Florida Pre-Engineered Systems Exam Day: What to Expect

Florida Pre-Engineered Systems Exam Day: What to Expect

The numbers

The Pearson VUE Florida Fire Prevention handbook's permitted references apply to the Contractor exams only. NFPA 17A, 96, 17, 2001 and the 69A-21 rules are what you are tested on, but none of them come into the room.

On the day

• Identification: bring ID that meets the current Pearson VUE handbook's requirements, with a name that matches your application.
• Timing: arrive early, because check-in takes time.
• Belongings: nothing goes in with you, including notes, books and your phone.

Pacing

100 questions in 120 minutes is 72 seconds each, and there's no calculator to lean on.

1. Answer everything you know.
2. Flag anything that needs thought.
3. Come back to the flagged questions.
4. Never leave one blank.

Where pre-engineered candidates lose points

• Kitchen intervals and paperwork. The semi-annual service, the inspection report fields and the record-retention period are easy marks, and easy to lose if you only know them from doing the work.
• Shut-offs and actuation. NFPA 96 questions on fuel and electric shut-off and manual actuation come up because they are what makes a kitchen system work.
• Thinking like a designer. The exam tests servicing to the manufacturer's listing. Discharge calculations and design concentrations belong to engineered systems.
• The Florida rules. Part III of 69A-21 is short. Read all of it: service tags, collars, record tags and the inspection report.

Practise in the same conditions

Closed book, timed, 100 questions, no calculator. Our Florida practice exams run in exactly that format. Start with the free practice test.