TEST BANK for FLSD | Questions and
Answers | Rapid Review Sheet | Verified
Solutions | 190 Test Questions and
Answers | A+ VERIFIED
1-Manual pull stations are red. Those in Group "B" buildings and Group "R-1"
hotels have a one-inch diagonal white stripe from the top left corner to the bottom
right corner. What is the meaning of the white stripe? Why are these white-striped
pull stations found in "B" and "R-1" properties? Explain your answer. -✓✓The
white stripe indicates that when a manual pull station is activated, the fire alarm
signal will be automatically sent to the Fire Alarm Control Panel, the Central
Station and the Fire Department. Group "B" and "R-1" properties must have the
fire alarm systems monitored by Central Stations; therefore, the fire alarm does not
stay "in-house." Note: The 2008 Fire Code mandated that all buildings with fire
alarm systems have central station monitoring, regardless of whether the manual
pull stations have the white stripe.
2-A smoke detector is designed to detect smoke and activate a fire alarm. Why
must area smoke detectors be located in elevator lobbies? Explain your answer. -
✓✓Area smoke detectors must be located in elevator lobbies to activate elevator
recall. The elevator lobby area smoke detectors activate because there is smoke in
the elevator lobby, hence the proximity of the smoke to the elevators and their
occupants is prioritized and the elevators recall to the Ground Floor or lowest
terminal landing to protect the elevator occupants and allow them to escape the
property. When two smoke detectors are located in elevator lobbies, they must
both activate to sound the alarm and recall the elevators. They are known as "cross-
over smoke detectors."
3-A "sky lobby" is an upper floor where passengers must transfer from one
elevator bank to another to reach the desired floor. In a two-bank building, will
there be a blind shaft on the bank that services the higher floors? Yes/No? Explain
your answer. -✓✓No. A sky lobby exists when passengers must transfer from one
elevator bank to another elevator bank to reach the desired floor. The option of
getting in the high-rise bank elevators on the lobby level does not exist. Therefore,
,the high-rise bank elevators are not express elevators. In the high-rise bank, the
space between the second floor and the sky lobby floor consists of office space.
4- The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor is not required to hold a certificate of
fitness FLS Director but must have a certificate of fitness fire guard in the event
there is a torch operations job scheduled when the building has 500 people or less.
True or false? Explain your answer. -✓✓False. The FLS Building Evacuation
Supervisor (FLS BES) is not required to hold a Certificate of Fitness of any
category. Because the FLS BES must be available to respond to the Fire Alarm
Control Panel when the building has 450 occupants or less and a fire alarm
activates, then it is impossible for the FLS BES to oversee torch operations as a
Fire Guard, even if the FLS BES did in fact have a Certificate of Fitness Fire
Guard F-60.
5- The heat that is generated by the sun is transferred via radiation. Why is it not
via conduction? Explain your answer. -✓✓Heat transfer via conduction requires an
intervening medium (direct contact) that allows the heat to transfer from point "A"
to point "B." For example, a metal pipe heated at one end will eventually heat the
opposite end and anything touching the pipe. There is no solid object connecting
the sun to Earth. Heat transfer from the sun is via Radiation (electromagnetic
waves).
6- The ball-drip valve in a fire suppression system is located on the first sub-Grade
level of a building. Why is it not located on another level? Explain your answer. -
✓✓The Ball-Drip Valve is designed to detect when the Lower Check Valve in the
system is defective or has failed completely. It is also designed to drip excess water
from the pipe between the Fire Department Connection and the Lower Check
Valve to prevent the water from freezing after the Fire Department disconnects the
fire hoses from the Fire Department Connection. Hence, the Ball-Drip Valve must
be at a level that is lower (Cellar level) than the location of the Fire Department
Connections (street level).
7- aww If a FLS Director is not required to be present in a Group "B" building,
then who is required to be in the building to address fire and non-fire emergencies
in the absence of the FLS Director? And, what determines when a FLS Director is
required to be in the building? Explain your answers. -✓✓The FLS Building
Evacuation Supervisor (FLS BES) is required to be in the Group "B" property
when the Fire and Life Safety Director is not required to be in the property. A Fire
and Life Safety Director is required to be in the property when there are more than
,450 in the entire building or more than 100 people above or below the Ground
Floor, excluding the Ground Floor; and during normal business hours of the
building.
