IAEM CEM/AEM EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTION GRADED A+
✔✔What is public assistance? - ✔✔Assistance that can reimburse for emergency
protective measures, debris removal, and infrastructure repairs or replacement needed
due to disaster-related damage.
✔✔What are the three types of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance? - ✔✔1. Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
2. Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)
3. Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA).
✔✔What does POETE stand for? - ✔✔Planning, Organizing, Equipping, Training, and
Exercising.
✔✔What is the POETE model? - ✔✔These are the five elements that each jurisdiction
should be examining their own capabilities by. By examining their capabilities through
each of these elements, a jurisdiction can better define their strengths and areas for
improvement.
✔✔What is a Functional Annex? - ✔✔Functional Annexes are the parts of the EOP that
begin to provide specific information and direction. Functional Annexes should focus on
operations: what the function is and who is responsible for carrying it out.
✔✔What is an Incident Annex? - ✔✔Incident Annexes address unique concepts of
operations, roles, responsibilities, critical tasks or resources for a unique threat or
hazard that requires additional information not addressed by the FIOPs.
✔✔What is the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)? -
✔✔Exercise evaluation assesses the ability to meet exercise objectives and capabilities
by documenting strengths, areas for improvement, capability performance, and
corrective actions in an After-Action Report / Improvement Plan (AAR/IP).
✔✔Why was HSEEP developed? - ✔✔HSEEP was developed by the U.S. DHS to help
the United States better prepare, mitigate, respond to, and recover from all hazards
(HSEEP, 2007a, 2007b). HSEEP is an important component of the National Incident
Management System (NIMS).
✔✔What are the Emergency Management Principles? - ✔✔1. Comprehensive
2. Progressive
3. Risk-Driven
4. Integrated
5. Collaborative
6. Coordinated
7. Flexible
,8. Professional
✔✔1. Which one of the following is a primary role of an emergency manager?
a. Incident commander.
b. Joint Information Center coordinator.
c. Program coordinator.
d. Shelter manager. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - The Emergency Manager
✔✔2. What would the emergency manager's role in mass care be?
a. Distributing emergency supplies.
b. Ensuring the proper organization provides meals.
c. Inspecting temporary housing facilities.
d. Supervising physical security for congregate shelters. - ✔✔B
Sample Certification Exam Questions - The Emergency Manager
✔✔3. You are leading and influencing when you are doing all of the following except
__________:
a. Encouraging someone else to assume the leadership role in the group.
b. Establishing partnerships with neighboring communities to share resources.
c. Inviting other members of the emergency management team to discuss common
goals.
d. Telling them that it is your way or not at all. - ✔✔D
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 1
✔✔4. Effective delegation involves __________.
a. Determining that all credit goes to the team leader.
b. Ensuring that all tasks are equally distributed.
c. Ensuring that the person has the necessary authority to do the job properly.
d. Guaranteeing all employees have a chance to do the same task. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 1
✔✔5. What should a leader do when setting up implementation structures to facilitate
change?
a. Focus on interim systems because there will be time later to deal with long-term
impact.
b. Consider primarily long-term impacts because the short-term will take care of itself.
c. Include representatives of all key stakeholder groups.
d. Place the greatest emphasis on how the change will impact the highest levels of
management. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 2
✔✔6. During times of change, it is important for leaders to ____________:
a. Make sure that they put the right spin on the situation, especially when things are
going badly.
, b. Discourage stakeholders from expressing their misgivings.
c. Explain the situation once, then move on - don't dwell on it.
d. Communicate first through actions, then words. - ✔✔D
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 2
✔✔According to the National Incident Management System (NIMS), when should
managers plan and prepare for demobilizing resources no longer needed for the
incident?
A. At the same time that they begin the resource mobilization process.
B. After the Operations Section Chief completed all the IAP objectives.
C. When the Resource Unit Leader no longer has a use for the resource.
D. While preparing the emergency operations plan. - ✔✔A. At the same time that they
begin the resource mobilization process.
✔✔The National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides a set of ___________
organizational structures, as well as requirements for processes, procedures, and
systems designed to improve interoperability.
a. complicated.
b. rigid.
c. simple.
d. standardized. - ✔✔d. standardized.
✔✔What principle(s) represent the foundation for the Whole Community approach to
emergency management?
A. Strengthen what works in communities on a daily basis
B. Engage and empower all parts of the community
C. Understands and meets the actual needs of the community
D. All of the above - ✔✔D. All of the above
✔✔According to the Incident Command system (ICS), who directs tactical operations
when the Operations Section has been activated?
A. Deputy Incident Commander.
B. Emergency Operations Center.
C. Incident Commander.
D. Operations Section Chief. - ✔✔D. Operations Section Chief.
✔✔Which one of the actions listed below is primarily a state / tribal responsibility for
disaster response?
A. Provide immediate aid.
B. Request a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
C. Serves as the first line of defense in emergencies.
D. Warns and advises citizens. - ✔✔B. Request a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
✔✔According to the National Disaster Recovery Framework, when does the recovery
process begin?
