ICS 100 Answers

1. Which General Staff member prepares Incident Action Plans, manages information, and maintains situational awareness for the incident?

A. Planning Section Chief

B. Operations Section Chief

C. Logistics Section Chief

D. Finance/Administration Section Chief

Answer: A. Planning Section Chief

2 . If the Incident Commander designates personnel to provide public information, safety, and liaison services, the personnel are collectively referred to as the:

A. Director Staff

B. Incident Staff

C. Executive Staff

D. Command Staff

Answer: D. Command Staff

3.Which member of the Command and Staff interfaces with other agencies to meet incident-related information requirements?

A. Liaison Officer

B. Safety Officer

C. Public Information Officer

D. Commander

Answer: C. Public Information Officer

4. The Incident Command System (ICS) is only applicable to large, complex incidents.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: B. FALSE

5. Which General Staff member directs all responses and tactical actions to achieve the incident objectives?

A. Planning Section Chief

B. Operations Section Chief

C. Tactics Section Chief

D. Operations Division Director

Answer: B. Operations Section Chief

6. Which of the following are typical incident facilities?

A. Point-of-distribution sites

B. Camps

C. Incident Command Post

D. All of the Above

Answer: D. All of the Above

7. Which General Staff member negotiates and monitors contracts, maintains documentation for reimbursement, and oversees timekeeping for incident personnel?

A. Logistics Section Chief

B. Operations Section Chief

C. Planning Section Chief

D. Finance/Administration Section Chief

Answer: D. Finance/Administration Section Chief

8. The Liaison Officer:

A. “Arranges for resources and needed services to support the incident objectives.

B. Tracks resources and maintains incident documentation.

C. Provides information to the public.

D. Is the point of contact for other response organizations.

Answer: D. Is the point of contact for other response organizations.

9. Establishment of the ICS modular organization is the responsibility of the:

A. Operations Section

B. Local Authorities

C. Incident Commander

D. Logistics Section

Answer: C. Incident Commander

10. When command is transferred, the process should include a(n):

A. Award Ceremony

B. Briefing

C. Detailed Lesson Learned Report

D. Intelligence Report

Answer: B. Briefing

11. The Whole Community approach refers to different organizations within the Federal Government.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: B. FALSE

12. Who designates the Incident Commander and the process for transferring command?

A. The Section Chiefs

B. The Incident Commander for previous operational period

C. The jurisdiction or organization with primary responsibility for the incident

D. The Command Staff

Answer: C. The jurisdiction or organization with primary responsibility for the incident

13. Which ICS function is responsible for documentation for mutual aid agreements?

A. Planning

B. Incident Command

C. Operations

D. Finance/Administration

Answer: D. Finance/Administration

14. The Incident Command System (ICS) can be used to manage any type of incident, including planned events.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A. TRUE

15. To avoid overburdening the incident command, resources should not self-dispatch (spontaneously deploy).

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A. TRUE

16. Which NIMS Management Characteristic may include gathering, analyzing, and assessing weather service data from technical specialists?

A. Information and Intelligence Management

B. Integrated Communications

C. Incident Facilities and Locations

D. Management by Objectives

Answer: A. Information and Intelligence Management

17. Who has overall responsibility for managing the on-scene incident?

A. Emergency Operations Center director

B. Agency Executive

C. Incident Commander

D. Operations Section Chief

Answer: C. Incident Commander

18. Manageable Span of Control refers to:

A. An orderly line of authority that exists within the ranks of the incident management organization.

B. The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.

C. The process of moving the responsibility for incident command from one Incident Commander to another.

D. The number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can effectively manage during an incident.

Answer: D. The number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can effectively manage during an incident.

19. Qualification, Certification, and Credentialing Personnel are part of which NIMS Management Characteristic?

A. Accountability

B. Comprehensive Resource Management

C. Incident Facilities and Locations

D. Information and Intelligence Management

Answer: B. Comprehensive Resource Management

20. Which NIMS Management Characteristic is necessary for achieving situational awareness and facilitating information sharing?

A. Accountability

B. Comprehensive Resource Management

C. Chain of Command and Unity of Command

D. Integrated Communications

Answer: D. Integrated Communications

21. Which ICS functional area tracks resources, collects and analyzes information, and maintains documentation?

A. Planning

B. Operations

C. Logistics

D. Finance/Administration

Answer: A. Planning

22. To ensure efficient, clear, communication, the National Incident Management System Characteristics recommend the use of:

A. Common terminology

B. Agency-specific codes

C. Technical language

D. Acronyms

Answer: A. Common terminology

23. In a Unified Command, members representing multiple jurisdictions and agencies work together to establish:

A. Situational Awareness

B. Incident Objectives

C. Resource Allocations

D. Shared Agency Authority

Answer: B. Incident Objectives

24. At the incident scene, who handles media inquiries?

A. Media Relations Specialist

B. Public Information Officer

C. Liaison Officer

D. Communications Officer

Answer: B. Public Information Officer

25. Which ICS functional area arranges for resources and needed services to support achievement of the incident objectives?

