Fire · Topic 4 · Ch. 5
Building construction and primary fire protection systems
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This topic is worth about 38 of the 120 questions of the Fire exam (estimated from the booklet's pages).
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≈ 38 of 120 questions
Estimated from the FDNY booklet; the FDNY does not publish the exact distribution.
How it's estimated
This topic takes up 66 of the 206 pages of chapters 1-12 of the booklet (32%). 32% of the 120 questions of the Fire exam = 38.4 ≈ 38.
Official data (FDNY Notice of Exam F-89/T-89, p. 3): the General Topics and Fire course (Component 1: Part I, chapters 1-8, and Part II, chapters 9-12) lasts at least 20 hours; the Non-Fire course (Component 2: Part III, chapters 13-17; Part IV, chapters 18-19; Part V, chapters 20-22) at least 11 hours. Those are class hours, not exam questions, so they are not part of the estimate.
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Sources
- FDNY, Fire and Life Safety Director Curriculum, Version .02 (2022)
- FDNY, Notice of Exam F-89/T-89 (2022)
Questions and texts are our own, written from the official FDNY material, with help from AI. If anything differs, the FDNY material prevails.