WITH SOLUTION GRADED A+
✔✔What is public assistance? - ✔✔Assistance that can reimburse for emergency
protective measures, debris removal, and infrastructure repairs or replacement needed
due to disaster-related damage.
✔✔What are the three types of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance? - ✔✔1. Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
2. Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)
3. Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA).
✔✔What does POETE stand for? - ✔✔Planning, Organizing, Equipping, Training, and
Exercising.
✔✔What is the POETE model? - ✔✔These are the five elements that each jurisdiction
should be examining their own capabilities by. By examining their capabilities through
each of these elements, a jurisdiction can better define their strengths and areas for
improvement.
✔✔What is a Functional Annex? - ✔✔Functional Annexes are the parts of the EOP that
begin to provide specific information and direction. Functional Annexes should focus on
operations: what the function is and who is responsible for carrying it out.
✔✔What is an Incident Annex? - ✔✔Incident Annexes address unique concepts of
operations, roles, responsibilities, critical tasks or resources for a unique threat or
hazard that requires additional information not addressed by the FIOPs.
✔✔What is the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)? -
✔✔Exercise evaluation assesses the ability to meet exercise objectives and capabilities
by documenting strengths, areas for improvement, capability performance, and
corrective actions in an After-Action Report / Improvement Plan (AAR/IP).
✔✔Why was HSEEP developed? - ✔✔HSEEP was developed by the U.S. DHS to help
the United States better prepare, mitigate, respond to, and recover from all hazards
(HSEEP, 2007a, 2007b). HSEEP is an important component of the National Incident
Management System (NIMS).
✔✔What are the Emergency Management Principles? - ✔✔1. Comprehensive
2. Progressive
3. Risk-Driven
4. Integrated
5. Collaborative
6. Coordinated
7. Flexible
,8. Professional
✔✔1. Which one of the following is a primary role of an emergency manager?
a. Incident commander.
b. Joint Information Center coordinator.
c. Program coordinator.
d. Shelter manager. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - The Emergency Manager
✔✔2. What would the emergency manager's role in mass care be?
a. Distributing emergency supplies.
b. Ensuring the proper organization provides meals.
c. Inspecting temporary housing facilities.
d. Supervising physical security for congregate shelters. - ✔✔B
Sample Certification Exam Questions - The Emergency Manager
✔✔3. You are leading and influencing when you are doing all of the following except
__________:
a. Encouraging someone else to assume the leadership role in the group.
b. Establishing partnerships with neighboring communities to share resources.
c. Inviting other members of the emergency management team to discuss common
goals.
d. Telling them that it is your way or not at all. - ✔✔D
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 1
✔✔4. Effective delegation involves __________.
a. Determining that all credit goes to the team leader.
b. Ensuring that all tasks are equally distributed.
c. Ensuring that the person has the necessary authority to do the job properly.
d. Guaranteeing all employees have a chance to do the same task. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 1
✔✔5. What should a leader do when setting up implementation structures to facilitate
change?
a. Focus on interim systems because there will be time later to deal with long-term
impact.
b. Consider primarily long-term impacts because the short-term will take care of itself.
c. Include representatives of all key stakeholder groups.
d. Place the greatest emphasis on how the change will impact the highest levels of
management. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 2
✔✔6. During times of change, it is important for leaders to ____________:
a. Make sure that they put the right spin on the situation, especially when things are
going badly.
, b. Discourage stakeholders from expressing their misgivings.
c. Explain the situation once, then move on - don't dwell on it.
d. Communicate first through actions, then words. - ✔✔D
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Leadership & Influence, Part 2
✔✔According to the National Incident Management System (NIMS), when should
managers plan and prepare for demobilizing resources no longer needed for the
incident?
A. At the same time that they begin the resource mobilization process.
B. After the Operations Section Chief completed all the IAP objectives.
C. When the Resource Unit Leader no longer has a use for the resource.
D. While preparing the emergency operations plan. - ✔✔A. At the same time that they
begin the resource mobilization process.
✔✔The National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides a set of ___________
organizational structures, as well as requirements for processes, procedures, and
systems designed to improve interoperability.
a. complicated.
b. rigid.
c. simple.
d. standardized. - ✔✔d. standardized.
✔✔What principle(s) represent the foundation for the Whole Community approach to
emergency management?
A. Strengthen what works in communities on a daily basis
B. Engage and empower all parts of the community
C. Understands and meets the actual needs of the community
D. All of the above - ✔✔D. All of the above
✔✔According to the Incident Command system (ICS), who directs tactical operations
when the Operations Section has been activated?
A. Deputy Incident Commander.
B. Emergency Operations Center.
C. Incident Commander.
D. Operations Section Chief. - ✔✔D. Operations Section Chief.
✔✔Which one of the actions listed below is primarily a state / tribal responsibility for
disaster response?
A. Provide immediate aid.
B. Request a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
C. Serves as the first line of defense in emergencies.
D. Warns and advises citizens. - ✔✔B. Request a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
✔✔According to the National Disaster Recovery Framework, when does the recovery
process begin?
