fema is 100 Flashcards

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1. Which General Staff member prepares Incident Action Plans, manages information, and maintains situational awareness for the incident?
2. If the Incident Commander designates personnel to provide public information, safety, and liaison services, the personnel are collectively referred to as the:
3. Which member of the Command Staff interfaces with other agencies to meet incident-related information requirements?
4. True or false: The Incident Command System (ICS) is only applicable to large, complex incidents.
5. Which General Staff member directs all responses and tactical actions to achieve the incident objectives?
6. Which General Staff member negotiates and monitors contracts, maintains documentation for reimbursement, and oversees timekeeping for incident personnel?
7. What is the role of the Liaison Officer?
8. Establishment and expansion of the ICS modular organization is the responsibility of the:
9. When command is transferred, the process should include a(n):
10. To ensure a smooth transfer, the outgoing Incident Commander should provide a(n) ___ to the new Incident Commander.
11. True or false: The Whole Community approach refers to different organizations within the Federal Government.
12. True or false: The Whole Community approach means that solutions serve the affected community and a variety of resources are used as needed.
13. Who designates the Incident Commander and the process for transferring command?
14. Selection of Incident Commanders is done by the:
15. Which ICS function is responsible for documentation for mutual aid agreements?
16. True or false: The Incident Command System (ICS) can be used to manage any type of incident, including planned events.
17. True or false: To avoid overburdening the incident command, resources should not self-dispatch (spontaneously deploy).
18. Which NIMS Management Characteristic may include gathering, analyzing, and assessing weather service data from technical specialists: Incident Facilities and Locations, Management by Objectives, Information and Intelligence Management, or Integrated Communications?
19. Who has overall responsibility for managing the on-scene incident?
20. Manageable Span of Control refers to what?
21. The number of subordinates that one supervisor can manage effectively during an incident is referred to as:
22. Qualification, Certification, and Credentialing Personnel are part of which NIMS Management Characteristic?
23. Acquiring, Storing, and Inventorying Resources are part of which NIMS Management Characteristic?
24. Which NIMS Management Characteristic is necessary for achieving situational awareness and facilitating information sharing?
25. Which ICS functional area tracks resources, collects and analyzes information, and maintains documentation?
26. To ensure efficient, clear communication, the National Incident Management System Characteristics recommend the use of: technical language, acronyms, common terminology, or agency-specific codes?
27. In a Unified Command, members representing multiple jurisdictions and agencies work together to establish: resource allocations, shared agency authority, situational awareness, or incident objectives?
28. At the incident scene, who handles media inquiries?
29. Which ICS functional area arranges for resources and needed services to support achievement of the incident objectives?
30. Which Section organizes, assigns, and supervises tactical response resources?
31. Which ICS functional area monitors costs related to the incident and provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analysis?
32. Check-in, Incident Action Planning, Personal Responsibility, and Resource Tracking are all necessary to ensure:
33. Which item is included in the NIMS Management Characteristic of Accountability?
34. What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?
35. True or false: An Incident Action Plan captures and communicates overall operational and support activities for an incident.
36. True or false: To be effective, the Incident Action Plan should cover a specified timeframe.
37. Which position is always staffed in ICS applications?
38. Which NIMS Management Characteristic refers to personnel requested through appropriate authorities and established resource management systems?
39. One of the benefits of ICS is that it provides an orderly, systematic ___ process.
40. When partners representing multiple jurisdictions or agencies work together to establish the incident objectives, what type of Command is being used?
41. Command is:
42. Which General Staff member is responsible for ensuring that assigned incident personnel are fed and have communications, medical support, and transportation as needed to meet the operational objective?
43. Within the National Incident Management System Characteristics, the concept of common terminology covers which of the following, and which does it NOT cover: organizational functions, resource descriptions, incident facilities, technical specifications?
44. Which ICS functional area establishes tactics and directs all operational resources to reach the incident objectives?
45. The Incident Commander or Unified Command establishes incident objectives that include: delegating functional responsibilities and specifying resource types, establishing a manageable span of control, identifying strategies, tactics, tasks, and activities to achieve the objectives, or selecting personnel to serve on the Incident Management Team?
