IFSTA Fire Officer II
IFSTA Fire Officer II (Fifth edition) Exam Questions and
Answers 2024
Company officer two's may interact with? - (answers)Their organization's upper
levels and with their local and regional government agencies.
Company officer two's supervise? - (answers)Other officers
Company officer two's act as _______ change agents within their organization -
(answers)Change
Prerequisite knowledge for for Fire Officer two? - (answers)1. The organization of
thier local government
2. The enabling and regulatory legislation and the law-making process at the local,
state and national level.
The level two Fire Officer must perfom the following duties: - (answers)1.
Evaluate personnel and create an environment to maximize employee performance.
2. Prepare projects and division budgets.
3. Develop budgets.
4. Evaluate the resource needs of assigned units.
Understand the purchaseing process.
5. Maintain records on purchases.
6. Conduct a preliminary investigation of a fire scene to include analyzing
information and determining the point of orgin and cause of the fire.
7. Develop preincident plans for multiunit operations.
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8. Assign resources to effectiviely control incidents.
9. Conduct postincident analysis using inforamtion gathered from all responding
units.
10. Assist with the development of organizational policies and procedures.
11. Provide the media with emergency incident or department activity information.
12. Apply planning concepts and project needed resources.
The fire officer two responsabilites regarding safety and health include: -
(answers)analyzing unit accidents and injury reports and directing actions and or
recommending steps to prevent thier reoccurance.
The company officer two must interact personally with superiors, peers and
subordinates to accomplish? - (answers)Organizational goals and tasks.
The company officer two may be required to develop? - (answers)Written reports,
press releases, memos, policies and procedures.
Local governments affects emergency services organizations in two primary ways.
- (answers)1. allocating funds, approving.disapproving purchases, staffing
requests, ordinances related to fire protection.
2. Local government oversee other department and agencies with which their
emergency services organizations must interact.
Who may enact local legislation? - (answers)City council, commisioners, or board
with authority over the jurisdiction
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What are the three functional branches of government? - (answers)Legislative,
executive and Judicial.
What four states are considered commonwealth - (answers)Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia and Puerto Rico
What is a commonwealth state? - (answers)A state in which the government
functions with the common consent of the people
What territiories does the US currently administer. - (answers)Guam, Midway,
American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories? -
(answers)Ten Provinces and three territories.
Canada has three branches of the government. - (answers)Unicameral legislative
assembly, executive branch and judicial branch
The following agencies may influence fire and emergency services. - (answers)Fire
marshal, fire training programs, commisioners, EMS services, forestry, homeland
security, OSHA and fish and game.
Other agencies that we may interact with. - (answers)FEMA, USFA, NFA, EMI,
coast guard, USDA, USFS, HUD, DOI, DOL, OSHA, CDC, NIOSH, DOT, DOJ,
CPSC, NRC
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Examples of Internal resources. - (answers)Street dept, public works, L.E. EMS,
What is an Area Contigency Plan (ACP)? - (answers)A procedure to be put into
effect should an emergency occur within a given region or area.
What is NRP? - (answers)National Response Plan- created to integrate federal
government prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation plans into
one all discipline, all hazard approach to domestic incident management
What is formative evaluation? - (answers)Ongoing, repeated assesment conducted
over time to evalute an employee's performance against an organizations standards.
What is Summative evaluation - (answers)The company officer's final assesment
of the individuals performance. Typically done at the end of probation, annually as
part of a performance review and for performance improvement or disciplinary
purpose.
It is likly that the __________ willbe the individual who implements change at the
operations level. - (answers)Company officer
Change can originate from two forces. - (answers)Internal and external
Change can cause people to go through four stages - (answers)Denial, resistance,
exploration and commitment.
IFSTA Fire Officer II (Fifth edition) Exam Questions and
Answers 2024
Company officer two's may interact with? - (answers)Their organization's upper
levels and with their local and regional government agencies.
Company officer two's supervise? - (answers)Other officers
Company officer two's act as _______ change agents within their organization -
(answers)Change
Prerequisite knowledge for for Fire Officer two? - (answers)1. The organization of
thier local government
2. The enabling and regulatory legislation and the law-making process at the local,
state and national level.
The level two Fire Officer must perfom the following duties: - (answers)1.
Evaluate personnel and create an environment to maximize employee performance.
2. Prepare projects and division budgets.
3. Develop budgets.
4. Evaluate the resource needs of assigned units.
Understand the purchaseing process.
5. Maintain records on purchases.
6. Conduct a preliminary investigation of a fire scene to include analyzing
information and determining the point of orgin and cause of the fire.
7. Develop preincident plans for multiunit operations.
,IFSTA Fire Officer II
8. Assign resources to effectiviely control incidents.
9. Conduct postincident analysis using inforamtion gathered from all responding
units.
10. Assist with the development of organizational policies and procedures.
11. Provide the media with emergency incident or department activity information.
12. Apply planning concepts and project needed resources.
The fire officer two responsabilites regarding safety and health include: -
(answers)analyzing unit accidents and injury reports and directing actions and or
recommending steps to prevent thier reoccurance.
The company officer two must interact personally with superiors, peers and
subordinates to accomplish? - (answers)Organizational goals and tasks.
The company officer two may be required to develop? - (answers)Written reports,
press releases, memos, policies and procedures.
Local governments affects emergency services organizations in two primary ways.
- (answers)1. allocating funds, approving.disapproving purchases, staffing
requests, ordinances related to fire protection.
2. Local government oversee other department and agencies with which their
emergency services organizations must interact.
Who may enact local legislation? - (answers)City council, commisioners, or board
with authority over the jurisdiction
,IFSTA Fire Officer II
What are the three functional branches of government? - (answers)Legislative,
executive and Judicial.
What four states are considered commonwealth - (answers)Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia and Puerto Rico
What is a commonwealth state? - (answers)A state in which the government
functions with the common consent of the people
What territiories does the US currently administer. - (answers)Guam, Midway,
American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories? -
(answers)Ten Provinces and three territories.
Canada has three branches of the government. - (answers)Unicameral legislative
assembly, executive branch and judicial branch
The following agencies may influence fire and emergency services. - (answers)Fire
marshal, fire training programs, commisioners, EMS services, forestry, homeland
security, OSHA and fish and game.
Other agencies that we may interact with. - (answers)FEMA, USFA, NFA, EMI,
coast guard, USDA, USFS, HUD, DOI, DOL, OSHA, CDC, NIOSH, DOT, DOJ,
CPSC, NRC
, IFSTA Fire Officer II
Examples of Internal resources. - (answers)Street dept, public works, L.E. EMS,
What is an Area Contigency Plan (ACP)? - (answers)A procedure to be put into
effect should an emergency occur within a given region or area.
What is NRP? - (answers)National Response Plan- created to integrate federal
government prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation plans into
one all discipline, all hazard approach to domestic incident management
What is formative evaluation? - (answers)Ongoing, repeated assesment conducted
over time to evalute an employee's performance against an organizations standards.
What is Summative evaluation - (answers)The company officer's final assesment
of the individuals performance. Typically done at the end of probation, annually as
part of a performance review and for performance improvement or disciplinary
purpose.
It is likly that the __________ willbe the individual who implements change at the
operations level. - (answers)Company officer
Change can originate from two forces. - (answers)Internal and external
Change can cause people to go through four stages - (answers)Denial, resistance,
exploration and commitment.
