Residential Occupancy is defined as an occupancy that provides sleeping accommodations for purposes other than health care or detention and correctional.

• A. Health Care Occupancy
• B. Residential Occupancy
• C. Mixed Occupancy
• D. Plenum

Answer: (B)

The statement is testing how occupancy types are defined in NFPA 101. Residential occupancy is the category for buildings that provide sleeping accommodations for the general public, excluding health care facilities and detention or correctional facilities. This includes hotels, dormitories, boarding houses, and similar lodging where people sleep but who are not there for medical care or custody purposes. That’s why this choice fits: it directly matches the definition of a place designed for sleeping accommodations that isn’t health care or detention/correctional.

Health care occupancy is specifically for facilities that provide medical care, so patient sleeping areas fall under health care occupancy, not residential. Mixed occupancy refers to buildings containing more than one occupancy type, but the definition described is about a single occupancy type. Plenum isn’t an occupancy type at all; it’s an air distribution space.