Certified Emergency Manager EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
National Preparedness Goal - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔This defines the core
capabilities necessary to prepare for the specific types of incidents that pose the greatest risk
to the security of the Nation. It emphasizes actions aimed at achieving an integrated,
layered, and all-of-Nation preparedness approach that optimizes the use of available
resources.
National Planning System has three levels of planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Vertical Integration Planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Individual all the way
through federal/national government
Horizontal Integration Planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Planning within the
jurisdiction or level of organization.
Operational Planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A plan that defines roles and
responsibilities, tasks, and actions during emergencies and that focuses on how activities of
organizations in the jurisdiction will be coordinated.
Accessible - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Having the legally required features and/or
qualities that ensure easy entrance, participation, and usability of places, programs, services,
and activities by individuals with a wide variety of disabilities.
Agency Administrator/Executive - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The official
responsible for administering policy for an agency or jurisdiction, having full authority for
making decisions, and providing direction to the management organization for an incident.
,Agency Dispatch - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The agency or jurisdictional facility
from which resources are sent to incidents.
Agency Representative - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A person assigned by a primary,
assisting, or cooperating
Federal, State, tribal, or local government agency, or nongovernmental or private
organization, that has been delegated authority to make decisions affecting that agency's or
organization's participation in incident management activities following appropriate
consultation with the leadership of that agency.
All-Hazards - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Describing an incident, natural or
manmade, that warrants action to protect life, property, environment, public health or
safety, and minimize disruptions of government, social, or economic activities.
Area Command - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔An organization established to oversee
the management of multiple incidents that are each being handled by a separate Incident
Command System organization or to oversee the management of a very large or evolving
incident that has multiple incident management teams engaged.
Assessment - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The process of acquiring, collecting,
processing, examining, analyzing, evaluating, monitoring, and interpreting the data,
information, evidence, objects, measurements, images, sound, etc., whether tangible or
intangible, to provide a basis for decision-making.
Allocated Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Resources dispatched to an
incident.
Assigned Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Resources checked in and assigned
work tasks on an incident.
, Assignment - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Task given to a personnel resource to
perform within a given operational period that is based on operational objectives defined in
the Incident Action Plan.
Assisting Agency - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔An agency or organization providing
personnel, services, or other resources to the agency with direct responsibility for incident
management. Also, called Supporting Agency.
Available Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Resources assigned to an incident,
checked in, and available for a mission assignment, normally located in a Staging Area.
Badging - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The assignment of physical incident-specific
credentials to establish legitimacy and limit access to various incident sites.
Branch - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The organizational level having functional or
geographical responsibility for major aspects of incident operations. A Branch is
organizationally situated between the Section Chief and the Division or Group in the
Operations Section, and between the Section and Units in the Logistics Section. Branches
are identified by the use of Roman numerals or by functional area.
Cache - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A predetermined complement of tools,
equipment, and/or supplies stored in a designated location, available for incident use.
Camp - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A geographical site within the general incident
area (separate from the Incident Base) that is equipped and staffed to provide sleeping, food,
water, and sanitary services to incident personnel.
Categorizing Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The process of organizing
resources by category, kind, and type, including size, capacity, capability, skill, and other
characteristics. This makes the resource ordering and dispatch process within and across
organizations and agencies, and between governmental and nongovernmental entities, more
efficient, and ensures that the resources received are appropriate to their needs.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
National Preparedness Goal - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔This defines the core
capabilities necessary to prepare for the specific types of incidents that pose the greatest risk
to the security of the Nation. It emphasizes actions aimed at achieving an integrated,
layered, and all-of-Nation preparedness approach that optimizes the use of available
resources.
National Planning System has three levels of planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Vertical Integration Planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Individual all the way
through federal/national government
Horizontal Integration Planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Planning within the
jurisdiction or level of organization.
Operational Planning - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A plan that defines roles and
responsibilities, tasks, and actions during emergencies and that focuses on how activities of
organizations in the jurisdiction will be coordinated.
Accessible - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Having the legally required features and/or
qualities that ensure easy entrance, participation, and usability of places, programs, services,
and activities by individuals with a wide variety of disabilities.
Agency Administrator/Executive - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The official
responsible for administering policy for an agency or jurisdiction, having full authority for
making decisions, and providing direction to the management organization for an incident.
,Agency Dispatch - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The agency or jurisdictional facility
from which resources are sent to incidents.
Agency Representative - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A person assigned by a primary,
assisting, or cooperating
Federal, State, tribal, or local government agency, or nongovernmental or private
organization, that has been delegated authority to make decisions affecting that agency's or
organization's participation in incident management activities following appropriate
consultation with the leadership of that agency.
All-Hazards - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Describing an incident, natural or
manmade, that warrants action to protect life, property, environment, public health or
safety, and minimize disruptions of government, social, or economic activities.
Area Command - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔An organization established to oversee
the management of multiple incidents that are each being handled by a separate Incident
Command System organization or to oversee the management of a very large or evolving
incident that has multiple incident management teams engaged.
Assessment - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The process of acquiring, collecting,
processing, examining, analyzing, evaluating, monitoring, and interpreting the data,
information, evidence, objects, measurements, images, sound, etc., whether tangible or
intangible, to provide a basis for decision-making.
Allocated Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Resources dispatched to an
incident.
Assigned Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Resources checked in and assigned
work tasks on an incident.
, Assignment - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Task given to a personnel resource to
perform within a given operational period that is based on operational objectives defined in
the Incident Action Plan.
Assisting Agency - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔An agency or organization providing
personnel, services, or other resources to the agency with direct responsibility for incident
management. Also, called Supporting Agency.
Available Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Resources assigned to an incident,
checked in, and available for a mission assignment, normally located in a Staging Area.
Badging - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The assignment of physical incident-specific
credentials to establish legitimacy and limit access to various incident sites.
Branch - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The organizational level having functional or
geographical responsibility for major aspects of incident operations. A Branch is
organizationally situated between the Section Chief and the Division or Group in the
Operations Section, and between the Section and Units in the Logistics Section. Branches
are identified by the use of Roman numerals or by functional area.
Cache - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A predetermined complement of tools,
equipment, and/or supplies stored in a designated location, available for incident use.
Camp - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔A geographical site within the general incident
area (separate from the Incident Base) that is equipped and staffed to provide sleeping, food,
water, and sanitary services to incident personnel.
Categorizing Resources - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The process of organizing
resources by category, kind, and type, including size, capacity, capability, skill, and other
characteristics. This makes the resource ordering and dispatch process within and across
organizations and agencies, and between governmental and nongovernmental entities, more
efficient, and ensures that the resources received are appropriate to their needs.