A. Planning

B. Operations

C. Logistics

D. Finance/Administration

Answer: C. Logistics

26. Which Section organizes, assigns, and supervises tactical response resources?

A. Planning

B. Operations

C. Logistics

D. Finance/Administration

Answer: B. Operations

27. Which ICS functional area monitors costs related to the incident and provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analysis?

A. Command

B. Operations

C. Logistics

D. Finance/Administration

Answer: D. Finance/Administration

28. Check-in, Incident Action Planning, Personal Responsibility, and Resource Tracking are all necessary to ensure:

A. Flexibility

B. Accountability

C. Sustainability

D. Redundancy

Answer: B. Accountability

29. The Incident Command System (ICS) is:

A. A relatively new approach created based on the lessons learned from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

B. A standardized approach to incident management that is applicable for use in all hazards.

C. A military system used in domestic incidents to ensure command and control of Federal resources.

D. Most applicable to the management of complex incidents that extend over many hours or days.

Answer: B. A standardized approach to incident management that is applicable for use in all hazards.

30. An Incident Action Plan is captured and communicates overall operational and support activities for an incident.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Answer: A. TRUE

31. Which position is always staffed in ICS applications?

A. Public Information Officer

B. Incident Commander

C. Operations Section Chief

D. Safety Officer

Answer: B. Incident Commander

32. Selection of Incident Commanders is done by the:

A. Jurisdiction or organization with primary responsibility for the incident

B. Emergency Operations manager

C. Public Information Officer

D. Planning Officer

Answer: A. Jurisdiction or organization with primary responsibility for the incident

33. Which NIMS Management Characteristic refers to personnel requested through appropriate authorities and established resource management systems?

A. Dispatch/ Deployment

B. Incident Facilities and Locations

C. Management by Objectives

D. Manageable Span of Control

Answer: A. Dispatch/ Deployment

34. One of the benefits of ICS is that it provides an orderly, systematic ___________ process.

A. Deployment

B. Safety

C. Recovery

D. Planning

Answer: D. Planning

35. Acquiring, Storing, and Inventorying Resources are part of which NIMS Management Characteristic?

A. Accountability

B. Incident Facilities and Locations

C. Comprehensive Resource Management

D. Unified Command

Answer: D. Unified Command

36. When partners representing multiple jurisdictions or agencies work together to establish the incident objectives, what type of Command is being used?

A. Mutual Command

B. Area Command

C. Unified Command

D. Multiple Command

Answer: C. Unified Command

37. Command is:

A. Based on the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively during an incident.

B. Directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.

C. The ability to control information exchange within and across organizations involved in an incident.

D. Assumed by the individual who is the highest-ranking person on the scene regardless of experience or training level.

Answer: B. Directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.

38. 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?

A. Logistics Section Chief

B. Safety Officer

C. Public Information Officer

D. Planning Section Chief

Answer: A. Logistics Section Chief

39. Within the National Incident Management System Characteristics, the concept of common terminology covers all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Organizational Functions

B. Technical Specifications

C. Resource Descriptions

D. Incident Facilities

Answer: B. Technical Specifications

40. Which ICS functional area establishes tactics and directs all operational resources to reach the incident objectives?

A. Planning

B. Operations

C. Logistics

D. Finance/Administration

Answer: B. Operations

41. The Incident Commander or Unified Commander establishes incident objectives that include:

A. Identifying strategies, tactics, tasks, and activities to achieve the objectives.

B. Selecting personnel to serve on the Incident Management Team.

C. Delegating functional responsibilities and specifying resource types.

D. Establishing a manageable span of control.

Answer: A. Identifying strategies, tactics, tasks, and activities to achieve the objectives.