8- No fire alarm activation goes directly from an alarm-sending device to the Fire
Department. In a fire alarm system, where do all fire alarms first report the
activation of an alarm-sending device and why? Explain your answers. -✓✓All
automatic and manual alarm-sending (peripheral) devices first send the signal to
the Fire Alarm Control Panel to alert the Fire and Life Safety Director that a fire
alarm has activated.
9- Area smoke detectors are readily visible and usually appear on the ceiling level
of a room. Duct smoke detectors are also designed to detect smoke. What are duct
smoke detectors and why are they necessary? Explain your answer. -✓✓Duct
smoke detectors are positioned to detect smoke particles in the duct work
associated with the Heat, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. Upon
detecting smoke, the duct smoke detectors activate a fire alarm signal and
commences the process of controlling the smoke by closing smoke dampers and
shutting down HVAC fans.
10- In all instances when the system is "off-line" with the central station, what
must the FLS Director do to ensure a Fire Department response and why? Explain
your answers. -✓✓The Fire and Life Safety Director must call 911 upon activation
of a fire alarm since being "off-line" prohibits the central station from transmitting
the signal to the Fire Department. When the system is "off-line", the Fire and Life
Safety Director or FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor, as a "Rule of Thumb",
must remain at the Fire Alarm Control Panel until the system is back "on-line".
11- A "drain down" occurs when the building engineers have to drain the water
from the branch lines on a floor in order to perform work on the sprinkler system.
Will the fire alarm activate when the water is drained from the branch lines or
when the branch lines are refilled with water after the work is completed? Explain
your answer. -✓✓Because of the location of the Waterflow Switch in the fire
suppression system, it will only activate when the Branch Lines are re-filled. If the
Waterflow switch is not disabled upon the drain down, it will not activate a fire
alarm signal, but the Tamper Switch will transmit a signal to the Fire Alarm
Control Panel.
, 12. What is the purpose of the OS&Y valve? Why is it chained/padlocked in the
open position even when a Tamper Switch already exists? Explain your answer. -
✓✓The OS&Y valves cut off water to the fire suppression system, therefore as a
precautionary measure the valves are usually chained/padlocked in the open
position even when monitored by Tamper Switches, this will prevent anyone from
physically attempting to close the valve.
13. Besides asking someone or searching online, where can a person find the name
of the FLS Director in a Group "R-1" hotel? Explain your answer. -✓✓The Fire
and Life Safety Director's name appears in the Fire Safety and Emergency Action
Plan.
14. The stairwell design that allows tenants to travel freely between two or more
floors is known as an access stair or "convenience stair." Why it is critical for all
access stairs in the building to be listed in the Comprehensive Fire Safety and
Emergency Action Plan? Explain your answer. -✓✓Access stairs are listed in the
Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan because they are a means of smoke spread
to all the floors connected by the access stairs. Upon a fire condition all the floors
connected by access stairs must be in-building relocated or evacuated, depending
on the location of the access stairs.
15. If alarm-sending devices are disabled (by-passed) where necessary, for
example, due to construction work, it is also necessary to go "off-line". Is this
statement true or false? Explain your answer. -✓✓False. When a peripheral device
such as a smoke detector is disabled, the smoke detector will not activate a fire
alarm signal to the Fire Alarm Control Panel, therefore a fire alarm signal will not
be transmitted to the central station. Hence, there is no need to take the system
"off-line" since the Fire Department will not be responding to the property.
16. Manual pull stations are programmed to not activate fail-safe door release due
to security concerns. This then prevents the fire alarm from being transmitted to
the Fire Department. True or false? Explain your answer. -✓✓False. The fail-safe
door release system is mutually exclusive from "taking the system off-line". The
activation of a manual pull station will transmit the signal to the Fire Alarm
Control Panel, central station and Fire Department.
