APCO exam study questions and
answers
AVL✔✔- Automatic Vehicle Locator
- provides a mapped location of response units on a monitoring console
ALS✔✔- advanced life support
- can provide advanced medical services
- have advanced training in the care and treatment of the sick and injured
(paramedics)
NIMS✔✔- National Incident Management System
- provides a consistent, flexible and adjustable national framework within
which government and private entities can work together to manage incidents,
regardless of their cause, size, occasion, or complexity
- provides a set if standardized organizational structures
ICS✔✔- Incident Command System
- develops in a top-down fashion based on incident size, complexity, and
specifics of the hazard environment created by the incident
- ICS is an integral part of NIMS
ACN✔✔- Automated Crash Notification
- notifies a TCC of a crash and crash/vehicle/owner data from a telematics-
equipped vehicle when a driver presses a designated emergency button or
when airbags go off
- can transmit a voice call from the vehicle, however there can be "no voice"
when the driver is incapacitated or if anything is preventing the call from being
connected
, TCC✔✔- Telematics call center
- Provides 24/7 services both inbound and outbound (land-to-mobile and
mobile-to-land) calls from vehicles equipped with telematics devices
AACN✔✔- advanced automated crash notification
- automatic transmission to a TCC of basic ACN information and plus crash-
severity data and crash pulse data collected by embedded, in-vehicle crash
sensors
- some information includes airbag activation, rollover information, vehicle's
final resting position, number of serious impacts to the vehicle, and crash
severity potential
PSAPs✔✔- Public Safety Answering Point
- a facility equipped and staffed to receive emergency calls requesting police,
fire, emergency medical and other public safety services via telephone and
other communication devices
ATL✔✔- attempt to locate
- used synonymously with BOLO
- broadcasts of information regarding missing/wanted people or
wanted/stolen vehicles
- should include type of incidence, time lapse, place of occurrence and any
descriptions of vehicles, people and weapons
BOLO✔✔- be on the lookout for
- used synonymously with ATL
- broadcasts of information regarding missing/wanted people or
wanted/stolen vehicles
answers
AVL✔✔- Automatic Vehicle Locator
- provides a mapped location of response units on a monitoring console
ALS✔✔- advanced life support
- can provide advanced medical services
- have advanced training in the care and treatment of the sick and injured
(paramedics)
NIMS✔✔- National Incident Management System
- provides a consistent, flexible and adjustable national framework within
which government and private entities can work together to manage incidents,
regardless of their cause, size, occasion, or complexity
- provides a set if standardized organizational structures
ICS✔✔- Incident Command System
- develops in a top-down fashion based on incident size, complexity, and
specifics of the hazard environment created by the incident
- ICS is an integral part of NIMS
ACN✔✔- Automated Crash Notification
- notifies a TCC of a crash and crash/vehicle/owner data from a telematics-
equipped vehicle when a driver presses a designated emergency button or
when airbags go off
- can transmit a voice call from the vehicle, however there can be "no voice"
when the driver is incapacitated or if anything is preventing the call from being
connected
, TCC✔✔- Telematics call center
- Provides 24/7 services both inbound and outbound (land-to-mobile and
mobile-to-land) calls from vehicles equipped with telematics devices
AACN✔✔- advanced automated crash notification
- automatic transmission to a TCC of basic ACN information and plus crash-
severity data and crash pulse data collected by embedded, in-vehicle crash
sensors
- some information includes airbag activation, rollover information, vehicle's
final resting position, number of serious impacts to the vehicle, and crash
severity potential
PSAPs✔✔- Public Safety Answering Point
- a facility equipped and staffed to receive emergency calls requesting police,
fire, emergency medical and other public safety services via telephone and
other communication devices
ATL✔✔- attempt to locate
- used synonymously with BOLO
- broadcasts of information regarding missing/wanted people or
wanted/stolen vehicles
- should include type of incidence, time lapse, place of occurrence and any
descriptions of vehicles, people and weapons
BOLO✔✔- be on the lookout for
- used synonymously with ATL
- broadcasts of information regarding missing/wanted people or
wanted/stolen vehicles
