FIRE OFFICER 1 EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The company officer's most important task as a supervisor is to: - ANS ensure personnel
safety.
A challenge new company officers will have to learn, apply, and model is how much _____ is
legitimately assigned to the position and how to apply it in a fair and equitable manner. -
ANS authority
A company officer must be a competent and _____ leader. - ANS ethical
Company officers provide the most direct influence over the: - ANS firefighters they
supervise.
Each category of NFPA 1021 is divided into: - ANS job performance requirements (JPRs) that
guide the officer in the performance of these duties.
Safety must become second nature for all personnel in all types of: - ANS emergency and
nonemergency situations.
In which role is the company officer expected to execute the orders of superior officers? -
ANS Subordinate
The first-arriving company officer at an incident must: - ANS establish the Incident Command
System (ICS).
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,Successful company officers choose to see the challenges of the transition to the position as
a(an): - ANS opportunity to grow as a professional.
Company officers must realize that the success of any fire and emergency services organization
is directly proportional to its: - ANS community involvement.
Division of labor is used in the fire and emergency services to: - ANS make specific, clear-cut
assignments.
Company officers can make the best of available resources by: - ANS conserving materials
and supplies.
Most large cities operate _____ fire and emergency services organizations. - ANS career
Fire and emergency services organizations can be classified as either public or private
depending on how the organization is: - ANS funded
Personnel serving in combination departments can generally be divided into: - ANS paid or
volunteer responders.
Professionalism in career, paid-on-call, and volunteer departments refers to: - ANS a level of
personnel competence or expertise, behavior, and appearance.
Mutual aid agreements require fire and emergency services personnel to: - ANS work with
other organizations and other governmental jurisdictions.
"Line" and "staff" are organizational terms that separate fire personnel into: - ANS two
distinct groups that primarily deliver services to either internal or external customers.
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, Fire organizations with scalar structures have a defined chain of command in which: -
ANS information is directed from the top of the organization downwards.
Fire services organizations often respond to an incident along with: - ANS other public and
private entities.
Authority refers to the legal ability of an individual to: - ANS make and implement decisions
for which the individual is held accountable.
When supervising a single company, a company officer should optimally have three to seven
subordinates in their: - ANS span of control.
The primary means of categorizing public fire and emergency services organizations is by the: -
ANS jurisdiction the organization serves.
The purpose of unity of command is to ensure unity of effort under: - ANS one responsible
commander for every objective.
Approximately 70 percent of fire and emergency services personnel are: - ANS volunteers
An effective unit works together towards a(an): - ANS specific objective.
Company officers usually supervise a department's: - ANS smallest subdivision.
Which leadership style requires followers to participate in the process and be held accountable
for the tasks delegated to them? - ANS Democratic
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The company officer's most important task as a supervisor is to: - ANS ensure personnel
safety.
A challenge new company officers will have to learn, apply, and model is how much _____ is
legitimately assigned to the position and how to apply it in a fair and equitable manner. -
ANS authority
A company officer must be a competent and _____ leader. - ANS ethical
Company officers provide the most direct influence over the: - ANS firefighters they
supervise.
Each category of NFPA 1021 is divided into: - ANS job performance requirements (JPRs) that
guide the officer in the performance of these duties.
Safety must become second nature for all personnel in all types of: - ANS emergency and
nonemergency situations.
In which role is the company officer expected to execute the orders of superior officers? -
ANS Subordinate
The first-arriving company officer at an incident must: - ANS establish the Incident Command
System (ICS).
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,Successful company officers choose to see the challenges of the transition to the position as
a(an): - ANS opportunity to grow as a professional.
Company officers must realize that the success of any fire and emergency services organization
is directly proportional to its: - ANS community involvement.
Division of labor is used in the fire and emergency services to: - ANS make specific, clear-cut
assignments.
Company officers can make the best of available resources by: - ANS conserving materials
and supplies.
Most large cities operate _____ fire and emergency services organizations. - ANS career
Fire and emergency services organizations can be classified as either public or private
depending on how the organization is: - ANS funded
Personnel serving in combination departments can generally be divided into: - ANS paid or
volunteer responders.
Professionalism in career, paid-on-call, and volunteer departments refers to: - ANS a level of
personnel competence or expertise, behavior, and appearance.
Mutual aid agreements require fire and emergency services personnel to: - ANS work with
other organizations and other governmental jurisdictions.
"Line" and "staff" are organizational terms that separate fire personnel into: - ANS two
distinct groups that primarily deliver services to either internal or external customers.
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, Fire organizations with scalar structures have a defined chain of command in which: -
ANS information is directed from the top of the organization downwards.
Fire services organizations often respond to an incident along with: - ANS other public and
private entities.
Authority refers to the legal ability of an individual to: - ANS make and implement decisions
for which the individual is held accountable.
When supervising a single company, a company officer should optimally have three to seven
subordinates in their: - ANS span of control.
The primary means of categorizing public fire and emergency services organizations is by the: -
ANS jurisdiction the organization serves.
The purpose of unity of command is to ensure unity of effort under: - ANS one responsible
commander for every objective.
Approximately 70 percent of fire and emergency services personnel are: - ANS volunteers
An effective unit works together towards a(an): - ANS specific objective.
Company officers usually supervise a department's: - ANS smallest subdivision.
Which leadership style requires followers to participate in the process and be held accountable
for the tasks delegated to them? - ANS Democratic
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