NIMS ICS 400 Final Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
What are complex incidents? - Answer✔️✔️-Involve multijurisdictional and/or
multidisciplinary
efforts of more than one agency and/or political
jurisdiction
What are characteristics of complex incidents? - Answer✔️✔️--Require numerous
tactical and support resources
normally exceeding the jurisdiction's internal
resource capacity
- Span multiple operational periods (days, weeks,
years)
-Draw national media interest
What is an Incident Complex? - Answer✔️✔️-An incident complex is an
organizational structure that exists when two or more individual incidents located
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in the same general area are assigned to a single Incident Commander or Unified
Command.
How do incidents fit into the program structure? - Answer✔️✔️-Incidents become
branches in the ops section under the same incident commander
-Using Branches allows for more flexibility to
establish Divisions or Groups if required later.
What is Area Command? - Answer✔️✔️-An Area Command is activated to address
competition
for resources among multiple ICPs based on the
complexity of the incident and incident management
span-of-control considerations. 2 or more incidents
Area command primary functions - Answer✔️✔️--Develop broad objectives for the
affected area.
-Coordinate development of incident objectives
and strategies for each incident.
Advantages of Area Command - Answer✔️✔️-4.8
-This allows the Incident Commanders to focus their
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