NIMS

Answer: National incident management system provides approach to guide agencies to recover from incidence and reduce loss of life and property and harm to the environment

HSPD-5

Answer: Homeland security presidential directive’s requires DHS federal state local and tribal governments to establish NRF and NIMS

DHS

Answer: Department of homeland security

NIMS

Answer: National incident management system

NRF

Answer: National response framework like in organizational chart who does what command structure

PPD-8

Answer: Describes the nature and approach to preparedness and involving whole community, individuals businesses and faith-based organizations schools and tribes and all levels of government

NRF Guide

Answer: Describes how the nation conducts all hazards response and all agencies apply the principles for coordinated effective national response

Camp

Answer: Site in the incident area separate from the incident face equipped and staff to provide sleep food etc. to incident personnel

Function

Answer: 5 major activities in the ICS: command, operations, planning, logistics, and Finance/Admn

JIC

Answer: Joint information center facility to coordinate all incident related public information activities for all agencies

JIS

Answer: Joint information system integrates incident information and public affairs providing structure and system for developing and delivering messages on behalf of the IC incident commander

NIMS includes

Answer: Preparedness, communication, resource management, command management, ongoing management and maintenance. Designed to work together

NIMS command and management components/ elements

Answer: Incident command system, multi agency coordination systems, and public information

Unified command UC

Answer: Incident command system application use one more than one agency has incident jurisdiction or when incidents cross political jurisdictions

Incident commander 

Answer: Has authority to establish objectives, make assignments, order resources

Chain of command

Answer: Does not prevent personnel from communicating with each other

Unity of command

Answer: Report and receive work assignments only from there ICS supervisor

Steps to manage incident

Answer: Establish initial incident command, assess the situation, take measures to ensure life safety, establish perimeter control and security, determine resource gaps, request mutual aid and assistance

Incident objectives established on the following priorities

Answer: Life safety, incident stabilization, property preservation

IAP

Answer: Incident action plan. Specifies instant objectives, states activities to be completed covers a time frame called an operational., Maybe oral or written except for hazardous materials incident which require a written IAP

IAP answers these questions

Answer: What do we need to do? Who is responsible for doing it? What resources are needed? How do we communicate?

ICS structure requires each element have how many people in charge

Answer: Each element have a person in charge

Span of control

Answer: The number of individuals or resources one supervisor can manage affectively during an incident. Very from 3 to 7 and a ratio of one supervisor to five subordinates

ICS. Resources it’s critical to know

Answer: What resources are needed and available and where the deployed resources are located.

Resource management includes process

Answer: Identifying resource requirements, ordering in acquiring, mobilizing and dispatching, tracking and reporting, recovering and demobilizing, reimbursing and maintaining inventory

ICP

Answer: Incident command post

Information and intelligence management

Answer: Risks assessments, threats involving the potential for violence, surveillance of Disease outbreak, weather forecasts, structural plans, and vulnerabilities

Situation implications for incidents management assisted living building collapse

Answer: Take measures to ensure safety if responders, prioritize needs, determine incident objectives, identify resources needs

ICS enables

Answer: Enables a coordinated response among various jurisdictions and agencies, establishes common processes for planning and managing resources, allows for integration of Facilities equipment personnel procedures in communication operating within a common organizational structure

What is the first thing you would do after incident

Answer: Established initial incident command, assessor size up the situation, take measures to ensure life safety, establish perimeter control and security, determine resource gaps, request Aid

What questions should incident action plan ask?

Answer: What do we need to do? Who is responsible for doing it? What resources are needed? How do we communicate?

ICS is a modular organization

Answer: Top-down based on size and complexity, determined based on the incident objectives and resource requirements, expands and contracts as needed and requires each element have someone in charge

What is Span of control

Answer: number of individuals or resources one supervisor can manage affectively during an incident

Spanish control on incidents vary from

Answer: 3-7 and one supervisor to five subordinates

Base

Answer: Logistics administrations

Staging area

Answer: Resources waiting to be deployed

Helibase

Answer: The location from which helicopter centered air operations are conducted

Helispot

Answer: Temporary location for helicopters can land and take off

Accountability checklist

Answer: Check in, incident action plan, unity of command, Span of control, resource trucking

What is your first task after being dispatched

Answer: Checking and received an assignment

After you have checked in and gotten assignment what do your next

Answer: Locate your incident supervisor and obtain your briefing

Briefings should include

Answer: Assessment of the situation, incident objectives, job responsibilities, ICS structure, location of work area, identification a break areas, instructions for getting resources, work shifts, safety procedures, personal protective equipment

Sure do you respond without being dispatched?

