Lifeguard Training Test Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
How can sunscreen be used most effectively? - ✔✔Apply 20 minutes before going out
in the sun. And reapply hourly
What are important objectives of a rotation? - ✔✔Perform a protective bottom scan and
maintain 10/20 during rotations
What is a sign of hypoxia? - ✔✔Breathing that is excessively fast or slow, weak or
labored
What action(s) indicate a guest in distress (GID)? - ✔✔Active struggling with head back
and inefficient arm and leg movement
When performing CPR as part of a team, you should discontinue compressions if...? -
✔✔An AED is attached, ready to analyze, and directs rescuers to not touch the patient
As a single rescuer how do you perform CPR on an infant? - ✔✔2 fingers on the center
of the chest, just below the nipple line.
An ease in entry is used in which of the following situations? - ✔✔When entering water
were a nearby guest has a suspected spinal injury
What does C.A.R.E stand for? - ✔✔Confident, attentive, responsive, empathetic
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, Which of the following guest should be cared for by providing supplemental oxygen
using a non-rebreather mask? - ✔✔A guest with labored breathing and a pulse ox
reading of 89%
Which of the following common lifeguard hand signals is used to communicate the
message indicating to other staff? - ✔✔Crossed arms = Stop dispatch
What is a key step when performing the duck pluck rescue? - ✔✔Hold the center of the
tube with one hand and reach over the tube with your other hand
What does the "10" and the 10/20protection standard represent? - ✔✔Lifeguards are
able to scan their entire assigned zone and recognize a guest in distress within 10
seconds
What stage of drowning what a guest rarely need any further care if rescued? -
✔✔Surprise
Under what circumstances shed a tourniquet be considered? - ✔✔When a guest has a
catastrophic wound to a limb and bleeding cannot be controlled using direct pressure
and bandaging
Prior to approaching a guest in distress which of the following should you do? -
✔✔Activate your EAP and enter the water safely
To care for a broken bone, which of the following would you apply to minimize
movement of the affected area? - ✔✔A rigid, soft, or anatomic splint
What is one of the five general care steps for suspected spinal injury in the water? -
✔✔Do a secondary check on the guest to determine if there are any other injuries
You perform an unresponsive rear hug rescue and following your in water assessment,
you determine the guest is not breathing. What do you do next? - ✔✔Seal your mask on
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How can sunscreen be used most effectively? - ✔✔Apply 20 minutes before going out
in the sun. And reapply hourly
What are important objectives of a rotation? - ✔✔Perform a protective bottom scan and
maintain 10/20 during rotations
What is a sign of hypoxia? - ✔✔Breathing that is excessively fast or slow, weak or
labored
What action(s) indicate a guest in distress (GID)? - ✔✔Active struggling with head back
and inefficient arm and leg movement
When performing CPR as part of a team, you should discontinue compressions if...? -
✔✔An AED is attached, ready to analyze, and directs rescuers to not touch the patient
As a single rescuer how do you perform CPR on an infant? - ✔✔2 fingers on the center
of the chest, just below the nipple line.
An ease in entry is used in which of the following situations? - ✔✔When entering water
were a nearby guest has a suspected spinal injury
What does C.A.R.E stand for? - ✔✔Confident, attentive, responsive, empathetic
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, Which of the following guest should be cared for by providing supplemental oxygen
using a non-rebreather mask? - ✔✔A guest with labored breathing and a pulse ox
reading of 89%
Which of the following common lifeguard hand signals is used to communicate the
message indicating to other staff? - ✔✔Crossed arms = Stop dispatch
What is a key step when performing the duck pluck rescue? - ✔✔Hold the center of the
tube with one hand and reach over the tube with your other hand
What does the "10" and the 10/20protection standard represent? - ✔✔Lifeguards are
able to scan their entire assigned zone and recognize a guest in distress within 10
seconds
What stage of drowning what a guest rarely need any further care if rescued? -
✔✔Surprise
Under what circumstances shed a tourniquet be considered? - ✔✔When a guest has a
catastrophic wound to a limb and bleeding cannot be controlled using direct pressure
and bandaging
Prior to approaching a guest in distress which of the following should you do? -
✔✔Activate your EAP and enter the water safely
To care for a broken bone, which of the following would you apply to minimize
movement of the affected area? - ✔✔A rigid, soft, or anatomic splint
What is one of the five general care steps for suspected spinal injury in the water? -
✔✔Do a secondary check on the guest to determine if there are any other injuries
You perform an unresponsive rear hug rescue and following your in water assessment,
you determine the guest is not breathing. What do you do next? - ✔✔Seal your mask on
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