Fire Officer 1 State Exam Review QUESTIONS WITH WELL
VERIFIED ANSWERS
4 - answer☑️✔️..According to the NFPA, how many levels of fire officers are there?
1 - answer☑️✔️..Which level of fire officer is generally associated with supervising a single fire
company or apparatus?
III - answer☑️✔️..What is the lowest level of fire officer that is qualified for a chief officer
position?
II - answer☑️✔️..Which level of fire officer is generally associated as being the senior nonchief
officer in a department?
subordinate - answer☑️✔️..At the Fire Officer I level, emphasis is placed on accomplishing the
departments goals and objectives by working through _____________ to achieve the desired
results.
NFPA fire instructor I - answer☑️✔️..Within the NFPA requirements for Fire Officer I, what are
the requirements for certification as an instructor?
Supervising Fire Officer - answer☑️✔️..Which term does the International Association of Fire
Chiefs use for a Fire Officer I?
As communities of civilian volunteers - answer☑️✔️..Historically, how did the fire service
originate in the United States?
69 percent - answer☑️✔️..According to the NFPA, approximately what percentage of fire
fighters in the United States are volunteers?
,Combination - answer☑️✔️..Which type of fire department uses full-time career personnel
along with volunteer or paid-on-call personnel to staff the department?
Career and volunteer - answer☑️✔️..Although there are four common forms of staffing fire
department organizations, most discussions divide fire fighters into which two categories?
Brigades - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organization do private industries or nongovernmental
organizations use to provide fire protection for factories, processing plants, and large private
facilities?
The Great Chicago Fire - answer☑️✔️..In 1871, two major fires occurred that would change
the way the United States viewed and responded to fire. What was one of those fires?
Fire fighters were threatened by the apparatus and resisted their use. - answer☑️✔️..When
steam-powered fire engines were introduced in the 1800s, what was the reaction of many
volunteer fire fighters?
Public call boxes - answer☑️✔️..Which devices introduced in the 1850s enabled citizens to
send a coded telegraph signal to the fire department dispatch center?
Building collapse - answer☑️✔️..What was the first building codes originally developed to
prevent?
The insurance industry - answer☑️✔️..Which industry played a major role in the development
of the first model building codes?
Fire fighters - answer☑️✔️..Despite the invention of technical firefighting equipment, what is
the most important resource on a fire scene?
,Lieutenant - answer☑️✔️..To which rank do fire fighters report directly?
Battalion chief - answer☑️✔️..Of the following chief officer titles, which is the lowest in rank?
Battalion chief - answer☑️✔️..Which level of administrative chief fire officer is responsible for
managing the activities of several fire companies within a defined geographic area, usually in
more than one fire station?
Fire chief - answer☑️✔️..Who has the ultimate administrative responsibility in a fire
department?
Fire fighters could receive multiple, possibly conflicting, orders from different officers. -
answer☑️✔️..Which condition could ensue if it were not for the principle of unity of
command?
5 - answer☑️✔️..Most experts believe that span of control should extend to no more than
_____ people.
division of labor - answer☑️✔️..With _____________, the specific assignment of a task to an
individual makes that person responsible for completing the task and prevents duplication of
job assignments.
Discipline - answer☑️✔️..What is the general term for the guidelines that a department
establishes for fire fighters?
Demographics - answer☑️✔️..All of the following are common ways of organizing a fire
department except one. Choose the exception.
, Planning - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management deals with developing a
scheme, program, or method that is worked out beforehand to accomplish an objective?
Organizing - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management does the fire officer
use to take the available people, equipment, structure, and time and develop them into an
orderly, functional, and structural unit?
Leading - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management means guiding or
directing in a course of action?
Controlling - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management is used when a fire
officer considers the impact on the budget before making purchases?
Regulation - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organizational document is developed by various
government or government-authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed
by a government body?
Policy - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organizational document is developed to provide definite
guidelines for present and future actions?
Standard operating procedure - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organizational document
establishes or prescribes specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely
for the performance of designated operations or actions?
Spoils system - answer☑️✔️..What was the (often corrupt) system called that was used to
appoint or promote people to public jobs prior to the modern use of merit-based systems?
