IAEM CEM AEM STUDY GUIDE 2026 TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Hampton is a rural community in the Midwest. The local high school football team
has just won the State championship. The team has never won a championship in any
sport before. The community is sponsoring a parade to celebrate the win. Thousands of
people are expected to turn out for the event, including many from surrounding
communities. There isn't much time to plan the parade, and the Mayor is concerned
about whether Hampton's four-person police department can manage traffic and control
the anticipated crowd. Is this a special event? - ✔✔YES
✔✔When assessing food safety measures at a special event, the planning team should
consider the vendor compliance with appropriate State and local regulations related to
food preparation, handling, distribution, and storing of food. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔At its initial meeting, the planning team should: Develop a mission statement.
Develop the event objectives. AND - ✔✔Determine the necessary components of the
public safety plan.
✔✔One reason for developing contingency plans for permit-approved special events is
to: - ✔✔Evaluate high-risk, high-impact events more thoroughly.
✔✔A multidisciplinary planning team should be composed of the promoter or sponsor
and all: - ✔✔Agencies that hold a stake in the event.
✔✔Planners should assign ___________________ to events that are expected to draw
very large crowds and impact mobility throughout the community. - ✔✔A traffic
management group
✔✔A rock festival has been planned for this weekend. The promoter and sponsor have
been advertising the festival for weeks. On the day before the event, large crowds of
teens and young adults swarmed into the area. Many spent the night drinking and using
drugs. By the morning of the event, several fights had already broken out between
competing local gangs. The Mayor and City Council want to cancel the festival, but the
sponsor is balking. Which statement below describes the preferable way to deal with
such an event? - ✔✔Agreement on who could cancel the event should have been
reached during event planning.
✔✔Whether you are handling a routine emergency, organizing for a special event, or
managing the response to a major disaster, the five major management functions that
must be covered are: Command, Planning, Logistics, Finance/Administration, AND -
✔✔Operations
,✔✔The purpose of public safety special event planning is to: - ✔✔Plan for incidents that
might impact or result from the event.
✔✔To help reunite lost children with their parents or guardians, event planners should: -
✔✔Designate "meet me" locations throughout the site.
✔✔The placement of launch pads for pyrotechnic displays must anticipate the: -
✔✔Prevailing wind direction and strength.
✔✔Crowds are complex social structures that can assume roles that are different from
the personalities of the individuals. Those who provide verbal support for crowd leaders
are called: - ✔✔Cheerleaders
✔✔Having a pre-event emergency plan in place will help: - ✔✔Reduce response times
for first-response agencies.
✔✔Because ___________________________ provide a less confrontational security
presence, this technique has been effective with young audiences. - ✔✔Peer security
personnel
✔✔___________________________ is a main factor in determining stage
configuration. - ✔✔Expected crowd behavior
✔✔Which position is responsible for establishing incident objectives, strategies, and
priorities and has overall responsibility for managing an incident. - ✔✔Incident
Commander
✔✔A special events hazard analysis should include analysis of: - ✔✔Special and
unique hazards inherent in the event.
✔✔responsible for ensuring that assigned incident personnel are fed and have
communications, medical support, and transportation as needed to meet the operational
objectives - ✔✔Logistics Section Chief is
✔✔The Operations Section Chief - ✔✔directs tactical actions to achieve the incident
objects
✔✔You are working in a complex incident. There are multiple Incident Commanders
representing multiple jurisdictions working together to establish incident objectives.
What type of ICS structure is being used? - ✔✔Unified Command
✔✔Which incident facility is the location where personnel and equipment are kept while
waiting for tactical assignments? - ✔✔Staging Area
, ✔✔Which of the following organizational entities within the Operations Section may be
used to divide an incident geographically? - ✔✔Divisions
✔✔You are a Group Supervisor working in a Branch within the Operations Section.
Who is your immediate supervisor? - ✔✔Branch Director
✔✔The major activities of the Planning Section include - ✔✔preparing and documenting
incident action plans
✔✔Interoperability means... - ✔✔Communication equipment, procedures, and systems
can operate together during a response.
✔✔Command is... - ✔✔The ability to control information exchange within and across
organizations involved in an incident.
✔✔Check-in, initial briefing, recordkeeping, and demobilization procedures are all
necessary to ensure - ✔✔Accountability
✔✔The Incident Command System (ICS) is - ✔✔A standardized approach to an
incident management that is applicable for use in all hazards
✔✔The exercise _______ is a forum for exercise players to review what happened
during the exercise and discuss what they learned - ✔✔Hot Wash
✔✔The Improvement Plan Matrix does all of the following except - ✔✔Provide an
executive summary.
