COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS &
ELABORATED CORRECT ANSWERS
Which NIMS Management Characteristic includes documents that record and
communicate incident objectives, tactics, and assignments for operations and support?
- Correct Answer ✔✔ Incident action planning
Which NIMS Management Characteristic follows established processes for gathering,
analyzing, assessing, sharing, and managing data? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Information
and intelligence management
Which resource management task enables resource coordination throughout the
incident? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Track and report
Each ICS General Staff is led by a(n) ____________ who reports directly to the Incident
Commander or Unified Command. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Section chief
Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) is a state-to-state system for
sharing resources during an emergency or disaster. - Correct Answer ✔✔ True
Use of communications and information systems that are familiar to users is a part of
which key principle? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Interoperability
The three NIMS guiding principles are: - Correct Answer ✔✔ Planning, response,
recovery
Using social media to support activities such as producing maps and incident
visualizations is an example of which communications standard? - Correct Answer ✔✔
Technology use and procedures
Which of the following is an EOC function? - Correct Answer ✔✔ All of the above
Which organizations should be involved in commmunications planning? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Planning section
Which NIMS Command and Coordination structures are offsite locations where staff
from multiple agencies come together? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Emergency operations
centers (EOCs)