MOD A FIREFIGHTER BASIC OPERATIONS LATEST
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔Brick Veneer - ✔✔Single thickness of brick wall facing placed over frame
construction or masonry other than brick
✔✔Five types of building construction - ✔✔-Type I Fire resistive
-Type II Non combustible
-Type III Ordinary
-Type IV Heavy Timber
-Type V Wood frame
✔✔Type I Fire resistive - ✔✔Structural members are noncombustible or limited
combustible material
✔✔Type II Non combustible - ✔✔o Similar to Fire Resistive but degree of fire resistance
is less
o Heat buildup during a fire may cause structural supports to fail
✔✔Type III Ordinary - ✔✔-Exterior walls and structural member are noncombustible or
limited combustible
-Interior structural members completely or partially of wood
✔✔Type IV Heavy Timber - ✔✔o Exterior and interior walls and associated structural
members and noncombustible or limited combustible materials
o Other interior structural members are made of solid or laminated wood with no
concealed spaces
o Wood has large enough dimensions (6x6) to be considered heavy timber
✔✔-Type V Wood frame - ✔✔o All walls and structural supports are made completely or
partially of wood of dimensions less than HEAVY TIMBER
✔✔Platform framing - ✔✔• Construction has each floor constructed on its own platform,
reducing open channels in the wall
• Framing is usually covered with an interior finish of plaster or dry wall
✔✔Balloon Framing - ✔✔• Construction can have open channels from the foundation to
the attic
• Framing is usually covered with an interior finish of plaster or drywall
✔✔Parts of a Truss - ✔✔• Chord
• Web or diagonal members
• Gusset Plate
, ✔✔Chord - ✔✔Top and bottom horizontal members of the truss
✔✔Web or diagonal members - ✔✔Vertical members between the chords
✔✔Gusset Plate - ✔✔Metal plate used to connect the members of a wood or metal
truss
✔✔Expansion of water when turn into steam - ✔✔1,600- 1,700 times
✔✔Load bearing wall - ✔✔-Walls that support structural weight
-Can be interior or exterior
- max height is 6 stories
✔✔Non-load bearing wall - ✔✔Walls that do not support structural weight
✔✔Live Load - ✔✔Any load that is not fixed or permanent
✔✔Dead Load - ✔✔Weight of any permanent part of the building
✔✔Impact Load - ✔✔Load in motion when applied
✔✔Curtin wall - ✔✔Nonbearing exterior wall attached to the outside of the building
✔✔Thermal layering - ✔✔When gases form into layers according to temperature.
✔✔SOP - ✔✔Standard operating procedures, instruction intended to instruct people on
how to perform a routine activity.
✔✔First fire department ever - ✔✔24B.C by Caesar of Rome
✔✔First paid fire department - ✔✔1679 in Boston
✔✔First volunteer fire department - ✔✔1735 by Ben Franklin
✔✔location of the most popular place where firefighter injury and death occurs -
✔✔operating at the scene
✔✔Nature of injury that is the leading cause of firefighter death or injury - ✔✔Heart
attack
✔✔Freelancing - ✔✔not following the group, working independently from others
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔Brick Veneer - ✔✔Single thickness of brick wall facing placed over frame
construction or masonry other than brick
✔✔Five types of building construction - ✔✔-Type I Fire resistive
-Type II Non combustible
-Type III Ordinary
-Type IV Heavy Timber
-Type V Wood frame
✔✔Type I Fire resistive - ✔✔Structural members are noncombustible or limited
combustible material
✔✔Type II Non combustible - ✔✔o Similar to Fire Resistive but degree of fire resistance
is less
o Heat buildup during a fire may cause structural supports to fail
✔✔Type III Ordinary - ✔✔-Exterior walls and structural member are noncombustible or
limited combustible
-Interior structural members completely or partially of wood
✔✔Type IV Heavy Timber - ✔✔o Exterior and interior walls and associated structural
members and noncombustible or limited combustible materials
o Other interior structural members are made of solid or laminated wood with no
concealed spaces
o Wood has large enough dimensions (6x6) to be considered heavy timber
✔✔-Type V Wood frame - ✔✔o All walls and structural supports are made completely or
partially of wood of dimensions less than HEAVY TIMBER
✔✔Platform framing - ✔✔• Construction has each floor constructed on its own platform,
reducing open channels in the wall
• Framing is usually covered with an interior finish of plaster or dry wall
✔✔Balloon Framing - ✔✔• Construction can have open channels from the foundation to
the attic
• Framing is usually covered with an interior finish of plaster or drywall
✔✔Parts of a Truss - ✔✔• Chord
• Web or diagonal members
• Gusset Plate
, ✔✔Chord - ✔✔Top and bottom horizontal members of the truss
✔✔Web or diagonal members - ✔✔Vertical members between the chords
✔✔Gusset Plate - ✔✔Metal plate used to connect the members of a wood or metal
truss
✔✔Expansion of water when turn into steam - ✔✔1,600- 1,700 times
✔✔Load bearing wall - ✔✔-Walls that support structural weight
-Can be interior or exterior
- max height is 6 stories
✔✔Non-load bearing wall - ✔✔Walls that do not support structural weight
✔✔Live Load - ✔✔Any load that is not fixed or permanent
✔✔Dead Load - ✔✔Weight of any permanent part of the building
✔✔Impact Load - ✔✔Load in motion when applied
✔✔Curtin wall - ✔✔Nonbearing exterior wall attached to the outside of the building
✔✔Thermal layering - ✔✔When gases form into layers according to temperature.
✔✔SOP - ✔✔Standard operating procedures, instruction intended to instruct people on
how to perform a routine activity.
✔✔First fire department ever - ✔✔24B.C by Caesar of Rome
✔✔First paid fire department - ✔✔1679 in Boston
✔✔First volunteer fire department - ✔✔1735 by Ben Franklin
✔✔location of the most popular place where firefighter injury and death occurs -
✔✔operating at the scene
✔✔Nature of injury that is the leading cause of firefighter death or injury - ✔✔Heart
attack
✔✔Freelancing - ✔✔not following the group, working independently from others
