IFSTA CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST
PAPER COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) company
Answer: Performs rescue and fire suppression activities involving
aircraft incidents
●● All-Hazard Concept
Answer: Provides a coordinated approach to a wide variety of incidents;
all responders use a similar, coordinated approach with a common set of
authorities, protections, and resources.
●● Atypically Stressful Event
Answer: Term used in National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
standards to describe incidents that have a likelihood of causing critical
incident stress.
●● Assistant/Deputy Chief
Answer: Personnel who manage a variety of upper level functions, such
as emergency operations, administration, fire prevention, or training.
●● Battalion
, Answer: Fire department organizational subdivision consisting of
several fire service companies in a designated geographic area.
●● Body Substance Isolation (BSI)
Answer: Comprehensive method of infection control in which every
patient is assumed to be infected; personal protective equipment is worn
to prevent exposure to bodily fluids and blood-borne and airborne
pathogens.
●● Carcinogen
Answer: Cancer-producing substance.
●● Career Departments
Answer: Facilities and equipment maintained by large cities or counties.
Employ full-time firefighters which live in the fire station while on duty.
Continually staffed.
●● Chain of Command
Answer: Order of rank and authority in the fire and emergency services.
●● Chronic
Answer: Long-term and reoccurring.
●● Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
PAPER COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) company
Answer: Performs rescue and fire suppression activities involving
aircraft incidents
●● All-Hazard Concept
Answer: Provides a coordinated approach to a wide variety of incidents;
all responders use a similar, coordinated approach with a common set of
authorities, protections, and resources.
●● Atypically Stressful Event
Answer: Term used in National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
standards to describe incidents that have a likelihood of causing critical
incident stress.
●● Assistant/Deputy Chief
Answer: Personnel who manage a variety of upper level functions, such
as emergency operations, administration, fire prevention, or training.
●● Battalion
, Answer: Fire department organizational subdivision consisting of
several fire service companies in a designated geographic area.
●● Body Substance Isolation (BSI)
Answer: Comprehensive method of infection control in which every
patient is assumed to be infected; personal protective equipment is worn
to prevent exposure to bodily fluids and blood-borne and airborne
pathogens.
●● Carcinogen
Answer: Cancer-producing substance.
●● Career Departments
Answer: Facilities and equipment maintained by large cities or counties.
Employ full-time firefighters which live in the fire station while on duty.
Continually staffed.
●● Chain of Command
Answer: Order of rank and authority in the fire and emergency services.
●● Chronic
Answer: Long-term and reoccurring.
●● Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
