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California Qualified Manager Exam
Preparation Questions With Correct Answers
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4 hours - Answer✔10.7 Chemical Agents
How many hours of training is required to obtain OC permit?
To protect consumers from mal business practices - Answer✔3.1
What is the purpose of the Department of Consumer Affairs?
To regulate private patrol operators - Answer✔3.2
What is the purpose of the Bureau of Security & Investigative Services?
To manage day to day operations - Answer✔3.3
What is the purpose of the qualified manager?
The owner of the private security company - Answer✔3.3
Who is the private patrol operator?
Corporation - Answer✔4.5
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What type of entity does a California-based private security company need to be?
When it's impossible to send mail to the physical address or when the address is the PPO
owner's primary residence. - Answer✔4.5
When can you use a PO Box as the business mailing address?
A Branch Office Certificate (BOC) (BPC 7582.21) - Answer✔5.3
What do you need when you conduct business anywhere but the office listed on BSIS records?
BPC 7582.21 - Answer✔5.3 Branch Offices
What is BPC that requires you to obtain a BOC when conducting business outside the listed
address on BSIS records?
Commercial Liability Insurance, Workers' Compensation Insurance, and Business vehicle
insurance - Answer✔6.0 Insurance Requirements
What are the three insurance requirements for PPOs?
$1,000,000 commercial liability insurance policy. $500,000 for property damages and $500,000
for bodily injuries - Answer✔6.1 Commercial General Liability
What is the minimum limit of commercial liability insurance for a PPO offering armed security
services?
When you hire one or more employees. It's recommended to get the insurance policy now so
when you need to hire employees you don't need to wait on the policy. - Answer✔6.2 Workers'
Compensation Policy
When do you need a workers' compensation policy?
LAN (License #, Address, and Business name) - Answer✔7.5 Advertising
What are the three pieces of information that must be displayed in every advertisement?
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Q-TIPS (Quantity of Officers, Time, Identity, Price, Subject) - Answer✔8.2 Proposal
What needs to be included in a proposal?
Date, type of service, # of hours, price of service, total due, payment due date, late fees, and
additional expenses (cones). - Answer✔9.0 Invoice
What pieces of information must be in an invoice?
every year, 8 hours additional training - Answer✔10.2 Cont. Training
How often does a security officer need to complete continued training, and how many hours?
16 hours of electives (First aid, firearms, baton, de-escalation, diversity) - Answer✔10.2 Cont.
Training
How many hours of training must they complete within six months of placing a security officer
on a post?
guard card, driver's license, and social security card or birth certificate - Answer✔10.3 Hiring
Security Officer
When hiring a new security officer, what documents do you need?
Every two years (BPC 7583.2) - Answer✔10.3 Hiring Security Officer
How often does a security officer need to renew their guard card?
18 years old, pay state for application, 40 hour course, pass exam, fingerprints - Answer✔10.1
Process of Becoming A Security Officer
Whats the process of becoming a security officer?
The left breast area of their uniform - Answer✔10.4 Uniform
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California Qualified Manager Exam
Preparation Questions With Correct Answers
100% Verified.
4 hours - Answer✔10.7 Chemical Agents
How many hours of training is required to obtain OC permit?
To protect consumers from mal business practices - Answer✔3.1
What is the purpose of the Department of Consumer Affairs?
To regulate private patrol operators - Answer✔3.2
What is the purpose of the Bureau of Security & Investigative Services?
To manage day to day operations - Answer✔3.3
What is the purpose of the qualified manager?
The owner of the private security company - Answer✔3.3
Who is the private patrol operator?
Corporation - Answer✔4.5
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, ©THESTAR 2024/2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 11:32AM. A+
What type of entity does a California-based private security company need to be?
When it's impossible to send mail to the physical address or when the address is the PPO
owner's primary residence. - Answer✔4.5
When can you use a PO Box as the business mailing address?
A Branch Office Certificate (BOC) (BPC 7582.21) - Answer✔5.3
What do you need when you conduct business anywhere but the office listed on BSIS records?
BPC 7582.21 - Answer✔5.3 Branch Offices
What is BPC that requires you to obtain a BOC when conducting business outside the listed
address on BSIS records?
Commercial Liability Insurance, Workers' Compensation Insurance, and Business vehicle
insurance - Answer✔6.0 Insurance Requirements
What are the three insurance requirements for PPOs?
$1,000,000 commercial liability insurance policy. $500,000 for property damages and $500,000
for bodily injuries - Answer✔6.1 Commercial General Liability
What is the minimum limit of commercial liability insurance for a PPO offering armed security
services?
When you hire one or more employees. It's recommended to get the insurance policy now so
when you need to hire employees you don't need to wait on the policy. - Answer✔6.2 Workers'
Compensation Policy
When do you need a workers' compensation policy?
LAN (License #, Address, and Business name) - Answer✔7.5 Advertising
What are the three pieces of information that must be displayed in every advertisement?
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Q-TIPS (Quantity of Officers, Time, Identity, Price, Subject) - Answer✔8.2 Proposal
What needs to be included in a proposal?
Date, type of service, # of hours, price of service, total due, payment due date, late fees, and
additional expenses (cones). - Answer✔9.0 Invoice
What pieces of information must be in an invoice?
every year, 8 hours additional training - Answer✔10.2 Cont. Training
How often does a security officer need to complete continued training, and how many hours?
16 hours of electives (First aid, firearms, baton, de-escalation, diversity) - Answer✔10.2 Cont.
Training
How many hours of training must they complete within six months of placing a security officer
on a post?
guard card, driver's license, and social security card or birth certificate - Answer✔10.3 Hiring
Security Officer
When hiring a new security officer, what documents do you need?
Every two years (BPC 7583.2) - Answer✔10.3 Hiring Security Officer
How often does a security officer need to renew their guard card?
18 years old, pay state for application, 40 hour course, pass exam, fingerprints - Answer✔10.1
Process of Becoming A Security Officer
Whats the process of becoming a security officer?
The left breast area of their uniform - Answer✔10.4 Uniform
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