CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MANAGER 2026 TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔10. Review the following overall responsibilities of the Area Commander. Write in
the missing responsibility. - ✔✔Set overall objectives.
Ensure objectives are met and do not conflict with each other or agency policy.
Establish priorities.
Allocate/reallocate critical resources.
Ensure that incident management teams are qualified.
Coordinate the demobilization of assigned resources.
Coordinate with Agency Administrator, EOC, other entities, and the media.
✔✔(EM Partners) Local Government - ✔✔has direct responsibility for the safety of its
people, knowledge of the situation, and accompanying resource requirements.
✔✔Branch - ✔✔THe organizational level having functional or geographic responsibility
for major parts of the operation of logistic functions.
✔✔11. A multiagency coordination system: - ✔✔(a) Integrates facilities, equipment, and
personnel that are responsible for coordinating and supporting incident management.
✔✔(EM Partners) Tribal/territories governments - ✔✔are responsible for coordinating
resources to address actual or potential incidents.
✔✔(EM Partners) Federal Government - ✔✔assists local, tribal, and State agencies in
preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and disasters.
✔✔12. Within a Multiagency Coordination System, the policy-level group: - ✔✔(d)
Consists of agency representatives with decisionmaking authority.
✔✔(EM Partners) Private-sector organizations - ✔✔play a key role before, during, and
after an incident and are important in building resilient communities.
✔✔Director - ✔✔The ICS title for individual responsible for supervision of a branch
✔✔Emergency Management actions occur as 3 activities - ✔✔Pre-incident activities,
Incident activities, Post-incident activities
✔✔Division/Group - ✔✔Division are used to divide an incident geographically. Groups
are used to divide an incident functionally.
✔✔Pre-incident activities - ✔✔information sharing, threat and hazard identification,
planning, training, and readiness exercises.
,✔✔13. List one criterion that a multiagency group may use when establishing priorities.
- ✔✔Threat to life
Real property threatened
High damage potential
Incident complexity
Environmental impact
Economic impact
Threat to infrastructure
✔✔Incident activities - ✔✔includes lifesaving missions and critical infrastructure support
protection.
✔✔Supervisor - ✔✔The ICS title for individuals responsible for a Division or group
✔✔Post-incident activities - ✔✔help people and communities recover and rebuild for a
safer future.
✔✔14. What facility is established to coordinate all incident-related public information
activities, and serves as the central point of contact for all news media at the scene of
the incident? - ✔✔(b) Joint Information Center
✔✔National Preparedness Goal - Identified missions - ✔✔Prevention, Protection,
Mitigation, Response,
Recovery
✔✔A Specified combination of the same kind of type or resources with common
communications and a leader is a _______________ - ✔✔Strike team
✔✔Prevention - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to avoid, prevent, or stop a threatened or
actual act of terrorism. As defined by PPD-8, the term "prevention" refers to preventing
imminent threats.
✔✔kkkkkkkkk - ✔✔
✔✔Protection - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to secure the homeland against acts of
terrorism and human-caused or natural disasters. (NPG)
✔✔The Organizational element having functional responsibility for a specific incident
planning, logistics or finance/administration activities - ✔✔Unit
✔✔Leader - ✔✔The ICS title for an individual responsible for a task force, Strike team,
or functional unit
, ✔✔Mitigation - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to reduce loss of life and property by
lessening the impact of disasters. (NPG)
✔✔Response - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to save lives, protect property and the
environment, and meet basic human needs after an incident has occurred. (NPG)
✔✔Resources - ✔✔Personnel and equipment available, or potentially available, for
assignment to incidents. Resources are described by kind of type and may be used in
tactical, support or overhead capacities at an incidne.t
✔✔Recovery - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to assist communities affected by an
incident to recover effectively. (NPG)
✔✔ISC established lines of ______________ authority and ___________ reporting
relationships - ✔✔Supervisory/Formal
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - local emergency manager - ✔✔has the responsibility for
coordinating emergency management programs and activities: Managing resources
before, during, and after a major emergency or disaster; Conducting activities related to
the key components of emergency management; Coordinating with all stakeholders in
the emergency management process.
✔✔Within ICS, there is complete _________ of __________, meaning that each
position and each person within the system has only one designated supervisor. -
✔✔Unity/Command
✔✔___________ of _________ means that there is an orderly line of authority and
reporting relationships within the ranks of the organization, with lower levels
subordinates to, and connected to, higher levels - ✔✔Chain/Command
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - Individual citizens - ✔✔can take care of themselves,
families, and neighbors contribute by freeing up response resources to help those most
in need.
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - Communities and citizens - ✔✔volunteer; take direction and
respond reasonably to alerts, warnings, and other emergency public information.
✔✔Chain of command is used to communicate ________ and maintain
___________________ __________________ - ✔✔direction
management control
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - Voluntary organizations: - ✔✔train and manage volunteer
resources. Identify shelter locations and needed supplies. Provide critical emergency
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔10. Review the following overall responsibilities of the Area Commander. Write in
the missing responsibility. - ✔✔Set overall objectives.
