CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MANAGER COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Technical Specialist - ✔✔Person with special skills that can be used anywhere
within the
Incident Command System organization.
✔✔Terrorism - ✔✔Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda
by creating panic among an enemy population
✔✔Type - ✔✔An Incident Command System resource classification that refers to
capability.
✔✔Unified Approach - ✔✔The integration of resource management, communications
and information management, and command and management in order to form an
effective system.
✔✔Unified Command - ✔✔An Incident Command System application used when more
than
one agency has incident jurisdiction or when incidents cross political jurisdictions.
✔✔Unified Area Command - ✔✔Version of command established when incidents under
an Area
Command are multi-jurisdictional.
✔✔Unit - ✔✔The organizational element with functional responsibility for a specific
incident planning, logistics, or finance/administration activity.
✔✔Unit Leader - ✔✔The individual in charge of managing Units within an Incident
Command System (ICS) functional section.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔An Incident Command System principle stating that each
individual
involved in incident operations will be assigned to only one supervisor.
✔✔Vita Records - ✔✔The essential agency records that are needed to meet
operational
responsibilities under national security emergencies or other emergency or disaster
conditions, or to protect the legal and financial rights of the government and those
affected by government activities.
✔✔Volunteer - ✔✔Any individual accepted to perform services by the lead agency
when the individual performs services without promise, expectation, or receipt of
compensation for services performed.
, ✔✔8 Principles of Emergency Management - ✔✔Comprehensive, progressive, risk-
driven, integrated, collaborative, coordinated, flexible, and professional.
✔✔Stafford Act - ✔✔Authorizes the delivery of federal emergency technical, financial,
logistical, and other assistance to states and localities.
✔✔Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) - ✔✔Administered by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides grants to States, and States to
eligible applicants, to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after a major
disaster.
✔✔Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program (PDM) - ✔✔This program awards planning and
project grants to assist states, territories, federally-recognized tribes, and local
communities in implementing sustained pre-disaster natural hazard mitigation
programs. Such efforts may include development or update of hazard mitigation plans.
✔✔Public Assistance Grant Program - ✔✔This program provides assistance to state,
tribal, and local governments, and certain types of private nonprofit organizations so
that communities can quickly respond to and recover from major disasters or
emergencies declared by the President.
✔✔Fire Management Assistance Grant Program - ✔✔This program provides assistance
to state, tribal, and local governments for the mitigation, management, and control of
fires on publicly or privately owned forests or grasslands that threaten such destruction
as would constitute a major disaster.
✔✔Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 - ✔✔This act amended the Stafford Act
to provide federally-recognized tribal governments the option to request a Presidential
emergency or major disaster declaration independent of a state.
✔✔After-Action Meeting - ✔✔A meeting held among elected and appointed officials or
their
designees from the exercising organizations, as well as the lead evaluator and
members of the exercise planning team, to debrief the exercise and to review and refine
the draft AAR/IP.
✔✔After Action Report - ✔✔This document summarizes key exercise-related evaluation
information, including the exercise overview and analysis of objectives and core
capabilities.
✔✔Capability Targets - ✔✔The performance thresholds for a core capability.
✔✔Concept and Objectives (C&O) Meeting - ✔✔The formal beginning of the exercise
planning process. It is held to identify the scope and objectives of the exercise.
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Technical Specialist - ✔✔Person with special skills that can be used anywhere
within the
Incident Command System organization.
✔✔Terrorism - ✔✔Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda
by creating panic among an enemy population
✔✔Type - ✔✔An Incident Command System resource classification that refers to
capability.
✔✔Unified Approach - ✔✔The integration of resource management, communications
and information management, and command and management in order to form an
effective system.
✔✔Unified Command - ✔✔An Incident Command System application used when more
than
one agency has incident jurisdiction or when incidents cross political jurisdictions.
✔✔Unified Area Command - ✔✔Version of command established when incidents under
an Area
Command are multi-jurisdictional.
✔✔Unit - ✔✔The organizational element with functional responsibility for a specific
incident planning, logistics, or finance/administration activity.
✔✔Unit Leader - ✔✔The individual in charge of managing Units within an Incident
Command System (ICS) functional section.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔An Incident Command System principle stating that each
individual
involved in incident operations will be assigned to only one supervisor.
✔✔Vita Records - ✔✔The essential agency records that are needed to meet
operational
responsibilities under national security emergencies or other emergency or disaster
conditions, or to protect the legal and financial rights of the government and those
affected by government activities.
✔✔Volunteer - ✔✔Any individual accepted to perform services by the lead agency
when the individual performs services without promise, expectation, or receipt of
compensation for services performed.
, ✔✔8 Principles of Emergency Management - ✔✔Comprehensive, progressive, risk-
driven, integrated, collaborative, coordinated, flexible, and professional.
✔✔Stafford Act - ✔✔Authorizes the delivery of federal emergency technical, financial,
logistical, and other assistance to states and localities.
✔✔Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) - ✔✔Administered by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides grants to States, and States to
eligible applicants, to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after a major
disaster.
✔✔Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program (PDM) - ✔✔This program awards planning and
project grants to assist states, territories, federally-recognized tribes, and local
communities in implementing sustained pre-disaster natural hazard mitigation
programs. Such efforts may include development or update of hazard mitigation plans.
✔✔Public Assistance Grant Program - ✔✔This program provides assistance to state,
tribal, and local governments, and certain types of private nonprofit organizations so
that communities can quickly respond to and recover from major disasters or
emergencies declared by the President.
✔✔Fire Management Assistance Grant Program - ✔✔This program provides assistance
to state, tribal, and local governments for the mitigation, management, and control of
fires on publicly or privately owned forests or grasslands that threaten such destruction
as would constitute a major disaster.
✔✔Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 - ✔✔This act amended the Stafford Act
to provide federally-recognized tribal governments the option to request a Presidential
emergency or major disaster declaration independent of a state.
✔✔After-Action Meeting - ✔✔A meeting held among elected and appointed officials or
their
designees from the exercising organizations, as well as the lead evaluator and
members of the exercise planning team, to debrief the exercise and to review and refine
the draft AAR/IP.
✔✔After Action Report - ✔✔This document summarizes key exercise-related evaluation
information, including the exercise overview and analysis of objectives and core
capabilities.
✔✔Capability Targets - ✔✔The performance thresholds for a core capability.
✔✔Concept and Objectives (C&O) Meeting - ✔✔The formal beginning of the exercise
planning process. It is held to identify the scope and objectives of the exercise.
