S95 Personal Exam Questions & Answers | 75 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Updated & Verified
Question: What can an S95 Certificate of Fitness holder do?
Correct answer: Only visual inspections on smoke alarms
Question: What is the primary purpose of fire alarm systems?
Correct answer: On a premise is to warn tenants and transmit
signals indicating a fire condition to the FDNY aka Central station
Question: What is the function of the Fire Alarm Control
Panel (FACP)?
Correct answer: Monitors inputs and controls output through
various types of circuits. The Panel activates the building audible and visual device connected to the fire alarm (horn/strobes)
Question: What are the three types of signals in a fire alarm
system?
Correct answer: Fire Alarm Signal, Supervisory Signals, and
Trouble Signals
Question: What is a Fire Alarm Signal?
Correct answer: Manual fire alarm pull station, smoke
detector, water flow switch in the presence of a fire or fire signature.
Question: What are Supervisory Signals?
Correct answer: Signals which indicate that a system or
device being monitored has been compromised or is in an abnormal state. Will audibly and visually annunciate at the FACP to indicate the condition needs to be investigated and corrected. The FACP will also send a signal to an FDNY approved central station.
Question: What are Trouble Signals?
Correct answer: Battery failure, AC failure, ground fault,
open or short circuit on a wire, phone line failure, internal component failure.
Question: What is the purpose of the Alarm Silence Switch or
Button?
Correct answer: Is used to silence the building audible and
visual devices after evacuation is complete while the source of alarm is being investigated. Never reset the fire alarm system until the condition is verified by the FDNY personnel.
Question: What is the function of the System Reset Switch or
Button?
Correct answer: Reset fire alarm system after condition is
cleared. Should return to normal condition after resetting.Often required to clear supervisory conditions, does not clear trouble conditions.
Question: How often must smoke detectors be cleaned and
tested?
Correct answer: Cleaned once every 6 months. Test for smoke
entry every once a year
Question: What are the requirements for the primary power
source of a fire alarm system?
Correct answer: Shall be generated electric power not
exceeding 277/480 volts
Question: What are the requirements for the secondary power
source of a fire alarm system?
Correct answer: Batteries shall not be a substitute for
connection to the secondary source
Question: How does a Manual Pull Station operate?
Correct answer: Manually pulling handle. Return handle to
normal position. A key or other method may be required to reset the station to normal
Question: How do smoke, beam, and duct detectors function?
Correct answer: Detection of particles of combustion. Smoke
detectors will normally reset when the reset button is pressed at the FACP if the condition activating the detector has been cleared