California ACO Alarm Company Operator ACQ license test examination secrets
Alarm Company Operator ACO license test
Here's one of the most simple ACO questions: "What wire type and size would you use to ground
a metal alarm panel enclosure, and to what?"
Let us share some little-known 'secrets'
with you about the California 2023-2024
ACO Alarm Company Operator
application & license exam test.
With the right information,
you can pass this VERY HARD test!
1. Application 'secrets':
--Don't send in 'letters of experience', 'commendations', or 'training certificates'.
BSIS will only accept experience documented on their 2-page BSIS 'Certificate of Experience'.
--Check the BSIS webpage 'Verify an ACO License'
to determine if someone else in California
is already using the company name that you would like to use.
If you choose a name that is
'confusingly similar to an existing licensee',
you will get a name-denial letter after you pass your test.
BUT: if you see a name that looks like you want for yourself,
click on it-- it may have expired
years ago but is still in their database--
you can probably have it if long expired and not being used.
--To speed up the process, if you need to use a Qualified Manager immediately,
there are members of www.thePIgroup.com who
can step in to become your 'instant QM'.
There are many men and women available, many with foreign languages if needed.
--Don't mail in the application without proof
of LiveScan fingerprinting already being done.
--The reason that most people fail
the ACO Alarm Company Operator license
examination test: because of the
questions about insurance, employees,
taxes, payroll, reporting, Penal Code,
searches, sexual harassment,
Civil Code, Labor Code, Business &
Professions Code, Code of Regulations,
first aid, firearms, CPR,
mandatory registration, business practices,
technical details, and much more.
You MUST visit this webpage:
--Use the well-worded ACO license study material found at www.thePIgroup.com.
Their 1000-page 14-pound ACO package including questions with verified correct answers
and their 150 datasheets with graphics are the key to passing.
Visit their website, or call them at 818-883-6969. http://www.thepigroup.com/alarm_company_operator_test.html
Bonus fire-alarm material is included.
You MUST visit this webpage:
--Click here to learn about sample test questions, business help, and study material: http://www.thepigroup.com/alarm_company_operator_test.html
Their package's tested areas, business help, and/or other study areas include:
the extensive 'Alarm Company Act' section of the Business & Professions Code,
proximity alarms, monitoring, general provisions, administration, powers to arrest,
classification, Kirchoff's Law, sound detection systems, grounds, alarm contacts,
office regulations, business practices, weapons laws, techniques, smoke beams,
service, open, closed, shorts, central stations, management, National Electrical Code,
CCTV, programing, PIRs, IP systems, doubling voltage, Ohm's Law,
California Code of Regulations, business management, diodes, voltage, firearms,
sexual harassment, protective loops, system diagrams, circuits, OSHA,
California Business & Professions Code, EOL resistors, parallel, AWG differences,
disciplinary proceedings, UL, prohibited acts, extent of protection, grounded,
continuity, voltage drop, California Vehicle Code, US employment eligibility, repair,
access, languages, photoelectric beams, battery tests, symbols, false alarm reduction,
consultation, installation, service, ladders, safety, supervised loops,
devices normally closed, defense, employee registration requirements, wire type,
eye protection, double-closed, RJ-xx differences, California Labor Code, privacy,
tax withholding, safety, verification, receivers, devices normally open, resistors,
related laws, prohibited acts and citations, monitoring, signal, glass breaks,
false alarms, serial, motion detectors, conduct of business, legal proceedings,
ladders, alarm activations, digital communicators, outside bell time, shorts, wire types,
California Financial Code, wire length, California Civil Code, extents, repair,
bell time-outs, supervised loops, California Government Code, openings,
alarm agent registration, microwave, 1099s, contract cancellations, deposit refunds,
backup batteries, pet-friendly intrusion-detection devices, infrared, GSM radio,
combination detectors, CO carbon monoxide detectors, magnetic alarm contacts,
motion sensors, glass-break detectors, safe/vault extent complete, verified alarm systems,
ATM/night-depository protection, parallel wiring, series/serial wiring, plenum spaces,
shunts, plenum cabling, classes of cables, branch offices, auxiliary outputs, cable rating, ladder choices,
DSL, telephone line seizure, Central Station communication methods,
Central Station licensing requirements, ACO branch office requirements, the most common general false alarm causes,
false alarms from PIRs, microwave sensors, monostatic sensors, bistatic sensors,
Central Station requirements to be UL listed, client education, RJ31X details, RJ31X installation,
RJ31X client notification, alarm system power supplies, ultrasonic motion detectors,
home-run wiring, changing a back-up battery without a disable code, alarm permits,
common wiring used with alarm systems, load-testing a back-up battery, conduit differences,
types of keypads, keypad placement, listen-in monitoring, unemployment insurance requirements,
and more, including fire alarm basics--
--Some test-takers are not really
experienced with using a computer.
The Alarm Company Operator
license exam test
is only available
to be taken on computers at the
designated test centers
(20+ in California, 10 in other states).
So, have a friend give you practice help
with using a keyboard and a mouse
(especially the mouse's left button!).
--Be sure not to use any employee without
first having Workers' Compensation
insurance coverage. One injury incident
could close your ACO business forever.
--Be sure not to have any firearm involved
without first having the required
$1,000,000 (one million dollars) insurance
coverage. Note: many test-takers
think required firearm insurance is $500,000
and get that test question WRONG.
It is $500,000 bodily injury plus $500,000
property injury, totaling $1,000,000.
