FOA CFOT Certification Final Exam
Questions with Absolutely Verified
Correct Solutions||Updated 2025/2026
Exam Tested Questions Already
Graded!!!
1. Zipcord cable - ANSWER ✓ Has 2 buffered fibers and strength members
2. Resistance to water damage - ANSWER ✓ Gel-filled and blocked cable
3. Can be installed indoors in air handling areas - ANSWER ✓ Plenum rated
4. Rodent resistance - ANSWER ✓ Armored cable
5. Must be more than 20 times cable diameter - ANSWER ✓ Minimum
recommended bend radius under pulling tension
6. Must be more than 10 times cable diameter - ANSWER ✓ Minimum
recommended long term bend radius
7. INDOOR, short, dry conduit runs, risers and plenums terminated inside
junction boxes - ANSWER ✓ Distribution cable
8. High fiber count in small diameter for metro or long distance - ANSWER ✓
Ribbon cable
9. Patch cords and backplanes - ANSWER ✓ Simplex and zip cord tight buffer
10.Ideal for outside plant trunk applications inside innerduct or conduit -
ANSWER ✓ Loose tube (buffer) gel-filled
11.Building cable for conduit, riser and plenum runs without requiring junction
boxes - ANSWER ✓ Breakout cable
, 12.Continuity, fiber or cable tracing, duplex connector polarity (Which Tool(s)
do you use?) - ANSWER ✓ Visual fiber tracer
13.Source or receiver power (Which Tool(s) do you use?) - ANSWER ✓ Fiber
optic power meter
14.Connector faults (scratches, polish, dirt) (Which Tool(s) do you use?) -
ANSWER ✓ Inspection microscope
15.Fault location, splice loss, length (Which Tool(s) do you use?) - ANSWER
✓ OTDR
16.Continuity, fiber tracing, fault location close to end of a cable (Which
Tool(s) do you use?) - ANSWER ✓ Visual fault locator
17.Cable to test - ANSWER ✓ Cable in the middle wrapped multiple times in
circles
18.Connector mating adapter - ANSWER ✓ Device that connect two wires
together
19.Launch cable - ANSWER ✓ Cable connected to the light source
20.Light source - ANSWER ✓ Device at the end shining a light or laser
21.Power meter - ANSWER ✓ Device taking measurements and giving out
numbers
22.Receive cable - ANSWER ✓ Cable connected to the power meter
23.Connector, showing loss and back reflection - ANSWER ✓ High spike
(upside down V) in the middle of the graph
24.Distance scale - ANSWER ✓ On the graph it will be X-axis (left to right) on
the bottom side
25.End of the fiber - ANSWER ✓ Zig-Zag lines at the end of the graph
Questions with Absolutely Verified
Correct Solutions||Updated 2025/2026
Exam Tested Questions Already
Graded!!!
1. Zipcord cable - ANSWER ✓ Has 2 buffered fibers and strength members
2. Resistance to water damage - ANSWER ✓ Gel-filled and blocked cable
3. Can be installed indoors in air handling areas - ANSWER ✓ Plenum rated
4. Rodent resistance - ANSWER ✓ Armored cable
5. Must be more than 20 times cable diameter - ANSWER ✓ Minimum
recommended bend radius under pulling tension
6. Must be more than 10 times cable diameter - ANSWER ✓ Minimum
recommended long term bend radius
7. INDOOR, short, dry conduit runs, risers and plenums terminated inside
junction boxes - ANSWER ✓ Distribution cable
8. High fiber count in small diameter for metro or long distance - ANSWER ✓
Ribbon cable
9. Patch cords and backplanes - ANSWER ✓ Simplex and zip cord tight buffer
10.Ideal for outside plant trunk applications inside innerduct or conduit -
ANSWER ✓ Loose tube (buffer) gel-filled
11.Building cable for conduit, riser and plenum runs without requiring junction
boxes - ANSWER ✓ Breakout cable
, 12.Continuity, fiber or cable tracing, duplex connector polarity (Which Tool(s)
do you use?) - ANSWER ✓ Visual fiber tracer
13.Source or receiver power (Which Tool(s) do you use?) - ANSWER ✓ Fiber
optic power meter
14.Connector faults (scratches, polish, dirt) (Which Tool(s) do you use?) -
ANSWER ✓ Inspection microscope
15.Fault location, splice loss, length (Which Tool(s) do you use?) - ANSWER
✓ OTDR
16.Continuity, fiber tracing, fault location close to end of a cable (Which
Tool(s) do you use?) - ANSWER ✓ Visual fault locator
17.Cable to test - ANSWER ✓ Cable in the middle wrapped multiple times in
circles
18.Connector mating adapter - ANSWER ✓ Device that connect two wires
together
19.Launch cable - ANSWER ✓ Cable connected to the light source
20.Light source - ANSWER ✓ Device at the end shining a light or laser
21.Power meter - ANSWER ✓ Device taking measurements and giving out
numbers
22.Receive cable - ANSWER ✓ Cable connected to the power meter
23.Connector, showing loss and back reflection - ANSWER ✓ High spike
(upside down V) in the middle of the graph
24.Distance scale - ANSWER ✓ On the graph it will be X-axis (left to right) on
the bottom side
25.End of the fiber - ANSWER ✓ Zig-Zag lines at the end of the graph