VERIFIED ANSWERS
4 - answer☑️✔️..According to the NFPA, how many levels of fire officers are there?
1 - answer☑️✔️..Which level of fire officer is generally associated with supervising a single fire
company or apparatus?
III - answer☑️✔️..What is the lowest level of fire officer that is qualified for a chief officer
position?
II - answer☑️✔️..Which level of fire officer is generally associated as being the senior nonchief
officer in a department?
subordinate - answer☑️✔️..At the Fire Officer I level, emphasis is placed on accomplishing the
departments goals and objectives by working through _____________ to achieve the desired
results.
NFPA fire instructor I - answer☑️✔️..Within the NFPA requirements for Fire Officer I, what are
the requirements for certification as an instructor?
Supervising Fire Officer - answer☑️✔️..Which term does the International Association of Fire
Chiefs use for a Fire Officer I?
As communities of civilian volunteers - answer☑️✔️..Historically, how did the fire service
originate in the United States?
69 percent - answer☑️✔️..According to the NFPA, approximately what percentage of fire
fighters in the United States are volunteers?
,Combination - answer☑️✔️..Which type of fire department uses full-time career personnel
along with volunteer or paid-on-call personnel to staff the department?
Career and volunteer - answer☑️✔️..Although there are four common forms of staffing fire
department organizations, most discussions divide fire fighters into which two categories?
Brigades - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organization do private industries or nongovernmental
organizations use to provide fire protection for factories, processing plants, and large private
facilities?
The Great Chicago Fire - answer☑️✔️..In 1871, two major fires occurred that would change
the way the United States viewed and responded to fire. What was one of those fires?
Fire fighters were threatened by the apparatus and resisted their use. - answer☑️✔️..When
steam-powered fire engines were introduced in the 1800s, what was the reaction of many
volunteer fire fighters?
Public call boxes - answer☑️✔️..Which devices introduced in the 1850s enabled citizens to
send a coded telegraph signal to the fire department dispatch center?
Building collapse - answer☑️✔️..What was the first building codes originally developed to
prevent?
The insurance industry - answer☑️✔️..Which industry played a major role in the development
of the first model building codes?
Fire fighters - answer☑️✔️..Despite the invention of technical firefighting equipment, what is
the most important resource on a fire scene?
,Lieutenant - answer☑️✔️..To which rank do fire fighters report directly?
Battalion chief - answer☑️✔️..Of the following chief officer titles, which is the lowest in rank?
Battalion chief - answer☑️✔️..Which level of administrative chief fire officer is responsible for
managing the activities of several fire companies within a defined geographic area, usually in
more than one fire station?
Fire chief - answer☑️✔️..Who has the ultimate administrative responsibility in a fire
department?
Fire fighters could receive multiple, possibly conflicting, orders from different officers. -
answer☑️✔️..Which condition could ensue if it were not for the principle of unity of
command?
5 - answer☑️✔️..Most experts believe that span of control should extend to no more than
_____ people.
division of labor - answer☑️✔️..With _____________, the specific assignment of a task to an
individual makes that person responsible for completing the task and prevents duplication of
job assignments.
Discipline - answer☑️✔️..What is the general term for the guidelines that a department
establishes for fire fighters?
Demographics - answer☑️✔️..All of the following are common ways of organizing a fire
department except one. Choose the exception.
, Planning - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management deals with developing a
scheme, program, or method that is worked out beforehand to accomplish an objective?
Organizing - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management does the fire officer
use to take the available people, equipment, structure, and time and develop them into an
orderly, functional, and structural unit?
Leading - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management means guiding or
directing in a course of action?
Controlling - answer☑️✔️..Which of the four functions of management is used when a fire
officer considers the impact on the budget before making purchases?
Regulation - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organizational document is developed by various
government or government-authorized organizations to implement a law that has been passed
by a government body?
Policy - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organizational document is developed to provide definite
guidelines for present and future actions?
Standard operating procedure - answer☑️✔️..Which type of organizational document
establishes or prescribes specific operational or administrative methods to be followed routinely
for the performance of designated operations or actions?
Spoils system - answer☑️✔️..What was the (often corrupt) system called that was used to
appoint or promote people to public jobs prior to the modern use of merit-based systems?
