ICS 200 MAIN 2026/2027 EXAMINATION MANUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Who monitors incident operations and advises the Incident Commander on all
matters relating to safety, including the health and safety or incident management
personnel - ✔✔Safety Officer
✔✔Who serves as the Incident Commanders POC for representatives of governmental
agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private sector organizations -
✔✔Liaison Officer
✔✔Incident Command - ✔✔~Establish objectives, make assignments and order
resources
✔✔Incident Coordination - ✔✔~Collect, analyze, and disseminate info
~Synchronize public information messages
~Establish priorities among incidents
✔✔An agency or organization providing personnel, searches, or other resources to the
agency with direct responsibility for incident management is called a(n): - ✔✔Assisting
agency
✔✔An ___ is an individual assigned to an incident from an assisting or cooperating
agency - ✔✔agency representative
✔✔Operations Section - ✔✔~directs & coordinates all incident tactical operations
~typically one of the first organizations to be assigned
~expands from the bottom up
~has most incident resources
~may have staging areas & special organizations
✔✔Operations Section Chief - ✔✔~responsible for direct management of all incident-
related operational activities
~establishes tactical objectives for each operational period
~has direct involvement in the preparation of the IAP
✔✔Divisions - ✔✔divide an incident into physical or geographical areas of operation
✔✔Groups - ✔✔divide the incident into functional areas of operation
✔✔Branches - ✔✔~functional or geographical
~established when # divisions or groups exceeds recommended span of control
✔✔Planning Section - ✔✔~maintain resource status
, ~maintain and simply situation status
~preparing IAP
~developing alternate strategies
~providing documentation services
~preparing the demobilization plan
~providing a primary location for technical specialists assigned to an incident
✔✔Planning section units - ✔✔~Resources Unit
~Situtation Unit
~Demobilization Unit
~Documentation Unit
✔✔Resource Unit - ✔✔checkin in activity & maintaining status on personnel and
equipment resources
✔✔Situation Unit - ✔✔Collect & processes info, prepares situation displays and
situation summaries, develops maps and projections
✔✔Demobilization Unit - ✔✔assists in ensuring that an orderly, safe and cost effective
movement of personnel is made when they are no longer required
✔✔Documentation Unit - ✔✔prepares the IAP, maintains all incident related
documentation, provides duplication services
✔✔Logistics Section - ✔✔~Communication
~medical support to incident personnel
~food for incident personnel
~supplies, facilities and ground support
✔✔Logistics Section: Service Branch - ✔✔~Communication Unit
~Medical Unit
~Food Unit
✔✔Logistics Section: Support Branch - ✔✔~Supply Unit
~Facilities Unit
~Ground Support Unit
✔✔Finance/Administration Units - ✔✔~Time Unit
~Procurement Unit
~Compensation/Claims Unit
~Cost Unit
✔✔Staff-Level Briefing - ✔✔delivered to resources assigned to nonoperational and
support tasks at the incident command post or base
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Who monitors incident operations and advises the Incident Commander on all
matters relating to safety, including the health and safety or incident management
personnel - ✔✔Safety Officer
✔✔Who serves as the Incident Commanders POC for representatives of governmental
agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private sector organizations -
✔✔Liaison Officer
✔✔Incident Command - ✔✔~Establish objectives, make assignments and order
resources
✔✔Incident Coordination - ✔✔~Collect, analyze, and disseminate info
~Synchronize public information messages
~Establish priorities among incidents
✔✔An agency or organization providing personnel, searches, or other resources to the
agency with direct responsibility for incident management is called a(n): - ✔✔Assisting
agency
✔✔An ___ is an individual assigned to an incident from an assisting or cooperating
agency - ✔✔agency representative
✔✔Operations Section - ✔✔~directs & coordinates all incident tactical operations
~typically one of the first organizations to be assigned
~expands from the bottom up
~has most incident resources
~may have staging areas & special organizations
✔✔Operations Section Chief - ✔✔~responsible for direct management of all incident-
related operational activities
~establishes tactical objectives for each operational period
~has direct involvement in the preparation of the IAP
✔✔Divisions - ✔✔divide an incident into physical or geographical areas of operation
✔✔Groups - ✔✔divide the incident into functional areas of operation
✔✔Branches - ✔✔~functional or geographical
~established when # divisions or groups exceeds recommended span of control
✔✔Planning Section - ✔✔~maintain resource status
, ~maintain and simply situation status
~preparing IAP
~developing alternate strategies
~providing documentation services
~preparing the demobilization plan
~providing a primary location for technical specialists assigned to an incident
✔✔Planning section units - ✔✔~Resources Unit
~Situtation Unit
~Demobilization Unit
~Documentation Unit
✔✔Resource Unit - ✔✔checkin in activity & maintaining status on personnel and
equipment resources
✔✔Situation Unit - ✔✔Collect & processes info, prepares situation displays and
situation summaries, develops maps and projections
✔✔Demobilization Unit - ✔✔assists in ensuring that an orderly, safe and cost effective
movement of personnel is made when they are no longer required
✔✔Documentation Unit - ✔✔prepares the IAP, maintains all incident related
documentation, provides duplication services
✔✔Logistics Section - ✔✔~Communication
~medical support to incident personnel
~food for incident personnel
~supplies, facilities and ground support
✔✔Logistics Section: Service Branch - ✔✔~Communication Unit
~Medical Unit
~Food Unit
✔✔Logistics Section: Support Branch - ✔✔~Supply Unit
~Facilities Unit
~Ground Support Unit
✔✔Finance/Administration Units - ✔✔~Time Unit
~Procurement Unit
~Compensation/Claims Unit
~Cost Unit
✔✔Staff-Level Briefing - ✔✔delivered to resources assigned to nonoperational and
support tasks at the incident command post or base
