1. Firestop Introduction

A system installed in a building that requires an external energy source such as electric­ity or a pressurized water supply to operate

• compartmentation

• passive fire protection

• fire blocking

• active fire protection

What does AHJ stand for?

• Apprehensive Holding of JointSystems

• Authority Honoring Jurisdiction

• Authority Having Jurisdiction

• Apprentice Hindering Journeyman

_________ is the practice of dividing a structure into separate sections to prevent the spread of fire and smoke to another part of the same structure or an adjoining structure

• Compartmentation

• Infiltration

• Firestopping

• Fire sealant

flexible material that can expand and contract along with building movement

• foam

• intumescent

• backer rod

• elastomeric

Specific time period a wall, floor, or other building component has been tested to withstand the passage of flames, smoke, and toxic gases while remaining structurally sound is known as the

• UL® Fire Resistance Directory

• fire-resistance rating

• UL®-listed system

• firestop system

The complete, tested assembly that prevents the passage of flames, smoke, and toxic gases through-penetrations, joints, or other weak­nesses in fire-rated walls and floors for a specified period of time is know as

• firestop system

• fire door

• fire fly

• direct fire resistance

Firestopping is the process of installing firestop products into fire-rated barriers to restore hourly fire-resistance ratings

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• FALSE

Intumescent materials are materials that are flexible can expand and contract along with building movement

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• FALSE

A structural method of fire con­trol built into the design of a building which requires no outside energy to operate

• active fire protection

• fire blocking

• passive fire protection

• AHJ

UL®-listed system refers to a firestop system that is tested by Underwriters Laboratories (UL®) and listed in the UL® Fire Resistance Directory

• TRUE

• FALSE