Free GA-PSA Practice Questions

Question 1

At a clothing store, an unarmed contract guard sees a customer conceal merchandise and walk past the checkout without paying. The guard has kept the customer in sight and is acting as the retailer's authorized loss-prevention agent. The guard is not individually registered with the Georgia Board. The customer claims, 'Only a registered guard can hold me.' Which legal assessment is accurate?

Accepted Answer

The retailer-agent role permits a reasonable shoplifting detention despite the lack of individual registration.

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Private persons lost all detention authority when Georgia repealed citizen's arrest.

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A police officer must authorize the detention before the guard restrains departure.

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The agency license gives the guard general arrest powers on the client's property.

Question 2

A server-room fingerprint reader rejects a properly enrolled technician whose photo identification, active access listing, and scheduled repair have been independently verified. No access restrictions are in effect. The site's approved alternative process permits a logged, escorted entry after those checks. How should the guard classify the event and handle access?

Accepted Answer

False rejection; use the approved escorted-entry process.

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False acceptance; disable the technician's credential pending investigation.

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Authentication failure; suspend the repair until the biometric system is restored.

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Authorization failure; issue an unescorted temporary badge for the repair.

Question 3

An agency employee injures a visitor while negligently operating a client's vehicle barrier during an assigned shift. Operating the barrier is one of the employee's duties. The agency's hiring, training, and supervision records reveal no separate management failure. Which theory most directly supports a claim against the agency for the employee's conduct?

Accepted Answer

Vicarious liability for the employee's negligent act within the scope of employment.

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Negligent hiring based on selecting the guard for barrier duty.

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Negligent training inferred from the visitor's injury alone.

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Negligent retention despite no prior warning of unfitness.

Question 4

During an initial handgun course, an employee earns 90% on the written examination and scores 70% and 85% on the two required 48-round strings. The course otherwise meets Board requirements, and the employer imposes no higher standard. Which conclusion correctly applies Georgia's qualification rules?

Accepted Answer

Both scoring requirements are met; the higher range string is the qualifying score.

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Average the range strings; the range requirement is not met.

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Require two passing strings; one score below 80% leaves the range requirement unmet.

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Average all three scores; the combined result satisfies both written and range requirements.

Question 5

A proposed contract requires two separate posts to be occupied continuously, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Each full-time officer is paid for 40 hours weekly but provides 32 hours of post coverage after paid leave, training, and other nonpost time. The supervisor is not available to fill posts, and overtime is excluded. Before building the shift roster, what is the minimum whole-officer headcount that can supply the required weekly coverage?

Accepted Answer

11 officers

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9 officers

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10 officers

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12 officers

Question 6

A police detective telephones a contract guard at a privately owned warehouse and directs the guard to open an employee's locked personal bag for evidence. The guard complies solely to carry out that request. What makes this different from a search independently initiated for the employer?

Accepted Answer

The police direction can make the guard a government agent for this search.

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Ownership of the premises supplies authority to search employees' personal belongings.

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A security license makes all on-duty searches governmental acts.

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The detective's physical absence keeps the search outside the restrictions of the Fourth Amendment.

Question 7

A licensed Georgia agency hires temporary employees for an unarmed weekend event. Each has completed the required 24-hour course with a Board-certified instructor, has a completion certificate on file, and meets the other applicable employment requirements. The event coordinator will not approve the roster because the employees have no individual Board registration cards. How should the agency resolve the objection?

Accepted Answer

Explain that these trained unarmed employees do not require individual Board registration.

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Delay the assignments until individual Board registration cards arrive.

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Register the supervisor and cover the temporary employees under that registration.

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Obtain a temporary-event registration waiver from the Board before these employees perform security work.

Question 8

Which circumstance can support force intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm under Georgia's defense-of-others law, provided the guard reasonably believes that level of force is necessary to protect the person?

Accepted Answer

An unprovoked attacker is repeatedly striking a trapped coworker's head with a steel bar.

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A fleeing thief is carrying unusually valuable equipment taken from an otherwise empty loading bay.

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An unarmed trespasser refuses to leave and threatens to return tomorrow.

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A suspected felon escapes detention without threatening or using force against anyone.

Question 9

CCTV shows a confrontation beginning before a guard uses force and continuing afterward. The client requests only a 20-second clip of the force. The original recording will be overwritten overnight, and the agency has received a preservation instruction covering the entire incident. Which handling plan best protects the evidentiary record?

Accepted Answer

Preserve the full relevant interval and provide a separately logged working clip.

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Keep the requested clip as the complete incident record.

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Retain the recording only if police decide to file charges.

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Replace the source recording with a narrated screen capture of the entire confrontation.

Question 10

During a warehouse evacuation, smoke blocks the normal route to the east exit. A marked west exit is clear. The fire department has been notified, and employees are approaching the smoke-filled corridor. The emergency plan assigns security to evacuation and accountability, not interior rescue. What takes priority at this moment?

Accepted Answer

Direct employees to the west exit and account for them at the assembly point.

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Send a guard to check the smoke-filled route before rerouting employees.

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Finish the accountability check before directing employees to another exit.

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Keep employees at their workstations until firefighters approve changing the route to the designated exit.

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