HEALTH CARE
QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026
What is the CMS-adopted NFPA standard for portable fire extinguishers? - ANS-NFPA
10
2010 Edition
What is the CMS-adopted NFPA National Electric Code? - ANS-NFPA 70
2011 Edition
What is the CMS-adopted NFPA standard for a health care facilities code? - ANS-NFPA
99
2012 Edition
What is the title of CMS-adopted NFPA 241? - ANS-Standard for Safeguarding
Construction, Alteration and Demolition Operations
2009 Edition
, Where can you find design standards adopted by the majority of states? - ANS-
Facilities Guidelines Institute (FGI)
2014 Edition
What is CMS? - ANS-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
What does ASHRAE stand for? - ANS-American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers
What are DNV, The Joint Commission and HFAP? - ANS-Accrediting Organizations
(AOs) that have deemed authority for CMS.
What is an AHJ? - ANS-Authority Having Jurisdiction
What are the four elements of the Life Safety Code? - ANS-Compartmentalization.
Detection.
Suppression.
Egress
What are the first components of fire defense in a building design for patients? - ANS-
The first components of fire defense in a building design for patients are room and
corridors.
A space within a building enclosed by smoke barriers on all sides, including top and
bottom, is a
. - ANS-smoke compartment
What is the maximum smoke compartment size? - ANS-22,500 sq. ft.
Per 2012 Edition of the Life Safety Code