SARTECH-III Practice Questions and
answers 2026\2027 A+ Grade
Hasty and Extended
- correct answer What are the two types of searches (categorized by length?
The lost, overdue, endangered, suicidal, aircraft
- correct answer WHO is searched for?
Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, immobile and responsive, and immobile and
unresponsive
- correct answer What are the four states a subject may be in?
Random traveling, route traveling, direction traveling, route sampling, direction sampling, view
enhancing, back tracking, folk wisdom, and staying put
- correct answer What are the nine techniques that subjects may use to try to orient themselves?
Route/location and area
- correct answer What are the two types of searches (categorized by geography covered)?
Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, and untrained volunteers
- correct answer What are four types of ground searchers?
Single resource, strike team, task force
- correct answer What are the three ways to temporarily categorize resources in ICS?
Place Last Seen
- correct answer What is the PLS?
, Lost Person Questionnaire
- correct answer What is the LPQ?
Last Known Position
- correct answer What is the LPK?
Initial Planning Point
- correct answer What is the IPP?
Lost Person Behavior
- correct answer What is LPB?
Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps
- correct answer What are three methods of physical confinement?
Leaving voicemails, texts, emails, notes on car/residence, checking with transportation companies, and
checking with hospitals or jails
- correct answer What are examples of virtual confinement?
Age, medical condition, number of subjects, subject experience profile, weather profile, equipment
profile, and terrain/hazards profile
- correct answer What items are included in the Search Urgency Rating Chart?
Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative
- correct answer What are four forms that clues may come in?
Incident Action Plan
- correct answer What is the IAP?
After Action Review
- correct answer What is an AAR?
answers 2026\2027 A+ Grade
Hasty and Extended
- correct answer What are the two types of searches (categorized by length?
The lost, overdue, endangered, suicidal, aircraft
- correct answer WHO is searched for?
Mobile and responsive, mobile and unresponsive, immobile and responsive, and immobile and
unresponsive
- correct answer What are the four states a subject may be in?
Random traveling, route traveling, direction traveling, route sampling, direction sampling, view
enhancing, back tracking, folk wisdom, and staying put
- correct answer What are the nine techniques that subjects may use to try to orient themselves?
Route/location and area
- correct answer What are the two types of searches (categorized by geography covered)?
Sign cutters/human trackers, hasty teams, grid teams, and untrained volunteers
- correct answer What are four types of ground searchers?
Single resource, strike team, task force
- correct answer What are the three ways to temporarily categorize resources in ICS?
Place Last Seen
- correct answer What is the PLS?
, Lost Person Questionnaire
- correct answer What is the LPQ?
Last Known Position
- correct answer What is the LPK?
Initial Planning Point
- correct answer What is the IPP?
Lost Person Behavior
- correct answer What is LPB?
Trail blocks, road patterns, and track traps
- correct answer What are three methods of physical confinement?
Leaving voicemails, texts, emails, notes on car/residence, checking with transportation companies, and
checking with hospitals or jails
- correct answer What are examples of virtual confinement?
Age, medical condition, number of subjects, subject experience profile, weather profile, equipment
profile, and terrain/hazards profile
- correct answer What items are included in the Search Urgency Rating Chart?
Physical, electronic, witness reports, or investigative
- correct answer What are four forms that clues may come in?
Incident Action Plan
- correct answer What is the IAP?
After Action Review
- correct answer What is an AAR?
