Fire Officer III TEST STUDY GUIDE
2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS WITH
RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Fair Labor Act - ANSWER ✓ Minimum Wage Standards, Overtime Pay
Standards, Maximum Work Hours Also governs time and a half pay
2. ADA - ANSWER ✓ American with Disabilities Act....Employment
regulations only deals with 15 or more employees
3. DoD 6055.6M - ANSWER ✓ Fire and Emergency Services certification
program...minimum qualifications for each program
4. Recruiting Applicants: State Civil Service - ANSWER ✓ Advertising, Using
Community Network, Mainitaining List of Interested Persons
5. Roster Maintained for Jobs - ANSWER ✓ To become eligible candidate
must pass a written, oral , and physical exam
6. NFPA 1021 - ANSWER ✓ Fire Officer Professional Qualifications
7. NFPA 1201 - ANSWER ✓ Standard for Developing Fire Protection for the
public
8. NFPA 1710 - ANSWER ✓ Career Fire Department
9. NFPA 1720 - ANSWER ✓ Volunteer Fire Departmemts
10.First step in Assigning Personnel - ANSWER ✓ Understanding minimum
staffing requirements
,11.international association of ff study - ANSWER ✓ Minimum recommended
staffing for engine and truck companies is 4
12.Scheduling human resources include - ANSWER ✓ Employee capabilities,
tasks to be accomplished, required level of safety
13.Coaching - ANSWER ✓ Development in interests and needs in order to
create a mutual plan
14.Learning climate includes - ANSWER ✓ Ability to learn, motivation to
learn, opportunity to learn
15.Testing of promotion include - ANSWER ✓ Assessment centers, formally
structured interviews, practical performance tests
16.Finding content validity in job - ANSWER ✓ Ability to prove ksa's
17.Which supervisory role best suits the style of a manager? - ANSWER ✓
Training officer
18.Which program is designed specifically for senior fire officers who have
demonstrated significant accomplishments and who have the potential to
impact and initiate change in the fire service? - ANSWER ✓ Harvard Fire
Executive Fellowship
19.Which law protects off-duty first responders from liability when they stop to
render aid in cases of accident or sudden illness? - ANSWER ✓ Good
Samaritan Act
20.Which credentialing program is specifically designed for chief and junior
officers with at least a bachelor's degree and who have been identified by
their organizations as being change agents? - ANSWER ✓ NFA Executive
Fire Officer
21.What method does the text suggest to ensure effective listening? - ANSWER
✓ Rephrase the message in one's own words
,22.For which function is a reverse-911 system best suited? - ANSWER ✓ Alert
residents in a particular area of danger.
23.Which item of information is appropriate to post on a fire department's
website? - ANSWER ✓ Department facilities
24.What is the subject of Dillon's Rule? - ANSWER ✓ Limits of the authority
of local government
25.Which domain of learning emphasizes paradigm and attitude? - ANSWER ✓
Affective
26.Concern for the follower is the basic component for effective use of which
leadership style? - ANSWER ✓ Citizen
27.Which element is generally cited as the basis for an appeal of a verdict in a
lawsuit? - ANSWER ✓ The judge's misapplication of the law
28.Which municipal governments are required to comply with the Family and
Medical Leave Act? - ANSWER ✓ All
- Those with full-time, paid employees
- Those with at least 50 employees
29.Which domain of learning emphasizes the intellectual process? - ANSWER
✓ Cognitive
30.Which acronym does Mitchell Waite use in his book Fire Service
Leadership: Theories and Practices? - ANSWER ✓ LEADERSHIP
31.What is the subject of Michigan v. Tyler? - ANSWER ✓ Warrantless
investigations
32.Which leadership theory suggests that leaders and followers engage with
each other in such a way that they raise one another to higher levels of
motivation and morality? - ANSWER ✓ Transformational
33.A bachelor of arts degree is predominantly __________ in nature. -
ANSWER ✓ conceptual
, 34.Which statement about the effect of social media on the fire service is most
correct? - ANSWER ✓ Social media is here to stay and chief officers must
become consumers of it.
35.Which tool can a leader use to develop subordinates by exposing them to
new processes and experiences? - ANSWER ✓ Delegation
36.Which form of transfer of information is from the center of power to an
individual? - ANSWER ✓ Downward
37.Which communication problem is avoided through the use of language that
is familiar to the receiver? - ANSWER ✓ Semantics
38.Which type of technology is being integrated into self-contained breathing
apparatus to aid in communication? - ANSWER ✓ Bluetooth
39.Training relates best to which domain of learning? - ANSWER ✓
Psychomotor
40.Which type of court can establish a precedent? - ANSWER ✓ Appellate
court
41.Which is a paramount requirement prior to conducting a warrantless cause
and origin investigation at a fire scene? - ANSWER ✓ Custody of the scene
42.Which the first requirement in justifying an accommodation for a person
with a disability? - ANSWER ✓ Individual requests as accommodation
43.Which term best matches the definition, "influencing people to take action to
achieve a desired end state"? - ANSWER ✓ Leadership
44.Which "trait of success" is defined as the skill of communicating in a way
that a desired action will be taken? - ANSWER ✓ People skills
45.Which is one of the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives? - ANSWER ✓ All
fire fighters must be empowered to stop unsafe practices.
