TFM 12 FIRE ALARM TECHNICAL MAIN EXAMS SHEET
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Can detectors be installed within an air duct system? Can they be used as a
substitute for open area protection? - ✔✔Yes and No
✔✔Detectors shall be ________ for the purpose for which they are being used. -
✔✔Listed (i.e zone listed)
✔✔Which signals must take priority over all other signals? - ✔✔Fire. Even if a non fire
signal is generated first.
✔✔How many fire alarm boxes (pull stations) are required in systems employing
automatic fire or water flow detectors? - ✔✔At least one, located where required by the
authority having jurisdiction.
✔✔Systems that require two automatic detectors to initiate the alarm may only be used
after which 3 conditions are filled? - ✔✔The systems are not prohibited by the AHJ.
At least two automatic detectors are in each protected space.
The alarm verification feature is not used.
✔✔The number of water flow switches permitted to be connected to a single initiating
device shall not exceed ________. - ✔✔5
✔✔What must be monitored for integrity? - ✔✔the installation wiring between the fire
alarm control unit and the relay or other appliance.
(Horn, Strobe, etc.)
✔✔Each elevator lobby, elevator hoist way and elevator machine room detector must
be capable of what? - ✔✔initiating elevator recall.
✔✔Must the alarm devices within the elevator hoist way be integrated with the fire
alarm? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔Wall mounted appliances must be located between which two distances above a
finished floor? - ✔✔Not less than 80 inches and not greater than 96 inches above the
finished floor.
✔✔When may the manual testing frequency be extended to annually? - ✔✔if automatic
testing is performed at least weekly.
, ✔✔The responsibility for inspections, tests, and maintenance programs shall be
assigned by the _______ to a designated person of authority. - ✔✔Owner
✔✔Room sizes and contours, airflow patterns, obstructions, and other characteristics of
the _______ shall be taken into account. - ✔✔Protected Hazard
✔✔Circuits for transmission of supervisory signals shall ____ alarm circuits. - ✔✔Ran
separate from
✔✔Household smoke alarm and smoke detectors installed within a _______ horizontal
path of a cooking appliance shall be equipped with an alarm-silencing means or be of
the photo electric type. - ✔✔20 feet
✔✔Each household heat detector, including a heat detector integrally mounted on a
smoke detector, shall detect abnormally high temperature or rate-of-temperature rise
and all detector shall be listed or approved for not less than ______ feet between
detectors. - ✔✔50 feet
✔✔In a combination system, a _____ signal shall take precedence or bo clearly
recognizable over any other signal. - ✔✔Fire alarm
✔✔One of the most critical factors of any fire alarm system is the _____ the fire
detecting devices. - ✔✔Location of
✔✔A circuit or path connecting a subsidiary station to a supervising station over which
signals are carried is called a _______. - ✔✔Communications channel
✔✔If batteries are used a source of energy, they shall be replaced ________. - ✔✔As
recommended
✔✔The total sound pressure level produced by combining the ambient sound pressure
level with all audible notification appliances operating shall not exceed ________ in the
occupiable area. - ✔✔110 dBA
✔✔Permanent records (such as As-Built installation drawings, operation and
maintenance manuals, a written sequence of operation and site specific software) shall
be retained by the system owner or the owners representative for how long? - ✔✔Life of
the system
✔✔Spot-type smoke detectors mounted on the side wall should have the top of the
detector between _____ inches from the ceiling. - ✔✔4 and 12
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Can detectors be installed within an air duct system? Can they be used as a
substitute for open area protection? - ✔✔Yes and No
✔✔Detectors shall be ________ for the purpose for which they are being used. -
✔✔Listed (i.e zone listed)
✔✔Which signals must take priority over all other signals? - ✔✔Fire. Even if a non fire
signal is generated first.
✔✔How many fire alarm boxes (pull stations) are required in systems employing
automatic fire or water flow detectors? - ✔✔At least one, located where required by the
authority having jurisdiction.
✔✔Systems that require two automatic detectors to initiate the alarm may only be used
after which 3 conditions are filled? - ✔✔The systems are not prohibited by the AHJ.
At least two automatic detectors are in each protected space.
The alarm verification feature is not used.
✔✔The number of water flow switches permitted to be connected to a single initiating
device shall not exceed ________. - ✔✔5
✔✔What must be monitored for integrity? - ✔✔the installation wiring between the fire
alarm control unit and the relay or other appliance.
(Horn, Strobe, etc.)
✔✔Each elevator lobby, elevator hoist way and elevator machine room detector must
be capable of what? - ✔✔initiating elevator recall.
✔✔Must the alarm devices within the elevator hoist way be integrated with the fire
alarm? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔Wall mounted appliances must be located between which two distances above a
finished floor? - ✔✔Not less than 80 inches and not greater than 96 inches above the
finished floor.
✔✔When may the manual testing frequency be extended to annually? - ✔✔if automatic
testing is performed at least weekly.
, ✔✔The responsibility for inspections, tests, and maintenance programs shall be
assigned by the _______ to a designated person of authority. - ✔✔Owner
✔✔Room sizes and contours, airflow patterns, obstructions, and other characteristics of
the _______ shall be taken into account. - ✔✔Protected Hazard
✔✔Circuits for transmission of supervisory signals shall ____ alarm circuits. - ✔✔Ran
separate from
✔✔Household smoke alarm and smoke detectors installed within a _______ horizontal
path of a cooking appliance shall be equipped with an alarm-silencing means or be of
the photo electric type. - ✔✔20 feet
✔✔Each household heat detector, including a heat detector integrally mounted on a
smoke detector, shall detect abnormally high temperature or rate-of-temperature rise
and all detector shall be listed or approved for not less than ______ feet between
detectors. - ✔✔50 feet
✔✔In a combination system, a _____ signal shall take precedence or bo clearly
recognizable over any other signal. - ✔✔Fire alarm
✔✔One of the most critical factors of any fire alarm system is the _____ the fire
detecting devices. - ✔✔Location of
✔✔A circuit or path connecting a subsidiary station to a supervising station over which
signals are carried is called a _______. - ✔✔Communications channel
✔✔If batteries are used a source of energy, they shall be replaced ________. - ✔✔As
recommended
✔✔The total sound pressure level produced by combining the ambient sound pressure
level with all audible notification appliances operating shall not exceed ________ in the
occupiable area. - ✔✔110 dBA
✔✔Permanent records (such as As-Built installation drawings, operation and
maintenance manuals, a written sequence of operation and site specific software) shall
be retained by the system owner or the owners representative for how long? - ✔✔Life of
the system
✔✔Spot-type smoke detectors mounted on the side wall should have the top of the
detector between _____ inches from the ceiling. - ✔✔4 and 12
