PSC Study Guide 2026

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📋 PSC Exam Format at a Glance

125

Questions

150 min

Time Limit

70%

Passing Score

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📚 PSC Topics to Study (69)

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✍️ Sample PSC Questions & Answers

1. An employee is terminated involuntarily. What is the best practice for that person's access credentials?

✓ Deactivate them immediately, ideally at or before notification

Revoking access right away closes the window for retaliation or theft by a departing employee.

2. ADA standards require door hardware on accessible doors to be operable without which of the following?

✓ Tight grasping, tight pinching, or twisting of the wrist

The ADA requires operable parts usable with one hand without tight grasping, pinching, or wrist twisting, favoring lever handles.

3. Why are dual-technology (e.g., PIR plus microwave) sensors commonly used?

✓ To reduce nuisance alarms by requiring both technologies to activate

Requiring both technologies to agree filters out environmental causes that would trigger only one.

4. How should professional standards and ethics knowledge be maintained and updated?

✓ Through continuous professional development, current literature review, and professional networking

Professional competence requires ongoing development through education, literature review, and engagement with the professional community.

5. A certificant moves from a security consulting role to a corporate security manager role mid-cycle. What happens to the continuing education requirement?

✓ It continues to apply; credits earned in either role still count if relevant

Continuing education obligations follow the certificant, not the employer or job title.

6. When documenting a witness statement, the officer should:

✓ Record the witness's own words and have the witness review and sign it

Statements in the witness's own words, reviewed and signed, keep accuracy and evidentiary value.

🎯 Free PSC Practice Tests

Access Control Systems & Surveillance · 9 questions Risk Management & Threat Analysis · 9 questions Emergency Response & Incident Management · 9 questions Physical Security Assessment & Planning · 9 questions Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) · 7 questions Professional Standards and Ethics · 7 questions Professional Standards and Ethics · 7 questions Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) · 7 questions Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) · 7 questions Professional Standards and Ethics · 7 questions

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