✔✔Where does the initiating event take place, what time of day does the event take
place, and what the weather is like are all questions that should be answered in the -
✔✔Scenerio narrative
✔✔Which type of participant is not generally part of a discussion based exercise? -
✔✔Evaluators
✔✔All functions of exercise development and not exercise design - ✔✔Creating
exercise documentation, arranging logistics, coordinating participants, media and safety
personnel
✔✔Existing exercise requirements and capabilities, plausible risks, and functions most
in need of rehearsal will be identified by conducting a(n) - ✔✔Needs assessment
✔✔Improving planning is part of the ______ process - ✔✔Project Management
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Hampton is a rural community in the Midwest. The local high school football team
has just won the State championship. The team has never won a championship in any
sport before. The community is sponsoring a parade to celebrate the win. Thousands of
people are expected to turn out for the event, including many from surrounding
communities. There isn't much time to plan the parade, and the Mayor is concerned
about whether Hampton's four-person police department can manage traffic and control
the anticipated crowd. Is this a special event? - ✔✔YES
✔✔When assessing food safety measures at a special event, the planning team should
consider the vendor compliance with appropriate State and local regulations related to
food preparation, handling, distribution, and storing of food. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔At its initial meeting, the planning team should: Develop a mission statement.
Develop the event objectives. AND - ✔✔Determine the necessary components of the
public safety plan.
✔✔One reason for developing contingency plans for permit-approved special events is
to: - ✔✔Evaluate high-risk, high-impact events more thoroughly.
✔✔A multidisciplinary planning team should be composed of the promoter or sponsor
and all: - ✔✔Agencies that hold a stake in the event.
✔✔Planners should assign ___________________ to events that are expected to draw
very large crowds and impact mobility throughout the community. - ✔✔A traffic
management group
✔✔A rock festival has been planned for this weekend. The promoter and sponsor have
been advertising the festival for weeks. On the day before the event, large crowds of
teens and young adults swarmed into the area. Many spent the night drinking and using
drugs. By the morning of the event, several fights had already broken out between
competing local gangs. The Mayor and City Council want to cancel the festival, but the
sponsor is balking. Which statement below describes the preferable way to deal with
such an event? - ✔✔Agreement on who could cancel the event should have been
reached during event planning.
✔✔Whether you are handling a routine emergency, organizing for a special event, or
managing the response to a major disaster, the five major management functions that
must be covered are: Command, Planning, Logistics, Finance/Administration, AND -
✔✔Operations
,✔✔The purpose of public safety special event planning is to: - ✔✔Plan for incidents that
might impact or result from the event.
✔✔To help reunite lost children with their parents or guardians, event planners should: -
✔✔Designate "meet me" locations throughout the site.
✔✔The placement of launch pads for pyrotechnic displays must anticipate the: -
✔✔Prevailing wind direction and strength.
✔✔Crowds are complex social structures that can assume roles that are different from
the personalities of the individuals. Those who provide verbal support for crowd leaders
are called: - ✔✔Cheerleaders
✔✔Having a pre-event emergency plan in place will help: - ✔✔Reduce response times
for first-response agencies.
✔✔Because ___________________________ provide a less confrontational security
presence, this technique has been effective with young audiences. - ✔✔Peer security
personnel
✔✔___________________________ is a main factor in determining stage
configuration. - ✔✔Expected crowd behavior
✔✔Which position is responsible for establishing incident objectives, strategies, and
priorities and has overall responsibility for managing an incident. - ✔✔Incident
Commander
✔✔A special events hazard analysis should include analysis of: - ✔✔Special and
unique hazards inherent in the event.
✔✔responsible for ensuring that assigned incident personnel are fed and have
communications, medical support, and transportation as needed to meet the operational
objectives - ✔✔Logistics Section Chief is
✔✔The Operations Section Chief - ✔✔directs tactical actions to achieve the incident
objects
✔✔You are working in a complex incident. There are multiple Incident Commanders
representing multiple jurisdictions working together to establish incident objectives.
What type of ICS structure is being used? - ✔✔Unified Command
✔✔Which incident facility is the location where personnel and equipment are kept while
waiting for tactical assignments? - ✔✔Staging Area
, ✔✔Which of the following organizational entities within the Operations Section may be
used to divide an incident geographically? - ✔✔Divisions
✔✔You are a Group Supervisor working in a Branch within the Operations Section.
Who is your immediate supervisor? - ✔✔Branch Director
✔✔The major activities of the Planning Section include - ✔✔preparing and documenting
incident action plans
✔✔Interoperability means... - ✔✔Communication equipment, procedures, and systems
can operate together during a response.
✔✔Command is... - ✔✔The ability to control information exchange within and across
organizations involved in an incident.
✔✔Check-in, initial briefing, recordkeeping, and demobilization procedures are all
necessary to ensure - ✔✔Accountability
✔✔The Incident Command System (ICS) is - ✔✔A standardized approach to an
incident management that is applicable for use in all hazards
✔✔The exercise _______ is a forum for exercise players to review what happened
during the exercise and discuss what they learned - ✔✔Hot Wash
✔✔The Improvement Plan Matrix does all of the following except - ✔✔Provide an
executive summary.
✔✔Where does the initiating event take place, what time of day does the event take
place, and what the weather is like are all questions that should be answered in the -
✔✔Scenerio narrative
✔✔Which type of participant is not generally part of a discussion based exercise? -
✔✔Evaluators
✔✔All functions of exercise development and not exercise design - ✔✔Creating
exercise documentation, arranging logistics, coordinating participants, media and safety
personnel
✔✔Existing exercise requirements and capabilities, plausible risks, and functions most
in need of rehearsal will be identified by conducting a(n) - ✔✔Needs assessment
✔✔Improving planning is part of the ______ process - ✔✔Project Management
