SARTECH-III Practice Questions With Fully
Explained Solutions
What are the two types of searches (categorized by length?
Correct Answer - Hasty and Extended
WHO is searched for? Correct Answer - The lost, overdue,
endangered, suicidal, aircraft
What are the four states a subject may be in? Correct Answer -
Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, immobile and
responsive, and immobile and unresponsive
What are the nine techniques that subjects may use to try to orient
themselves? Correct Answer - Random traveling, route
traveling, direction traveling, route sampling, direction sampling,
view enhancing, back tracking, folk wisdom, and staying put
What are the two types of searches (categorized by geography
covered)? Correct Answer - Route/location and area
What are four types of ground searchers? Correct Answer -
Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, and untrained
volunteers
What are the three ways to temporarily categorize resources in ICS?
Correct Answer - Single resource, strike team, task force
What is the PLS? Correct Answer - Place Last Seen
What is the LPQ? Correct Answer - Lost Person Questionnaire
What is the LPK? Correct Answer - Last Known Position
, What is the IPP? Correct Answer - Initial Planning Point
What is LPB? Correct Answer - Lost Person Behavior
What are three methods of physical confinement? Correct Answer
- Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps
What are examples of virtual confinement? Correct Answer -
Leaving voicemails, texts, emails, notes on car/residence, checking
with transportation companies, and checking with hospitals or jails
What items are included in the Search Urgency Rating Chart?
Correct Answer - Age, medical condition, number of subjects,
subject experience profile, weather profile, equipment profile, and
terrain/hazards profile
What are four forms that clues may come in? Correct Answer -
Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative
What is the IAP? Correct Answer - Incident Action Plan
What is an AAR? Correct Answer - After Action Review
What are the important aspects of the AAR? Correct Answer -
What worked well, what didn't work well, and what should be done
next time
What is a search? Correct Answer - Effort to locate someone in
distress
What is a rescue? Correct Answer - To retrieve persons in
distress, provide for their immediate medical or other needs, and
deliver them to a place of safety
Explained Solutions
What are the two types of searches (categorized by length?
Correct Answer - Hasty and Extended
WHO is searched for? Correct Answer - The lost, overdue,
endangered, suicidal, aircraft
What are the four states a subject may be in? Correct Answer -
Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, immobile and
responsive, and immobile and unresponsive
What are the nine techniques that subjects may use to try to orient
themselves? Correct Answer - Random traveling, route
traveling, direction traveling, route sampling, direction sampling,
view enhancing, back tracking, folk wisdom, and staying put
What are the two types of searches (categorized by geography
covered)? Correct Answer - Route/location and area
What are four types of ground searchers? Correct Answer -
Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, and untrained
volunteers
What are the three ways to temporarily categorize resources in ICS?
Correct Answer - Single resource, strike team, task force
What is the PLS? Correct Answer - Place Last Seen
What is the LPQ? Correct Answer - Lost Person Questionnaire
What is the LPK? Correct Answer - Last Known Position
, What is the IPP? Correct Answer - Initial Planning Point
What is LPB? Correct Answer - Lost Person Behavior
What are three methods of physical confinement? Correct Answer
- Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps
What are examples of virtual confinement? Correct Answer -
Leaving voicemails, texts, emails, notes on car/residence, checking
with transportation companies, and checking with hospitals or jails
What items are included in the Search Urgency Rating Chart?
Correct Answer - Age, medical condition, number of subjects,
subject experience profile, weather profile, equipment profile, and
terrain/hazards profile
What are four forms that clues may come in? Correct Answer -
Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative
What is the IAP? Correct Answer - Incident Action Plan
What is an AAR? Correct Answer - After Action Review
What are the important aspects of the AAR? Correct Answer -
What worked well, what didn't work well, and what should be done
next time
What is a search? Correct Answer - Effort to locate someone in
distress
What is a rescue? Correct Answer - To retrieve persons in
distress, provide for their immediate medical or other needs, and
deliver them to a place of safety
