Smoke detection is required in which areas in a hotel or dormitory guest suite aside from guestrooms?

• A. Every corner and sleeping room
• B. Only the kitchen and bathrooms
• C. Only the exterior walls
• D. In the building's parking garage

Answer: (A)

The essential idea is to ensure rapid warning where people are most vulnerable and where smoke could travel before anyone wakes or can evacuate. In a hotel or dormitory guest suite, you want detection not just in the sleeping rooms but along the paths occupants use to get out. Placing detectors in every sleeping room and in the corridors and key corners of the suite gives early notice no matter where a fire starts, including hidden areas or spots in hallways where smoke could accumulate.

Kitchens and bathrooms are not the focus here because those spaces often cause nuisance alarms (steam, cooking) and aren’t where fires typically begin in a way that would threaten sleeping occupants if detection is concentrated elsewhere. Exterior walls and parking garages are separate areas with their own fire protection rules and do not provide the necessary coverage inside guest suites.

So, detectors in sleeping rooms and throughout the suite’s hallways, corners, and other spaces that serve as exit paths give the best, quickest warning for guests.