Answer: No

Common terminology covers what

Answer: Organizational functions, resource descriptions, incident Facilities incident response communication

Unity of command

Answer: Means that all individuals have a designated supervisor they report to

What is unified command

Answer: Incidents involving multiple jurisdictions a single jurisdiction with multi-agency involvement. Allows agencies to work together

Management by objective’s includes

Answer: Establishing over arching incident objectives, developing strategies, developing an issue mean assignments plans procedures and protocols, establishing measurable tactics or tasks

Five major management functions

Answer: Command, operations, planning, but just sticks, finance and administration

Command sets what

Answer: Is it an objective strategies and priorities and has overall responsibility for

Operations does what

Answer: Can ducks operations to reach the incident objectives established his tactics and directs all operational resources

Planning does what

Answer: Supports the incident action planning process by trucking resources collecting and analyzing information and maintaining documentation

Logistics

Answer: Arranges for resources in need of services to support achievement of the incident objectives

Finance and administration

Answer: Monitors cost related to the incident and provides accounting procurement time recording and cost analysis

Incident commander has overall responsibility for

Answer: Establishing objectives, planning strategies, implementing tactics. On small incidents in advance, they may accomplish all management functions

If your section is not staffed the incident commander will do what

Answer: Manage those functions themselves

The incident commander is responsible for what

Answer: Overall incident safety, providing information services to internal and X ternal stakeholders, establishing and maintaining luason with other agencies participating in the incident

Incident commanders me. How many deputies?

Answer: One and they must be as qualified as they are

Deputy incident commanders may be designated to

Answer: Perform tasks requested by the IC, perform the incident command function, represent in assisting agency

What does the command staff do you?

Answer: Provides information, safety, and liaison services for the organization

What does the general stuff do?

Answer: Signed functional authority for operations, planning, logistics, and finance and administration

Command staff

Answer: Public information officer, safety officer, liaison officer.

Liaison officer

Answer: Serves as the primary contact for other agencies assisting at an incident

The incident commander may establish what four sections?

Answer: Operations, planning, logistics, finance and administration

What does the operations section to do?

Answer: Directs all response and tactical actions to achieve the incident objectives

What does logistics do

Answer: Activated as needed to support the incident response

What will the incident commander first establish?

Answer: Operations the remaining sections are established only as needed

Using consistent titles ensures what?

Answer: People from different organizations have the same credentials and qualifications

Who is responsible for a strike team or task force

Answer: Leader and support position is single resource boss

What is the title of the organizational level of a unit?

Answer: Leader is the title and the support position is manager

Who is responsible for a division or group?

Answer: Supervisor and there is no support position

Who is responsible for overall management of the incident?

Answer: Incident commander with support position as Deputy

Who is responsible for supervision of a branch?

Answer: Director

What is the title of the command staff organizational level

Answer: Title as officer and support position as assistant

Who is responsible for supervision of a branch?

Answer: director and support position is Deputy

Who is responsible for a functional sections such as operations?

Answer: chief, support position is deputy

Is signing deputies from other organizations can increase what

Answer: Inter-agency coordination

Sections chiefs are referred as

Answer: General staff

Operations section chief

Answer: Develops and implements strategy tactics to carry out the incident objectives and organizes the assigns and supervises the tactical response resources. The operation section chief is the person with the greatest technical expertise in dealing with the problem at hand

What are single resources

Answer: Individuals equipment crew or team

Single resources may be organized into two different types of teams

Answer: Task forces or strike teams

Task force

Answer: The combination of mixed resources was calm and communications operating under the direct supervision of a

Strike teams

Answer: Consist of similar resources with common communications operating under the direct supervision of a leader

What elements can be added to the operation section to manage span of control

Answer: Groups are divisions

What type of organization is the division?

Answer: East to divide an incident geographically

What are groups described as?

Answer: Functional areas of operation

Who can the operation section chief add to supervise groups and divisions

Answer: They can add branches with the person in charge designated as a director

When an operation section chief begins organizing resources into functional areas the correct addition is called

Answer: Group

Who determines of the planning section should be added?

Answer: The incident commander

What are the major activities of the planning section?

Answer: Collecting evaluating in displaying incident intelligence and information, preparing and documenting incident action plans, maintaining incident documentation and developing plans for demobilization

Planning sections main include the following

Answer: Resources unit, situation unit, documentation unit, demobilization unit

Who decides if the logistics section should be added?

Answer: The incident commander

What is the logistics section chief do?

Answer: Make sure there are adequate resources personal supplies and equipment for meeting the incident objectives. They maintain their span of control but Adding branch directors in unit leaders

What is the logistics section is the major activities?

Answer: Ordering obtaining maintaining accounting for essential personnel equipment and supplies, providing communication planning and resources, Setting up food services for responders, Setting up and maintaining incident Facilities, providing support Transportation, providing medical services the incident personally