SARTECH III / Non-Wilderness SAR
Certification Practice Test 2026 Guide
1. Hasty and Extended What are the two types of
searches (categorized by
length?
2. The lost, overdue, endangered, suicidal, aircraft WHO is searched for?
3. Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, im- What are the four states a
mobile and responsive, and immobile and unrespon- subject may be in?
sive
4. Random traveling, route traveling, direction traveling, What are the nine tech-
route sampling, direction sampling, view enhancing, niques that subjects may
back tracking, folk wisdom, and staying put use to try to orient them-
selves?
5. Route/location and area What are the two types of
searches (categorized by
geography covered)?
6. Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, What are four types of
and untrained volunteers ground searchers?
7. Single resource, strike team, task force What are the three ways to
temporarily categorize re-
sources in ICS?
8. Place Last Seen What is the PLS?
9. Lost Person Questionnaire What is the LPQ?
10. Last Known Position What is the LPK?
11. Initial Planning Point What is the IPP?
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12. Lost Person Behavior What is LPB?
13. Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps What are three methods of
physical confinement?
14. Leaving voicemails, texts, emails, notes on car/resi- What are examples of vir-
dence, checking with transportation companies, and tual confinement?
checking with hospitals or jails
15. Age, medical condition, number of subjects, subject What items are included in
experience profile, weather profile, equipment profile, the Search Urgency Rating
and terrain/hazards profile Chart?
16. Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative What are four forms that
clues may come in?
17. Incident Action Plan What is the IAP?
18. After Action Review What is an AAR?
19. What worked well, what didn't work well, and what What are the important as-
should be done next time pects of the AAR?
20. Effort to locate someone in distress What is a search?
21. To retrieve persons in distress, provide for their imme- What is a rescue?
diate medical or other needs, and deliver them to a
place of safety
22. National Search and Rescue Committee What is NSARC?
23. International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and What does IAMSAR stand
Rescue for?
24. Locate, Access, Stabilize, Transport What does LAST stand for?
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Certification Practice Test 2026 Guide
1. Hasty and Extended What are the two types of
searches (categorized by
length?
2. The lost, overdue, endangered, suicidal, aircraft WHO is searched for?
3. Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, im- What are the four states a
mobile and responsive, and immobile and unrespon- subject may be in?
sive
4. Random traveling, route traveling, direction traveling, What are the nine tech-
route sampling, direction sampling, view enhancing, niques that subjects may
back tracking, folk wisdom, and staying put use to try to orient them-
selves?
5. Route/location and area What are the two types of
searches (categorized by
geography covered)?
6. Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, What are four types of
and untrained volunteers ground searchers?
7. Single resource, strike team, task force What are the three ways to
temporarily categorize re-
sources in ICS?
8. Place Last Seen What is the PLS?
9. Lost Person Questionnaire What is the LPQ?
10. Last Known Position What is the LPK?
11. Initial Planning Point What is the IPP?
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Certification Practice Test 2026 Guide
12. Lost Person Behavior What is LPB?
13. Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps What are three methods of
physical confinement?
14. Leaving voicemails, texts, emails, notes on car/resi- What are examples of vir-
dence, checking with transportation companies, and tual confinement?
checking with hospitals or jails
15. Age, medical condition, number of subjects, subject What items are included in
experience profile, weather profile, equipment profile, the Search Urgency Rating
and terrain/hazards profile Chart?
16. Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative What are four forms that
clues may come in?
17. Incident Action Plan What is the IAP?
18. After Action Review What is an AAR?
19. What worked well, what didn't work well, and what What are the important as-
should be done next time pects of the AAR?
20. Effort to locate someone in distress What is a search?
21. To retrieve persons in distress, provide for their imme- What is a rescue?
diate medical or other needs, and deliver them to a
place of safety
22. National Search and Rescue Committee What is NSARC?
23. International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and What does IAMSAR stand
Rescue for?
24. Locate, Access, Stabilize, Transport What does LAST stand for?
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