ASIS APP Certification Sample Questions

01. A plant has evacuated under its emergency plan and staff are gathered at the muster point. Contractors and visitors were on site when the alarm sounded. How should the security team establish that those visitors and contractors are out of the building?
Wait for the responding agency to sweep the building for anyone inside
a) Count the badges handed back at the exit reader during the evacuation
b) Ask each host to account for the guests they signed in that day
c) Check the muster point against the visitor log kept at reception
d) Check the muster point against the visitor log kept at reception

02. Items are collected from the area after an incident at a warehouse. What is the primary objective of collecting them?
a) To support the investigation and any proceedings that follow
b) To establish which employee was at fault for the incident
c) To inform staff of what was found and contain the rumors
d) To satisfy the insurer's documentation requirements for the damage claim

03. A flood response at a distribution center has run through the night, and the officers who came on when it began are still working the same posts. What should the supervisor coordinating the response do about that?
a) Authorize overtime so the officers already on post can work the response through to its end
b) Keep the same officers in place so the knowledge they have built up stays on the posts
c) Rotate rested officers onto the posts so the crew that worked through can be stood down
d) Close the quieter posts so the officers on duty can cover the rest of the site

04. Several incidents are running at once and the duty supervisor has to decide where the available response resources go. Which factor MOST influences that allocation?
a) The distance to each affected area
b) The severity of each incident
c) The seniority of the person reporting
d) The order the incidents were reported

05. A tank at a neighboring plant has failed and released a vapor cloud that is drifting toward your site. The responding agency is on its way but has not arrived, and the site's emergency plan provides for both evacuation and shelter-in-place.
Which protective action should the site take?
a) Hold staff at their workstations and wait for the agency to give instructions
b) Evacuate the buildings by the marked routes and assemble staff at the muster points
c) Release staff to leave the site immediately in their own vehicles
d) Move staff into interior rooms and shut down the outside air intakes

06. Two entries sit on a site's risk register. One is very likely but would cause a short nuisance; the other is unlikely but would halt production for a week. What decides which one is treated first?
a) How much each would cost, since money is the measure management understands
b) How recently each last occurred, since the register is kept in date order
c) How likely each is, with what each would cost the operation
d) How likely each is, since frequency is what the register was built to track

07. After a survey identifies a vehicle intrusion risk, a site installs additional lighting and vehicle barriers at the entrance. Which risk treatment does that represent?
a) Transfer
b) Mitigation
c) Acceptance
d) Avoidance

08. Six months into a guard service contract, a site adds a night post at a new dock that the scope of work does not cover. The vendor's supervisor has agreed to staff it from next week. How should that addition be handled?
a) Amend the scope of work and the service levels before the post is staffed
b) Staff the post under the existing terms until the contract is renewed
c) Raise a work order for the post and reconcile the hours on the next invoice
d) Confirm the supervisor's agreement by email and file it with the contract documents

09. You are conducting the annual performance review for an officer on your team. What is that review primarily for?
a) Deciding which officers can be removed at the next headcount review.
b) Producing a record that supports later disciplinary action.
c) Recording the officer's shift preferences for the coming year.
d) Identifying what the officer needs to perform better.

10. Three proposals for a contract guard service have arrived, and each is being read against the scope of work issued with the request. Which feature of a proposal matters most in that reading?
a) The vendor's standing in the industry and the size of its client list
b) The distance between the vendor's nearest office and the site under contract
c) How completely the proposal answers the scope of work and its stated service levels
d) The presentation quality of the submission and the complete set of supporting material