46. Major activities of the Logistics Section include:
47. Major activities of the Planning Section include:
48. Which one of the following activities is an example of incident coordination: directing tactical response resources at the scene, or resolving critical resource issues?
49. True or false: The NIMS Management Characteristic of Information and Intelligence Management may include surveillance of disease outbreaks.
50. The NIMS Management Characteristic of Chain of Command and Unity of Command means that each person:
51. Incident objectives that drive incident operations are established by:
52. Which NIMS component includes the Incident Command System (ICS)?
53. Depending on the incident size and complexity, various types of support facilities may be established by: the Logistics Section, Incident Command, the Planning Section, or local authorities?
54. A combination of different kinds of single resources assembled for a particular tactical need, with common communications and a leader, is called a:
55. Before leaving an incident, what should you do?
56. True or false: The resource officer serves as the primary contact for supporting agencies assigned to an incident.
57. How does IS-100.c define the Incident Command System (ICS)?
58. True or false: ICS is meant for emergencies only, so a town should not use it to run its annual parade.
59. ICS was first developed after which events, and what did the review of those responses find?
60. What are the three major components of NIMS?
61. A coworker says ICS and NIMS are two names for the same thing. Which statement is accurate? A) NIMS is one part of ICS B) ICS is one part of NIMS C) The two are unrelated D) ICS replaced NIMS
62. What is the top priority in any ICS response?
63. A county applies for National Preparedness Grants. What must it be able to show about NIMS?
64. Which OSHA rule requires every organization that handles hazardous materials to use ICS, and when did it take effect?
65. Which 1986 law established Federal regulations for handling hazardous materials, and what does the EPA require of States at hazmat incidents?
66. By what formal means can a jurisdiction adopt ICS as its official incident response system?
67. Under the whole community idea taught in IS-100.c, who must take part in preparing for and responding to incidents? A) The Federal Government alone B) First responders only C) Every part of society D) State governments only
68. Which NIMS component sets standard ways to manage personnel, equipment, supplies, teams and facilities before and during incidents?
69. Which NIMS component makes sure incident personnel and other decision makers have the means and information to make and communicate decisions?
70. Name two ways ICS improves accountability and communications, according to IS-100.c.
71. What score must you reach on the IS-100.c final exam to earn the certificate of completion?
72. How long is the IS-100.c course, how many CEUs does it carry, and what are its prerequisites?
73. Which edition of the NIMS doctrine is in force, and which documents did it supersede?
74. Match the ICS supervisory titles: the person in charge of a section, a branch, and a division or group is called a ___, ___ and ___.
75. Which ICS title goes with the person supervising a unit, strike team, resource team or task force? A) Director B) Leader C) Supervisor D) Officer
76. What ICS title do Command Staff members carry, and what authority does it give them?
77. Where does a branch fall in the ICS organization, and how are branches identified?
78. When are divisions established, and how does a group differ from a division?
79. A response needs two engines, a water tender and a bulldozer working together on one mission under a single leader. Is that a strike team or a task force?
80. Which of these counts as a single resource in ICS? A) Only a vehicle B) An individual, a piece of equipment with its personnel complement, or a crew with an identified work supervisor C) Only a full task force D) Only a facility
81. Which incident facility is there typically only one of per incident? A) Staging Area B) Camp C) Incident Base D) Point of distribution
82. What is a Staging Area, and who manages it once an Operations Section exists?
83. Two separate wildfires burn in the same valley and are both assigned to one Incident Commander. What does ICS call that arrangement?
84. What is a Delegation of Authority?
85. What qualifications should a Deputy Incident Commander have?
86. A dispatcher radios a 10-code to a mutual aid crew from another county. Which ICS practice does this break?
87. How long is an ICS operational period typically?
88. What does the NIMS principle of unity of command mean?
89. In NIMS, what does the term intelligence refer to?
90. What is a Joint Information Center (JIC)?
91. In NIMS resource management, what does a resource's Type describe?
92. How many NIMS management characteristics is ICS built on, and what role do they play?
93. Under the common terminology characteristic, what should responders avoid on the radio?
94. Who is responsible for setting up and expanding the ICS modular organization, and in which direction does it grow?
95. Under management by objectives, who sets the incident objectives that drive operations, and what quality should they have?