Ensure objectives are met and do not conflict with each other or agency policy.
Establish priorities.
Allocate/reallocate critical resources.
Ensure that incident management teams are qualified.
Coordinate the demobilization of assigned resources.
Coordinate with Agency Administrator, EOC, other entities, and the media.
✔✔(EM Partners) Local Government - ✔✔has direct responsibility for the safety of its
people, knowledge of the situation, and accompanying resource requirements.
✔✔Branch - ✔✔THe organizational level having functional or geographic responsibility
for major parts of the operation of logistic functions.
✔✔11. A multiagency coordination system: - ✔✔(a) Integrates facilities, equipment, and
personnel that are responsible for coordinating and supporting incident management.
✔✔(EM Partners) Tribal/territories governments - ✔✔are responsible for coordinating
resources to address actual or potential incidents.
✔✔(EM Partners) Federal Government - ✔✔assists local, tribal, and State agencies in
preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and disasters.
✔✔12. Within a Multiagency Coordination System, the policy-level group: - ✔✔(d)
Consists of agency representatives with decisionmaking authority.
✔✔(EM Partners) Private-sector organizations - ✔✔play a key role before, during, and
after an incident and are important in building resilient communities.
✔✔Director - ✔✔The ICS title for individual responsible for supervision of a branch
✔✔Emergency Management actions occur as 3 activities - ✔✔Pre-incident activities,
Incident activities, Post-incident activities
✔✔Division/Group - ✔✔Division are used to divide an incident geographically. Groups
are used to divide an incident functionally.
✔✔Pre-incident activities - ✔✔information sharing, threat and hazard identification,
planning, training, and readiness exercises.
,✔✔13. List one criterion that a multiagency group may use when establishing priorities.
- ✔✔Threat to life
Real property threatened
High damage potential
Incident complexity
Environmental impact
Economic impact
Threat to infrastructure
✔✔Incident activities - ✔✔includes lifesaving missions and critical infrastructure support
protection.
✔✔Supervisor - ✔✔The ICS title for individuals responsible for a Division or group
✔✔Post-incident activities - ✔✔help people and communities recover and rebuild for a
safer future.
✔✔14. What facility is established to coordinate all incident-related public information
activities, and serves as the central point of contact for all news media at the scene of
the incident? - ✔✔(b) Joint Information Center
✔✔National Preparedness Goal - Identified missions - ✔✔Prevention, Protection,
Mitigation, Response,
Recovery
✔✔A Specified combination of the same kind of type or resources with common
communications and a leader is a _______________ - ✔✔Strike team
✔✔Prevention - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to avoid, prevent, or stop a threatened or
actual act of terrorism. As defined by PPD-8, the term "prevention" refers to preventing
imminent threats.
✔✔kkkkkkkkk - ✔✔
✔✔Protection - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to secure the homeland against acts of
terrorism and human-caused or natural disasters. (NPG)
✔✔The Organizational element having functional responsibility for a specific incident
planning, logistics or finance/administration activities - ✔✔Unit
✔✔Leader - ✔✔The ICS title for an individual responsible for a task force, Strike team,
or functional unit
, ✔✔Mitigation - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to reduce loss of life and property by
lessening the impact of disasters. (NPG)
✔✔Response - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to save lives, protect property and the
environment, and meet basic human needs after an incident has occurred. (NPG)
✔✔Resources - ✔✔Personnel and equipment available, or potentially available, for
assignment to incidents. Resources are described by kind of type and may be used in
tactical, support or overhead capacities at an incidne.t
✔✔Recovery - ✔✔the capabilities necessary to assist communities affected by an
incident to recover effectively. (NPG)
✔✔ISC established lines of ______________ authority and ___________ reporting
relationships - ✔✔Supervisory/Formal
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - local emergency manager - ✔✔has the responsibility for
coordinating emergency management programs and activities: Managing resources
before, during, and after a major emergency or disaster; Conducting activities related to
the key components of emergency management; Coordinating with all stakeholders in
the emergency management process.
✔✔Within ICS, there is complete _________ of __________, meaning that each
position and each person within the system has only one designated supervisor. -
✔✔Unity/Command
✔✔___________ of _________ means that there is an orderly line of authority and
reporting relationships within the ranks of the organization, with lower levels
subordinates to, and connected to, higher levels - ✔✔Chain/Command
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - Individual citizens - ✔✔can take care of themselves,
families, and neighbors contribute by freeing up response resources to help those most
in need.
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - Communities and citizens - ✔✔volunteer; take direction and
respond reasonably to alerts, warnings, and other emergency public information.
✔✔Chain of command is used to communicate ________ and maintain
___________________ __________________ - ✔✔direction
management control
✔✔Roles of Key Partners - Voluntary organizations: - ✔✔train and manage volunteer
resources. Identify shelter locations and needed supplies. Provide critical emergency
