CA DMV AMBULANCE REVISION EXAMS QUESTIONS AND

CA DMV AMBULANCE REVISION EXAMS QUESTIONS AND

ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+

✔✔When ambulances are readily available from two or more services, your ambulance

company may respond to a motor vehicle accident:

• Only upon instruction from a law-enforcement or public agency dispatcher
• Promptly after receiving a call from a private person
• Immediately after receiving the call via CB radio
• Whenever your ambulance is closer to the scene than your competitor's - ✔✔A. Only

upon instruction from a law-enforcement or public agency dispatcher

✔✔Studies have shown that sirens on emergency vehicles do not give sufficient

warnings to:

• Pedestrians
• Drivers of vehicles directly ahead
• Drivers of vehicles approaching on a cross street
• Drivers of vehicles moving slowly in dense traffic - ✔✔C. Drivers of vehicles

approaching on a cross street

✔✔order to maintain a valid ambulance driver certificate you must pass a physical

examination:

• Every year
• Every two years
• When renewing the EMT-1(Ambulance) certificate
• When renewing the ambulance driver certificate - ✔✔B. Every two years

✔✔When a qualified attendant is not readily available, the driver of an ambulance

dispatched for emergency service shall:

• respond promptly without the attendant
• Wait for the attendant
• Notify the dispatcher of the inability to respond
• Substitute a trainee for the attendant - ✔✔C. Notify the dispatcher of the inability to

respond

✔✔The amber warning lamps on the ambulance may be displayed only:

• During "Code 3" operation
• At the scene of an emergency
• When an unusual traffic hazard exists
• When loading or unloading a patient - ✔✔C. When an unusual traffic hazard exists
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✔✔The red warning lamps on the ambulance may be displayed:

• When responding to an emergency call
• When an extreme hazard exists
• When speed in transporting the patient is essential
• Under any of the above circumstances - ✔✔... D. Under any of the above

circumstances

✔✔Responsibility for determining the mechanical safety of the ambulance rests

primarily with the:

• Service owner
• Ambulance attendant
• Service mechanic
• Ambulance driver - ✔✔D. Ambulance driver

✔✔A tire may not be used on an ambulance when it is so worn that the tread depth in

any two adjacent grooves is less than:

• 1/32 of an inch
• 3/32 of an inch
• 1/16 of an inch
• None of the above - ✔✔A. 1/32 of an inch

✔✔Your ambulance drivers certificate may be denied or revoked for conviction of:

• Possession of stolen property
• Possession of marijuana
• Indecent exposure
• Any of the above - ✔✔D. Any of the above

✔✔Authority for the management of the scene of a traffic accident involving injuries is

vested in the:

• Public safety agency having investigative authority
• Paramedic
• Ambulance attendant
• Most medically qualified health care professional - ✔✔A. Public safety agency having

investigative authority

✔✔Temporary Certificate becomes void after: - ✔✔180 days

✔✔Regular Certificate is issued not to exceed _____ years and will expire as the applicant's driver license. - ✔✔Five

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