TFM 11 EXAM SET 2025 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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✔✔How do you obtain renewal of a license that has been expired for between 90 days
& 2 years? - ✔✔Pay the renewal fee PLUS a fee that does not exceed the original fee
(100%) paid to obtain the license.
✔✔Can a firefighter Sell and Install Fire systems? - ✔✔No, unless he is licensed to do
so.
✔✔If you submit your renewal application and it is not complete, what happens? -
✔✔You are granted 30 days to complete the application. Beyond that, you can be
charged late fees.
✔✔Let's say you are no longer employed by a registered firm. Can you renew your
license? - ✔✔Yes, but you may not engage in 'license activity' until you are employed
by a registered firm again.
✔✔Must you be employed by a licensed firm to have a license ISSUED? - ✔✔Yes!
✔✔Can non-laboratory certified equipment ever be used? - ✔✔Yes, so long as it
complied with the law at the time of installation, and has not been modified.
✔✔What 3 things should a firm do to train and supervise an employee who is exempt
from the rules? - ✔✔1. Ensure that each install complies with NFPA standards
2. Ensure that each device is Laboratory Certified
3. Ensure the individual is knowledgeable in fire protection and placement of detectors
✔✔What 3 practices concerning the Fire licensing are prohibited by law? - ✔✔1.
Planning, certifying, selling, installing, monitoring and maintaining fire systems without a
license.
2. Attempting to obtain a license fraudulently
3. Violating any of the Texas Fire Rules
✔✔What happens if the Rules are violated? - ✔✔After notice and a hearing, the State
Fire Marshall may suspend, revoke or refuse to issue a license.
✔✔If a license is revoked, how long must a person wait to re-apply? - ✔✔You must wait
until at least one year after the date the license was revoked. You must also request a
public hearing to show why your new license should not be denied.
✔✔What type of criminal offense is committed when an individual plans, installs, runs a
separate branch or runs a firm without being licensed? - ✔✔A Class B Misdemeanor
, ✔✔What is Monitoring equipment? - ✔✔Equipment used to transmit and receive Fire
trouble, supervisory and alarm signals to and from a firm registered to monitor such
signals
✔✔What does NICET stand for? - ✔✔National Institute for Certification in Engineering
Technologies
✔✔What is an Approved Testing Laboratory? - ✔✔An organization that lists all
equipment that complies with the State Fire Rules
✔✔What is an Approved Testing Organization? - ✔✔An organization that tests license
applicants, such as NICET or ESA
✔✔What are the 'rules' governing a firm's Certificate of Registration? - ✔✔1. A specific
location must be maintained by the firm and listed on the certificate.
2. The certificate must be posted CONSPICUOSLY at the business location
✔✔What would invalidate a firm's certificate? - ✔✔The total change of a firm's
ownership. (Like ADT buying Brinks)
✔✔What Causes a Firm's certificate to be revised? - ✔✔A change of the business's
name, location or mailing address.
✔✔What business change must the Marshall be notified of, but does not require a
revised certificate? - ✔✔A change of corporate officers
✔✔What does a 'Fire Alarm Technician' license allow? - ✔✔Allows the installation,
inspection, service, testing, maintaining and monitoring and certifying of fire devices and
systems.
✔✔What does a 'Fire Alarm Monitoring Technician' license allow? - ✔✔Allows the
monitoring of fire devices and systems ONLY.
✔✔What does a 'Residential Fire Alarm Superintendent Single-station' license allow? -
✔✔Allows the planning, installing, certifying, inspecting, testing, servicing and
maintenance of RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-STATION devices and systems.
✔✔What does a 'Residential Fire Alarm Superintendent' license allow? - ✔✔Allows the
planning, installing, certifying, inspecting, testing, servicing, monitoring and
maintenance of RESIDENTIAL devices and systems.
***This license means the superintendent may act as a fire alarm technician.
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✔✔How do you obtain renewal of a license that has been expired for between 90 days
& 2 years? - ✔✔Pay the renewal fee PLUS a fee that does not exceed the original fee
(100%) paid to obtain the license.
✔✔Can a firefighter Sell and Install Fire systems? - ✔✔No, unless he is licensed to do
so.
✔✔If you submit your renewal application and it is not complete, what happens? -
✔✔You are granted 30 days to complete the application. Beyond that, you can be
charged late fees.
✔✔Let's say you are no longer employed by a registered firm. Can you renew your
license? - ✔✔Yes, but you may not engage in 'license activity' until you are employed
by a registered firm again.
✔✔Must you be employed by a licensed firm to have a license ISSUED? - ✔✔Yes!
✔✔Can non-laboratory certified equipment ever be used? - ✔✔Yes, so long as it
complied with the law at the time of installation, and has not been modified.
✔✔What 3 things should a firm do to train and supervise an employee who is exempt
from the rules? - ✔✔1. Ensure that each install complies with NFPA standards
2. Ensure that each device is Laboratory Certified
3. Ensure the individual is knowledgeable in fire protection and placement of detectors
✔✔What 3 practices concerning the Fire licensing are prohibited by law? - ✔✔1.
Planning, certifying, selling, installing, monitoring and maintaining fire systems without a
license.
2. Attempting to obtain a license fraudulently
3. Violating any of the Texas Fire Rules
✔✔What happens if the Rules are violated? - ✔✔After notice and a hearing, the State
Fire Marshall may suspend, revoke or refuse to issue a license.
✔✔If a license is revoked, how long must a person wait to re-apply? - ✔✔You must wait
until at least one year after the date the license was revoked. You must also request a
public hearing to show why your new license should not be denied.
✔✔What type of criminal offense is committed when an individual plans, installs, runs a
separate branch or runs a firm without being licensed? - ✔✔A Class B Misdemeanor
, ✔✔What is Monitoring equipment? - ✔✔Equipment used to transmit and receive Fire
trouble, supervisory and alarm signals to and from a firm registered to monitor such
signals
✔✔What does NICET stand for? - ✔✔National Institute for Certification in Engineering
Technologies
✔✔What is an Approved Testing Laboratory? - ✔✔An organization that lists all
equipment that complies with the State Fire Rules
✔✔What is an Approved Testing Organization? - ✔✔An organization that tests license
applicants, such as NICET or ESA
✔✔What are the 'rules' governing a firm's Certificate of Registration? - ✔✔1. A specific
location must be maintained by the firm and listed on the certificate.
2. The certificate must be posted CONSPICUOSLY at the business location
✔✔What would invalidate a firm's certificate? - ✔✔The total change of a firm's
ownership. (Like ADT buying Brinks)
✔✔What Causes a Firm's certificate to be revised? - ✔✔A change of the business's
name, location or mailing address.
✔✔What business change must the Marshall be notified of, but does not require a
revised certificate? - ✔✔A change of corporate officers
✔✔What does a 'Fire Alarm Technician' license allow? - ✔✔Allows the installation,
inspection, service, testing, maintaining and monitoring and certifying of fire devices and
systems.
✔✔What does a 'Fire Alarm Monitoring Technician' license allow? - ✔✔Allows the
monitoring of fire devices and systems ONLY.
✔✔What does a 'Residential Fire Alarm Superintendent Single-station' license allow? -
✔✔Allows the planning, installing, certifying, inspecting, testing, servicing and
maintenance of RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-STATION devices and systems.
✔✔What does a 'Residential Fire Alarm Superintendent' license allow? - ✔✔Allows the
planning, installing, certifying, inspecting, testing, servicing, monitoring and
maintenance of RESIDENTIAL devices and systems.
***This license means the superintendent may act as a fire alarm technician.
