Fire alarm fault-finding challenge
Ten questions a day for fire alarm engineers, apprentices and anyone curious about the job. Read what a panel is telling you, and test what you know about the BS 5839-1:2025 changes. Every answer is explained and traced to its source. No account, no payment.
- Daily streak
- 0
- Best daily
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- Points
- 0
Streak, best score and points are saved on this device only.
Practice rounds (random questions)
What the questions cover
- Panel fault messages. 18 questions across 4 panels, built from fault records that carry a citation to the manufacturer’s own documentation. A question is withdrawn automatically if its record stops being source-verified.
- BS 5839-1:2025 changes (UK). 21 questions on false alarm rates, servicing intervals, modifications and the logbook, based on the Fire Industry Association’s published summary of the changes, such as our guide to the false alarm rate and servicing intervals. These questions apply to UK practice only.
How it works
The daily challenge is the same ten questions for everyone each UK day. Practice rounds draw random questions. Answers are checked on our server, so the answer is never sent to your browser before you choose. Your streak, best score and points are stored on your own device; nothing about your answers is linked to you. Sharing a result shares only the score and the coloured squares.
Please note
This is an educational game. The scenarios are not instructions for a real fault, and a good score is not evidence of professional competence. The standards questions rest on a summary of the standard, not the standard itself, which remains the authoritative document. The bank is small and deliberately so: a question is included only when it can be traced to a citable source.