California Qualified Manager Exam
Preparation FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100%
GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW
VERSION
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
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?
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
Where must a security officer wear their badge?
PPO name, "Private Security", Employee # -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.4 Uniform
What three pieces of information must be displayed on every badge?
PPO name, and "Private Security" -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.4 Uniform
What pieces of information must be displayed on every shoulder patch?
8 hours -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.8 Baton
How many hours of training is required to obtain a baton permit?
16 hours -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10 Firearm
How many hours of training are required to obtain an exposed firearms permit?
24 hours -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.5 Reportable Events
, When a security officer discharges a firearm, within how many days must they report
the incident to the PPO?
7 days -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.5 Reportable Events
When a security officer discharges a firearm, within how many days must the PPO
report the incident to BSIS?
7 days -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.5 Reportable Events
When a security officer discharges a firearm, within how many days must the PPO
submit a report to the local PD?
Insurance companies will not insure, ofc needs medical marijuana card, facilitating the
manufacturing, selling, dispensing, and distribution, and federal crime for any controlled
substance user to possess gun -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.7 Marijuana Dispensaries
What are the challenges with contracting services to marijuana dispensaries?
BPC 7574 is newer legislation allowing businesses to continue to operate an in-house
security force. BPC 7574 requires a person or business that has one or more
employees who provide security services for the employer and only the employer to
register as a PSSE (Proprietary Private Security Employer). -ANSWER✅✅✅✅11.1
Proprietary Security Services Act
What is the Proprietary Security Services Act?
A Proprietary Security Service Employer can hire one or more employees for security,
but the employees must register with BSIS as a PSO (Proprietary Security Officer).
PSSE is not allowed to perform work for more than one different organization. -
ANSWER✅✅✅✅11.1 Proprietary Security Services Act
What is a PSSE?
Under BPC 7574.1, Proprietary Security Officer is an unarmed individual (no exposed
firearm allowed, only CCW) employed by a PSSE whose services are not contracted to
any other entity or person and who is required to wear a distinctive uniform identifying
the individual as a security officer. -ANSWER✅✅✅✅11.1 Proprietary Security
Services Act
What is a PSO?
Misdemeanor and $10,000 fine -ANSWER✅✅✅✅12.1 Private Security Services Act
Preparation FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100%
GUARANTEED PASS BRAND NEW
VERSION
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
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?
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
Where must a security officer wear their badge?
PPO name, "Private Security", Employee # -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.4 Uniform
What three pieces of information must be displayed on every badge?
PPO name, and "Private Security" -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.4 Uniform
What pieces of information must be displayed on every shoulder patch?
8 hours -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.8 Baton
How many hours of training is required to obtain a baton permit?
16 hours -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10 Firearm
How many hours of training are required to obtain an exposed firearms permit?
24 hours -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.5 Reportable Events
, When a security officer discharges a firearm, within how many days must they report
the incident to the PPO?
7 days -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.5 Reportable Events
When a security officer discharges a firearm, within how many days must the PPO
report the incident to BSIS?
7 days -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.5 Reportable Events
When a security officer discharges a firearm, within how many days must the PPO
submit a report to the local PD?
Insurance companies will not insure, ofc needs medical marijuana card, facilitating the
manufacturing, selling, dispensing, and distribution, and federal crime for any controlled
substance user to possess gun -ANSWER✅✅✅✅10.10.7 Marijuana Dispensaries
What are the challenges with contracting services to marijuana dispensaries?
BPC 7574 is newer legislation allowing businesses to continue to operate an in-house
security force. BPC 7574 requires a person or business that has one or more
employees who provide security services for the employer and only the employer to
register as a PSSE (Proprietary Private Security Employer). -ANSWER✅✅✅✅11.1
Proprietary Security Services Act
What is the Proprietary Security Services Act?
A Proprietary Security Service Employer can hire one or more employees for security,
but the employees must register with BSIS as a PSO (Proprietary Security Officer).
PSSE is not allowed to perform work for more than one different organization. -
ANSWER✅✅✅✅11.1 Proprietary Security Services Act
What is a PSSE?
Under BPC 7574.1, Proprietary Security Officer is an unarmed individual (no exposed
firearm allowed, only CCW) employed by a PSSE whose services are not contracted to
any other entity or person and who is required to wear a distinctive uniform identifying
the individual as a security officer. -ANSWER✅✅✅✅11.1 Proprietary Security
Services Act
What is a PSO?
Misdemeanor and $10,000 fine -ANSWER✅✅✅✅12.1 Private Security Services Act
