NC DOCC PRACTICE EXAM (LATEST UPDATE) QUESTIONS & CORRECT
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
If you fail to achieve a passing score on your first attempt to successfully pass the State Comprehensive
Exam, you may request a retest within how many days after the original exam? -
Answer-B. 30
How long do you have to notify the Sheriffs Standards Division and your department head of a criminal
offense or domestic Violence Order (50B)? -
Answer-B. 5 Business days
There is a minimum of how many topical areas and you are expected to become proficient in each and
every one of these course topics? -
Answer-C. 23
At what number of deficiencies will a student be dismissed from the course? -
Answer-B. 4
What percentage of total class hours is a student allowed to miss, complete makeup work and still
be able to sit for the state exam? -
Answer-B. 10%
Your limited enrollment in a subsequent delivery of the training program, in order to complete
the specified topic areas of deficiency, must occur within how many days from the last date of
trainee participation in a prior course delivery? -
Answer-D. 180
A trainee shall successfully complete the comprehensive written examination if he/she
achieves a minimum of percent correct answers on each of the four units. -
Answer-B. 70
Which of the following are viewed by the Sheriffs' Commission as disqualifying offenses in obtaining
certification either by conviction or commission? -
Answer-D. All the above
,You must be years of age to be eligible for certification by the Sheriffs' Commission as a
detention officer, in either a county jail or a regional/district confinement facility. -
Answer-C. 20
, is charged with the statutory responsibility for developing and implementing the
minimum employment, training, certification, and retention standards for all deputy sheriffs and
detention officers in North Carolina. -
Answer-c. North Carolina Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission
Who is ultimately responsible for the trainee's successful completion of the Detention Officer
Certification Course? -
Answer-a. Trainee
If a trainee is deficient in any of the topic areas, you will NOT be eligible to sit for the state
comprehensive written examination of the Commission nor will you receive certification. -
Answer-a. 1
The School Director may terminate a trainee from course participation or may deny certification of
successful course completion where the trainee is habitually tardy to, or regularly departs early from,
class meetings or field exercises. -
Answer-a. True
The serves as the curriculum development entity of the Commission and continues to
revise and publish the mandated curricula of both the Sheriffs' and the Criminal Justice Education
and Training Standards Commissions for the detention officer certification course. -
Answer-d. North
Carolina Justice Academy
This committee is appointed by the Commission's chairman and consists of five (5) members [Sheriffs
only] of the Commission, one of whom will serve as the Committee's chairman. The Committee
deliberates and decides whether the evidence is sufficient to establish probable cause for adverse
actions to be taken against an applicant or a certified officer. -
Answer-c. Probable Cause Committee
Any detention officer employed by a sheriffs office or a district confinement facility holding a
probationary certification shall satisfactorily complete a commission-accredited detention officer
training course within from the date of his original appointment as a detention officer as
determined by the date of the probationary certification. -
Answer-c. One year
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
If you fail to achieve a passing score on your first attempt to successfully pass the State Comprehensive
Exam, you may request a retest within how many days after the original exam? -
Answer-B. 30
How long do you have to notify the Sheriffs Standards Division and your department head of a criminal
offense or domestic Violence Order (50B)? -
Answer-B. 5 Business days
There is a minimum of how many topical areas and you are expected to become proficient in each and
every one of these course topics? -
Answer-C. 23
At what number of deficiencies will a student be dismissed from the course? -
Answer-B. 4
What percentage of total class hours is a student allowed to miss, complete makeup work and still
be able to sit for the state exam? -
Answer-B. 10%
Your limited enrollment in a subsequent delivery of the training program, in order to complete
the specified topic areas of deficiency, must occur within how many days from the last date of
trainee participation in a prior course delivery? -
Answer-D. 180
A trainee shall successfully complete the comprehensive written examination if he/she
achieves a minimum of percent correct answers on each of the four units. -
Answer-B. 70
Which of the following are viewed by the Sheriffs' Commission as disqualifying offenses in obtaining
certification either by conviction or commission? -
Answer-D. All the above
,You must be years of age to be eligible for certification by the Sheriffs' Commission as a
detention officer, in either a county jail or a regional/district confinement facility. -
Answer-C. 20
, is charged with the statutory responsibility for developing and implementing the
minimum employment, training, certification, and retention standards for all deputy sheriffs and
detention officers in North Carolina. -
Answer-c. North Carolina Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission
Who is ultimately responsible for the trainee's successful completion of the Detention Officer
Certification Course? -
Answer-a. Trainee
If a trainee is deficient in any of the topic areas, you will NOT be eligible to sit for the state
comprehensive written examination of the Commission nor will you receive certification. -
Answer-a. 1
The School Director may terminate a trainee from course participation or may deny certification of
successful course completion where the trainee is habitually tardy to, or regularly departs early from,
class meetings or field exercises. -
Answer-a. True
The serves as the curriculum development entity of the Commission and continues to
revise and publish the mandated curricula of both the Sheriffs' and the Criminal Justice Education
and Training Standards Commissions for the detention officer certification course. -
Answer-d. North
Carolina Justice Academy
This committee is appointed by the Commission's chairman and consists of five (5) members [Sheriffs
only] of the Commission, one of whom will serve as the Committee's chairman. The Committee
deliberates and decides whether the evidence is sufficient to establish probable cause for adverse
actions to be taken against an applicant or a certified officer. -
Answer-c. Probable Cause Committee
Any detention officer employed by a sheriffs office or a district confinement facility holding a
probationary certification shall satisfactorily complete a commission-accredited detention officer
training course within from the date of his original appointment as a detention officer as
determined by the date of the probationary certification. -
Answer-c. One year