96. A small chemical spill at a loading dock is being handled with an oral Incident Action Plan. Is that acceptable?
97. Every Incident Action Plan must answer four questions. Which of these is NOT one of them? A) What do we want to do? B) Who is responsible for doing it? C) How much will it cost? D) What is the procedure if someone is injured?
98. What is the optimal ICS span of control, and is it a fixed rule?
99. A manageable span of control can vary with all of the following EXCEPT: A) Type of incident B) Nature of the task C) The supervisor's agency rank D) Distances between personnel and resources
100. Under the incident facilities and locations characteristic, which of these does IS-100.c list? A) Mass casualty triage areas B) Points of distribution C) Emergency shelters D) All of the above
101. Comprehensive resource management gives standard mechanisms for which steps?
102. How does IS-100.c define chain of command, and how does it avoid confusion?
103. You are a city engineer assigned to an incident. Your regular boss at public works calls with a new task for you on scene. Under ICS, what should happen?
104. True or false: in ICS, checking out at the end of an assignment matters less than checking in.
105. When does accountability for a resource start and end under ICS?
106. A volunteer fire company hears about a large incident on a scanner and drives to the scene without being asked. Which ICS principle does that violate?
107. You have been alerted for a possible deployment but not yet deployed. What is your status, and what is your first task once deployed?
108. Which ICS functional areas are required on every incident, regardless of size?
109. Which ICS function monitors costs and provides accounting, procurement, time recording and cost analyses? A) Planning B) Logistics C) Finance/Administration D) Operations
110. What is the sixth ICS function identified in NIMS, and when is it typically used?
111. A county sheriff's lieutenant is assigned as a Division Supervisor. Which title do they use on the incident?
112. Which ICS position is always staffed, and what authority does it carry?
113. True or false: the highest-ranking officer on scene should automatically serve as Incident Commander.
114. Which of these is a reason command may be transferred? A) A more qualified Incident Commander arrives B) The FBI takes the lead on a terrorist incident investigation C) Personnel turnover on a long incident D) All of the above
115. What must every transfer of command include, and who must be told afterward?
116. A more senior chief arrives and takes command from the first-arriving officer. Who gives the briefing, how, and what may happen to the first officer?
117. If the Incident Commander has not staffed the Logistics Section, who performs logistics functions?
118. Which three positions typically make up the ICS Command Staff, and to whom do they report?
119. Which Command Staff member can modify or stop the work of personnel to prevent unsafe acts?
120. A Red Cross chapter and a utility company send representatives to the ICP. Which Command Staff member is their point of contact?
121. Besides the three Command Staff officers, whom may an Incident Commander appoint as command advisors?
122. Which four positions make up the ICS General Staff?
123. In an expanding incident, which section does the Incident Commander typically establish first?
124. All of these describe the Operations Section EXCEPT: A) Develops from the bottom up B) Has the most incident resources C) Prepares and disseminates the IAP D) May have Staging Areas
125. Which section develops plans for demobilization and tracks resources assigned to the incident?
126. Responders on scene need food service, transportation and medical care for their own crews. Which section arranges that?
127. Which units may be set up within the Finance/Administration Section?
128. When is a Unified Command used, and does it have a single commander?
129. Does joining a Unified Command reduce a participating agency's own authority?
130. Several fires in one county are each run by their own ICP and all request the same scarce air tankers. What NIMS structure oversees them?
131. How does an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) support the on-scene Incident Commander?
132. Who usually sits on a MAC Group, and what do MAC Groups provide?
133. Match the structures: which one oversees multiple incidents, which coordinates support, and which gives policy guidance?
134. What legal basis lets two or more jurisdictions share resources during an incident?

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