IFSTA Fire Officer II Exam Questions And
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Company officer two's may interact with? - Answer✔Their organization's upper levels and with
their local and regional government agencies.
Company officer two's supervise? - Answer✔Other officers
Company officer two's act as _______ change agents within their organization -
Answer✔Change
Prerequisite knowledge for for Fire Officer two? - Answer✔1. The organization of thier local
government
2. The enabling and regulatory legislation and the law-making process at the local, state and
national level.
The level two Fire Officer must perfom the following duties: - Answer✔1. Evaluate personnel
and create an environment to maximize employee performance.
2. Prepare projects and division budgets.
3. Develop budgets.
4. Evaluate the resource needs of assigned units.
Understand the purchaseing process.
5. Maintain records on purchases.
6. Conduct a preliminary investigation of a fire scene to include analyzing information and
determining the point of orgin and cause of the fire.
7. Develop preincident plans for multiunit operations.
8. Assign resources to effectiviely control incidents.
9. Conduct postincident analysis using inforamtion gathered from all responding units.
10. Assist with the development of organizational policies and procedures.
11. Provide the media with emergency incident or department activity information.
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12. Apply planning concepts and project needed resources.
The fire officer two responsabilites regarding safety and health include: - Answer✔analyzing
unit accidents and injury reports and directing actions and or recommending steps to prevent
thier reoccurance.
The company officer two must interact personally with superiors, peers and subordinates to
accomplish? - Answer✔Organizational goals and tasks.
The company officer two may be required to develop? - Answer✔Written reports, press
releases, memos, policies and procedures.
Local governments affects emergency services organizations in two primary ways. - Answer✔1.
allocating funds, approving.disapproving purchases, staffing requests, ordinances related to fire
protection.
2. Local government oversee other department and agencies with which their emergency
services organizations must interact.
Who may enact local legislation? - Answer✔City council, commisioners, or board with authority
over the jurisdiction
What are the three functional branches of government? - Answer✔Legislative, executive and
Judicial.
What four states are considered commonwealth - Answer✔Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Virginia and Puerto Rico
What is a commonwealth state? - Answer✔A state in which the government functions with the
common consent of the people
What territiories does the US currently administer. - Answer✔Guam, Midway, American Samoa,
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Canada is divided into how many provinces and how many territories? - Answer✔Ten Provinces
and three territories.
Canada has three branches of the government. - Answer✔Unicameral legislative assembly,
executive branch and judicial branch
The following agencies may influence fire and emergency services. - Answer✔Fire marshal, fire
training programs, commisioners, EMS services, forestry, homeland security, OSHA and fish and
game.
Other agencies that we may interact with. - Answer✔FEMA, USFA, NFA, EMI, coast guard,
USDA, USFS, HUD, DOI, DOL, OSHA, CDC, NIOSH, DOT, DOJ, CPSC, NRC
Examples of Internal resources. - Answer✔Street dept, public works, L.E. EMS,
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What is an Area Contigency Plan (ACP)? - Answer✔A procedure to be put into effect should an
emergency occur within a given region or area.
What is NRP? - Answer✔National Response Plan- created to integrate federal government
prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation plans into one all discipline, all
hazard approach to domestic incident management
What is formative evaluation? - Answer✔Ongoing, repeated assesment conducted over time to
evalute an employee's performance against an organizations standards.
What is Summative evaluation - Answer✔The company officer's final assesment of the
individuals performance. Typically done at the end of probation, annually as part of a
performance review and for performance improvement or disciplinary purpose.
It is likly that the __________ willbe the individual who implements change at the operations
level. - Answer✔Company officer
Change can originate from two forces. - Answer✔Internal and external
Change can cause people to go through four stages - Answer✔Denial, resistance, exploration
and commitment.
The types of change that an organization may have to undergo are? - Answer✔Strategic,
structure, technology and people.
What are the reasons to resist change? - Answer✔Uncertainty, loss of control or power, fear of
loss, self-interest, learning anxiety, lack of trust, lack of shared vision,
Resistance to change can be overcome using the following 7 steps. - Answer✔Create a climate
for change, plan for change, communicate the advantages and effects of change, meet the
needs of both the organizationand employees, involve employees in the change process,
provide support for employees during the change and seek the input and support of "opinion
leaders" in the organiztion.
what does a change agent person do? - Answer✔They define, research, plan, build support and
carefully select members of a change team.
A model for change has been defined into five steps. - Answer✔Recognize the need for change,
identify resistance and address it, plan the change intervention, implement the change and
control the change.
There are 8 reasons that change processes fail - Answer✔To complex, lacks universal support,
no clear vision and not understanding the importance of having one, failure to communicate
the vision and change process, not planning for and recognizing tge short term results,
declaring completion if the change process prematurely and failure to make the change a
permanent part of the organization's culture.
What is the NFPA standard for Fire Officer two - Answer✔NFPA 1021
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