ICC Fire Inspector II (67) Exam Day: 50 Questions, Two Hours, Open Book

The shape of the day:

Questions	50
Time	2 hours
Book policy	Open
Prerequisite	Current ICC Fire Inspector I (66)
Delivery	ICC PRONTO (remote) or Pearson VUE (test centre)
Retakes	Six attempts in six months

Fifty questions in two hours is 2.4 minutes each — a little more room than exam 66 gives you, on a shorter paper.

Check the prerequisite before you plan anything

Exam 67 requires a current Fire Inspector I. ICC validates it against your record at registration, so a lapsed 66 stops you at purchase rather than at the test centre.

If your 66 renewal is anywhere near due, renew it first. Letting it lapse does not just cost you that certification — it removes the foundation underneath 67, and you cannot sit the exam without it.

Resolve the IFSTA question before you travel

ICC lists three references for exam 67, the same three as 66: the 2021 IBC, the 2021 IFC, and IFSTA's Fire Inspection and Code Enforcement, 9th Edition.

The same unresolved point applies. An older ICC candidate bulletin indicated IFSTA content is examinable while the IFSTA manual itself is not permitted in the exam room — the inverse of the usual arrangement. We have not been able to confirm it still holds for the current form, and ICC publishes no candidate bulletin for this exam.

Treat it as open, and settle it yourself: check the approved-references list on exam 67's page in the ICC Exam Catalog before you book, and again before you sit. Do not plan to carry IFSTA in and lean on it.

PRONTO or a test centre

PRONTO is ICC's remote proctoring — your own desk, your own books, webcam supervision, a room pan before you start. For this exam it has a specific advantage: you will be working from the same two code books you tabbed for exam 66, laid out the way you are used to.

Pearson VUE gives you a controlled room and removes connection risk. You still bring your own books.

If you sat 66 through one of them and it went smoothly, there is little reason to change.

What to bring

Your own printed 2021 IBC and 2021 IFC, tabbed and highlighted. Margin annotation is generally acceptable; separate loose notes and printed crib sheets are not. Confirm the specifics for your delivery method when you book — PRONTO and Pearson VUE apply the rules slightly differently.

If you took 66 recently, your books are already set up. Resist the urge to re-tab from scratch; add tabs for the areas that gained weight — IBC Chapter 3, §1004, and IFC Chapter 27 — and leave the rest alone.

Where this exam differs in the room

Exam 66 is dominated by one domain. Exam 67 is flatter, and that changes how the paper feels:

• Fewer long multi-step egress calculations.
• More occupancy classification, where the questions are short and every distractor is a plausible threshold.
• More hazardous materials, where the answer is usually a lookup if you know which table you want.
• A slightly heavier administrative component out of IFC Chapter 1.

The practical effect is that lookups are more valuable here than on 66, and you have marginally more time per question to make them. Knowing the structure of Chapter 27 and Chapter 3 well enough to land on a table in seconds is worth more than any amount of memorising.

Managing the clock

1. First pass without the books. Occupancy classifications, definitions, thresholds you know cold. On this paper that should clear a substantial share of the questions.
2. Second pass for lookups. Hazardous materials tables, egress exceptions, anything where a precise value decides it.
3. No blanks. No penalty for a wrong answer — eliminate and commit.

Still watch for the exception

The pattern carries over from 66. When a question specifies a number — a seat count, a headcount, a square footage — it is almost always placing the scenario just inside or just outside an exception, and the base rule is the wrong answer. Read the exception rather than answering from the rule you know.

Results and retakes

Result at the end of the session. If it does not go your way: six attempts within a six-month period, fee payable each time. Exhaust all six and you wait six months from your first attempt before registering again.

After you pass

Holding both 66 and 67 puts you in ICC's 2–5 certifications renewal band — 6.0 CEUs across a three-year cycle rather than 3.0 for a single certification. That is 3.0 additional CEUs for the second certification, and nothing further for a third, fourth or fifth. If you are considering adding F3 Fire Plans Examiner or a system-specific inspector credential, the renewal arithmetic is already in your favour.

Our free 10-question practice test draws from the same weighted pool, with the governing code section on every answer.