2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS WITH
RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Fair Labor Act - ANSWER ✓ Minimum Wage Standards, Overtime Pay
Standards, Maximum Work Hours Also governs time and a half pay
2. ADA - ANSWER ✓ American with Disabilities Act....Employment
regulations only deals with 15 or more employees
3. DoD 6055.6M - ANSWER ✓ Fire and Emergency Services certification
program...minimum qualifications for each program
4. Recruiting Applicants: State Civil Service - ANSWER ✓ Advertising, Using
Community Network, Mainitaining List of Interested Persons
5. Roster Maintained for Jobs - ANSWER ✓ To become eligible candidate
must pass a written, oral , and physical exam
6. NFPA 1021 - ANSWER ✓ Fire Officer Professional Qualifications
7. NFPA 1201 - ANSWER ✓ Standard for Developing Fire Protection for the
public
8. NFPA 1710 - ANSWER ✓ Career Fire Department
9. NFPA 1720 - ANSWER ✓ Volunteer Fire Departmemts
10.First step in Assigning Personnel - ANSWER ✓ Understanding minimum
staffing requirements
,11.international association of ff study - ANSWER ✓ Minimum recommended
staffing for engine and truck companies is 4
12.Scheduling human resources include - ANSWER ✓ Employee capabilities,
tasks to be accomplished, required level of safety
13.Coaching - ANSWER ✓ Development in interests and needs in order to
create a mutual plan
14.Learning climate includes - ANSWER ✓ Ability to learn, motivation to
learn, opportunity to learn
15.Testing of promotion include - ANSWER ✓ Assessment centers, formally
structured interviews, practical performance tests
16.Finding content validity in job - ANSWER ✓ Ability to prove ksa's
17.Which supervisory role best suits the style of a manager? - ANSWER ✓
Training officer
18.Which program is designed specifically for senior fire officers who have
demonstrated significant accomplishments and who have the potential to
impact and initiate change in the fire service? - ANSWER ✓ Harvard Fire
Executive Fellowship
19.Which law protects off-duty first responders from liability when they stop to
render aid in cases of accident or sudden illness? - ANSWER ✓ Good
Samaritan Act
20.Which credentialing program is specifically designed for chief and junior
officers with at least a bachelor's degree and who have been identified by
their organizations as being change agents? - ANSWER ✓ NFA Executive
Fire Officer
21.What method does the text suggest to ensure effective listening? - ANSWER
✓ Rephrase the message in one's own words
,22.For which function is a reverse-911 system best suited? - ANSWER ✓ Alert
residents in a particular area of danger.
23.Which item of information is appropriate to post on a fire department's
website? - ANSWER ✓ Department facilities
24.What is the subject of Dillon's Rule? - ANSWER ✓ Limits of the authority
of local government
25.Which domain of learning emphasizes paradigm and attitude? - ANSWER ✓
Affective
26.Concern for the follower is the basic component for effective use of which
leadership style? - ANSWER ✓ Citizen
27.Which element is generally cited as the basis for an appeal of a verdict in a
lawsuit? - ANSWER ✓ The judge's misapplication of the law
28.Which municipal governments are required to comply with the Family and
Medical Leave Act? - ANSWER ✓ All
- Those with full-time, paid employees
- Those with at least 50 employees
29.Which domain of learning emphasizes the intellectual process? - ANSWER
✓ Cognitive
30.Which acronym does Mitchell Waite use in his book Fire Service
Leadership: Theories and Practices? - ANSWER ✓ LEADERSHIP
31.What is the subject of Michigan v. Tyler? - ANSWER ✓ Warrantless
investigations
32.Which leadership theory suggests that leaders and followers engage with
each other in such a way that they raise one another to higher levels of
motivation and morality? - ANSWER ✓ Transformational
33.A bachelor of arts degree is predominantly __________ in nature. -
ANSWER ✓ conceptual
, 34.Which statement about the effect of social media on the fire service is most
correct? - ANSWER ✓ Social media is here to stay and chief officers must
become consumers of it.
35.Which tool can a leader use to develop subordinates by exposing them to
new processes and experiences? - ANSWER ✓ Delegation
36.Which form of transfer of information is from the center of power to an
individual? - ANSWER ✓ Downward
37.Which communication problem is avoided through the use of language that
is familiar to the receiver? - ANSWER ✓ Semantics
38.Which type of technology is being integrated into self-contained breathing
apparatus to aid in communication? - ANSWER ✓ Bluetooth
39.Training relates best to which domain of learning? - ANSWER ✓
Psychomotor
40.Which type of court can establish a precedent? - ANSWER ✓ Appellate
court
41.Which is a paramount requirement prior to conducting a warrantless cause
and origin investigation at a fire scene? - ANSWER ✓ Custody of the scene
42.Which the first requirement in justifying an accommodation for a person
with a disability? - ANSWER ✓ Individual requests as accommodation
43.Which term best matches the definition, "influencing people to take action to
achieve a desired end state"? - ANSWER ✓ Leadership
44.Which "trait of success" is defined as the skill of communicating in a way
that a desired action will be taken? - ANSWER ✓ People skills
45.Which is one of the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives? - ANSWER ✓ All
fire fighters must be empowered to stop unsafe practices.
