NYC FLSD EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A Fire Safety and Evacuation Plan is required in all of the following except:
A. Group B (Business) occupancy office buildings occupied or designated to occupied
by more than 500 persons on one or more floors, including street level, or by more than
100 persons on one or more floors other than street level.
B. Covered malls exceeding 40,000 sq. ft. in aggregate floor area
C. Group R-1 (Residential, Transient) occupants, occupied by more than 30 lodgers, or
more than 15 lodgers above street level, for a period of 90 days or less.
D. Group R-1 (Residential, Transient) occupancies occupied by one or more lodgers on
a floor more than 75 feet above street level, for such period of 90 days or less. - ✔✔B.
Covered malls exceeding 40,000 sq/ft in aggregate floor area. (it is 50.000 sq/ft)
✔✔Fire pumps are monitored at the central station for what status?
A. Failure of electric power supply and automatic operation of electric fire pumps.
B. Pump pressures
C. Gallons flow
D. Temperature of the water - ✔✔A. Failure of electric power supply and automatic
operation of electric fire pumps.
✔✔Required alarm log book does not include:
A. Which FSD is on duty by date and time
B. Daily lamp test status
C. Manual false alarm details
D Off/On line details - ✔✔C. Manual false alarm details
✔✔Fire drills in new office building must be conducted how many times a year?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four - ✔✔D. Four (quarterly)
✔✔A walk up tenemant less than 75 feet in height rents out 5 rooms on each of 4 floors
by the month with no stay limits. It is not a hotel. Why?
A. Hotels rent for less than 90 days.
B. There are 25 rooms for rent.
,C. Building is less than 75 feet in height.
D. Furnished room houses have no guest limits. - ✔✔A. Hotels rent for less than 90
days.
✔✔A daily visual inspection of the fire command station should insure what status?
A. No alarms have gone unanswered.
B. Fireman's service is operable.
C. The central station (office) connection works.
D. System is on-line and trouble conditions are logged. - ✔✔A. No alarms have gone
unanswered.
✔✔Which test is not an Annual requirement according to FDNY guidelines for fire
alarms?
A. Central station connection.
B. Manual pull stations.
C. Fail safe release.
D. Public Address audibility on each floor - ✔✔A. Central station connection.
✔✔The following are Smoke Detector Maintenance Log Book items EXCEPT:
A. Total number of detectors and locations
B. New log book every 3 years
C. Semi-annual cleaning results
D. Annual sensitivity results - ✔✔B. New log book every 3 years
✔✔Suggested format for the Alarm Log Book include all EXCEPT:
A. Location and type of audio/visual alarm devices
B. Daily (non-alarm) entries of Fire Safety Director on duty time
C. Off line details
D. Smoke Detector alarm details - ✔✔A. Location and type of audio/visual alarm
devices
✔✔What is incorrect about fire drills for E and J buildings in NYC?
A. New E buildings require quarterly drills for the first year.
B. Hotels require quarterly drills on each shift
C. Existing office buildings (E) require drills during normal hours
D. FSD must conduct drills on all occupied floors and monitor occupant participation -
✔✔A. New E buildings require quarterly drills for the first year.
✔✔All of the following will recall designated elevator cars EXCEPT:
, A. #1620 key at the selected elevator bank
B. Manual station on all floors
C. Any elevator lobby smoke detector
D. Sprinkler water flow alarm test valve - ✔✔B. Manual station on all floors
✔✔Which elevator cars are permitted to have a lock?
A. All passenger cars
B. Service cars below grade
C. Freight cars used for that purpose only
D. Service use cars that serve all floors - ✔✔C. Freight cars used for that purpose only
✔✔According to a hi-rise bulletin, Phase II testing of elevators, what is the minimum of
floors required to insure proper operation?
A. One
B. Two
C. One and cellar
D. All floors - ✔✔A. One
✔✔Fire safety evacuation plan required for Occupancies & Buildings:
Group A - ✔✔(Assembly)
Used exclusively for purposes of religious worship that have an occupant load LESS
than 2,000.
✔✔Fire safety evacuation plan required for Occupancies & Buildings:
Group B - ✔✔(Business)
1. occupancy office buildings occupied or designed to be occupied by 500 persons on
one or more floors, including street level.
2. by more than 100 persons on one or more floors other than street level.
✔✔Fire safety evacuation plan required for Occupancies & Buildings:
Group R-1 - ✔✔(Residential / Hotels)
1. occupied by more than 30 lodgers, or more than 15 lodgers above street level, for a
period of 90 days or less
2. operated to accommodate such numbers of lodgers for such period of occupancy.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A Fire Safety and Evacuation Plan is required in all of the following except:
A. Group B (Business) occupancy office buildings occupied or designated to occupied
by more than 500 persons on one or more floors, including street level, or by more than
100 persons on one or more floors other than street level.