17. Elevators recall upon the activation of certain automatic smoke and water-flow
detecting devices. In Phase I of elevator recall, elevator occupants may
communicate with a security officer at the lobby desk via the activation of the
Answers | Rapid Review Sheet | Verified
Solutions | 190 Test Questions and
Answers | A+ VERIFIED
1-Manual pull stations are red. Those in Group "B" buildings and Group "R-1"
hotels have a one-inch diagonal white stripe from the top left corner to the bottom
right corner. What is the meaning of the white stripe? Why are these white-striped
pull stations found in "B" and "R-1" properties? Explain your answer. -✓✓The
white stripe indicates that when a manual pull station is activated, the fire alarm
signal will be automatically sent to the Fire Alarm Control Panel, the Central
Station and the Fire Department. Group "B" and "R-1" properties must have the
fire alarm systems monitored by Central Stations; therefore, the fire alarm does not
stay "in-house." Note: The 2008 Fire Code mandated that all buildings with fire
alarm systems have central station monitoring, regardless of whether the manual
pull stations have the white stripe.
2-A smoke detector is designed to detect smoke and activate a fire alarm. Why
must area smoke detectors be located in elevator lobbies? Explain your answer. -
✓✓Area smoke detectors must be located in elevator lobbies to activate elevator
recall. The elevator lobby area smoke detectors activate because there is smoke in
the elevator lobby, hence the proximity of the smoke to the elevators and their
occupants is prioritized and the elevators recall to the Ground Floor or lowest
terminal landing to protect the elevator occupants and allow them to escape the
property. When two smoke detectors are located in elevator lobbies, they must
both activate to sound the alarm and recall the elevators. They are known as "cross-
over smoke detectors."
3-A "sky lobby" is an upper floor where passengers must transfer from one
elevator bank to another to reach the desired floor. In a two-bank building, will
there be a blind shaft on the bank that services the higher floors? Yes/No? Explain
your answer. -✓✓No. A sky lobby exists when passengers must transfer from one
elevator bank to another elevator bank to reach the desired floor. The option of
getting in the high-rise bank elevators on the lobby level does not exist. Therefore,
,the high-rise bank elevators are not express elevators. In the high-rise bank, the
space between the second floor and the sky lobby floor consists of office space.
4- The FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor is not required to hold a certificate of
fitness FLS Director but must have a certificate of fitness fire guard in the event
there is a torch operations job scheduled when the building has 500 people or less.
True or false? Explain your answer. -✓✓False. The FLS Building Evacuation
Supervisor (FLS BES) is not required to hold a Certificate of Fitness of any
category. Because the FLS BES must be available to respond to the Fire Alarm
Control Panel when the building has 450 occupants or less and a fire alarm
activates, then it is impossible for the FLS BES to oversee torch operations as a
Fire Guard, even if the FLS BES did in fact have a Certificate of Fitness Fire
Guard F-60.
5- The heat that is generated by the sun is transferred via radiation. Why is it not
via conduction? Explain your answer. -✓✓Heat transfer via conduction requires an
intervening medium (direct contact) that allows the heat to transfer from point "A"
to point "B." For example, a metal pipe heated at one end will eventually heat the
opposite end and anything touching the pipe. There is no solid object connecting
the sun to Earth. Heat transfer from the sun is via Radiation (electromagnetic
waves).
6- The ball-drip valve in a fire suppression system is located on the first sub-Grade
level of a building. Why is it not located on another level? Explain your answer. -
✓✓The Ball-Drip Valve is designed to detect when the Lower Check Valve in the
system is defective or has failed completely. It is also designed to drip excess water
from the pipe between the Fire Department Connection and the Lower Check
Valve to prevent the water from freezing after the Fire Department disconnects the
fire hoses from the Fire Department Connection. Hence, the Ball-Drip Valve must
be at a level that is lower (Cellar level) than the location of the Fire Department
Connections (street level).
7- aww If a FLS Director is not required to be present in a Group "B" building,
then who is required to be in the building to address fire and non-fire emergencies
in the absence of the FLS Director? And, what determines when a FLS Director is
required to be in the building? Explain your answers. -✓✓The FLS Building
Evacuation Supervisor (FLS BES) is required to be in the Group "B" property
when the Fire and Life Safety Director is not required to be in the property. A Fire
and Life Safety Director is required to be in the property when there are more than
,450 in the entire building or more than 100 people above or below the Ground
Floor, excluding the Ground Floor; and during normal business hours of the
building.
