CA DMV AMBULANCE EVALUATION EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+ 2025/2026
✔✔When using a siren Ambulance drivers should - ✔✔1. assume drivers do not hear
the siren at safe distances under most conditions especially at intersections
2. assume drivers have difficulty locating the source of the siren
3. use the siren only when it is most effective
4. never pass on the right
✔✔When using a warning lamp - ✔✔1. excessive use reduces public respect of their
purpose
2. use primarily to protect life and property
✔✔Front steady burn red warning light should be displayed - ✔✔when an extreme
hazard exists
✔✔Do revolving, rotating, or flashing red lamps satisfy the requirement for a steady
burn lamp? - ✔✔No, but they can supplement it
✔✔Flashing red lights may only be displayed - ✔✔when an extreme hazard exists,
(meaning any incident that requires traffic to stop, be blocked, or proceed only as
directed.
✔✔Flashing Amber Lights used - ✔✔only for unusual traffic hazards, until hazard
ceases to exist.
✔✔Warning Lamp effectiveness may be reduced by what 3 factors - ✔✔1. low sun or
glare
2. confusion with traffic signals and neon lights
3. Their position if mounted to high or low on the ambulance.
✔✔Should headlamps be used in the daylight? - ✔✔yes, they increase visibility.
✔✔Definition of defensive driving: - ✔✔doing everything reasonably possible to avoid
accidents.
✔✔a preventable accident is one - ✔✔in which the driver failed to take reasonable
precautions to avoid the accident
✔✔Defensive driving requires - ✔✔continual exercise of sound judgment and good
driving habits with an awareness that all other drivers cannot be relied upon to drive
safely
✔✔Is physical fitness a prerequisite for safe driving? - ✔✔Yes.
, ✔✔Five elements of defensive driving - ✔✔1. knowledge: of the rules of the road, his,
and his vehicles limitations.
2. Alertness: of potential hazards
3. Vision: as speed increases visual accuracy decreases
4. Judgement: knowing what to do when
5. Skill: in handling an ambulance.
✔✔Loss of control is often due to - ✔✔1. driving to fast for the conditions
2. Accelerating too hard
3. Braking too hard
4. Changing direction to hard
5. Taking a curve to fast
✔✔Minor backing mishaps (crashes) result in - ✔✔1. keeping an ambulance out of
service
2. costly repairs
3. additional paperworl
4. poor public image
5. expensive insurance
6. job loss
✔✔Too back up a vehicle station a crew member - ✔✔outside to the left rear of the
vehicle
✔✔Before backing up check for - ✔✔pedestrians and obstacles
✔✔Before backing up push - ✔✔the horn
✔✔Back up at what pace - ✔✔slowly
✔✔While backing up check your - ✔✔mirrors constantly
✔✔Intersections are the most likely cause of accidents because - ✔✔1. visibility is
obstructed
2.Drivers misjudge clearance
3. Motorists may not see or hear the ambulance
4. Two or more ambulances meet at an intersection
✔✔At an intersection the driver should check for - ✔✔actual and potential hazards well
in advance of the intersection
✔✔At intersections the driver should look to the left, then - ✔✔then to the right, then,
the left again before entering the intersection.
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+ 2025/2026
✔✔When using a siren Ambulance drivers should - ✔✔1. assume drivers do not hear
the siren at safe distances under most conditions especially at intersections
2. assume drivers have difficulty locating the source of the siren
3. use the siren only when it is most effective
4. never pass on the right
✔✔When using a warning lamp - ✔✔1. excessive use reduces public respect of their
purpose
2. use primarily to protect life and property
✔✔Front steady burn red warning light should be displayed - ✔✔when an extreme
hazard exists
✔✔Do revolving, rotating, or flashing red lamps satisfy the requirement for a steady
burn lamp? - ✔✔No, but they can supplement it
✔✔Flashing red lights may only be displayed - ✔✔when an extreme hazard exists,
(meaning any incident that requires traffic to stop, be blocked, or proceed only as
directed.
✔✔Flashing Amber Lights used - ✔✔only for unusual traffic hazards, until hazard
ceases to exist.
✔✔Warning Lamp effectiveness may be reduced by what 3 factors - ✔✔1. low sun or
glare
2. confusion with traffic signals and neon lights
3. Their position if mounted to high or low on the ambulance.
✔✔Should headlamps be used in the daylight? - ✔✔yes, they increase visibility.
✔✔Definition of defensive driving: - ✔✔doing everything reasonably possible to avoid
accidents.
✔✔a preventable accident is one - ✔✔in which the driver failed to take reasonable
precautions to avoid the accident
✔✔Defensive driving requires - ✔✔continual exercise of sound judgment and good
driving habits with an awareness that all other drivers cannot be relied upon to drive
safely
✔✔Is physical fitness a prerequisite for safe driving? - ✔✔Yes.
, ✔✔Five elements of defensive driving - ✔✔1. knowledge: of the rules of the road, his,
and his vehicles limitations.
2. Alertness: of potential hazards
3. Vision: as speed increases visual accuracy decreases
4. Judgement: knowing what to do when
5. Skill: in handling an ambulance.
✔✔Loss of control is often due to - ✔✔1. driving to fast for the conditions
2. Accelerating too hard
3. Braking too hard
4. Changing direction to hard
5. Taking a curve to fast
✔✔Minor backing mishaps (crashes) result in - ✔✔1. keeping an ambulance out of
service
2. costly repairs
3. additional paperworl
4. poor public image
5. expensive insurance
6. job loss
✔✔Too back up a vehicle station a crew member - ✔✔outside to the left rear of the
vehicle
✔✔Before backing up check for - ✔✔pedestrians and obstacles
✔✔Before backing up push - ✔✔the horn
✔✔Back up at what pace - ✔✔slowly
✔✔While backing up check your - ✔✔mirrors constantly
✔✔Intersections are the most likely cause of accidents because - ✔✔1. visibility is
obstructed
2.Drivers misjudge clearance
3. Motorists may not see or hear the ambulance
4. Two or more ambulances meet at an intersection
✔✔At an intersection the driver should check for - ✔✔actual and potential hazards well
in advance of the intersection
✔✔At intersections the driver should look to the left, then - ✔✔then to the right, then,
the left again before entering the intersection.
