FF1 LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rotating Tools - ✔✔apply rotational force to make something turn; screwdrivers,
wrenches, and pliers
✔✔Prying/Spreading Tools - ✔✔Pry and spread; pry bar, hydraulic spreaders, claw bar,
crow bar, halligan
✔✔Pushing/Pulling Tools - ✔✔Extend your reach and increase the power you can exert
on an object; pike pole, closet hook, k tool, ceiling hook
✔✔Striking Tools - ✔✔apply an impact force to an object; hammers, mallets, axes
✔✔Cutting Tools - ✔✔Tools with sharp edges to sever objects; bolt cutters, chainsaws,
cutting torches, handsaw
✔✔Twisted Ropes - ✔✔individual fibers twisted into strands that are twisted together to
form rope
✔✔Braided Ropes - ✔✔Weaving strands together in the same way hair is braided
✔✔Kernmantle Ropes - ✔✔Kern is the core and mantle is the braided covering that
protects the core
✔✔Rope Record - ✔✔History of when a rope was purchased, used, how it was used,
each inspection, what kind of loads were applied to it
✔✔Working End of a Rope - ✔✔part used for forming knot
✔✔Running end of a rope - ✔✔part used for hoisting
, ✔✔Standing part of a rope - ✔✔Rope between working and running
✔✔2 basic categories of information - ✔✔facts and probabilities
✔✔Pre incident plans include - ✔✔details about building; construction, layout, contents,
special hazards, fire protection systems.
✔✔Incident action plan is based on 5 fireground objects - ✔✔save lives, protect
exposures, confine fire, extinguish, salvage property and overhaul the fire
✔✔Defensive attack - ✔✔Exterior fire suppression operations directed at protecting
exposures
✔✔Offensive attack - ✔✔advance into fire building with hose lines, intended to
overpower the fire
✔✔Overhaul - ✔✔process of final extinguishment after main body of fire has been
knocked down. All traces of fire must be extinguished at this time.
✔✔prying/spreading tools - ✔✔Designed for prying and spreading; halligan, pry bar,
crow bar, pry axe, spreaders
✔✔Lock tools and specialty tools - ✔✔used to disassemble the locking mechanism on a
door; k tool, j tool, duck billed lock breakers, locking pliers and chain, bam bam tools
✔✔4 major components of a door - ✔✔Jamb (frame), hardware (handles, hinges),
locking mechanism, door itself
✔✔3 Major parts of a door lock - ✔✔latch (part of lock that catches and holds the door
frame)
operator lever; handles and doorknobs, deadbolt
✔✔3 major parts of a padlock - ✔✔shackles (U shaped top of the lock), unlocking
mechanism, lock body
✔✔4 major lock categories - ✔✔cylindrical locks, padlocks, mortise locks, rim locks
✔✔Cylindrical Locks - ✔✔one side is key-in-knob, the other side keyway, button, etc.
✔✔Mortise Locks - ✔✔Designed to fit in predrilled openings. Have both a latch and a
bolt in the same mechanism
✔✔Rim Locks - ✔✔Deadbolts on the interior of the door frame. Locks have bolts that
extend at least 1 inch into the door frame
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rotating Tools - ✔✔apply rotational force to make something turn; screwdrivers,
wrenches, and pliers
✔✔Prying/Spreading Tools - ✔✔Pry and spread; pry bar, hydraulic spreaders, claw bar,
crow bar, halligan
✔✔Pushing/Pulling Tools - ✔✔Extend your reach and increase the power you can exert
on an object; pike pole, closet hook, k tool, ceiling hook
✔✔Striking Tools - ✔✔apply an impact force to an object; hammers, mallets, axes
✔✔Cutting Tools - ✔✔Tools with sharp edges to sever objects; bolt cutters, chainsaws,
cutting torches, handsaw
✔✔Twisted Ropes - ✔✔individual fibers twisted into strands that are twisted together to
form rope
✔✔Braided Ropes - ✔✔Weaving strands together in the same way hair is braided
✔✔Kernmantle Ropes - ✔✔Kern is the core and mantle is the braided covering that
protects the core
✔✔Rope Record - ✔✔History of when a rope was purchased, used, how it was used,
each inspection, what kind of loads were applied to it
✔✔Working End of a Rope - ✔✔part used for forming knot
✔✔Running end of a rope - ✔✔part used for hoisting
, ✔✔Standing part of a rope - ✔✔Rope between working and running
✔✔2 basic categories of information - ✔✔facts and probabilities
✔✔Pre incident plans include - ✔✔details about building; construction, layout, contents,
special hazards, fire protection systems.
✔✔Incident action plan is based on 5 fireground objects - ✔✔save lives, protect
exposures, confine fire, extinguish, salvage property and overhaul the fire
✔✔Defensive attack - ✔✔Exterior fire suppression operations directed at protecting
exposures
✔✔Offensive attack - ✔✔advance into fire building with hose lines, intended to
overpower the fire
✔✔Overhaul - ✔✔process of final extinguishment after main body of fire has been
knocked down. All traces of fire must be extinguished at this time.
✔✔prying/spreading tools - ✔✔Designed for prying and spreading; halligan, pry bar,
crow bar, pry axe, spreaders
✔✔Lock tools and specialty tools - ✔✔used to disassemble the locking mechanism on a
door; k tool, j tool, duck billed lock breakers, locking pliers and chain, bam bam tools
✔✔4 major components of a door - ✔✔Jamb (frame), hardware (handles, hinges),
locking mechanism, door itself
✔✔3 Major parts of a door lock - ✔✔latch (part of lock that catches and holds the door
frame)
operator lever; handles and doorknobs, deadbolt
✔✔3 major parts of a padlock - ✔✔shackles (U shaped top of the lock), unlocking
mechanism, lock body
✔✔4 major lock categories - ✔✔cylindrical locks, padlocks, mortise locks, rim locks
✔✔Cylindrical Locks - ✔✔one side is key-in-knob, the other side keyway, button, etc.
✔✔Mortise Locks - ✔✔Designed to fit in predrilled openings. Have both a latch and a
bolt in the same mechanism
✔✔Rim Locks - ✔✔Deadbolts on the interior of the door frame. Locks have bolts that
extend at least 1 inch into the door frame
