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NFPA CFPS Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Certified Fire Protection Specialist
Exam Code: CFPS
Certifications: NFPA Certifications
Actual Exam Duration: 180 minutes
Expected no. of Questions in Actual Exam: 100
Exam Registration Price: $499
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NFPA CFPS Exam Objectives :

Section Weight Objectives
Safety in the Built Environment 16%
  • Perform evaluations, analyze, and document new and existing fire protection systems
  • Inspect, interpret, and ensure proper application of fire protection and life safety best practices, policies, regulations, and applicable codes and standards
  • Analyze, develop, and recommend codes and standards for fire and life safety in the built environment
Information and Analysis for Fire Protection and Fire Science 9%
  • Conduct job safety analyses for jobs/tasks within various industry settings as they relate to fire hazards
  • Estimate conditions during the pre-flashover fire growth phase of a compartment fire
Fire Prevention: Programs, Materials, Processes, and Environments 12%
  • Identify all potential fire hazards to a community and determine proper mitigation
  • Conduct organizational training needs assessment and provide training on fire hazards to address skills and/or knowledge gaps
  • Resolve problems by performing field investigations, research, detailed design work, and/or detailed review of design computations done by others
Facility Fire Hazard Management 9%
  • Explain the processes of acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposition of building systems
  • Develop and manage mitigation programs, business continuity, and emergency preparedness procedures
  • Plan and execute fire protection management systems development and administer on-site fire protection program
Organizing for Fire and Rescue Services 9%
  • Implement effective pre-incident planning, given the existing pre-emergency plans
  • Develop, implement, and operate an Incident Command System (ICS), given accepted structures for incident command and AHJ requirements
  • Enforce fire prevention operations and applicable fire codes
  • Review and implement an effective fire and emergency service training methodology.
Detection and Alarm 14%
  • Apply knowledge of and be able to demonstrate the fundamental and operational characteristics of the fire alarm, detection, and notification systems
  • Apply life safety, loss prevention, and technical codes and standards as they relate to fire alarm, detection, and notification systems
  • Perform inspections and testing on fire alarm, detection, and notification system design, plans, installation, troubleshooting, and restoration activities
Fire Suppression 22%
  • Perform routine inspections, testing, and maintenance of site-based fire suppression systems
  • Determine the capacity and duration of a water supply, given applicable codes and standards
  • Ensure the performance of required design considerations for water-based suppression systems
Confining Fires 9%
  • Provide direction and/or technical assistance specific to the design, installation, and maintenance of fire-resistance-rated construction
  • Recommend approaches used to limit the hazards of smoke in buildings, given building plans, AHJ requirements, organizational policies and procedures, interior finish, furniture layout, and fire load.
  • Prepare, analyze, and maintain data sources, sharing data specific to wildfire activity and hazardous exposures impacting the facility.
Official Information https://www.nfpa.org/for-professionals/certification/cfps

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