8- No fire alarm activation goes directly from an alarm-sending device to the Fire
Department. In a fire alarm system, where do all fire alarms first report the
activation of an alarm-sending device and why? Explain your answers. -✓✓All
automatic and manual alarm-sending (peripheral) devices first send the signal to
the Fire Alarm Control Panel to alert the Fire and Life Safety Director that a fire
alarm has activated.
9- Area smoke detectors are readily visible and usually appear on the ceiling level
of a room. Duct smoke detectors are also designed to detect smoke. What are duct
smoke detectors and why are they necessary? Explain your answer. -✓✓Duct
smoke detectors are positioned to detect smoke particles in the duct work
associated with the Heat, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. Upon
detecting smoke, the duct smoke detectors activate a fire alarm signal and
commences the process of controlling the smoke by closing smoke dampers and
shutting down HVAC fans.
10- In all instances when the system is "off-line" with the central station, what
must the FLS Director do to ensure a Fire Department response and why? Explain
your answers. -✓✓The Fire and Life Safety Director must call 911 upon activation
of a fire alarm since being "off-line" prohibits the central station from transmitting
the signal to the Fire Department. When the system is "off-line", the Fire and Life
Safety Director or FLS Building Evacuation Supervisor, as a "Rule of Thumb",
must remain at the Fire Alarm Control Panel until the system is back "on-line".
11- A "drain down" occurs when the building engineers have to drain the water
from the branch lines on a floor in order to perform work on the sprinkler system.
Will the fire alarm activate when the water is drained from the branch lines or
when the branch lines are refilled with water after the work is completed? Explain
your answer. -✓✓Because of the location of the Waterflow Switch in the fire
suppression system, it will only activate when the Branch Lines are re-filled. If the
Waterflow switch is not disabled upon the drain down, it will not activate a fire
alarm signal, but the Tamper Switch will transmit a signal to the Fire Alarm
Control Panel.
, 12. What is the purpose of the OS&Y valve? Why is it chained/padlocked in the
open position even when a Tamper Switch already exists? Explain your answer. -
✓✓The OS&Y valves cut off water to the fire suppression system, therefore as a
precautionary measure the valves are usually chained/padlocked in the open
position even when monitored by Tamper Switches, this will prevent anyone from
physically attempting to close the valve.
13. Besides asking someone or searching online, where can a person find the name
of the FLS Director in a Group "R-1" hotel? Explain your answer. -✓✓The Fire
and Life Safety Director's name appears in the Fire Safety and Emergency Action
Plan.
14. The stairwell design that allows tenants to travel freely between two or more
floors is known as an access stair or "convenience stair." Why it is critical for all
access stairs in the building to be listed in the Comprehensive Fire Safety and
Emergency Action Plan? Explain your answer. -✓✓Access stairs are listed in the
Fire Safety and Emergency Action Plan because they are a means of smoke spread
to all the floors connected by the access stairs. Upon a fire condition all the floors
connected by access stairs must be in-building relocated or evacuated, depending
on the location of the access stairs.
15. If alarm-sending devices are disabled (by-passed) where necessary, for
example, due to construction work, it is also necessary to go "off-line". Is this
statement true or false? Explain your answer. -✓✓False. When a peripheral device
such as a smoke detector is disabled, the smoke detector will not activate a fire
alarm signal to the Fire Alarm Control Panel, therefore a fire alarm signal will not
be transmitted to the central station. Hence, there is no need to take the system
"off-line" since the Fire Department will not be responding to the property.
16. Manual pull stations are programmed to not activate fail-safe door release due
to security concerns. This then prevents the fire alarm from being transmitted to
the Fire Department. True or false? Explain your answer. -✓✓False. The fail-safe
door release system is mutually exclusive from "taking the system off-line". The
activation of a manual pull station will transmit the signal to the Fire Alarm
Control Panel, central station and Fire Department.
17. Elevators recall upon the activation of certain automatic smoke and water-flow
detecting devices. In Phase I of elevator recall, elevator occupants may
communicate with a security officer at the lobby desk via the activation of the