B. Covered malls exceeding 40,000 sq. ft. in aggregate floor area
C. Group R-1 (Residential, Transient) occupants, occupied by more than 30 lodgers, or
more than 15 lodgers above street level, for a period of 90 days or less.
D. Group R-1 (Residential, Transient) occupancies occupied by one or more lodgers on
a floor more than 75 feet above street level, for such period of 90 days or less. - ✔✔B.
Covered malls exceeding 40,000 sq/ft in aggregate floor area. (it is 50.000 sq/ft)
✔✔Fire pumps are monitored at the central station for what status?
A. Failure of electric power supply and automatic operation of electric fire pumps.
B. Pump pressures
C. Gallons flow
D. Temperature of the water - ✔✔A. Failure of electric power supply and automatic
operation of electric fire pumps.
✔✔Required alarm log book does not include:
A. Which FSD is on duty by date and time
B. Daily lamp test status
C. Manual false alarm details
D Off/On line details - ✔✔C. Manual false alarm details
✔✔Fire drills in new office building must be conducted how many times a year?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four - ✔✔D. Four (quarterly)
✔✔A walk up tenemant less than 75 feet in height rents out 5 rooms on each of 4 floors
by the month with no stay limits. It is not a hotel. Why?
A. Hotels rent for less than 90 days.
B. There are 25 rooms for rent.
,C. Building is less than 75 feet in height.
D. Furnished room houses have no guest limits. - ✔✔A. Hotels rent for less than 90
days.
✔✔A daily visual inspection of the fire command station should insure what status?
A. No alarms have gone unanswered.
B. Fireman's service is operable.
C. The central station (office) connection works.
D. System is on-line and trouble conditions are logged. - ✔✔A. No alarms have gone
unanswered.
✔✔Which test is not an Annual requirement according to FDNY guidelines for fire
alarms?
A. Central station connection.
B. Manual pull stations.
C. Fail safe release.
D. Public Address audibility on each floor - ✔✔A. Central station connection.
✔✔The following are Smoke Detector Maintenance Log Book items EXCEPT:
A. Total number of detectors and locations
B. New log book every 3 years
C. Semi-annual cleaning results
D. Annual sensitivity results - ✔✔B. New log book every 3 years
✔✔Suggested format for the Alarm Log Book include all EXCEPT:
A. Location and type of audio/visual alarm devices
B. Daily (non-alarm) entries of Fire Safety Director on duty time
C. Off line details
D. Smoke Detector alarm details - ✔✔A. Location and type of audio/visual alarm
devices
✔✔What is incorrect about fire drills for E and J buildings in NYC?
A. New E buildings require quarterly drills for the first year.
B. Hotels require quarterly drills on each shift
C. Existing office buildings (E) require drills during normal hours
D. FSD must conduct drills on all occupied floors and monitor occupant participation -
✔✔A. New E buildings require quarterly drills for the first year.
✔✔All of the following will recall designated elevator cars EXCEPT:
, A. #1620 key at the selected elevator bank
B. Manual station on all floors
C. Any elevator lobby smoke detector
D. Sprinkler water flow alarm test valve - ✔✔B. Manual station on all floors
✔✔Which elevator cars are permitted to have a lock?
A. All passenger cars
B. Service cars below grade
C. Freight cars used for that purpose only
D. Service use cars that serve all floors - ✔✔C. Freight cars used for that purpose only
✔✔According to a hi-rise bulletin, Phase II testing of elevators, what is the minimum of
floors required to insure proper operation?
A. One
B. Two
C. One and cellar
D. All floors - ✔✔A. One
✔✔Fire safety evacuation plan required for Occupancies & Buildings:
Group A - ✔✔(Assembly)
Used exclusively for purposes of religious worship that have an occupant load LESS
than 2,000.
✔✔Fire safety evacuation plan required for Occupancies & Buildings:
Group B - ✔✔(Business)
1. occupancy office buildings occupied or designed to be occupied by 500 persons on
one or more floors, including street level.
2. by more than 100 persons on one or more floors other than street level.
✔✔Fire safety evacuation plan required for Occupancies & Buildings:
Group R-1 - ✔✔(Residential / Hotels)
1. occupied by more than 30 lodgers, or more than 15 lodgers above street level, for a
period of 90 days or less
2. operated to accommodate such numbers of lodgers for such period of occupancy.
