YMCA Lifeguard Written Test Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
First step in Safe in Six -
correct answer ✅Prevention
PACA -
correct answer ✅Problem, Alternatives, Consequence, Action
Why do lifeguards rotate? -
correct answer ✅Maintain vigilance
How do public pools communicate rules? -
correct answer ✅Postings or verbally
Safety systems -
correct answer ✅Buddy system, tag board, roll call
Early warning signs of a distressed swimmer -
correct answer ✅Waving, glassy eyes, grabbing objects, weak,
double heads, can't respond
4 stages of drowning -
correct answer ✅Initial apnea, dyspnea, terminal apnea, cardiac
arrest
, YMCA Lifeguard Written Test Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
7 emergency types -
correct answer ✅water, chemical, medical, mechanical, missing
person, environmental, violence
What does EAP stand for? -
correct answer ✅Emergency Action Plan
Ways to assist a conscious victim -
correct answer ✅extension assist, supporting assist, drag, rescue
buoy, rescue tube in water
Implications the facility can face if reports are not filled out -
correct answer ✅Lawsuit or the lifeguard could be sued
T/F: We want to ask a SCI victim to answer verbally -
correct answer ✅True
Symptoms of a SCI -
correct answer ✅Bruising, unconscious, paralysis, tingling,
convulsions
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
First step in Safe in Six -
correct answer ✅Prevention
PACA -
correct answer ✅Problem, Alternatives, Consequence, Action
Why do lifeguards rotate? -
correct answer ✅Maintain vigilance
How do public pools communicate rules? -
correct answer ✅Postings or verbally
Safety systems -
correct answer ✅Buddy system, tag board, roll call
Early warning signs of a distressed swimmer -
correct answer ✅Waving, glassy eyes, grabbing objects, weak,
double heads, can't respond
4 stages of drowning -
correct answer ✅Initial apnea, dyspnea, terminal apnea, cardiac
arrest
, YMCA Lifeguard Written Test Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
7 emergency types -
correct answer ✅water, chemical, medical, mechanical, missing
person, environmental, violence
What does EAP stand for? -
correct answer ✅Emergency Action Plan
Ways to assist a conscious victim -
correct answer ✅extension assist, supporting assist, drag, rescue
buoy, rescue tube in water
Implications the facility can face if reports are not filled out -
correct answer ✅Lawsuit or the lifeguard could be sued
T/F: We want to ask a SCI victim to answer verbally -
correct answer ✅True
Symptoms of a SCI -
correct answer ✅Bruising, unconscious, paralysis, tingling,
convulsions
