NIMS IS-700.b Final Exam
1. NIMS Guiding Principles:
Flexibility Standardization
Unity of Effort
2. Flexibility: Allows NIMS to be scalable from routine, local incidents
through those requiring interstate mutual aid up to those requiring
Federal assistance
3. Standardization: Supports interoperability among multiple
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,organizations in in- cident response
4. Standard Organizational Structures: Improve integration and
connectivity among organizations
5.Standard Practices: Allow incident personnel and organizations to
work togeth- er effectively
6. Common Terminology: Enables effective communication
7. Unity of Effort: Enables organizations with jurisdictional authority or
functional responsibilities to support each other while allowing each
participating agency to maintain its own authority and accountability
8. 3 Major Components of NIMS: 1. Resource Management
2. Command and Coordination
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, 3. Communications and Information Management
9. Resource Management: Standard mechanisms to systematics
manage re- sources, including personnel, equipment, supplies, teams,
and facilities, both before and during incidents in order to allow
organizations to more effectively share resources when needed
10.Command and Communication: Describes leadership roles,
processes, and recommended organizational structures for incident
management at the opera- tional and incident support levels and
explains how these structures interact to manage incidents effectively
and efficiently
11.Communications and Information Management: Describes systems
and methods that help to ensure that incident personnel and other
decision makers have the means and information they need to make
and communicate decisions
12.4 Key Activities of Resource Management Preparedness: 1. Identifying
and typing resources
2. Qualifying, certifying, and credentialing personnel
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1. NIMS Guiding Principles:
Flexibility Standardization
Unity of Effort
2. Flexibility: Allows NIMS to be scalable from routine, local incidents
through those requiring interstate mutual aid up to those requiring
Federal assistance
3. Standardization: Supports interoperability among multiple
1/
,organizations in in- cident response
4. Standard Organizational Structures: Improve integration and
connectivity among organizations
5.Standard Practices: Allow incident personnel and organizations to
work togeth- er effectively
6. Common Terminology: Enables effective communication
7. Unity of Effort: Enables organizations with jurisdictional authority or
functional responsibilities to support each other while allowing each
participating agency to maintain its own authority and accountability
8. 3 Major Components of NIMS: 1. Resource Management
2. Command and Coordination
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, 3. Communications and Information Management
9. Resource Management: Standard mechanisms to systematics
manage re- sources, including personnel, equipment, supplies, teams,
and facilities, both before and during incidents in order to allow
organizations to more effectively share resources when needed
10.Command and Communication: Describes leadership roles,
processes, and recommended organizational structures for incident
management at the opera- tional and incident support levels and
explains how these structures interact to manage incidents effectively
and efficiently
11.Communications and Information Management: Describes systems
and methods that help to ensure that incident personnel and other
decision makers have the means and information they need to make
and communicate decisions
12.4 Key Activities of Resource Management Preparedness: 1. Identifying
and typing resources
2. Qualifying, certifying, and credentialing personnel
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