2024(Scored 100%)/Study
guide for Firefighter 1 final
exam
1) Life safety, incident stabilization, and what are the three most important organizational duties for fire
departments to pursue? - ANSWER-Property conservation.
2) The plan or written document for tactical operations is known as a department's: - ANSWER-
S.O.P./S.O.G.
3) Fire department standard operating procedures/standard operating guides should be established in
the most commonly accepted order of fireground priorities, which is: - ANSWER-Life safety, incident
stabilization, and property conservation.
4) In the incident command system (ICS), the functional area responsible for providing facilities, services,
and materials necessary to support an incident is: - ANSWER-Logistics.
, 5) Historically, the basic unit of a fire department is: - ANSWER-The company.
6) In the incident command system (ICS), the functional area that directs the organization's tactics to
meet the strategic goals developed by command and is responsible for the management of all activities
applicable to the primary mission is: - ANSWER-Planning.
7) What relates to the number of personnel and individual can effectively supervise is what? - ANSWER-
Span of control.
8) One of the major advantages of an incident command system (ICS) is that it allows agencies to
communicate using common what and operating procedures? - ANSWER-Terminology.
9) What is developed to provide definite guidelines for present and future actions? - ANSWER-Policies.
10) What is the principle called that says each fire fighter answers to only one supervisor? - ANSWER-
Unity of command.
11) The primary role of a fire alarm system is to: - ANSWER-Alert occupants.
12) What is the term for locations from which an engine can draft out of a static water supply source? -
ANSWER-Drafting/fill sites.
13) Structural firefighting personal protective equipment is designed to be worn with what specific piece
of equipment? - ANSWER-SCBA.
14) The primary use of the what is to attach a rope to a round object such as a pike pole? - ANSWER-
Clove hitch.
15) The part of the rope that is used for work such as hoisting or pulling is called the: - ANSWER-Running
end.