -
CORRECT ANSWER Persistence
What type of chemicals are typically dense, oily substances with high
molecular weights and low vapor pressures? - CORRECT ANSWER
Persistent chemicals
What is the condition in which matter exists under specified kinetic
conditions? - CORRECT ANSWER Physical state
What is it when the weight of a substance or material is compared
with the weight of an equal volume of water? - CORRECT ANSWER
Specific Gravity
What are all the byproducts of combustion that are considered toxic? -
CORRECT ANSWER Toxic products of combustion
What is the weight of an airborne concentration as compared to an
equal volume of dry air? - CORRECT ANSWER Vapor Density
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A
What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific
federal or state agency? - CORRECT ANSWER Laws
What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the law?
- CORRECT ANSWER Regulation
NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - CORRECT ANSWER
Standards
What establishes a single comprehensive national incident
management system (NIMS) and Presidential Policy Directives? -
CORRECT ANSWER Homeland Security Presidential Directives
What has the goal to secure and resilient nation with the capabilities
required across the whole community to prevent, protect against,
mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that
pose the greatest risk? - CORRECT ANSWER Presidential Policy
Directives
What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous
materials? - CORRECT ANSWER Hazardous Materials Transportation
Act (1974)
What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit
system for treatment, storage, and disposal? - CORRECT ANSWER
Resource Conservation Recovery Act (1976)
What law is known as a superfund, and made responsible parties pay
for cleanup of scenes, and created a notification system for spills? -
CORRECT ANSWER Comprehensive Environmental Response
Compensation Liability Act (1980)
,What law required OSHA to develop health and safety standards that
eventually brought about 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste
Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)? - CORRECT
ANSWER Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
Title 1
What law is also known as the emergency planning and community
right to know act and created state emergency response commission
and local emergency planning committees? - CORRECT ANSWER
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3
What law requires facilities to submit an emergency and hazardous
chemical inventory to SERC, LEPC, and local fire departments? -
CORRECT ANSWER Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
(SARA) Title 3
What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders dealing
with Hazmat operations? - CORRECT ANSWER NFPA 472
What is a plan that should be consistent with local emergency
response plan and within the capabilities and training level of the
team, and trained on and examined and updated frequently? -
CORRECT ANSWER Standard Operation Guideline (SOG)
What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? -
CORRECT ANSWER Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate, Terminate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you deny
access, control egress, stage incoming companies, and establish
hazard zones after gathering information? - CORRECT ANSWER
Isolate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you find
the occupancy and location, container shapes and sizes, markings and
colors, placards and labels, shipping papers/MSDS, monitoring/senses,
and find the principle responsible party? - CORRECT ANSWER
Identify
,What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you get
more personnel, get more equipment, and get outside agencies to
come help? - CORRECT ANSWER Notify
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you have
non-intervention approach, offensive approach, and defensive
approach? - CORRECT ANSWER Mitigate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
debrief, document, do medical evaluations, recover costs, replace
equipment, and critique? - CORRECT ANSWER Terminate
In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be controlled by
the initial responding units? - CORRECT ANSWER Level 1
In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is moderate incident that
encompasses a greater potential threat to the surrounding area or
community? Could possibly require evacuation. - CORRECT ANSWER
Level 2
In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is a major incident with
extreme hazards over large geographic zones. These incidents
typically require intervention of multiple resource agencies. -
CORRECT ANSWER Level 3
What is a boiling liquid/expanding vapor explosion; an explosion that
occurs when pressurized liquefied materials inside a closed vessel are
exposed to a source of high heat? - CORRECT ANSWER BLEVE
What is the temperature when a liquid changes its phase into a vapor
or gas? - CORRECT ANSWER Boiling point
What is the ability of a chemical to undergo an alteration in its
chemical make-up, usually accompanied by a release of some form of
energy? - CORRECT ANSWER Chemical reactivity
What is the combined process of emission, transmission, and
absorption of energy traveling by electromagnetic wave propagation
, between a region of higher temperature and a region of lower
temperature? - CORRECT ANSWER Radiation
What is an expression of a fuel/air mixture, defined by upper and lower
limits, that reflects an amount of flammable vapor mixed with a given
volume of air? - CORRECT ANSWER Flammable Range
What is the minimum temperature at which a liquid or a solid releases
sufficient vapor to form an ignitable mixture with air? - CORRECT
ANSWER Flash point
What is the minimum temp required to cause self-sustained
combustion in absence of any source of ignition? - CORRECT ANSWER
Ignition/Autoignition
What refers to solids and is usually expressed in microns or percent
passing through a meshed screen? - CORRECT ANSWER Particle Size
What is the length of time a chemical agent stays as a liquid? -
CORRECT ANSWER Persistence
What type of chemicals are typically dense, oily substances with high
molecular weights and low vapor pressures? - CORRECT ANSWER
Persistent chemicals
What is the condition in which matter exists under specified kinetic
conditions? - CORRECT ANSWER Physical state
What is it when the weight of a substance or material is compared
with the weight of an equal volume of water? - CORRECT ANSWER
Specific Gravity
What are all the byproducts of combustion that are considered toxic? -
CORRECT ANSWER Toxic products of combustion
What is the weight of an airborne concentration as compared to an
equal volume of dry air? - CORRECT ANSWER Vapor Density
